German defence minister expects FCAS decision ‘this week’ | Euractiv Progress has been stalled for months and last-ditch negotiations efforts failed last week

They now can’t even agree on how many more days they will be talking.
Quite honestly, this is becoming absurd.

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As I learnt from @duncanweldon.bsky.social , we should expect competitive witch trials next.

Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lot AI overviews from the likes of Google are serving up false summaries of UK government information by drawing on stale GOV.UK pages, according to content designers at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).…

Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it

The worrying thing is that the people around him know they're already in very deep water and complicit, they may think they have nothing to lose by allowing him.

I am genuinely worried that he will use a nuke in a fit of narcissistic rage if he isn't removed soon. It's gut feeling, but I think the chance is very high that he will attempt to in the next three years.

Dreamed I was on Scruples, where you’re only allowed to post your opinion on what cannot be allowed be posted there. Re-posting someone else’s opinion is called a reScrupe.

DOU

This website is great for watching drone developments, can't think of an English language equivalent.
dou.ua/lenta/news/

I hope they keep this advantage as long as possible, there are a few ways I can think of how they're doing it technically. We need to give them everything they need to make the most of this window instead of breathing sighs of relief.

Ukraine, Belarus tensions rise as border militarization intensifies The Ukrainian president has denounced the Belarusian army's construction of artillery positions near the Ukrainian border. Belarus's leader Alexander Lukashenko warned he is prepared to 'use everything' to prevent an attack on his country.

Ukraine, Belarus tensions rise as border militarization intensifies

Phoeo of a cute cat behind a super market toy set looking at the camera, with the silly caption of "Khajiit has wares if you have coin" which is a known The Elder Scrolls line.

Khajiit has wares if you have coin

NatCon’s 2024 Brussels conference in was co-sponsored by MCC & Danube (both Hungary based), the European Conservative (registered in Hungary), & Nazione Futura (founded by an MCC alum). NatCon is the Thiel-linked recurring conference that elevated both JD Vance & Christian Nationalism in the US. 1/

AI-generated videos of upturned dinghies in the English Channel circulate online – Full Fact Six people are known to have died so far in April attempting to cross the English Channel. But viral videos claiming to show overturned dinghies are not real and were made with AI.

Viral videos of overturned dinghies in the Channel have been shared with claims that over 100 people have died.

It’s true that six people have died attempting to cross the English Channel this month, but these videos are fake and were made using AI.

Not only should it be cancelled, Palantir should be proscribed as an extremist organisation.

Wild Hornets drones down an AI-powered V2U 💥

This is a difficult target to intercept. In addition to onboard AI and resistance to electronic warfare, it has a reconnaissance and fire-correction variant.

1/3

Pit garage at Jerez racing circuit, Ron and Leon Haslam discussing suspension setup of my R1. Jeremy McWilliams in background.

Jerez, November 2007, a few minutes before Leon left some skin attached to my exhaust while adjusting the rear suspension.

Russia Needs a Sustained $100 Barrel to Bridge Its War Budget Gap, Sweden Reveals Russia's wartime economy shows signs of strain. Despite oil price boosts, defense spending strains finances.

⚡️ Russia needs a sustained $100 per barrel oil price for at least a year to bridge its war budget gap, according to Sweden’s Military Intelligence and Security Service.

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A plume of smoke over buildings

Ukrainian drones have hit Novocherkassk, Rostov oblast.

#explodey

Still, legendary pocket rocket

UK (GB), YouGov poll:

EU membership referendum

Join/Remain: 63% (-2)
Stay out/Leave: 37% (+2)

+/- vs. 12-13 March 2026

Fieldwork: 16-17 April 2026
Sample size: 2,104

➤ europeelects.eu/uk

I used to race one of those! It was fun but bloody uncomfortable, felt like my knees were around my ears 😅 Litre bikes were a bit easier to ride.

Donald J. Trump @rea DonaldTrump + I'm winning a War, BY A LOT, things are going very well, our Military has been amazing and, if you read the Fake News, like The Failing New York Times, the absolutely horrendous and disgusting Wall Street Journal, or the now almost defunct, fortunately, Washington Post, you would actually think we are losing the War. The enemy is confused, because they get these same Media "reports," and yet they realize their Navy has been completely wiped out, their Air Force has gone onto darker runways, they have no Anti Missile or Anti Airplane Equipment, their former leaders are mostly gone (This has been, in addition to everything else, Regime Change!), and perhaps, most important of all, THE BLOCKADE, which we will not take off until there is a "DEAL," is absolutely destroying Iran. They are losing $500 Million Dollars a day, an unsustainable number, even in the short run. The Anti-America Fake News Media is rooting for Iran to win, but it's not going to happen, because I'm in charge! Just like these unpatriotic people used every ounce of their limited strength to fight me in the Election, they continue to do so with Iran. The result will be the same — It already is! President DONALD J. TRUMP

You know when you don’t have to say you’re winning a war? When you’re winning.

Did you dabble in UE yourself, or leave it to the experts?

Seems too big, I can see the sense in a cheap, high volume, low power autonomous sensornet which loiters domestic waters.

Hope you have lots of behind the scenes stuff, like deep, technical übernerdy details!

Rogue Trooper | Official Teaser Trailer YouTube video by 2000 AD

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British politics is spiraling down the plug hole. Was it Brexit? The factors leading to Brexit? The charlatans entering politics? The foreign money? The shallow media, who love to hype drama? Junk tv? All I know is that the UK no longer looks like a serious country.

Even beyond the racism, what gets me is the stupidity of people believing voting for right wing populists will improve their lives.

let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are

I really hope the UK can adjust to this reality, I fear inertia and arrogance will get in the way, nevermind the continuing political instability.

I visited drone factories in Ukraine A first-hand look inside Ukraine’s drone factories reveals how rapid iteration, frontline feedback and low-cost systems are reshaping the defence industry.

A first-hand look inside Ukraine’s drone factories reveals how rapid iteration, frontline feedback and low-cost systems are reshaping the defence industry.
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