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Chinese Military Wants to Develop Custom OS
2019-06-06 12:04

Citing security concerns, the Chinese military wants to replace Windows with its own custom operating system: Thanks to the Snowden, Shadow Brokers, and Vault7 leaks, Beijing officials are well...

Microsoft's Work with Chinese Military University Raises Eyebrows
2019-04-14 02:58

Microsoft has been collaborating with researchers linked to a Chinese military-backed university on artificial intelligence, elevating concerns that US firms are contributing to China's high-tech...

Ah, this military GPS system looks shoddy but expensive. Shall we try to break it?
2019-03-04 07:59

Did we say break? We meant test its 'survivability' Who, Me? Hello, dear readers. We see you've come for your weekly dose of Who, Me? to shake off this serious case of the Mondays.…

When the bits hit the FAN: US military accused of knackering Russian trolls, news org's IT gear amid mid-term elections
2019-03-01 21:05

Despite fried RAID and deleted hard drives, Federal News Agency calls US Cyber Command attack a failure A Russian new service is claiming that US attacks on it and an organisation accused of...

Fake fuse: Bloke admits selling counterfeit chips for use in B-1 bomber, other US military gear
2019-02-05 00:58

E-waste partly to blame for proliferation of deceptively marketed silicon Rogelio Vasquez, the owner of California-based PRB Logics Corporation, has pleaded guilty to selling fake branded...

Military Carrier Pigeons in the Era of Electronic Warfare
2019-01-24 12:38

They have advantages: Pigeons are certainly no substitute for drones, but they provide a low-visibility option to relay information. Considering the storage capacity of microSD memory cards, a...

Hacker-besieged DNA data tucked away under military care
2018-12-07 11:29

Genomics England announced it's sequenced 100K Brits' genomes... and then had to store them in a military base after multiple hacking attacks.

Brits' DNA data sent to military base after 'foreign' hack attacks – report
2018-12-06 09:07

100,000 Genomes Project is secure, insists chair An ambitious project to map the DNA of a million Brits has experienced such sustained hack attacks that officials have had to shift the data to a...

U.S. Military Members Catfished and Hooked for Thousands of Dollars
2018-12-03 17:06

Prisoners in South Carolina posed convincingly as beautiful women on social media platforms.