Musk's cowardice blocked Ukrainian #Drones then...

"Here is the part you might not have heard...

The same team launched a similar attack again a few weeks later... They put one Russian frigate, the Admiral Makarov, out of commission. They believe that they damaged at least one submarine, and, the engineers say, at least two other boats as well.

And then? Nuclear war did not follow."
~@anneapplebaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/elon-musk-let-russia-scare-him/675282/

#ElonMusk #Putin #Fear
#Russia #Ukraine
#RussiaUkraineWar #News

#Musk #Ukraine #Starlink #drones #Russia

Like a lot of others, I did the stupid thing and responded to a story that I knew nothing about

lesson not learned, probably

https://nitter.net/KDbyProxy/status/1700631160680759734#m

*that Musk had turned off starlink as Ukr Drones were about to attack Russia; the Drones relied on starlink for navigation

@G33KatWork While legislation is doing its best to kill the hobby, there is still a lot of innovation happening over the past few years. Don't use hobbyking as your benchmark.

The people working on ExpressLRS, Betaflight, EmuFlight, and others have not stopped creating new interesting things.

There are plenty of larger frames available from places like GetFPV, shendrones, and many others.

#drones #droneregulations #fpv #fpvdrones #multicopter

Ukraine’s counteroffensive to continue after onset of bad weather, spy chief says https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/ukraines-counteroffensive-to-continue-after-onset-of-bad-weather-spy-chief-says/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #drones #Russianinvasion #Ukrainecounteroffensive

@ai6yr
Nut, meet sledgehammer.
This is a problem, the answer to which is pretty obvious. And it isn't drones.

#drones #schools #guns #surveillance #robots #dystopia

The maker of Tasers has "proposed embedding weaponized drones in school classrooms, armed with surveillance cameras and microphones, to be used to incapacitate active shooters." #drones #schools #guns #surveillance #robots #dystopia https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/09/09/private-companies-like-axon-expand-their-reach-with-public-dollars-we-want-to-look-into-that

Axon's #Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed #Drones. Then the Company Bought a #Military #Drone Maker

The CEO’s vision for Taser-equipped drones includes a fictitious scenario in which the technology averts a shooting at a day care center.
#axon #taser

https://www.wired.com/story/axon-taser-drones-ethics-board/

Drone News of the Week pt1 - A group of researchers and scientists have been using drones to study the movement of Przewalski's horses in Hortobagy.

#GoodNews #Drones #Tech #Research #Horses #Wildlife

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-reveal-complex-society-wild-horses.html

As per #EuanMacDonald

«It's not just that he stopped the attack: According to #CNN, he switched off #Starlink as it was underway, and the out-of-control #drones then washed ashore. That means he knew about this secret attack in real time, obviously through monitoring #Ukrainian military coms with Starlink.»

Read that again: #Elon knew about the secret attacks in real time....

#DestroyStarlink

A year of the #shahed - how #Iranian #drones became a key tool in #Russia 's arsenal
https://airwars.org/investigation/shahed-year-russia-ukraine-iran/
V @michaelh992
#Ukraine #UkraineWar

Wired: Axon's Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker https://www.wired.com/story/axon-taser-drones-ethics-board/ #Security/NationalSecurity #Security/SecurityNews #Security/Privacy #surveillance #Security #Shocker #drones #Police #ethics

#drones, #drones, #drones

https://olhardigital.com.br/2023/09/06/carros-e-tecnologia/drones-militares-pequenos-baratos-e-com-ia-sao-nova-aposta-dos-eua/

#FAA will allow #UPS #delivery #drones to #travel greater distances
https://www.popsci.com/technology/faa-ups-drones/

FAA grants UPS permission for BVLOS drone package deliveries https://www.iottechnews.com/news/2023/sep/07/faa-grants-ups-permission-bvlos-drone-package-deliveries/ #iot #drones #news #tech #technology

Ukraine Drones!

#AI #AIart #Midjourney #Ukraine #Drones

USA #NYC #NYPD #Drones #Surveillance #Privacy #LaborDay: "In a statement to the Guardian, Daniel Schwarz, the senior privacy and technology strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union, said: “Deploying surveillance drones over New Yorkers gathering with their friends and families to celebrate J’ouvert is racialized discrimination and it doesn’t make us safer.”

Schwarz also accused police of “playing fast and loose” with New Yorkers’ constitutional rights to due process and to freely hold peaceful gatherings. He added that the drone ploy was also antithetical to the 2021 Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act, which requires New York police to publish impact and use policies on its surveillance technologies.

“As the NYPD keeps deploying these dystopian technologies, we must push for stricter guardrails – especially given the department’s lengthy history of surveilling and policing Black and brown communities,” he continued.

Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, called the decision a “terrible plan that should never have gotten off the ground”.

“We see that there’s a real pattern with the NYPD and with Eric Adams (the New York City mayor) – whenever there’s a risk of bad headlines, they’ll turn to the next technology gimmick,” Cahn told the Guardian."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/02/new-york-surveillance-drones-labor-day

Only 3 weeks until the Gophercon US Hardware Hack Session!

Make your travel plans to arrive in San Diego by 10AM Tuesday, Sept. 26 and you could receive one of 200 GoBadge programmable badges we will be giving away. We will also fly drones, control robots, and much more all using Go and TinyGo.

Your regular conference ticket gets you in, no extra charge for this amazing community event. Do not miss it!

https://www.gophercon.com/agenda/session/1193106

#gophercon #golang #tinygo #hardware #drones #robots #gobadge

Ukraine is Now Using AI-Powered Drones With Some Amazing Capabilities
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/21247

#Ukraine #drones

Ukraine says it retakes more ground as Zelenskyy visits front lines https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/ukraine-says-it-retakes-more-ground-as-zelenskyy-visits-front-lines/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #drones #Russianinvasion #Ukrainecounteroffensive

#NYPD is disregarding people's #righttoprivacy with plans to use #drones for monitoring backyard parties #surveillance

https://newstarget.com/2023-09-01-nypd-surveillance-drones-monitor-backyard-parties.html