Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran.
Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system.
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Investors are not ready for a true shock -
(Yet)
Me, 300 free clicks: as.ft.com/r/4cc9ab3a-6...
Investors still think its going to be a short war.
This is perfectly put on the consensus view. That Trump will TACO because of oil prices shooting up and not wanting to lose midterms.
WHAT. A. DAY in finance and geopolitics.
"Stocks wobbled, bonds tumbled, the dollar snapped its losing streak, oil prices sprang higher and natural gas went whoosh. But investors are not bracing for disaster."
We aint seen nothing yet ht @katie0martin.ft.com
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Up ~50% in the past 10 days, do I have that right?
If nothing else, you would think that the risk of an oil-price shock months before the midterms would be enough for congressional Republicans to get a handle on this.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
>let claude code fuck with production
>no backups
incredible.
Trump’s declaration that he expects UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER from Iran does not seem to be calming markets
This is the kind of journalist an editor yearns for at a time like this: A Persian-fluent reporter w/ deep experience covering Iranian politics and policies.
She used to work at the Washpost.
Then Bezos dismantled the international coverage.
Now she’s at the NYT
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Hmm perhaps they should not have implemented the president's illegal order to steal our money in the first place
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
In just six days we’ve gone from “Iranians take over your country” to “we’re open to talking with the new leadership of the regime” to “I want to pick the new leader” to now “unconditional surrender”.
A “concept of a plan”, indeed.
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So a lot of the hype around LLMs and a lot of the userbase just fundamentally misunderstands what the technology is and what it’s capable of, instead treating it like a mythical supernatural or religious being. The industry openly encourages this delusion for profit
I would like to be present when government lawyers tell a 78-year-old judge “we can’t follow your order because the computer won’t let us.” That’s always fun.
Malicious AI agent extensions are already appearing in public marketplaces. The real risk isn’t just malware—it’s missing accountability. If a marketplace doesn’t have minimum standards to protect users, “it is not ready to distribute extensions that operate at scale,” argues Kostakis Bouzouka.
if you're keeping score at home what's happening is this the department of war is running major combat operations in iran which may last just a few weeks maybe longer or maybe even forever and which are NOT a war but whose stated objective is unconditional surrender
Pretty sure when they started imposing this idiocy they assured a bunch of judges that they would be able to refund the money with no problem if it ever came to that.
Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
US Employers Unexpectedly Cut Jobs, Unemployment Rises February data call labor market stabilization narrative into question
Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards.
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The money quote: "With these numbers and with the SpaceX and xAI combination happening almost concurrently with the expected IPO, investors must make comic-book heroic assumptions about sustained hypergrowth to justify a $1.75tn market cap."
Quite an opening paragraph.
Yeah that’s kinda why Iran was shocked they tried.
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Iran acknowledges they are targeting AWS and Azure data centres. "The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
FT EXCLUSIVE: The Gulf governments are talking about declaring force majeure on the full gamut of contracts because they say they're short of cash. This could wreak some global havoc and slash investment in the US from regional sovereign wealth firms.
"It felt like interacting with a synthetic bridge troll haranguing me until I said the magic combination of words."
How many years do we have to hear repeated failed promises of "THIS MAKES A SMART HOME EASY" before we give up? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/t...
The latest EV batteries from BYD can charge to 70% in 5 minutes and 97% in 10 minutes.
They're leaving American manufacturers in the dust, and after Trump's all-out war on renewables and EVs, we may never catch up. China is probably going to supply the world.
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Oh, and now oil is headed for $90/barrel *today* with gulf nations saying they may have to completely shut off oil production and shipments.
