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Why the world's militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink

New Scientist

Why the world's militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink The reliable internet connections provided by Starlink offer a huge advantage on the battlefield. Starlink's satellite constellation provides a reliable internet connection to almost anywhere on Earth, conferring an advantage on the modern battlefield. But it is also run by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, presenting a risk to militaries that could easily find themselves cut off. So, now countries are racing to build their own version. The Starlink network consists of almost 10,000 satellites that offer internet connections across most of the planet via small dishes on the ground.


Why the US is using a cheap Iranian drone against the country itself

New Scientist

The US and Iran are trading blows in the Gulf with a simple drone that costs as little as $50,000 to make. But why is a slow, cheap and relatively primitive drone seeing use in 2026 alongside hypersonic missiles and stealth jets? Iran invented the relatively simple Shahed 136 attack drone, but is now fending off US copies launched against it in combat. Why, when the US military has expensive, cutting-edge and hi-tech weapons, is it making flimsy drones powered by a motorbike engine? Iranian company Shahed Aviation Industries originally designed the 136.


Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

New Scientist

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game . While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world applications, like controlling robot arms. In 2021, the Australian company Cortical Labs used its neuron-powered computer chips to play . The chips consisted of clumps of more than 800,000 living brain cells grown on top of microelectrode arrays that can both send and receive electrical signals. Researchers had to carefully train the chips to control the paddles on either side of the screen.


Supplementary Material for Understanding and Improving Ensemble Adversarial Defense

Neural Information Processing Systems

They are used to test the proposed enhancement approach iGA T. In general, ADP employs an ensemble by averaging, i.e., (C 1) ( C 1) Adversarial examples are generated to compute the losses by using the PGD attack. Our main theorem builds on a supporting Lemma 2.1. We start from the cross-entropy loss curvature measured by Eq. The above new expression of T (x) helps bound the difference between h(x) and h(x). Note that these three cases are mutually exclusive.