The changing face of war.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/11/06/28-ugv-assault/

Attack of the robots: Ukraine sent 28 armed ground robots, eight rigged to explode, at Russian lines. Russian drones stopped them—this time

… It seems the Russians spotted the assault from far away and swiftly defeated it, mostly by sending in explosive first-person-view drones. But it could be a temporary win. UGVs are cheap, some costing a few tens of thousands of dollars, and Ukraine is building a lot of them. Former Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov claimed Ukraine would acquire 25,000 UGVs in just the first six months of 2026. The figure for the rest of the year is likely to be as high or higher.

(Related) Be careful what you wish for…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/06/autonomous-weapons-ai-russia-us-binding-rules

Russia and US seek to block plan for binding rules on autonomous weapons

Are you old enough to remember floppies? (I don’t believe this is the first time they promised this upgrade.)

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-begins-retiring-decades-old-floppy-disks-air

Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Traffic Control as Part of Ongoing Modernization Effort Deployment of Brand New Air Traffic Control Continues at Record Pace

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is continuing its historic modernization of America’s air traffic control system by replacing outdated floppy disks that contain vital weather and other critical information with a streamlined, 21st-century system.

Let the reprisals commence!

https://www.bespacific.com/house-oversight-committee-announces-four-point-investigation/

Lawyer Up – House Oversight Committee announces four point investigation

ABC News 7: Garcia pointed to Democrats’ electoral victories nationwide as a mandate. He said the Oversight Committee will be focused on four areas.

• “The first is: We’re going to take on the Trump crime family,” Garcia said. “The amount of grift and corruption is unprecedented in American politics.” Garcia is expected to seek to interview Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner along with other Trump family members about their alleged business dealings.

• “Our second investigation is focused on DHS and the abuses of ICE,” the congressman said, referring to the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “What we see on the streets — across the country, but I want to talk about California – whether it’s been here in Orange County, in Long Beach, in Los Angeles. “When people are being kidnapped and detained, thrown to the ground, arms broken, people snatched up on their way to immigration appointments that we the government gave them – that’s inhumane, it’s wrong, and I think the American public – regardless of party – are sick of it.

• Garcia said he plans to investigate corporate donors to the White House ballroom, no-bid contracts like the Reflecting Pool contractor and companies he has said are “ripping off” the American public. “While you’re struggling, CEOs and companies across this country are making record profits,” he said. “They’re putting in systems of surveillance pricing, so that when you go to the supermarket, you might be paying a different price than your neighbor.”

• As it relates to the Epstein investigation, Garcia said that he wants to hold public hearings, which would replace the interviews that occurred behind closed doors when Republicans were in control.

Because now everything is perfect!

https://www.bespacific.com/trump-declares-oval-office-cabinet-room-national-landmarks/

Trump declares Oval Office, Cabinet Room national landmarks

USAToday: “…Trump signed a proclamation designating the Oval Office and Cabinet Room a national monument, continuing his focus on White House beautification efforts following Republicans’ midterm disaster. Trump said the proclamation will prohibit significant overhauls or destruction of the two iconic White House rooms, both of which have undergone major cosmetic changes by Trump during his second term. The restrictions include keeping the Oval Office shaped like an oval. “It will not be allowed to be touched by anybody ‒ destroyed, ripped down by stupid people in order to build something in a slightly different shape,” Trump said. “We like the Oval Office, and it’s a symbol, like the White House itself.”…The proclamation directs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to create a management plan to preserve the Oval Office’s “structural and significant architectural features. It requires “documentation, review, and consideration of alternatives before any action that would substantially alter or demolish” the Oval Office and Cabinet Room….” [this is the person who ordered the destruction of the East Wing to build a massive unnecessary ballroom, as well paving the lawn in the icon Rose Garden and so much more – Obama responds ….]

Tools & Techniques.

https://www.makeuseof.com/check-your-license-plate-in-flocks-database/

Check if someone searched your license plate in Flock’s database on this website

Remember Have I Been Pwned? Now, there's a free website that offers a similar service, but instead of checking your email address, you can run your license plate to see if it shows up in Flock's surveillance database. Have I Been Flocked can search your plate number across publicly released audit logs from Flock customers.

Become Big Brother as a defensive strategy? (Or be sued when such content becomes public?)

https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/apple-to-start-scanning-publicly-shared.html

Apple to Start Scanning Publicly Shared iCloud Photos and Files for Harmful Content

Apple has revealed that it plans to start checking public iCloud links for harmful content starting with iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3.

The change specifically applies to scenarios where users share iCloud content, such as photos in iCloud Photos or files in iCloud Drive, by sharing a link and making it accessible to "Anyone with the link."

