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Pentagon’s Former Top Hacker Wants His Startup to Inject Some Silicon Valley into the Defense Industry
"If the nerds don’t show up and work on the mission of national defense...then I’m not sure who will," says Chris Lynch, of Rebellion Defense.
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Trump Will Release Suspended Military Aid to Ukraine, Lawmaker Says
Money to help Ukraine fight a war against Russia has sparked a political battle in D.C.
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A Rocket-Fuel Additive Could Be the Next Great Power Breakthrough
Aluminum hydride promises to make nonpolluting fuel cells far safer and more powerful.
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Twitter Bots Are Becoming More Human-Like: Study
In 2016, they were mostly retweeters on timers. Now they’re gathering intelligence.
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Pentagon Shelves Neutral Particle Beam Research
One of the U.S. military’s most ambitious space-based projects has crashed back to Earth.
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How AI Will Predict Chinese and Russian Moves in the Pacific
As Pacific Air Forces builds a picture of normal traffic, they'll start looking for suspicious patterns — and even predict what's coming.
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Military Scientists Harness AI To Fight Synthetic Opioids
A DIA group that scans millions of websites is overwhelming law enforcement with solid tips.
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Twitter, Facebook Turn Off Hundreds of Accounts Linked to Chinese Disinformation about Hong Kong Protests
In simultaneous press releases, the social-media companies say they have shut down large amounts of Beijing-controlled activity.
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Air Force Tests Contraption That Can Turn Any Plane Into a Robot Plane
Scientists say new ROBOpilot completed a two-hour test flight, essentially turning a manned plane into a drone.
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Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missiles Are a Terrible Idea. Russia’s Test Explosion Shows Why
A flying unshielded nuclear reactor would spew massive amounts of radiation, and that’s if it’s working correctly.
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New Tool Reveals Big Vulnerabilities In Mobile Apps That Use Multiple Clouds
The remote servers that power thousands of popular apps harbor a rats’ nest of vulnerabilities.
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3-Star General: Tomorrow’s Troops Need Controversial JEDI Cloud
Days after the new SecDef put a hold on the massive cloud program, two Pentagon leaders went on the record to defend it.
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A Small Texas City Will Become the Country’s ‘Hypersonics Research Capital’
The Army Futures Command will test missiles and autonomous vehicles some 100 miles east of Austin.
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How Dissidents Are Using Shortwave Radio to Broadcast News Into China
Pro-democracy forces are locked in a cat-and-mouse game with the Chinese government, playing out on the airwaves, the internet and across the globe.
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Why Trump Cares About the Pentagon’s Mega-Cloud — and Why That Terrifies Those Who Want It
Breaking up the $10 billion JEDI network project will hurt the U.S. military’s effort to speed data to troops, its fans argue.
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Esper Puts JEDI Contract on Hold for Review
It’s unclear whether the new defense secretary's review will affect the contract’s timeline.
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When Trump Threatens Google, Here’s What He Doesn’t Get
Days after the Treasury Secretary cleared the U.S. tech giant of national security concerns, the president was rage-tweeting again.
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Russian Hackers Build Fake Skype, Signal, Pornhub Apps to Lure Victims
Installing the apps activates malware that steals personal data and sends it off to St. Petersburg.
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How AI Will Help Radar Detect Tiny Drones 3 Kilometers Away
Small drones are becoming a big problem. Here’s how next-generation neural networking techniques could help.
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