weapons Pentagon pouring $1 billion/year into science fiction-style beam weapons mounted on military vehicles David Pescovitz

military US Naval Institute recalls a prior enemy's weaponized hot air balloon which… wasn't David Pescovitz

africa Africa's history of biological warfare Devin Nealy

data The ins and outs of cyber warfare Devin Nealy

military Guerrilla war across North Carolina but don't worry, it's just a very realistic drill David Pescovitz

war UN wants to ban killer robots but US won't comply Thom Dunn

weapons A brief history of weaponized balloons Thom Dunn

AI Watch a champion fighter jet AI destroy a human pilot in a flight simulator Andrea James

DRONES Sobering overview of the future of autonomous weaponry Andrea James

video games Watch a real firearms historian tear apart video game guns Grant St. Clair

arizona "Slay on, queens!": Hungry javelina will cost Sedona golf club up to $375,000 in damages Jennifer Sandlin

video games Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to take up staggering 213 gigabytes of storage space Grant St. Clair

mistakes HBO execs have "secret army" of sockpuppet accounts to attack critics on Twitter Rob Beschizza

video games Call of Duty to come to Game Pass, confirming the worst about the Activision-Microsoft merger Grant St. Clair

law Bill Willingham puts his entire Fables comic book property into public domain Ruben Bolling

compounds Shampoo king wants to become a war lord with a "quite sizable compound" Rob Beschizza

AI recipe app Supermarket chain's AI meal planner recommends recipes for "poison bread sandwiches" and chlorine gas Mark Frauenfelder

mistakes Belorusian president Alexander Lukashenko says "there will be nuclear weapons for everyone" willing to help Russia Rob Beschizza