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Defense News

US strike kills leader of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, White House says

Christian Martinez and Jasper Ward, Reuters

Venezuela’s information ministry said that during the operation there were clashes with members of criminal groups, in which the leader was neutralized.

Read issue 6 hours ago·Jun 13, 2026
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Defense News

Only 1 in 4 F-35s is fully mission capable, GAO finds

Michael Scanlon

The F-35’s readiness rates continued to decline through fiscal 2025, with the fleet’s full mission capable rate falling to 25%, according to a GAO report.

Read issue 24 hours ago·Jun 12, 2026
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Defense News

US Army commissions second cohort of tech executives into innovation unit

Eve Sampson

This week, the Army added three more technology executives to Detachment 201, a unit intended to bridge the gap between the commercial sector and military.

Read issue yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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Defense News

US plans major cut to jets, warships for NATO operations in Europe, NYT reports

Reuters

The United States reportedly plans to significantly reduce the aircraft and warships it makes available for NATO operations in Europe.

Read issue yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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MIT Technology Review

The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception

Thomas Macaulay

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company…

Read issue yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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Compact

Dwight Macdonald’s American Century

Geoff Shullenberger

When was America great? Despite all that divides Americans today, I suspect a large cross-partisan majority of us, if pressed, would locate the nation’s modern apogee somewhere in the years between 1940 and 1970.

Read issue yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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MIT Technology Review

You do your own time

Elizabeth Bear

There we were, a regular murderers’ row of librarians. Little Jo. Eustace. And me. Turning around in the nave of our library to greet the sound of footsteps, pistols leveled in case whoever was coming in didn’t respect sanctuary. Little Jo had a stack of books under one arm. Eus…

Read issue yesterday·Jun 12, 2026
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MIT Technology Review

Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now

Jessica Hamzelou

Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related diseases, announced that it had dosed its first volunteer. A person with glaucoma has had an experimental treatment injected straight into their eyeball. The idea is to try to treat the disea…

Read issue 2 days ago·Jun 12, 2026
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MIT Technology Review

Inside interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside

Katherine W. Isaacs

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Your brain lives in the dark space of your skull. Yet it knows when the wind l…

Read issue 2 days ago·Jun 12, 2026
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Foreign Affairs

The Strange Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence

Rose Gottemoeller

And the coming crisis in strategic stability.

Read issue 2 days ago·Jun 12, 2026
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Defense News

Trump vows to seize Iran’s Kharg Island

Tanya Noury

Kharg Island, the linchpin of Iran’s oil industry, has once more come under focus amid a fraying ceasefire.

Read issue 2 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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IEEE Spectrum

Why Orbital Data Centers Are Harder Than Silicon Valley Thinks

Andrew Cavalier

“Space computing, the final frontier, has arrived,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared at the Nvidia GTC conference in March. Indeed, the idea of data centers in orbit has gone from science fiction to a serious spending category. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired xAI (also Musk’s) a…

Read issue 2 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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Compact

The Meaning of Milei’s AI Gamble

Tomás Borovinsky

On June 3, Argentine President Javier Milei published an op-ed in the Financial Times under the title “Argentina Invites AI to Free Itself.”

Read issue 2 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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MIT Technology Review

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

Will Douglas Heaven

Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s AGI safety and alignment research, the mass-market arrival of agents that can ca…

Read issue 2 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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IEEE Spectrum

Defining Autonomy for Wellness Robots in Senior Care

Dreamface Technologies

An examination of how socially assistive wellness robots could support the seven dimensions of senior wellness, and how a framework can measure their autonomy. What Attendees will Learn Why the senior care crisis exceeds incremental automation. Demographic pressure, workforce sh…

Read issue 2 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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MIT Technology Review

Job titles of the future: Nature’s drug designer

Anna Gibbs

In 2018, after nearly two decades working in Big Pharma, chemist Tim Cernak was ready to put his skills to a new use.  For Merck, he’d developed precision therapies for cancer, HIV, and diabetes that could target disease while minimizing harm to healthy cells. But as a life…

Read issue 2 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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Foreign Affairs

Silicon Valley’s Bad Bet on the Gulf

Aaron Bartnick

Why the AI build-out was doomed from the start.

Read issue 3 days ago·Jun 11, 2026
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Defense News

‘They got very lucky,’ Trump says of downed Apache helicopter’s crew

Tanya Noury

After a U.S. Army Apache helicopter was downed by an Iranian drone, President Donald Trump said the rescued aviators “got very lucky.”

Read issue 3 days ago·Jun 10, 2026
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IEEE Spectrum

EPICS in IEEE’s Awards Honor Outstanding Students and Faculty

Ashley Moran

The EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) in IEEE program, administered by IEEE Educational Activities , has launched the Excellent EPICS in IEEE Contributor Awards . The recognitions honor the program’s outstanding students and faculty volunteers in Excellent Team L…

Read issue 3 days ago·Jun 10, 2026
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Compact

The Corporal Philosophers

Darius Gross

It was a typically balmy April evening, and Braden Peters, age twenty, had fainted again.

