Gajillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter, Now Easier to Shoot Down
The jet that’s supposed to make up more than 90 percent of America’s combat aviation fleet may have become a lot easier to shoot down. Lockheed Martin, makers of the Joint Strike Fighter, has been under huge pressure to stabilize the jet’s skyrocketing costs. Production prices have nearly doubled on what was supposed to be…
Tech News
Noah Shachtman -Wired
Spies Want to Stockpile Your YouTube Clips (And Scan Them for Terror Threats)
Your Youtube videos could soon be scanned and evaluated for terror threats, thanks to a new project funded by the U.S. intelligence community that’ll create a searchable warehouse of open-source clips. Iarpa, the spy agency’s out-there research arm, is behind the program, called Automated Low-Level Analysis and Description of Diverse Intelligence Video (ALADDIN). The advent…
Privacy & Security
Katie Drummond - Wired
