Hacker News with Generative AI: Iran

Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools (2024) (schneier.com)
Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities.

Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft, China, Russia, Iran

24 points by airhangerf15 31 days ago | 5 comments

Surgeon general pick praised psychedelic therapy, shrooms helped her find love (apnews.com)
Trump appeals for Qatar's help in persuading Iran to give up its nuclear program

Psychedelic Therapy, Mental Health, Politics, Iran, Nuclear Weapons

8 points by c420 44 days ago | 0 comments

Iranian Cyber Actors Impersonate Model Agency in Suspected Espionage Operation (paloaltonetworks.com)
Unit 42 recently identified suspected covert Iranian infrastructure impersonating a German model agency.

Cybersecurity, Espionage, Iran, Germany, Modeling

11 points by campuscodi 50 days ago | 2 comments

La Nina exits after three weak months, leaving Earth in neutral climate state (apnews.com)
US and Iran say talks over Tehran's nuclear program make progress and set plans for more

Climate Change, International Relations, Iran, Nuclear Weapons

31 points by gmays 68 days ago | 3 comments

Video shows Texas doctor with measles treating kids (apnews.com)
Iran and the US prepare for a second round of negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program in Rome

Health, Texas, Iran, Nuclear Program, Diplomacy

15 points by geox 69 days ago | 5 comments

Why drinking coffee in Iran has become so complicated (adelbordbari.github.io)
It all started with a sarcastic jab in a chat: “You shouldn’t be more Catholic than the Pope. You go to order a coffee, and the guy’s like, ‘From Kenyan farms or Brazil?’ It’s like going to Italy for ghormeh sabzi, and they ask if you want the herbs from Bostanabad or Tuyserkan. Come on—just give us an espresso so we can move on with our lives :))”

Iran, Culture, Coffee, Social Commentary

137 points by imnitwit 72 days ago | 147 comments

Censors Ignore Unencrypted HTTP/2 Traffic (2024) (upb-syssec.github.io)
Censors worldwide have long censored unencrypted HTTP traffic. In this blog post, we show that a specific HTTP version—unencrypted HTTP/2—is unaffected by censorship in China and Iran. We access otherwise censored websites in both countries over unencrypted HTTP/2.

Internet Censorship, Cybersecurity, China, Iran, HTTP/2

62 points by ArinaS 74 days ago | 14 comments

Iran using drones and apps to enforce women's dress code (bbc.com)
Iran is using drones and intrusive digital technology to crush dissent, especially among women who refuse to obey the Islamic republic's strict dress code, the United Nations has said.

Iran, Surveillance, Women's Rights, Technology, Human Rights

38 points by gnabgib 93 days ago | 6 comments

Iran is using drones and apps to catch women who aren't wearing hijabs (cnn.com)

Iran, Technology, Surveillance, Women's Rights, Human Rights

13 points by zfg 105 days ago | 6 comments

How Iran moves sanctioned oil around the world (reuters.com)
Despite some of the West’s toughest sanctions, Iran has built a roaring global trade for its oil. It relies on a shadow fleet of tankers that conceal their activities to skirt sanctions, and willing buyers in Asia to keep its economy afloat and to finance anti-Western militias in the Middle East.

Iran, Oil Trade, Sanctions, Geopolitics, Middle East

9 points by petethomas 171 days ago | 0 comments

Treasury Sanctions Entities in Iran and Russia (2024 Election) (treasury.gov)
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating a subordinate organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and a Moscow-based affiliate organization of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and its director pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13848, the U.S. election interference authority.

Politics, International Relations, Sanctions, Iran, Russia

7 points by thibaut_barrere 177 days ago | 0 comments

Domestic issues pile pressure on Iran's president amid foreign policy setbacks (theguardian.com)
The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the latest in a string of foreign policy reversals for Iran including the weakening of its allies in Lebanon and Gaza, has coincided with growing domestic frustration over rising executions, planned increases in the price of petrol and a proposed law that imposes heavy fines and loss of access to public services to any woman not wearing the hijab.

