A major artificial intelligence company said that Iranian bad actors used its publicly accessible software to target U.S. service members in the Middle East.The Thursday Anthropic report covers the time period between December 2025 and August 2026 and highlights the misuse of its large language model Claude, which it says the threat actor used to make targeting recommendations against U.S. Navy forces in the region.“The threat actor used Claude to compile targeting handbooks…to identify and track naval positions based on open-source information,” the report said.The bad actor used the AI software to collect information that included a list of U.S.…

An 11-year-old Kansas girl missed a buck her family had been watching for years. Days later, on her birthday, she put her .270 on him at the far end of the same field. He weighed 225 pounds.

Missile defense in wartime involves many complications. Human operators must deal with high-speed objects, short timelines and sensor data that isn’t always clear.The Pentagon now wants artificial intelligence that can cut through the confusion. It’s seeking “AI-based software tools to turn fragmented sensor data into a continuously updated understanding of space and missile threats fast enough to drive operational decisions,” according to the Defense Innovation Unit solicitation, which is due Sept. 24. “Existing tools struggle to distinguish closely spaced objects, track emerging threats, and keep threat models current.”The project, known as the “Space Threat Intelligence Synthesis Engine,” will leverage AI’s…

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sought assistance from U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday to help fight Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, as the Houthis stepped up their threat to the Red Sea.Trump held at least two phone conversations with the Saudi leader on Thursday, sources said. In the end, Washington told Riyadh that it was not willing to take direct military action for now but would help with intelligence sharing and targeting, the two sources said.The White House did not address a Reuters question on any phone calls between the two…

A video shared by Iran Wednesday purported to show an American Saildrone unmanned surface vessel near the Strait of Hormuz in flames after being attacked by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been making the rounds on social media.U.S. officials disputed that claim.“All of our Saildrones are accounted for and fully operational,” an official told Military Times.The video comes on the heels of another incident in which an Anduril Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle — designed for long-range surveillance and other undersea missions — was captured on Sept. 8. U.S. Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins of U.S. Central Command told Reuters that…

When most hunters hear “cheap semi-auto shotgun,” they almost immediately begin to question reliability. That’s fair enough. There are a variety of imported Turkish autoloaders on the market and not all of them run reliably in the field. But at Outdoor Life, we’ve tested tons of affordable shotguns through the years and we’ve found that there are plenty of diamonds in the rough. Personally, I grew up shooting a budget shotgun. My first longbeard was taken with my father’s Remington 870 pump when I was 12. At 15, I was given a Stoeger M3000 semi-auto that I still hunt with…

For many Americans, 9/11 can seem like a distant memory, with millions not even born yet. But for U.S. Air Force Capt. Hanna Born, the 2,977 lives lost that day will always be something to remember and honor.Born, an instructor pilot assigned to the 23rd Flying Training Squadron at Fort Rucker, Alabama, has a personal connection to that day, propelling her to join military service and begin Run to Remember, her journey to share on social media a mile for every life lost, she told Military Times.Just before Born turned three years old, she and her four-month-old sister were inside…

Flock cameras, Toka software. The math in that title isn’t subtle.

A long sit-down with Peter Bergen. No hurry.

The whole Tuesday livestream. No highlight reel.

For Harper Cline, Sept. 11, 2001, is not a memory. It is a story she inherited.“Everyone knows exactly what they were doing on that day, or where they were, but it’s weird too, because we don’t know what life was like before that,” the high school senior from Bradenton, Florida, explained.She was born into a country already at war. By the time she was old enough to understand what war meant, American troops had been fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq for years.“I almost feel numb to all of the violence of it, because we were told about it so much…

This story was originally published in the August 2003 issue of Outdoor Life. What is the Bear Matrix? It’s a world of horrific maulings, canine teeth gnawing on scalps, claws ripping into flesh and people being eaten. No, this isn’t a nightmare—it’s a computer database compiling info on more than 500 bear attacks that have occurred in Alaska since the early 1900s. The gatekeeper of this data is U.S. Geological Survey research biologist Tom Smith. Smith is one of the few people who can analyze the patterns contained within the database, and his research shows that bear attacks are anything…

Breaching a door with a shotgun. There’s a right way.

A mystery explosion in Iran, and spies reportedly captured.

Standing up in a gunfight. There’s a technique for it.

Every bowhunter wants to experience that moment of releasing the perfect arrow, watching it fly like a laser beam, and seeing it hit precisely on target. This is, after all, the apex of bowhunting. But to achieve this, your bow needs to be tuned to shoot your broadhead-tipped arrow properly. Broadhead tuning requires good shooting and patience from you. But, it’s not all that complicated. In order to get my 2024 hunting setup tuned, I hit up Scott Einsmann, who is OL’s executive gear editor, a former archery instructor, and my informal archery coach. He shared the details on how…

One tip for switching shoulders. Worth the reps.

The claim is they’re rebuilding close to home.

The first thing anyone learns. Worth relearning properly.

Backups only count if you’ve actually lived on them.

Not an easy listen. Sit down for it anyway.

Big headline. See whether the story holds it up.

Fat Leonard, and how far into the Navy it went.

American jets hit, and China moving weapons in. That’s the claim.