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Ukraine has confirmed it will manufacture ten million drones in two thousand twenty six, with plans already in motion to double that figure to twenty million. A one point one billion dollar deal with the European Union is backing the push, and battlefield experience is driving the urgency. This is industrial-scale autonomous warfare becoming a permanent economic sector.
Meanwhile, the backlash against smart glasses is sharpening into something more organized. Celebrities are calling them creep goggles, and activists in London have been installing fake Meta Glasses advertisements at bus stops to highlight the surveillance concern. The core tension is simple: a camera you can't see is a camera most people never consented to.
And on the lighter end of the week, a creator called Uwoslab has successfully powered a desktop PC using one hundred ninety two AA batteries wired together into a homemade power bank. The system booted into Hannah Montana Linux, passed a stress test, and even ran FreeDoom. It is completely impractical and somehow completely compelling.
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