Collaborate Disseminate
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
During the Cold War, the US Navy tried to make a secret code out of whale song.
The basic plan was to develop coded messages from recordings of whales, dolphins, sea lions, and seals. The submarine would broadcast the noises and a computer—the Combo Signal Recognizer (CSR)—would detect the specific patterns and decode them on the other end. In theory, this idea was relatively simple. As work progressed, the Navy found a number of complicated problems to overcome, the bulk of which centered on the authenticity of the code itself.
The message structure couldn’t just substitute the moaning of a whale or a crying seal for As and Bs or even whole words. In addition, the sounds Navy technicians recorded between 1959 and 1965 all had natural background noise. With the technology available, it would have been hard to scrub that out. Repeated blasts of the same sounds with identical extra noise would stand out to even untrained sonar operators…
The Associated Press reports:
As their rivalry intensifies, U.S. and Chinese military planners are gearing up for a new kind of warfare in which squadrons of air and sea drones equipped with artificial intelligence work together like swarms of bees to… Continue reading Will the US-China Competition to Field Military Drone Swarms Spark a Global Arms Race?
Foreign Policy magazine visits a U.S. military training exercise that pitted Lt. Isaac McCurdy and his platoon of infantry troops against machines with camera lenses for eyes and sheet metal for skin:
Driving on eight screeching wheels and carrying en… Continue reading Will America’s Next Soldiers Be Machines?
Lindsay Clark reports via The Register: Palantir has won a US Army contract worth $178.4 million to house a battlefield intelligence system inside a big truck. In what purports to be the Army’s first AI-defined vehicle, Palantir will provide systems fo… Continue reading Palantir Wins US Army Contract For Battlefield AI
The 22-year-old Air National Guard member admitted illegally collecting some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets and sharing them with other users on Discord.
The post Pentagon Leaker Jack Teixeira Pleads Guilty Under a Deal That Calls for at Least … Continue reading Pentagon Leaker Jack Teixeira Pleads Guilty Under a Deal That Calls for at Least 11 Years in Prison