Neowin News Feed for: Military

From code to combat: Meta CTO calls for Silicon Valley involvement in military contracts

Hamid Ganji — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:12:01 +0000

Meta's Chief Technology Officer demands Silicon Valley companies take a more active role in providing tech to the US military. Read more...

Anduril and Meta partner on XR products for U.S. military

Pradeep Viswanathan — Thu, 29 May 2025 22:36:01 +0000

Anduril Industries, a defense technology startup, has announced a new partnership with Meta to develop integrated XR products for the US military. Read more...

War Thunder hit by new military leak as Eurofighter Typhoon radar details exposed

Omer Dursun — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:56:01 +0000

War Thunder is once again facing controversy as users have leaked classified military documents, this time regarding the Eurofighter Typhoon's radar system. Read more...

Anduril and Microsoft team up to enhance IVAS: a new era in battlefield awareness

Pradeep Viswanathan — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:10:01 +0000

Anduril Industries is partnering with Microsoft to enhance the capabilities of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) for the US Army. Read more...

Google DeepMind workers urge the company to end ties with military organizations

Hamid Ganji — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:56:01 +0000

A group of Google DeepMind staff has sent a letter to the company leadership asking for the end of military contracts and the stoppage of providing DeepMind technology to military users. Read more...

After photos from the battlefield, Musk denies that SpaceX is selling Starlink to Russia

Martin Hodás — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:10:02 +0000

Ukrainian intelligence confirmed that Russians are using Starlink at the front line in Ukraine. SpaceX denies a possibility that the Russian military obtained its terminals legally. Read more...

OpenAI is working with the Pentagon on a number of new projects including cybersecurity

Mehrotra A — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 05:48:01 +0000

OpenAI is working with the US government and the Department of Defense on cybersecurity tools. This comes after the company deleted language from its TOS barring it from working with the military. Read more...

Report: Microsoft could restrict Azure customers based in China

Paul Hill — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:20:01 +0000

Chinese companies could soon be restricted from using some Microsoft cloud services. The US is supposedly readying restrictions that would limit Chinese access to cloud services that use AI chips. Read more...

Microsoft and Lockheed Martin launch deal on innovation in AI, 5G and more

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:50:01 +0000

The U.S. Department of Defense will be benefitting in four key areas as a result of this partnership, including cloud innovation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and more. Read more...

Elon Musk says SpaceX will continue funding Starlink's Ukraine operations

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:38:01 +0000

Elon Musk has said that SpaceX will continue funding Starlink's operations in Ukraine indefinitely. This comes after SpaceX wrote a letter to the Pentagon asking to pick up the tab for its operations. Read more...

SpaceX asks Pentagon to pick up the tab for Starlink's services in Ukraine

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:16:01 +0000

SpaceX has wrote to the Pentagon asking to fund Starlink's services in Ukraine. The company said that it is "not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals." Read more...

Jargon Buster: Find out what MIL-STD and IP ratings mean for your gadgets

Chandrakant Isi — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 16:00:01 +0000

Not all rugged and water-resistant electronics are made equal. Let's find out what factors affect your gadget's ability to survive rough handling and operate in harsh environments. Read more...

The U.S. Army plans to start equipping soldiers with HoloLens in September

Usama Jawad — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 05:54:01 +0000

Microsoft is working with the U.S. Army on its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS). 120,000 headsets with HoloLens tech will be produced with on-field installation starting in September. Read more...

Microsoft bags yet another HoloLens contract with U.S. military

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 21:06:01 +0000

Following the $480 million augmented reality headset contract with the United States Army in 2018, Microsoft today landed another similar contract with the U.S. military worth $21.9 billion. Read more...

Microsoft wins JEDI contract from the U.S. Dept. of Defense

Paul Hill — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 04:28:01 +0000

Microsoft has been awarded the Department of Defense's JEDI contract, beating Amazon. Microsoft will now help the DOD develop tech to allow comms with soldiers on the battlefield and in remote areas. Read more...

Microsoft employees protest company's HoloLens deal with U.S. military

Usama Jawad — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 14:40:01 +0000

50 employees have penned a letter urging Microsoft to cancel its HoloLens deal with the U.S. military, and to be "mindful about who we're empowering and what we're empowering them to do". Read more...

Microsoft and Thales collaborate to create a Defence Cloud solution for armed forces

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 12:00:01 +0000

The Thales Group has announced a partnership with Microsoft to develop a common Defence Cloud to be used by armed forces. Azure Stack is being used as the baseline system for this operation. Read more...

Military and intelligence personnel details exposed in data leak

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 14:08:02 +0000

The resumes, addresses, and other information for many people who hold 'Top Secret' security clearance were left in an unsecured database after they had applied for vacancies at a security firm. Read more...

The US military will finally upgrade its email system to utilize STARTTLS

Timi Cantisano — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 18:18:01 +0000

Even though STARTTLS was introduced over a decade ago, the US military has not used it to encrypt its own emails. This will now change, as an upgrade to better security is planned for July 2018. Read more...

Department of Defense awards $927 million contract to Microsoft for specialized tech support

Ben Moore — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 02:12:01 +0000

A new deal between Microsoft and the DoD will see the Enterprise Services team provide on-demand Blue Badge support for DISA. The arrangement includes assistance for both products and software. Read more...

