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Securing Tomorrow: Your Daily Dose of Cyber Safety, Tech Trends, National Security News, and Inspiration.
“Fortune favors the bold.”
-Terence
I. National Security: Key developments in national security, particularly cyber and technological warfare.
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Lockheed delivered record 191 F-35s as it cleared out TR-3 backlog
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Lockheed Martin delivered a record 191 F‑35 Joint Strike Fighters in 2025, surpassing the previous high of 142 in 2021, after clearing a backlog caused by delays in the Technology Refresh 3 (TR‑3) upgrade that forced the Department of Defense to pause deliveries for a year; the truncated TR‑3 software eventually allowed production to resume in July 2024, and the company completed the backlog in May 2025, while the F‑35 fleet now totals about 1,300 aircraft worldwide with over 1 million flight hours, having supported operations such as the midnight‑hammer strikes on Iran and NATO engagements over Russian drones in Poland. click here to read more.
II. Tech Trends: Updates on emerging technology trends shaping the digital world.
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Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal
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Spotify raises its Premium monthly fee from $12 to $13, with student, Duo, and Family plans also climbing by $1‑$2, marking the third price increase in 2½ years after hikes in July 2023 and July 2024; the company cites the need to fund new features such as lossless audio, music videos, messaging tools, joint‑listening “Jams,” and a new Hollywood podcast studio, positioning the adjustments as necessary to sustain its service quality and support artists. click here to read more.
III. Inspiration: Articles centered on faith that offer guidance and reflection.
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Brandon Lake Takes ‘Good Morning America’ to Church, Says He’s Pointing People ‘to Jesus’
- Grammy‑winning Christian artist Brandon Lake appears on ABC’s Good Morning America, performing his Dove‑Award‑winning song “Hard Fought Hallelujah” and explaining that his goal is to point listeners toward Jesus; he credits his recent collaboration with Jelly Roll for boosting the track’s popularity, jokes that he and Maury Povich both “tell people who the father is,” and emphasizes that faith fuels his music and life, urging viewers to explore the gospel for transformation. click here to read more.
IV. Cyber Safety: A focus on the latest cybersecurity threats, tips, or breaches impacting individuals and organizations.
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China bets on quantum cyber weapons to win future wars
- China’s People’s Liberation Army tests more than ten quantum cyber‑warfare tools that fuse cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum technology to harvest battlefield intelligence from the public internet at unprecedented speed; researchers at the National University of Defence Technology in Changsha build a unified situational‑awareness system that can map the battlespace, provide ultra‑precise quantum navigation resistant to spoofing, and secure data against cyber threats, signaling a shift from theoretical concepts to operational quantum weapons aimed at dominating future conflicts. click here to read more.
V. Shield of Israel: Coverage from The Jerusalem Post, providing an Israeli perspective on ongoing conflicts.
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US sanctions Iran officials over protests crackdown, Israel Katz declares Iranian bank terror org.
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The United States sanctions five Iranian officials—senior security council members, IRGC commanders, and law‑enforcement leaders—accusing them of orchestrating the brutal crackdown on protests, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vows to trace and freeze funds the regime wires abroad; concurrently, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declares the state‑run Bank Melli a terrorist organization, echoing a 2018 U.S. designation and aiming to choke the bank’s role in sanction evasion and financing of Iranian proxies, as the Treasury also targets 18 individuals and shadow‑banking networks linked to illicit oil revenues and labels Fardis Prison a terror entity. click here to read more.