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Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar has called for faster defense spending, arguing the Pentagon should focus on rapid deployment over higher budgets. “The biggest challenge is speed,” Sankar told Axios in an interview. “The Department of De… Continue reading Palantir CTO Urges Pentagon To Prioritize Speed in Defense Spending
In April the U.S. Space Force began testing “a new ground-based satellite jamming weapon to help keep U.S. military personnel safe from potential ‘space-enabled’ attacks” (according to a report from Space.com). The weapon was “designed to deny, degrade… Continue reading US Prepares Jamming Devices Targeting Russia, China Satellites
Teixeira, who was part of the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts, worked as a cyber transport systems specialist.
The post Pentagon Leaker Jack Teixeira to Face Military Court-Martial, Air Force Says appeared first… Continue reading Pentagon Leaker Jack Teixeira to Face Military Court-Martial, Air Force Says
Mark Tyson reports via Tom’s Hardware: The German Navy is searching for a new storage system to replace the aging 8-inch (20cm) floppy disks which are vital to the running of its Brandenburg class F123 frigates. According to an official tender document… Continue reading German Navy To Replace Aging 8-Inch Floppy Drives With an Emulated Solution
MattSparkes shares a report from NewScientist: The Russian invasion of Ukraine has seen so many landmines deployed across the country that clearing them would take 700 years, say researchers. To make the task more manageable, Ukrainian scientists are t… Continue reading Ukraine Turning To AI To Prioritize 700 Years of Landmine Removal
Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike shared this report from Ars Technica:
The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently evaluating a new generation of robotic “dogs” developed by Ghost Robotics, with the potential t… Continue reading Robot Dogs Armed With AI-aimed Rifles Undergo US Marines Special Ops Evaluation
America’s Defense Department “is rushing to expand its capacity to wage war in space,” reports the New York Times, “convinced that rapid advances by China and Russia in space-based operations pose a growing threat to U.S. troops and other military asse… Continue reading Is America’s Defense Department ‘Rushing to Expand’ Its Space War Capabilities?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian, written by Caroline Haskins: On May 7th and 8th in Washington, D.C., the city’s biggest convention hall welcomed America’s military-industrial complex, its top technology companies and its most out… Continue reading Palantir’s First-Ever AI Warfare Conference
Whatever you’re doing with your hand tools, by the US Army’s lights, you’re probably doing it wrong. That seems to be the “Green Machine’s” attitude on pliers and screwdrivers, at …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: How Not to Use Hand Tools
Senior Department arms control official Paul Dean on Thursday urged China and Russia to declare that artificial intelligence would never make decisions on deploying nuclear weapons. Washington had made a “clear and strong commitment” that humans had to… Continue reading US Official Urges China, Russia To Declare AI Will Not Control Nuclear Weapons