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US Military Prepares for Space Warfare As Potential Threats Grow From China
The White House this month proposed a $30 billion annual budget for the U.S. Space Force, almost $4 billion more than last year and a bigger jump than for other services including the Air Force and the Navy…. A key aim of a stand-alone force was to plan, equip and defend U.S. interests in space for all of the services and focus attention on the emerging threats. For the first time, the spending request also includes plans for simulators and other equipment to train Guardians, as Space Force members are known, for potential battle….
Just as it is on Earth, China is the Pentagon’s big worry in space. In unveiling a defense strategy late last year, the Biden administration cast China as the greatest danger to U.S. security. In space, the threats from China range from ground-launched missiles or lasers that could destroy or disable U.S. satellites, to jamming and other cyber interference and attacks in space, said Pentagon officials. China has invested heavily in its space program, with a crewed orbiting station, developing ground-based missiles and lasers as well as more surveillance capabilities. This is part of its broader military aims of denying adversaries access to space-based assets.
China is “testing on-orbit satellite systems which could be weaponized as they have already shown the capability to physically control and move other satellites,” Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force, told a congressional hearing this month. “There’s nothing we can do in space that’s of any value if the networks that process the information and data are vulnerable to attack,” Gen. Saltzman said. A central part of the Space Force’s next tranche of military contracts for rocket launches is protecting them from attacks by China and other adversaries. The hope is to make satellites tougher to approach by adversaries’ equipment as well as less susceptible to lasers and jamming from space or the ground, said Space Force leaders.
The article also notes the US Defense Department “is moving away from a small number of school bus-size satellites to a planned constellation of hundreds of smaller ones.
“The larger number of targets makes any one satellite less crucial to the network but also requires changes in the capabilities of the satellites themselves, the rockets that put them into orbit and the communications systems they host.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
US national lab is using machine learning to detect rogue nuclear threats
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is trying to hunt for unknown nuclear threats by using machine learning (ML) algorithms. PNNL, which is one of the United States Department of Energy national laboratories, said that ML is everywhere now, and that it can be used to create “secure, trustworthy, science-based…
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Lavish banquet to be attended by King Charles & French President MOVED over threats of violence
A LAVISH banquet that was planned for King Charles and Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles is set to be moved over threats of violence.
The event, which was meant to be the “highlight” of the monarch’s visit to France, will be moved to a different location as furious protests continue across the country.
The event for King Charles III is likely to be moved to the Elysée Palace[/caption]
They were meant to arrive at the Palace of Versailles on Monday evening[/caption]
Protestors have been clashing with police for the past week[/caption]
President Macron’s decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 has sparked waves of protests[/caption]
An aide to the French President told the BFM news channel that widespread rioting made the engagement too risky.
President Macron’s decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 without a parliamentary vote has sparked waves of violence in France with protesters clashing with police for the past week.
The presidential source said: “The dinner between Charles III and Emmanuel Macron, planned for Monday, may not be held at Versailles, as initially planned.”
Organisers “plan to hold it somewhere else,” with the Elysée Palace in central Paris a likely replacement.
The event at Versailles was meant to be the glittering highlight of the State Visit-Charles’s first as monarch.
The King and Camilla, the Queen Consort were set to arrive at the ancient palace on Monday evening, so as to join 200 handpicked guests being hosted by Mr Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron.
A concert was to be held in the Royal Chapel, and then dinner would have been served on Duplessis porcelain plates made during the reign of Louis XV.
But demonstrators including opposition politicians have accused Mr Macron of being completely out of touch with the lives of ordinary people.
Trade unionists and other protesters have already pledged to disrupt all events attended by the British Monarch, and Versailles would have been Number 1 target.
MP Sandrine Rousseau said: “It’s amazing. “We are going to have Emmanuel Macron, the Republican monarch meeting Charles III while people in the street are demonstrating.
“Can this really be happening? This is an incredible denial of democracy.
“Something is happening in this country – is the priority really to receive Charles III at Versailles?”
Versailles – west of Paris – is where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, France’s last proper king and queen, lived before being guillotined at the height of the 1789 Revolution.
The palace, which was built by the Sun King, Louis XIV, still represents the fabulous wealth and privilege of France’s pre-revolutionary Royals.
A Buckingham Palace source said the situation in France “was being monitored,” but there were no immediate plans to cancel the trip, which starts on Sunday.
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Jamf VP explains enterprise security threats — and how to mitigate them
Apple-focused device management and security vendor Jamf today published its Security 360: Annual Trends report, which reveals the five security tends impacting organizations running hybrid work environments. As it is every year, the report is interesting, so I spoke to Michael Covington, vice president of portfolio strategy, for more details about what the company found this year.
First, here’s a brief rundown of some of the salient points in the report: