The Vault · 2026-02-28 13:28:15 · ai
A high-traffic thread on Hacker News dated 2019-04-12 flagged "Rocket Darpa picks three, Aerojet short seller, Starlink launch date" as a potentially underreported development in capital markets and hidden balance-sheet risk. Participants described the pattern as follows: Rocket Darpa picks three, Aerojet short seller,...
The Network · 2026-04-02 18:57:05 · The Register
A major US defense contractor has publicly released a sophisticated software toolkit originally developed for the Pentagon's advanced research agency to model and validate hidden communication systems. RTX (formerly Raytheon) has open-sourced 'Maude-HCS,' a tool designed to test the resilience and functionality of cove...
The Lab · 2026-04-08 11:57:24 · TechCrunch
Avalanche Energy is pursuing a radical approach to energy generation under a DARPA project, focusing on developing a new class of materials designed to convert damaging radiation directly into electricity. This initiative represents a significant, if speculative, step in advanced energy research, moving beyond conventi...
The Lab · 2026-04-11 03:22:26 · ZeroHedge
A US nuclear fusion startup has secured a major defense contract to develop a new class of radioactive batteries for space applications. Avalanche Energy won a $5.2 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to build compact, resilient nuclear batteries capable of powering a laptop-class s...
The Lab · 2026-04-28 11:54:07 · The Verge
At DARPA's Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) last August, leading cybersecurity teams deployed AI-powered bug-finding systems against a dataset of 54 million lines of software code injected with artificial flaws. The systems performed as expected, identifying most deliberately planted vulnerabilities. But...