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5 days, 13 hours ago

Israel, China, Russia and Iran spying on US citizens using SS7, claims US Homeland Security

China, Russia, Iran, and Israel as the main nations exploiting vulnerabilities in the SS7 to spy on people in the US. Israel hosts a thriving surveillance technology industry, with firms like Circles — a company known for SS7 exploitation — now part of the infamous NSO Group The involvement of Israel, a US ally, draws particular attention. Image Credit: Pexels …

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1 week ago

Biden’s shadow communications strategy is creating a drone conspiracy crisis

Salon

If you read between the lines, the federal government thinks there’s a good possibility that irresponsible drone pilots are out there looking for a viral TikTok moment. After the White House and its representatives briefed reporters Saturday, it was apparent the federal government believes that most sightings are of manned aircraft in normal air traffic patterns for nearby airports and …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Senators Warn the Pentagon: Get a Handle on China’s Telecom Hacking

Wired

The senators also provide evidence in their letter that US telecoms have worked with third-party cybersecurity firms to conduct audits of their systems related to the telecom protocol known as SS7 but have declined to make the results of these evaluations available to the Defense Department. And in June, it announced a 10-year, $2.67 billion contract with the Navy that …

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3 weeks ago

Bombshell whistleblower report flags Trump DoD pick for drunken strip club antics

Raw Story

The New Yorker's Jane Mayer has uncovered a bombshell whistleblower report that documents several instances of Trump defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth being "repeatedly intoxicated on the job" during stints running two nonprofit advocacy groups. Mayer's coverage is based not only on the whistleblower report, but also on corroborating accounts from several of Hegseth's former colleagues who depict the Fox …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

'Out of control bro' picked by Trump to lead DoD so bad that it's 'head-spinning': expert

Raw Story

Donald Trump's appointee to head the Department of Defense came under criticism from retired Naval War College professor Tom Nichols, as his limited experience in the military and inexperience in leading anything but a weekend Fox News show is causing backlash. While his "scandals and inflammatory rhetoric" are prompting questions, Nichols argued that the biggest danger that Hegseth presents is …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

AP finds that a Pentagon-funded study on extremism in the military relied on old data

Associated Press

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, sat in front of a screen with the headline: “Study Disproves Military Extremism Problem.” It was Jan. 4 of this year and Hegseth told a Fox News audience the new study proved that the number of military service members and veterans involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection did …

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1 month ago

Trump 2.0 won’t reverse Biden’s critical minerals push: Andy Home

Live Mint

By Andy Home LONDON, - Donald Trump has described the Inflation Reduction Act as a "green scam" and vowed to repeal it after he returns to the White House in January. But some of the "new green deal" money has also been channeled to the U.S. industrial base, such as the $75 million allocated for an upgrade of Constellium's aluminium …

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1 month ago

Trump DOD secretary pick Hegseth paid off sexual assault accuser: report

Salon

Former Fox News host and nominee to Donald Trump's Cabinet Pete Hegseth paid off a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017, per a report from the Washington Post. The sexual assault accusation from 2017 quickly resurfaced, with Trump transition team members admitting that it caught them by surprise. A statement from Hegseth's attorney received by the Post …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Pentagon officials anxious Trump may fire the military’s top general

Politico

For Brown, that two-year mark arrives in September 2025, well into Trump’s first year back in office. “Can imagine he’ll be gone quite quickly.” Two people close to the Trump transition team mentioned that Brown has long been a target of congressional Republicans who accused the Pentagon of conducting social experiments with diversity programs, to the detriment of traditional military …

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2 months ago

America trained him to fight then he turned against it. More like him are being radicalised

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Tackleberry was Arthur’s nickname in the …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Rajnath visits submarine testing facility in U.S.

The Hindu

In a reflection of the growing cooperation in undersea domain and anti-submarine warfare between India and the U.S., also a priority area between the Quad partners, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, during his ongoing tour in the U.S., visited the William B Morgan Large Cavitation Channel in the Naval Surface Warfare Centre at Memphis, Tennessee, as India also plans to set …

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4 months ago

India, U.S. ink 2 key deals as Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visits Washington

The Hindu

The U.S. and India signed a new non-binding, bilateral defence cooperation agreement— the Security of Supply Arrangement on Friday as Defence Minister Rajnath Singh began his official visit to Washington to further boost the comprehensive global strategic partnership between the two countries. Senior defence officials from both the sides concluded the Security of Supplies Arrangement, and Memorandum of Agreement regarding …

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4 months, 1 week ago

AMEC sues US Defense Department over 'military company' label

China Daily

A view of the booth of Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment during an expo in Shanghai. Shanghai-based semiconductor company Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment has filed a lawsuit with a US court against US Department of Defense for including the firm on the list of "Chinese military companies", the company said on Friday. In January, the DOD added AMEC to the list which the …

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4 months, 1 week ago

AMEC sues US Defense Department over 'military company' label

China Daily

A view of the booth of Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment during an expo in Shanghai. Shanghai-based semiconductor company Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment has filed a lawsuit with a US court against US Department of Defense for including the firm on the list of "Chinese military companies", the company said on Friday. In January, the DOD added AMEC to the list which the …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Pentagon report denies UFOs are aliens. Experts accuse the government of misrepresenting the truth

Salon

A new report from the Pentagon on unidentified flying objects and unidentified anomalous phenomena has partially confirmed high-profile whistleblower allegations about planned clandestine government programs for the retrieval and reverse-engineering of non-human aircraft via private contractors. Concluding the Department of Defense's investigation into itself, the report from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office claims to have found "no empirical evidence" of …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Experts alarmed over AI in military as Gaza turns into “testing ground” for US-made war robots

