Amazon's Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says
cnbc - Amazon said the Bahrain facility was damaged due to a nearby drone strike, and two data centers in the UAE were directly hit by drones.
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Drones attack several AWS Middle East region data centers amid Iran war, leading to outages — service health been disrupted after power cut due to fire risk
tomshardware - Amazon’s data center business in the Middle East has been adversely impacted amid the 2026 Iran Conflict.
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Intelligence Sharing and Counterterrorism Preparedness at the Local Level
Peter Simpson / hstoday - In the early morning hours of February 28, the United States and Israel launched a coordinated military campaign against targets in Iran, raising existing concerns about threats to homeland security — including the potential for retaliatory terror attacks…
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Back to Top / Monday, March 2, 2026, 4:22 pm / permalink 20027 / 64 stories in 4 days
US Military Accidentally Shoots Down Border Protection Drone With Laser
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a "seemingly threatening" drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, law…
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Poland’s FlyFocus Raises €4.5M To Scale European-Made Drone Production
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - FlyFocus, a Warsaw-based defence technology company, has secured €4.5 million in funding. The round was led by ffVC, with participation from the NCBR Investment Fund, the VC arm of Poland’s National Centre for Research and Development. The company will us…
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Chinese drone-maker DJI sues to overturn FCC foreign drone ban
Jon Keegan / sherwood - The FCC’s move to ban all foreign drones and components is being challenged in federal court.
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Pentagon Selects SpaceX for $100 Million Drone Swarming Competition
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR SpaceX and xAI selected for Pentagon’s $100 million autonomous drone technology competition Six-month contest launched January 2026 to develop voice-command systems for multiple drones SpaceX acquired xAI before entering competition and ahead of plan…
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Laser weapon that shut down El Paso's skies was LOCUST system
Colin Demarest / axios - The counter-drone weapon that caused a shutdown of El Paso's airspace on Wednesday was AeroVironment's LOCUST, a 20-kilowatt laser system, Axios has confirmed.Why it matters: The Army sees the cutting-edge weapon as a way to combat drones without firing e…
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Defence startup testing AI drones with Ukraine raises £2.6m
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Occam, a UK-based defence tech startup developing AI autonomous drones being tested with the Ukrainian military, has raised a £2.6m investment. Founded in 2025, Occam is one of many tech firms founded to meet the defence needs of modern geopolitcal confli…
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With China leading global drone manufacturing, Hungary’s ABZ Innovation raises €7 million to expand heavy-duty drones
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - ABZ Innovation, a manufacturer of heavy-duty agricultural and industrial drones out of Budapest, today announced it has closed a €7 million funding round in order to scale production, speed up product development, and expand in key global markets – as it …
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Wing's drone deliveries are coming to 150 more Walmarts
Jackson Chen / engadget - Don't be surprised if you see even more drones delivering groceries across the US since the Alphabet-owned Wing announced another service expansion with Walmart over the next year. The partnership said that drone delivery services will be available at 150…
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Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Drone Show Lights Up Las Vegas Nightline Ahead of Dec. 31 Show Finale
Erik Gruenwedel / mediaplaynews - Ahead of the Dec. 31 final episode of the last season of Netflix’s popular sci-fi thriller series “Stranger Things,” the Las Vegas nightline was treated to a “Stranger Things” drone show. On Dec. 28., the drone show depicted moments from the series with 5…
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FCC Bans Foreign-Made Drones Over National Security, Spying Concerns
BeauHD / slashdot - The FCC has banned approval of new foreign-made drones and components, citing "an unacceptable risk" to national security. The move will most heavily impact DJI but it "does not affect drones or drone components that are currently sold in the United State…
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Back to Top / Monday, December 22, 2025, 8:21 pm / permalink 17224 / 21 stories in 2 months
Quantum Systems and Frontline Robotics set up Europe’s first foreign drone production line for Ukraine
Cate Lawrence / tech - Quantum Systems and Frontline Robotics today announced the creation of “Quantum Frontline Industries” (QFI), a German-Ukrainian joint venture that will establish Europe’s first fully automated, indus...
Back to Top / Monday, December 15, 2025, 4:20 am / permalink 16956 / 6 stories in 2 months
Antigravity launches 8K 360-degree camera drone and its a delight to fly
mashable - Antigravity has launched launched Antigravity A1, saying it's the "world's first" consumer aerial drone with inbuilt 360-degree video capture.
Back to Top / Thursday, December 4, 2025, 8:20 am / permalink 16560 / 7 stories in 3 months
Takeoff of China's flying taxis hits turbulence
techxplore - An unmanned, oval-shaped craft from flying taxi maker EHang hovers, whirring noisily like a mini-helicopter over a riverside innovation zone on the outskirts of the southern Chinese business hub of Guangzhou, part of a trial of a mini-flying taxi that onc…
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Paris’ Rift raises €4.6 million to build Europe’s first on-demand aerial reconnaissance network
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Rift, a French DeepTech company specialising in on-demand aerial intelligence, announces a funding round of €4.6 million to accelerate the deployment of the first European on-demand aerial intelligence network, entirely operated from the company’s headqua…
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DJI’s Neo 2 selfie drone launches globally, but not in the US
Andrew Liszewski / theverge - After launching exclusively in China last month, DJI is announcing wider global availability for its Neo 2 selfie drone, including Japan, Canada, the UK, and other countries where the company sells its drones. But as with the Mavic 4 Pro and 8K Osmo 360 c…
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Monopulse snaps €1.12M to scale modular UAVs, strengthen Europe’s defence tech ecosystem
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Lithuanian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufacturer Monopulse has secured €1.12 million in financing from the national development bank…
Back to Top / Monday, November 10, 2025, 5:20 am / permalink 15828 / 2 stories in 3 months
Amazon faces FAA, NTSB probe after two delivery drones crashed into crane in Arizona
cnbc - The drones sustained "substantial" damage from the crash, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a preliminary incident report.
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