The Military Stories for 2016

How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar 236
FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked To China's Military: Reuters 22
Russians Used Malware On Android Devices To Track and Target Ukraine Artillery, Says Report 101
The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots 210
China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US 199
Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Had 'Forbidden' Internet Connection At the Pentagon, Says Report 314
US Navy's High-Tech Ship Loses Power In Panama Canal 143
Flying Robot Ambulance Finally Takes Its First Flight 43
Royal Navy Giving Up Anti-Ship Missiles, Will Rely On Cannons For Naval Combat 432
Uranium-Filled 'Lost Nuke' Missing Since 1950 May Have Been Found 107
Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot 303
Ukraine's Military Wants To Use the HoloLens For Its Tanks 56
Air Force Says F-35 Glitches Mean the A-10 Will Keep Flying 'Indefinitely' 325
Russia Unveils 'Satan 2' Missile Powerful Enough To 'Wipe Out UK, France Or Texas' 1028
US Army 'Will Have More Robot Soldiers Than Humans' By 2025, Says Former British Spy 114
Greenland Is Very Mad About the Toxic Waste the US Left Buried Under Its Ice 208
ISIS Is Using Exploding Consumer Drones To Kill Enemy Fighters 221
US Military Is Looking At Blockchain Technology To Secure Nuclear Weapons 62
Is Britain Secretly Funding Its Nuclear Submarine Program? 108
Taiwan Asks Google To Blur Its Military Facilities In South China Sea 52
The US Government Is Building A 'Drone Dragnet' For Battlefields 25
Air Force Grounds $400 Billion F-35s Because of 'Peeling and Crumbling' Insulation 193
Alleged Hacker Lauri Love To Be Extradited To US 71
North Korea Conducts Fifth Nuclear Test -- The Largest One Yet 243
White House Names Retired Air Force General As First Cyber Security Chief 36
Pentagon Chiefs Fear Advanced Robot Weapons Wiping Out Humanity 265
Revived Lawsuit Says Twitter DMs Are Like Handing ISIS a Satellite Phone 197
HAARP Holds Open House To Dispel Rumors Of Mind Control 148
The US Army Has Too Many Video Games 82
Japan Plans To Build Unmanned Fighter Jets 117
US Air Force Wants To Plasma Bomb The Sky To Improve Radio Communication 159
How The US Will Likely Respond To Shadow Brokers Leak 110
World's Largest Aircraft Completes Its First Flight 190
How The Navy Tried To Turn Sharks into Torpedos 60
How a 1967 Solar Storm Nearly Led To Nuclear War 66
The New F-35 Is So Stealthy, It's Harder To Train Pilots 343
'Mayhem' Wins $2M In DARPA's AI Hacking Contest, Draws EFF Scrutiny 11
Mysterious, Ice-Buried Cold War Military Base May Be Unearthed By Climate Change 108
1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report 105
DJI Issues Software Update That Implements No-Fly Zones For Rio Olympics 59
US Air Force Declares F-35A Ready For Combat 280
Russian Government Gets 'Hacked Back', Attacks Possibly Launched By The NSA 173
Russia's Rise To Cyberwar Superpower 79
US Military Using $600K 'Drone Buggies' To Patrol Camps In Africa 60
Chinese State Company Unveils World's Largest Seaplane 157
China Releases Test Footage of Ballistic Missile Defense System 68
Texas Man Who Acted As Russian Agent Gets 10 Years' Prison 87
US Navy Faces $600M Lawsuit For Allegedly Pirating 3D VR Software 115
WikiLeaks Releases 300K Turkey Government Emails In Response To Erdogan's Post-Coup Purges 231
DARPA Will Stage an AI Fight in Las Vegas For DEF CON 89
First Open Source-Based Database Completes U.S. Security Review 49
Bird-Shaped Drone Symbolizes New Forms Of Covert Surveillance To Come 95
Microsoft Store Offers Free Laptop If They Can't Upgrade Your PC To Windows 10 126
Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber 256
Do You Have A Living Doppelgänger? 142
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Blocked In Turkey During Reported Coup Attempt 153
Stuxnet/Cyberwar Documentary Reviewer: 'The U.S. Has Pwned Iran' 138
Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing 983
AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights 441
Those 100,000 Lost Air Force Files Have Been Found Again 36
Hackers Find 138 Different Security Gaps In Pentagon Websites 30
Air, Land, Sea, Cyber: NATO Adds Cyberspace To Operation Areas 33
Air Force Has Lost 100,000 Inspector General Records 116
China Plans Massive Sea Lab 10,000 Feet Underwater In the South China Sea 101
North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs 151
The US Army Is Rolling Out Superhuman Hearing to Soldiers 117
Russian Online Trolls Resist The Light 244
WWII Code-Breaker Dies At Age 95 120
Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL 217
US Military Uses 8-Inch Floppy Disks To Coordinate Nuclear Force Operations 267
How the Pentagon Punished NSA Whistleblowers 134
DARPA Extreme DDOS Project Transforming Network Attack Mitigation 21
Why Don't Scientists Kill The 'Demon In The Freezer'? 287
Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates 506
Wikipedia Announces Their 10 Longest Featured Articles 38
Ask Slashdot: What Was The Greatest Era Of Innovation? 177
Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack 391
Combat Lasers To Be Added To US Fighter Jets 208
Lego Robots Crack Gesture-Based Security 13
Drones Being Used By Peeping Toms, The Military, And Terrorists 101
White House Releases Report On How To Spur Smart-Gun Technology 313
North Korea Launches Two Midrange Missiles, Both Tests Fail 73
India Installs 'Laser Walls' At Border With Pakistan 93
Jihadis Twice As Likely To Be Students of Science Than Of Sharia 201
North Korea Launches Missile From Submarine 112
Is the $400 Billion F-35's 'Brain' Broken? 175
Up To 35,000 Gallons of Nuclear Waste Leak At Washington State Storage Site 135
Hacked Swedish Military Servers Used In Attacks On US Banks 40
G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites 240
New Metal Foam Armor Obliterates Bullets To Dust On Impact 93
US Army Hopes To Outfit Soldiers With Tiny Drones By 2018 101
US Military Invests in $320M 'Smart Fabric' Project 24
North Korea Launches Missile and Tries To Jam GPS Signals 127
DJI Files Patent Lawsuit Against Yuneec, Marking Industry's First Legal Fight 33
'Hack The Pentagon' Bug Bounty Program Opens For Registration 36
Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone 678
DARPA's Latest Grand Challenge Takes On The Radio Spectrum 64
Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle 135
Area Around Chernobyl Plant To Become a Nuclear Dump 178
U.S. Indicts 7 Iranians Accused of Hacking U.S. Financial Institutions 45
Kentucky Hospital Calls State of Emergency In Hack Attack 265
US Army Creates Virtual Reality Dome To Assess Soldier Thinking During Combat 35
FBI Grows "Cyber Most Wanted" List With Syrian Electronic Army Members 18
Scientists Propose Biodiversity Lab To Redeem Guantanamo Prison Camp 170
Stealthy Drone Can Hide Underwater For Months, Then Float To Surface To Take-Off 67
N. Korea Launches Ballistic Missile 123
US Army Developing Encrypted Radar Waveform 122
Obama Rejects New Atlantic Ocean Oil Drilling 176
16 US Ships That Aided In Operation Tomodachi Still Contaminated With Radiation 170
Microfluidic Cooling Turns Down the Heat On High-Tech Equipment 21
US Says North Korean Submarine Missing 167
Leaked Islamic State Documents Identify Thousands of Jihadis 180
Surprise Nuclear Strike? Here's How We'll Figure Out Who Did It 174
DARPA Wants Ideas On Weaponizing Off-the-Shelf Tech 173
Software Bug in F-35 Radar Causes Mid-Flight System Reboot 153
Pentagon Admits Deploying Spy Drones Over US, Claims All Were 'Lawful' 86
Pentagon Office Planning 'Avatar' Fighters and Fighter-Launched Drone Swarms 113
Why Japan Is Facing Pressure To Return To Military Research 267
U.S. Military Spending Millions To Make Cyborgs A Reality 102
High-Tech 'Bazooka' Fires a Net To Take Down Drones 180
Eric Schmidt Gets A Job At The Pentagon 71
It Turns Out the F-35 Can Dogfight 170
Kremlin Falls For Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery 120
Join the Hunt For the Government's Oldest Computer 147
DARPA Moves Ahead With Radical Vertical Take-Off Aircraft 53
Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat 349
Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time 321
Norway Becomes First NATO Country To Accuse China of Stealing Military Secrets 120
Boston Dynamics' Next-Gen ATLAS Sheds the Tether 200
Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza 312
High-Energy Laser Effector Tested On German Warship 71
Radioactive Material Stolen In Iraq Raises Security Fears 93
DARPA's Robot Ship Slated For April Unveiling 44
Debating a Ban On Autonomous Weapons 228
North Korea's Satellite Tumbling In Orbit 257
Journalist Claims Secret US Flight 'To Capture Snowden' Overflew Scottish Airspace 198
AnonSec Attempts To Crash $222m Drone, Releases Secret Flight Videos 133
Dutch Police Train Bald Eagles To Take Out Drones 137
Israeli Vulture Suspected of Spying Returned 109
U.S. Forces Viewed Encrypted Israeli Drone Feeds 49
Air Force Firewall Now Designated a Weapons System 137
Psychic Dogs and Enlisted Men: the Military's Research Into ESP 49
More Air Force Drones Are Crashing Than Ever As Mysterious New Problems Emerge 141
Biofuels Will Power Navy's Next Deployment 115
A Small Secret Airstrip In Africa Is the Future of America's Way of War 139
US Modernizes Nuclear Arsenal With Smaller, Precision-Guided Atomic Weapons 230
US Military Will Soon Begin Testing NSA's New, Post-Snowden Security Measures 72
How We Know North Korea Didn't Detonate a Hydrogen Bomb 176
WW2 Hero Who Captured Enigma For Allies Has Died 67
Hellfire Missile Mistakenly Shipped To Cuba 142
DoD Award To Recognize Drone Operators 144
Seismic Data From North Korea Suggest a Repeat of 2013 Nuclear Test 136
South Korea To Restart Propaganda Loudspeakers Along Border 170
North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb 412