Autonomous drones may have attacked humans for the first time ever, according to a United Nations report. Last year, rebels in Libya were bombarded by'unmanned combat aerial vehicles and lethal autonomous weapons systems,' the report alleges. The drones can be operated manually but in this encounter they were self-guided, using on-board cameras and machine learning to find and target enemies. No deaths were confirmed but the drones carry explosive charges and similar systems have caused'significant casualties' in other encounters. According to the March report from the United Nations Security Council's Panel of Experts on Libya, Kargu-2 quadcopters were deployed in the North African nation in March 2020.

Well, you're not alone -- 31 per cent of Britons and more than half of Europeans would gladly replace their MPs with artificial intelligences. This finding comes from the latest European Tech Insights Survey report, which was compiled by researchers from the IE University in Spain. The results point to a growing scepticism surrounding'Big Tech' firms but, in the wake of a year of lockdowns, a greater willingness to embrace technology overall. For example, more than 40 per cent of respondents supported the use of controversial facial recognition tech for verifying the identity of citizens. And 64 per cent of Britons and and 72 per cent of Europeans said that they would like to be able to vote in elections using their mobile phones.

This article is part of the Policing and Technology Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the relationship between law enforcement, police reform, and technology. It's the middle of the night, you are disoriented, and they want to know where you were earlier in the day. You have no idea at that moment that your ex-girlfriend was found dead, and some of your fingerprints were found at her house--but you do know you have the right to remain silent. Until the cops bring out the headset. One of the hallmarks of the U.S. Constitution is the enumerated right of citizens to not be coerced into self-incrimination or be allowed to "take the Fifth."

'Gutfeld!' panel on how constant political correctness is hurting society This is a rush transcript of "Gutfeld!" on May 27, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. You did some fantastic and extensive reporting this weekend on Joe Biden, who he is. ASHLEY PARKER, MSNBC SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Joe Biden, some of it, he has the taste of a five-year-old. It's PB&J chop salad with grilled chicken. He likes orange Gatorade, and he stacks the Oval Office with homemade chocolate chip cookies. That is some extensive reporting for the Food Network. You know in the old days, if you wanted an answer to something, you went to this. That's how I learned to play doctor. No worry it was with Raggedy Andy. But the one thing everybody had was a set of encyclopedias. Every time you had homework, you copy the answers word for word from their pages, what's now called the Biden method. Then as you got older, you discovered the library, a magical place filled with strange artifacts known as books. They were heavy, you turn the pages in order to read them. Of course, libraries are different now, they're not closed. You see -- you see a lot of massages going on in there. Hey, I don't make the rules. But that was really the first search engine, except there was no engine, just a librarian whose hair bun could stop a bullet. Now getting information seems easier. The whole world is in the palm of your hand. And yet for some reason, we still can't find the truth. Because even though we think we are in control, we aren't. We now have everything at our fingertips, but it's the tech giants who decide what we can and can't touch.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has survived its sixth flight on the Red Planet, but not everyone went to plan, with some'unexpected motion' in the final few feet. This motion was from an'image processing issue' but the 4lb copter'muscled through' the final 213ft of its 703ft flight over the Martian surface, NASA JPL tweeted. The flight happened last week, on May 22, but NASA said it would be taking more time to review each flight before releasing data after the fifth flight was over, so information on it surviving the'wobble' weren't released until Thursday. Despite the issue the helicopter, currently in a new phase where it is helping Perseverance scout for locations, 'landed safely and is ready to fly again.' The latest trip was designed to expand the flight envelope and demonstrate aerial-imaging capabilities by taking stereo images of a region of interest to the west. Ingenuity climbed 33ft, moved 492ft southwest at 9 mph, travelled 49ft south while capturing images towards the west, before going another 164ft to its landing site.

For years now, some of the best, wildest, most moving or revealing stories we've been telling ourselves have come not from books, movies or TV, but from video games. So we're running an occasional series, Reading The Game, in which we take a look at some of these games from a literary perspective. In the beginning, it was the Normandy that I fell for, not Mass Effect. If it hadn't been for the Normandy (gorgeous, sleek, the most advanced ship in the Alliance fleet and personal ride of Commander Shepard, star of the series), I might've just quit the newly remastered Legendary edition of the beloved trilogy after the first few hours. See, I did not like Mass Effect at all when I started playing.

Satellite images showing the expansion of large detention camps in Xinjiang, China, between 2016 and 2018 provided some of the strongest evidence of a government crackdown on more than a million Muslims, triggering international condemnation and sanctions. Other aerial images--of nuclear installations in Iran and missile sites in North Korea, for example--have had a similar impact on world events. Now, image-manipulation tools made possible by artificial intelligence may make it harder to accept such images at face value. In a paper published online last month, University of Washington professor Bo Zhao employed AI techniques similar to those used to create so-called deepfakes to alter satellite images of several cities. Zhao and colleagues swapped features between images of Seattle and Beijing to show buildings where there are none in Seattle and to remove structures and replace them with greenery in Beijing.

Soon, your driver's license may not be enough to get you through airport security in the United States. Oct. 1, 2020 is the deadline for U.S. citizens to have REAL ID-compliant state driver's licenses, a requirement passed by Congress in 2005 in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Without a compliant driver's license, those who are 18 and over won't be able to board a domestic flight, unless possessing other specific forms of acceptable identification. The thought behind this was that with standardization, it will become a lot harder to forge documents and gain access to aircraft. While the main idea of REAL ID is to better protect U.S. citizens and their identity, there is controversy over the law.

In 2021, more firms will employ AI to battle cyberattacks, trying to gain an edge in a game of one-upmanship with hackers and attackers. A survey of 20 cybersecurity experts recently surveyed by Forbes showed some patterns. For example, open source software can be an easy way into organizations. Gaining more visibility into open source contributions is possible with the use of AI and machine learning, according to Maty Siman, CTO of Checkmarx, a software security company based in Ramat Gan, Israel. "Rarely does a week go by without the discovery of malicious open source packages," Siman stated.

One of the most amazing dynamics within the DevOps enterprise community is seeing business leaders co-presenting success stories with their technology leadership counterparts. For example, Ken Kennedy (executive vice president and president for Technology and Product at CSG) and Kimberly Johnson (chief operating officer at Fannie Mae) described the achievements of their technology leadership counterparts and why it was important to them. I expect this trend to continue, especially given how COVID-19 has accelerated the rate of digital disruption. I believe this bodes well for all of technology. With the rise of hybrid (remote/in-office) product teams, upskilling and online training initiatives will expand.