Hacker News with Generative AI: Iran

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 7 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 12 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 32 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 44 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 64 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 67 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 68 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 68 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 69 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 78 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 80 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 97 days ago | 2 comments

Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation (openai.com)