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‘This one page changed my life’: Michael Dell shows off the document which helped set him on the path to business success
Michael Dell marked 42 years since PC’s Limited by reposting its 31 July 1984 statement, showing ~$135,000 of net income on roughly a million dollars of sales from $1,000 of starting capital The document, which he also showed in March 2018, served as a baseline for him to persuade his…
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Quote of the day by Anduril founder Palmer Lucky: ‘There’s no moral high ground to making a land mine that can’t tell the difference between a school bus full of children and Russian armor’
The thought of infusing AI into weapons immediately evokes deep fears, not only based on the idea that autonomous weapons may make life-and-death decisions on our behalf, but also on the prospect of errors creeping in. But for Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, there’s no alternative but to add…
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Ukraine’s next weapon against Russian drones is this slightly odd tiny robot which fires nets into the air in all directions
Ukraine develops ground robot firing nets against incoming FPV drone attacks VORON combines drone interception with logistics and battlefield evacuation capabilities effectively Net launchers attempt physical drone captures instead of explosive aerial interceptions Ukrainian firm SMART BIRDS has introduced an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) called VORON, built specifically to intercept…
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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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