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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

A growing #QuitGPT boycott is pushing users to cancel ChatGPT subscriptions after reports tied OpenAI’s leadership to major political donations ($25M from president Brockman to MAGA Inc) and Pentagon partnerships. Switching to alternatives is the protest.
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🇩🇪 RENK Group to open service & production hubs in Poland, boosting NATO’s eastern flank. ‘If a tank breaks down, you can’t ship it 2,000 km for repairs,’ says CEO Sagel, calling 🇵🇱 Poland ‘ideal’ for regional clients.

north korea plans to produce two destroyers per year and expand its nuclear-capable navy👉🏼👈🏼

Sean Plankey, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is leaving the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he has most recently been serving as an advisor in the U.S. Coast Guard

The Damen Mangalia shipyard is now available for acquisition. MSC and Rheinmetall are scheduled to visit the shipyard today, 4 March 2026.

Rheinmetall has officially acquired NVL (Lürssen Group’s military division), finalized on March 1, 2026. This strategic step positions Rheinmetall as a cross-domain powerhouse - land, sea, air, and space - and strengthens Europe’s naval defence capabilities. 🇩🇪 #Defence #NATO

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#Cronos 👉🏽🇷🇴 Romanian browser! Developed by a company in Iași called #Avalw, which is also working on its own search engine.
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"The week couldn't have ended better. Today we were notified that we received the 22nd Formal Opinion for accession to the OECD (21st on Thursday). I remind you that there are 25 in total. Today's opinion comes from the OECD's Public Governance Committee, one of the most complex." Luca Niculescu

IonQ Romania Breakthrough Validates Quantum Trade After QTUM Tops $3.5Bn - IonQ (NYSE:IONQ), Defiance Quantum ETF (NASDAQ:QTUM) QTUM topped $3.5B before IonQ's Romania launch, underscoring rising conviction in quantum security.

The 🇺🇸 company IonQ has announced the completion in Romania of one of the most extensive functional quantum key distribution (QKD) networks in Europe, developed as part of the RoNaQCI (Romanian National Quantum Communication Infrastructure) project. www.benzinga.com/etfs/special...

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Damen will finish modifying its LST-100 Landing Ship Transport within the next month. This will solidify the design for the Navy and Marine Corps Landing Ship Medium.

Hyundai Heavy Industries has delivered the BRP Rajah Sulaiman, the first of six OPV for the Philippine Navy. The delivery of the vessel was almost five months earlier than planned.

Ireland is interested in the EBRC Jaguar and the VMBR-L Serval, but is also considering procuring VMBR Griffons and Caesar 155mm self-propelled guns. The orders, which are to be placed in several tranches, have a value of around €1 billion and are expected to be delivered before 2030.

🇷🇴 €16.6B SAFE; 21 programmes are required to be under contract by May 2026. Ret. Maj. Gen. Toma has expressed concerns about the feasibility of the timeline. The flagship efforts of domestic AFV production and naval construction may not be executable within the 2030 timeframe.

Kumuii unveils Caiman USV at #EnforceTac
15kg; 10-knot sprint, 7h endurance; Self-righting, urvives 10m drops; Mil-grade sonar+RTK GNSS
Designed for SOF, police, & disaster response-deploy in seconds, no assembly. Military mobility meets maritime tech #USV #Kumuii

On 26 February, Romania 🇷🇴 will join the new EastInvest Facility, an initiative proposed by the European Commission 🇪🇺 to channel over €20 billion into EU regions along the eastern border.

Unbroken. Unwavering.
#StandWithUkraine

🇺🇸 #USAGBlackSea hiring www.usajobs.gov

"Spend a few weeks living like us, and your dissatisfaction with your country will quickly fade away." Andrii Liubka 🇺🇦

A Gulfstream IV (Korpen) aircraft belonging to the 🇸🇪Swedish Air Force operated on Monday, February 23, over the western Black Sea, flying off the coasts of Romania and Bulgaria before returning north.

Norway’s Skjold-class fleet gets a combat upgrade! #KongsbergDefence signs ~€36 MIL deal to enhance precision, detection & endurance for the world’s fastest naval vessels. Modernization ensures operational edge for years ahead. #MilitaryTech #NorwegianNavy #DefenceNews

AIR_NAVY_SYS: inițiativă strategică de peste 10 milioane de euro, dezvoltată de un consorțiu românesc pentru protejarea dronelor în condiții de bruiaj GPS - Defendar.ro România face un pas decisiv în industria tehnologiilor de apărare prin lansarea proiectului AIR_NAVY_SYS - Sistem Tehnologic Integrat Inovativ pentru Creșterea Rezilienței Controlului și Comunicațiilo...

