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Bitcoin (BTC) mining software manufacturer Bitfury Group has launched a new generation of its BTC mining hardware based on its Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip Bitfury Clarke, according to an announcement published September 19. An ASIC chip is a piece of mining hardware geared to mine digital currency based on a specific hashing algorithm. An…
Switzerland-based consortium Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC) has launched a blockchain incubator with a $100 million goal, swissinfo.ch reported September 20. CV VC has reportedly launched its initial incubator dubbed “Genesis Hub” in the canton of Zug, also known as Switzerland’s Crypto Valley. The Crypto Valley Association was founded as a government-backed consortium in…
For the first time, the NEON Personnel Tracker Solution was used to track personnel within challenging indoor, underground, and urban GPS-denied environments at the Thunderstorm 18-2 Dense Urban and Subterranean Technologies (DUST) Demonstration. The NEON Tracker, developed by TRX Systems, is intended predominantly for tracking first responders and in military operations. The NEON Personnel Tracker…
This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) The internet is essential to the exchange of all manner of information. It is not a single network, but rather is a complex grid of independent interconnected networks. The design of the internet is based on a trust relationship between these networks and relies on a…
The Defense Advanced Research Agency announced an $8 million contract modification for the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute to work on a program that develops circuits that be quickly adapted rather than wholesale reinvented. The work is part of DARPA’s Circuit Realization at Faster Timescales (CRAFT) research program. The modification brings the total…
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) awarded spots on a contract worth up to $500 million to eight defense companies and one research organization as part of the agency’s effort to buy research, development, technical, and engineering services for intelligence missions, according to an announcement from the Department of Defense Sept. 14. DIA selected AT&T, Booz…
Researchers at IARPA and Lockheed Martin used artificial intelligence to identify more than 100 objects a second in satellite imagery. They were right 83 percent of the time. Differentiating a port from a shipyard is a new kind of problem for AI It’s well known that satellites and other intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms collect…
The future human-machine interface: dubbed the Molar Mic, it’s a small device that clips to your back teeth. “Once you’ve made something digital, the information can be interspersed.” Sonitus received early funding from In-Q-Tel, the nonprofit investment arm of the CIA. The future of battlefield communications is resting comfortably near your back gums. Next…
Major U.S.-based content delivery network (CDN) CloudFlare has introduced a new decentralized content gateway via its InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), the firm announced in a blog post September 17. The announcement was made during Cloudflare Crypto Week, a week devoted to the adoption of new cryptography-powered technologies. Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway is the first product to…
Funding for Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) has seen its hardest slump in 16 months, Bloomberg reported September 10. Analysis from Autonomous Research shows that in August, startups raised $326 million, which is the smallest amount since May 2017. According to Autonomous Research, Ethereum (ETH) blockchain-based ICOs have been recognized as the spark for the ETH…
In einem tagesschau24-Interview bewertete Hans-Wilhelm Dünn, Präsident des Cyber-Sicherheitsrat Deutschland e.V., die Gründung der Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit der Bundesregierung: „Die Gründung einer solchen Agentur ist längst überfällig. Wir müssen unsere eigenen nationalen IT-Systeme verstehen und kontrollieren können. Gleichzeitig brauchen wir insgesamt mehr Budget, um die Kompetenzen der Behörden im Bereich der Attribution,…
Systeme und Technologien der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) sind in der Gegenwart angekommen und werden die Zukunft nachhaltig prägen. Die Debatte wird dabei jedoch von Akteuren wie den USA und China bestimmt, Deutschland liegt im internationalen Vergleich zurück. Der für Dezember 2018 geplante ‚Masterplan Künstliche Intelligenz‘ der Bundesregierung soll von daher die Forschung und Nutzung von…
At the heart of ethereum lies a “virtual computer”. Stored across tens of thousands of nodes that make up the platform, the ethereum virtual machine, or EVM, is responsible for executing the countless tokens, dapps, DAOs and digital kittens of which the blockchain is comprised of. It’s an engine on top of which the entirety of…
This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) Facial recognition systems are a highly efficient public security solution. However, this field remains controversial, mainly due to privacy issues. Facial recognition has been recently at the center of an alarming report. It’s been discovered that technology giant IBM developed the tech for the New York Police…
This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) A project that will lead to the use of UAV laser weapons to destroy enemy ballistic missiles is advancing to the next stage. Power electronics experts at three U.S. defense companies are moving forward with a project to develop enabling technologies for laser weapons on future unmanned…
Chinese holding company Wuhan General Group (China), Inc. has entered negotiations to transform a U.S. Defense Department facility into a crypto mining farm, according to a press release published September 11. Per the press release, in case of a successful outcome to the negotiation, the company will receive the first order of rigs in late…
Things haven’t been easy of late for Bitmain. After CoinDesk revealed the China-based crypto mining giant was planning an initial public offering (IPO) for September, the company has faced a wave of perhaps unprecedented scrutiny. On social media, allegations emerged Bitmain was everything from insolvent to presenting a rosy outlook for its financials, all the while…
A chip designer with extensive experience in developing bitcoin mining devices is turning her sights on the ethereum protocol. Chen Min, the former chief chip maker at bitcoin mining chip developer Canaan Creative, launched a new venture to build cryptocurrency mining devices called Linzhi. The firm’s first project tackles the ethhash algorithm used by ethereum and…
The Army believes integration will be the key to winning in the high tech environments of the future, and to do so the service is building a force that will be well versed in cyber, electronic warfare, signal and information operations. One of the Army’s first moves toward this end is the transition of electronic…
Rogers: “There is not enough expertise within the senior levels of the government; at times ‘we’re talking about fundamental game-changing policy that, if we’re honest, we don’t truly understand.’ ” The recently departed director of the National Security Agency and former head of U.S. Cyber Command believes the U.S. structure and organization against cyberthreats…
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