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The Pentagon's first ever chief software officer resigned last month in protest at the slow pace of technological transformation in the U.S. military, claiming the failure to respond to China winning the Artificial Intelligence battle is putting the U.S. at risk. Nicolas Chaillan, 37, told the Financial Times after resigning: 'We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years.' 'Right now, it's already a done deal – it is already over in my opinion,' he added. 'Whether it takes a war or not is kind of anecdotal.' Chaillan worked for three years on a Pentagon project...

Full title: FBI Director Comey: Clinton IT Contractor's Reddit Posts Are Not Evidence Of A "Cover-Up," Not A Violation Of Immunity Deal FBI director James Comey told the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that newly discovered online posts made by an IT contractor for Hillary Clinton do not violate his immunity deal and are not evidence of a cover-up. (snip) Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte next asked Comey if the Reddit postings were "evidence of obstruction of justice" or "a violation of Mr. Combetta's immunity deal." "Not necessarily, no," Comey replied. "It would depend on what his intention was. Our team concluded...

Of all the amazing, Le Carréan details surrounding the case of NSA leaker Edward Snowden, the one that seems to shock the most people is that all of this troubling, top-secret information was available to him, a 29-year-old high-school dropout who worked as a system administrator at private contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, and had little in the way of traditional accomplishment. "He isn’t a seasoned FBI or CIA investigator," Slate's Farhad Manjoo wrote in a column that was typical of much of the sneering surrounding Snowden's credentials. "He isn’t a State Department analyst. He’s not an attorney with a specialty...