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Details in the drone incident the Kremlin says aimed to assassinate Putin 'don't quite add up.' Experts have 3 theories on what happened.But experts told Insider that despite bold statements from both countries, much remains uncertain. "There is a lot we still don't know about this strike," said Samuel Bendett,...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Russia Says Ukraine Tried to Kill Putin in a Kremlin Drone Attack. It Didn't Work.Samuel Bendett, an expert on Russian developments in drone and AI at the Center for Naval Analyses and CNAS security think tank, told Popular Mechanics that the attack’s launc...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Putin 'Assassination' Attempt Raises EyebrowsSamuel Bendett, an adjunct senior fellow and advisor at the Center for a New American Security, told Newsweek via email that he "tends to agree" with Fokht's theory. "I am ske...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Kremlin Accuses Ukraine of Trying to Assassinate Putin With DronesSamuel Bendett, an adjunct senior fellow and advisor at the Center for a New American Security, who posted footage of the alleged attack on Twitter, told Newsweek that lots of...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Kremlin Drone Attack: Who Is Responsible?"At this point, it may be Ukraine's own UJ-22 drone, or a Chinese-made Mugin-5, which was apparently used by Ukraine before," while Kyiv's PD-1 drone is another option, said S...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Russia Claims Ukraine Launched a Drone Attack on the KremlinIt is impossible to tell from video being shared on social media where the drone that exploded over the Kremlin came from, said Samuel Bendett, an adviser with CNA, a non-prof...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Ukraine Denies Kremlin’s Claim of Drone Assassination Attempt on PutinPrivately, officials have acknowledged a Ukrainian role in some of the most dramatic strikes, such as last year’s drone attack on the Engels-2 strategic bomber air base in Sar...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
How Ukraine Could Retake CrimeaUkraine's first line of attack in a wider attempt to liberate Crimea will likely involve the use of drones, Samuel Bendett, an adjunct senior fellow and advisor at the Center ...
By Samuel Bendett
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Technology & National Security
Rising Tensions Over Taiwan Prompts US to Take Proactive Approach in Cyberspace“I think that this is one way to try to be proactive in terms of ensuring that if something were to happen — and knowing that cyberspace is going to be vulnerable — that we’re...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Technology & National Security
Technology and National Security Expert: 'China Has Been at the Forefront of Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Oppression'After a witness at a recent Congressional hearing called the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) treatment of its Uyghur population "the most sophisticated genocide in the modern ...
By Bill Drexel
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Technology & National Security
Why Alleged Pentagon Leaker Jack Teixeira Had Top Secret Access Aged 21"It is fairly commonplace for individuals of his age to have access to classified information," says Alexandria Seymour, an associate fellow at the Technology and National Sec...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Technology & National Security
US Federal Agents Arrest National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, 21, Over Leaked Intelligence Documents Revealing Ukraine War Secrets“It’s too soon to tell how much damage this will cause with US allies,” said Sam Howell, a researcher with the Centre for a New American Security. “At this point there’s signi...
By Sam Howell
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Technology & National Security
Pentagon should experiment with AIs like ChatGPT — but don’t trust them yet: DoD’s ex-AI chiefs“I’m excited about the potential,” said Lt. Gen. (ret.) Jack Shanahan, founding director of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) from 2018 to 2020. “I pl...
By Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
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Technology & National Security
Old tactics could slow China's advances in technology raceWhile the chip-export controls may slow down China’s advances in technology, it may still be possible for Beijing to acquire the tech it needs for quantum development. “These ...
By Alexandra Seymour
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Technology & National Security
America Pausing AI Sparks Concerns About China Making GainsWhile China is a global leader in AI research, its response to OpenAI's new GPT-4 (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer), an even more powerful version of ChatGPT driven by a la...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
The Other Chinese Apps Taking the US and UK by StormThis same concern has led the European Commission, the UK and Canada to ban TikTok from the phones of government employees. "How the US and other democratic countries address ...
By Paul Scharre
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Technology & National Security
Call for Pause in AI Development May Fall on Deaf EarsIn the letter calling for pause in development, the signatories use GPT-4 as a benchmark. GPT-4 is an AI tool developed by Open AI that is more powerful than the version that ...
By Bill Drexel
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Technology & National Security
America’s Commercial Sanctions on China Could Get Much WorseSuch advances may prompt America to modify its sanctions on chips, says Bill Drexel of the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), a think-tank in Washington. It might choo...
By Sam Howell & Bill Drexel
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Technology & National Security
How Can the US Force TikTok to Sell?Hannah Kelley, a research assistant in the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security, said that ByteDance is unlikely to divest and su...
By Hannah Kelley
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Technology & National Security
Biden Signs Executive Order to Clamp Down on Commercial SpywareAlexandra Seymour, an associate fellow for the technology and national security programme at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), told Middle East Eye that the execu...
By Alexandra Seymour