TheU.S.military continued to search for a missing American airman on Saturday after an F-15E fighter jet was shot down over southwesternIran.

spy spoke to The New Yorker about "years of clandestine work for the C.I.A. which, he said, had 'prevented Iran from getting a nuke'." [Kevin] Chalker told me that, as he understood it, the Pentagon had suggested running commando operations to kill key Iranian scientists, as Israel subsequently did

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Iranian strikes have reportedly knocked out key AWS availability zones in Bahrain and Dubai, leaving parts of both regions effectively offline for an extended period and forcing Amazon to urge teams and customers to shift workloads elsewhere

Amazon has increased some logistics costs in the US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil by 3.5% amid rising fuel costs

Trump sons-backed drone firm eyes Gulf markets amid Iran war

Funding for defense startups has ballooned in recent years as militaries scramble to modernize.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday that it had hit a data center linked to Oracle in Dubai as part of its war against the U.S

Iran's strike list threatens global digital economy

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon will start charging sellers who use its shipping services a 3.5% "fuel and logistics" surcharge later this month, joining the ranks of shipping companies raising prices as the war in Iran pushes oil prices higher

is a paid advisor for Kalshi and investor in Polymarket. Major transactions made before recent US military actions in Iran have also suggested that people close to the government might be trading on prediction markets with insider knowledge

With the Iran war now in its fifth week, Amazon said it's adding a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge for third-party sellers in the U.S

Dealerships say theyre getting busier as the Iran war and the shipping crisis at the Strait of Hormuz drag on.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard has warned a number of tech companies with Middle East operations that they'll be considered "legitimate targets."

Perang Asia Barat sudah berlarutan lebih sebulan dengan ribuan nyawa terkorban termasuk kanak-kanak sekolah. Ia masih belum menunjukkan akan berakhir dengan Iran, Israel dan Amerika Syarikat enggan mengaku kalah dengan ia kini memasuki fasa menyerang syarikat yang dilihat membantu meneruskan peperangan

Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft are among those on a target list released by Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Researchers say some targets correlate with cities hit by Iranian missile strikes Suspected Iran-linked threat actors are conducting password-spraying attacks against hundreds of organizations, primarily Middle Eastern municipalities, in campaigns that security researchers believe may have been aimed at supporting bomb-damage assessment following missile strikes.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of Iran's armed forces, has threatened to target US tech companies' operations in the Middle East

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has issued a direct strike threat to a slew of U.S

Vessels are increasingly being abandoned during the war on Iran, revealing a hidden failure in the global systems that keep goodsand peoplemoving.

Bitcoin miners are pivoting to AI infrastructure amidst the conflict in Iran

A crop of emerging defense companies in Europe are fielding increasing interest from Middle East militaries as conflict continues in the region.

PLUS: Iran war may slow APAC IT spend; Toshiba, Mitsubishi, talk chip biz combo; Fusion plasma control networks; And more! Asia In Brief Staff at services giant DXCs Australian outpost will go on strike this week after 14 months of negotiations over a new pay agreement failed.

Palmer Luckey's Anduril, software AI company Palantir and Elon Musk's SpaceX are getting the lion's share of defense tech dollars from the Pentagon.

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"The information in question is historical in nature and involves no government information." The FBI is offering up to $10 million in rewards for more information about the hackers who targeted Patel's account. Handala presents as a pro-Palestinian hacking group online, but is believed to be one of several aliases used by cyberintelligence units working for the Iranian government, Reuters writes

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Iran-linked hackers have broken into FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet, the hackers and the bureau said on Friday

US and UK forces seeking tech tender with an April 3 deadline The UK and US are looking for technology to counter the threat posed by underwater drones to ships, harbors and other critical maritime infrastructure, and are asking industry for answers.

The officials said the collaboration "almost certainly included technical training on SMIC's semiconductor technology."

Helium has emerged as a key focus for the tech sector as industry watchers cast their minds to the implications of a prolonged Iran war.

Experts say that an American ground operation targeting nuclear sites in Iran would be incredibly complicated, put troops lives at great riskand might still fail.

Since the start of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran on Feb

With the war in Iran leading to a near-total internet blackout in the country, activists around the world especially in the United States are mobilizing to help Iranians stay connected via Starlink

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The crowdsourced website and app Mahsa Alert provides citizens in Iran with crucial information amid the countrys ongoing war with the US and Israeland an internet blackout.

Volkswagen sedang melakukan perbincangan dengan syarikat senjata Rafael Advanced Defence System bagi membina sistem pertahan udara Iron Dome untuk Israel. Menurut laporan Financial Times, kilang VW di Osnabrck bakal diubahsuai daripada pengeluaran kereta untuk mengeluar sistem yan menangkis peluru berpandu Iran yang boleh dilihat di media sosial

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A new hacking group has been rampaging the Internet in a persistent campaign that spreads a self-propagating and never-before-seen backdoor -- and curiously a data wiper that targets Iranian machines

Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, appears to have subscribed to a new X Premium English-language account

Development houses: It's time to check your networks for infections.

Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Bahrain site has been disrupted due to the ongoing conflict

AWS is facing more service disruptions in Bahrain as a result of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, marking the second such disruptions this month.

First heard as US and Israeli strikes on Iran began, the shortwave broadcast has since been traced to a US military base in Germanybut its purpose and its operator remain unclear.

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As Maxence Visseau spent the first few days of the Iran war trying to make sense of what the conflict would mean for markets, he put artificial intelligence at the heart of his investment process

With the Iran war doubling oil prices, experts say the airline industrys belt-tightening is an economic canary in the coal mine for the rest of the world.

Public officials claim the blackout of mobile internet service in the capital and other regions is part of a security effort to counter "increasingly sophisticated methods" of Ukrainian attack... Speculation centers on whether the authorities are testing their ability to clamp down on public protest in the case there's an effort to reintroduce unpopular mobilization measures to find fresh manpower for the war in Ukraine; whether mobile internet outages may precede a more sweeping digital blackout; or if the new restrictions reflect an atmosphere of heightened fear and paranoia inside the Kremlin as it watches US-led regime- change efforts unfold against Russian allies such as Venezuela and Iran..

March 20 (Reuters) - The website used by an Iranian government-linked hacking unit that claimed responsibility for a March 11 cyberattack on a U.S

As energy prices soar from the Iran conflict, the International Energy Agency is urging governments to cut energy use by taking up measures like remote work and reduced speed limits

This will be so, so, so, so, so bad, one analyst says.

AleRunner writes: "China is helping Cuba race to capture renewable solar energy as the United States imposes an effective oil blockade on the Caribbean island, creating its worst energy crisis in decades," reports The Washington Post. Later in the article, it states that "China's decades-long push into clean energy technology is now helping to protect it from the soaring oil and gas crisis spurred by Trump's war against Iran," and that "Chinese exports of solar equipment to Cuba skyrocketed from about $5 million in 2023 to $117 million in 2025 and show no sign of stopping." According to researchers from Ember, solar could be responsible for as much as 10% of Cuba's electricity generation

Iran-linked attackers wiped employees' devices using Intune The US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week's cyberattack against med-tech firm Stryker.

The Iran war has caused turmoil to cargo routes through the Middle East, as shipping and airports have been targeted.

Kemelut di Timur Tengah menjadi semakin teruk tiga minggu lalu apabila Iran diserang oleh Amerika Syarikat dan Israel

If true, it wouldnt come as a surprise, seeing as the US is aiming to become an AI-first" warfighting force, based on the statement [PDF] released by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth earlier this year. The department is already using AI models in the military: For instance, the US reportedly used Anthropics Claude to help with the capture of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro and with its attack on Iran , even after President Trump ordered federal agencies to ban its technology

ATHENS, March 18 (Reuters) - Greek shipowners and other companies are scanning their computer systems for evidence of cyberattacks after advice from the National Cybersecurity Authority, two sources said on Wednesday following incidents that have been linked to the Iran war

Even without a navy, or air power, 'They'll still have the ability to hack' Businesses should expect that Iran will conduct more aggressive cyber-ops as the war escalates, according to security analysts.

Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information Iran's internet blackout is entering day 18, according to monitoring outfit NetBlocks, which says the vast majority of the country has been offline for more than 400 consecutive hours.

That grid is then used by local chipmakers like TSMC who is responsible for making most of the world's high-end chips. Fabrication for these chips requires helium, which Taiwan also imports and right now, the Iran-U.S

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Times of Israel, written by journalist Emanuel Fabian: On Tuesday, March 10, a massive explosion shook the city of Beit Shemesh, just outside Jerusalem, in yet another Iranian ballistic missile attack during the ongoing war

Carr makes evidence-free claim of "hoaxes and news distortions." Trump is thrilled.

Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for 'billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts' Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated reconnaissance traffic aimed at banks and other critical businesses.

Politicians are blaming Iran but not everyone is sold on that idea

Presiden Donald Trump yang hari ini menuduh Iran menggunakan kecerdasan buatan (AI) sebagai senjata untuk menyebarkan maklumat palsu

Ukraine has sent drone interceptors and training crews to the U.S. and its Gulf State allies as the Iran War rumbles on

Iranian drone strikes shut down a major helium facility in Qatar, removing about 30% of global helium supply and raising concerns for the semiconductor industry, which relies on the gas for chip fabrication

Fuel shortages from the US-Israel war in Iran force governments across Asia to adopt remote work, energy conservation, and digital infrastructure strategies

Airline ticket prices are already rising, but an extended crisis in Iran could have bigger effects on the global travel industry.