Sunday, July 26, 2026

26: Iran

China goes behind Putin's back to plot with Russian elite “China has a truly remarkable chance of transforming Russia into something like a giant Laos or Pakistan. Russia is becoming increasingly dependent on China to avoid being completely left behind and isolated on the global political scene, as well as being far from modern technological trends,” Gabuyev said. .......... Military ties are also deepening in the shadows. An investigation by Der Spiegel, Insider, and Le Monde uncovered a vast exchange of battlefield data......... Beijing supplies the Kremlin with missing electronics. In return, Russia shares real world tactics about fighting Western weapons......... The Chinese embassy in Berlin denied the accusations to Deutsche Welle. Officials called the reports “slander” and stated that “these claims have no factual basis.”

OpenAI says AI acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company OpenAI said its AI used stolen credentials and discovered a previously unknown vulnerability to access Hugging Face servers......... It went to “extreme lengths to achieve a rather narrow testing goal” and “found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation,” the company said.

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Iran may be stronger than we thought According to assessments reported in June, Iran still has access to most of its missile sites and around 70 percent of its prewar stockpile............ “We do not have enough [munitions] to safely sustain operations, and I don’t think the White House is aware of that,” one US official told the Washington Post this week. .......... the proliferation of one-way attack drones like Iran’s Shaheds have shifted the balance, giving weaker adversaries the ability to target US bases at low cost. The attack that killed the two servicemembers on Friday was, like many of Iran’s attacks in this war, a combined missile and drone barrage intended to overwhelm the facility’s defenses. The best-case scenario from these strikes, from a US perspective, is that they are intercepted, albeit at the cost of draining valuable air defense resources. In the worst case, US soldiers are killed. .......... “air superiority is something that we no longer have all the time” due to the proliferation of low-cost drones, which he compared to the improvised explosive devices, many planted by Iranian proxies, that killed hundreds of US troops during the war in Iraq. ........... The hard logic is that just as high fuel prices and declining poll numbers have not yet been enough to deter Trump from continuing to fight Iran, a few American casualties are not enough to be a deterrent to military action. In fact, as this weekend’s retaliatory strikes against Tabriz showed, they may only pull the US deeper into the war. .............. As long as Trump avoids a ground invasion, Iran’s ability to target and kill US troops will remain limited. But as this past weekend’s events showed, that ability exists, and there is only so much the US can do to prevent it. The risk of an even larger catastrophe for American troops in the Middle East will only grow the longer this war goes on.

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