Explosions linked to walkie-talkies kill at least nine in fresh Lebanon attack(theguardian.com)

16 points by pain_perdu 2 years ago | 6 comments

US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards(theguardian.com)

124 points by KnuthIsGod 8 months ago | 46 comments

How WW2 bombs across the Pacific are found and destroyed, decades after war(theguardian.com)

60 points by adrian_mrd 2 years ago | 56 comments

US support to maintain UK's nuclear arsenal is in doubt(theguardian.com)

44 points by zabzonk 1 year ago | 34 comments

Several people fired after clampdown on speech over Charlie Kirk shooting(theguardian.com)

36 points by Geekette 1 year ago | 36 comments

The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins(theguardian.com)

71 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 21 comments

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.

A bad day at the office(airminded.org)

342 points by freediver 2 years ago | 93 comments

A February 2024 blog post by historian Brett Holman on Airminded, a blog about airpower and British society 1908-1941, titled "A bad day at the office."

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told(bbc.com)

136 points by thm 1 month ago | 177 comments

BBC News article reporting that the UK military, via UK Space Command, jams other nations' satellites as a defensive measure.

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal(science.org)

97 points by xqcgrek2 24 days ago | 47 comments

Science magazine news article reporting that analysis of uranium cubes shows Nazi Germany's experimental reactor lacked enough uranium and heavy water to succeed.

Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years(mtlynch.io)

351 points by eichin 6 months ago | 226 comments

Blog post by Michael Lynch describing how Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini used Claude Code to find remotely exploitable Linux kernel bugs, including one hidden for 23 years.

UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns(politico.eu)

435 points by scrlk 2 years ago | 223 comments

Politico Europe article reporting that UK rail minister Peter Hendy got engineer Gareth Dennis fired for raising safety concerns, threatening to withhold public contracts.