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The U.S. government is reportedly alerting millions of current and former U.S. military service members and staff that their personal information was stolen during a months-long breach of the Pentagon’s personnel records, the latest in a spate of thefts involving federal workers’ data in recent months.

NATO’s military capacity rests on its ability to swiftly concentrate combat power at decisive points, rapidly moving forces and materiel to the battlefield. That ability depends not only on roads, railways, ports, and airfields but also on the cybersecurity of the civilian systems that enable military movement. It could be the difference between preventing Russia…

China and the United States agreed to establish a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications following a three-day summit between President Xi Jinping and President Trump in Washington, the two governments said Saturday.

A vulnerability in a Defense Manpower Data Center system allowed unauthorized users to access files containing unencrypted personal information, including Social Security numbers and military personnel data, according to a breach notification letter reviewed by Military Times.

An intelligence report disclosing that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program immediately set off alarm bells across the US military before it was determined that the intelligence was false, a Friday CNN report revealed. 

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The U.S. military planned to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East based on bad intelligence from an artificial intelligence tool but backed out at the last minute, according to a new report from CNN. The determination to even consider a boarding action against the China-flagged ship relied on an AI-hallucinated claim it was…

“They need CPAs in the world. There are many perks but having that credential means more than a lot of people know.”

The Bundeswehr is assessing 30 artificial intelligence tools that could help speed up battlefield decision-making by processing data from drones and satellites. A prototype is expected in the second quarter of 2027, with full deployment planned for 2028.

The US signed a $4 billion Foreign Military Financing (FMF) loan agreement with Poland today, a move Warsaw said is geared toward “supporting the technical modernization” of its armed forces and bolstering “transatlantic cooperation.”