Salon

As the U.S. Department of Defense and military contractors are focusing on implementing artificial intelligence into their technologies, the single greatest concern lies in the incorporation of AI into weapon systems, enabling them to operate autonomously and administer lethal force devoid of human intervention, a Public Citizen report warned last week. Autonomous weapons “inherently dehumanize the people targeted and make …

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1 year, 3 months ago

‘Handcuffing Country’s Self-Defence’: Questions Raised on Elon Musk Disabling Ukraine Military Internet

News 18

Three Democratic lawmakers have sent a letter to US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over concerns that Elon Musk may have personally impacted the war in Ukraine and by extension, American foreign policy. We are deeply concerned with the ability and willingness of SpaceX to interrupt their service at Mr. Musk’s whim and for the purpose of handcuffing a sovereign country’s …

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1 year, 3 months ago

I invented the internet – I worry my creation has given way to the likes of QAnon

The Telegraph

But one thing Cerf is quite keen to stress is that for the first several decades after what became the internet was launched, it was not remotely a big deal. ‘The computer science departments were asking Darpa, “Please buy us another world-class computer every year, so we can keep doing worldwide research,”’ Cerf recalls. ‘And Darpa is saying: “We can’t …

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1 year, 4 months ago

EXCLUSIVE: David Grusch's whistleblower UFO testimony is slammed by head of Pentagon office as 'insulting' for accusing government of cover-up at bombshell congressional hearing

Daily Mail

In a personal statement posted on his LinkedIn page, Kirkpatrick said he was 'deeply disappointed at the denigration' of civil and Defense staff Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon's UFO office, has slammed whistleblowers' testimony at Wednesday's congressional as 'insulting' Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon's newly formed All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, issued a statement challenging whistleblowers' bombshell testimony on …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Trump kept classified documents from seven agencies including CIA, DoD, and NSA

The Independent

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1 year, 6 months ago

"We are not alone": Intelligence whistleblower says "non-human" UFO craft retrieved

Salon

A high-ranking former intelligence official has called on the Department of Defense to disclose what he says is evidence of an "intact or partially intact" spacecraft of "non-human origin." "Several current members of the program" for UAP crash retrieval, Grusch said, have independently corroborated its existence to the inspector general. Grusch said analysis has determined the retrieved craft and fragments …

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1 year, 6 months ago

India, U.S. close in on jet engine deal, conclude roadmap for Defence Industrial Cooperation

The Hindu

India and the U.S. have agreed to initiate negotiations for a ‘Security of Supply’ arrangement and a ‘Reciprocal Defence Procurement’ agreement which will promote long-term supply chain stability as defence sources said on Monday that the deal for assembling the General Electric GE-414 jet in India is “almost done” with expectations that it could be concluded during the upcoming visit …

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1 year, 7 months ago

The Underground History of Russia’s Most Ingenious Hacker Group

Wired

Investigators found that when the Moonlight Maze hackers—a codename given to them by the FBI—exfiltrated data from their victims' systems, they used a customized version of a tool called Loki2, and would continually tweak that piece of code over the years. In 2016, a team of researchers including Rid and Guerrero-Saade would cite that tool and its evolution as evidence …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Biden sending 1,500 troops for Mexico border migrant surge

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will send 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border starting next week, ahead of an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus pandemic-era restrictions. 4e9c7e3f8c004404a9a438c8f1e90110 Then-President Donald Trump deployed active-duty troops to the border to assist border patrol personnel in processing large migrant caravans, on top of National Guard forces that were already working …

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Israel, China, Russia and Iran spying on US citizens using SS7, claims US Homeland Security

Biden’s shadow communications strategy is creating a drone conspiracy crisis

Senators Warn the Pentagon: Get a Handle on China’s Telecom Hacking

Bombshell whistleblower report flags Trump DoD pick for drunken strip club antics

'Out of control bro' picked by Trump to lead DoD so bad that it's 'head-spinning': expert

AP finds that a Pentagon-funded study on extremism in the military relied on old data

Trump 2.0 won’t reverse Biden’s critical minerals push: Andy Home

Trump DOD secretary pick Hegseth paid off sexual assault accuser: report

Pentagon officials anxious Trump may fire the military’s top general

America trained him to fight then he turned against it. More like him are being radicalised

Rajnath visits submarine testing facility in U.S.

India, U.S. ink 2 key deals as Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visits Washington

AMEC sues US Defense Department over 'military company' label

AMEC sues US Defense Department over 'military company' label

Pentagon report denies UFOs are aliens. Experts accuse the government of misrepresenting the truth

Experts alarmed over AI in military as Gaza turns into “testing ground” for US-made war robots

‘Handcuffing Country’s Self-Defence’: Questions Raised on Elon Musk Disabling Ukraine Military Internet

I invented the internet – I worry my creation has given way to the likes of QAnon

EXCLUSIVE: David Grusch's whistleblower UFO testimony is slammed by head of Pentagon office as 'insulting' for accusing government of cover-up at bombshell congressional hearing

Trump kept classified documents from seven agencies including CIA, DoD, and NSA

"We are not alone": Intelligence whistleblower says "non-human" UFO craft retrieved

India, U.S. close in on jet engine deal, conclude roadmap for Defence Industrial Cooperation

The Underground History of Russia’s Most Ingenious Hacker Group

Biden sending 1,500 troops for Mexico border migrant surge