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• Pentagon to start expanding Greenland bases next year: official

  20-10-2026 20:13 via defenseone.com
  
  The Pentagon is spending the winter evaluating options for expanding U.S. basing in Greenland, according to a senior defense official, with an eye toward breaking ground on new facilities next year.The Trump administration announced in September that military outposts at Mestersvig and Narsarsuaq would become U.S. bases, while expanding the existing U.S. footprint at Pituffik Space Base.“Right now we're in a planning cycle because we're going to run out of execution window, from a weather
  
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• State Department orders staff to call AI ‘super intelligence’

  20-10-2026 19:42 via defenseone.com
  
  The State Department has instructed personnel to replace “artificial intelligence” with “Super Intelligence” in official communications and rename its AI-related programs and systems, bringing President Donald Trump’s terminology change into the daily work of U.S. diplomacy, according to two people familiar with the matter and contents of an unclassified cable obtained by Government Executive and Nextgov/FCW.The cable — dated Monday and addressed to the entire
  
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• Trump appointees asked a federal cybersecurity agency to secretly hack a voting machine

  20-10-2026 02:23 via defenseone.com
  
  A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.The appointees wanted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to procure the machine, examine it and report back the findings so they could be given to the White House, according to two former administration officials with knowledge of the request. T
  
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