https://www.europesays.com/1978964/ A Useful Quantum Computer Within 10 Years? DARPA, 2 Australian Startups & More Are Working On It #australia #darpa #Data #diraq #HPE #IBM #QuantumComputing #SiliconQuantumComputing
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Nuclear-Powered Rockets Could Speed Up Mars Trips https://www.byteseu.com/870613/ #DARPA #Mars #NASA #Nuclear #NuclearPoweredRocket #SpaceTravel
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Offene Frage ist, ob UK #Schlangenzucht #Traum 2013 eine der ersten PsyOps Inceptions war, oder, nicht doch eine der letzten #Vorschauen auf kommende Ereignisse.
Für letzteres spricht, dass ihr Bristol mit #Schlangenhaut auf dem Steg zum Ozean in euer #Mengele #Phantasma gezerrt und beim #Ukraine Krieg ne #Schlangeninsel erfunden habt.
Dabei war's #meine eigene #Mindcontrol #Deathmask für #DARPA/Hollywood, abgeworfen in #Bristol, wegen #Idiotennarrativen als #Ausrede für #Folter.
Replied to Volt Hessen
03. Sofortige Vertragsänderung: Eine gezielte Überarbeitung der Verträge zur Ergänzung der #Verteidigung durchführen. Einen ganzheitlichen Konvent einberufen, um die Erweiterung vorzubereiten.
04. Schulden für Verteidigung: EU-Schulden für gemeinsame, mehrjährige Beschaffung ausgeben, eine europäische #DARPA (Behörde für Forschungsprojekte der Verteidigung) und spezialisierte regionale Industriecluster einrichten.
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Watching #BattlestarGalactica (new series) season 2 finale. As the army of #DARPA bots (#Elon's army) marches onto #NewCaprica! Ugh! Too close to home?
#DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures' - https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/darpa_biomech_space_structures/ "looking for structures more than 500 meters long. It envisages uses including vast nets for orbital debris collection, tethers for a space elevator, or self-assembled wings for a commercial space station."
The Register · DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures'
#introduction post!
-new year, new job, new intro-
Hello! I'm a #millennial husband and dad of two (I post about that a fair bit). I'm also a cybersecurity researcher and developer currently working for #Amazon Internal Audit Security. Previously I worked as a member of the #AWS Red Team, and before that at a #DoD #contractor doing R&D on cyber #tooling (incident response, deception, some #DARPA efforts, etc.), as well as taking part on a #redteam at the National Cyber Range.
I write when I can about things that interest me at Sidneys1.com. Topics range from (mostly) programming to computer tips and tricks or even book and game reviews.
I also dabble in #vintagecomputing - I try to focus on the late-90's early-00's era machines that I grew up with, which I find to be an underrepresented niche.
#DARPA just announced a forthcoming program entitled "Exponentiating Mathematics", focusing on challenges to auto-formalization (and auto-decomposition of large proofs into small lemmas). The preliminary announcement (still short on many details) can be found at https://sam.gov/opp/4def3c13ca3947069b1779e7ff697c6a/view
[As mentioned in previous posts, there is significant uncertainty in the federal funding environment at present, nevertheless there is still activity in launching new proposals.]
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#KenThompson is a pioneer of computer science. He worked at #BellLabs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original #Unix #OS with #DennisRitchie. As a recipient of the Turing award, he is considered to be one of the greatest computer #programmers of all time.
Since 2006, he co-developed the #Go language at the #DARPA funded company that dropped their claim #dontbeevil later.
1943, February 4th he was born. So this #SVG #vector #portrait might be a late #birthday gift of #digitalART and a reminder of his impact on the work of most #computer #YOUsers.
#HappyBirthday and #ThankYouKen Namaste
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From 2017: #Google has finally found a buyer for its amazing, scary robot companies, #BostonDynamics and #Schaft: #SoftBank
The companies are not disclosing a price.
by April Glaser
Updated Jun 8, 2017, 10:07 PM EDT
"Japan’s big-betting holding firm SoftBank is buying Boston Dynamics, one of the most highly regarded robotics labs in the world, from Google’s parent company #Alphabet for an undisclosed price.
"Google acquired Boston Dynamics in 2013 under the leadership of Andy Rubin, the co-inventor of #Android, who was leading a wave of acquisitions of robotics companies under the search giant.
"Boston Dynamics’ robots routinely make headlines, including a high-profile demo at this year’s TED conference. The company, led by CEO Marc Raibert, has made a robotic cheetah that can run 28 miles per hour, a robotic dog that it recently used to deliver packages to doorsteps in Boston, and most recently a massive legged and wheeled robot that can clear hurdles and walk down stairs.
