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If You Hated 'A House of Dynamite,' Watch This Classic Nuclear Thriller Instead

WIRED

At a time when nuclear threats feel more alarming than ever, Netflix's doomsday film falls frustratingly flat. A 1964 masterpiece tells a much better cautionary tale. Somewhere over the Arctic reaches of North America, a nuclear bomber flies in a squadron, awaiting its orders. When a secret code appears on a machine in the cockpit, the crew looks at each other, stunned. The code is instructing them to attack.


Eufy PoE Bullet Security Camera E40 review: Professional grade

PCWorld

The Eufy PoE Bullet Security Camera E40, along with Eufy's Network Video Recorder S4, is a strong choice for homeowners and small business owners who want the enhanced security and reliability of hardwired cameras; plus, local AI and local storage that eliminates the need for a subscription. Add-on camera, 129.99 (requires Eufy Network Video Recorder S4, 399.99) The Eufy PoE Bullet Security Camera E40 is aimed at homeowners and small business owners who want the reliability of wired infrastructure, along with local storage of security camera recordings to eliminate the cost of a cloud subscription. It's built for people who take their security seriously and are willing to pull cables through their walls to get it. The camera must be paired with Eufy's PoE NVR, which you'll likewise need to hardwire to your home network.


Against racing to AGI: Cooperation, deterrence, and catastrophic risks

Dung, Leonard, Hellrigel-Holderbaum, Max

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

AGI Racing is the view that it is in the self-interest of major actors in AI development, especially powerful nations, to accelerate their frontier AI development to build highly capable AI, especially artificial general intelligence (AGI), before competitors have a chance. We argue against AGI Racing. First, the downsides of racing to AGI are much higher than portrayed by this view. Racing to AGI would substantially increase catastrophic risks from AI, including nuclear instability, and undermine the prospects of technical AI safety research to be effective. Second, the expected benefits of racing may be lower than proponents of AGI Racing hold. In particular, it is questionable whether winning the race enables complete domination over losers. Third, international cooperation and coordination, and perhaps carefully crafted deterrence measures, constitute viable alternatives to racing to AGI which have much smaller risks and promise to deliver most of the benefits that racing to AGI is supposed to provide. Hence, racing to AGI is not in anyone's self-interest as other actions, particularly incentivizing and seeking international cooperation around AI issues, are preferable.


Geofenced Unmanned Aerial Robotic Defender for Deer Detection and Deterrence (GUARD)

Temesgen, Ebasa, Jerez, Mario, Brown, Greta, Wilson, Graham, Divakarla, Sree Ganesh Lalitaditya, Boelter, Sarah, Nelson, Oscar, McPherson, Robert, Gini, Maria

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

--Wildlife-induced crop damage, particularly from deer, threatens agricultural productivity. Traditional deterrence methods often fall short in scalability, responsiveness, and adaptability to diverse farmland environments. This paper presents an integrated unmanned aerial vehicle (UA V) system designed for autonomous wildlife deterrence, developed as part of the Farm Robotics Challenge. Our system combines a YOLO-based real-time computer vision module for deer detection, an energy-efficient coverage path planning algorithm for efficient field monitoring, and an autonomous charging station for continuous operation of the UA V . In collaboration with a local Minnesota farmer, the system is tailored to address practical constraints such as terrain, infrastructure limitations, and animal behavior . The solution is evaluated through a combination of simulation and field testing, demonstrating robust detection accuracy, efficient coverage, and extended operational time. Crop damage caused by wildlife, particularly deer incursions, represents a challenge for modern agriculture. Deer damage to crops is responsible for disagreements among farmers, hunters, and the Department of Natural Resources over how the deer population should be controlled [1].


