DefenseNews

F-22 flight training begins at Virginia base after years in limbo

The Air Force has started teaching student pilots to fly the F-22 Raptor fighter jet at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, the service said June 14. It’s a new start for the F-22 training enterprise after Hurricane Michael destroyed the mission’s sole home at Florida’s Tyndall Air Force Base in 2018. “We want to get them in the mindset of what it’s like to be in a fighter squadron…
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DefenseNews

French Army taps Nexter to build tank-busting kamikaze drones

PARIS — The French military has selected Nexter to develop new drones equipped with anti-tank warheads for the army, with a goal to demonstrate the new capability by the end of 2024, the company announced June 19. The French Defense Innovation Agency – an agency similar…
AI & RoboticsNews

Hidden Door launches playtests for Wizard of Oz games created by generative AI

Hidden Door has launched limited playtests for its Wizard of Oz role-playing game platform that uses generative AI to create custom games for each player. Hidden Door’s development preview is a digital tabletop game role-playing game set in the land of the Wizard of Oz, a public domain intellectual property that includes 14 books written by L. Frank Baum. This is the first of numerous properties…
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AI & RoboticsNews

How generative AI is creating new classes of security threats

The promised AI revolution has arrived. OpenAI’s ChatGPT set a new record for the fastest-growing user base and the wave of generative AI has extended to other platforms, creating a massive shift in the technology world. It’s also dramatically changing the threat landscape — and we’re starting to see some of these risks come to fruition. Attackers are using AI to improve phishing and…
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NewsPhotography

Canon RF 24-50mm goes to New Orleans

We recently had the chance to put the Canon RF 24-50mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM through its paces both on the full-frame EOS R8 and on the APS-C EOS R7. With a 38-80mm equiv. field of view on crop-sensor bodies, it’s a bit of an awkward walk-around lens but on a full-frame RF body it’s a classic wide-to-standard kit zoom. Its maximum aperture range is dreadfully slow; nevertheless, if you have…
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