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While power plants and oil refineries have been hit, data centers and internet facilities are becoming the latest quarry for drone and missile strikes — and not just in Europe.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

The speed restrictions "effectively precludes" anything connected to the network going above 100mph, Whittington said, making drone navigation difficult within Ukraine and Russian-occupied territory inside Ukraine.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The department is pre-staging resources such as fire engines, strike teams, camp crews, water tenders and drone crews in known high-risk areas including Malibu, the 101 Freeway corridor and the Antelope Valley, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Yandex, Russia's largest technology company, has reported at least three drone strikes on its data centres since the start of the month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

I’m jolted awake by the drone of our motion detector alarm.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

High-speed internet via Starlink satellites is used by the Ukrainian military to guide drones and communicate with the front line.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Gen. Turki al-Maliki, a spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, said Tuesday that four cruise missiles and two drones fired toward Riyadh and southern Saudi Arabia had been intercepted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

This means that Ukrainian mobile military assets, such as aerial drones, lose their connection if they exceed this speed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Range risk arrives from the outside, on relatively cheap drones aimed at facilities holding billions of dollars of equipment.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

“They keep a few drones around for fun,” said Mel, grinning behind her mesh.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

At one event, in which Oz was interviewed by Dean Cain, an actor who played Superman in a 1990s television show, about 50 people listened in as Oz droned on about an anti-fraud task force.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Then as he droned on like a dentist drill hitting bone, he began to sound like a South Carolina auctioneer at a county fair.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025

Footage posted by Sam Yebri, a former City Council candidate, showed smoke billowing in the street as people yelled and a siren droned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

One day after it got too bizarre, the actors said nothing funny and court proceedings droned on to keep Gladden off their scent.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

A small TV set droned from one corner of the couple’s bedroom.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

Too many, I’d say, but slapping droning voiceovers atop expository visuals isn’t for me.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

Whatever engine droning and snoozing you might remember from earlier CVT systems has been banished to the Phantom Zone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

“Ups & Downs” is an instrumental with a droning keyboard—perhaps a harmonium—along with a clarinet and clattering percussion that sounds like a drum kit being slowly unpacked from its case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

The summer’s unpleasant cicada infestation, meanwhile, is a stark reminder that his preferred droning screech comes from his dot-matrix printer, spitting out keyboard-symbol drawings he makes for customers who send him cash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

Rawiya and Bits had their hands cupped around their mouths, droning out a long “Ohhhhhhhhhhh!”

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro