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Here’s What to Know About Poland Shooting Down Russian Drones

wired.com Riccardo Piccolo 2025-09-30 18:58:37

Early Wednesday morning, Poland shot down several Russian drones that had violated its airspace during a massive strike against western Ukraine. The Polish military operation, confirmed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk through a social media message in the early morning hours, marks a turning point in Warsaw's involvement in the conflict that has affected the region for more than two and a half years. The Polish defense agency reported the presence of more than 10 objects coming from Ukrainian airs

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Here's What to Know About Poland Shooting Down Russian Drones

wired.com Riccardo Piccolo 2025-10-01 09:58:37

Early Wednesday morning, Poland shot down several Russian drones that had violated its airspace during a massive strike against western Ukraine. The Polish military operation, confirmed by Prime Minister Donald Tusk through a social media message in the early morning hours, marks a turning point in Warsaw's involvement in the conflict that has affected the region for more than two and a half years. The Polish defense agency reported the presence of more than ten objects coming from Ukrainian air

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Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-06 05:09:54

AI is starting to make experts on nuclear deterrence very nervous. Specifically, they say that a widespread push to integrate AI into virtually every level of military decision-making is creating a "slippery slope" in which AI will either be given the power to launch nuclear weapons itself, or the humans with that power will become so reliant on its guidance that they'll do so if it tells them to. Worst of all, they say, is that this is still happening while we still don't quite understand how

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When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

news.ycombinator.com John Fraraccio 2025-10-17 14:15:19

Click to enlarge A while ago I treated you to a dissertation entitled “Does The Sun Set On The British Empire?”, and concluded that it doesn’t. The UK’s widely scattered overseas territories, sparse though they are, mean that the sun is still always shining, somewhere in the world, over British territory. The most important territories in maintaining this late-empire sunlight are the Pitcairn Islands, in the Pacific, and the British Indian Ocean Territory, in the Indian Ocean. To illustrate th

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Service members deserve the right to repair

news.ycombinator.com Lt. Col. Cindy Serrano Roberts 2025-10-20 14:21:53

“The generator is down, and we don’t have enough ice to continue icing the remains of soldiers killed in action. How much longer, ma’am?” That’s the message I received while deployed to Balad, Iraq, as an Air Force second lieutenant. I was overseeing generators in theater, and the one powering the mortuary facility had failed. The clock was ticking. I didn’t have HVAC expertise or the necessary parts. The only viable backup generator was on the other side of the country. I had two choices: ini

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American military service members deserve the right to repair

news.ycombinator.com Lt. Col. Cindy Serrano Roberts 2025-10-21 05:21:53

“The generator is down, and we don’t have enough ice to continue icing the remains of soldiers killed in action. How much longer, ma’am?” That’s the message I received while deployed to Balad, Iraq, as an Air Force second lieutenant. I was overseeing generators in theater, and the one powering the mortuary facility had failed. The clock was ticking. I didn’t have HVAC expertise or the necessary parts. The only viable backup generator was on the other side of the country. I had two choices: ini

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China’s Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-03 23:43:39

US defense officials have long worried that China's Guowang satellite network might give the Chinese military access to the kind of ubiquitous connectivity US forces now enjoy with SpaceX's Starlink network. It turns out the Guowang constellation could offer a lot more than a homemade Chinese alternative to Starlink's high-speed consumer-grade broadband service. China has disclosed little information about the Guowang network, but there's mounting evidence that the satellites may provide Chines

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AI Is About to Radically Alter Military Command Structures That Date Back to Napoleon

gizmodo.com Benjamin Jensen 2025-11-09 14:30:45

Benjamin Jensen, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Marine Corps University School of Advanced Warfighting; Scholar-in-Residence, American University School of International Service This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Despite two centuries of evolution, the structure of a modern military staff would be recognizable to Napoleon. At the same time, military organizations have struggled to incorporate new technologies as

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This Country Is Teaching Children How to Build and Operate Deadly Drones

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-09 11:00:33

Now well into its third year, it's safe to say the Russo-Ukraine war has ushered in a new type of warfare fit for this decade. As resources run low and manpower becomes irreplaceable, combatants on both sides have resorted to McGuyver-esque tactics, such as jury-rigged drone cages, improvised wooden armor, and eScooter cavalry. One especially important development has been the deployment of various drones, from hobbyist models flung up to do recon flights, to drone boats in the Black Sea. But

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Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-11-24 18:45:27

The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom. By: Ben Collier A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. I’m sitting in a cold, scuffed, and dirty plastic chair on a crowded train, watching freezing fog stream past the window — one of the many unpleasant but strangely enjoyable everyday experiences of life in the United

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Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy

news.ycombinator.com The Mit Press Reader 2025-11-25 06:45:27

The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom. By: Ben Collier A↑ A↓ Off Bright Dark Blues Gray BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. I’m sitting in a cold, scuffed, and dirty plastic chair on a crowded train, watching freezing fog stream past the window — one of the many unpleasant but strangely enjoyable everyday experiences of life in the United

