Planet wants to prevent “adversarial actors” from using images for “Battle Damage Assessment” purposes.
Month: March 2026
Anthropic’s $200M Pentagon AI Deal Collapses Over Safety Disputes, Highlighting Startup Risks in Federal Contracts
Anthropic’s Pentagon Deal is a Cautionary Tale for Startups Chasing Federal Contracts In July 2025, Anthropic inked a landmark $200 million contract with the Pentagon, making its AI model Claude the first frontier model approved for classified networks—but by February 2026, the deal imploded over […]
Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead
The Exploration Upper Stage did not in any way get NASA closer to landing on the Moon.
Ding-dong! The Exploration Upper Stage is dead
The Exploration Upper Stage did not in any way get NASA closer to landing on the Moon.
Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated
Trade groups urge court to create a simple blueprint for tariff refunds.
Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn’t immune.
CISA adds 3 iOS flaws to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities
The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.
Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?
A new hypothesis proposes that our ancestors lost their eyes, then rebuilt them.
Global Tensions Soar: U.S.-Iran Conflict Threatens Oil Supply, Sparks Regional Chaos – 3/6/2026, 4:24:34 PM
The escalating U.S.-Israel war against Iran dominates global headlines as of March 6, 2026, with ongoing airstrikes, Iranian retaliatory attacks on regional targets, and severe disruptions to oil supplies. Death tolls in Iran have reached at least 787 from U.S. and Israeli bombings across 153 […]
Climate change sucks, but at least it won’t kill your EV battery
Older EVs, but not newer ones, may lose up to 30 percent range in a warming world.

