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A group of Google DeepMind staff has sent a letter to the company leadership asking for the end of military contracts and the stoppage of providing DeepMind technology to military users.
Ukrainian intelligence confirmed that Russians are using Starlink at the front line in Ukraine. SpaceX denies a possibility that the Russian military obtained its terminals legally.
OpenAI is working with the US government and the Department of Defense on cybersecurity tools. This comes after the company deleted language from its TOS barring it from working with the military.
Chinese companies could soon be restricted from using some Microsoft cloud services. The US is supposedly readying restrictions that would limit Chinese access to cloud services that use AI chips.
The U.S. Department of Defense will be benefitting in four key areas as a result of this partnership, including cloud innovation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and more.
Elon Musk has said that SpaceX will continue funding Starlink's operations in Ukraine indefinitely. This comes after SpaceX wrote a letter to the Pentagon asking to pick up the tab for its operations.
SpaceX has wrote to the Pentagon asking to fund Starlink's services in Ukraine. The company said that it is "not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals."
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Microsoft is working with the U.S. Army on its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). 120,000 headsets with HoloLens tech will be produced with on-field installation starting in September.
Following the $480 million augmented reality headset contract with the United States Army in 2018, Microsoft today landed another similar contract with the U.S. military worth $21.9 billion.
Microsoft has been awarded the Department of Defense's JEDI contract, beating Amazon. Microsoft will now help the DOD develop tech to allow comms with soldiers on the battlefield and in remote areas.
50 employees have penned a letter urging Microsoft to cancel its HoloLens deal with the U.S. military, and to be "mindful about who we're empowering and what we're empowering them to do".
The Thales Group has announced a partnership with Microsoft to develop a common Defence Cloud to be used by armed forces. Azure Stack is being used as the baseline system for this operation.
The resumes, addresses, and other information for many people who hold 'Top Secret' security clearance were left in an unsecured database after they had applied for vacancies at a security firm.
Even though STARTTLS was introduced over a decade ago, the US military has not used it to encrypt its own emails. This will now change, as an upgrade to better security is planned for July 2018.
A new deal between Microsoft and the DoD will see the Enterprise Services team provide on-demand Blue Badge support for DISA. The arrangement includes assistance for both products and software.
The Italian Ministry of Defense has announced that it will switch the software on all of its computers from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, in a move which will save up to €29 million.
HoloLens has the potential of being a great device for gaming and media consumption but Microsoft envisions a world where businesses and even militaries use the device to change how they operate.
In one of the largest cloud services deals the Department of Defense has ever struck, Microsoft is now set to power all things cloud-based for the U.S. Air Force.
If you've always wanted to join the U.S. military as a security expert but lacked the ability to run ten miles with gear on your back, you're in luck as the Army may drop the requirement.
The US Government has been sued by software maker Apptricity for running unlicensed copies of their military software, for which the Government has agreed to pay $50 million as damages for settlement.
An old fax machine has become a source of headaches for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, after it was found that faxes cannot be received and they may remain incommunicado until November.
Jay Johnson, who serves as a member of the US Navy and is a major Xbox 360 gamer, says Microsoft's online requirement for the Xbox One "has single handedly alienated the entire military."
The US Department of Defense has approved Samsung phones running a secure version of Android, known as 'Knox', for use by American soldiers, with further devices expecting approval this month.
Unit 61938, a group of Chinese governmental hackers responsible for more than 100 documented attacks since 2006, might have been nailed on the outskirts of the world's biggest city - Shanghai.
Microsoft is working on providing a way for injured veterans to rehab in the comfort of their own homes through the use of Kinect. The company is partnering with the Air Force for the project.
Internet Activist group Anonymous have released information about their latest attack today, in which they posted 90,000 e-mail addresses and passwords of Military personnel. It marks another leak under the #Antisec movement which seems to be...
Yesterday the United States revealed its International Strategy for Cyberspace that deals with military and defence matters relating to cyber-attacks, along with general praise of cyberspace and other less interesting matters. The document mentions the...
Thumb drives? Blank discs? Uncle Sam says no. In the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal, it appears the US Military is taking extra measures to ensure sensitive materials stay out of the wrong - or right,...
After becoming the victim of an effective Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Sunday, the controversial and influential Wikileaks has decided to move their operation to Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform. A DDoS attack...
Electronic Arts' new Medal of Honor game -- expected to be out in October -- has been getting a lot of negative attention recently. The UK defense secretary said publicly that the game should be...
As the small group of soldiers lays stranded under cover in an Iraqi urban battlefield, barking coordinates and position updates into a handheld radio, a small bomber flies overhead. With unmatched precision, the bomber pilot...
In June 2009, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved an initiative to start Cyber Command, a subdivision of U.S. Strategic Command that would be responsible for the defense and coordination of all the computer networks...
The Pentagon announced on Friday that military personnel who use its non-classified network will now have access to popular social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook, along with services such as YouTube according to...
A US Air Force research team has built a supercomputer using just over 2,000 PlayStation 3 game consoles, according to military news site Stars and Stripes. Dubbed the 500 TeraFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster it is almost...
The United States military is taking Apple's iPod touch onto the battlefield. A report shows that the iPod Touch is perfect for "networked warfare" and that it will allow soldiers to be linked together...
On this Veteran's day we look back and know there are hundreds of thousands military members that are retired and active duty who have placed their lives on the line for our country as well...
Lt. Daniel Zimmerman, an infantry platoon leader in Iraq, puts a blog on the Internet every now and then "to basically keep my friends and family up to date" back home. It just got tougher...
In 2009, the U.S. Department of Defense hopes to launch a satellite carrying an Internet router into space. Internet Routing in Space will allow U.S. ground troops to have voice, data and video communications while...
