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The must-reads<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em><\/p>\n 1 How Anthropic\u2019s AI tool Claude is being used for US strikes on Iran<\/strong> 2 Iran\u2019s Shahed drones give it a major advantage<\/strong> 3 Data center politics are getting an early test in North Carolina<\/strong> 4 LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users\u00a0<\/strong> 5 TikTok has ruled out end-to-end encryption, citing user safety<\/strong> 6 Why is SpaceX going public?<\/strong> 7 NASA\u2019s scheduled its next attempt to launch the Artemis II moon rocket\u00a0<\/strong> 8 What it\u2019s like to live with a brain implant for years\u00a0<\/strong>\ud83e\udde0 9 Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia is getting rave reviews<\/strong> 10. Hollywood is scouring YouTube for its next horror hits\u00a0<\/strong>\ud83d\udd2a Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014OpenAI CEO Sam Altman comments on\u00a0X\u00a0about his decision to rush in to work with the US Department of War after its talks with Anthropic fell apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #Download #Earths #rumblings #strikes #Iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The must-reads I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[803,956,318,1915,589],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-download","tag-earths","tag-iran","tag-rumblings","tag-strikes"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ei_overhead-sc.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ei_overhead-sc-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ei_overhead-sc-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ei_overhead-sc-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ei_overhead-sc-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ei_overhead-sc.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ei_overhead-sc.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ei_overhead-sc-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ei_overhead-sc-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It\u2019s helping to identify targets and prioritize them\u2014for now. (WP\u00a0$)
+\u00a0We should all be alarmed by the White House turning on Anthropic.<\/em>\u00a0(The Atlantic\u00a0$)
+\u00a0OpenAI is pursuing a contract with NATO.<\/em>\u00a0(Reuters)<\/p>\n
They\u2019re cheap and easy to manufacture, but very expensive to intercept. (CNBC)
+\u00a0The US is manufacturing copies of the drone to use against Iran.<\/em>\u00a0(New Scientist\u00a0$)
+\u00a0Israel\u2019s plot to kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was years in the making.<\/em>\u00a0(FT\u00a0$)<\/p>\n
One of the candidates is calling for a 10-year national moratorium on building them. (The Guardian)
+\u00a0But it\u2019s not just data centers that are driving people\u2019s electricity bills up.<\/em>\u00a0(Inside Climate News)
+\u00a0Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.\u00a0<\/em>(MIT Technology Review)
+\u00a0Never mind space\u2014why not just build them into floating offshore wind turbines?<\/em>\u00a0(IEEE Spectrum)<\/p>\n
At a speed and scale far beyond what even skilled human investigators can manage. (Ars Technica)
+\u00a0It\u2019s also very easy to persuade them to fabricate scientific papers.<\/em>\u00a0(Nature\u00a0$)<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a stance that sets it apart from almost all rival social media services. (BBC)
+ The strategy will please parents, police\u2014and hackers.<\/em>\u00a0(Cybernews)
+\u00a0TikTok is experiencing Oracle-related server issues, again.<\/em>\u00a0(Gizmodo)<\/p>\n
One thing seems certain: it\u2019s not for the reasons Musk\u2019s claiming. (The Verge\u00a0$)
+\u00a0Two companies have just unveiled plans to build lunar harvesters<\/em>. (Ars Technica)<\/p>\n
On April Fool\u2019s Day, of all days. Good luck! (Space)<\/p>\n
For 65-year-old Rodney Gorham, who can no longer walk, talk, or move his hands, it\u2019s been a real lifeline. (Wired\u00a0$)
+\u00a0This patient\u2019s Neuralink brain implant is getting a boost from generative AI.<\/em>\u00a0(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
It apparently mixes Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, with a hint of Minecraft-style building. (BBC)<\/p>\n
Movie studios want to bring the threat from the platform in-house. (The New Yorker\u00a0$)
+ One YouTuber\u2019s self-financed horror flick opened at 4,000 theatres.<\/em>\u00a0(Variety)<\/p>\n\u201cI think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy.\u201d<\/h2>\n