In a plot twist straight out of a bad spy movie crossed with a pigeon fancier’s fever dream, a plucky Moscow startup has decided that the future of surveillance isn’t sleek quadcopters—it’s feathered friends with felony vibes. Meet Neiry’s cyborg pigeons: ordinary birds turned into solar-powered, brain-zapped biodrones that soar 300 miles a day, snap pics from your grandma’s windowsill, and never need a charging cable. Because why use a drone when you can hijack nature’s original flying poop machine and make it work for the greater good (or whatever shadowy agenda is paying the bills)?

Russian Startup Allegedly Uses Brain Implants to Turn Pigeons into Surveillance Drones