Stockpiling Begins: Neros Awarded $100 Million Pentagon Contract For Kamikaze Drones

US defense company Neros Technologies, which focuses on Category 1 one-way attack drones, was awarded a $100 million contract under the Department of War’s Drone Dominance Program for 14,000 drones and explosive payloads.

The award, under the Drone Dominance Program’s Gauntlet II, prioritizes Archer AI, the Category 1 FPV attack drone. Its automated kill chain lets the FPV fly to an operator-selected target, a huge advantage in battle zones where electronic warfare jammers, such as those targeting radio frequencies and GPS signals, dominate.

Neros CEO Soren Monroe-Anderson stated:

“We’ve developed our Archer FPV system to be highly modular and easily adapted to end user needs. Pairing real warfighter feedback with our deep engineering talent is the reason Neros is the only manufacturer to have placed in the top three across two fundamentally different mission sets, deep strike and close quarters battle, with the same drone platform.

Ultimately, Drone Dominance is a test of two things: can competitors build high-performance drones? And can they produce them in massive quantities with short notice? We’re the only manufacturer to receive multiple bonus awards for Gauntlet I based on our delivery speed. We’re ready to fulfill this next batch of 14,000 drones, and more whenever the Department of War signals need for them.”

The announcement comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed that Autonomous Warfare Command, dubbed “AutoWarCom,” will become operational in the fall of next year and will accelerate the DoW’s purchases across all drone categories. 

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Childhood Vaccine Schedules Across Countries

There is a wide disparity across the globe when it comes to childhood vaccination policies. American kids receive up to 75 vaccines; twice as many as kids in other countries. That is why if Dr. Heidi Overton is confirmed as the next director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), one of her top priorities should be helping to drive President Trump’s mandate to study the safety and comparative outcomes current vaccine schedule to that of other countries. 

High on her list of priorities will surely be the two executive orders President Trump signed this year to promote the health of American children, especially since there doesn’t appear to be any movement on either. 

He issued Executive Order 14407 on May 29, 2026, directing the federal government to realign US childhood vaccine recommendations with best practices from peer nations. Section 3 of the order directs HHS, through the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, to present plans within 90 days to assess timing and sequencing, as well as “improve vaccine safety monitoring, transparency, and research.” 

Next, on August 10, the president signed Executive Order 14420 to reduce immunization recommendations from 17–18 diseases down to 11, spacing out shots across more doctor visits, and splitting the combined MMR vaccine into three separate injections. 

The president is fulfilling his commitment to vaccination study and reform, but it doesn’t appear that anyone is listening. Ninety days have passed and the task force, chaired by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, just recently resurrected in August 2025 after 27 years dormant, still hasn’t shared the names of anyone (other than the always present HHS heads) who have been appointed to take charge of designing the study, along with statistical plans, according to a rudimentary internet search. 

To date, there has not been any publicly proposed draft study design, outline, list of experts needed, proposed safety endpoints, request for public comment, or even a single primary or secondary safety or efficacy study objective shared. 

The Task Force does not owe Congress a report until 2027. 

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Failing Canada And Britain Blame Trump, Putin, And ‘White Supremacy’

King Charles III’s North American prime minister, Mark Carney, ran to The New York Times last week to talk about his military combat preparations against the United States in the event that President Trump crosses Lake America and liberates Canada from its delusional leaders. What a showboating dunce. The U.S. singlehandedly sustains Canada’s economy and national security, yet the tiny central banker huffed and puffed in a hilariously Napoleonic display of fake strength.

In the same interview with the failing Times, Con-man Carney outlined his intent to integrate Canada’s economy with that of China and the European Union and to replace the U.S. Dollar with a China-linked global reserve currency. Rhetorically defending Canada’s sovereignty while insulting his U.S. benefactor, Little Mark Carney explained how he would subjugate his socialist nanny-state to Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping and unelected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Mark is the global mascot for “educated” idiots everywhere.

