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乌克兰无人机接连摧毁俄罗斯多座关键数据中心，波及Yandex、Sberbank和VKontakte，导致云服务、银行及AI服务大面积中断，专家称这将使俄罗斯在AI竞赛中大幅落后。
MIT and EPFL engineers have designed a lightweight flapping-wing robot (FAAV) under 300 grams that can both swim underwater and fly, using hydrophobic-coated flexible wings and a steerable tail to transition smoothly between mediums, potentially enabling a new class of drones for ocean exploration and sampling.
Ukraine's military carried out its first-ever battlefield evacuation of a wounded soldier using a heavy hexacopter drone, flying him 39 miles to safety in an operation that puts drone-based casualty evacuation into real-world practice.
Show HN: Dovepass, a research prototype web tool that checks whether a specific drone flight path in San Francisco is legally permitted and generates files for drone flight apps.
Ukraine's 92nd Separate Assault Brigade claims it carried out the world's first evacuation of a wounded soldier from the front lines using a heavy-lift hexacopter drone, marking a novel use of aerial drone technology in combat rescue operations.
The author built a drone driven by a single motor, using hinged propeller blades to achieve pitch and yaw control. Getting it to fly successfully required substantial software and testing work, including custom firmware, an infrared lighthouse, and a homemade strobe imaging system. It is currently known to be the smallest and fastest-spinning hinged-blade drone capable of flight, with the code and 3D files open-sourced.
AI is fundamentally transforming the economics of warfare through cheap drones, autonomous weapons, and shortened kill chains. A new software-defined defense model is embedding private tech companies like Anduril and Palantir into the heart of war like never before, while raising profound risks around supply chain dependence, procurement lag, and "who truly owns the kill chain."
《纽约客》报道了一个由瑞典电影制片人 Maximilien Van Aertryck 领衔的十八个月调查项目，利用档案研究、无人机和三维扫描技术，试图精确定位 1838 年路易·达盖尔在巴黎圣殿大道拍摄的人类第一张照片的确切地点。
疑似俄罗斯无人机袭击首次进入罗马尼亚领海，导致两艘化学品船起火、一艘货船沉没，北约因此加强东翼反无人机能力部署。
NATO officials are considering redeploying anti-drone countermeasures to the Black Sea after Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey requested support amid a surge of Russian drone attacks that have sunk shipping and disrupted Ukrainian grain exports.
Ukrainian officials accuse SpaceX's Starlink of imposing undisclosed service restrictions, including a speed limit barring connections to devices moving over 100mph, disrupting military drone operations amid worsening US-Ukraine tensions.
Researchers at Delft University of Technology developed lightweight, cat-like whisker sensors that let tiny drones navigate by touch in darkness, smoke, or other vision-limited environments, with findings published in Nature Communications.
SpaceX has reportedly introduced speed restrictions on StarShield terminals used in Ukraine, disrupting drone command links and highlighting Kyiv's dependence on private satellite infrastructure for battlefield communications.
Y Combinator S23 startup HyLight raised €13M ($14.5M) to scale production of its autonomous, hydrogen-powered airships used for inspecting power lines, pipelines, and railways with LiDAR, cameras, and methane detectors.
MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covers the challenges of building a lunar city amid US-China space race, Brimstone's clean cement and critical minerals process, drone air traffic controllers, and an Anthropic AI model submitting a fake tip about an unsolved murder.
乌克兰无人机摧毁了属于「俄罗斯谷歌」Yandex 的 AI 数据中心，凸显 2026 年数据中心日益成为战争目标，此前伊朗也曾袭击亚马逊在中东的数据中心。
Russian forces are escalating jet-powered drone strikes on Ukrainian data centers and telecom networks, exploiting air-defense gaps and disrupting Internet access for tens of thousands, raising concerns for Ukraine's digital economy and critical services.
The XPRIZE Wildfire competition awarded winners for rapid wildfire detection from space and autonomous response, but no team fully met the challenge of stopping fires within 10 minutes, highlighting advancements in detection technology while underscoring ongoing difficulties in fire suppression.
The EFF and ACLU are urging the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents, arguing it violates the First Amendment right to record law enforcement.
U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine states that U.S. forces must prepare for being 'hunted' by autonomous systems in future warfare, citing AI-enabled drones in Ukraine and recent military operations as examples.