US Predator and Reaper drones in Afghanistan were hacked and a virus inserted into their remote cockpits at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, logging every keystroke their pilots make. These remote drones, arguably the most pivotal piece of American war efforts in Afghanistan over the last 10 years, have continued to fly missions even though the threat was first detected two weeks ago. There is no indication that sensitive or classified data was retrieved as a result of the virus, but it continues to pose a problem. “We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with…

It’s well known that Facebook and Google are in a war to see who invade their users privacy to the greatest degree. With the internet as the battleground, the battle is unsurprisingly pretty high tech, but Google just raised the stakes. They’ve just bought themselves an unmanned microdrone at a cost of around $60,000. Are they fed up of people chasing the Google Street View cars down the street? Maybe, or perhaps they’re just frustrated that the Street View car can only see through first floor windows. Either way, this seems like a pricey, if not awesomely cool way to invade users privacy and turn…

Pictured above, an unmanned drone taken from the military blog Armybase.us. Washington’s unmanned drone airplanes will not just be Washington’s anymore. Robert Gates, the U.S. Defense Secretary announced plans to start selling and giving them to other countries, including Pakistan. In the past they had been sold only to Italy and Great Britain. South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Canada, and Spain have also shown interest, as well as a whole host of other countries to whom nobody would ever sell them. Never mind The Missile Control Regime pact from 1987, which makes the sale of autonomous fliers…