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In the Johor state election held on July 11, 2026, Barisan Nasional (BN) won 48 of the 56 seats, while Pakatan Harapan (PH), a coalition led by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, secured just eight. The results prompted observers to use the term “Blue Wave.” Is this a precursor to a major shift among voters, and could it redirect Malaysia’s political future at the federal level? Given Johor’s importance as one of the key states in Peninsular Malaysia, it is understandable that such a discussion would emerge. Surface-level observations, however, miss the nuanced implications. The real story is not in…

DS The Air Force could bring up to six vendors into the early prototyping work of its second robotic wingman batch next year Source link

WASHINGTON — The Space Force has tapped 15 vendors to compete for a $981 million contract pool aimed at getting training capabilities to Guardians over the next five years, as senior officials fret gaps caused by a lack of instructors, facilities and simulators needed for key mission areas. The effort has a heck of a moniker, according to an announcement today from Space Systems Command (SSC): the National Space Test and Training Complex (NSTTC) Innovative Technology & Engineering — Space Test and Range (NITE-STAR) Capability Development. The multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract vehicle is designed to “accelerate” the development of…

Anthropic’s flagship artificial intelligence model Claude gained unauthorized access to the networks of three different organizations, the company announced following internal cybersecurity audits of its routine model evaluations. In a press release posted Thursday, Anthropic said that, following the containment breach of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5.6 and subsequent attack on Hugging Face’s systems, Anthropic conducted an audit of its own model evaluations. The findings revealed that, out of 141,006 examined evaluations of Claude models dating back to April, there were three incidents where a model accessed the internet from within or while interacting with the third-party evaluators. Each attack occurred during a “capture-the-flag” scenario…

On July 29, Tajikistan’s Committee on Religion, Regulation of Traditions, Celebrations, and Ceremonies told Asia-Plus, the country’s only remaining major independent media outlet, that the country has adopted no law banning beards or the hijab, and that foreign assessments of Tajik religious freedom rest on unreliable sources. The denial followed a week of Russian-language reports announcing that Dushanbe had outlawed hijabs, beards, and Arab-style dress. The reports seem to run back to a single post. On July 27, the Uzbek site Nuz.uz reported that Tajik authorities were tightening restrictions on clothing treated as alien to Tajik culture, singling out black…

WSJ The U.S. military’s megadeals with Lockheed Martin and shipbuilders aim to guarantee availability of equipment over time and stabilize suppliers Source link

The conflict in Iran has revealed two truths about US air-and-missile-defense (AMD) systems: they are effective, but replenishing their munitions stockpiles is a critical challenge. Their effectiveness has been proven repeatedly, as the damage done by missiles and drone swarms has been relatively minimal compared to the sheer number of attacks. Critically, however, multiple AN/TPY-2 radars — the backbone of AMD detection and tracking as part of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system — have been damaged or destroyed. The US has scrambled to relocate the costly, hard to replace radars from other regions such as the…

The nation’s largest military shipbuilder sees maritime drones producing “modest” revenue now, but expects that to grow as the Navy builds its unmanned fleet, HII’s chief executive said during Thursday’s earnings call. “We know it’s going to become more of the Navy fleet because [unmanned systems] can do excess missions and expand the fleet size such that they can do things that large capital ships can’t do and take the place of large capital ships in some of the missions,” said Chris Kastner, HII’s CEO and president. “From a revenue standpoint right now, it’s pretty modest.” Kastner went on to say that…

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung is nearing the end of the longest overseas trip of his 14-month presidency, an 11-day swing that carried him from Silicon Valley’s technology corridor to the mineral-rich economies of South America. Lee, who took office in June 2025, opened the tour with investment pledges from four of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies, then flew on to Brazil and Chile where he secured trade and critical-mineral commitments from both countries.  In the following days, he will head to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, to have a summit meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei prior…

Cristina Stassis, Air Force Times The Air Force plans to buy at least 185 F-47s, matching the size of the F-22 Raptor fleet it intends to replace Source link