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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google will provide AI to the military for disaster response  The Washington Post Source link

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian militants carried out the deadliest single attack on Israel’s forces since the Hamas raid that triggered the war, killing 21 soldiers, the military said Tuesday, a significant setback that could add to mounting calls for a cease-fire. Hours later, the military announced that ground forces had encircled the southern city of Khan Younis, Gaza’s second largest. That marked a major advance, but it was unclear how much closer it would bring Israel to defeating… Source link

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea will launch a military strike immediately in response to any provocation, Kim Yo Jong, the sister and key ally of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Sunday, as it fired artillery shells near its border with the South for the third day in a row. The remarks come after South Korea’s military said the North had fired more than 60 artillery rounds on Saturday near their disputed maritime border, following a similar volley of more than 200 the previous day. North Korea again… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]‘A betrayal’: Google workers protest Israeli military contract at vigil for ex-intern killed in airstrike  The Guardian Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]‘A betrayal’: Google workers protest Israeli military contract at vigil for ex-intern killed in airstrike  The Guardian Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Discord users say Jack Teixeira only leaked documents to show off. That’s a problem for the US military, which uses the app as a conduit for recruitment: reports  Yahoo News Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Purported tranche of U.S. and allied military secrets leaked online in major intelligence breach  Yahoo News Source link

Russian army officers delivered a damning verdict on Vladimir Putin‘s war in Ukraine, as they voted to down arms and go home in a secret poll. Putin’s army has been involved in fierce fighting in the Donbas, as it tries to secure control over the entire resource rich region. On Friday Russia‘s Ministry of Defence claimed the city of Soledar had fallen to the Kremlin’s troops and that the noose was tightening on Bakhmut. Kyiv insisted that the city was still not fully under Russian control and… Source link

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In early February 2016, the security gate at a U.S. military base near Washington, D.C., swung open to admit a Navy doctor… Source link

Chandravongsri’s parents were born in Laos, where he still has extended family. He has seen first-hand how CIA-led bombing campaigns during the 1960s and 1970s left a deadly legacy of unexploded ordnance that still threatens lives today, a problem seen in many war zones, including Gaza. He says reading the AI capabilities included in Project Nimbus “really scared me.” Chandravongsri is far from the only worker in Google’s vast, international workforce whose background provides a… Source link