US Air Force scares up $75.5M for ad-hoc missile silo network At a planned 25k square miles, it's said to be largest net of its kind yet Networks07 Mar 2023 | 7
Kremlin claims Ukraine hackers behind fake missile strike alerts Ten cities panic after emergency systems start Putin out warnings of an impending attack Security23 Feb 2023 | 71
Nations agree to curb enthusiasm for military AI before it destroys the world Some rules and whatnot about taking responsibility, tackling unreliability would be ace, yes AI + ML17 Feb 2023 | 30
US military spends weekend shooting down Useless Floating Objects You wait years for unidentified aerial phenomena then three turn up at once Offbeat13 Feb 2023 | 61
US Department of Energy solicits AMD's help with nuke sims Chips were just Epyc, but now they're the bomb and Intel's inside the tent too Systems31 Jan 2023 | 6
China shops around US bans to power its nuclear weapons research program Entity List proves to be a non-entity once Beijing's buyers get busy Systems31 Jan 2023 | 27
Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam Updated Looks like a reboot of SWIV Science26 Jan 2023 | 108
Seven smuggled US military tech for Moscow, say Feds Nuclear, hypersonic hardware is one thing, but you can probably keep the quantum computer stuff, Vlad Cyber-crime14 Dec 2022 | 5
US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies 'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence' Security03 Dec 2022 | 185
Israel sets robotic target-tracking turrets in the West Bank Military says they'll save lives on both sides as tensions escalate Security18 Nov 2022 | 89
What's that, Lassie? Boston Dynamics is suing its robot dog tech rival? The way your computerized canine walks down the stairs looks familiar to us, claims MIT spinoff Legal15 Nov 2022 | 20
Waferscale, meet atomic scale: Uncle Sam to test Cerebras chips in nuke weapon sims Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 6
Microsoft HoloLens proves to be a headache for US soldiers Eyestrain, nausea not entirely dealt with, military brass remain committed to AR Personal Tech13 Oct 2022 | 18
Lockheed Martin taps silicon photonics tech to build better weapons of war Let the battle against latency begin Systems13 Oct 2022 | 3
Inmarsat gets $1b from US Navy for 10 years of satellite data Outsourcing national defence didn't work so well in Ukraine Off-Prem13 Oct 2022 | 3
Top of the Pops: US authorities list the 20 hottest vulns that China's hackers love to hit Microsoft has four entries on list of shame, Log4j tops the chart Security07 Oct 2022 | 4
If someone weaponizes our robots, we'll be really, really sad, says Boston Dynamics Maybe finally a good use for DRM, eh? Preventing armed modifications Science06 Oct 2022 | 73
NSA super-leaker Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship He always wanted to fight in the military – are his draft papers on the way? Bootnotes26 Sep 2022 | 77
Spotted at industry confab: Quadcopter equipped with Brit missiles Ukraine is so fond of Updated BAE falls over itself to stress it's only a hypothetical serving suggestion Offbeat26 Sep 2022 | 19
US Army drone crashes hours ahead of breaking flight duration record Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr nosedives after more than 64 days aloft AI + ML23 Aug 2022 | 52
Russian military uses Chinese drones and bots in combat, over manufacturers' protests Testimonials from Russian generals not welcomed by DJI or Unitree Robotics Security17 Aug 2022 | 46
US Space Development Agency invests $1.3b in missile tracking satellites Northrop Grumman, L3Harris Technologies to build the 28-satellite constellation for warning, tracking Science19 Jul 2022 | 5
Behold this drone-dropping rifle with two-mile range Confuses rather than destroys unmanned aerials to better bring back intel, says Ukrainian designer Bootnotes27 Jun 2022 | 38
Nothing says 2022 quite like this remote-controlled machine gun drone GNOM is small, but packs a mighty 7.62mm punch Edge + IoT16 Jun 2022 | 44
Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers Paper authors warn Elon Musk's 2,400 machines could be used offensively Security25 May 2022 | 132
Pentagon opens up about its database of 400 smudges that may or may not be UFOs 'We're open to all hypotheses, we're open to any conclusions' says official Bootnotes17 May 2022 | 28
US Army may be about to 'waste' up to $22b on Microsoft HoloLens Updated Will soldiers actually use these goggles? Asking for a watchdog Bootnotes26 Apr 2022 | 81
DARPA says US hypersonic missile is ready for real world A new arms race emerges Science06 Apr 2022 | 67
Massive cyberattack takes Ukraine military, big bank websites offline What geopolitical standoff could this possibly be linked to? Security15 Feb 2022 | 66
Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection Video Parachute snagged on ship's bows Security30 Nov 2021 | 167
US Air Force puts Godzilla in charge of autonomous warfare effort with Project Kaiju Pulls Mothra, Mecha Rodan, King Ghidorah, Kumonga, and even King Kong along for the $150m ride AI + ML14 Sep 2021 | 15