Italian military to drop Microsoft Office for LibreOffice

Jett Goldsmith — Thu, 12 May 2016 20:40:01 +0000

The Italian Ministry of Defense has announced that it will switch the software on all of its computers from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, in a move which will save up to €29 million. Read more...

Microsoft wants HoloLens to be used by the military [Update]

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 11 May 2016 15:24:02 +0000

HoloLens has the potential of being a great device for gaming and media consumption but Microsoft envisions a world where businesses and even militaries use the device to change how they operate. Read more...

Microsoft lands one of the largest commercial cloud contracts in DoD history

Chris Schroeder — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:04:01 +0000

In one of the largest cloud services deals the Department of Defense has ever struck, Microsoft is now set to power all things cloud-based for the U.S. Air Force. Read more...

United States Army considers dropping combat training for "cyber warrior" recruits

Christopher White — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:34:01 +0000

If you've always wanted to join the U.S. military as a security expert but lacked the ability to run ten miles with gear on your back, you're in luck as the Army may drop the requirement. Read more...

US Government to pay $50 million for using pirated software

Shreyas Gandhe — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:56:01 +0000

The US Government has been sued by software maker Apptricity for running unlicensed copies of their military software, for which the Government has agreed to pay $50 million as damages for settlement. Read more...

Broken fax machine renders US government office unreachable

Paul Ferson — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:40:23 +0000

An old fax machine has become a source of headaches for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, after it was found that faxes cannot be received and they may remain incommunicado until November. Read more...

Has the Xbox One 'alienated the entire military'?

John Callaham — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:07:04 +0000

Jay Johnson, who serves as a member of the US Navy and is a major Xbox 360 gamer, says Microsoft's online requirement for the Xbox One "has single handedly alienated the entire military." Read more...

US military green-lights secure version of Android for use by soldiers

Andy Weir — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:02:51 +0000

The US Department of Defense has approved Samsung phones running a secure version of Android, known as 'Knox', for use by American soldiers, with further devices expecting approval this month. Read more...

Shanghai could be home to secretive Chinese hackers

Paul Ferson — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:35:28 +0000

Unit 61938, a group of Chinese governmental hackers responsible for more than 100 documented attacks since 2006, might have been nailed on the outskirts of the world's biggest city - Shanghai. Read more...

Kinect to be used in physical therapy for injured veterans

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:40:42 +0000

Microsoft is working on providing a way for injured veterans to rehab in the comfort of their own homes through the use of Kinect. The company is partnering with the Air Force for the project. Read more...

Anonymous release e-mail login details of 90k Military personnel

Tom Dwyer — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:04:27 +0000

Internet Activist group Anonymous have released information about their latest attack today, in which they posted 90,000 e-mail addresses and passwords of Military personnel. It marks another leak under the #Antisec movement which seems to be... Read more...

US warns future hackers of possible military action

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:01:14 +0000

Yesterday the United States revealed its International Strategy for Cyberspace that deals with military and defence matters relating to cyber-attacks, along with general praise of cyberspace and other less interesting matters. The document mentions the... Read more...

US Air Force bans removable media

Matthew Jones — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:17:07 +0000

Thumb drives? Blank discs? Uncle Sam says no. In the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal, it appears the US Military is taking extra measures to ensure sensitive materials stay out of the wrong - or right,... Read more...

Wikileaks retreats to Amazon after DDoS attack

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:40:25 +0000

After becoming the victim of an effective Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Sunday, the controversial and influential Wikileaks has decided to move their operation to Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform. A DDoS attack... Read more...

GameStop decides not to sell Medal of Honor to military

Brandon Boyce — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:07:01 +0000

Electronic Arts' new Medal of Honor game -- expected to be out in October -- has been getting a lot of negative attention recently. The UK defense secretary said publicly that the game should be... Read more...

The Predator drone program: is humanity ready?

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:01:04 +0000

As the small group of soldiers lays stranded under cover in an Iraqi urban battlefield, barking coordinates and position updates into a handheld radio, a small bomber flies overhead. With unmatched precision, the bomber pilot... Read more...

US Cyber Command approved for launch in October

Tzvi Friedman — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:42:28 +0000

In June 2009, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved an initiative to start Cyber Command, a subdivision of U.S. Strategic Command that would be responsible for the defense and coordination of all the computer networks... Read more...

U.S. military enters the 21st century, allows access to social networking

Kristan Kenney — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:32:13 +0000

The Pentagon announced on Friday that military personnel who use its non-classified network will now have access to popular social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook, along with services such as YouTube according to... Read more...

US Air Force builds supercomputer using PlayStation 3s

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:56:41 +0000

A US Air Force research team has built a supercomputer using just over 2,000 PlayStation 3 game consoles, according to military news site Stars and Stripes. Dubbed the 500 TeraFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster it is almost... Read more...

iPod Touch being adopted for networked warfare

Brad Sams — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:37:29 +0000

The United States military is taking Apple's iPod touch onto the battlefield. A report shows that the iPod Touch is perfect for "networked warfare" and that it will allow soldiers to be linked together... Read more...