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Flaw in Some Satellite Communication Terminals Can Expose US Troops’ Location
Vulnerabilities in certain brands of communications terminals can be used to access GPS data on forward-deployed troops.
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The Future Airman is a Hacker
Air Force recruiters will prize computer skills more highly, while the service will encourage airmen to experiment with their own solutions.
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Pentagon Prohibits Personnel From Using GPS Services in All ‘Operational Areas’
The device-agnostic policy applies to smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers, smartwatches and all other applications with geolocation features.
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Who’s Leading the Western Response to Russia’s Warbots? Estonia
A European leader in robotic autonomy turns its attention to the battlefield.
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New Defense One eBook: Defense Technology
AI, bugbots, space planes, tunnels...and just a bit more.
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Mike Pence’s Cybersecurity Speech, Annotated
The vice president delivered a fiery campaign-style cybersecurity speech at a Homeland Security cyber conference Tuesday. Here’s an explainer.
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How A Human Resources System Could Revolutionize the Army
Army program managers took a mandate to upgrade the service’s payment systems and turned it into a way to unearth soldiers’ hidden talents.
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How Russian Hackers Amplified the Seth Rich Conspiracy Until it Reached Donald Trump and the CIA
A new report claims that Russian hackers altered dates in stolen documents to frame the DNC staffer for the theft.
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Cargo Bases in Space: Air Force General Wants Them Within a Decade
The service’s mobility chief is already talking with SpaceX and other companies about the possibilities of orbiting supply dumps.
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Surveillance Cameras Will Soon Divine Your Personality from Eye Movements
Machine-learning techniques promise to make biometric data far more useful for intelligence gathering.
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Kremlin Hackers Take Aim at the Swiss Lab That’s Working the Skripal Poisoning Case
The group that attacked Ukraine's power grid is phishing a chemical-weapons lab critical to the Skripal case.
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Satellite Imagery + Social Media = A New Way to Spot Emerging Nuclear Threats
A research team is training computers to find and fuse clues from wildly different rivers of digital data.
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China Is Still Stealing America’s Business Secrets, US Officials Say
The 2015 agreement between Xi and Obama produced only a lull in Beijing’s economic espionage.
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Bidding Begins for Pentagon's Controversial $10 Billion War Cloud
The Defense Department will stick to a single cloud provider for its JEDI cloud contract.
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New Details About the F-15X That Boeing is Pitching the US Air Force
The single-seat jet is being built to shoot down enemy aircraft, pound targets on the ground, and even hit ships at sea.
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This Stealthy Drone May Be The Future of Russian Fighter Jets
Russian industry sources called this heavy armed stealth drone a prototype for their sixth-generation aircraft.
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Computers Have Found a Better Way to Spot Emailed Malware, Researchers Say
Somehow no one thought of applying machine learning to malicious email in exactly this way. But the results are big.
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China’s Robot Subs Will Lean Heavily on AI: Report
The leader of the classified 912 Project gives a rare interview. The question, as always, is why.
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Russia May Put Androids in Orbit Next Year, State Media Says
The mission would be the latest for FEDOR, created for rescue work — and more recently given the ability to shoot guns.
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