There's a video going around of an interview with the CEO of a corporation that makes drones for military and civil government operations. He's claiming that the mystery drones are most likely our own, a specific type of reconfigurable drone that can go from quadcopter to fixed-wing aircraft mode, and they're searching for something that the ( Read more... )

Seems a nasty Russian hacking outfit has exploited a vulnerability in Roundcube, a widely-used webmail app, to take over servers. They did it with a seemingly innocuous e-mail created to appear to be from Microsoft's Outlook team, with guidance on ways to get the most out of your Outlook software ( Read more... )

Recently the Navy revealed video evidence of an encounter between some of its F/A-18 pilots and an Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (what used to be called a UFO, but renamed to avoid the woo-woo connotations of that term). This included cockpit data that showed something shaped vaguely like a Tic-Tac that could maneuver in ways that no known ( Read more... )

How do you hide in plain sight? If you're trying to avoid AI facial recognition, it may be far easier than hiding from your fellow human beings. It turns out that a few peculiarly shaped patches of color on a t-shirt can confuse AI just enough that they don't even realize that a human being is there.