On March 8th, 2026 with 125 comments
Palantir's CEO was blunt. "If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job... and you're going to screw the military —...
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On December 12th, 2025 with 118 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Dozens of Ukrainian civilians filed a series of lawsuits in Texas this week, accusing some of the...
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On December 9th, 2025 with 88 comments
Congress quietly removed provisions that would have let the U.S. military fix its own equipment without relying on contractors, despite bipartisan and Pentagon...
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On July 8th, 2025 with 54 comments
Senators Tim Sheehy and Elizabeth Warren have introduced the bipartisan "Warrior Right to Repair Act," which would guarantee the military's right to repair its...
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On May 31st, 2025 with 23 comments
Journalists from Der Spiegel and Danwatch were able to use proxy servers in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia to circumvent network restrictions and access...
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On March 22nd, 2025 with 83 comments
Was the cutting of undersea cables part of a larger pattern? Russia and its proxies are accused by western officials of "staging dozens of attacks and other...
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On January 18th, 2025 with 56 comments
The BBC brings news from the Baltic Sea. After critical undersea cables were damaged or severed last year, "NATO has launched a new mission to increase the...
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On January 11th, 2025 with 24 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:
New intelligence has led two US intelligence agencies to conclude that it's possible a small number of...
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On January 6th, 2025 with 29 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Defense Department said on Monday it has added Chinese tech giants including gaming and social media...
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On November 12th, 2024 with 89 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Former Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years for stealing...
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On November 7th, 2023 with 21 comments
According to the Wall Street Journal, Intel may receive billions in U.S. government funding to build secret facilities that produce microchips for the...
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On September 30th, 2023 with 13 comments
The Associated Press reports: The National Security Agency is starting an artificial intelligence security center -- a crucial mission as AI capabilities are...
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On November 23rd, 2022 with 87 comments
The U.S. Navy was found guilty of piracy and is ordered to pay a software company $154,400 for a lawsuit filed back in 2016. Gizmodo reports: The company,...
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On July 30th, 2022 with 211 comments
Reuters investigated the strange thing that happened when Russia's invading armored vehicles reached Chernobyl, "a key staging post on the approach to Kyiv,"...
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On June 25th, 2022 with 37 comments
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is "the first full-scale battle in which traditional and cyberweapons have been used side by side," reports the New York Times. ...
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On April 24th, 2022 with 52 comments
CNN profiles Bellingcat, a Netherlands-based investigative group specializing in "open-source intelligence". And investigator Christo Grozev tells CNN that...
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On March 13th, 2022 with 49 comments
Reuters reports:
Ukraine's defense ministry on Saturday began using Clearview AI's facial recognition technology, the company's chief executive told Reuters,...
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On February 28th, 2022 with 116 comments
Though the Russian government has tried geofencing access to crucial web sites, the Jerusalem Post reports that two Russian government web site still went...
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On January 24th, 2022 with 119 comments
How exactly could Russia be deterred from invading Ukraine? The U.S. government is now "threatening to use a novel export control to damage strategic...
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On January 16th, 2022 with 42 comments
"Microsoft warned on Saturday evening that it had detected a highly destructive form of malware in dozens of government and private computer networks in...
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On October 9th, 2021 with 52 comments
IEEE Spectrum reports that air traffic controllers for America's Federal Aviation Administration "were confused and frustrated by an increase in military tests...
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On September 25th, 2021 with 78 comments
Paul Ratner writes via Interesting Engineering: Theoretical inventions known as the "UFO patents" have been inflaming worldwide curiosity. A product of the...
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On March 18th, 2021 with 62 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A surveillance contractor that has previously sold services to the U.S. military is advertising a product...
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On December 2nd, 2020 with 511 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: President Donald Trump has long been an outspoken foe of big technology companies. And in recent months,...
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On November 16th, 2020 with 40 comments
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard at Vice: The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from...
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On September 19th, 2020 with 158 comments
Popular Mechanics reports:
A U.S. Air Force aircraft electronically impersonated a Malaysian plane while flying over the South China Sea this week. The RC-135W...
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On June 24th, 2020 with 182 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Trump administration has determined that top Chinese firms, including telecoms equipment giant Huawei...
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On March 10th, 2020 with 24 comments
A federal judge said in court documents that Amazon's protest lawsuit over rival Microsoft being awarded a highly lucrative defense project was "likely to...
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On February 10th, 2020 with 44 comments
The Trump administration on Monday unveiled its $4.8 trillion budget proposal which, among other things, includes plans to increase federal funding for the...
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On January 16th, 2020 with 21 comments
According to contracts posted on a federal spending database, the U.S. military is working to develop facial recognition technology that reads the pattern of...
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