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After Slamming Trump, Lawmakers Silent on Biden Drone Export Policy - 14 mai 2021
The door is open for drone sales to authoritarian countries like the United Arab Emirates.
When the Trump administration announced last July it was loosening decades-old restrictions on military drone exports, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee came out swinging. Progressive Democrats (...)
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Border Police Wants Bite of Burgeoning Anti-Drone Industry - 4 mai 2021
Citing threats from drug cartels to migrants, CBP’s interest dovetails with a $487 million effort by the U.S. government to counter small drones.
In April, U.S. Army officers met with representatives from Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based subsidiary of Boeing, to test whether the company’s technology could (...)
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Forensic Architecture and Praxis Films, Triple Chaser - 12 mars 2021
Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Forensic Architecture’s and Praxis Films’ Triple-Chaser (2019), on view from Tuesday, March 9 through Monday, March 22, 2021.
When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were (...)
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Scholars Under Surveillance : How Campus Police Use High Tech to Spy on Students - 12 mars 2021
It may be many months before college campuses across the U.S. fully reopen, but when they do, many students will be returning to a learning environment that is under near constant scrutiny by law enforcement.
A fear of school shootings, and other campus crimes, have led administrators and campus police to install (...)
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L’US Air Force développe des essaims de drones militaires - 11 mars 2021
Le X-61A Gremlin est un drone autonome qui sera lancé directement en vol depuis un avion. Déployé en essaim, cet appareil développé par l’armée américaine pourra mener des missions de reconnaissance ou des bombardements.
Un essaim de drones pourrait bientôt s’abattre sur les champs de bataille. La Darpa - une agence (...)
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Le Longshot, nouveau drone chasseur d’avions de l’US Air Force - 7 mars 2021
Le Longshot est un drone autonome qui sera lancé depuis un avion de chasse en plein combat. Transportant lui-même ses missiles, il pourra affronter les appareils ennemis à la place du pilote.
Ne pas affronter un avion de chasse ennemi mais lui envoyer un drone qui le fera à la place du pilote. C’est le nouveau (...)
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Un nouveau drone-kamikaze russe ’silencieux’ bientôt mis en service - 7 mars 2021
Fabriqué par le groupe de défense russe Kalashnikov, le drone KYB peut transporter une charge explosive allant jusqu’à 3kg.
Si des armées s’évertuent à trouver le meilleur moyen de se défendre face aux drones, d’autres travaillent à en développer de plus efficaces. Le 22 février, le groupe de défense Kalashnikov, sous (...)
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Les dates secrètes de Frontex et de l’industrie de l’armement - 3 mars 2021
La liste des participants lors des 16 réunions de lobbying de l’agence européenne de gestion des frontières Frontex entre 2017 et 2019 ressemble au "who’s who" de l’industrie de l’armement. Glock, Airbus, Heckler & Koch etc. Des catalogues d’armes de poing ont été distribués et les mérites des drones de surveillance (...)
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Lobbying Fortress Europe - 7 février 2021
The making of a border-industrial complex
The massive expansion of the budget, personnel, and powers of the EU’s border agency Frontex has also seen increasingly privileged access for industry. This perpetuates a vision of border control based on more and more firearms and biometric surveillance that has major (...)
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“An Eye Turned into a Weapon” : a Philosophical Investigation of Remote Controlled, Automated, and Autonomous Drone Warfare - 30 janvier 2021
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Military drones (unmanned combat aerial vehicles) combine surveillance technology with missile equipment in a far-reaching way. In this article, I argue that military drones could and should be object for a philosophical investigation, referring in particular on Chamayou’s theory of the drone, who also (...)
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US has ’moral imperative’ to develop AI weapons, says panel - 27 janvier 2021
Draft Congress report claims AI will make fewer mistakes than humans and lead to reduced casualties
The US should not agree to ban the use or development of autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence (AI) software, a government-appointed panel has said in a draft report for Congress.
The panel, led by (...)
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How Facebook Profits from the Insurrection - 19 janvier 2021
Facebook suspended President Trump and announced other actions after the U.S. Capitol riot. But it continued to push ads for military gear next to insurrection posts.
Facebook has been serving up ads for weapons accessories and body armor alongside election misinformation and insurrection talk in “patriot” and (...)
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Facebook suspends ads for weapon accessories until at least January 22nd - 17 janvier 2021
The company added the temporary ban to its Inauguration Day preparations
Facebook has updated its Inauguration Day preparations to include a temporary ban on ads that promote weapon accessories and protective equipment at least through January 22nd “out of an abundance of caution,” the company said in a new blog (...)
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Facebook Pauses Ads For Gun Accessories And Military Gear After Complaints From Lawmakers And Employees - 17 janvier 2021
“Out of an abundance of caution, we are temporarily banning ads promoting weapons accessories and protective equipment in the U.S. until at least January 22nd.”
Following complaints from Senators and employees, Facebook on Saturday said it was temporarily halting ads for gun accessories and military gear in the US (...)
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L’Union européenne trouve un accord pour renforcer le contrôle des technologies de surveillance - 11 novembre 2020
Ces dernières années, des scandales ont éclaté après que des entreprises européennes ont vendu des logiciels espions à des pays autoritaires.
Cela fait plusieurs années que des élus et des organisations humanitaires demandent un plus grand contrôle de la commercialisation des technologies de surveillance, comme les (...)
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Meet The Army’s Future Family Of Robot Tanks : RCV - 11 novembre 2020
The Army has outlined draft objectives for a range of Robotic Combat Vehicles, from an expendable light scout armed with a single anti-tank missile to a 30-ton unmanned tank as tough as the 70-ton M1 Abrams.
WASHINGTON : On a future battlefield, seven-ton tracked robots scout the enemy. Some of these Robotic (...)
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‘Machines set loose to slaughter’ : the dangerous rise of military AI - 15 octobre 2020
Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots ?
The video is stark. Two menacing men stand next to a white van in a field, holding remote controls. They open the (...)
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Le conflit du Haut-Karabakh se jouera sur les drones et les munitions intelligentes - 13 octobre 2020
L’Azerbaïdjan en fait un usage immodéré. Un avant-goût des conflits de demain ? La responsabilité des pays fabricants est potentiellement engagée.
Un conflit gelé qui dégivre brutalement : c’est ainsi que l’on peut décrire les actuelles tensions au Haut-Karabakh. Ce territoire séparatiste est situé en Azerbaïdjan, mais (...)
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L’histoire pas si récente des drones armés dans les conflits - 12 octobre 2020
Les drones, type d’armement aérien très utilisé, notamment par les Américains, est en plein développement dans les armées de nombreux pays. La France, qui utilise cette technologie, a doté ses drones d’armements depuis décembre 2019 et les utilise dans la guerre qu’elle mène au Sahel. Une autre manière de combattre qui (...)
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Musk’s SpaceX partners with US military to deliver weapons by rockets - 11 octobre 2020
The US military is teaming up with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build a rocket capable of delivering weapons around the world at 7,500 mph.
The plans call for a rocket that can carry 80 metric tons of cargo into space and land anywhere in the world in about an hour.
SpaceX will now assess the costs and technical (...)
