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Mar 20, 2022
Russia May Hold Nuclear Evacuation Drill l After Hypersonic Weapons, Putin To Use Nukes In Ukraine?
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: existential risks, military
Is he planning to burn everything down if he canât win?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly ordered a nuclear war evacuation drill amid the war in Ukraine. A nuclear war evacuation drill is the process in which people are taken to safe places to prepare for the eventuality of nuclear war. The purported directive comes amid fears of President Putin resorting to extreme measures to force a decisive victory in the Ukraine war.
#russia #russiaukrainewar #nuclearwar.
Mar 19, 2022
AI drug algorithms can be flipped to generate bioweapons
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: biotech/medical, information science, military, robotics/AI
What can heal can also be used to destroy?
MegaSyn is built to generate drug candidates with the lowest toxicity for patients. That got Urbina thinking. He retrained the model using data to drive the software toward generating lethal compounds, like nerve gas, and flipped the code so that it ranked its output from high-to-low toxicity. In effect, the software was told to come up with the most deadly stuff possible.
He ran the model and left it overnight to create new molecules.
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Mar 18, 2022
Russiaâs Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI
The maker of the lethal drone claims that it can identify targets using artificial intelligence.
Mar 18, 2022
AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
Posted by Krys Hyff in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, military, robotics/AI
For me, the concern was just how easy it was to do. A lot of the things we used are out there for free. You can go and download a toxicity dataset from anywhere. If you have somebody who knows how to code in Python and has some machine learning capabilities, then in probably a good weekend of work, they could build something like this generative model driven by toxic datasets. So that was the thing that got us really thinking about putting this paper out there; it was such a low barrier of entry for this type of misuse.
AI could be just as effective in developing biochemical weapons as it is in identifying helpful new drugs, researchers warn.
Mar 17, 2022
Verizon secures contracts worth nearly $1 bln from U.S. defense department
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, internet, military
March 16 (Reuters) â Telecoms giant Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) said on Wednesday it had secured new business worth almost $1 billion from the U.S. Department of Defense to provide technical support and network modernization services.
The deal includes contracts for services to the Pentagon, the National Capital Region (NCR) and Fort Belvoir at a combined value of $966.5 million.
Verizon will provide internet-protocol-based services, voice and video services and network-related support aimed at accelerating the departmentâs digital pivot.
Mar 15, 2022
Panzerfaust 3: Germanyâs Modern Anti-Tank Weapon Thatâs Still Wrecking Armor
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: military
The lightweight and portable Panzerfaust 3 has been in the news as of late due to its use in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. A newer version of the World War II-era Panzerfaust, it allows soldiers to penetrate all forms of tank armor, thanks to its use of shape-charged warheads.
âweapons donât bring peace they only boost oneâs stupidity. We shall all see how cheering for one side, instead of peace plays out. I donât trust crooked governments, I donât trust the media, I only trust peace and stability that few can provide.
It can penetrate all forms of tank armor, thanks to its warheads.
Mar 13, 2022
Russia has requested military and economic assistance from China, US officials say
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: drones, economics, military
Russia has asked China for military support, including drones, as well as economic assistance for its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, according to conversations CNN had with two US officials.
The requests came after Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine, one of the officials said. That official declined to detail the Chinese reaction but indicated that the Chinese had responded.
Potential assistance from the Chinese would be a significant development in Russiaâs invasion. It could upend the hold Ukrainian forces still have in the country as well as provide a counterweight to the harsh sanctions imposed on Russiaâs economy.
Mar 11, 2022
Fact check: Is Russiaâs claim of US-owned biowarfare labs in Ukraine true?
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: biological, military
Mar 11, 2022
DoD space agency funds development of laser terminal that connects to multiple satellite at once
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: military, satellites
The Space Development Agency awarded BridgeComm and Space Micro a $1.7 million contract to demonstrate point-to-multipoint communications.
WASHINGTON â Each of the satellites in the Pentagonâs planned mesh network of communications satellites could have as many as many as four laser links so they can talk to other satellites, airplanes, ships and ground stations.
Optical inter-satellite links are critical to the success of the Space Development Agencyâs low Earth orbit constellation â known as Transport Layer â that will be used to route data traffic. Lasers provide much higher transmission data rates than traditional radio-frequency communications but are also far more expensive.