#Optic

A soldier taught a 12-year-old how to disable the fiber-optic drones that Russia has been using to hunt Ukrainian civilians in a campaign the U.N. has labeled a war crime.

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Cold War spies planted bugs in walls, lamps, and telephones. Now, scientists warn, the cables themselves could listen in.…

TIL all octopuses are programmed to die after reproducing, as an optic gland hormone triggers rapid self destruction, with males declining within days to weeks after mating and females starving while guarding eggs until death, and none of the octopus live…

From Gulfnews RSS Feed: Hezbollah deploys hard-to-stop fiber-optic drones against Israel

From Independent RSS Feed: Fibre-optic drones reshaped the war in Ukraine. Hezbollah are now adopting the deadly weapon

The Israeli military is dealing with a new threat from Hezbollah: small drones controlled by fiber-optic cables the width of dental floss that avoid electronic detection

Improved hardware can send ten times as much data through existing fibre-optic cables, potentially providing a way to massively upgrade the internet's infrastructure without the cost and inconvenience of laying any new cables