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The European Union’s cyber emergency response team has warned that the Russian hacker group Fancy Bear has targeted European governments. This was reported by Politico. It is noted that at least seven websites of European governments have been the targets of a phishing campaign that involves the use of specially designed lures to attack specific […]
China fears the expansion of the Starlink satellite Internet, which is already available in dozens of countries. The Chinese authorities want to create their own analog. Earlier in 2023, it was announced that the project was called Guowang. Last week, the first Internet satellite was sent into space. China’s Long March 2D launch vehicle was […]
Polish carriers threatened to block all checkpoints on the border with Ukraine. At the moment, the queue of trucks at the Medyka-Shehyni checkpoint is 30 kilometers long. This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to European Pravda. “We will intensify the protest by not letting cars from Ukraine through at all border crossings with Poland. […]
The KMZ military-industrial holding promises to supply the first naval drones to the Russian army by the end of 2023. Managing Director Mikhail Danilenko said this in an interview with RIA Novosti. According to him, the holding company has received an order from the Russian Defense Ministry for the first pilot batch of 10 new […]
China has unveiled the latest supercomputer running on a new processor with 384 cores. Its performance is over 13 Tflops. Sunway’s SW26010 Pro processor is a self-developed chip that aims to increase China’s supercomputing capabilities and reduce its dependence on foreign technologies. However, experts say the processor still faces cache performance issues. This processor was […]
A Russian patrol boat “Raptor” split in two off the coast of Crimea. This was reported by Pulse of Ukraine on its Twitter account. The Russians write that their Raptor-class patrol boat split in half and sank off the coast of Sevastopol due to a storm. If true, this is the fifth boat of this […]
China has begun construction of the world’s first commercial underwater data center off the coast of Sanya, south of Hainan Island, TomsHardware reports, citing China Central Television (CCTV). According to CCTV, each storage system can process more than 4 million high-resolution images within 30 seconds. The total computing power of the data center with 100 […]
The Norwegian government announced the start of development of a next-generation cruise missile in cooperation with Germany. The Norwegian defense company Kongsberg will act as the main contractor for the project. The new technology will complement the existing Naval Strike Missile (NSM) cruise missiles. The new missile is likely to cover maritime space at distances […]
The American ship and its partners responded to an attempt to hijack the merchant ship Central Park by a group of unknown individuals. After repelling the attempt to seize the ship, the Yemeni Houthis fired missiles toward the destroyer. Houthi rebels from Yemen seize the commercial tanker Central Park in the Gulf of Aden. The […]
The Ukrainian military has increased the drone’s flight range and installed a K3-6 cumulative charge and 450 grams of C-4 explosive, the Russians claim. On November 26, the Tula region of Russia was attacked by Spanish-made Columba drones, which were modified by Ukrainian engineers. This was reported on November 27 by the Russian media outlet […]