Not to be outdone by not-so-Great Britain’s Canadian cousin, U.K. Prime Minister Poindexter (er, I mean Andy Burnham) informed the United Nations General Assembly last week that his government was constructing yet another speech-police organization (this one given the august name, “National Centre for Information Defence,” which should not be confused with the “Research, Information, and Communications Unit,” the “Government Communication Service,” the “Counter Disinformation Unit,” the “Defending Democracy Taskforce,” the “Information Threats and Influence Directorate,” the “Rapid Response Unit,” the “National Cyber Force and Social Cohesion Taskforce,” the “Media Monitoring Unit,” or any of the other information-control agencies already mobilized across totalitarian Britain) to protect the British people from scary thoughts and words. Burnham blamed the Russians for spreading “a narrative of decline, stoking division, and sowing despair” in the U.K. (and definitely not Westminster’s promotion of decline, division, and despair!) and promised to counteract this “information warfare” by censoring Britons’ public speech and feeding his collapsing country a steady diet of State-sanctioned propaganda. In order to beat back the Russians, Dilapidated Britain must have its very own digital Iron Curtain! Two cheers for democracy! Hip hip…who cares.

The British people are screwed. On average, their government grants settlement or citizenship to an illegal alien every single minute. These foreign nationals receive more welfare from British taxpayers than ever before. The third-world invaders (I mean, “newcomers”) use Britain’s streets as public toilets. Rather than securing the kingdom’s borders, the Home Office hands out a nine-page booklet informing mostly-Muslim men of military age that it is illegal to rape women and children while they conquer the islands. In the last two years alone, the number of illegal immigrants (and future citizens!) arriving by boat has exceeded the size of the entire British Army! But if these outrageous facts disturb you enough to publicly express your feelings on social media, you will most likely join the roughly 65,000 Brits who have been arrested for “speech-related offenses” over the last five years. Foreign invasion? Good! Free speech? Very bad!

Apparently, the British police state also plans to imprison anyone who would rather not fight WWIII against the Russian Federation. During a recent episode of former cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg’s “State of the Nation” on GB News, one leftist-globalist commentator in favor of mass conscription argued, “We would have to lock a few people up…some of the pro-Russian voices, people saying there isn’t a threat, don’t fight for your country, don’t go to war for Burnham, we’ll have to lock ’em up.” Rather than responding with horror at the suggestion that his fellow Britons should be imprisoned for opposing a catastrophic war, Rees-Mogg pedantically replied, “Well, we suspended habeas corpus during the Napoleonic Wars…indeed, yes.” In another interview, Rees-Mogg nonchalantly remarked that British citizens have a “duty” to “die” for Britain in a war against Russia.

In Burnham and Rees-Mogg’s Britain, the only way to “defend democracy” is to imprison anyone who disagrees with the British Establishment and to sacrifice everyone else to the killing fields! The British Isles might as well be renamed the “Gulag Archipelago.”

Interestingly, GB News – which leans conservative – discovered last week that Britain’s media regulator, the Office of Communications (Ofcom), had covered up data showing that viewers trust GB News more than the BBC. GB News, in fact, is ranked above all other networks with regard to viewpoint diversity and impartiality. British authorities apparently did not want the public to know these inconvenient truths because the BBC is treated as an objective, trustworthy, and premier source of news (fact check: false!). In an effort to control the public’s perception of the BBC, Ofcom restricted what information the public was permitted to know. P.M. Burnham takes the “defense of information” very seriously!

How seriously? Burnham and the British government force citizens to pay for the BBC’s awful dreck whether they watch it or not! Every household in the U.K. must fork over a £180 license fee to the BBC each year. Because more households are refusing to pay the license, the government is considering the imposition of a mandatory £11-a-month Internet tax in order to keep the BBC’s fake news funded. The BBC says that the “fee is essential for maintaining the quality and diversity of public broadcasting in the UK.”

