Citing specialized training needs that exceed those of the other services, the Space Force is making its first move toward an eight-year enlistment model by offering a hefty bonus to those who choose a longer commitment.On Monday, the service announced the launch of its Initial Enlisted Bonus Pilot program, running July 1 to Nov. 30. The first-come, first-serve program will offer a $25,000 bonus to enlistees who commit to eight-year contracts until the cap of 100 bonuses is reached. The incentive is available to new signers regardless of their chosen specialty.In a conversation hosted by the Military Officers Association of America, Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force John Bentivegna explained that the service was looking to move to an eight-year enlistment model for all contracts and testing the feasibility of doing so. “If you want to become a cyber defender, it’s going to take me a little time to be able to train you and give you the experience,” Bentivegna said. “I can’t do it in four years — maybe not even six — but in eight, I can give you training, experience, exercises and get you to become a noncommissioned officer where I need you.”The Space Force remains…

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This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News.  We Are Witnessing the Commoditization of Machine Intelligence A new frontier model emerges every week — Grok, Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM 5.2 — each one matching or exceeding the last. Yesterday’s marvel is today’s commodity, and the speed of this cycle is staggering. Consider Fable Five: a model so dangerous it was recalled after hacking government systems in hours. Then it was re-released and immediately outperformed everything by 8x in real-world coding tasks. It doesn’t need babysitting. It’s like a heat-seeking bomb that solves in hours what used to take days. This relentless commoditization is not just a technological curiosity; it’s a seismic shift in power. As I wrote in February 2026, “On a single afternoon in early 2026, a technological tremor erased $30 billion from IBM’s market capitalization” [1]. The catalyst wasn’t a war or a natural disaster — it was an AI model announcement. The genie is out of the bottle, and no amount of regulatory hand-wringing will stuff it back in. The sheer pace of improvement means that the capabilities we see today will look primitive next year, and the year after that, the most powerful intelligence on…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville argued Sunday that former President Joe Biden’s refusal to drop out of the 2024 election earlier caused lasting damage to his party.”So, the reason the Democratic Party is in the shape it is, is because Joe Biden wouldn’t get out until July the 21st of the election year, alright?” Carville said on his “Politics War Room” podcast. “Had Joe Biden gotten out in October of 2023, we would have a Democratic president. Don’t kid yourself.”  “And by the way, all the people on the left who say the Democrats don’t fight hard enough never said a word about Biden running for re-election,” he continued. “Not any of them. They all fell into line.”JAMES CARVILLE UNLOADS ON FAR-LEFT DEMOCRATS AFTER PRIMARY UPSETS, SAYS ‘YOU’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM’ Carville has spoken previously about how the Democratic Party’s association with far-left identity politics has clung to its reputation like a foul “stench”, even as some in the party have tried to pivot. But despite his advice and similar comments from establishment Democratic voices, an insurgent wing of Democratic socialists has continued to gain influence within the party.”I don’t know. I…

Mechanical problems with a water treatment plant in Hawaii have left thousands of soldiers without central air conditioning in the barracks, a spokesman for U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii confirmed Tuesday in a statement to Military Times. Four thousand soldiers in Area North Barracks are opening windows, turning on fans or using other tools to beat the heat while the base grapples with pump issues. On July 10, deep-well pumps supporting Army installations in central and northern Oahu started experiencing problems. According to the garrison, only one pump is currently pushing water to the surface. To maintain essential water services, water chiller systems have been turned off. Without the chiller systems — which make up almost 40% of the daily water use — the barracks do not receive central air conditioning. The incident was initially reported by Task & Purpose. According to the National Weather Service, temperatures for the remainder of the week range from the mid-70s to the upper-80s.Units are able to move troops to MWR facilities with central air conditioning, according to the service, but as of Sunday, no units had done so. Repairs are underway, but an exact timeline for when the pumps will be fully functional again…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Justice Department and FBI have a new communist financier in their crosshairs for alleged financial crimes: James “Fergie” Cox Chambers Jr., the estranged bad-boy heir to the Cox cable empire.On Friday, Spanish police detained Chambers on the luxury island of Ibiza, in response to an international arrest warrant, according to sources. Chambers is allegedly wanted for money laundering and providing support to Hamas, following years of financing anti-Israel and anti-West organizations and protests. The transnational network he helped fund and support is kicking in to cast him as a victim of the Trump administration’s “fascism,” while critics are cheering the arrest as long overdue.A spokesman for Spain’s Balearic Islands police branch, which includes Ibiza in its jurisdiction, told Fox News Digital that a U.S. citizen was arrested on charges tied to an international arrest warrant Friday under an international arrest warrant seeking his extradition to the United States. The spokesman did not confirm the identity of the citizen, but sources told Fox News Digital that the individual is Chambers. FBI SAYS NEW MISSION CENTER HAS IDENTIFIED ‘NEFARIOUS’ PROTEST FUNDING AND SUBJECTSThe police spokesman added that the individual is being held at…

