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The Mysterious Printer Code That May Have Led the FBI to the Alleged NSA Leaker
Many color printers embed grids of dots that allow law enforcement to track every document they output.
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Vladimir Putin and the Little Green Men of the Internet
The future of Kremlin-backed information operations against Western governments looks a lot like Russia's deceptive campaign against Crimea in 2014.
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Veterans Affairs to Adopt DoD’s Electronic Health-Records System
VA will sign onto MHS Genesis platform being developed by Cerner and Leidos under a $4 billion contract.
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Poland Is Preparing for 15 Years of Rising Tension with Russia
The future battles of Eastern Europe will be fought with lasers, cheap missile-drones, and surgical strike units.
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US Intel Community Launches Face-ID Contest
Wanted: algorithms that can identify people from security-camera footage.
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Stinger Missiles Can Now Shoot Down Small Drones
A missile that gained notoriety in the 1980s has been updated for today’s battlefield.
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Tomorrow’s Robots Will Train in Simulators, Just Like Today’s Troops
Several firms are working on training environments like Star Trek’s Holodeck, but for machines.
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Russian Lawmaker: We Would Use Nukes if US or NATO Enters Crimea
The Western alliance’s troop buildup in Eastern Europe has Moscow spooked.
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Pentagon Accelerates Work on Multi-Warhead Interceptor
Officials won’t say it’s because of North Korea. But experts say Pyongyang’s planned ICBMs will almost certainly release decoys to cloak their nukes.
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The Rocket Startup That’s About to Eat Elon Musk’s Lunch
Rocket Lab is aiming to put small satellites in low Earth orbit at a fraction of the cost of even SpaceX.
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DARPA Picks Boeing To Build Its New Space Plane
The research agency hopes its XS-1 jumpstarts a whole new industry of very-low-cost satellite launches.
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Trump’s First Defense Budget Has North Korea Written All Over It
There’s lots of money in the Pentagon’s 2018 spending proposal to stop missiles of the sort that Pyongyang keeps launching.
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Who Are the Shadow Brokers?
What is—and isn’t—known about the mysterious hackers leaking National Security Agency secrets.
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Pentagon Mapmakers Want To Tap Mobile Ad Technology. Here's Why.
NGA is scoping private-sector technology at incubators in Boston, Austin and New York.
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In Urgent Request, US Special Ops Adds 350 Kamikaze Drones to Fight ISIS
And that's not all. The command is also opening a drone-hacker lab to help keep up with ISIS weaponeers.
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Stop Blaming the NSA for the Ransomware Attack
An inside look at how the intelligence community deals with the exploitable software bugs it finds.
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China Is Creating a DNA Database Straight Out of Science Fiction
The Ministry of Public Security has collected the genetic information of more than 40 million people — and counting.
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DARPA Wants Artificial Intelligence That Doesn't Forget Everything It Knows
Biological systems don't completely freeze up when they encounter a new situation, but computers often do.
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The Pentagon’s New Algorithmic Warfare Cell Gets Its First Mission: Hunt ISIS
Turning hours of drone video into actionable intelligence is just the start for the fast-moving machine-learning team.
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