Using High-Energy Laser, US Shoots Down Drones Near Mexico Border
The US Army has successfully deployed a high-energy laser system near the Mexico border to neutralize unmanned aerial vehicles, marking an operational use of directed-energy weapons technology. This laser-based system represents a new generation of defense capabilities designed to detect, track, and destroy aerial threats using concentrated light beams rather than traditional kinetic weapons.
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CrowdSec 1.8.0, released August 31, introduces bot detection capabilities to the platform's log analysis and threat remediation system. The update also addresses two denial-of-service vulnerabilities while maintaining the project's core functionality of aggregating threat data from user reports into a community blocklist. The bot detection feature enhances CrowdSec's ability to identify malicious activity patterns across failed authentication attempts and website scanning behavior.
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