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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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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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Starlink vise la conquête marchande de l’espace - 3 mars 2021
ENQUÊTE 3/3 - Le réseau de satellites Starlink doit rendre l’accès à internet haut-débit possible partout sur la planète. Les militaires et les particuliers isolés — s’ils en ont les moyens — pourraient en bénéficier mais ce ne sera pas le cas d’une grande partie de la population mondiale. Ce déploiement servira en revanche (...)
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Amazon’s New CEO Is Shaping How the Military Uses Killer Robots - 5 février 2021
Andy Jassy is a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence
On July 1, Amazon will have a new CEO. Andy Jassy, who is replacing Jeff Bezos, helped build the company’s cloud business from scratch, cementing its servers as a cornerstone of the internet.
But not all of Jassy’s work has been (...)
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The FTC Forced a Misbehaving A.I. Company to Delete Its Algorithm - 19 janvier 2021
Could Google and Facebook’s algorithms be next ?
In 2019, an investigation by NBC News revealed that photo storage app Ever had quietly siphoned billions of its users’ photos to train facial recognition algorithms.
Pictures of people’s friends and families, which they had thought were private, were in fact being (...)
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Good Kill en VoD - Film de Andrew Niccol - 23 décembre 2020
Le Commandant Tommy Egan, pilote de chasse reconverti en pilote de drone, combat douze heures par jour les Talibans derrière sa télécommande, depuis sa base, à Las Vegas. De retour chez lui, il passe l’autre moitié de la journée à se quereller avec sa femme, Molly et ses enfants. Tommy remet cependant sa mission en (...)
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Joe Biden’s Silence on Ending the Drone Wars - 23 novembre 2020
With scant comments about U.S. assassination programs, there are indications that Biden would keep the drone wars around.
President-elect Joe Biden has maintained silence for years on the controversial and continued use of so-called targeted killings — lethal strikes by drones, cruise missiles, and occasionally (...)
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How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps - 18 novembre 2020
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people’s personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military.
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that (...)
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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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This Is How the U.S. Military’s Massive Facial Recognition System Works - 15 septembre 2020
Documents obtained by OneZero show how the military captures biometric data around the world
Over the last 15 years, the United States military has developed a new addition to its arsenal. The weapon is deployed around the world, largely invisible, and grows more powerful by the day.
That weapon is a vast (...)
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The long, complicated history of “people analytics” - 9 septembre 2020
If you work for Bank of America, or the US Army, you might have used technology developed by Humanyze. The company grew out of research at MIT’s cross-disciplinary Media Lab and describes its products as “science-backed analytics to drive adaptability.”
If that sounds vague, it might be deliberate. Among the things (...)
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Les armées recrutent à coups de jeux vidéo de guerre - 26 août 2020
L’initiative avait été un franc succès en 2002 pour l’armée américaine, qui réitère l’opération pour renflouer ses rangs.
Et si un jeu vidéo avait le pouvoir de convaincre des jeunes d’entrer dans l’armée ? En 2002, les États-Unis en manque de jeunes recrues pour fut au rendez-vous : en trois ans, l’institution avait enregistré (...)
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The military is turning to Twitch to fix its recruitment crisis - 26 août 2020
The armed forces have a complicated relationship with video games – but as recruitment numbers fall the military can’t resist one more turn
In 2002, the United States military developed and released a free-to-play video game called America’s Army, a first-person shooter designed to give gamers a taste of life as a (...)
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L’armée américaine développe une AI qui allie reconnaissance faciale et imagerie thermique - 20 avril 2018
L’armée américaine développe une intelligence artificielle qui devrait être capable d’identifier les visages à partir d’images thermiques dans une obscurité presque totale et à l’aide d’une base de données.
L’armée américaine travaille sur un dispositif qui allierait deux système de surveillance : la reconnaissance faciale et (...)
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Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases - 29 janvier 2018
Data about exercise routes shared online by soldiers can be used to pinpoint overseas facilities
Sensitive information about the location and staffing of military bases and spy outposts around the world has been revealed by a fitness tracking company.
The details were released by Strava in a data visualisation (...)
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Hacking Team spyware sold to US DEA, and US Army - 16 avril 2015
Investigations by Privacy International in co-operation with VICE Motherboard, reveal that Hacking Team has sold its Remote Control System to the US Drug Enforcement Agency and US military via a front company based in the US.
The investigation, published today in a new Privacy International briefing paper, (...)
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U.S. Air Force is testing Google Glass & building apps for battlefield use - 9 avril 2014
The U.S. Air Force’s "BATMAN" research team at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is beta-testing Google Glass for possible use on the battlefield.
And so far, it likes what it sees.
The positive attributes "are its low power, its low footprint, it sits totally above the eyes, and doesn’t block images or (...)
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Security backdoor found in China-made US military chip - 31 mai 2012
Cambridge University researchers find that a microprocessor used by the US military but made in China contains secret remote access capability UPDATED
A microchip used by the US military and manufactured in China contains a secret "backdoor" that means it can be shut off or reprogrammed without the user knowing, (...)
