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3 Things That Have to Happen Before Robot Soldiers Hit the Battlefield
Rumors of Terminator-style soldiers have been greatly exaggerated. By Patrick Tucker
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Lawmakers, Obama Want to End NSA’s Bulk Data Collection
Some of the fiercest defenders of the NSA now want to end the agency's controversial practice of collecting records on millions of phone calls. By Brendan Sasso
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Drone Warfare Is Why We Can't Find Malaysian Airlines Flight 370
If you’re sick of not being able to find planes with today’s technology, just wait – it’s actually going to get worse. By Patrick Tucker
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How the Military’s Bomb-Detecting Lasers Will Protect You From the Flu
High-powered, small and cheap UV lasers could detect biological containments of the lethal or simply annoying variety. By Patrick Tucker
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NSA 'Time Machine' Can Spy on Phone Conversations of Americans Abroad
A newly disclosed NSA program can collect ‘100 percent’ of a foreign country’s calls, including from Americans living and working there. Dustin Volz
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How the U.S. Outsmarted Everyone by Giving Up the Internet
By relinquishing control of some aspects of Internet governance, the U.S. may have outflanked China and Russia. By Patrick Tucker
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Weekend Cyberattacks Target NATO, U.S. Military Commands
Russian group hits several NATO websites on eve of Crimea vote, but U.S. military denies Syrian hacktivists breached CENTCOM, PACOM, others. By Patrick Tucker
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Can Crowdsourcing Help Find Malaysian Flight MH370?
Despite its shortcomings, crowdsourced mapping has been useful in disasters before. By Annalisa Merrelli
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Navy Submarine Drones Will Predict the Weather Months In Advance
More subdrones, fewer satellites -- the future of weather prediction is changing faster than the weather. By Patrick Tucker
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Will Weaponized Drones Eventually Replace Soldiers?
Sometime in the near future, the autonomous, weaponized drone could replace the infantryman as the dominant battlefield technology. By Noah Smith
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When Does Cyber Spying Become a Cyber Attack?
Electronic espionage is different today than it was in the pre-Internet days of the Cold War. By Bruce Schneier
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The Internet Is the New Battleground, Assange Tells SXSW
Hackers, entrepreneurs and software developers gather in Austin to discuss how the NSA has helped and hurt the country. By Patrick Tucker
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What Will $5 Billion in Military Cyber Spending Pay For?
The Pentagon is spending more on cybersecurity, but is it spending it in the right way? By Patrick Tucker
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Syrian Electronic Army Threatens to Hack CENTCOM
A group of anonymous hackers backing the Syrian government is threatening to take down U.S. Central Command. By Patrick Tucker
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The Army Wants You to Build Them a Laser Truck
The military is pushing ahead with directed energy weapons. by Patrick Tucker
Threats
Industry Needs To Do More To Protect the Power Grid From a Cyber Attack
A new paper from the Bipartisan Policy Center recommends creating an industry-led group to do more to prevent cyber attacks on the electric grid. By Aliya Sternstein
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How the Army Plans to Fight a War Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
The Army’s first-ever electromagnetic warfare field manual shows that, for the military, IEDs and spam have a lot in common. By Patrick Tucker
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Boeing Is Making a Spy Phone That Self Destructs
Calling James Bond. Boeing is making a spy phone called 'Black" that will self destruct if someone tries to hack into it. By Nick Stockton
Business
Drones Are Finally Driving the U-2 Spy Plane Out of Business
The U.S. military is becoming more digital, specialized and automated. By Tim Fernholz
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