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Europe Votes Against Thought-Policing 'Chat Control', Brussels Passes It Anyway... On Thursday in Strasbourg, 314 Members of the European Parliament voted to reject the return of "Chat Control," the legal regime allowing tech companies to scan the private messages of roughly half a billion Europeans. Illustration via proton.me Only 276 voted to keep it. So naturally, the scanning regime won - thanks to a 'quirky' voting procedure in Brussels that allowed legislation to survive even though most MEPs who cast a vote opposed it. That should alarm anyone who still believes the word "parliament"...

US Navy Tests 3D-Printed Composite Patches To Speed Up F/A-18 Fighter Jet Repairs Authored by Mrigakshi Dixit via Interesting Engineering, The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) and Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) have co-developed a 3D-printed composite repair method designed to reduce F/A-18 Super Hornet maintenance times by approximately 50 percent. An F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot prepares for flight at Fleet Readiness Center Southwest in San Diego.NAWCAD Visual Information When an F/A-18 fighter jet gets damaged at a remote base, fixing its advanced composite parts typically takes weeks. The Navy had...

Federal Agents Dismantle Human Smuggling Stash House In Texas Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, U.S. Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents busted a stash house used for human smuggling in El Paso, Texas, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) exclusively told The Epoch Times on Monday. U.S. Border Patrol agents monitor the southern border outside of San Diego, Calif. on May 27, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times The joint investigation, which resulted in the arrests of 11 illegal immigrant adults and one unaccompanied child found in the house on...