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Introducing a direct recruitment route for cyber specialists, particularly targeting top gamers and coders. “If you are a top gamer or coder, your country needs you,” Healey said.

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[-] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

UK "defence".

Defence is when you protect your country's borders, not when you go around attacking other countries like they have been doing for the last decades. There's a word for it: offense.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

I wonder if we'll ever move past human soldiers entirely, and have robots fight proxy wars, like a giant international international game of battlebots. Could further reduce loss of life and human suffering.

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