entrackr.com/news/chiratae-v… Quanfluence raises $10M Series A fund to build a full-stack photonic quantum computer ( their technology does not require adv. minus zero refrigeration due to use of light hence operates the computer at room temp. )……….100qubit prototype by 2029.

and you wonder why Mitchell Starc has this man's poster on wall at his Sydney home.

BREAKING: Plague escapes Siberian lab, researcher dead. Russia quarantines multiple facilities and widens quarantine lock-down. Russian FSB dispatched, formally the KGB.

A 31-year-old Indian Navy sailor was arrested in Coimbatore for leaking sensitive defence information to a female Pakistani intelligence operative, who lured him into a honeytrap.

interesting. their montly export is now almost $60 billion, with a $1 billion trade surplus

Bharat has launched an auction for 2 offshore mineral blocks in the Andaman Sea near Great Nicobar: West Sewell Ridge-01 (1,000 sq km) & Sewell Rise-01 (632 sq km). The blocks contain polymetallic nodules rich in cobalt, nickel, copper & manganese. 🇮🇳

Okay. I going to bite the bullet and write it here. A lot of friends ask me to talk to their high school kids to "motivate" and "direct". The kids love our conversations, but some of my friends don't. Let me write it here and you be the judge!

Hunt For MQ-9 Reaper Successor Surprisingly Includes Exotic Aircraft Manufacturer Otto Aerospace Otto's extremely efficient airframe design philosophy, tested by the Celera 500L, could make for an attractive Reaper follow-on, but it is facing stiff competition. twz.com/news-features/hunt-f…

And here they are in action. From @Airbound_Aero

Amara Raja’s under construction ePositive Energy Labs. An energy research institute and innovation centre in Hyderabad. The facility will be equipped with advanced laboratories for material research, prototyping & life cycle analysis. It will be available to any company.

Couldn't resist posting this

Agrani Labs is in talks for a ₹800–850 crore round with Samsung, 360 One and Peak XV, at a ₹2,400–2,500 crore post-money valuation. Peak XV may put in ₹180–200 crore. Agrani also plans to seek ₹120–130 crore under the RDI scheme. It earlier raised an $8 million seed round led by Peak XV.

Agrani closing in on an ₹850 cr raise. The ₹120 cr ask under RDI seems well within the eligible mandate, though the funding slowdown could impact allocation timeline.

Korea's national intelligence agency is monitoring about 80 leading Korean scholars targeted for recruitment by the Chinese government, in an effort to stop advanced technology from leaking abroad. Korean academics say offers from China are an everyday occurrence. "Recruitment emails come in about once a week from different parts of China, including Zhejiang. They offer an annual salary of 300 million won ($221,200), a performance bonus equal to the salary, about 1 billion won a year in research funding and even a house and a car." Their targets reach far and wide at Korean companies, regardless of their role — so much so that anyone whose profile on LinkedIn lists experience at Samsung Electronics or SK hynix draws a flood of contacts from Chinese companies and headhunters. "It is not just engineers but marketing and sales staff as well. Each role has experience or information that [Chinese companies] need." Headhunters especially target people around the time they retire. They offer high pay to those who struggle to find new jobs in Korea. "Executives are most psychologically vulnerable right after they retire. When a chip downturn pushes more executives out of the company, that is when Chinese headhunters make contact." What Chinese companies want to buy is the process know-how that Korean companies have built up over decades. Even with identical equipment, yields vary widely depending on how skillfully a company fine-tunes each step of the process and tracks down the causes of defects. Engineers who are recruited can, in turn, become bait for other Korean workers. Once they have handed over their technology and experience, their standing at the Chinese company can shrink. Some then reportedly turn into recruitment brokers and earn a living by introducing former colleagues to Chinese companies for a fee. koreajoongangdaily.com/busin…

Embraer-Mahindra assembly line for Embraer's C-390 military transport aircraft likely to be in Nagpur. This coupled with a potential Embraer-Adani FAL for commercial aircrafts probably in Dholera, firmly cements Embraer's interest in India. Hope we don't waste the opportunity this time around! reuters.com/world/india/embr…

These industrial espionage are so brazen it reads like a movie script and all this in done for CXMT that is de facto a quasi-SOE and China's best hope for making the HBM chips that can power AI chips. koreajoongangdaily.com/busin…

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced six new War Department initiatives during a "State of the Force" address at Quantico on Tuesday, delivered to 600 officers and enlisted service members and broadcast Pentagon wide. The centerpiece is Autonomous Warfare Command, a new four star combatant command Secretary Hegseth said will build autonomous and robotic capabilities across the force. A separate effort, "Project Agincourt," will lead the pathway to stand up that command while also running the Pentagon's existing unmanned systems mission. "Project Meridian" is a forward-looking study led by the Pentagon's chief technology officer with private sector partners to identify future warfare domains and capabilities, Secretary Hegseth said it is explicitly not meant to set new strategy or policy. "Fortress America" is a long-term push to get military installations running on independent power and to bring critical supply chains onshore. Linked to that is "The Next Great American Base," a call for a new installation Hegseth said will house 15,000 to 25,000 troops, with states invited to pitch why it should be built there; no site has been chosen. "America's Corps of Cadets" will expand commissioning pathways beyond the service academies and senior military colleges to six additional partner universities. The sixth initiative, an Office of Religious Affairs, will report directly to the Secretary's office. He said it would ensure "first class religious support" for troops, citing his own figure that 95 percent of the force "recognizes an Almighty God." Secretary Hegseth said the announcements build on recruitment and retention gains over the past year and reaffirmed his three stated priorities: reviving the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military, and reestablishing deterrence.

It’s going to be the Phantom III now isn’t? Both the F-47 and F/A-47? Phantom Works and the legacy . We should outlaw any aircraft name reuse over II

Everything's computer that's beautiful

Great and rare shot of the wide area display all lite from a afar.