https://sputniknews.com/20211112/us-black-hawk-helicopter-fitted-with-two-drones-makes-autonomously-controlled-flight-1090690274.html

A US Sikorsky UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter has for the first time made an autonomously controlled test flight with two unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) on board.

The magazine Flight Global reported that the helicopter’s test flight was conducted by the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on 1 November, but disclosed eight days later. The news outlet added that the US military has previously flown autonomous UH-60s, but that the latest test is “a further step by the army in evaluating how autonomy fits within its future flight capabilities”.

This was echoed by DARPA, which explained that the flight, conducted at the Yuma Proving Ground in the Arizona Desert, was part of the US Army’s efforts to assess “how autonomous UH-60s might drop off, protect and resupply troops”.

According to DARPA, the 1 November testing saw the UH-60A for the first time fly an autonomous resupply mission and it was also the first time that the helicopter autonomously touched down on “an unimproved landing zone”.

https://www.newsweek.com/over-44-million-us-workers-quit-jobs-september-shattering-record-set-august-1648695?

The Labor Department announced Friday that a record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September, surpassing the previous record of 4.3 million set in August, the Associated Press reported.

The 4.4 million who quit account for about 3 percent of the nation's total workforce.

The record number came during a month in which there were 10.4 million job openings, a near-record number that marked a slight decrease from the 10.6 million in August, AP reported.

The numbers reflect a job market in which workers faced with more opportunities than ever are empowered to leave positions in favor of others with higher pay and other benefits, while employers grow increasingly desperate.

Growing problem in CT

https://www.wfsb.com/news/investigation-underway-after-suspects-steal-shopping-carts-full-of-items-from-ct-grocery-store/article_5103567c-4244-11ec-b090-a32786c7d859.html

OXFORD, CT (WFSB) – An investigation is underway after multiple people were seen stealing shopping carts full of items from an Oxford grocery store early Tuesday morning.

The incident happened just after 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday at the Market 32 store on Oxford Road.

Police said they were notified about 10 minutes after multiple people were seen filling shopping carts full of items inside the store, walking out without paying, and then filling two SUVs that were waiting outside. It is believed those vehicles were stolen.

https://www.wfsb.com/news/brazen-shoplifting-incidents-reported-across-ct/article_d38d02da-4368-11ec-81e8-47f4b97527da.html

SOUTHINGTON, CT (WFSB) - Brazen shoplifting incidents where people just walk out of stores with hundreds of dollars of items as others look on.

The most recent incident happened in Southington last night.

Simple but very effective

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43015/likely-drone-attack-on-u-s-power-grid-revealed-in-new-intelligence-report

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

U.S. officials believe that a DJI Mavic 2, a small quadcopter-type drone, with a thick copper wire attached underneath it via nylon cords was likely at the center of an attempted attack on a power substation in Pennsylvania last year.

"To date, no operator has been identified and we are producing this assessment now to expand awareness of this event to federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement and security partners who may encounter similarly modified UAS," the JIB adds.

Beyond the copper wire strung up underneath it, the drone reportedly had its camera and internal memory card removed. Efforts were taken to remove any identifying markings, indicating efforts by the operator or operators to conceal the identifies and otherwise make it difficult to trace the drone's origins.

It's unclear how much of a threat this particular drone posed in its modified configuration. The apparent intended method of attack would appear to be grounded, at least to some degree, in actual science. The U.S. military employed Tomahawk cruise missiles loaded with spools of highly-conductive carbon fiber wire against power infrastructure to create blackouts in Iraq during the first Gulf War in 1991. F-117 Nighthawk stealth combat jets dropped cluster bombs loaded with BLU-114/B submunitions packed with graphite filament over Serbia to the same effect in 1999.