Military infosec SNAFUs: What WhatsApp and bears in the woods can teach us Column One can’t spell shit without IT, but for Pete's sake it doesn't need to be in your endpoints Security07 Jun 2021 | 20
US Army develops natural-language voice-command AI for robots, tanks, etc. For search'n'rescue. For now Judge, JUDI, and executioner? AI + ML21 Apr 2021 | 32
Forget Terminators, says US military, the next-gen AI battles will hinge upon net infrastructure, not killer robots Databases, info pipelines, software... 'that is where the fight of 20 years will be won' AI + ML10 Sep 2020 | 24
Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist Be careful about bunking off when you're billing your hours to a government Security24 Jul 2020 | 78
US Air Force wants to pit AI-powered drone against its dogfighting hotshots in battle of the skies next year Fliers v fine-tuned code, who will win? AI + ML09 Jun 2020 | 66
Quit worrying about killer robots, they are coming whether you like it or not – and they absolutely will not stop The only winning move is not to play, as a wise computer said AI + ML15 May 2019 | 108
Air Force intel bod Daniel Hale charged with 'leaking top secret drone documents' to journo Soldier's pilfered docs provided basis for robo-aircraft news reports, say US prosecutors Security09 May 2019 | 10
While Google agonizes over military AI, IBM is happy to pick up the slack, even for the Chinese military Big Blue insists it's only for good ol' fashioned research AI + ML12 Apr 2019 | 15
We asked the US military for its 'do not buy' list of Russian, Chinese gear. Surprise: It doesn't exist El Reg drills into banned technology with Freedom-of-Info request On-Prem16 Nov 2018 | 21
Fitness app Polar even better at revealing secrets than Strava +Comment 'I spent a year hiding in shrubs, and they just … publish their daily runs' Security09 Jul 2018 | 34
Boffins urge Google to drop military deal after Googlers storm out over AI-based super-drones Hey, don't be evil! AI + ML15 May 2018 | 43
AI, AI, sir: British Army chiefs visit Silicon Valley hypelords Comment Nice. But what about the UK firms MoD's spending £800m on? Science13 Apr 2018 | 3
White House: Is it OK to hijack, shoot down, or snoop on drones? Er ... asking for a friend And with no public scrutiny? D'ya think that's possible? Legal09 Apr 2018 | 50
Shhh! Don’t tell KillBots the UN’s about to debate which ones to ban Next Monday is a fine moment for bad bots to come back through time and change history Science05 Apr 2018 | 40
British military spends more on computers than weapons and ammo Shows where wars of the 21st century will really be fought... Legal07 Mar 2018 | 48
Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets Dozens of terabytes exposed, your tax dollars at work Security17 Nov 2017 | 66
Dick move: Navy flyboy flings firmament phallus for flabbergasted folk Highway to the donger zone Bootnotes17 Nov 2017 | 92
US Air Force resumes F-35A flights despite not knowing why pilot oxygen systems failed Take a deep breath. You might have to hold it for a while Legal21 Jun 2017 | 46
Security company finds unsecured bucket of US military images on AWS You're only as secure as your suppliers and some military contractors look to be well leaky Security01 Jun 2017 | 31
Pentagon trumpets successful mock-ICBM interception test If they know where it comes from and how fast it's going: America defends against itself Science31 May 2017 | 70
Brit telcos will waive early termination fees for military personnel Good news for those posted to Benbecula or Mount Pleasant? Networks28 Mar 2017 | 14
US military drone goes AWOL, ends up crashing into tree 623 miles away Vid Army baffled as Shadow goes invisible Science02 Mar 2017 | 55
Make America, wait, what again? US Army may need foreign weapons to keep up Putting the US of A first could require arms from Europe Bootnotes23 Jan 2017 | 114
US Marines seek more than a few good men (3,000 men and women, actually) for cyber-war From the phones of Montezuma to the servers of Tripoli Security14 Jan 2017 | 27
British military laser death ray cannon contract still awarded, MoD confirms Sound familiar? Yes, you read it on El Reg last July Security05 Jan 2017 | 71
Chinese chap in the clink for trying to swap US Navy FPGAs with fakes to beat export ban 15 months for fishing chips Security07 Nov 2016 | 12
Daesh-bag hacker gets 20 years for harvesting US military kill list Cross-border Kosovan cuffing leads to long stretch inside Security27 Sep 2016 | 12
SpaceX is go for US military GPS sat launch, smashes ULA monopoly Nothing like some healthy competition Science28 Apr 2016 | 38
Want a job in security? Lock down US military's supermarkets American officials fear commissaries will fall to hackers Security08 Apr 2016 | 10
The next Cuban gristle crisis: US Navy warship powered by beef fat Blubber-burning battleship is moo-ving with the times Bootnotes22 Jan 2016 | 140
VMware finds back door for US military mega-deal, but Nutanix, Citrix protest again Small deal with US Army expanded, and set alarms ringing SaaS11 Dec 2015 | 6