Rand Company report analyzes the influence of deep fraud technology on information warfare.
The British Ministry of Defence issued the National Defense Capability Framework.
According to the news of the British Ministry of Defence on July 6th, the Department issued The Defence Capability Framework, which mainly outlined the guiding principles for the development of national defense capabilities and provided information on how to develop military capabilities in the next decade. The document puts forward that the guiding principles for the development of national defense capabilities include: establishing a credible deterrent force; Develop multi-domain and integration capabilities; Pay attention to the availability and deployment of combat readiness; Attach importance to innovation and experiment; Strengthen the alliance; Formulate a balanced and affordable national defense plan; Mitigating and adapting to the impact of climate change, etc. The key national defense capabilities include: First, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). Focus on the development of open source intelligence, information processing, utilization and dissemination, space-based ISR, next generation autonomous system, maritime airborne reconnaissance and command, etc. The second is multi-domain accusation, communication and calculation. Focus on the development of multi-domain command and control, modernization of national defense digital backbone, and integrated operational environment. The third is to ensure and maintain the advantage under the "threshold". Focus on developing the ability to protect key national infrastructure, special operations and anti-submarine warfare. The fourth is asymmetry and hard power. Focus on the development of directed energy weapons, supersonic and hypersonic weapons, future land combat systems, maritime killing capabilities, and future air combat systems. The fifth is freedom of entry and mobility. Focus on the development of ballistic missile defense, anti-UAV systems, land-based air defense capabilities, anti-chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons, and air-to-air refueling capabilities.
Rand Company report analyzes the influence of deep fraud technology on information warfare.
According to the news of RAND official website on July 6th, RAND Corporation released the report "Artificial Intelligence, Deep Fakes and Disinformation". According to the report, driving technologies such as artificial intelligence provide the foundation for deep forgery technology, and promote false technologies such as deep forgery video, voice cloning, deep forgery image and generative text. Deep fraud not only affects the social field, but also endangers national security. The report suggests that policy makers should: speculate and warn opponents of the possible risks caused by using deep counterfeiting technology through exercises such as war chess deduction, and determine the deterrent strategy that affects opponents’ decision-making; All walks of life in the United States should continue to invest and take measures to strengthen detection technology, such as developing an automated system that can detect deep fake videos; Improve the flexibility of media to resist false information, evaluate the credibility of information, and spread the risk of deep fraud technology; Develop/share open source tools to identify deep fraud information, so as to find and study deep fraud content as soon as possible; Ensure the authority of information sources and weaken the potential harmful effects of deep fraud.
Foreign media said that the United States will increase restrictions on SMIC’s manufacturing technology.
According to the news of Reuters on July 8, the media quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the US Department of Commerce is studying the possibility of banning the export of chip manufacturing tools to China companies, that is, using 14nm manufacturing nodes and other manufacturing nodes to manufacture logic chips. At present, the only company in China that uses its 14nm manufacturing process to produce chips is SMIC, which achieved mass production of 14nm chips at the end of 2019. At the same time, the agency will allow the same tools to be sent to the factories of the same company, whose semiconductors are not the most advanced, so as to ensure the supply of commodity chips when the global chip shortage eases. The agency also stressed that the Biden administration regularly consults with allies and the industry to discuss how to "better" formulate relevant measures. According to another source, if the U.S. Department of Commerce continues to push forward this idea that has not been included in the formal proposal, the United States will seek to attract allies with top chip manufacturers such as the Netherlands, Japan and South Korea to join. Previously, SMIC was added to the trade blacklist by the Trump administration in 2020 on the grounds that it involved the military, but the relevant measures only restricted the export of some chip manufacturing equipment to the company.
Sberbank, the Russian Federal Savings Bank, conducts the first digital asset transaction.
According to the news of Reuters on July 9th, Sberbank, the savings bank of Russian Federation, announced that it had executed the first digital asset transaction on its platform. Sberbank’s subsidiary, SberFactoring, issued digital assets with a validity period of three months and a value of 1 billion rubles (about 16 million US dollars). Sberbank said in a statement that it uses blockchain technology and smart contracts to issue digital assets, and will soon be open to all corporate customers. In March, 2022, Sberbank was granted a license for the issuance and exchange of digital assets by the Russian Central Bank.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a quantum sensor that can detect electromagnetic signals of any frequency.
According to cnBeta news on July 11th, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new system, which enables quantum sensors to detect electromagnetic signals at any frequency without losing their ability to measure nano-scale features. The research team called the new system a quantum mixer, using a beam of microwave to inject a second frequency into the detector, and converting the frequency of the studied field into "the difference between the original frequency and the frequency of the new signal". This simple process enables the detector to adjust any required frequency without losing the nano-scale spatial resolution of the sensor.