Iran, Politics, Middle East, Domestic Issues, Foreign Policy

5 points by PaulHoule 193 days ago | 0 comments

An Iranian Ballistic Missile Hit Israel. We Got a Peek Inside Its 'Brain' (haaretz.com)
Printed circuit boards like those found in washing machines. Soldering done by hand. Limited production quality. What can we learn from the Iranian missile attacks – and how accurate are they?

Military Technology, Iran, Israel, Weapons

5 points by wslh 214 days ago | 3 comments

Elon Musk Met with Iran's U.N. Ambassador, Iranian Officials Say (nytimes.com)
Elon Musk, a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday in New York in a session that two Iranian officials described as a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.

Politics, International Relations, Iran, United States, Diplomacy

12 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 225 days ago | 3 comments

Justice Dept Charges Iranian and Local Operatives with Murder-for-Hire Plots (justice.gov)

Justice, Law Enforcement, Iran, Crime, International Relations

15 points by impish9208 231 days ago | 0 comments

US investigates leaked documents alleging Israel plans to attack Iran (theguardian.com)
The US government is investigating an unauthorised release of classified documents that assess Israel’s plans to attack Iran.

International Relations, Military, Israel, Iran, Espionage

9 points by ljf 250 days ago | 0 comments

Chinese Laser Anti-Drone System Spotted in Iran (twz.com)
A very high-profile appearance by Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has given us a glimpse at some of China's latest counter-drone technology.

Iran, Military Technology, China, Drones

5 points by peutetre 262 days ago | 1 comments

Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran (gitlab.com)
We've recently (2-3 weeks?) started experiencing high failure rates in our CI build jobs https://gitlab.com/prpl-foundation/prplos/feed-prpl/-/jobs?statuses=FAILED and subjectively it seems, that it's getting worse each week, there is one such example https://gitlab.com/prpl-foundation/prplos/feed-prpl/-/jobs/3418282471.

Cloud Computing, Network Security, Germany, Iran

204 points by doruk101 282 days ago | 231 comments

Alarm in UK and US over possible Iran-Russia nuclear deal (theguardian.com)
Britain and the US have raised fears that Russia has shared nuclear secrets with Iran in return for Tehran supplying Moscow with ballistic missiles to bomb Ukraine.

International Relations, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Iran, Ukraine

7 points by xkcd1963 286 days ago | 5 comments

Alarm in UK and US over possible Iran-Russia nuclear deal (theguardian.com)
Britain and the US have raised fears that Russia has shared nuclear secrets with Iran in return for Tehran supplying Moscow with ballistic missiles to bomb Ukraine.

International Relations, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Iran, Ukraine

4 points by howard941 286 days ago | 0 comments

Iran successfully launches indigenous Chamran 1 satellite into space (ilkha.com)
Iran has successfully launched its Chamran 1 research satellite into space using the domestically developed Qaem 100 satellite carrier.

Space Exploration, Satellites, Iran, Technology

39 points by lordwiz 286 days ago | 75 comments

Iranian Regime Impacts Persian Wikipedia by Manipulation, Censorship (newsblaze.com)
Wikipedia has a critical role to be used as a free and public information source not hidden from anyone. The Iranian regime has been trying to distort the public view and perception of itself and its functions by influencing this platform. The Persian Wikipedia is a manipulated source. Ironically, a concerning matter is that a regime like the Islamic Republic uses all available facilities and laws to manipulate information, censor, and distort facts.

Wikipedia, Censorship, Iran, Information Manipulation, Politics

8 points by mostcallmeyt 287 days ago | 5 comments

Iran Emerges as a Top Disinformation Threat in U.S. Presidential Race (nytimes.com)

Politics, Disinformation, Iran, United States

7 points by howard941 296 days ago | 5 comments

Iranian writer is sentenced to 12 years after tweeting a dot at supreme leader (npr.org)

Iran, Censorship, Social Media, Politics, Journalism

148 points by geox 298 days ago | 170 comments

US Fighting 'Four Cold Wars' at the Same Time–Iran Expert (newsweek.com)

Iran, International Relations, Geopolitics, Military, Politics

8 points by howard941 315 days ago | 2 comments

Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation (openai.com)