A man captured and sold to the war industry in Ukraine managed to make a short video inside one of many Territorial Recruitment Centers (TRCs) in Ukraine. These men are captured and sold to the military and rapidly shipped to the front lines. The police and the military, trying to avoid the fighting, capture others to fight in their place. Avoiding fighting is one motivation, and the other is profit-making. Some abductors make $2,000-$2,500 per day in human trafficking.
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As Ukraine’s military fights to hold of the Russian invasion following a third Christmas season, the nation unites to the sound of a classic Christmas tune. “Shchedryk,” known in English as “The Little Swallow,” was arranged by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych as a New Year’s Eve song in 1901. Students at Kyiv University performed early performances of “Shchedryk” and the final version was published in 1919.
Less than a year since the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit entered its new era dubbed DIU 3.0, the innovation hub has its eyes set on further scaling operations and bringing more non-traditional contractors into the department’s ecosystem.
DIU Director Doug Beck unveiled his updated strategic vision in early 2024 as a way to address a number of challenges that have kept the organization from accelerating the Defense Department’s adoption of dual-use, commercial technologies.
Actor Denis Leary’s latest TV series, “Going Dutch,” is a comedic military portrayal of an Army unit stationed in a remote corner of the Netherlands known as “Garrison Stroopsdorf.” Actor Denis Leary plays a new unit commander, Col. Patrick Quinn, a role in which he drew inspiration from a career-long interest in Gen. George S. Patton.
Leary was recently interviewed by Fox News about his new role in “Going Dutch,” where he had a chance to infuse all of his knowledge about Patton into his character. He recalled a conversation with the series creator, Joel Church-Cooper.
The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office recently completed a pilot exercise with tech nonprofit Humane Intelligence that analyzed three well-known large language models in two real-world use cases aimed at improving modern military medicine, officials confirmed Thursday.
In its aftermath, the partners revealed they uncovered hundreds of possible vulnerabilities that defense personnel can account for moving forward when considering LLMs for these purposes.
We’re only on the third day of the new year and 2025 has already shown signs of being just as volatile as last year. On New Year’s Day, an apparent act of terrorism in New Orleans left at least 15 dead and a separate incident in Las Vegas left one dead and seven injured.
The FBI has identified Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar — who was also briefly in the Navy’s delayed entry program — as the suspect in the attack on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street.
The UK MoD revealed that a laboratory is creating a quantum technology-based atomic clock to improve military intelligence and surveillance.
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The primary suspects in two deadly attacks on New Year’s Day shared a history of service in the U.S.