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Mysterious Crime Spree Targeted National Guard Equipment Stashes

wired.com Dell Cameron 2025-11-27 17:21:54

A string of previously undisclosed break-ins at Tennessee National Guard armories last fall marks the latest in a growing series of security breaches at military facilities across the United States, raising fresh concerns about the vulnerability of US armories to theft and intrusion. A confidential memo from the Tennessee Fusion Center reviewed by WIRED details four break-ins at Tennessee National Guard armories over a seven-week span. In one incident, thieves made off with night vision goggles

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Israel is reportedly storing millions of Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft servers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-30 22:11:28

Israel has allegedly been recording and storing millions of phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank as part of a large surveillance effort dating back to 2022, according to reporting by The Guardian , +972 Magazine and Local Call . The report suggests that the country has been shuttling these recordings to Microsoft Azure cloud servers. Company CEO Satya Nadella allegedly okayed the effort personally after meeting with a commander from Israel’s military surveillance agency, U

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Joby, L3Harris partner on hybrid defense craft that can be piloted or autonomous

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-12-09 17:58:37

An electric air taxi by Joby Aviation sits at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York City, Nov. 12, 2023. Joby Aviation and defense manufacturing giant L3Harris announced a partnership Friday to develop a next-generation military craft that can be piloted or fly autonomously. The partnership brings together Joby's hybrid vertical take-off and landing, or VTOL, aircraft and L3's expertise in military systems and certification. The companies expect to begin testing this fall, followed by o

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Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursday

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-21 08:17:23

A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to consumers nearly five years ago. The outage affected civilian and military users, creating an inconvenience for many but cutting off a critical lifeline for those who rely on Starlink for military operations, health care, and other applications. Michael Nicolls, SpaceX's vice president of Starlink

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Starlink’s satellite internet is back online after a massive outage

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-12-24 03:53:02

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Starlink users reported they couldn’t connect to SpaceX’s satellite internet service for a few hours on Thursday afternoon before service was eventually restored. Widespread Starlink outages, like the ones we reported on in 2022 and 2023, have been rare, and this appears to be the first one in 2025. The outage began around 3:15PM ET or so

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Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman

news.ycombinator.com New Hampshire Public Radio 2025-12-24 04:16:03

A major division of the U.S. Air Force is immediately suspending use of a gun made by New Hampshire-based Sig Sauer, following a fatal shooting on a Wyoming base over the weekend. The general in charge of the Air Force Global Strike Command, which comprises more than 33,000 personnel, said in a memo on Monday that he would be pausing the use of Sig Sauer’s M18 pistol immediately pending a “comprehensive review” of the weapon. A spokesperson confirmed the pause on the weapon is directly related

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang brushes off U.S. fears that China's military will use his firm's chips

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-01-17 10:07:11

Co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., Jensen Huang attends the 9th edition of the VivaTech trade show in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has downplayed U.S. fears that his firm's chips will aid the Chinese military, days ahead of another trip to the country as he attempts to walk a tightrope between Washington and Beijing. In an interview with CNN aired Sunday, Huang said "we don't have to worry about" China's military using U.S.-made technology because "they

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Nvidia CEO downplays U.S. fears that China's military will use his firm's chips

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-01-17 14:18:20

Co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., Jensen Huang attends the 9th edition of the VivaTech trade show in Paris on June 11, 2025. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has downplayed U.S. fears that his firm's chips will aid the Chinese military, days ahead of another trip to the country as he attempts to walk a tightrope between Washington and Beijing. In an interview with CNN aired Sunday, Huang said "we don't have to worry about" China's military using U.S.-made technology because "they

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Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-17 00:45:45

Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions A tiny backpack relays commands straight to their brain. Seal Team Bee Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have turned innocent bees into cyborgs that can be controlled via a 74-milligram insect brain controller. As the South China Morning Post reports, the controller pierces the bee's tiny brain with three needles and uses signals sent via electronic pulses to make it fly

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It’s hunting season in orbit as Russia’s killer satellites mystify skywatchers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-19 22:30:47

Russia is a waning space power, but President Vladimir Putin has made sure he still has a saber to rattle in orbit. This has become more evident in recent weeks, when we saw a pair of rocket launches carrying top-secret military payloads, the release of a mysterious object from a Russian mothership in orbit, and a sequence of complex formation-flying maneuvers with a trio of satellites nearly 400 miles up. In isolation, each of these things would catch the attention of Western analysts. Taken

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The Army Is Giving Up on War Horses

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-25 14:00:59

The U.S. military is finally done horsing around. According to a report from Task and Purpose, the Department of Defense is significantly cutting back on funding for its Military Working Equid program, and it plans to put an end to almost all horse-related operations. Apparently, steeds are no longer fit for modern warfare in the eyes of some folks at the Pentagon. Per the report, the Army will be redirecting $2 million that currently gets funneled into the Military Working Equid program to pro

