Topline The House of Representatives passed an assault weapons ban Friday just before the summer recess, though it’s expected to be purely symbolic, as it has little chance of passing the Senate. Hous...
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AI Ethics Struggling With The Fiery One-Two Punch Of Both AI-Based Autonomous Weapons Systems And The Exploitation Of AI-Driven Autonomous Systems That Are Devilishly Weaponized
Advent of autonomous weapons systems and meanwhile other autonomous systems that get weaponized … [+] after-the-fact. getty Those amazing dancing four-legged robots. I’m sure that you’ve seen th...
Georgia District Approves Weapons For Some School Employees—Here’s Where Else School Personnel Can Be Armed
Topline One of the largest school districts in Georgia on Thursday voted to allow some employees who are not police officers to carry guns in schools, two months after the deadliest school shooting si...
Buffalo Shooting Suspect Payton Gendron Indicted On 27 Federal Charges—Including Hate Crimes And Weapons
Topline A federal grand jury has indicted suspected Buffalo grocery store gunman Payton Gendron on 27 firearm and hate crime counts, the Justice Department said Thursday, which he’ll face in addition ...
North Korea’s $400M Crypto Losses Could Hurt Its Nuclear Weapons Program: Report
North Korea’s stores of stolen crypto have plunged in value amid the wider market crash, potentially jeopardizing funding for its weapons programs, according to a report by Reuters. The country has b...
Outer Ring MMO to launch 20M randomized generative NFT weapons
Outer Ring MMO is launching its NFT Lootboxes next June 29th. With this drop, more than 350.000 ERC-721 tokens will be minted, validating in-game assets such as weapons, armors, or vehicles. But what...
Outer Ring MMO to Launch Generative Weapons +20M Randomized NFTs
Outer Ring MMO is launching its NFT Lootboxes next June 29th. With this drop, more than 350.000 ERC-721 tokens will be minted, validating in-game assets such as weapons, armor, or vehicles. But what ...
The New York Jets Got Zach Wilson More Weapons, But He Still Must Take The Next Step To Improve As A Quarterback
New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson will be helped by the upgrades on offense, but he still must … [+] improve his own individual game to maximize his talent. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus) ASSOCIATE...
Donatell Has The Gameplan, Weapons To Upgrade Minnesota Vikings Defense
The Vikings are hoping for a huge season and a return to health for Danielle Hunter. (Photo by Adam … [+] Bettcher/Getty Images) Getty Images The Minnesota Vikings will go into the 2022 season w...
Are Russia’s New Drone Killing Lasers Effective Weapons or A Sign of Desperation?
A picture taken on March 22, 2022 shows a downed Russian drone in the area of a research institute, … [+] part of Ukraine’s National Academy of Science, after a strike, in northwestern Kyi...
Ukraine’s Shift To A New NATO Arsenal Is Unprecedented-And Inevitable
Ukraine will need 155mm guns—like this M777 artillery piece. ASSOCIATED PRESS Defending your country is hard enough. Managing to defend yourself while shifting from Russian-derived heavy weaponry to a...
Zelensky Aide Urges Europe To Speed Up Weapons Transfers Amid Concern Over Ukraine’s Ammunition Inventory
Topline Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, on Saturday urged European countries to expedite the transfer of weapons to Ukraine amid concerns over whether Ukrainia...
U.S. Reportedly Planning Another $750 Million In Military Aid To Ukraine
Topline The U.S. aims to send more weapons to Ukraine as part of a military aid package worth $750 million, unnamed officials told Reuters and the Washington Post Tuesday, the latest round of support ...
Britain, Australia Join Pentagon To Monitor Russia’s Possible Use Of Chemical Weapons In Ukraine
Topline Officials in Washington and London are investigating the possible use of chemical weapons by the Russian military in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Monday, after Ukrainian forces i...
New Weapons From U.S. Could Rearm Ukraine’s Bayraktar Drones
The top item in the Pentagon’s latest assistance package to Ukraine announced last week is “laser-guided rocket systems.” This might seem like a curious description, as by convention any rocket with g...
North Korea Launches Banned Intercontinental Ballistic Missile For First Time Since 2017, South Korea Says
Topline North Korea test-fired a banned intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Thursday, according to officials from South Korea and multiple news reports, its first test of the missile since 20...
Russian Press Secretary Won’t Rule Out Use Of Nuclear Weapons
Topline Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, would not rule out the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons if it is faced with an “existential threat,” and admitted ...
Here Are The Weapons Ukraine Is Getting From The U.S. And Others
Topline Here’s a list of the major U.S. weapons—and key contributions from other countries—pledged to Ukraine in its war against Russia, including the $800 million worth of military equipment promised...
Crypto Among Ukraine’s Best Weapons Against Russia
Millions of dollars in donations pouring into Ukraine This shows crypto is crossing the chasm into mainstream adoption At least $60 million in crypto channeled into the Ukraine Crypto has demonstrated...
Ethereum Co-founder Joe Lubin: Crypto Among Ukraine’s Best Weapons Against Russia
Crypto has proven a powerful weapon for Ukraine in its battle against Russia, with the crisis in Eastern Europe becoming “a point of no return” for crypto’s steady integration into global markets, sai...
How Many Times Must Putin Brandish His Nuclear Weapons Before Washington Gets Serious About Missile Defense?
The most important lesson of the Ukraine crisis for U.S. policymakers is what it tells us about Vladimir Putin: he is more dangerous than we realized. Sunday talk shows were awash with experts warning...
Germany To Send Thousands Of Weapons To Ukraine In Reversal Of Longtime Stance On Lethal Military Aid
Topline Germany will send 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger missiles to Ukraine to aid the country’s embattled military against the Russian invasion, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturd...
Crypto donations for Ukraine: NGO to finance country with medicines and weapons using crypto
TL;DR Breakdown • NGO launches crypto project to support Ukrainians.• Crypto donations will be accepted in BTC, ETH, and USDT. Since the onset of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, different org...
Germany Reportedly Approves Weapons Transfer To Ukraine In Reversal Of Longtime Stance On Lethal Military Aid
Topline Germany approved a transfer of lethal weapons to Ukraine on Saturday to aid the country’s embattled military against the Russian invasion, Reuters and Politico report, marking a significant sh...
North Korean Nuclear Weapons Program Financed in Crypto: Report
North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs rely heavily on revenue from cyberattacks and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters. “According to a memb...
Why Sending Anti-Tank Weapons To Ukraine May End Badly
Many applauded the U.K. government for it decisive action in providing military aid to Ukraine this week. While the U.S. appeared to vacillate over the difference between an incursion and an invasion,...