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South Korean military signs deal to turn flying taxis into troop transports — and the US Air Force could be next in line
Korean Air and Archer will modify the Midnight eVTOL for military use Archer handles technical support and certification assistance for the military version Midnight eVTOL carries four passengers and travels roughly 100 miles per charge South Korea is moving ahead with plans to adapt electric flying taxis for military missions…
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Chinese military reportedly uses American AI models to train its defense systems – tools from OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly among those affected
Distillation sidesteps the logic of US export controls, which restrict the chips needed to train frontier models but cannot restrict the text those models produce Review of more than 80 Chinese papers and patents found PLA-linked researchers distilling outputs from OpenAI and Anthropic models into small systems they can run…
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Are your Android apps secretly sharing your location with advertisers? Some developers are accidentally leaving on this critical data-invading setting when using third-party SDKs
Some Android apps contain invasive data-gathering SDKs that gather location data without user consent Location data is then sold to advertisers, or purchased by law enforcement for targeting and tracking US citizens Developers, regulators, and legislators should work together to remove the incentive for SDKs to gather this data Monetizing…
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New ChainDrop worm poisons over 1,300 npm packages, Keyv and Cacheable among those hit
Aikido researchers uncovers ChainDrop, a Shai‑Hulud variant infecting 1,300+ npm packages with an infostealer Attackers compromised GitHub accounts tied to popular libraries (Keyv, Cacheable, flat‑cache, file‑entry‑cache) and pushed tainted releases with 2B monthly downloads Malware exfiltrates developer/cloud credentials and secrets to a public GitHub repo; admins should treat affected systems…
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The quantum countdown: Are organizations ready to avoid the next Y2K
Quantum risk has moved from theoretical to operational in 2026, and this shift is now impossible for enterprises to ignore. Google has committed to completing its post-quantum migration by 2029, the NCSC 2035, and the G7 says 2034. NIST has finalized its first full suite of post‑quantum cryptographic standards, triggering…
Read MoreThe quantum countdown: Are organizations ready to avoid the next Y2K
Quantum risk has moved from theoretical to operational in 2026, and this shift is now impossible for enterprises to ignore. Google has committed to completing its post-quantum migration by 2029, the NCSC 2035, and the G7 says 2034. NIST has finalized its first full suite of post‑quantum cryptographic standards, triggering…
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