The Military Reinvented the Wheel, They’re Triangles Now
A new wheel that Carnegie Mellon scientists developed for DARPA adapts to its environment. Continue reading The Military Reinvented the Wheel, They’re Triangles Now
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15 Years Ago, the Military Tried to Record Whole Human Lives. It Ended Badly
Before Facebook, the military tried to make an all knowing ‘cyberdiary’ called LifeLog. Continue reading 15 Years Ago, the Military Tried to Record Whole Human Lives. It Ended Badly
DARPA Funding in AI-Assisted Cybersecurity
DARPA is launching a program aimed at vulnerability discovery via human-assisted AI. The new DARPA program is called CHESS (Computers and Humans Exploring Software Security), and they’re holding a proposers day in a week and a half. This is the kind of thing that can dramatically change the offense/defense balance…. Continue reading DARPA Funding in AI-Assisted Cybersecurity
DARPA is looking to avoid another version of Meltdown or Spectre
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has contracted Tortuga Logic to develop hardware security tools that use commercial testing platforms to catch vulnerabilities in computer chips before they are deployed, the firm announced. The goal of the contract, awarded by the Pentagon’s R&D arm, is to prevent a repeat of Meltdown and Spectre, the security vulnerabilities revealed in January that affected virtually all modern computer chips. The contract is part of a DARPA hardware and firmware program that strives to make chips more secure at the “microarchitecture level.” DARPA says the program, which is tackling seven classes of hardware vulnerabilities, supports security methods that limit “hardware to states that are assured to be secure while maintaining the performance and power required for system operation.” Tortuga Logic says it can verify hardware security throughout the design process, arguing in a recent white paper that such verification is much more common in […]
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DARPA Enlisting Nemo and Dory to Find You
The ocean is a hostile environment for man-made equipment, no matter its purpose. Whether commercial fishing, scientific research, or military operations, salt water is constantly working to break them all down. The ocean is also home to organisms well-adapted to their environment so DARPA is curious if we can leverage their innate ability to survive. The Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (yes, our ocean PALS) program is asking for creative ideas on how to use sea life to monitor ocean activity.
Its basic idea is simple: everyday business of life in the ocean are occasionally interrupted by a ship, a submarine, …read more
A New Type of Computer Could Render Many Software Hacks Obsolete
DARPA is pumping millions of dollars into a computer circuit“Rubik’s cube.” Continue reading A New Type of Computer Could Render Many Software Hacks Obsolete
‘Nature’ Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking
One of science’s most important publications assumes science journalists don’t know how to do their jobs. Continue reading ‘Nature’ Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking
Huawei tried to acquire technology from the winners of the Cyber Grand Challenge
After seven supercomputers hacked each other on stage at a prominent cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas in August 2016, a Chinese corporation approached U.S. researchers responsible for developing the cutting-edge technology in hopes of acquiring it. The previously unreported but concentrated interest by Huawei Technologies, a company once at the center of a federal investigation and which has come under scrutiny by U.S. spy agencies, came in the form of phone calls and emails sent to select individuals involved in engineering machines that competed in the 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. ForAllSecure, the company whose team won the challenge, was among those contacted by a representative claiming to be from Huawei. ForAllSecure ignored the advances, according to company CEO David Brumley. The decision was partially driven by a common understanding that Huawei is closely connected to the Chinese government and as such, a relationship with Huawei may negatively impact ForAllSecure’s ability to […]
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Hackaday Links: May 28, 2017
Boeing and DARPA are building a spaceplane. Right now it’s only a press release and a few concept images, but it looks like this is an air-launched system kind of like a Tristar/Pegasus, only much higher and completely unmanned. It’s a ton and a half to low earth orbit, with a goal of 10 flights in 10 days.
Up in Albany? There’s a new hacker con happening in a few weeks. Anycon is a hacking, infosec, and cyber security conference happening June 16 & 17th in Albany, NY. The organizers of this con ([Chris], and his company Leet Cybersecurity) are …read more
DARPA Plans To Begin Hacking Human Brains
So [DARPA] wants to start hacking human brains, With the help of the biomedical device center at the university of Texas in Dallas. This does sound a bit crazy but DARPA does crazy. Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this one.
The initial plans to turn us all into mindless zombies seem to be shelved for now, however they are working on what they call Targeted Neuroplasticity Training (TNT), which they explain means using the body’s nervous system to enhance and speed up the learning process. This could be achieved by using a process known as …read more
