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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey — once on warring sides of the tech culture clash — are giving new meaning to the adage: all is fair in love and war.The two executives buried the hatchet and announced a partnership Thursday to build next-gen extended reality gear…
By the time I gave birth to my first child, I’d heard the phrase “It takes a village to raise a child” copious times. Unfortunately, though, it wasn’t my reality.What I found, on social media and from the general culture of military spouses around me, was the idea of a…
US military communications are vulnerable, and Marines know the outcomes can be deadly if the enemy gets its hands on data once thought to be secure.”We’ve got to figure out a way to get the promise of quantum communications in place,” said Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Sklenka, who serves as…
Ukraine has launched a program that awards points to soldiers who verifiably kill Russian troops or destroy their equipment. They can then use these rewards to purchase drones and other weapons from an online “Amazon”-style marketplace.Mykhailo Fedorov, who serves as Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation, said this week that his…
The Ukrainian defense tech industry has boomed in recent years.From drone and robotics makers to electronic warfare system providers, Ukrainian innovation has been on full display since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022.One company to have sprung up since the conflict began is Himera, which…
A Chinese prisoner in Ukraine said videos on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok, enticed him to join Russia’s military.The man, identified by Ukraine as 34-year-old Wang Guangjun, spoke to international and Ukrainian press in a two-hour press conference on Monday. He and another Chinese man described what they said was…
A Marine Corps general said this week that officers and troops can’t shy away from wargaming, tough exercises in critical thinking. They also can’t be afraid to lose, he said.”Why isn’t everybody wargaming today, right now?” Brig. Gen. Matthew Tracy, the commanding general for the Corps’ Education Command, asked Tuesday…
