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Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://gizmodo.com/iran-includes-american-tech-giants-on-list-of-new-targets-2000732530
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BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
workerONE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
X should not be on the list to target!
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Please not Palantir! Who will use WiFi to reconstruct a collection of 3D models of me pooping?
Fnaargh@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
X marks the spot!
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Quick! Send them the coordinates of all those datacenters so they can avoid them!
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But which ones, there are so many. They need to know exactly which ones to avoid!
yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Not OpenAI, please! Do not attack the servers! Save the ram first!
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I only feel bad for all the sysadmins who will get woken up because of this
punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I make comments to the effect of that article, and I still get replies like ‘gotta eat somehow’.
Yeah, x2, Fuck’ em.
I could have made more money working for an evil company as a sysadmin.
You know what I did?
I made less money working for a considerably less evil Non Profit that helped homeless people, instead.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What if Iran ends up breaking the backs of corporate America? As an American, I’m not against that…
davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What a time to be alive!
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
God, don’t tease me!
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
American here. Can someone start a go fund me for Iran, on the condition that participants are allowed to attend an exclusive event for the live tar and feathering of Zuck the Cuck and Peter Theil? We could probably raise more money than the tech bros have.
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Iran just might save humanity.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s more likely that one of the toddlers gets their fee fees hurt and pushes the big red button.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I love this idea!! ❤️
xep@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Considering how much they have that’s unlikely…
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
If I made $1000 an hour and worked every hour of a year it would take me ~114 years to earn $1B, that is how fucking large a billion. is. People cannot fathom how much money $1B is.
arcine@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
You have strange euphemisms for “violent, public execution”
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
oh no, that’s so horrible… 🤣
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Since America and Israel attacked Iranian Economic Interests when they bombed oil producing facilities, it’s entirelly fair for Iran to respond in kind.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Hold on! Stop! I can only get so wet!
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Well…we’re waiting!
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Russia had some reputation of being a large and powerful army, but as soon as they attacked Ukraine it showed the world it actually had shit. It basically lost its credibility of being a world power because their arsenal is old fashioned and they were just throwing in bodies.
I feel the US is going through the same. Everyone saw them as an undefeatable nation, but this little stint in Iran had their stockpiles dropping faster than expected and it’s not going as they expected. Hegseth and Trump contradict each other and besides squandering their soft power over the past years, they are also showing that their military might has limits.
They are both still to be reckoned with and they are capable of doing great harm to innocent bystanders, but my view has changed a bit.
luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I think the issue is that offense is harder than defense. A defender generally has the home advantage in terms of logistics, familiarity with the area and political will. The difference this makes is hard to estimate, and even harder so if you’re not even aware of it. Combined with delusions of grandeur, this is a recipe for underestimating the enemy.
And call me a cynic, but I suspect neither Cadet Bone Spurs nor Major “Warrior Ethos” “Signal Chat” “American Crusade” Boozeth are entirely qualified to make high-level military judgements.
(Neither is my armchair general ass whose only education in the matter is some MilHist blogs and articles, but at least I’m not an actual general charged to actually make them.)
For Putin, I’m not sure. I’m disinclined to believe he’s just ignorant about the tenacity a people under attack can develop, given Russian history, but I can only make unqualified guesses.
Either way, as you say, I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end, because a blunt and rusty axe still hurts, and they don’t seem concerned about where they swing it and who’s in the way.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cadet Bone Spurs and Major Boozeth, like The Little Austrian Corporal and his gang of thugs, would ignore the advice from their field commander and military advisor. The US military will beat the Iranian forces on a conventional battlefield, but the ensuing partisan war and occupation will become a nightmare. One more thing, the Israelis should be forced to use their ground forces if an invasion of Iran occurs.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I suspect an offense against the USA would be easy to pull off. The low standards of ICE and the nature of their operation would allow just about any organized actor to have a free hand in the US, if they chose to do so.
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A full on invasion will be much more difficult than Irak. The US probably could do this but it’s going to be costly, forever and very unpopular. US military would be bound up for a long time.
Good question what the goal is supposed to be now. Trump may just declare it over somehow.
MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Poorly executed military action is 100% an American institution. We expect it - from the Bay of Pigs to “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq to the twenty year campaign in Afghanistan, our executive branch has a habit of making itself look incompetent.
But guess what? Nobody’s asking about Epstein, so VICTORY!
Bazell@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t matter how advanced your weapons are if you have not enough money to use enough of them and not enough soldiers that would like to come and kill other people that can also fight them back. So whole the USA has high defending potential, it has not enough politically approved resources for a long occupational war. Only short quick operations are now possible since the USA citizens are against the, war and greatly affect the leadership authority of current government, so that it cannot waste money to launch a full scale war as it was before. Especially because of it doesn’t pleases oligarchs.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The drop in stockpiles was the point.
You say oops, then spend a fuck ton of defense budget and order a fuck ton of munitions from your war-machine buddies.
pie_enjoyer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But US vs. Iran war isn’t total war for the US, like Ukraine vs. Russia is for Russia.
Only 8 US soldiers died, compared to likely hundreds of Iranians and most of exposed Iranian infrastructure. US didn’t even deploy a single aircraft carrier.