America's Golden Dome can't wait

FOX News

In response to an executive order, President Donald Trump's team will present him with a plan for creating the Golden Dome, a missile defense shield meant to guard against attacks that are increasingly difficult to defeat. This effort will demand innovative thinking, collective will and rapid action. Since my tenure as director of the Missile Defense Agency in the early 2000s, an integrated network of sensors based in space, land and sea paired with ground-based interceptors has effectively deterred rudimentary missile attacks on our homeland from Iran, North Korea and others. But as they continue to improve their capabilities and as we look at a resurgent Russia and aggressive China, we need to build our next-generation missile defense. The window to defeat ballistic missiles heading to targets in the US is less than 40 minutes and can be as brief as 10 or 15 minutes if launched from a submarine closer to its target.


Israel Launched Missiles as Well as Drones at Iran, Officials Say

NYT > Middle East

Israeli warplanes fired missiles on Iran during a retaliatory strike early Friday morning, one Western official and two Iranian officials said, suggesting that the attack included more advanced firepower than initial reports indicated. It was not immediately clear the types of missiles used, from where they were fired, whether any were intercepted by Iran's defenses or where they landed. The Western official and the Iranian officials requested anonymity to discuss classified information. Previously, Iranian officials said Friday's attack on a military base in central Iran was conducted by small aerial drones, most likely launched from inside Iranian territory. A separate group of small drones, they said soon after the attack, was shot down in the region of Tabriz, roughly 500 miles north of Isfahan.


Critics lash out at Biden after attack kills 3 US service members in Jordan: 'Hit Iran now'

FOX News

Critics took aim at President Biden's Middle East policy after three Americans service members were killed in an attack on a base in Jordan near the border with Syria. "Hit Iran now," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a statement after the Sunday attack. Graham's comment comes after three U.S. service members were killed and 25 more were injured in a drone attack on northeast Jordan that sits close to the border with Syria, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed. "On Jan. 28, three U.S. service members were killed and 25 injured from a one-way attack UAS that impacted at a base in northeast Jordan, near the Syria border. As a matter of respect for the families and in accordance with DoD policy, the identities of the servicemembers will be withheld until 24 hours after their next of kin have been notified," CENTCOM said in a statement. "Updates will be provided as they become available."


Nikki Haley unloads on Biden projecting 'American weakness' on world stage: 'We have to wake up'

FOX News

Nikki Haley, presidential candidate and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., weighs in after President Biden authorized an air strike in response to an Iranian drone that killed an American. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called on the Biden administration to get tough on a slew of foreign adversaries or risk war after an American citizen was killed in an Iranian drone strike in Syria. "It shows what happens when there's American weakness," Haley said Friday of the attack on "America's Newsroom." "Whether it's in Afghanistan, whether you see it in Ukraine, whether you see it on the southern border, you're going to continue to see more of these things happen." "There is no deterrence," she continued.


The Next Evolution -- Security Today

#artificialintelligence

The longstanding practice of watching hundreds and thousands of cameras for suspicious behavior, and then reacting, is over. This method has proven ineffective, especially as surveillance continues to proliferate in home, business, smart cities and other connected environments. In addition, conventional live-video monitoring services tend to not mention the total inherent delay times from the detection of an intrusion to the execution of effective deterrence reactions. With the ongoing shortage of labor and contract guard services, as well as humans who simply can't stay attentive to multiple video displays, technology is stepping up to assist and revolutionize remote monitoring services. Sensing, detection, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) have changed the formula of monitoring from an after-the-fact forensic activity to a proactive and strategic tool that can actually deter and prevent crime and property loss, at a lower total cost of ownership to the user.


Artificial Intelligence is the Future of Deterrence

#artificialintelligence

Russia's war in Ukraine is becoming a testing ground for loitering ammunition. How is artificial intelligence changing the future of military deterrence? The Russian attack on Ukraine shows that wars of conquest are not an artifact of the past. This reversion to an outdated notion of territorial integrity of states, visible since 2014 at the latest, puts the concept of deterrence back on the political agenda of many democracies. The new German government now wants to make the contribution to NATO that the then U.S. President Donald Trump, for example, demanded with media attention a few years ago.