Strategic groups, the UK’s international regulator, called for the formulation of digital currency rules for global central banks.
According to the news of Reuters on July 8th, the strategic groups (IRSG) published a report entitled "The Use of Central Bank digital currency in Wholesale Markets", calling for speeding up the formulation of global digital currency rules. The report puts forward some suggestions to support the economies to formulate a regulatory framework for the wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the next few years, including: formulating global regulatory principles for the global interoperable wholesale CBDC; Establish a CBDC high-level expert group; Jurisdiction initiatives to implement the framework, and so on. Kay Swinburne, Chairman of IRSG, believes that the key to realize the full potential of CBDC is to ensure that they can operate in different markets to promote cross-border payment for wholesale.
Musk officially announced the termination of the acquisition of Twitter.
According to the news of TheVerge on July 8th, Elon Musk, an American entrepreneur, formally proposed to terminate the acquisition of Twitter in a document submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a letter to Twitter’s chief legal adviser, Musk said that Twitter was unwilling to share the information requested by Musk, so it terminated the acquisition; And the existing information proves that the number of fake accounts on Twitter far exceeds the number announced by the company. Musk believes that Twitter has made false and misleading statements. In addition, Twitter did not conduct normal business operations, implemented recruitment freeze and fired senior executives, and other major turnover phenomena occurred, without the consent of the parent company for the change of its business behavior, which was a "major violation" of the merger agreement. Twitter immediately responded that it had received Musk’s intention to terminate the acquisition and would take legal action against Musk to implement the M&A agreement.
Grofonder and stmicroelectronics plan to invest nearly 4 billion euros to build factories in France.
According to the news of Reuters on July 11th, GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics, the world’s third largest chip foundry, plan to invest nearly 4 billion euros to set up a semiconductor factory in France as part of Europe’s efforts to improve its independence in the microchip field. The European Commission has announced that it plans to increase Europe’s production share in the global microchip field to 20% by 2030. According to industry speculation, the newly-built semiconductor factories of both sides may focus on chips needed by related industries such as automobiles.
RISC-V architecture has shipped 10 billion cores.
According to the website of China Semiconductor Industry Association on July 11th, Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V Foundation, said at the embedded world exhibition that there are already 10 billion computing cores based on RISC-V cores in the market. RISC-V is an open source and free instruction set architecture based on the principle of reduced instruction set (RISC). At present, as another popular processor architecture besides x86 and ARM, RISC-V has a big market in some peripheral devices. It is reported that the ARM architecture took 17 years to reach this milestone in 2008, while RISC-V only took about 12 years. Redmond also said that the number of processor cores in RISC-V architecture is expected to reach 80 billion in 2025.
American researchers have developed a new model to simulate the process of liver regeneration.
According to the news of China Biotechnology Network on July 9th, the research team of Harvard-MIT School of Health Science and Technology in the United States has developed a new model to simulate many aspects of human liver regeneration, namely the microfluidic chip platform (SHEAR) with a structured vascularized liver collection, and found PGE2 molecules that play a key role in the regeneration process. This model allows molecules such as growth factors to flow between blood vessels and hepatocytes, allows researchers to easily knock out related genes in specific cells to observe the impact on the whole system after knock-out, and can control hemodynamic changes to simulate changes in liver injury and regeneration. This model reproduces a high level of tissue function, and can provide information that can’t be collected from mice or other animal studies, so that scientists can track the related process of liver regeneration more accurately, and can be used to discover and verify the conditions for promoting human liver regeneration. Related research results were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
American researchers use genetically engineered, ultrasound-controlled bacteria to kill cancer cells.
According to cnBeta news on July 9th, scientists at Caltech have developed a new method to find and destroy cancer cells by using bacteria controlled by genetic engineering and ultrasound. The researchers modified Nissle 1917 Escherichia coli to produce therapeutic nano-antibacterial. When injected into patients, the bacteria can find and penetrate into cancerous tumors, and at the same time, it can be triggered to produce anticancer drugs by ultrasonic pulses. After a series of experiments, the researchers found that mice treated with this strain and ultrasound showed much slower tumor growth than mice treated only with ultrasound, mice treated only with bacteria and mice not treated at all. Related research results were published in the journal Nature Communication.
American researchers have developed a technology to monitor the gene expression in the living brain in real time.
According to the news of Translational Medicine Network on July 7th, the research team of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in the United States developed a new technology for visualizing mRNA molecules in the brains of living mice for the first time. Arc is one of the genes that are rapidly transcribed by neuronal activity. Researchers first genetically modified mice to produce green fluorescent protein-labeled mRNA, so that they can see when and where Arc mRNA is generated in the mouse brain, and can observe the activities of neurons or nerve cells in real time when mice produce and store memories. Within a few days after memory was produced in mice, the researchers located a small number of cells that overlapped or continuously produced Arc mRNA every day in the retrosplenic cortex of the brain, and thought that this area was responsible for the long-term storage of memory. This study provides a new insight into how memory is formed and stored in the brain, which is expected to provide new information for diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.
