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The US Army awards a $98.9M contract to TurbineOne to deploy AI software that helps infantry identify drones and other threats locally on soldiers' devices (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal:
The US Army awards a $98.9M contract to TurbineOne to deploy AI software that helps infantry identify drones and other threats locally on soldiers' devices  —  Infantry will use software from startup TurbineOne to identify drones and other threats, even when signals are jammed

Why kids are all posing like this in pictures

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. My kids were posing for a picture the other day when the older one, like big siblings since time immemorial, threw up a pair of bunny ears behind his little brother’s head. Or so I thought. “That’s not […]

Research and 25 experts, victims, and execs: North Korean hackers are saturating the crypto industry with credible-seeming job offers in a bid to steal crypto (Reuters)

Reuters:
Research and 25 experts, victims, and execs: North Korean hackers are saturating the crypto industry with credible-seeming job offers in a bid to steal crypto  —  North Korean hackers are saturating the cryptocurrency industry with credible-sounding job offers as part of their campaign to steal digital cash …

SK Hynix's union approves a 6% wage bump and 10% allocation of SK's annual profit to a bonus pool, totaling ~$2.7B for 33,625 staff in 2025, averting a strike (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
SK Hynix's union approves a 6% wage bump and 10% allocation of SK's annual profit to a bonus pool, totaling ~$2.7B for 33,625 staff in 2025, averting a strike  —  SK Hynix Inc.'s labor union approved a landmark agreement that could see each employee on average receiving about $80,000 bonus for 2025 alone …

The big problem with “no tax on tips” 

The Democratic Party’s problems have a two-word solution: “economic populism.” Or so suggests much recent commentary (including, to an extent, my own). Yet, the merits of “populist” economic policies depend a lot on how that term is defined.  “Populism” is best understood as a rhetorical mode that portrays political life as a conflict between the […]