Foreign Minister: Iran Is Not Seeking Ceasefire, Negotiations with US

Pentagon Seeks Stunning 243x Budget Surge For Drone Warfare Unit As Eurasian Wars Reshape Combat Buried in the Department of War's Fiscal Year 2027 procurement request is a massive increase for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG), a clear acknowledgment that ongoing conflicts across Eurasia have underscored one hard lesson: cheap kamikaze drones can impose outsized costs on traditional militaries. The substantial surge in the budget request also signals growing urgency within the DoW to field these drones at scale. The defense and aerospace news publication Inside Defense was the first...

US Nuclear Fusion Startup To Build Radioactive Batteries For Use In Space Authored by Ameya Paleja via Interesting Engineering, Avalanche Energy, a fusion energy startup, has won a $5.2 million contract to build radioactive batteries that can power a laptop-class system for months. The contract is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Rads to Watts Program, which aims to build next-generation, compact, resilient nuclear batteries with higher densities.  An early prototype of Avalanche Energy’s radiovoltaic converter for the DARPA Rads to Watts program is exposed to high-energy ion-beam irradiation.Avalanche Fusion Radioactive...

Shocking Number Of Gen Z'ers Are Bringing Mommy & Daddy To Job Interviews If you thought Gen Z arriving was the long-awaited antidote to the famously coddled Millennials, you might want to rethink that theory. A new survey from career site Zety polled 1,000 Gen Z workers and found that a whopping 44% of these young workers had Mom or Dad help write or edit their resumes, while 20% admitted that a parent had joined them during a job interview (15% in-person, 5% virtually). “Some in Gen Z feel having parental involvement when...