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The military might finally win the right to repair

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-26 22:35:41

Senators Tim Sheehy and Elizabeth Warren have introduced a bipartisan bill to enshrine a right to repair for military equipment. The legislation, called the “Warrior Right to Repair Act,” would codify the right-to-repair provisions that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put in place through the Army Transformation and Acquisition Reform memorandum from April 30. The Department of Defense has not been immune from restrictive practices set forth by manufacturers, and much like the average consumer,

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Chinese Military Shows Off Fly-Sized Drones for Covert Ops

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-22 17:39:36

When it comes to robotics, nobody's doing it quite like China. Despite not truly industrializing until the 1950s — some 75 years after the United States — the nation has surged to the global forefront of robotics development. Between 2022 and 2023, China installed over half of all global robotics installed throughout the globe, scoring the second-highest annual robot deployment ever recorded — a close runner up to its own previous record, which it set between 2021 and 2022. Since then, the sec

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Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Set Off a Wave of Disinformation After Iran Bombing

wired.com David Gilbert 2026-02-26 02:33:31

President Donald Trump and his most vocal supporters have been using disinformation, fake videos, and mental gymnastics to try to spin the US military’s bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites as a complete and total victory that signals the end of a war instead of the beginning. On Saturday night, with the B-2 stealth bombers that dropped a dozen GBU-57 “bunker buster” bombs on the Fordow underground nuclear facility just beginning their flights back to the US, Trump declared the mission a comp

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US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels

news.ycombinator.com Wyatt Reed 2026-02-28 02:53:28

Four senior executives at Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been formally appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army following the creation of a “special” unit created for rich Big Tech mavens seeking military leadership roles. On June 13, the Army announced the creation of Detachment 201, otherwise known as the “Executive Innovation Corps,” which it describes as “a new initiative designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation.” Four ultra-wealthy executives from top tec

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What Big Tech's Band of Execs Will Do in the Army

wired.com Steven Levy 2026-02-28 22:26:42

When I read a tweet about four noted Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United States Army Reserve, including Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, I questioned its veracity. It’s very hard to discern truth from satire in 2025, in part because of social media sites owned by Bosworth’s company. But it indeed was true. According to an official press release, they’re in the Army now, specifically Detachment 201: the Executive Innovation Corps. Boz is now lieutenant

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Trump Is Apparently Raging About His Embarrassing Birthday Parade

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-05 11:54:45

"He kind of reamed out Hegseth for this." President Donald Trump spent $45 million in taxpayer dollars to throw himself a huge birthday parade — and now, he's apparently mad at everyone involved for not making it more fabulous. In an interview with the Daily Beast, Trump biographer Michael Wolff revealed that the president was none too pleased with the underwhelming pomp that marked the 250th anniversary of the Army — and, perhaps just as importantly in his mind, his birthday. Known as much f

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Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won’t Have to Attend Boot Camp)

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-03-06 22:30:38

The U.S. military recently announced that four executives from some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley have joined the Army Reserve as direct-commissioned officers. The move is part of a push to speed up the adoption of technology in the military, but as the news outlet Task & Purpose points out, it’s pretty unusual. The Army said in a press release that the four executives are Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO at Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and

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Former NASA Agent Suggests Government Used UFO Theories To Cover "Stealth Technology"

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-09 02:06:14

A former NASA official says he thinks the government uses rumors of alien conspiracies to hide its secrets — a suggestion corroborated by a recent bombshell report about military officials spreading UFO disinformation. In an interview with Fox News, Joseph Gutheinz, a former special agent at NASA's inspector general, said that the US military's clandestine operations are likely behind many UFO conspiracy theories. "I believe early on in the 1940s when all these UFO stories started coming up, i

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Here’s What to Know About Poland Shooting Down Russian Drones

Here's What to Know About Poland Shooting Down Russian Drones

Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

Service members deserve the right to repair

American military service members deserve the right to repair

China’s Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink

AI Is About to Radically Alter Military Command Structures That Date Back to Napoleon

This Country Is Teaching Children How to Build and Operate Deadly Drones

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy

Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy

Mysterious Crime Spree Targeted National Guard Equipment Stashes

Israel is reportedly storing millions of Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft servers

Joby, L3Harris partner on hybrid defense craft that can be piloted or autonomous

Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursday

Starlink’s satellite internet is back online after a massive outage

Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman

Nvidia's Jensen Huang brushes off U.S. fears that China's military will use his firm's chips

Nvidia CEO downplays U.S. fears that China's military will use his firm's chips

Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions

It’s hunting season in orbit as Russia’s killer satellites mystify skywatchers

The Army Is Giving Up on War Horses

The military might finally win the right to repair

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Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Set Off a Wave of Disinformation After Iran Bombing

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Trump Is Apparently Raging About His Embarrassing Birthday Parade

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won’t Have to Attend Boot Camp)

Former NASA Agent Suggests Government Used UFO Theories To Cover "Stealth Technology"

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