DEFCON 4 is, obviously, one step above default peacetime. The code name for DEFCON 4 is "Double Take" — the kind of situation that makes you say "Wait a minute" and look at something again more ...

DEFCON 4 is, obviously, one step above default peacetime. The code name for DEFCON 4 is "Double Take" -- the kind of situation that makes you say "Wait a minute" and look at something again more ...

Thousands of hackers probed AI chatbots for misinformation, bias and security flaws at the annual Defcon hacking convention in Las Vegas to see how easy is it to make the AI go off the rails.

As world leaders scramble to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from escalating, it is often forgotten just how close the Yom Kippur War came to all-out nuclear war.

DEFCON 2. DEFCON 2, one step from nuclear war, is implemented when an enemy attack is expected. Troops are poised for combat at this time.

There’s a movie that’s been on my mind for the last few weeks and it’s one of those that I’d subconsciously label a “recess movie,” those that were played in middle and high school either for an ...

With so few people testing the limits of the technology, analysts struggled to discern whether an A.I. screw-up was a one-off that could be fixed with a patch, or an embedded problem that required ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is facing calls to testify about his relationship with GOP megadonor Harlan Crow — but legal and ethics experts believe such calls could ignite a "DEFCON ...

On Thursday, the COI released its second report — one was not enough! — assigning culpability for last year’s 11-day war between Israel and Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood faction that holds ...