David Meyer

Tech journalist and presenter of Tech Gets Real. Covers digital sovereignty quite a lot these days. Sings and plays guitar in a band called The Board. Signal: superglaze.66

Jonathan M. Katz

@katz.theracket.news

So the plan was to keep the regime in place, got it.

Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social

“It’s not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead.”

Reuters

@reuters.com

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

reut.rs

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say

David Meyer

@superglaze.bsky.social

14h

Iran’s cyber reprisals have begun www.govinfosecurity.com/western-cybe...

Organizations across the West and allied nations should prepare for Iranian cyberattacks in the wake of Israeli and U.S. ongoing strikes, threat intelligence firms

govinfosecurity.com

Western Cybersecurity Experts Brace for Iranian Reprisal

Wes Miller

@getwired.com

15h

It’s disturbing but I can’t stop watching it.

Emily Gorcenski

@emily.gorcen.ski

15h

AWS reporting that ME-Central-1 (UAE) is having an “operational issue” after it was “impacted by objects”

health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

h/t to a former colleague for bringing this to my attention

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Mar 01 9:41 AM PST We want to provide some additional information on the power issue in a single Availability Zone in the ME-CENTRAL-1
Region. At around 4:30 AM PST, one of our Availability Zones (mec1-az2) was impacted by objects that struck the data center, creating sparks and fire. The fire department shut off power to the facility and generators as they worked to put out the fire. We are still awaiting permission to turn the power back on, and once we have, we will ensure we restore power and connectivity safely. It will take several hours to restore connectivity to the impacted AZ. The other AZs in the region are functioning normally. Customers who were running their applications redundantly across the AZs are not impacted by this event. EC2 Instance launches will continue to be impaired in the impacted AZ.
We recommend that customers continue to retry any failed API requests. If immediate recovery of alfatected tesourte TEE2 Instance,

Alexander Clarkson

@aphclarkson.bsky.social

17h

Unconditionally opening Iran to American corporations and finance giants will end this war faster than a robust nuclear deal

Jake Cole

@jakecole.bsky.social

16h

Sorry but I love it every time that the fraud betting apps go health insurance mode and find the smallest discrepancy to justify not paying out to the inside traders who are its core customer base. Eat shit.

Luke Smith Morgan @slukemorgan.bsky.social

Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.

David Waldman

@kagrox.bsky.social

Pipe and draping does not make it a SCIF. And DEFINITELY not a SCIF if you can just peek your head in from outside.

Trump in dopey USA baseball cap, posed at the head of a table full of crisis actor White House staffer flown into Perv-A-Lago for the “war” photo op, in a black-draped section of his club, which is supposed to make it look like a high security “situation room,” but doesn’t.

Cropped version on the previous photo, showing aires peeking in through the high security, top secret curtains.

Luke LeBrun

@lukelebrun.ca

16h

“It is highly likely that members of the Canadian military, on exchange with the United States, were involved in the planning and co-ordinating of airstrikes on Iran, says a former senior Canadian general”

A retired Canadian major-general says personnel on exchange with U.S. Central Command were likely involved in planning and targeting airstrikes on Iran unless Ottawa explicitly barred participation. A...

cbc.ca

Members of Canada's military may have been involved in planning U.S. strikes on Iran, retired general says | CBC News

David Ryan Miller

@davidryanmiller.com

17h

Why does the Department of Defense want to analyze bulk data collected about Americans......................?

Techmeme @techmeme.com

Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Abu Aardvark

@abuaardvark.bsky.social

23h

MBS playing dangerous game, amazing details if true

Mihai Martoiu Ticu @martoiu.bsky.social

The so-called "humanitarian intervention" and "preemptive strike" were a push from the Saudis and Israel to attack Iran. U.S. intelligence assessments saw no imminent threat, but regional allies argued that now was the time to strike.
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Mike Masnick

@masnick.com

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

2. Our contract. Here is the relevant language:

The Department of War may use the AI System for all lawful purposes, consistent with applicable law, operational requirements, and well-established safety and oversight protocols. The AI System will not be used to independently direct autonomous weapons in any case where law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control, nor will it be used to assume other high-stakes decisions that require approval by a human decisionmaker under the same authorities. Per DoD Directive 3000.09 (dtd 25 January 2023), any use of AI in autonomous and semi-autonomous systems must undergo rigorous verification, validation, and testing to ensure they perform as intended in realistic environments before deployment.

For intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, Executive Order 12333, and applicable DoD directives requiring a defined foreign intelligence purpose. The AI System shall not be used for unconstrained monitoring of U.S. persons’ private information as consistent with these authorities. The system shall also not be used for domestic law-enforcement activities except as permitted by the Posse Comitatus Act and other applicable law.

Mike Masnick @masnick.com

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

User Chris: What was the core difference why you think the DoW accepted OpenAI but not Anthropic

Sam Altman:
I can't speak for them, but to speculate with the best understanding of the situation.

*First, I saw reporting that they were extremely close on a deal, and for much of the time both sides really wanted to reach one. I have seen what happens in tense negotiations when things get stressed and deteriorate super fast, and I could believe that was a large part of what happened here.

*We believe in a layered approach to safety--building a safety stack, deploying FDEs and having our safety and alignment researcher involved, deploying via cloud, working directly with the DoW. Anthropic seemed more focused on specific prohibitions in the contract, rather than citing applicable laws, which we felt comfortable with. We feel that it it's very important to build safe system, and although documents are also important, I'd clearly rather rely on technical safeguards if I only had to pick one.

*We and the DoW got comfortable with the contractual language, but I can understand other people would have a different opinion here.

*I think Anthropic may have wanted more operational control than we did

Jon Gambrell

@jongambrell.bsky.social

APNewsAlert: KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say at least 6 killed in clashes as people stormed US Consulate in Pakistan after #Iran's supreme leader killed.

Nicolai von Ondarza

@nvondarza.bsky.social

Noteworthy, according to @spiegel.de, it was the Israeli government and not the US who informed the German government of the upcoming attack.

Since then, Merz and Netanyahu have spoken on the phone today.

Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social

According to the German gov spokesman Kornelius, the German government was only informed this morning about the US intent to attack Iran.

Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

> @covie93.bsky.social

Mike Caulfield

@mikecaulfield.bsky.social

I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life.

A social media post from Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, posted 9 minutes ago. The text reads: "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States:" followed by a link to justthenews.com. Below is a link preview showing the article headline "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces possible war with U.S." accompanied by a photo from what appears to be an Iranian protest or rally, showing demonstrators holding anti-Trump signs and posters with Persian text.

Violet Blue®

@violetblue.bsky.social

Iran, per Guardian: “Our response will be public, and there are no red lines… All American and Israeli assets and interests in the Middle East have become legitimate targets.”

Mark Chadbourn

@chadbourn.bsky.social

Iran has fired ballistic missiles into:

Israel
Bahrain
UAE
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Phillips OBrien

@phillipspobrien.bsky.social

The USA and Israel have started bombing Iran and Trump has announced an explicit political goal, full regime change for the Iranian people. Air power is certainly about to have a moment. I put together this free primer on what we know and what we should be asking. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...