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The Pentagon is developing a new strategy to counter China’s military buildup
“This also applies to changes in culture and changes in technology so that we can gain a military advantage faster,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said September 6 at the annual DefenseNews conference.
Hicks discussed the US Department of Defense’s plan to deploy thousands of autonomous systems in all areas over the next 18 to 24 months. According to Hicks, China’s benefit to date lies in the “mass.” The Department of Defense will continue to invest in its traditional platforms and respond with more autonomous systems of its own. The Department of Defense will deploy fleets of small drones and satellites that will be inexpensive to replace.
Imagine clusters of autonomous, wear-prone systems in space, launched in groups, so many that it would be impossible to eliminate or weaken them all.
Smart satellites that use artificial intelligence to navigate, track and create images of objects are not a new technology. Hicks noted that the Department of Defense has already embraced the idea of expanding constellations of large numbers of low-cost satellites. But the next step is to mass-produce them. The same applies to autonomous systems in the air, at sea and on land, she added.
“For a long time, our space capabilities could be counted on the fingers. There were satellites the size of school buses that took decades to build and launch.”
The US space agency is developing a government constellation of satellites. The Department of Defense is also a major client of Starlink, Elon Musk’s vast space network. Hicks said these new commercial systems are helping the United States maintain an edge over China in the space race: “Increasingly, we are using massive constellations of small, stable, low-cost satellites. New satellites are launched every week, with dozens of payloads deployed each time.”
Thanks to the growth of commercial space, according to Hicks, “now the race in space has become a chase. And as the Department of Defense invests even more resources, the advantage of the United States will only increase.”
Attacking or disrupting a large network of satellites would be “a fruitless effort and highly escalatory. It’s not even worth considering, let alone trying to do it,” she said.
New research from cybersecurity company Kasada claims resellers are using bots to pre-order iPhone 15 smartphones, ordering millions of dollars worth of goods from Apple’s website and carriers. This complicates the task for ordinary buyers and delays delivery times.
The whole situation allows resellers to profit from the initial rush of demand by reselling devices for hundreds of dollars more than the recommended retail price. Resellers have long been a problem during the iPhone launch days, going back to the iPhone 4.
As noted by Kasada, trading bots, also known as All-In-One or AIO bots, have repurposed from buying in-demand sneakers to placing orders for the iPhone 15. This is especially aggravating the situation with the most in-demand iPhone 15 Pro Max. Kasada cites the example of one of the bots that made more than 3,000 checks or orders for the iPhone 15.
AIO bots are so called because they control the entire purchasing process, from determining the availability of new products to placing them in the cart and completing the order. These “batch transactions” can take anywhere from 10 to 0.2 seconds.
As with retail sales, Apple and other companies are continually cracking down on this practice with tools designed to detect the use of bots. Resellers respond by improving their tools.
The American company OpenAI has announced the release of a useful update to its generative artificial intelligence system, ChatGPT. According to the official blog, ChatGPT can search the web for the latest information, suggesting answers from “relevant and authoritative” sources.
The search is performed in the Microsoft Bing search engine. After receiving a response from the network, the user can click on the link and check the information provided. The feature, called Browse with Bing, is currently only open to those with Plus and Enterprise subscriptions, but the company says it will soon make it available to “all users.”
As the developers note, OpenAI has lifted the temporary restriction on data – previously, ChatGPT users had access to the amount of information until September 2021. Now the ChatGPT search engine can freely search for the latest information.
As a reminder, OpenAI added the ability to browse the internet to its iOS app ChatGPT at the end of June 2023, but quickly removed it. The reason turned out to be that users quickly found a loophole – the chatbot could be “persuaded” to provide paid content by entering the full URL.
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GeForce RTX 4090 is ready for Counter-Strike 2. The video card produces 543 FPS in the game
Almost immediately after the release of Counter-Strike 2, Nvidia explained what to expect in the game when using 3D cards from the GeForce RTX 40 line.
With Full HD resolution and maximum graphics settings, the flagship of the line – GeForce RTX 4090 – produces 543 FPS. Nvidia assured that the GeForce RTX 4090 in Counter-Strike 2 is 4.5 times faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 and 2.9 times faster than the GeForce RTX 2080.
At the other end is the GeForce RTX 4060, but even it provides more than 200 FPS under the same conditions. The performance gap between the GeForce RTX 4060 and GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is quite small, unlike other models in the line.
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