Archive for the 'War' Category
Senior Chinese Military Officers: Sell U.S. Bonds
February 9th, 2010Via: Reuters:
Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.
The calls for broad retaliation over the planned U.S. weapons sales to the disputed island came from officers at China’s National Defence [...]
Trusted Platform Module Cracked
February 9th, 2010I’m not posting this because I think that it represents much of a threat to average computer users, but because Tarnovsky’s crack is astonishing. I’ve been around hardware hackers before and read the stories for years… But this one has to be close to taking the cake.
Via: AP / ABC:
Tarnovsky needed six months to figure [...]
Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included
February 6th, 2010Via: Wired:
The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.
As part of its budget for the next [...]
Sim City Baghdad
February 4th, 2010Via: On The Media:
The U.S. Army has long used video games to train troops in conventional warfare. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are anything but conventional. US troops fighting insurgencies need a unique skill set, one they’re learning from a simulator that resembles the popular game SimCity. Kim LeMasters, creative director of the [...]
GOOGLE NOW WORKING WITH NSA
February 4th, 2010Via: Washington Post:
The world’s largest Internet search company and the world’s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer [...]
U.S. Doing ‘Scientific Research’ to Boost Interrogations
February 4th, 2010Via: AFP:
An elite US interrogation unit will conduct “scientific research” to find better ways of questioning top suspected terrorists, US intelligence director Dennis Blair said Wednesday.
“It is going to do scientific research on that long-neglected area,” Blair told the House Intelligence Committee, without elaborating on the nature of the techniques being tested.
A spokesman for Blair, [...]
Ron Paul Warns of Social Unrest and Martial Law
February 3rd, 2010U.S. Plans Crewless Anti Submarine Warfare Ships
February 3rd, 2010Via: Register:
Those splendid brainboxes at DARPA – the Pentagon’s in-house bazaar of the bizarre – have outdone themselves this time. They now plan an entirely uncrewed, automated ghost frigate able to cruise the oceans of the world for months or years on end without human input.
The new project is called Anti-submarine warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned [...]
China Threatens U.S. Sanctions Over Arms Sale
February 3rd, 2010Via: Sydney Morning Herald:
China will erect trade sanctions against Boeing and other large US companies unless the US Congress blocks the Obama administration’s planned $US6.4 billion ($7.2 billion) weapons sales program to Taiwan, a senior defence strategist said.
Rear Admiral Yang Yi told the Herald yesterday China was prepared to hurt itself in order to teach [...]
Pentagon Black Budget Sees Year Over Year Record Funding; Tops $56 Billion
February 2nd, 2010More Change.
Via: Wired:
The Defense Department just released its king-sized, $708 billion budget for the next fiscal year. Much of the proposed spending is fairly detailed — noting exactly how many helicopters the Pentagon plans to buy and how many troops it plans on playing. But about $56 billion goes simply to “classified programs,” or to [...]