What does “quality and diversity” look like at the BBC? Two “reporters” just did a major exposé describing how women who don’t polish their nails perpetuate “white supremacy.” No joke! “Nail art’s historical and creative roots are linked back to black, Latino, and Asian communities and the suggestion that bare nails are now a sign of high status could stigmatise bold manicures,” the BBC “reports.” “They are often called elegant or tasteful, and these are often usually euphemisms that perpetuate white supremacist standards of beauty.” Yes, Burnham, force Britain’s working-class to pay for this race-baiting propaganda posing as hard news!

Earlier this year, British authorities announced that YouTube and other social media platforms would be forced to manipulate their algorithms and push BBC “news” to the top of feeds in order to counter “disinformation.” In other words, Whitehall steals money from British citizens to pay for State-run TV and then forces them to watch it. During the Cold War, we called that Soviet-style propaganda. Yet if you ask the fake “reporters” at the BBC, Canada’s publicly-funded CBC, or America’s NPR or PBS, all these propagandists would insist that they have nothing in common with the Soviet Union’s Pravda or the Russian Federation’s RT (Russia Today) News. In the West, State-funded media are somehow not State media. Does that sound more like propaganda or breaking news?

Britain’s State-imposed “narrative control” is utterly totalitarian. Dismissing the “narrative of decline” and “despair” in Britain as a “corrosive narrative…which bears no resemblance to reality” and a “distorted and untrue narrative about Britain,” P.M. Burnham casts all public dissent as “far-right narratives.” As military historian Professor Michael Rainsborough mocks, “The problem isn’t the problem, the problem is the people noticing the problem.” Rainsborough points out that right after Burnham rebranded “decline” as “disinformation,” the prime minister laid out a “10-year plan” to fight inflation, housing costs, hopelessness, inequality, and division. “The narrative of decline,” in other words, “bears no resemblance to reality, although reality apparently requires a 10-year plan.”

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Your Car Is Sharing More Private Data Than Your Smartphone. Who’s Getting It?

Modern vehicles, like every other technology device we own, from smartphones to fridges and even dog collars, are connected to the internet 24/7. They learn from us, know things about us, and most of the time use that information to make our lives easier. Cars, specifically, collect vital driving and behavior data that is borderline impossible to opt out of if you want to use your vehicle’s modern convenience features. And a new study recently found that your sensitive information (some of which isn’t even car-related) is being shared with far more parties than you realize.

The only way you’ll be surprised by what you’re about to read is if you’ve been in a coma for the last decade or two. But even for those of us who are mildly aware of how the technology we rely on every day interacts with us and the data we generate, this recent study by Boston’s Northeastern University in partnership with Consumer Reports will make you raise an eyebrow—several times.

The study covered 21 vehicles of 19 different brands (listed below) and 30 companion mobile apps that process and handle user data.

You can peruse the 18-page paper here, but you can also see the main takeaways below:

