Is America’s national security Facebook and Google’s problem?

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SpaceX and United Launch Alliance land $640 million in Air Force launches

The U.S. Air Force wants to maintain its options: It awarded a total of $640 million in satellite launch contracts to both SpaceX and the United Launch Alliance (Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s joint space launch venture), with the goal of making sure it has access to at least two options for launching its payloads to […]

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Pentagon’s proposed nuclear strategy elevates cyberattacks to a terrifying new realm

It’s the fall of 2019 and America is paralyzed.
A wave of cyberattacks have crippled America’s banks, sent a blackout rolling across the East Coast, and disabled almost all U.S. internet infrastructure. 
America’s response is nuclear. A submarin…

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Somewhere in Las Vegas, there’s a warehouse containing debris from UFOs

Let’s be clear: “U.F.O.” is an acronym for “unidentified flying object.” It doesn’t necessarily mean aliens.
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Pentagon accidentally retweets call for Trump’s resignation

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For a few perplexing moments, the world was under the impression that the Pentagon seriously wanted Donald Trump to resign from his presidency.

The official Twitter account for the U.S. Department of Defense briefly joined The Resistance on Thursday, retweeting someone straight up calling for Donald Trump to resign.

TBH, with all 2017’s thrown at us, it was only a bit shocking, and though the tweet has since been deleted, it still caused quite the commotion online.

The tweet, written by Twitter user @ProudResister, addressed sexual assault allegations facing Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, Sen. Al Franken, and Trump himself — calling on Moore to step down from the Senate race, and Franken and Trump to resign. Read more…

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