"The firm has been hailed by other roboticists for its ability to blend hardware and #ArtificialIntelligence to make machines capable of dynamic, agile movements. Its most recent wheeled robot, Handle, can manipulate objects that are comparable to its own weight, and its four-legged, animal-like robots can maneuver over different types of terrain.
"One industry source said earlier this year that Boston Dynamics’ most recent machine 'changes the whole ballgame.'
"SoftBank is also buying Schaft, a Japan-based robotics firm that unveiled a bipedal walking robot last year, from Alphabet. A source close to the matter said Schaft, which was part of Google, never fully integrated into the company and operated as a sort of separate entity taking a different approach to robotics than the rest of Google.
"The deal makes sense for SoftBank, which has been working in robotics for years, having acquired a majority stake in the robotics company #Aldebaran in 2012. Aldebaran makes the humanoid robot Pepper, which is being used in retail and customer service settings throughout Japan, and increasingly in the U.S. SoftBank has also invested in related technologies, including buying chip design firm #ARMHoldings last year for more than $30 billion. SoftBank also led a $20 million investment round in #FetchRobotics, a company that makes warehouse logistics robots, in 2015.
"Rubin left Google in 2014 after driving a string of robotics acquisitions, which, sources have told Recode, left a number of the companies without much direction about what their role at Google would be.
"Prior to being acquired by Google, Boston Dynamics largely operated on military research contracts. Its humanoid #Atlas robot was used in #DARPA’s robotics challenge in 2015."
https://www.vox.com/2017/6/8/15766440/softbank-alphabet-google-robotics-boston-dynamics-schaft
#Terminator #TechBroFascism
Vox · Google has finally found a buyer for its amazing, scary robot companies, Boston Dynamics and Schaft: SoftBank
Down the rabbit hole...
The Skynet Conspiracy
December 12, 2024
fake politics
Skynet is Real
"Skynet is a company in the fictional movie Terminator (1984) and Terminator: Judgement Day (1991) and others. But to me Skynet is not fictional. The movies are 'predictive programming' long before any of this came to be.
"In the fictional world of the movie, Cyberdyne – the company that created Skynet – was a computer firm operating out of Sunnyvale, California. The street name was El Camino Real.
"In reality, Sunnyvale, California, along with Mountain View, Menlo Park and Palo Alto are today Silicon Valley, the now world-famous center of computers, internet and AI that developed in the 1990s and early 2000s. El Camino Real is a real street and a mere 10 minute drive from today’s #Google Headquarters.
"How did the writers of #Terminator know this would become the world center of #AI more than two decades later?
"When the movie script was written in 1983, the term '#Internet' was not yet public. The writers used the word 'Skynet'.
From the Terminator Fan Wiki Page:
"'A T-800 Terminator, which was sent from the future and designed to kill humans, programmed to assassinate Sarah Connor, was crushed in one of the hydraulic presses in Cyberdyne’s factory. Thus, the company obtained the machine’s wreckage, including its CPU chip and an arm.
"After its arrival in 1984, Meta-Node was able to reach Cyberdyne Systems Laboratory in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. It provided the technical data, which accelerated the development of Skynet. This leap of engineering accelerated the events that led to Skynet achieving self-awareness, thereby making any Resistance futile. The Meta-Node then served as an information tutor and guardian, uploading to the fledgling Skynet all the tactical data gathered about the future, then protecting it so it could carry out Judgment Day. As Skynet of this timeline gained various knowledge from the #MetaNode, there would be no #Resistance after the nuclear holocaust'.
And:
"'#Cyberdyne eventually developed Skynet, a network of supercomputers that employed #ArtificialIntelligence in order to replace human beings as commercial and military aircraft pilots, and for the control of other military systems, including nuclear missiles. The system went online on August 4, 1997. On August 29, 1997, Skynet became self-aware. In a panic, its creators attempted to shut it down, but Skynet retaliated by launching a nuclear attack against Russia, knowing that the Russian counterattack would eliminate its enemies in the United States, initiating an indeterminately long period of global warfare. The battle pitted humans against Cyberdyne machines, which developed ever-increasing capabilities. Although the company was presumably shut down or destroyed, the event was later known as Judgment Day.
"In other words, the military created Skynet (Internet & Big Tech). Cheyenne Mountain does not only exist in the fictional Universe, it’s also a real military place beneath a mountain. Skynet achieved self-awareness. Then it used Robots to wage war against humans.
The Military runs Big Tech
:It is true that the Internet was created by the military – by #DARPA to be exact. DARPA is short for “Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency”. They invented it in the 1960s, quarter of a century before they let us have it, and called it ARPANET. One of the early Logos used by DARPA:
I assert that they didn’t only create Internet, but all of Big Tech. I think it’s easy to prove and I’ll try to right now.
