Patrick Tucker

Sci-Tech editor for @DefenseOne. Spies, AIs and the future(s). signal

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just voted 218-204 to move forward on the discharge petition to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia. The House will vote on final passage tomorrow. This is our Churchill moment and we must pass the test.

[The Defence Blog @Defence_blog]

Ukraine unveiled a drone that can be flown from anywhere in the world via satellite, so operators never have to be near the front line. The Adis carries 10kg of payload 20km into enemy territory and can also deliver supplies or lay mines remotely.

https://t.co/vhJtway5fU

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Truly morally sickening: that anyone should wish all of Ukraine to suffer the fate of Mariupol or Bucha. Russian occupation of Ukraine means random arrests, executions, concentration camps; the destruction of language and culture; mass kidnapping of children. All of these things have been documented in the occupied territories and continue to go on.

[Rebeccah Heinrichs @RLHeinrichs]

The President’s goal to end Russia’s war against Ukraine would be more achievable if his envoy didn’t travel only to Russia.

[Defense One @DefenseOne]

A new cyber-focused military service branch would sit under the Army if one senator’s proposal comes to fruition. Read the story by @thomasnovelly: https://t.co/szqMoFRYgo

[Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat]

Meet the new Director of National Intelligence: “Pulte launched investigations into the president’s political foes, including Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook and New York Attorney General Letitia James. He has no [IC] experience” https://t.co/IRxcMSG6JU via @ddimolfetta

[Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat]

Link to story: https://t.co/8VOnaJuPsr

[Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat]

A small but growing number of European officials and analysts are saying what four years ago was unthinkable: Ukraine isn’t just surviving its grueling war with Russia, it has a path to victory (but not a guarantee..) My dispatch from @GLOBSEC for @DefenseOne 🧵

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Lithuania Says It Broke Up Russian Sabotage and Murder Plots - The New York Times https://t.co/UAsy5Jf7WF

[Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat]

Baja dirt bike race ‘the perfect’ place to test military-vehicle AI, https://t.co/G8tWYQd2HN my latest for @DefenseOne

[780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) @780thC]

Operation Dragon Weave: Uncovering a China-Linked Campaign Targeting Czech Republic and Taiwan Using Azure Cloud C2
Seqrite APT Team
https://t.co/DHRHvzB6ZE
@Seqrite

[Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat]

What's the most important word of the 21st Century? It first debuted on a stage 100 hundred years ago in Prague. Let's re-define it. See you there? @DefenseOne @GovExecEvents @NATO @NATO_SACT @USNavyResearch @shieldaitech https://t.co/d9bi4ESRIj

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

After spending a week in Eastern Europe it is very apparent that our tardiness to meet weapons delivery commitments is undermining deterrence and encourages Russia to be more aggressive. Our defense industry must step up and expand production. We are leaving countries that border Russia with a lack of ammo. The same is occurring with Taiwan.

[Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat]

Watch more of my interview w Jonson at the @GLOBSEC Prague forum here https://t.co/tjOtKTw8do

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

🇸🇪 MoD Pål Jonson: Helping Ukraine is investment in our own security. I have to give it to the Ukrainians, they are very generous with data when you provide them with equipment.

We send our systems to Ukraine and get them battlefield-tested, which gives us better platforms. Working with Ukraine on innovation has been absolutely vital for us.

Because everything we send to Ukraine, whether it’s IRIS-T, artillery, or other systems, leads to innovations in weeks or months. If we tested the same things at home, it would take years or even decades.

It has also changed whole context for us. This has inspired how we conduct our training, logistics, maintenance, and so forth.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Turns out targeted advertising has allowed Iran to target U.S. troops by buying data on where they are. https://t.co/7eOzX2xvkD

[Margus Tsahkna @Tsahkna]

The UN report on conflict-related sexual violence confirms what Ukraine has documented for years: Russia’s crimes are systemic, not isolated.

Together with Russia’s listing for crimes against children, this marks another important step toward truth, justice, and irrefutable accountability.

It further exposes Russia’s blatant disregard for international law and human dignity.

Full report: https://t.co/qJbj4d0UIq

[Thomas Novelly @TomNovelly]

NEW: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is spearheading a markup amendment to the Senate’s 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that would create a “Cyber Force” as the next armed service branch.

The proposal would place it under the Army. The latest from @DefenseOne below 👇

[U.S. Ambassador to NATO @USAmbNATO]

We stand with our NATO Ally Romania and condemn this reckless incursion on its territory. Our thoughts are with the injured in Galati. We will defend every inch of NATO territory.

[Patrick Tucker @DefTechPat]

Predicting this headline from 2018 https://t.co/KDRX1KEf5M

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data https://t.co/uueXs48vsa https://t.co/uueXs48vsa

[Kyle Rempfer @kyle_rempfer]

Seems like it'd be smarter to regulate how tech companies collect and sell user data, rather than trying to keep US troops one step ahead of data brokers by controlling which browsers they use and which advertising settings they select devices.