Read issue 3 days ago·Jun 10, 2026
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IEEE Spectrum

We Are Crowdsourcing the Panopticon

Waydell D. Carvalho

A man raises his phone as police move into a crowd. The video is shaky, loud, immediate. Within minutes, it is online. Within hours, it is everywhere. This is how accountability works now. Something happens, someone records it, and that footage can show what really happened, som…

Read issue 3 days ago·Jun 10, 2026
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Foreign Affairs

The End of the Open Internet

Jacob Mchangama

Europe lost the plot on online speech.

Read issue 4 days ago·Jun 10, 2026
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IEEE Spectrum

What Size Company Is Right for You?

Brian Jenney

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written i n partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free! Small Startup, Mid-Size Comp…

Read issue 4 days ago·Jun 9, 2026
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IEEE Spectrum

The Pros and Cons of Job Hopping as an Engineer

Brian Jenney

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written i n partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free! Job Hopping as an Engineer:…

Read issue 4 days ago·Jun 9, 2026
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Foreign Affairs

How America Lost Command of the Commons

Isaac Kardon

The oceans may soon be tolled.

Read issue 5 days ago·Jun 9, 2026
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Foreign Affairs

Don’t Give Up on Global Order

Philip H. Gordon

America depends on global order—and can restore it.

Read issue 5 days ago·Jun 9, 2026
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Compact

America’s Eerily Quiet 250th Birthday

Adam Rowe

So far America’s 250th celebration has the stilted air of the wedding anniversary of a couple quietly contemplating a divorce.

Read issue 5 days ago·Jun 8, 2026
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Foreign Affairs

Greeted as Liberators?

Janina Dill

How Americans think about U.S. military interventions.

Read issue 6 days ago·Jun 8, 2026
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Compact

My Time Inside the Immigration Industrial Complex

Juan David Rojas

During President Joe Biden’s term in office, the United States witnessed the largest surge in immigration in the nation’s history.

Read issue last week·Jun 4, 2026
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Compact

What Pope Leo Should Have Said About AI

Gregory Conti

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas has been generally understood as a tech-critical document, but in fact, the text bespeaks an acquiescence to technological development as the natural course of human events.

Read issue last week·Jun 3, 2026
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The New Atlantis

How Finitude Makes Us Happy — My Final Post

Brendan Foht

She looked her age — 27, startlingly close to my own age. Did we share acquaintances or friends of friends? She fixed her hair in a ponytail and wore jeans and a collared shirt with a sweater, a preppy and youthful fashion statement consistent with her budding career as an archi…

Read issue 5 years ago·Apr 5, 2021
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The New Atlantis

The Art of Prognostication

Brendan Foht

Her oncologist sent her in to the emergency room. The diagnosis was metastatic gallbladder cancer aggressively invading her liver, resulting in liver failure. I went down to the emergency room to see her. She only spoke Bengali, so every conversation required a phone interpreter…

Read issue 5 years ago·Mar 22, 2021
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The New Atlantis

Death in the Young

Brendan Foht

In war, those with their lives yet to be lived are also those most urgently needed to fight. It is one of the tragic ironies of conflict. In the U.S. Civil War, the average soldier was 26 and approximately 620,000 soldiers died. In World War I, over 2 million German soldiers die…

Read issue 5 years ago·Mar 15, 2021
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The New Atlantis

Let Them Visit

Brendan Foht

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, hospital administrators behaved as cautiously as possible to avoid transmission and dissemination of the virus. They strictly limited or eliminated hospital visitors. This was one of the most devastating policies enacted by healthcare i…

Read issue 5 years ago·Mar 8, 2021
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The New Atlantis

The Other Victims of Covid-19

Samuel Matlack

“I just want to run this case by you,” the emergency room doctor at the other hospital told me on the phone. We frequently get these calls from other hospitals. Smaller emergency rooms with fewer resources often don’t know what to do in complex situations. After all, scientific…

Read issue 6 years ago·Apr 30, 2020
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The New Atlantis

The Absent Oncologist

Aaron Rothstein

We admitted the patient to our service from the emergency room to treat her for thrombocytopenia (an abnormally low platelet count) and spontaneous bruising. The patient, in her fifties, was otherwise healthy. True, she had been treated for stomach cancer nearly seven years ago,…

Read issue 6 years ago·Feb 26, 2020
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Magazines of record for industry, technology, and national strategy. 7 sources / 6 live / 1 manual.

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American Affairs (Print)

Julius Krein

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Quarterly print journal for long essays on industrial policy, national strategy, and the political economy of American production.

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Compact

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A post-liberal magazine covering political economy, labor, manufacturing, and the reorganization of the American order.

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Defense News

Defense News

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Trade publication covering Pentagon procurement, defense primes, and the global defense industrial base.

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Foreign Affairs

Council on Foreign Relations

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The establishment journal of record for American geopolitics — essential for industrial strategy, trade, and national power.

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IEEE Spectrum

IEEE

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The flagship engineering magazine — semiconductors, power systems, robotics, and the working hardware of the American industrial base.

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MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review

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Technology reporting on semiconductors, energy, biotech, and the research behind the next generation of American industry.

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The New Atlantis

Ari Schulman

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A journal of technology and society — the philosophical and civilizational questions raised by rebuilding American industrial power.

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