Almost pedestrian by SF standards.. worrying in the real world..
BBC News - San Francisco to allow police 'killer robots'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63816454
Firing a needle into Jupiter at the speed of light…
Long read but very interesting. May even explain Dune. No aliens need to exist because with the speed of mutation and synthesis, evolution happens so rapidly, the source and final form of the same species may look alien to each other at first review, so all those aliens may just be of the same ,"once upon a time" origin, but no longer the same species at the measured mark.Now this is a long read but I can see it being the inspiration to a whole SF or weird science character/campaign.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/28/do-we-need-a-new-theory-of-evolution