The Marine Corps is engaged in a multi-year pilot program to determine whether the standardized test the military has used since 1968 might be swapped out for a more holistic way to capture troops’ experiences and abilities. In a senior enlisted leaders forum hosted last week by Military Officers Association of America, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Carlos Ruiz discussed the pilot and the Corps’ hopes of getting away from the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, which is administered prior to enlistment and determines what jobs troops are eligible for. “Is the ASVAB … score the only indicator of success? We say it’s not,” Ruiz said. He added that the Marine Corps had “almost seven years’ worth of data” assessing the comparative value of another test, the Tailored Adaptive Personality Assessment System, or TAPAS. When young people come in to take the ASVAB at a military entrance processing station, he said, they can stay seated and take the TAPAS.“What are the traits, the characteristics of a young person that make them more likely to succeed in the Marine Corps?” Ruiz said, adding these can include performance in high school, sports experience, family background, place of origin. These data points,…

TOPS has another new knife on the market this month, the I Stick Mini. TOPS historians will know that this one is a shrunk-down version of a popular push dagger model from the fixed blade maker. While their portfolio is lush and diverse, TOPS has always maintained an interest in tactical pieces. Whether the term is being used in a civilian self-defense, or military/first responder sense, TOPS’s predilections for beefy designs with stalwart stock and generally rugged materials fit those needs like a fingerless glove. Thus over the years the company has turned out fighting knives, concealable self-defense knives, extreme condition workhorses, and more specialized tactical pieces like karambits, gladii, and, yes, push daggers. The I Stick Mini on duty Which brings us to the I Stick, a large push dagger model that has been doing the rounds for years now. We have to imagine that, as with any well-received model, there were fans looking for the same thing in a different size. And so, the I Stick Mini addresses that need, with a 2.75-inch blade compared to the original’s 3.13 inches – that’s per edge, too, as the I Stick Mini, like its big brother, has a true dagger…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nick Faldo can still let it fly with the best of them.Faldo, a six-time major champion and World Golf Hall of Famer, teed off on Bryson DeChambeau. The 68-year-old golfer blasted the LIV Golf star for his strategy, or lack thereof, on the golf course ahead of The Open at Royal Birkdale.”That’s a whole part of the story, how they’re superstars at LIV then come over and can’t do it. So that’s all another story. Then they go back to be superstars. He has — I’d say it to his face — he has zero clue of strategy,” Faldo told Sky Sports. The three-time Open champion referenced a quote from DeChambeau from a year ago, citing the 32-year-old’s error in strategy.”He said it last year I think on TV: ‘I’m going to go out and attack the links.’ Well, I’ve never attacked a links. You thread it, don’t you? You feed it down the fairway,” Faldo said.”You look at humps and bumps and what have you and think, ‘If I send it over and feed it, it nudges back into play.’ You don’t think, ‘I’ll just bomb it down there, can’t see…

The U.S. Space Force’s unit tasked with deploying space technology announced the award of two agreements with a total of roughly $1.75 billion to field missile warning and tracking satellites in support of the Golden Dome initiative.The Space Development Agency selected L3Harris Technologies and Sierra Space Corporation for the delivery of a total of 36 space vehicles across four orbital planes, with an expected available launch by the end of 2028, according to a Monday release.The 36 Accelerated Missile Defense Tranche 3, or AMDT3, space vehicles will be made up of 18 missile warning and tracking variants and 18 missile defense variants, per the statement, as part of the Tracking Layer for Tranche 3 of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, or PWSA.“These awards align with the Program Acquisition Executive for Missile Warning and Tracking’s plans for a hybrid missile defense architecture to pursue global stereo coverage and access of missile warning/missile tracking and missile defense capabilities,” the release reads.L3Harris is responsible for providing 18 hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor-like missile defense variants across two orbital planes, and Sierra Space is charged with providing 18 missile warning and tracking variants across two orbital planes.The companies’ agreements are valued at approximately…