British researchers first constructed a cell map of human gonad development and identified the cell types involved in human sex determination.
According to the news of official website, Bio-Valley, on July 11th, researchers from the Sanger Institute of the Wellcome Foundation in the United Kingdom and other institutions have drawn the first large-scale cell map of human bisexual gonad development. At the same time, the researchers also identified the cell type that first expressed the "sex determination" gene, and named it Early Supporting Gonadal Cell (ESGC). This is the most detailed map of developing gonads in time and space so far, and it is also a part of the Human Cell Atlas, HCA) project, which is of revolutionary significance in improving gamete culture in fertility treatment and understanding reproductive conditions (such as gender development differences). Related research results were published in the journal Nature.
Australia has develope a new method for identifying Covid-19 mutant strain.
According to the news of today’s Science Network on July 9th, the research team of CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) developed a faster and more comprehensive method to identify Covid-19 mutant strains by using machine learning technology. Different from the current methods for monitoring the mutation of virus spike protein, the new method can confirm the emerging dangerous mutant strain by analyzing the complete genome of the mutant strain, which can better predict the performance of the new mutant strain in human body. In addition, this method can identify the new mutant strains that need to be monitored one week ahead of the health department, and can update the mutant strain information every hour, which shows the potential of sharing information with public health decision makers quickly, and can help establish an early warning system to determine the mutant strains that are most deadly to human beings. Related research results were published in the Journal of Computational and Structural Biotechnology.
Researchers in the United States and Chile have discovered a new method for rapid detection of Covid-19 variants in wastewater at low cost.
According to the news of Bio-Valley official website on July 11th, Scripps Institute, University of California, San Diego, and San Diego Epidemiology cooperated with COVID-19 Health Research (SEARCH) to find a new method to quickly and accurately identify Covid-19 variants in wastewater at low cost. The researchers developed a new algorithm called Freyja, analyzed more than 20,000 wastewater samples, and designed a "bar code" library, which can be identified according to the unique RNA fragment of each variant. Freyja is easy to operate and free to use, and it only takes 20 seconds to complete the sequencing. At present, the system has been established in San Diego, showing excellent effectiveness, helping to better track the development of pandemic, and may be extended to other pathogens in the future. Related research results were published in the journal Nature.
The American Breakthrough Institute reported that advanced nuclear energy is the key to successful carbon neutrality in the United States.
According to the news of CNNC think tank on July 8th, the Breakthrough Institute recently released the report "Promoting Nuclear Energy: Assessing the Future Deployment, Investment and Impact of Clean Energy in the United States", pointing out that with the transformation of the United States to a clean energy system, the commercialization cost of advanced reactors will be reduced, and increasing investment and policy support for advanced nuclear energy technology will have far-reaching national interests. The report predicts that the commercial deployment of advanced reactors is expected to begin in early 2030, and the deployment will be rapidly accelerated with the growth of the power industry. By 2035, the clean energy transformation in the United States will require a cumulative investment of about 150 billion to 220 billion US dollars in the construction of advanced nuclear power plants; By 2050, the total investment will increase to 830 billion to 1.1 trillion US dollars. In 2050, the power generation of advanced reactors will account for 20% to 48% of the domestic clean energy power generation, and the annual power generation will be 1.4 trillion to 3.6 trillion kWh.
SpaceX launched "Star Chain" ship satellite Internet service.
According to the news of the International Shipping Network on July 9, SpaceX officially launched a brand-new mobile service, Starlink Maritime, to provide "Star Chain" satellite Internet service for ships around the world. SpaceX said that including merchant ships, offshore drilling platforms and yachts, Starlink Maritime can be used. According to SpaceX, the official price of the ocean satellite terminal is $10,000, including two high-power antennas, and the monthly fee is $5,000. After opening this service, users can enjoy the download speed of up to 350Mbps, and the installed antenna can still maintain stable network transmission in the case of bad weather.
The US Navy is developing a new maritime surveillance system.
According to the news of the frontier of marine defense on July 11, Teledyne FLIR said that it is developing a new maritime surveillance system for the US Navy, aiming at improving the navy’s maritime situational awareness. It is understood that the system uses electro-optic/infrared imaging, which can be used interchangeably according to the operation, and can provide high-definition and multi-spectral image data without being discovered. Although the system is small in size, as a medium-range surveillance system, it can monitor humans as far as 2.8 miles away and ships nearly 10 miles away, and will be mainly installed on multi-mission reconnaissance boats in the future.
