Fast16 Malware

Researchers have reverse-engineered a piece of malware named Fast16. It’s almost certainly state-sponsored, probably US in origin, and was deployed against Iran years before Stuxnet:

“…the Fast16 malware was designed to carry out the most subtle form of sabotage ever seen in an in-the-wild malware tool: By automatically spreading across networks and then silently manipulating computation…

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ICE Finally Releases Soldier’s Wife After Raiding Military Base

Annie Ramos, the 22-year-old wife of Army soldier Matthew Blank, was released from ICE custody on Tuesday. Ramos had been detained for five days after being arrested on the Fort Polk, Louisiana, military base where her husband is stationed.

“I am deeply grateful to my husband, Matthew, who never stopped fighting for me, and to our families and community who surrounded us with love, prayers, and…

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The Necessity of NATO in the Arctic

Setting aside the many problems with the tone, tactics, style and substance of President Donald Trump’s demand that “one way or the other” the U.S. will control the Danish territory of Greenland, there may be a silver lining in his Greenland gambit: It has highlighted for Americans and Europeans the Arctic’s importance. America’s security depends on defense of, deterrence across, and presence in…

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ICE Raids Military Base to Arrest Newlywed Soldier’s Wife

ICE agents entered a military base in Louisiana last week and detained the newlywed spouse of a U.S. Army staff sergeant.

Annie Ramos, 22, came to the U.S. from Honduras when she was a toddler, and did not have a criminal record. She became engaged to Matthew Blank on New Year’s Day, and the two were married only weeks ago, in late March. Last week, the pair checked in at the Fort Polk,…

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Synthetic Minds | Pharma Companies Are Quietly Becoming Compute Companies

Roche now runs 3,500+ NVIDIA GPUs on premises for drug discovery — pharma's largest GPU cluster. Lilly committed $2.75B to an AI platform that generates drugs. Insilico's CEO says the shift is from licensing molecules to licensing infrastructure. Pharma is not adopting technology. It is becoming it.

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Former Trump Attorney General Spotted Stuck in 3-Hour-Long TSA Line

Nobody is safe from airport chaos as President Donald Trump refuses to fund the Transportation Security Administration.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr was one of thousands of travelers stuck in a three-hour security line at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston Wednesday morning.

The 75-year-old Republican, whom many describe as the worst attorney general in history, served under…

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Pakistan, seven other Muslim countries, condemn Israel’s closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque gates

The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Qatar issued a joint statement condemning Israel’s continued closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Haram Al-Sharif to Muslim worshippers, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Thursday.

During the holy month of Ramazan, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians traditionally attend prayers at…

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Strict security in place in Karachi for Youm-i-Ali

KARACHI: Several routes in the city, including the M.A. Jinnah Road, were closed for traffic as the main Youm-i-Ali procession set off from Nishtar Park on Wednesday.

Strict security arrangements are in place as the country observes Youm-i-Ali to mark the martyrdom day of Hazrat Ali.

As per a press release issued by the Karachi Traffic Police (KTP), the main procession will conclude at…

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Hard Numbers: Mexican cartel uprisings leave dozens dead, Another prominent UK leader arrested over Epstein investigations, Trump leaves door open to tariff negotiations, South Sudan’s leader fires another finance minister

62:**** The number of people killed – including 25 Mexican National Guard members and 34 suspected gang members – in the nationwide chaos that erupted following a military operation that killed one of Mexico’s most powerful cartel leaders, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, on Sunday. President Claudia Sheinbaumdeployed 2,000 troops to Jalisco state, where the violence is most…

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Pezeshkian says Iran will not bow to pressure amid US nuclear talks

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that his country would not bow its head to pressure from world powers amid nuclear talks with the United States.

“World powers are lining up to force us to bow our heads … but we will not bow our heads despite all the problems that they are creating for us,” Pezeshkian said in a speech carried live by state TV.

The comments come after US…

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US will have to do ‘something very tough’ if no deal reached with Iran, says Trump

The United States will have to do “something very tough” if a deal is not reached with Iran, President Donald Trump told Israel’s _Channel 12_ in an interview published online on Tuesday.

“Either we reach a deal, or we’ll have to do something very tough,” it quoted Trump as saying.

Trump has said he is considering sending a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East, _Axios_ and _Channel 12_…

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