Futurism

JUNE 13, 2025

Most recently, the franchise received an onslaught of orders just before closing last night — almost perfectly coinciding with Israel's devastating attack on Iran. A separate event chronicled by Pentagon Pizza Report also predicted military activity on June 1, followed just hours later by an escalation between Israel and Iran.

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Engadget

JUNE 5, 2025

" While OpenAI claimed it also disrupted a handful of operations it believes originated in Russia, Iran and North Korea, Nimmo elaborated on the Chinese operations saying they "targeted many different countries and topics [.] some of them combined elements of influence operations, social engineering, surveillance."

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Fast Company Tech

JUNE 13, 2025

Tensions in the Middle East reached a critical point last night as Israel launched an offensive strike targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities and military installations. Iran responded swiftly, raising fears that the two nations—and possibly the wider region—are on the brink of full-scale war. What should I do if I have a flight booked?

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Fast Company Tech

JUNE 23, 2025

strike against nuclear targets in Iran in stride as investors watched Monday to see how Iran will react. The attacks on three Iranian sites raised the stakes in the war between Israel and Iran and left questions about what remains of Tehran’s nuclear program. The big unknown is what Iran will do, analysts said.

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Wild Apricot

JULY 22, 2009

In a recent comment on An Introduction to Twitter Hashtags , Wild Apricot reader 88keyman came through with a really great question: Suppose I’m writing on a topic concerning Iran. If I include the hashtag #Iran, how does that differ from merely using the word Iran in my Tweet? read more ).

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Fast Company Tech

MAY 27, 2025

My parents came here from Iran as exchange students, and they intended to pursue their education and return. And if you look at what is happening with women in Iran today, you know what my future would’ve been otherwise. They had me accidentally, they were still undergraduates when they had me.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) writes that malicious foreign influence operations aimed at the US election are evolving. Clint Watts, MTAC General Manager, notes that history has shown how foreign actors' ability to rapidly distribute deceptive content can significantly impact public perception and electoral outcomes.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

While much of the US media has focused on the recent release of Roxana Saberi after being falsely accused of spying in Iran, other cases similar remain unresolved. Haratounian's family has set up a web site and invited the public to sign an appeal to Iran?s s government using your voice to help Silva regain her freedom.

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Fast Company Tech

JUNE 16, 2025

Just hours before news broke of Israel’s major attack on Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran, and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement released by the White House on June 12. announced it was not involved in the attacks. “We

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Medium Technology Section

MARCH 27, 2025

The tension between the United States and Iran feels like a storm that’s been brewing for far too long. At the heart of it lies a complex… Continue reading on Medium

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TechSpot

MAY 30, 2024

Meta's quarterly Adversarial Threat Report includes research into six new covert influence operations that it disrupted, including ones from Bangladesh, China, Croatia, Iran, Israel, and a CIB network that targeted Moldova and Madagascar. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

JUNE 27, 2025

Now, when tensions escalate - like when the US bombed nuclear facilities in Iran this month - the safety of these systems becomes of paramount concern. Our water, health, and energy systems are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In late October, the Department Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) further tightened export restrictions on AI accelerators to China and other countries of concern, including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

MARCH 26, 2025

There are also entities from the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Iran, and Taiwan. The US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has added 80 organizations to the entity list, including more than 70 from China. Read Entire Article

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 21, 2006

Their website , found at [link] is an on-line memorial honoring over nine thousand victims allegedly killed by the Islamic Republic of Iran since the revolution in 1979 and an extensive library of documents relating to human rights and democracy. But you would hardly know it from looking at the beautiful website they just released.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Twitter announced that it removed the accounts based on FBI intel, noting that they had low engagement and did not impact public conversation because of their prompt removal.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2011

Similar discussions surfaced last year during Iran’s Green Revolution, when many people on social media overlaid a green shade to their avatars and profile pictures to show their solidarity with the people of Iran. The Iran related hashtags also trended on Twitter.

