US Marine Corps replaces Basic Reconnaissance Course with expanded training

The Marine Corps is updating its Marine Reconnaissance training curriculum through the launch of a new Ground Reconnaissance Course, according to Training and Education Command. As the new initial course in the recon training pipeline, GRC is one of two programs, alongside the Amphibious Reconnaissance Course, replacing the service’s Basic Reconnaissance Course. The new curriculum,…

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US Army tests fresh drones, 3D printers at ‘Balikatan’ drill in the Philippines

FORT MAGSAYAY, Philippines — As an American reconnaissance drone hummed overhead, soldiers of the U.S. and Philippine armies stormed forward through the jungle terrain, laying down suppressive fire on enemy positions. Finishing off the foe’s stubborn resistance, a Kestrel first-person-view (FPV) drone carrying an explosive payload slammed into the enemy bunker. Afterwards, sweating profusely in…

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Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase  —  Excited to release new repo: nanochat! (it’s among the most unhinged I’ve written). Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline…

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Get a Microsoft Office Pro 2021 lifetime license and a training bundle for just $40

TL;DR: Grab Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for Windows plus a complete Microsoft training bundle for just $39.97 (MSRP: $239.99) — a lifetime license and 25 hours of training in one package. Owning Microsoft Office Pro 2021 is one thing. Actually knowing how to unlock its full potential? That’s another story. Right now, you can get a lifetime license to Office Pro…

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Employees learn nothing from phishing security training, and this is why

MicroStockHub/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Phishing is a major and growing threat to businesses.But phishing awareness training has a minimal success rate.Researchers urge organizations to invest in countermeasures. A new study has confirmed what many of us suspected — employee phishing training is simply not worth…

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Ukrainian children forced into weapons training and tortured by Russia

Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly transferred to Russia since Vladimir Putin’s invasion in 2022, and subjected to military training, sexual violence and detention in camps,…

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