South Korea completed the demonstration of "Anti-submarine warfare unmanned submersible"
According to the news of Blue Star Think Tank on July 8th, the Korea Defense Development Agency (ADD) announced that it had successfully completed the combat demonstration of "ASWUUV" in the waters near Tongying City. The submersible was developed by the National Defense Development Bureau and Hanwha Group in 2017 and is part of the "Defense Industry 4.0" plan of the Korean Ministry of Defense. The submersible has a displacement of 9 tons, a length of 6.5 meters, a maximum speed of 10 knots, a maximum dive depth of 300 meters and a self-sustaining force of 30 days. It integrates advanced systems such as active/passive sonar, acoustic sensors, communication systems and hydrogen fuel cells, and its main task is to monitor and track enemy submarines. After the submersible is put into use, it will cooperate with the submarine force to expand the scope of action of the submarine force and help the South Korean navy build a "manned-unmanned dual combat structure at sea".
India’s first domestic aircraft carrier completed the fourth phase of sea trial.
According to the news on July 11th of the reference news network, the Indian Navy Information Office recently announced that Viklandt, India’s first domestic aircraft carrier, completed the fourth phase of sea trial on the 10th. The Indian navy said that the sea trial conducted a comprehensive test of major equipment and systems including key aviation equipment, which helped to further improve the performance of the aircraft carrier. According to the news, "Viklandt" will be equipped with MIG -29K/KUB fighters made in Russia, as well as Russian Ka -31 helicopters and American MH-60R helicopters. However, local media said that India is also considering plans to equip other aircraft. According to previous news, the aircraft carrier is expected to join the navy on the occasion of celebrating India’s independence day on August 15.
The Russian Navy’s "Belgorod" nuclear submarine is listed and can be equipped with "Poseidon" unmanned submersible.
According to the news of Xinhuanet on July 10th, the Russian North Shipyard recently reported that the "Belgorod" nuclear submarine used to carry the "Poseidon" nuclear-powered unmanned submersible was officially delivered to the Russian Navy on the 8th. It is reported that the 09852 "Belgorod" nuclear submarine is about 184 meters long and has a displacement of 30,000 tons. It is one of the largest nuclear submarines in history. The "Poseidon" nuclear-powered unmanned submersible it carries can carry nuclear warheads, and can independently calculate the optimal route to hit the target, and it can detonate on the coastline of the enemy country, causing a large-scale tsunami and causing large-scale radioactive pollution. According to the current Russian national armament plan, by 2027, the Russian navy plans to build a total of three special nuclear submarines of this type.
The US Navy MQ-25 UAV completed the first integrated demonstration of ground station command and control.
According to the defense news on July 11th, the U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Unmanned Aviation Project Office (PMA-268) carried out the first laboratory integration demonstration activity, which verified how MQ-25 Ground Control Station (GCS) commanded UAVs in the aircraft carrier environment. Lockheed Martin’s MD-5 ground control station first controlled Boeing’s HITL aerial vehicle. Colonel Sam Messer, PMA-268 project manager, said that the project has reached the initial operating capacity (IOC). MQ-25 will become the world’s first carrier-borne UAV put into operation, providing aerial refueling capability for the fleet.
The US-Pacific Air Force has developed a "global unified environment" system to strengthen its ability to collect commercial satellite images.
According to the news of Microvision Aerospace on July 11th, the US Air Force Research Laboratory is developing a "GLUE" system to strengthen the ability of commercial satellite image acquisition. GLUE will allow the operational command to obtain satellite image data from commercial suppliers and allied partners to meet the needs of military operations. It is expected that the GLUE system will transition to the space force in FY 2024.
British researchers developed a new type of composite biomaterial inspired by shellfish.
According to the news of NewAtlas on July 7th, researchers from the University of Portsmouth in England studied the tooth material of limpet and analyzed it at the atomic level, and found that its tensile strength was as high as 3~6.5GPa, which was much higher than that of steel. The researchers created a system to simulate the growth of Haliotis discus hannai. Serum coated glass, chitin and iron oxide were deposited on the top to form radula, and then the separated cells, tissue samples and mineralized chitin were synthesized into bionic Haliotis discus hannai tooth materials by electrostatic spinning technology. The new composite biomaterial has extremely high strength and is expected to replace Kevlar, plastic and other materials in the future. Related research results were published in the journal Nature Communications.
Tesla may open a super charging network to non-Tesla electric vehicles in the United States.
According to TechWeb news on July 8, according to a memo from the White House, Tesla plans to open the super charging network to non-Tesla electric vehicles in the United States before the end of this year. Tesla has more than 35,000 super charging piles around the world, most of which are located in the United States and China, but its super charging network has long been exclusive to Tesla car owners. Tesla said that it is willing to share the super charging network with other automakers after reaching an agreement to share the cost, and has launched pilot projects in several European cities.