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Care2

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Women in Iran and protestors on Wall Street think so. During the Iran protests in February of 2011, a woman who was raped, sexually assaulted and beaten once she was identified as a "rioter" simply for voting, had no voice and little way to speak out about her experience. Social media may be changing that across the globe.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 6, 2020

The search engine giant also banned several channels linked to Russia and Iran.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Hungary and Iran. Democratic backsliding and restrictive laws will pose challenges to nonprofits operations and the safety of their beneficiaries. We see restrictions playing out in Paraguay and the United States. In Uganda and Myanmar. It is not just the changing legal landscape affecting organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using Twitter search or other tools, you can watch news and updates about the election in Iran by using #IranElection; or, find interesting people to follow and connect with using #FollowFriday to peruse the recommendations that pile up on Fridays. There are many opportunities to see hashtags in action!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Recent events in Burma in 2007 and Iran in 2009 and even the US in 2010 reveal that governments can easily comb activists’ footage online and seek out protesters and citizens for arrest, persecution or worse. The ability to stream video directly from a mobile phone (i.e.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

They argue for more sanctions against Iran, praise certain Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates, and criticize Qatar (currently the subject of a diplomatic and economic embargo from the UAE and other states in the Middle East because of the country’s alleged support for terrorism).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Remember the sea of green avatars last summer in support of the Iran ? Two years later, changing your Twitter icon in support of a cause (even though some call this " slacktivism "), is a techniques being used. There are tools now to make it easy for supporters to change their avatars, although you don't get the range of self-expression.

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Medium Technology Section

JUNE 14, 2025

Washington/Paris — The recent ballistic missile strikes by Iran on Israel have intensified the already fragile situation in the Middle East, leaving many observers deeply concerned about the future…

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 17, 2024

At age 16, Payman Zamani fled Iran and made his way to America as a refugee. At 28, he secured a billion-dollar IPO. Today, he is redefining what it means to be an entrepreneur and business leader.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2020

These tactics would reportedly not have worked in countries like Iran or China where internet censorship efforts are more sophisticated, but they were enough to get the Russian authorities to give up on their attempts to ban Telegram. And they blamed Telegram, not the Russian authorities.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online - NYTimes.com - Watching the #IranElection hashtag stream on Twitter, more and more videos on YouTube and the BBC, and the way citizens create and the global networks share updates about the reality of post-election mayhem in Iran has distracted me from work and ignited many conversations with friends (..)

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

The Commerce Department sanctions also included nine other Chinese companies for national security reasons, as well as companies in Iran, Russia, and Canada, among other countries. SenseTime then divested its 51 percent stake in it.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

When Iran was ejected from SWIFT in 2012 — the first time any country had been kicked off the network — it destroyed almost half the value of the country’s oil sector, reducing annual exports from $92.5 billion to $52 billion.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It is not the first incident of water supplies being targeted — a water utility in Illinois was targeted by suspected Russian hackers in November of last year, while an attempted cyberattack on Israel last year that intelligence officials have linked to Iran involved attempts to manipulate the water supply, The Washington Post reported.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2020

Earlier this year, the US and UK issued a warning about “advanced persistent threat groups” from countries like China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia targeting health-care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, academia, medical research groups, and local governments.

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Forum One

JUNE 16, 2009

Protest Iran Election. Katrin Verclas' Twitterfeed - actively amplifying the news out of Iran. Internet Graphs: Internet usage trends on Twitter show the consistency and growth of the Iran Election movement. Right now the world is watching the next level of emergent social media and citizen engagement. Twitter: #iranelection.

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Fast Company Tech

MAY 27, 2025

My parents came here from Iran as exchange students, and they intended to pursue their education and return. And if you look at what is happening with women in Iran today, you know what my future would’ve been otherwise. They had me accidentallythey were still undergraduates when they had me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

In online discussions with nonprofit techies, Megan Keane pointed to the loss of an anti-censorship tool in places like Iran, and Nancy Schwartz noted in an online discussion, “this is a kick to independent content publishing, not just convenience on the readers side.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Earlier internet shutdowns and slowdowns were carried out in Guinea in 2007 and in Iran in 2009, but Egypt’s was the first to affect internet connections across an entire country where more than a quarter of citizens had access. As a result, an estimated 93 percent of Egyptian networks were blocked for five days.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

public exits per year; by 2019, even Iran had more listed companies than Brazil. Since 2007, the number of publicly listed companies in Brazil has decreased from 400 to just a little over 300. In the past six years there were only 21 IPOs — an average of just 3.5

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