In Mountain View, California the following companies share the same physical space:
- #Google
- #Lockheed
- #Microsoft
- #Air Force
- #Amazon
- #HewlettPackard
- #NASA
- #Facebook"
Read more (if you dare...)!
https://falsehistory.net/the-skynet-conspiracy/
falsehistory.net · The Skynet ConspiracySkynet is Real Skynet is a company in the fictional movie Terminator (1984) and Terminator: Judgement Day (1991) and others. But to me Skynet is not fictional. The movies are “predictive programming”…
@caseynewton This does not surprise me. #Alphabet (#Google's parent company) was in bed with #DARPA for many, many years... #KillerRobots #Terminator #TechBroFascism
Structure of the U.S. “industrial-censorship complex”
In January 2017, Obama's outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson made protecting election infrastructure part of his agency's mandate.
And right behind that:
The Department of Homeland Security created a Foreign Influence Task Force to focus on “disinformation about election infrastructure.”
The State Department's Center for Global Engagement expanded its interagency mandate to counter foreign influence operations.
The FBI created a Foreign Influence Task Force to “identify and counter malicious foreign influence operations directed against the United States,” with a particular focus on voting and elections.
These were key components of what later became known as the censorship industrial complex.
In 2018, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee requested a “Study on Russian Interference in Social Media,” a study that has become the rationale for pressuring social media management companies to stop being indecisive about content moderation.
The committee also commissioned Graphika, a social media analytics firm, to co-author a report on Russian interference in social media. Interestingly, Graphika cites DARPA and the Pentagon's Minerva initiative, which funds “basic social science research,” as its key partners. And Graphika's report “on Russian interference in social media” was the rationale behind the creation of the Stanford Internet Observatory-led “Election Integrity Partnership” - a key element of the government's censorship police during and after the 2020 election.
The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab is the organization that joined the Stanford-led quartet. Partially funded by the State Department - including through the Center for Global Engagement - and the Department of Energy, the think tank counts among its directors CIA executives and defense secretaries. The lab's senior director is Graham Bouki, former top aide to President Obama for cybersecurity, counterterrorism, intelligence and homeland security.
The third of four organizations to later join the Election Integrity Partnership was the University of Washington's 2019 Center for an Informed Public. Stanford alumna and visiting professor Kate Starbird co-founded the Center. The National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research provided funding for Dr. Starbird's social media work. The Observatory is a program of Stanford University's Center for Cyber Policy, which includes former Obama National Security Council staffer and Russian Ambassador Michael McFaul, as well as other prominent individuals with security backgrounds or affiliations .
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which took on the task of protecting election infrastructure, expanded its scope to include combating disinformation perceived as a threat to election security. This eventually came to encompass any political speech by Americans, including speculation and even satire to the extent that it questioned or undermined state-approved narratives about unprecedented mass mail-in elections.
#^https://t.me/budni_manipulyatora/3574
#USA #US #american #censorship #CIA #FBI #Pentagon #DARPA #Stanford #CISA #deepstate
In January 2017, Obama's outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson made protecting election infrastructure part of his agency's mandate.
And right behind that:
The Department of Homeland Security created a Foreign Influence Task Force to focus on “disinformation about election infrastructure.”
The State Department's Center for Global Engagement expanded its interagency mandate to counter foreign influence operations.
The FBI created a Foreign Influence Task Force to “identify and counter malicious foreign influence operations directed against the United States,” with a particular focus on voting and elections.
These were key components of what later became known as the censorship industrial complex.
In 2018, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee requested a “Study on Russian Interference in Social Media,” a study that has become the rationale for pressuring social media management companies to stop being indecisive about content moderation.
The committee also commissioned Graphika, a social media analytics firm, to co-author a report on Russian interference in social media. Interestingly, Graphika cites DARPA and the Pentagon's Minerva initiative, which funds “basic social science research,” as its key partners. And Graphika's report “on Russian interference in social media” was the rationale behind the creation of the Stanford Internet Observatory-led “Election Integrity Partnership” - a key element of the government's censorship police during and after the 2020 election.
The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab is the organization that joined the Stanford-led quartet. Partially funded by the State Department - including through the Center for Global Engagement - and the Department of Energy, the think tank counts among its directors CIA executives and defense secretaries. The lab's senior director is Graham Bouki, former top aide to President Obama for cybersecurity, counterterrorism, intelligence and homeland security.
The third of four organizations to later join the Election Integrity Partnership was the University of Washington's 2019 Center for an Informed Public. Stanford alumna and visiting professor Kate Starbird co-founded the Center. The National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research provided funding for Dr. Starbird's social media work. The Observatory is a program of Stanford University's Center for Cyber Policy, which includes former Obama National Security Council staffer and Russian Ambassador Michael McFaul, as well as other prominent individuals with security backgrounds or affiliations .
