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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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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.