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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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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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