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Pentagon Plans To Spend $2BN On More Weapon AI
Pentagon Plans To Spend $2BN On More Weapon AI Computers have started to play a much bigger role in terms of weapons. We have guided missiles, feedback reporting armour and even (maybe) killer robots. It seems, however, that the Pentagon in the US is keen to push this technology even…
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Pentagon Starts Creating A Software Blacklist!
Pentagon Starts Creating A Software Blacklist! The Wests relations with Russia and China are a little tenuous at the moment. It’s pretty clear that while we’re attempting to try and build bridges, more often than not something will happen to erode them. An unusual report has emerged though that the…
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Donald Trumps Tells Pentagon To Establish ‘Space Force’ Army
Donald Trump Orders Pentagon To Set Up Space Force Donald Trump’s Presidency has certainly been interesting so far. As much as he is polarising within the United States, from the outside looking in, it’s a pretty decent bit of entertainment if nothing else. He is a figure that regularly seems…
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Google Confirms Pentagon Is Using It’s Technology
Google Drones Drone technology has come on significantly in the last 10 years. Initially starting as an imperfect clunky tool, more updated models have seen the introduction of massive improvements and impressive innovations. The popularity and functionality of the drones have seen a significant increase in usage not just for…
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Kaspersky Flagged as a Threat by the Pentagon More Than a Decade Ago
The US Government had doubts about Kaspersky in 2004. About two months ago, we informed you that the US Government had banned the use of Kaspersky Labs Software. Moreover, recent news suggests that the Moscow-based company appeared on the Pentagon’s radar as early as 2004. The information comes from the…
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Robert Taylor – The Man Who Helped Shaped the Internet and Modern PC – Dies at 85
Robert Taylor, the man who helped shape the modern PC has sadly died at the age of 85 last Thursday. Whilst his work for over 30 years in the computing industry is far too numerous to go into any great detail, some of his accomplishments included; helping design the precursor…
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“Hack the Pentagon” Begins This Month
Hack the Pentagon, the US intelligence agency’s new bug bounty program, is set to begin this month, its organiser HackerOne has revealed. The challenge, which is open to anyone who thinks they have the technical nous to find and exploit weaknesses in the Pentagon’s cybersecurity systems, will commence on 18th…
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John McAfee Lied About Hacking San Bernardino iPhone
Serial fantasist John McAfee – who claimed last week that he could stage an Ocean’s Eleven-esque infiltration of the Pentagon – has admitted to lying about his ability to hack the encryption of an iPhone. McAfee, speaking to Russia Today, CNN, and Business Insider last month, publicly offered his services…
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John McAfee Explains How He’d Hack the Pentagon
John McAfee, paranoid billionaire hacker and future President of the USA, is at it again. Not content with boasting about how easy it would be for him to hack an iPhone, McAfee has decided to crank it up a notch, telling Tech Insider not only that he could hack the…
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The Pentagon to Upgrade its 4 Million PCs to Windows 10
Microsoft has scored its biggest customer yet, which will see its Windows 10 operating system installed on millions of computer over 2016. The company has announced that the US secretary of Defense has ordered the Pentagon to upgrade its 4 million PC to Windows 10 over the next twelve months,…
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The Pentagon Wants $15bn Funding for Weaponised AI in 2017
The Pentagon has filed its fiscal budget for 2017, for which it is asking for between $12 billion and $15 billion to fund the development of artificial intelligence weapon technology, Business Insider reports. “This is designed to make the human more effective in combat,” said US Deputy Defense Secretary Robert…
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Hack Targets Email System Of The Pentagon
NBC news is reporting information which has been supplied by US officials who have stated that Russia has launched a “sophisticated cyber attack” with the aim being the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system. The email system has since been shut down by being taken offline for almost two weeks.…
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Islamic State Said to Have about 46K Twitter Accounts
The Islamic State terror organisation is known for its use of social media accounts. Though Twitter stated that the it found around 70,00 pro-ISIS accounts, 46,000 are deemed as the “most conservative” estimate. The report comes after the FBI issued a warning about American teens being susceptible to ISIS recruitment…
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US Hypersonic Weapon Destroyed Just Seconds After Testing Began
The US recently tested their new Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, a new missile deployment systems that could allow them to strike a target anywhere in the world within one hour, but the initial test flight of the new technology resulted in a self destruct just four seconds after the…
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