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[Link] The Wrong People Just Got Their Hands on an Elite Drone Unit
Read: 22/8/2023 www.thedailybeast.com
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico—One of Mexico’s most violent cartels has just created its own elite unit of drone operators, a highly trained group of sicarios dedicated to tweaking commercial drones and turning them into flying bombs to use against rival cartels and Mexican authorities, according to U.
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[Link] US military kills Islamic State leader in Syria airstrike
Read: 12/7/2022 www.theguardian.com
The US military killed a leader of the Islamic State on Tuesday in an airstrike in Syria, Joe Biden said.
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[Link] Lawmakers: Fix Copyright Law to Stop Gamblers “Beating the Bookies”
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
The UK Parliament's House of Lords has heard calls for a significant tightening of copyright law to tackle a most unusual threat. According to several Lords, the law should be updated to prevent live sporting events from being filmed by the public.
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[Link] Video Shows Narco Drones Dropping Bombs As People Flee
Read: 13/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Terrifying video footage from a narco drone dropping bombs as people scatter below has gone viral in Mexico.
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[Link] ‘Honest mistake’: US strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians was legal, says Pentagon
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A US drone strike in Kabul in August that killed 10 Afghan civilians was a tragic mistake but did not violate any laws, a Pentagon inspector general said after an investigation.
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[Link] This Is What Happens When a Drone Light Show Fails
Read: 4/10/2021 www.vice.com
Drones fell out of the sky at a failed light show in China, prompting panicked spectators to run for cover. A drone light show craze has taken over China over the past few years.
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[Link] Goals And Goalposts
Read: 15/8/2021 hackaday.com
In the winter, I hatched a vague plan to learn some of the modern unmanned aerial vehicle tech. Everybody needs an autonomous vehicle, and we’ve got some good flying fields within walking distance, so it seemed like it could work.
[Link] Cyclocopter Flies With Eight Spinning Horizontal Wings
Read: 7/8/2021 hackaday.com
For conventional vertical takeoff and landing rotors on vertical shafts are the most common solution, as seen in helicopters and multirotors. A much less popular solution is the cyclocopter, which consists of a pair of rotors spinning around a horizontal shaft with horizontal blades.
[Link] Senate Infrastructure Bill Would Invest $500 Million in “Smart City” Surveillance Technology
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Buried in the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure bill is a grant program that would distribute $500 million to cities to experiment with sensors, autonomous vehicles, drones, and other technologies intended to improve urban living standards. Under the $1.
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[Link] Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Since the arrest and indictment of Daniel Hale on charges that he leaked the documents that formed the basis for The Intercept’s series “The Drone Papers,” as well as documents about the government’s secret watchlisting system, I have wanted to speak publicly about this unjust prosecution.
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[Link] Robert Irwin's stunning photo was legal, but regulator warns copycats could end up in jail
Read: 15/2/2021 www.abc.net.au
Robert Irwin's stunning drone image of a far-north Queensland bushfire won a prestigious photography award this week, sparking a discussion of whether it was legally taken.