  • Companion Apps Share Data That Goes Beyond Car Stuff: 70% of companion apps contacted more than five unique ATA (advertising, tracking, analytics) domains, typically sharing location, timing, and other data packets. For most test vehicles, adding the automaker or third-party (usually pre-installed) app at least doubles the number of ATA companies exposed to the owner’s data. The Envista and Nissan Ariya, which were nearly silent on their own, each reach 20+ ATA companies once the app is counted. myCadillac contacted 51 ATA domains.
  • How Many Third-Party Apps Your Car Contacts Wildly Varies: Over Wi-Fi, vehicles contacted at most four first-party domains but averaged about 9 integrated third parties. The Tesla Model 3 contacted 34 ATA domains and the Cybertruck 23, while the Mercedes EQS and Buick Envista contacted no third parties. Thirteen of the 21 vehicles contacted Google ATA domains, including ones like doubleclick.net that aren’t needed for core services. Vehicles with Android Automotive and Google services contacted many more trackers, and even sibling brands differed; oddly enough, the Envista, Lyriq, and Blazer did not behave in the same manner.
  • Some Apps Share Your VIN With Vendors, Something Not Even Your Smartphone Can Do: Seven apps (19 of 21 cars) transmitted personal information to ATA third parties: all four GM apps, HondaLink, Lincoln, and MyNissan. VINs were the most common, sent to recipients including Google, Microsoft, and Meta. The worry is that a VIN plus an email, phone number, or location lets an ad company link a specific person to their browsing and purchase history. The study also highlights that a VIN can’t be reset the way a phone’s advertising ID can. Also, I just published a blog this week about how I enjoyed Honda’s infotainment with Google Built-in, and cracked a joke about the price I am willing to pay for convenience.
  • OEMs Mostly Pass the Buck to Their Partners and Vendors: Of 17 manufacturers contacted for the study, 14 responded. All said their vendor contracts covered data flows. Five blamed embedded browsers in their apps, and seven said reading third-party terms is the consumer’s responsibility. Of course, if you opt out or simply don’t use the features, then you wouldn’t be utilizing your car to its full potential. Tesla warned about reduced functionality or inoperability, while Rivian warned about disabled navigation and over-the-air updates. The privacy policies disclosed that data may go to third parties but not which ones or why. Only Honda changed course. It had Amplitude delete the location data it received and stopped the app from sending it. Go Honda.
  • Gathering This Data Wasn’t Easy: Even if you only use the official apps pre-installed in your car, some of these may connect to your phone and ultimately open your browser. Once it does, the whole flow of data changes because it follows your phone’s browser settings, not your car’s. This means your car is now receiving cookies and browsing data and sharing them in ways you weren’t aware of or expected.

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Fire Fighters Union in Michigan Quietly Pulls Endorsement of Abdul-El Sayed Then Scrubs Website

A fire fighters union in Michigan has yanked their support for far left Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the race for U.S. Senate.

They’re now chalking the original endorsement up as a clerical error. Either way, it’s not a good look for El-Sayed, who has come under increased scrutiny in recent months.

The people who run big unions often endorse Democrat candidates, but the rank and file members tend to vote Republican. We have seen this happen again and again.

The Midwesterner reports:

Michigan fire fighters union calls Abdul El-Sayed endorsement ‘clerical error’ — quietly erases from slate of supported candidates

The Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union quietly removed U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed from its slate of endorsed candidates.

MPFFU President Matt Sahr told The Midwesterner the union’s slate of endorsed candidates initially went out to members on Sept. 11 or 12 with an endorsement for El-Sayed’s campaign prominently displayed at the top alongside Jocelyn Benson for governor and endorsements for the Michigan Supreme Court.

Fifteen days later, on Monday, MPFFU leaders sent out a revised slate of endorsements that replaced El-Sayed with an endorsement for Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist for Secretary of State.

“Our intention was to stay out of that race,” Sahr said, adding the initial slate of endorsements “got distributed out before it got approved” and dismissed it as a clerical error.”…

At least one MPFFU member disputes that.

“This was not a clerical error. What we are seeing now is MPFFU leadership trying to sweep this under the rug. If rank-and-file members had not voiced our concerns, I have no doubt this organization would still be supporting Abdul El-Sayed over Mike Rogers,” a MPFFU fire fighter from southern Michigan told The Midwesterner.

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The Government’s WAR Against American Doctors

After earning a medical degree, who gets the residency, the citizen or the foreigner?

We tell our children to study hard. Get the education. Earn the degree. Prepare for a profession where they can make a difference. Suppose Johnny does all of that.

He graduates from medical school. He has the degree. But on the usual path toward independent medical practice, there is another essential step: postgraduate clinical training, usually through residency training. And without a residency selection, a student’s medical career is effectively on hold, as residency training is required to obtain a full medical license and practice independently.

So, now Johnny needs a residency. And that brings me back to the question we asked in my last article: When does the system give American applicants First Consideration? The ANSWER – it doesn’t. It rewards Foreign Trained Physicians with VISA preferences to overcome Medicare Reimbursement CAPS on U.S. Doctors.

A controversy involving Rochester General Hospital in New York brought that question into sharp focus. A viral post alleged that 80 of 82 resident physicians were foreign-trained working under H‑1B or J‑1 VISAS, leaving only two positions for Americans.

