{"id":43746,"date":"2025-06-04T05:35:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/war-twist-ukraines-drone-used-my-open-source-code-says-shocked-developer-not-in-a-million-years-did-i-think\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T05:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:35:51","slug":"war-twist-ukraines-drone-used-my-open-source-code-says-shocked-developer-not-in-a-million-years-did-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/war-twist-ukraines-drone-used-my-open-source-code-says-shocked-developer-not-in-a-million-years-did-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"War twist: Ukraine\u2019s drone used my open-source code, says shocked developer; \u201cNot in a million years did I think\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ArduPilot, an open-source software initially created for hobbyist drones, has reportedly been used in a Ukrainian attack that destroyed a portion of Russia&#8217;s strategic bomber fleet. The software&#8217;s creators expressed surprise at its military application, as it was originally designed for peaceful purposes like search and rescue and autonomous vehicles.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ArduPilot, an open-source software initially created for hobbyist drones, has reportedly been used in a Ukrainian attack that destroyed a portion of Russia&#8217;s strategic bomber fleet. The software&#8217;s creators expressed surprise at its military application, as it was originally designed for peaceful purposes like search and rescue and autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":43747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}