When users choose this option, it makes the content accessible to anyone who has the link, including Apple, the iPhone maker said.

… That said, it's unclear what prompted this change, what Apple considers as "harmful content," and whether these checks will also be applied retroactively to previously generated links, as well as any new links created before the 27.3 updates are officially rolled out later this December.

The tech giant has also warned that if users attempt to upload harmful content, it can be removed or deleted at any time.

How can I not personalize?

https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/ftc-announces-inquiry-into-personalized-pricing-and-employee-compensation

FTC Announces Inquiry into Personalized Pricing and Employee Compensation

On October 28, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission announced the agency had launched an inquiry into the use of personal information to set prices and employee compensation, issuing detailed requests for information to nine airlines, ride-sharing companies, and food-delivery firms.

Another taxpayer funded income source?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/11/want-to-rent-an-internet-address-at-the-white-house/

Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House?

Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, security experts warned today. One of the proxy services is a Russian company whose founder’s web hosting business was ground zero for cyberattacks against election systems in Arizona and Illinois in 2016.

The problem is they sometimes work…

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/11/were-asking-ninth-circuit-hold-reverse-location-warrants-categorically

We’re Asking the Ninth Circuit to Hold Reverse Location Warrants Categorically Unconstitutional

Yesterday, along with the ACLU, EFF filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit court of appeals in United States v. Spurlock, a case involving a “tower dump” warrant. These overbroad warrants require cellular providers to turn over location data about every phone in a given area at a given time. This is the first such case to be heard by a federal appeals court since the US Supreme Court ruled this summer that highly similar “geofence” warrants are searches under the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.

What to expect (dread).

https://www.bespacific.com/things-are-going-to-get-ugly/

Things Are Going to Get Ugly

The Atlantic gift article: “…[Trump] holds hundreds of millions of dollars in his MAGA super PAC and related entities. Whatever remains after the races this year could then go toward sustaining the Trump family’s political power—conceivably backing a future presidential bid by one of Trump’s children. If the Democrats take the House and subpoenas start arriving, Trump will still retain control of the U.S. military and U.S. security services. He can indict people, he can invade nations, he can invoke emergency powers. He will get angrier, noisier, and crazier. He doesn’t care about the future of his party. He doesn’t care about the future of the country. He will want to punish a nation that, in his view, has ungratefully rejected him. Corruptly obtained money never feels secure. Trump, his children, and his inner group of close friends and sycophants most enriched in the past two years have a lot to worry about as the minutes of Trump’s presidency tick down…”

It won’t end with the fridges..

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/cyber-chief-uk-facing-ai-powered-attacks-on-critical-infrastructure-in-two-years

Cyber chief: UK facing AI-powered attacks on critical infrastructure within two years

… The NCSC's State of the Cyber Nation warns that within the next two years, AI adoption by hostile actors is “highly likely” to increase the scale and efficiency of their operations, including ransomware attacks, social engineering, and vulnerability exploitation.

Creating an artificial environment for students? How will they learn to deal with the real world?

https://pogowasright.org/elementary-school-children-using-laptops-schools-gain-direct-control-over-google-ai-search-tools/

Elementary School Children Using Laptops Schools Gain Direct Control Over Google AI Search Tools

Jesse Jacobs reports:

K-12 school district administrators now have the ability to restrict artificial intelligence features directly within Google Search across student devices.

Digital safety company Lightspeed Systems introduced Google Search AI Controls within its web-filtering platform, enabling schools to block Google AI Overview summaries and its conversational AI Mode.

[…]

Under the new tool, districts can route student searches directly to traditional web link results, bypassing the standard default landing page where AI Overviews are displayed. Administrators can also restrict specific categories such as shopping, images or video tabs, as well as embedded widgets and browser games.

Read more at Campus Security.

(Related)

https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2117714815477059722

News from Google

We want to clarify what we announced today about our education services. Today’s announcements give schools more choice, not less. Here’s what we announced:

- Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Search will be OFF 🔴 by default. This is based on K-12 schools asking for more control over student use of AI services.

- Schools are in control: They can choose to turn ON 🟢 one, two, or all of these services individually.

- We are also updating Search for schools to make it better for learning. Specifically, AI Mode and AI Overviews will offer step-by-step guided learning through problems, so that students don’t get quick answers to schoolwork.

Nerds with guns?

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/space-force-special-operations-command-activated/

Special operations guardians must ‘maneuver with their SOF counterparts,’ commander says

… “As we look to assign guardians to this component, especially as we look to assign them to the space special warfare teams for employment attached to other [special operations force] units around the world, we’re looking for those guardians who are expert at their craft — whether that’s operations, intel, cyber — and that they are able to maneuver with their SOF counterparts,” Norsky said.

