Czech startup Neuron Soundware has built an AI-powered acoustic detection system called Sound Shield that identifies drones by the sound of their engines using microphone sensors that cost between €100 and €150 each. The system is designed as a passive…
The US Army has commissioned three more technology executives into Detachment 201, the reserve unit that gives Silicon Valley leaders the rank of lieutenant colonel and a direct advisory line to senior military officials. Dane Knecht, chief technology …
BAE Systems, the UK’s largest defence company, is putting €50m into venture capital, a bet that the startups it backs today could shape the weapons it sells tomorrow. The money will flow into VC funds focused on European defence-tech, with €25m of it g…
The US Justice Department has taken Elon Musk’s side in a pollution lawsuit, arguing that the gas turbines powering his AI data centre are too important to national security to switch off. In a filing on Monday, the department, joined by the state of M…
The aircraft drawing crowds at last week’s Berlin airshow was not the one with a pilot in it. The “loyal wingman,” an uncrewed jet built to fly beside a manned fighter and carry the extra sensors, jammers, and weapons the fighter cannot, has become Eur…
Ukraine can now draw on emergency European Union cyber support to respond to large-scale incidents, after the Council of the EU approved its inclusion in the EU Cybersecurity Reserve on 15 June. The decision extends a defensive mechanism built for memb…
Mercedes-Benz is leaning deeper into defence. The carmaker has signed a memorandum of understanding with TYTAN Technologies, a Munich counter-drone startup, to develop vehicle-based systems that detect and shoot down hostile drones, built on its G-Clas…
Boeing unveiled an upgraded version of its MQ-28 Ghost Bat uncrewed combat aircraft at the ILA Berlin air show on Wednesday, adding an internal weapons bay, a 25% larger wing, and 2,000 pounds of additional payload capacity. The upgrades are designed t…
India has effectively frozen the approvals Starlink needs to begin commercial operations in the country. Security agencies under India’s Ministry of Home Affairs withheld final clearances after SpaceX allowed Starlink access inside Iran despite not hav…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he does not know what role his company’s AI model Claude played in a missile strike that killed an estimated 120 children at an elementary school in Minab, Iran, on February 28. In an interview on Bloomberg’s The Circuit…