Archive for the 'War' Category
Boston Marathon Bombing
April 16th, 2013Was Boston Bombers’ ‘Uncle Ruslan’ with the CIA? Via: Mad Cow Productions: The uncle of the two men who set off bombs at the Boston Marathon, who struck the only grace note in an otherwise horrific week, worked as a “consultant” for the Agency for International Development (USAID) a U.S. Government Agency often used for […]
Contractors’ Next Payday: Commando Logistics for Africa Shadow Wars
April 15th, 2013Via: Wired: Here’s how serious the U.S. is about its African war on terror. The Pentagon is preparing to spend millions to create a privatized flying taxi service to fly its commandos everywhere from Libya to Congo. That’s according to details in a recent solicitation notice for a Defense Department contract worth up to $50 […]
DARPA Cyber Chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko Heads To Google
April 15th, 2013Via: The Security Ledger: Noted hacker and innovator Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a project manager for cyber security research at DARPA for the past three years- will be setting up shop in the Googleplex, according to a post on his Twitter feed.
‘News Is Bad for You – And Giving up Reading it Will Make You Happier’
April 15th, 2013“I hear from people who had read Cryptogon for years, and report to me how their quality of life improved dramatically since shutting out this type of information.” —Comment to Cryptogon reader Via: Guardian: News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. […]
Cliodynamics
April 14th, 2013Via: Wired: In Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction saga Foundation, mathematics professor Hari Seldon predicts the future using what he calls psychohistory. Drawing on mathematical models that describe what happened in the past, he anticipates what will happen next, including the fall of the Galactic Empire. That may seem like fanciful stuff. But Peter Turchin […]
DARPA’s ‘Physical Intelligence’ Brain
April 12th, 2013Via: National Defense Magazine: The next frontier for the robotics industry is to build machines that think like humans. Scientists have pursued that elusive goal for decades, and they believe they are now just inches away from the finish line. A Pentagon-funded team of researchers has constructed a tiny machine that would allow robots to […]
20,000 U.S. M-16s Stolen from Unguarded Warehouse in Kuwait
April 11th, 2013And Now: America’s Uncleared War: Nearly 20,000 Foreign Mercenaries Fight In Syria Thanks to alvinroasting for sending this in. Via: Global Research: The civil war in Syria has opened opportunities for foreign mercenaries and about 20,000, financed by Afghan drug trafficking, have been fighting in that Middle East country, according to Russia’s Federal Drug Control […]
How the Pentagon Used Video Games to Spy on Users Worldwide
April 11th, 2013Full interview. Via: Democracy Now: Research Credit: ottilie
Boston Dynamics: PETMAN
April 11th, 2013They expect us to believe that this is just a sort of moving mannequin to test military clothing. Have a nice day. Via: Boston Dynamics / YouTube: The PETMAN robot was developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the DoD CBD program. It is used to test the performance of protective clothing designed for hazardous […]
U.S. Killer Robot Operators ‘Weren’t Always Certain Who They Were Killing’
April 11th, 2013Via: McClatchy: Contrary to assurances it has deployed U.S. drones only against known senior leaders of al Qaida and allied groups, the Obama administration has targeted and killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan, Pakistani and unidentified “other” militants in scores of strikes in Pakistan’s rugged tribal area, classified U.S. intelligence reports show. The administration has […]