It could never happen here. (And I’ve got some bottom land for sale…)

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/11/ais-hacking-the-law.html

AIs Hacking the Law

In both a 2021 essay and my 2022 book, A Hacker’s Mind, I talk about AIs finding vulnerabilities and exploits—hacking—the legal system.

Here’s some demonstrations of this from Germany:

Legal systems encode the foundations of social order in natural language. Similar to computer systems, the written law can contain vulnerabilities that invite exploitation.1 Courts absorb most exploits through interpretation, and such vulnerabilities rarely surface in the first place. With highly capable AI systems enabling the discovery of vulnerabilities at unprecedented scale, we believe the latter could change.

In testing this hypothesis, we have identified a substantial number of vulnerabilities in the German legal system using LLMs. To our knowledge, none of these have been previously recorded. We share a selection of vulnerabilities below, and present potential exploits for each. We share only those vulnerabilities whose exploitation we believe would not cause serious harm.

We believe that with cheap legal reasoning proliferating, AI systems could jeopardize the functioning of today’s legal systems. In such a world, lawmakers would need to significantly harden the process of legislation, for example by leveraging advanced AI themselves.

Still in its early stages, but definitely something that’s coming.

Something seems wrong. The US Navy missed a tanker? (Huge ship in a narrow strait) Was this another Trump oil deal?

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Sanctioned-Iranian-Tanker-Slips-Past-US-Blockade-Delivers-Cargo-to-China.html

Sanctioned Iranian Tanker Slips Past U.S. Blockade, Delivers Cargo to China

A sanctioned Iranian tanker carrying about 500,000 barrels of liquefied petroleum gas slipped past the U.S. naval blockade and delivered its cargo to China, according to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), which says it filmed the ship at a Malaysian anchorage along the way.

Trust us, we know everything there is to know about AI… (Does that make them more vulnerable to lawsuits after an AI failure?)

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/trump-administration-refuses-release-information-ai-testing-framework

Trump Administration Refuses to Release Information on AI Testing Framework

The Trump administration declined to produce key documents related to its voluntary AI testing framework, despite an agreement struck in September with the nonprofit Protect Democracy Project after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. In a letter sent to the nonprofit on Friday by the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director and shared with The Information, the Trump administration’s FOIA office cited national security and commercial exemptions to argue that it did not have to share a full draft of the framework, as well as related documents including records of companies and other organizations allowed early access to frontier AI models. The letter did provide some details on the White House’s “trusted partner” program, as well as the scope of the framework.

Toward a safer Internet? Only if patching keeps pace…

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/11/ai-vulnerability-finding-2.html

AI Vulnerability Finding

A comment:

3% of ‘critical’ software security bugs, in all of recorded history, have been found in the last month. This is on pace to find another ~100,000 bugs this year alone, adding ~26% more vulnerabilities to the all time total. Do you realize how fucking insane that is?

Yes. It is a new world out there.

A human failure. The freezer models are known, all you had to do was disconnect the Internet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq1kd1nee80eo

Shop freezers in six European countries hit by suspected cyber-attack

Dozens of supermarkets across six European countries have been hit by a suspected cyber-attack affecting their refrigerators and freezers.

Around 40 Delhaize supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected, while a smaller number of shops were hit in Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands and Estonia.

Sabcobel, a Belgian company that manufactures some of the affected refrigerators, said the units' evaporators were switched to defrost mode causing them to warm up, in what is believed to be the same method used in last month's incident that hit hundreds of French supermarkets.

It’s cheap and somewhat deniable.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-27/russia-linked-hackers-are-turning-cyberattacks-into-a-physical-threat?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MzI5NTc0NywiZXhwIjoxNzkzOTAwNTQ3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTkw0NTNLR1pBSVYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJENTY5QzIyNzE4NUM0NkM4OTgxMjBGMUI2QTBFNDIwQSJ9.ZsPKeMVARRn7ayeTBSLo-FlCJ4yJhExizj_0dCtnLq4&leadSource=article-gifting

Inside the Cyber Sabotage Campaign Waged by Russian Supporters

Cyberattacks causing physical damage are on the rise in NATO countries, and the hackers carrying them out don’t always understand what they’re doing.

Tools & Techniques. (For your amusement?)

https://www.makeuseof.com/amazon-has-a-hidden-about-you-page-that-knows-your-interests-how-to-find-yours/

Amazon has a hidden 'About You' page that knows your interests

… On your About You page, Amazon lets you review personal details and preferences relating to your account, including activity such as purchases, searches, product reviews, Lists, and interactions with Alexa. It then uses this data to tailor product recommendations and create other shopping experiences. You can even help it along by entering your hobbies and interests into About You.