Matthew Canham The capture of Nicolás Maduro by US special operations forces without enduring the loss of a single operator marks one of the most overwhelmingly successful operations in the (acknowledged) history of special operations. A recent account by one of the Venezuelan security guards loyal to Maduro suggests that some advanced weaponry  may have been involved. Their account describes hearing a loud and intense sound which caused the guards to experience extreme pain

When are people the most vulnerable to a social engineering attack?  When are they most likely to make a mistake?  If we pause to contemplate these two questions, we will likely come to a very similar list of conclusions; when they are tired, distracted, or they confuse one thing for another.  In the first few years of World War II, the U.S. Army Air Corps lost over 400 aircraft in less than two years, not from enemy engagements, but due to “pilot error”. Pilot error included

Elise Annett James Giordano   The Darwin Monkey System: A Paradigm Shift from AI to Synthetic Cognition Fully integrated neuromorphic computing represents an important – and provocative – developmental iteration of artificial intelligence (AI). To date, most AI system operations have been based upon symbolic reasoning and/or statistical inference derived from large data sets. However, Darwin Monkey , a large-scale neuromorphic computing system newly developed by Chinese rese

In August 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) co-sponsored ConnectCon , an interactive workshop that...