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.
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.
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.
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.
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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…
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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
The Strange Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence
Rose Gottemoeller
And the coming crisis in strategic stability.
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.
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…
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.”
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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…
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…
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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…
Silicon Valley’s Bad Bet on the Gulf
Aaron Bartnick
Why the AI build-out was doomed from the start.
‘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.”
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…
The Corporal Philosophers
Darius Gross
It was a typically balmy April evening, and Braden Peters, age twenty, had fainted again.
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…
The End of the Open Internet
Jacob Mchangama
Europe lost the plot on online speech.
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…
The Pros and Cons of Job Hopping as an Engineer
Brian Jenney
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How America Lost Command of the Commons
Isaac Kardon
The oceans may soon be tolled.
Don’t Give Up on Global Order
Philip H. Gordon
America depends on global order—and can restore it.
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.
Greeted as Liberators?
Janina Dill
How Americans think about U.S. military interventions.
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.
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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…