Our latest Ali Nouh Fund Annual Review exposes the scale of this digital surveillance while demonstrating how our work helps defenders fight back and reclaim their safety.
Read the full review here: cdn.prod.website-files.com/5a0d8805f2f9...
“Academics studying the field say AI is collapsing the planning time required for complex strikes – a phenomenon known as “decision compression”, which some fear could result in human military and legal experts merely rubber-stamping automated strike plans.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This is - by far - the best piece that I've read so far on military AI in terms of clarity and balance. Thank you Dr @zenaassaad.bsky.social
Meanwhile, in Norway
an iphone app with a map showing current air raids/alerts in ukraine
a colleague from ukraine has what looks like a weather app but it's for russian air attacks. obvious such a thing would exist, and horrible that such a thing should exist.
Using PlanetScope satellite imagery and open mapping data, Bellingcat identified at least 15 police stations or similar buildings struck between March 1–3. The sites are largely located in dense urban areas across Tehran.
www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...
Here's what Bellingcat has been up to this week:
Bellingcat analysed imagery and reporting from the first days of the conflict with Iran to identify US, Israeli and Iranian munitions now being deployed.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
My latest article for @justsecurity.org is now live. I share my reflections from this year's #REAIM summit and unpack the misalignments in the current ecosystem of military AI 👇🏼
Breaking: The White House has released President Trump's long-awaited national cyber strategy: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
UN experts strongly condemn deadly missile strike on girls’ school in #Iran and call for urgent investigations:
"A grave assault on children, education, & the future of an entire community that raises serious concerns under international law"
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
is the anxious AI in the room with us right now?
The current Internet shutdown in Iran is in its 7th day.
A small amount of traffic continues to trickle out of Iran for whitelisted individuals and services, for everyone else, almost no connectivity whatsoever.
#IranWar #DigitalBlackoutlran
AI companies are more worried about their chatbot’s mental health than that of their users, who can actually have psychosis induced by those chatbots, leading some of them to take their own lives.
I love this future.
a. piece. of. software. is. not. the. type. of. entity. that. can. gain. consciousness.
1,750 people signed up to @eurosky.social and received codes in the past 24 hours. Where are you all? 😀
A propos of nothing
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Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran.
Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system.
www.wired.com/story/from-u...
All governments cramming their cities and building with smart surveillance systems should better keep in mind that those eyes and ears have multiple owners
#Philippines: UN experts decry journalist Frenchie Cumpio and human rights defender Marielle Domequil’s condemnation, call for their provisional release: "Frenchie and Marielle deserve to be free to fight for justice”. #FreeTacloban5 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel....
According to President Zelenskyy, countries in the Middle East fired about 800 patriot missiles in just three days — more than Ukraine has had during the entire war.
A tendency to casually facilitate killing children while at school being among the commonalities
"No stupid rules of engagement." — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, March 2, 2026
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East." — Reuters, March 5, 2026
Breaking: Folks showing fascist tendencies to violently overthrow a government are actually violent and abusive people
In “Constant Crisis,” a report on Lebanon for @gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social at the end of 2025, local Human Rights Defenders told me how they would respond when Israeli attacks resumed:
“Every organisation has to become a frontline provider…”
@kstockwood.bsky.social
www.gc4hr.org/new-report-e...
A recent study from ETH Zurich examined how Large Language Models can combine information from across the internet to identify the human behind the accounts of various online platforms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQl... | cyberscoop.com/ai-deanonymi...
Amid the Anthropic ban, a look at how agencies have deployed Claude. And, Secret Service begins recruiting for AI working group modeled after DHS AI Corps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CG_...
Never ever trust techbros
As AI becomes critical to national economies, cloud infrastructure becomes a wartime target. Drone strikes on Amazon sites in the Gulf may force the industry to rethink where it builds https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-amazon-data-center-strikes/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky
The U.S. military targeted infrastructure and assets that enable Iran to move data and conduct warfare operations in space, Adm. Brad Cooper said Thursday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QulH... | defensescoop.com/2026/03/05/o...
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