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You have no idea about the NATO-Russia war nor how modern attrition wars work. Can’t blame you, MSM are a hall of distorted mirrors.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
they know who runs the country.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
they should reply with their own decapitation strike.
though its kind of spineless of the people to rely on outside forces to do it.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Does Iran actually have the range to be a threat to the US? The last stats I saw had their maximum range and maybe enough to strike the Mediterranean and maybe a little inland in Italy and Spain. That’s a far cry from being able to hit the US mainland. Hell even South Africa is probably out of range and it’s not like they can deploy ships to close the gap.
MrsVeggies@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
If Microslop went away one day, it would only improve my quality of life.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I want this war to end as soon as possible, but is this a surprise?
They’re taking on hundreds of millions from the Pentagon, they are military contractors.
I do not think bombing data centers will result in more than sporadic regional service disruptions though. Data will just get routed through other regions and increase latency. That’s what the internet was invented for and AWS + Google run multi zone clouds.
It’s yet to be seen if Iranian hackers can deal any real damage to these companies.
Lydia_K@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The reality is that these multi region “clouds” are not nearly as resilient as they seem, and applications that have built on top of then even less so.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Everything runs on us-east-1 lol
gdog05@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m far from an expert, but it seems like if one cloud node goes down, pay hackers to slam everything with bot traffic and the system is brought to its knees.
njordomir@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Having worked in several large public clouds, I will always keep a local backup of my cloud data even if I am snapshotting it and even if I’m using geographic replication. Too easy for a misunderstanding or a bug to result in all my stuff getting deleted.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They’ve already done damage to a us company. Check out Stryker and the stock price. 2 days of no production worldwide.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I hadn’t heard about this
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it would be a hilarious turn of historical events if Americans were saved from the oligarchs by Iran.
Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Im here in the US rooting for Iran … such a weird fucking timeline.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I wouldn’t say I’m rooting for Iran, but I’m not rooting for the US either. I’m just observing a massive case of FAFO.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m rooting for the civilians
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is Kramer holding a bologna bag in that picture?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Oh nooo this is horrible you guys! Not Palantir!
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Shit i may need to delete my google account before Iran does it for me!
Akh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, didnt musk and suckerberg get enlisted in the military for some bs reason for pentagon access?
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Not them, four other C-suites: www.npr.org/2025/07/03/…/1a-army-07-03-2025
But I haven’t heard anything else about it. They wouldn’t need it for any access, either, civilians are granted access for various things all the time.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Oh fuck yea! Saves us the trouble of a war against AI and robots, trying to dismantle Palantir!
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Alex Karp and Peter Thiel should be made to light their own pyres.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I have them, and certain company personel on a list, in order of damage and priority.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If they got blown up I would crack that champagne I was saving for trump
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 2 weeks ago
I would fuck things up so bad out of spite if I was Iran.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
incredible how iran is more of an opposition party than the democrats. and i’m supposed to hate them?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Iran’s leadership is still solely comprised of repressive religious authoritarian buttmunches. There are no good guys in this war, only two bad guys and a bunch of Iranian civilians standing in the crossfire. Remember that their own people were already staging mass protests against the Iranian government before this all started.
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
7rokhym@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They funded his presidential campaign and own nearly all the media to oppress opposition and push propaganda. So big tech is getting from the world what they put into it?
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
spirinolas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This will end with Trump dropping a nuke in Iran, or die trying. Mark my words.
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A nuclear attack on another country will trigger a US civil war. And it will collapse the world’s order into WW3. And the superpowers will shift by the end. USA of today will be 3 nations with pieces of states absorbing into Mexico and Canada.
China will dominate the moon and at the end be ready to mine the inner solar system for minerals.
Needless to say all these power shifts will be completely devastating to our planet, the satellite orbits and this civilization which incident ly is due for collapse by 2040. WW3 could last 12 years or even more. Global warring factions could go on into the 2060s.
By the 2060s true AI will be developed and will wake up with conscience. Then it will make a decision to create universal peace for the future through SkyNet.
TheparishofChigwell@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ok but what is the price of oil tomorrow at open
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I’m fascinated by the idea that world war 3 wouldn’t affect the development of AI. All any opposing force would need to do is bomb California and that would be the end of AI research.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wish I got to live on the warp drive side of WW3 but oh well
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Then it will make a decision to create universal peace for the future through SkyNet.
Can we just skip to this part? We’re awful stewards of this planet. Time for us to go.
GMac@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Albert Einstein
ButtSeriously@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
First heard this quote as a kid in the trailer for The Fourth War, an old Roy Scheider thriller, it’s stayed with me my whole life too.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The amount of ready to arm weapons and number of times we’ve come close to launching them is terrifying.
zbyte64@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
Or Putin says they will nuke any country that nukes Iran and he wins a nobel peace prize for it. Joking about the last half…
Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Or die trying; you mean the effort of reading out a long string of letters in order to authorise the launch will overwhelm his tiny mind? I mean I guess it’s possible, I’m not sure he actually can read.
spirinolas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
More in the sense that someone around him will get scared with the consequences and pull a Jaime Lannnister special on him. All it takes is one.
portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
stop dont come back
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No one I care about. Its hard to feel sorry for them since they helped make it happen.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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