AIR_NAVY_SYS: a strategic initiative worth over €10 million, developed by a Romanian consortium to protect drones in conditions of GPS jamming
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KAI 🇰🇷 pursues Meteor/MICA 🚀integration on FA-50 to counter US AMRAAM veto, leveraging MBDA’s KF-21 Boramae experience. With BVR capabilities at risk for Poland & Malaysia’s fleets, European missiles offer a sovereign, high-performance alternative. #DefenseTech #BVR

🇰🇷’s Hanwha Systems is stepping up armored vehicle defense with a new active protection system. The new APS is designed to stop everything from rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank guided missiles to high-explosive anti-tank and kinetic energy rounds
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Cutremur în business. Președintele DP World, care deține operatorul portuar CSCT, și-a dat demisia după apariția legăturilor cu dosarul Epstein - CT100.ro Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, președintele și directorul executiv al DP World, a demisionat din funcție „cu efect imediat”, după ce documente recent desecretizate au arătat că a avut schimburi de sute de ...

The president of DP World, the owner of Constanța South Container Terminal (CSCT), has resigned following the emergence of links to the Epstein case. CSCT is the second most profitable company in Constanța County. (💬🇷🇴)
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EXCLUSIV INTERVIU cu Ministrul Apărării, Radu Miruță, la Conferința de Securitate de la München YouTube video by CaleaEuropeana.ro

Interview with the Romanian Minister of Defence, Radu Miruță, at the Munich Security Conference. (💬🇷🇴)
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🇧🇬🚀 Bulgaria receives first 5 Stryker armored vehicles from US/Canada! NATO modernization in action: 198 units (including XM1296 Dragoon with 30mm cannon) to replace Soviet-era equipment. $9.3M invested in infrastructure & training. ✔ NATO standardization ✔ Local assembly + live-fire tests ✔ Speed: 90+ km/h | Range: 500 km #NATO #Defense #Bulgaria #MilitaryTech

🇧🇬🚀 Bulgaria receives first 5 Stryker armored vehicles from US/Canada! NATO modernization in action: 198 units (including XM1296 Dragoon with 30mm cannon) to replace Soviet-era equipment. $9.3M invested in infrastructure & training. ✔ NATO standardization ✔ Local assembly + live-fire tests ✔ Speed: 90+ km/h | Range: 500 km #NATO #Defense #Bulgaria #MilitaryTech

🇧🇬🚀 Bulgaria receives first 5 Stryker armored vehicles from US/Canada! NATO modernization in action: 198 units (including XM1296 Dragoon with 30mm cannon) to replace Soviet-era equipment. $9.3M invested in infrastructure & training. ✔ NATO standardization ✔ Local assembly + live-fire tests ✔ Speed: 90+ km/h | Range: 500 km #NATO #Defense #Bulgaria #MilitaryTech

🇧🇬 Bulgaria receives first 5 Stryker armored vehicles from US/Canada. NATO modernization in action: 198 units (including XM1296 Dragoon with 30mm cannon). $9.3M invested in infrastructure & training.
• NATO standardization
• Local assembly+live-fire tests
• 90+ km/h | Range: 500 km
#NATO #Bulgaria

𝐊𝟗 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚 — 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐰𝐡𝐚’𝐬 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 On February 21, Hanwha Aerospace officially broke ground on its H-ACE Europe production facility in Romania, marking our first land defence manufacturing base in Europe. This milestone represents more than the construction of a factory. It signals Hanwha’s structural integration into Europe’s defence industrial ecosystem.

Hanwha Aerospace has broken ground on its H-ACE Europe facility in Romania — its first land systems production base in Europe. The K9 factory marks a structural step into Europe’s defense industrial ecosystem.

Things are still rocky for Otokar in Romania. Following the fine of approximately 44.3 million euros imposed in January, Romtehnica, a company owned by the Romanian MoD, has demanded a further payment of 45 million euros from Otokar, citing delays to local production targets.

The Port of Constanta 🇷🇴 Romania is set to acquire the Port of Giurgiulești, the sole 🇲🇩 Moldovan port on the Danube and a strategic asset for 🇺🇦 Ukraine's reconstruction efforts. The EBRD, the sole shareholder, is pulling out.