Alternate (likely harebrained) idea: sell the fediverse as a national security thing, and try to get a defence contract out of it
Reducing government/military reliance on tech corps would reduce the leverage they (and their CEOs) have over them, reducing the risk of, say, a repeat of that time Elon Musk fucked over Ukraine).
I jumped ship to Librewolf a year and a half ago (after seeing Mozilla steal people's data and sell it to advertisers), and I'm pretty fucking thankful for that. For anyone looking to leave Mozilla to rot, I highly recommend it.
The monorail salespeople at Checkmarx have (allegedly) discovered a new exploit for code extruders.
The "attack", titled "Lies in the Loop", involves taking advantage of human-in-the-loop """safeguards""" to create fake dialogue prompts, thus tricking vibe-coders into running malicious code.
In the case of loitering munitions (also known as kamikaze drones, or suicide drones), you'd be correct - by design, they're intended to crash into their target before blowing them up. Some reportedly do have recovery options built-in, but that's only to avoid wasting them if they go unused.
For more lighthearted gaming-related news, Capcom fired off a quick sneer, whilst (indirectly) promoting their their latest Mega Man game:
(alt text: "As a reminder for those entering the Mega Man: Dual Override Boss Design Art Contest, please remember the rules posted at bit.ly/MMDORobotMaster. Entrants must follow this account, and please leave the AI to the robots: generative AI is prohibited for this contest.")
Considering Recent Events™, anyone outfitting America's gonna be making plenty off a war in Venezuela before the year ends.