Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
U.S. Air Marshals: Quiet Skies Program
October 28th, 2026Via: Canam Missing Project:
BlueChip: Anduril Will Manufacture Computers in the U.S., Eventually from U.S. Materials and Components
October 28th, 2026These could be interesting if the BIOS/UEFI firmware is open source. Via: Tech Crunch: Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. And by that, he doesn’t just mean assembly but the production of every individual component, some of which are exclusively made in China today. Anduril is partnering […]
Alaska’s HAARP Site Now Being Used To Test New Air Force Over-The-Horizon Radar Tech
October 21st, 2026Via: The War Zone: The U.S. military has successfully demonstrated a new lower-cost receiver that could form part of a future over-the-horizon (OTH) radar. The testing also raises the question of whether the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) research site in Alaska, which the U.S. Air Force transferred away more than a decade […]
Claim that Russian Satellite Came Within 85 Feet of Commercial Imaging Satellite
October 20th, 2026Via: The War Zone: A Russian satellite, Kosmos 2612, may have passed within approximately 85 feet (26 meters) of a U.S.-registered satellite belonging to commercial imagery provider ICEYE. This would be an extraordinarily close and potentially dangerous pass-by for two objects in space traveling at thousands of miles per hour. For weeks beforehand, ICEYE-X36, which […]
New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth’s Atmosphere as Fuel to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely
September 26th, 2026Via: SciTechDaily: A satellite engine that uses atmospheric gases as fuel shows promise in laboratory tests and modeling, but its performance on a mission remains unproven. Choosing an orbit for a satellite involves balancing benefits and drawbacks. Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), which spans roughly 100 to 450 km (62 to 280 miles) above Earth, […]
Meta Muse: “It’s Really Just Fun and Cute.”
September 26th, 2026Before looking at Muse, let’s take a brief walk down memory lane with Mark Zuckerberg. First of all, there’s Facebook’s proximity to DARPA LifeLog: LifeLog was a project of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). According to its bid solicitation pamphlet […]
SR-71 Removed from Display at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center
September 25th, 2026Via: The War Zone: Last week, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman cryptically teased plans for a new high- and fast-flying X-plane with a silhouette of an aircraft that immediately drew comparisons to the famed SR-71 Blackbird as a backdrop. In our report, we looked at what it could mean, including the possibility of reviving the SR-71, […]
ENIGMA: How Do You Crack a Code With 100 Sextillion Combinations?
September 23rd, 2026Via: Veritasium:
09/11 25 Years – The Wound Never Healed
September 11th, 2026Via: Richard Dolan:
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
September 9th, 2026Via: The American Prospect: Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence. In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on […]