That is a serious allegation. It also remains unverified. Medical-school rosters do not establish citizenship or VISA status, and the hospital’s published response did not provide that breakdown. Still, the questions deserve answers.

How many American applicants applied? How many were interviewed? How were applicants selected? And what role did VISA sponsorship play?

Before we can answer those questions honestly, we need to understand three things: 1. How residency selection works; 2. How H‑1B and J‑1 differ; and 3. What the numbers actually tell us.

A country concerned about having enough doctors should also be concerned about whether qualified Americans have a fair opportunity to complete their training.

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“Are You An FPV Pilot”: Pentagon Calls On Drone Operators For Next “Gauntlet” Showdown

The Department of War has put out a request for service members with “FPV experience” to participate in testing events called “Gauntlets” and fly Category 1 drones in field training exercises to accelerate drone development and prepare the US for the next conflict, where drones, robotics, and automated kill chains dominate the modern battlefield.

“Are you an FPV pilot? We want to hear from you!” DoW asked on X on Friday morning.

“The Drone Dominance Program is recruiting service members with FPV experience who would like to be considered as pilots for future Gauntlets and related efforts,” the request said.

The Drone Dominance Program is the DoW’s answer to purchasing large quantities of drones across every category, from 1 to 5, and building out a domestic supply chain of components free from dependence on conflict areas and countries such as China, which can easily weaponize supply chains to hinder procurement.

Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed that Autonomous Warfare Command, dubbed “AutoWarCom,” is set to accelerate the DoW’s purchases across all categories of drones, robotics, and AI.

What’s key is that drone procurement will be a massive part of the rearmament supercycle and provide tailwinds to drone companies, such as heavily shorted Ondas, whose Ultra drone could very well see ramped-up orders by the military as it’s seen as an MQ-9 Reaper alternative for ISR missions. 

“Once we apply sustained budget to changed doctrine, we will outperform the world,” said Owen West, a former Marine, assistant defense secretary, and Goldman Sachs trader who has been tasked with leading the DoW’s Defense Innovation Unit. “And by snapping in AI, we will be ahead of the world, because we are the leaders in AI.”

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Federal Judge Rules Warrantless Flock Search Unconstitutional After Deputy Pulls Month of Driver’s Travel History — Calls System ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’

A federal judge in Oklahoma just threw out a drug case after ruling that police violated the Fourth Amendment when they used Flock Safety’s automated license-plate cameras to pull a driver’s travel history for roughly a month, without a warrant, and without probable cause.

U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill of the Northern District of Oklahoma ruled that Tulsa County sheriff’s deputy Freddie Alaniz conducted an “Unconstitutional Warrantless Search” when he queried Flock and other automated license plate reader systems on a Mazda SUV simply because it had a California plate.

According to 404 Media, the search returned more than 50 records of the driver’s whereabouts across the country. Hill suppressed the Flock records and everything that came out of the later search of the vehicle.

The defendant is Melisa Kyle, 46, of Crane, Missouri, charged with possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute.

According to Law Commentary, the case began in May when Alaniz, who also served as a DEA task force officer, was parked along Interstate 44, saw the California plate, pulled onto the highway, and started following the SUV.

He later stopped Kyle for changing lanes without a signal, then used the Flock history to question her about her travel and to justify searching the car.

Authorities said they found about 91 pounds of methamphetamine packed in luggage, marijuana, and roughly $7,000 in cash. Hill ruled the constitutional violation happened earlier, when the deputy reached into the historical location database.

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Chainalysis Used Ai To Trace The $387m Bitget Hack Back To North Korea

In a recent blog post, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis attributed the $387 million theft from cryptocurrency exchange Bitget to North Korean state-sponsored hackers. The firm used a combination of its’ AI-powered cryptocurrency analysis and its’ traditional investigative methods to track the stolen funds, moving them across multiple blockchains. Importantly, although the firm used technology to enhance the analysis of the data, it was human investigators who ultimately attributed the theft and controlled the output of their analysis.

