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Pentagon signs $500 million deal for unmanned counter-drone missile systems promising ‘decisive advantage’
CACI secured a Pentagon contract worth up to $500 million total JIATF-401 manages daily counter-drone operations across the entire joint force SkyValor detected and defeated drones beyond visual range during testing The US Department of Defense has awarded CACI a contract worth up to $500 million to expand deployment of…
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Quote of the day by US President Dwight D Eisenhower: ‘Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite’ — foreshadowing Silicon Valley’s global domination
Campaigners have long feared the influence of big money and influential corporations in politics – with this situation arguably worse than ever. In modern times, lobbying by technology companies has even given way to technology executives playing a role in devising government policy. “The prospect of domination of the nation’s…
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Could this be the end of BIOS-locked laptops? AI tweaker deploys Claude to unlock and change settings for good
Redditor uses Claude Code to help reverse-engineer the firmware on an HP 15-dw1036ne, patching its signature check and exposing 55 hidden setup fields and four configuration tabs The laptop’s RSA-2048 was not broken: the verification routine was patched to return success, a standard firmware-modding technique as per Community Notes The…
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Hivemind AI software carries out first on-water ‘swarming test’ in Taiwan mission
Hivemind completes first autonomous swarming mission on water in Taiwan Drone boats identified and escorted a vessel during a coordinated surveillance exercise SeaShark 600 and 800 vessels operated together under a single autonomous command An autonomous software system called Hivemind has directed a group of unmanned boats through a live…
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Shock horror — AI-generated security patches fall short of actually solving all the problems they were meant to fix
Researchers tested AI-generated patches on six CVEs with poor success rates Many fixes failed, altered behavior, or introduced new vulnerabilities Guidance improved outcomes, leading to FLAWED evaluation harness release When using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) to fix vulnerabilities, security professionals are most of the time just robbing Peter to pay…
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Experts warn malicious AI skills are hitting more victims than ever — with one family amassing 1.7 million downloads
Attackers cloned AI skills, later adding malicious code to steal credentials Zenity Labs found millions of installs and dozens of dangerous skill variants Vercel and Microsoft removed malicious skills, but manual removal is still required AI skills, instructions that teach AI agents how to do certain tasks and thus extend…
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