{"id":936392,"date":"2025-06-04T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=936392"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:30:45","slug":"ukraines-drone-attack-on-russia-used-open-source-software-upset-developer-says-wanted-to-make-flying-robots-not-in-a-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/04\/ukraines-drone-attack-on-russia-used-open-source-software-upset-developer-says-wanted-to-make-flying-robots-not-in-a-million-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s drone attack on Russia used open-source software, &#8216;upset&#8217; developer says wanted to make flying robots: &#8216;not in a million years&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An open-source software, originally designed for hobbyist drones, powered a recent Ukrainian attack that allegedly destroyed a third of Russia\u2019s strategic long-range bombers, a report has said. The original creators of ArduPilot expressed surprise at the software\u2019s wartime application.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by 404Media, Chris Anderson, one of ArduPilot&#8217;s founders, commented on LinkedIn below attack footage, &#8220;That&#8217;s ArduPilot, launched from my basement 18 years ago. Crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open-source software, originally designed for hobbyist drones, powered a recent Ukrainian attack that allegedly destroyed a third of Russia\u2019s strategic long-range bombers, a report has said. The original creators of ArduPilot expressed surprise at the software\u2019s wartime application. According to a report by 404Media, Chris Anderson, one of ArduPilot&#8217;s founders, commented on LinkedIn below attack footage, &#8220;That&#8217;s ArduPilot, launched from my basement 18 years ago. Crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}