After the breach, the attackers had been using more sophisticated techniques for laundering the stolen assets, spreading them through cross-chain liquidity protocols, messaging platforms, instant swap services, as well as specialized laundering infrastructure. The scale of such attempts highlights the attackers’ high level of experience in managing a large-scale cybercrime operation and in evading detection by blockchain forensics experts, writes Decrypt.

Stolen XRP was handled differently by the hackers and after some time it was converted into Bitcoin through cross-chain liquidity protocol and then extracted from the pool on the other side of the trade. This cross-chain arbitrage was used by hackers not only to convert very traceable asset into something else but also to make it as anonymous as possible by hopping from one protocol to another. The activity of extracting tens of millions of dollars in assets through this method took approximately 36 hours.

We previously highlighted that the attack bore similarities to past attacks conducted by DPRK cyber crime operators, as identified by Bitget CEO Gracy Chen. Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic also assessed the involvement of North Korean cyber crime operators in the theft to be “highly likely”.

The money laundering activity is very transparent and is being carried out on public blockchains. The attacker moved parts of the funds to Zcash’s shielded pool in order to use the privacy features. However, how swap services react to these transactions varies greatly. Near Intents for example rejected over $50m in hacker-linked transactions. They got hacked days later though. Thorchain on the other hand continued to process the suspect transactions.

However, stablecoin issuers such as Circle and Tether were able to prevent $318,000 in stablecoins that were siphoned off in the hack from entering circulation. The move highlights the power of centralized control of widely held stablecoins even as the broader decentralized trading environment continues to facilitate hacker activity.

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‘Session Keys Stolen’ – Hackers Steal Claude Tokens From Paying Subscribers

Hackers have been ‘draining’ usage tokens from the accounts of Paying Subscribers of Anthropic’s Claude AI large language model by hijacking their login sessions to the platform, reports TechCrunch.

The phenomenon came to light when independent AI consultant, Grant De Swardt, noticed that although he had not been using Claude (on a paid-for ‘Claude Max 20x’ plan) on a particular day, his token usage had increased on that day. He notified Anthropic of the issue the following day and, after the company had suspending his paid-for account and, in the words of De Swardt, ‘invalidated all sessions and server-side Claude Code tokens’, issued a partial refund of £44.49 (half of the remaining portion of the subscription cost of $200 per month for Claude Max 20x).

De Swardt was advised by the company that, after investigating the unusual activity, that a compromised Claude session key had been used to generate ‘unauthorized Claude Code OAuth tokens’. In essence, his Claude account had been used by an ‘unauthorized third-party service’ that happened to have been processing activity for other people as well. De Swardt, who raised the issue on Reddit, was unable to establish how the ‘hacking’ had taken place although the evidence was consistent with either ‘stolen credentials or session data’ or ‘connection to an external service’. In the interim, other users came forward on the same Reddit thread to report similar issues with Claude.

One reported that his account had been ‘auto-upgrade[d] without consent’ and ‘charge[d]’ in the process – with the resulting usage suddenly jumping from 0% to 100%. Another reported that, within 12 minutes of using Claude to enter a few prompts and then conducting a simple web search, his account’s usage had suddenly shot up from 0% to 49%. And a third – who had found that his account had ‘exhausted its maximum daily tokens for three consecutive days with no activity’ – raised the matter via a GitHub issue.Anthropic eventually sent an email to some of the affected users – including the party who had discovered that his account had ‘sprinted’ through its maximum daily allowance of tokens over three consecutive days while he was doing nothing with the service – warning that a ‘bad actor’ was using ‘infostealer malware’ to ‘steal logged in Claude sessions from user computers and then drain tokens from their accounts’.

The company emphasized that the malware in question does not come from Claude itself and can be contracted from a variety of online sources including, by way of example, via ‘downloader[ies] infected with the malware’ and ‘ads infected with the malware’. In those circumstances, Anthropic explained that, in order to protect the affected users, it had signed them out of Claude, ‘Rejected all Authorizations for those sessions’, and issued refunds to those users deemed to have been affected.

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