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Mar 20, 2022

Russia May Hold Nuclear Evacuation Drill l After Hypersonic Weapons, Putin To Use Nukes In Ukraine?

Posted by in categories: existential risks, military

Is he planning to burn everything down if he can’t win?


Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly ordered a nuclear war evacuation drill amid the war in Ukraine. A nuclear war evacuation drill is the process in which people are taken to safe places to prepare for the eventuality of nuclear war. The purported directive comes amid fears of President Putin resorting to extreme measures to force a decisive victory in the Ukraine war.
#russia #russiaukrainewar #nuclearwar.

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Mar 19, 2022

AI drug algorithms can be flipped to generate bioweapons

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, information science, military, robotics/AI

What can heal can also be used to destroy?


MegaSyn is built to generate drug candidates with the lowest toxicity for patients. That got Urbina thinking. He retrained the model using data to drive the software toward generating lethal compounds, like nerve gas, and flipped the code so that it ranked its output from high-to-low toxicity. In effect, the software was told to come up with the most deadly stuff possible.

He ran the model and left it overnight to create new molecules.

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Mar 18, 2022

Russia’s Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare

Posted by in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI

The maker of the lethal drone claims that it can identify targets using artificial intelligence.

Mar 18, 2022

AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, military, robotics/AI

For me, the concern was just how easy it was to do. A lot of the things we used are out there for free. You can go and download a toxicity dataset from anywhere. If you have somebody who knows how to code in Python and has some machine learning capabilities, then in probably a good weekend of work, they could build something like this generative model driven by toxic datasets. So that was the thing that got us really thinking about putting this paper out there; it was such a low barrier of entry for this type of misuse.


AI could be just as effective in developing biochemical weapons as it is in identifying helpful new drugs, researchers warn.

Mar 17, 2022

Verizon secures contracts worth nearly $1 bln from U.S. defense department

Posted by in categories: business, internet, military

March 16 (Reuters) — Telecoms giant Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) said on Wednesday it had secured new business worth almost $1 billion from the U.S. Department of Defense to provide technical support and network modernization services.

The deal includes contracts for services to the Pentagon, the National Capital Region (NCR) and Fort Belvoir at a combined value of $966.5 million.

Verizon will provide internet-protocol-based services, voice and video services and network-related support aimed at accelerating the department’s digital pivot.

Mar 15, 2022

Panzerfaust 3: Germany’s Modern Anti-Tank Weapon That’s Still Wrecking Armor

Posted by in category: military

The lightweight and portable Panzerfaust 3 has been in the news as of late due to its use in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. A newer version of the World War II-era Panzerfaust, it allows soldiers to penetrate all forms of tank armor, thanks to its use of shape-charged warheads.

—weapons don’t bring peace they only boost one’s stupidity. We shall all see how cheering for one side, instead of peace plays out. I don’t trust crooked governments, I don’t trust the media, I only trust peace and stability that few can provide.


It can penetrate all forms of tank armor, thanks to its warheads.

Mar 13, 2022

Russia has requested military and economic assistance from China, US officials say

Posted by in categories: drones, economics, military

Russia has asked China for military support, including drones, as well as economic assistance for its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, according to conversations CNN had with two US officials.

The requests came after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one of the officials said. That official declined to detail the Chinese reaction but indicated that the Chinese had responded.

Potential assistance from the Chinese would be a significant development in Russia’s invasion. It could upend the hold Ukrainian forces still have in the country as well as provide a counterweight to the harsh sanctions imposed on Russia’s economy.

Mar 11, 2022

Fact check: Is Russia’s claim of US-owned biowarfare labs in Ukraine true?

Posted by in categories: biological, military

Mar 11, 2022

DoD space agency funds development of laser terminal that connects to multiple satellite at once

Posted by in categories: military, satellites

The Space Development Agency awarded BridgeComm and Space Micro a $1.7 million contract to demonstrate point-to-multipoint communications.

WASHINGTON — Each of the satellites in the Pentagon’s planned mesh network of communications satellites could have as many as many as four laser links so they can talk to other satellites, airplanes, ships and ground stations.

Optical inter-satellite links are critical to the success of the Space Development Agency’s low Earth orbit constellation — known as Transport Layer — that will be used to route data traffic. Lasers provide much higher transmission data rates than traditional radio-frequency communications but are also far more expensive.

Mar 11, 2022

The UK is giving powerful NLAW missiles to aid Ukraine’s military efforts

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