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The arrest Sunday in France of Pavel Durov, the controversial Russian-born founder of the social media and messaging app Telegram—and potential further actions against the app itself—could reduce the public’s ability to fully understand the…

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In February, 24-year-old Ian Lafferty decided to take a break from the project he was working on—an AI tool for email—and attend a hackathon in San Francisco. While there, he met a handful of Ukranians fresh from the front lines,…

Northop Grumman on Wednesday announced the successful first flight of its Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor, or EMRIS, aboard a U.S. military aircraft. The development paves the way for eventual…

FORT JOHNSON, Louisiana—The only sign of the drone was its moped-like whine, the noise rising and falling as it circled above the 101st Airborne Division’s soldiers deep behind enemy lines in an exercise last week. But somewhere up…

Two new reports suggest that the Pentagon may have finally learned how to buy technology at lower cost quickly, at least when it comes to AI-driven capabilities.One report looks at the Maven Smart System, or MSS, part of Maven, a system for…

LAS VEGAS — Over the next year, seven teams will hone AI-powered systems designed to harden the open-source software that underpins critical infrastructure—with a winner to be declared at next year's DEF CON hacker conference…

If there was one thing lawmakers and social media companies agreed on in 2017, it was that no one—not companies or the government or the public—were well prepared for how foreign adversaries might use social media networks to influence the…

Manufacturers of counter-drone gear got a rare chance this week to show off their wares and get feedback from U.S. soldiers who’ve had to fight off enemy drones overseas.They gathered from July 31 to Aug. 8 in Fort Drum, New York, bringing…

“I'm just frustrated that it's taking so long, but that's not due to lack of effort in trying,” said the commander of U.S. Navy Pacific surface warships, describing the service’s latest projects that seek practical anti-air defenses of pure…