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which took on the task of protecting election infrastructure, expanded its scope to include combating disinformation perceived as a threat to election security. This eventually came to encompass any political speech by Americans, including speculation and even satire to the extent that it questioned or undermined state-approved narratives about unprecedented mass mail-in elections.
#^https://t.me/budni_manipulyatora/3574
#USA #US #american #censorship #CIA #FBI #Pentagon #DARPA #Stanford #CISA #deepstate
#DARPA Has a “Weird” Plan to Aid People in Authoritarian Regimes Using Hidden Networks
The Debrief · DARPA Has a “Weird” Plan to Aid People in Authoritarian Regimes Using Hidden Networks - The DebriefScience, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.
"In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorithmically based warfighting. We draw from a corpus of DoD grant solicitations from 2007 to 2023, focusing on those addressed to researchers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Considering the implications of DoD funding for academic research, the paper proceeds through three analytic sections. In the first, we offer a critical examination of the distinction between basic and applied research, showing how funding calls framed as basic research nonetheless enlist researchers in a war fighting agenda. In the second, we offer a diachronic analysis of the corpus, showing how a 'one small problem' caveat, in which affirmation of progress in military technologies is qualified by acknowledgement of outstanding problems, becomes justification for additional investments in research. We close with an analysis of DoD aspirations based on a subset of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant solicitations for the use of AI in battlefield applications. Taken together, we argue that grant solicitations work as a vehicle for the mutual enlistment of DoD funding agencies and the academic AI research community in setting research agendas. The trope of basic research in this context offers shelter from significant moral questions that military applications of one's research would raise, by obscuring the connections that implicate researchers in U.S. militarism."
arXiv.orgBasic Research, Lethal Effects: Military AI Research Funding as EnlistmentIn the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorithmically based warfighting. We draw from a corpus of DoD grant solicitations from 2007 to 2023, focusing on those addressed to researchers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Considering the implications of DoD funding for academic research, the paper proceeds through three analytic sections. In the first, we offer a critical examination of the distinction between basic and applied research, showing how funding calls framed as basic research nonetheless enlist researchers in a war fighting agenda. In the second, we offer a diachronic analysis of the corpus, showing how a 'one small problem' caveat, in which affirmation of progress in military technologies is qualified by acknowledgement of outstanding problems, becomes justification for additional investments in research. We close with an analysis of DoD aspirations based on a subset of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant solicitations for the use of AI in battlefield applications. Taken together, we argue that grant solicitations work as a vehicle for the mutual enlistment of DoD funding agencies and the academic AI research community in setting research agendas. The trope of basic research in this context offers shelter from significant moral questions that military applications of one's research would raise, by obscuring the connections that implicate researchers in U.S. militarism.
U.S. Navy, DARPA Develop Robotic System for Satellite Servicing
https://defensemirror.com/news/38174/U_S__Navy__DARPA_Develop_Robotic_System_for_Satellite_Servicing
@USNavy
@DARPA
#satellite #servicing #DARPA #USNavy #robot
"Autonomous weapons systems select and apply force to targets based on sensor processing rather than human input. Some autonomous weapons systems have existed for years, but the types, duration of operation, geographical scope, and environment in which such systems operate have been limited. Now technological advances are spurring the development of autonomous weapons systems or 'killer robots,' which would operate without meaningful human control, delegating life-and-death decisions to machines. Such weapons systems raise serious ethical, moral, legal, accountability, and security problems and concerns. #HumanRightsWatch is a founding member of #StopKillerRobots campaign, a civil society coalition that calls for a new international treaty to prohibit and restrict autonomous weapons systems."
www.hrw.orgKiller Robots | Human Rights WatchAutonomous weapons systems select and apply force to targets based on sensor processing rather than human input. Some autonomous weapons systems have existed for years, but the types, duration of operation, geographical scope, and environment in which such systems operate have been limited. Now technological advances are spurring the development of autonomous weapons systems or "killer robots," which would operate without meaningful human control, delegating life-and-death decisions to machines. Such weapons systems raise serious ethical, moral, legal, accountability, and security problems and concerns. Human Rights Watch is a founding member of Stop Killer Robots campaign, a civil society coalition that calls for a new international treaty to prohibit and restrict autonomous weapons systems.
@GraniteGeek So were the "Terminator" robots. While there is an international ban on "killer robots", I'm sure that's not stopping some countries from developing them.
Meet #DARPA's real-world #Terminator, #Atlas
https://www.extremetech.com/defense/161193-meet-darpas-real-world-terminator-atlas
Robohirn für Helikopter: Sikorsky baut autonomes Flugsystem in Black Hawks ein
Die US-Armee will ihre Black-Hawk-Helikopter modernisieren und ihnen das autonome Fliegen beibringen. Das könnte in gefährlichen Missionen von Vorteil sein.
heise online · Robohirn für Helikopter: Sikorsky baut autonomes Flugsystem in Black Hawks ein