The Military Stories for 2018

China Launched More Rockets Into Orbit In 2018 Than Any Other Country 58
US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds 190
Chinese Hackers Breach US Navy Contractors 61
Mapping Service Blurs Out Military Bases, But Accidentally Locates Secret Ones 129
Microsoft Wins $480 Million Military Contract To Bring HoloLens To Battlefield 59
Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions 267
Yoshua Bengio, a Grand Master of Modern AI, is Worried About Its Future 126
Google Cloud Executive Who Sought Pentagon Contract Steps Down 82
China Says It Has Developed a Quantum Radar That Can See Stealth Aircraft 211
The F-35's Greatest Vulnerability Isn't Enemy Weapons. It's Being Hacked. 137
US Military Publicly Dumps Russian Government Malware Online 74
China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited To Develop AI 'Killer Bots' 206
Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance 421
Microsoft Defends Bid for $10B Pentagon Cloud Contract Amid Criticism Over Government Use of Technology 68
The Army Is Preparing To Send Driverless Vehicles Into Combat 172
In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI 330
The US Grounds All F-35 Jets 238
The US Military Wants To Teach AI Some Basic Common Sense 94
The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built For the Next Decade 107
Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack 93
Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition 103
Japan's Silent Submarines Extend Range With Lithium-Ion Batteries 121
US Military Program Could Be Seen As a Bioweapon, Scientists Warn 91
What Will Happen When Killer Robots Get Hijacked? 157
Britain To Create 2,000-Strong Cyber Force, Boost Budget By £250M 68
'Bombe' Replica Code-Breaking WW2 Computer Was Used To Decipher Message Scrambled By An Enigma Machine 37
European Parliament Passes Resolution Calling For An International Ban On Killer Robots 115
Boeing Wins Bid To Build the Navy's Carrier-Launched Tanker Drone 79
China Aims To Narrow Cyberwarfare Gap With US 55
Trump Signs Defense Bill With Watered-Down ZTE Sanctions 86
Should the US Air Force Bomb Forest Fires? 342
It'll Cost $1 Billion To Dismantle America's Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier 209
VP Pence Lays Out Trump's Vision For Establishing a US Space Force 528
Pentagon Restricts Use of Location-Logging Fitness Trackers 32
Congress Passes Bill Forcing Tech Companies To Disclose Foreign Software Probes 61
Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns 401
US Military Told To Move From 'Expendable' To 'Reusable' Rockets 90
Pentagon Creates 'Do Not Buy' List of Russian, Chinese Software 180
DeepMind, Elon Musk and Others Pledge Not To Make Autonomous AI Weapons 122
China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles 194
DOJ Reaches Settlement On Publication of Files About 3D Printed Firearms 374
DARPA Invests $100 Million In a Silicon Compiler 104
Scientists Develop Thermal Camouflage That Can Dupe Infrared Cameras 83
America's 'CyberWar' With Foreign Governments Could Get More Aggressive 116
Happy Birthday Alan Turing! How Modern Technology Could Win WWII In 13 Minutes 107
Google Engineers Refused To Build Security Tool To Win Military Contracts 243
President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch 513
Senate Will Try To Reverse ZTE Deal Via a Must-Pass Defense Bill 139
Secret Pentagon AI Program Hunts Hidden Nuclear Missiles 40
Google Promises Its AI Will Not Be Used For Weapons 102
California's Efforts To Restrict Elon Musk's Flamethrowers Go Down In Flames 153
Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work To Grow Exponentially 84
Google Promises Ethical Principles To Guide Development of Military AI 154
'Father of GPS' Receives the IEEE Medal of Honor 22
The Pentagon Bans Huawei, ZTE Phones From Retail Stores On Military Bases 86
The Pentagon's Ray Gun Can Stall Cars 182
Russia Is Attacking US Forces With Electronic Weapons In Syria, General Says 249
Two Koreas Agree To End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization 368
White House Reportedly Exploring Wartime Rule To Help Coal, Nuclear 308
Government Accidentally Releases Documents On 'Psycho-Electric' Weapons 91
North Korean Leader Says He Will Suspend Arms Tests, Shut Nuclear Test Site 249
Robots Replace Soldiers In First of Its Kind Obstacle-Breaching Exercise 23
EFF: Google Should Not Help the US Military Build Unaccountable AI Systems 110
Military Documents Reveal How the US Army Plans To Deploy AI In Future Wars 141
Britain's Plan To Build a 2,000 Foot Aircraft Carrier Almost Entirely From Ice 78
UFO Disclosure Group Releases Newest Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet UFO Encounter Video 242
US Navy Under Fire In Mass Software Piracy Lawsuit 121
China Reassigns 60,000 Soldiers To Plant Trees In Bid To Fight Pollution 126
German Navy Experiences 'LCS Syndrome' In Spades As New Frigate Fails Sea Trials 222
Hawaii Missile Alert Worker Fired, Will Sue State for Defamation 172
Fitness-Tracking App Reveals Locations of Secret Army Bases 118
Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo 375
America's Fastest Spy Plane May Be Back -- And Hypersonic 301
'Don't Fear the Robopocalypse': the Case for Autonomous Weapons 150
Russian Military Base Attacked By Drones 183
Rumors Swirl That Secret Zuma Satellite Launched By SpaceX Was Lost 171
Pentagon Seeks Laser-Powered Bat Drones 44
SpaceX's Latest Advantage? Blowing Up Its Own Rocket, Automatically 126