Daily Archives: Mar 17, 2026

It is not often that a military exercise disrupts more than 100,000 airline passengers and makes one of the world's busiest maritime corridors reroute all traffic. Yet, that is what happened as China's People's Liberation Army began its largest-ever drills around Taiwan-a sweeping, multi-domain operation that sent shockwaves across...

The United States has ramped up its maritime sanctions enforcement to levels not seen in years with the seizure of a mammoth Venezuelan oil tanker during a daring raid. Helicopter-borne armed teams were part of the operation that targeted squarely the so‑called "shadow fleet"-a secret fleet of ships transporting...

The kick of a humanoid robot sent a man tumbling to the ground, raising questions about just how close advanced robotics has come to crossing into a "physical danger zone." Autonomous or remotely controlled, the incident points out an urgent challenge: making machines with human-like agility and strength not...