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Positive News for Crypto Given the aggressive sanctions policy led by the U.S., Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, is planning to introduce its independent payment system, which won’t depend on the United States anymore. Experts believe that such an initiative may significantly strengthen the positions of Bitcoin. The sanctions recently imposed against Iran and Turkey have…
Leaders at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced Sept. 7 a $2 billion initiative, known as AI Next, that aims to substantially improve artificial intelligence research. “With AI Next, we are making multiple research investments aimed at transforming computers from specialized tools to partners in problem-solving,” Steven Walker, the agency’s director, said in a…
U.S. Cyber Command is standing up a cyber version of SOFWERX, the public-private partnership run through Special Operations Command to foster greater innovation for rapid solutions. DreamPort, run by the Maryland Innovation and Security Institute through a partnership intermediary agreement with Cyber Command, is described as a state-of-the-art facility where companies can bring in their…
WASHINGTON — Artificial intelligence and autonomy often conjure images of killer robots for the general public and even some in government. But development underway by the Army Research Laboratory toward “mobile intelligent entities” is actually far more practical, said Chief Scientist Alexander Kott. Kott pitched the term, along with the new ARL concept of fully…
“Supernode Proof-of-Stake” (SPoS) allow for “concentration of staking pools” Known for creating the first proof-of-stake-based cryptocurrency, pseudonymous developer Sunny King is back with an idea that’s sure to surprise – adding hardware. Proof-of-stake, or PoS, has been heralded as a more ecological way to come to consensus on blockchains since it doesn’t rely on…
Walmart’s recent patent efforts have showcased how the retail giant is investigating blockchain, and a new filing points to a focus on autonomous delivery drones. The application was published on August 30, detailing a system by which “autonomous electronic devices” communicate with each other wirelessly and pass transported objects to each other after an identification process.…
World Bank, the IMF and UN see the longer-term advantages of fully permissionless systems once they can handle large-scale capacity Cryptocurrency purists often dismiss private blockchains as overly expensive undertakings for projects that are better served with a traditional database. Yet these distributed ledger solutions keep being rolled out by enterprises in various settings…
This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) IoT security is a substantial challenge as the use of the connected devices is becoming more and more widespread in every field. The consequences of a breach of a central repository of data collected by IoT devices could be disastrous. Compromising such a database could give a…
Bekommt die Bundeswehr bald Zuwachs an neuen Waffen? CC-BY-SA 2.0 Tobias Nordhausen Die Bundesministerien für Inneres und Verteidigung gründen eine Agentur für Innovationen in der Cybersicherheit. Vordergründig soll es um die Entwicklung von Sprunginnovationen gehen. Kritiker*innen sehen die Neugründung als Vorstoß zur Militarisierung des digitalen Raumes. 30.08.2018 Verteidigungsministerin Ursula von der Leyen und Innenminister…
U.K.-based multinational professional services network PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) will bolster its employees’ blockchain knowledge through a dedicated program next year, Digiday reported Thursday, August 30. Part of a coordinated push to enhance digital awareness, the company will put 1000 staff through its Digital Accelerators program, which will run for two years from January. Participants will forego…
Lt. Gen. VeraLinn “Dash” Jamieson, Deputy Chief of Staff Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) The US Air Force’s ambitious new Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) strategy calls for a sensing grid that fuses together data from legacy platforms (such as the RQ-4 Global Hawk), emerging technologies (like swarming drones), other services’ platforms and publicly…
Filecoin is planning to officially launch its blockchain-based data storage network sometime near the middle of next year. In a first-and-second quarter update posted on Tuesday, the Filecoin team unveiled an in-progress roadmap stretching into 2019 and beyond, with milestones including this week’s release of demos for the go-filecoin protocol implementation, a plan to make the…
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The transition from a Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus algorithm to PoS Hard forks are never easy. By definition, such system-wide upgrades require every software user to upgrade to new rules near-simultaneously, meaning there’s coordination difficulties that need to be overcome to ensure the code continues to operate as designed. Still, in an upcoming October upgrade named…
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Air Force’s Global Positioning System was a continuous target. “Every year [as] we went through the budget cycle the United States Air Force … tried to kill the GPS program,” Gen. John Hyten, now head of U.S. Strategic Command, said during a 2015 speech. “Why would they…
Cyber has become a means for nations and organizations to achieve objectives below the thresholds of conflict. In this new digital warfare domain, traditional conceptions are being flipped on their heads. Here are three potential trends that could factor into this increasingly dynamic environment, according to Col. Steve Rehn, the cyber capability manager…
Rickey White pilots and interceptor drone during the ThunderDrone Tech Expo at SOFWERX in Tampa, Fla., Sept. 5, 2017. The expo provided an opportunity for industry, national laboratories and academia to discuss and promote new and innovative drone technology with the special operations community. (Barry Loo / USAF) The great trick of computers is…
Parsing what detected signals matter is an electronic warfare skill that can possibly be designated to artificial intelligence. (Armando R. Limon/Army) A platypus, several Australians and a thundering panda walk into an electromagnetic spectrum, then leave with $150,000. The result is, potentially, a technique and a tool that will allow soldiers to discover what…
Since blockchain technology appeared, there has been a persistent problem in its development: how to make it scale to billions of users. Bitcoin was famously never really designed for this, and today other platforms like Ethereum are also struggling. If you could crack this problem, the thinking goes, you’d end up with the hottest property…
Worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach more than $114 billion in 2018, an increase of 12.4 percent from last year, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. In 2019, the market is forecast to grow 8.7 percent to $124 billion. “Security leaders are striving to help their organizations securely use technology…
Modeled on the US version, Germany’s new cyberdefense agency [ADIC] will leverage civilian expertise and ensure the country is up to date with technology. But already it looks like good old-fashioned German bureaucracy is getting in the way. Germany is planning to set up a cybersecurity agency to ensure the government keeps up with…
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