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Libraries have become an unlikely battleground in the AI debate. Across the United States, librarians are hosting sold-out workshops teaching people how to avoid artificial intelligence tools entirely. The demand has reportedly been unlike anything these institutions have seen, suggesting a quiet but growing backlash against the relentless integration of AI into everyday digital life.
On a very different kind of front line, Ukraine has unveiled a small unmanned surface vessel designed specifically to launch FPV strike drones from open water. The platform, developed by a company called Omega, extends the operational range of cheap first-person-view drones by giving them a mobile maritime launch point — a genuinely novel use of low-cost hardware in modern warfare.
And in a moment that tells you something about where we are with AI adoption, a politician was caught reading an AI-generated prompt aloud during a formal assembly session — apparently unaware, or unconcerned, that the instructions themselves were visible in the text. It's a small but telling story about how quickly these tools are being adopted, and how poorly understood they still are.
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