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Iran Shuts Down Musk's Starlink For First Time (tech.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Iran

An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it (www.nytimes.com)
27 days ago

The US urged UN members to take a tougher stance against North Korea IT worker scams and crypto thefts; an October 2025 report said 40+ countries were affected (therecord.media)
27 days ago Korea

Sources: Chinese officials told customs agents that Nvidia H200 chips are barred from China and instructed local tech companies not to buy them unless necessary (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago China Nvidia

Saudi Arabia's PIF is transferring ~$12B worth of gaming company shares, including Nintendo, to Savvy Games; PIF transferred 11M Take-Two shares in December (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago Arabia Nintendo Saudi Arabia

How smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters (www.ft.com)
28 days ago Iran

Caterpillar hits a $300B market cap for the first time, driven by demand for its data center power generation equipment; CAT is up 12% in 2026 to a record ~$640 (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago

Bandcamp bans music and audio that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”, hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (www.webpronews.com)
28 days ago AI

California's Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives (www.juancole.com)
28 days ago California

Z.ai releases GLM-Image, an open-source multimodal AI model trained on Huawei chips that it says is China's first to be fully trained using domestic chips (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago China AI

Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (www.forbes.com)
28 days ago AI

War ready: The human limits of strategy (www.lowyinstitute.org)
28 days ago

How Social Media is Channeling Popular Discontent During Iran's Uprising (www.juancole.com)
28 days ago Iran Social Media

Iran's Internet Blackout Concealing Atrocities (www.juancole.com)
28 days ago Iran

Xi's Taiwan scorecard: why 2026 is not the year (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
28 days ago Taiwan

Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use (www.wsj.com)
28 days ago AI

Snouts at the Trough (dailyreckoning.com)
28 days ago

Doubt Cast On Discovery of Microplastics Throughout Human Body (science.slashdot.org)
28 days ago

Czech govt unveils details of covert Ukraine arms program (www.rt.com)
28 days ago Ukraine Czech

Bad-Joke Housing CPIs, Absurd Health Insurance CPI Still Marr Today's CPI Report, Repress Year-over-Year CPI Inflation (wolfstreet.com)
28 days ago Real Estate Inflation CPI Insurance

Survey: 41% of US teens aged 13 to 17 support a ban on middle and high school students from using phones in class while 51% oppose it; 73% oppose a full-day ban (www.pewresearch.org)
28 days ago Ban

Pentagon Device Linked To Havana Syndrome (yro.slashdot.org)
28 days ago Pentagon

Stranded and uninvestable: Venezuela's oil prospects (www.lowyinstitute.org)
28 days ago Venezuela

Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component (asia.nikkei.com)
28 days ago AI Apple

Meta Closes Three VR Studios As Part of Its Metaverse Cuts (games.slashdot.org)
28 days ago VR

Holistic Resilience, a US group that helps Iranians secure internet access, says SpaceX has waived Starlink subscription fees amid a days-long internet blackout (www.bloomberg.com)
28 days ago Iran SpaceX

Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue (yro.slashdot.org)
28 days ago Senate

Israeli tanks target area near Spanish peacekeepers in Lebanon – UN (www.rt.com)
28 days ago Israel Spain Lebanon

Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source air-gapped software to the US DOD, raised a $136M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its valuation to $1B+ (www.reuters.com)
28 days ago

Global Tech-Sector Layoffs Surpass 244,000 In 2025 (tech.slashdot.org)
28 days ago Layoffs

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