By Julin Borger, Published by The Guardian, 7 September 2023 Biography alleges Musk told engineers to turn off communications network to hobble Ukraine drone attack on Russian warships Elon Musk ordered his Starlink satellite communications network to be turned off near the Crimean coast last year to hobble a Ukrainian
By Gordon Corera, Published by the BBC, 6 September 2023 Ukraine cyber-operators are being deployed on the front lines of the war, duelling close-up with their Russian counterparts in a new kind of high-tech battle. "We have people who are directly involved in combat," says Illia Vitiuk, the head of
By Ronan Farrow, Published by The New Yorker, 28 August 2023 How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in. Last October, Colin Kahl, then the Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, sat in a hotel in Paris and
By Matthew Field, Published by The Telegraph, 14 August 2023 Project delays and war in Ukraine have led to a growing dependence on the Tesla billionaire In the tropical heat on the coast of French Guiana sits a 200ft tall rocket. Ariane 6, which was designed to carry forward the
The northernmost U.S. city of Utqiagvik can be seen behind Point Barrow Long Range Radar Site (LRRS) satellite at Utqiagvik, Alaska, Feb. 3, 2023. U.S. Air Force / Tech. Sgt. Curt Beach By Patrick Tucker, Published by Defense One, 8 August 2023 The success of information ops is “the most
JUMP 20 is a winged drone, which can take off and land vertically. Image credit: Aerovironmentinc By Povilas M., Published by Technology.org, 1 July 2023 Drones are extensively used by both sides in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. In fact, it seems like this armed conflict became proving grounds for some
By Joseph Menn, Published by The Washington Post, 30 June 2023 A satellite communications system serving the Russian military was knocked offline by a cyberattack late Wednesday and remained mostly down on Thursday, in an incident reminiscent of an attack on a similar system used by Ukraine at the start
