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@clashreport Fiber-optic drones, video quality, come from the Ukrainian war, when both sides used jamming, 3-20, powerful 40 km. Video evidence is plentiful online. Already in use, thousands of launches. The primary war machine.

Iraq’s Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah has released drone footage of an attack on the U.S. Victory Base near Baghdad International Airport. It is believed to be the first time the group has successfully used an FPV attack drone to bypass U.S. defenses.

@AricToler It's a completely unclear question: why has Iran, at this stage, not yet used its greatest advantage—soldiers, mobile proxy forces, and hand-held FPV drone operators—in the war?

Wait did Trump watch the TAFS interview

@clashreport Anyone can tell from the picture that these are modified Chinese high-speed drones like this one youtube.com/shorts/oXHj25H…

Saudi Arabia is negotiating to purchase Ukrainian interceptor drones and electronic-warfare systems to counter drone threats similar to Iran’s Shahed drones. The deal, potentially worth millions, hasn’t been finalized. Gulf countries are studying Ukraine’s counter-drone methods, which include interceptor drones and signal-jamming technology. Source: WSJ

@sentdefender x.com/i/status/20278… Clash Report @clashreport WATCH: Patriot air defence system failed to intercept an Iranian missile over Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

Insane footage showing multiple interceptors from a U.S. Army MIM-104 “Patriot” Surface-to-Air Missile Battery launching and downing Iranian ballistic missiles earlier tonight during an attack on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, with at least one ballistic missile seen striking the base, reportedly damaging a clinic on Al Udeid.

@AJArabic It's really strange: there's a war going on, but fishermen are going out to sea in fleets, tankers are going back and forth, pleasure yachts... vesselfinder.com

صور التقطتها أقمار صناعية تابعة لشركة "ميزار فيجين" الصينية، تظهر تصاعد أعمدة الدخان من ميناء كنارك جنوبي إيران #فيديو

@clashreport I honestly don't know why Claude would be used, when there are already models that test for hallucinations. Claude is strangely uncreative when it comes to writing and coding.

Anthropic said three Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax—created over 24,000 fake accounts and prompted its Claude model more than 16 million times to extract data for their own systems. Source: WSJ

@clashreport The most cowardly are the oil traders on the stock exchanges, but even they don’t really believe in war, even though they’re already in diapers

BIG: The UK is refusing to approve US use of RAF bases (Diego Garcia and RAF Fairford) for potential strikes on Iran, citing international law concerns. The dispute is said to be behind President Trump withdrawing support for the UK’s Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius. The US is drawing up strike plans, but British approval is required — and hasn’t been granted. Source: The Times

@AricToler Based on deviations in bots and other spam, and the emergence of traditional pre-war "shit=aliens" narratives, any advanced AI will predict the onset of military conflict.

Ok I have no actual opinion if this is really KD's burner or not but I really, really hope it is

@AricToler KIMI, Qwen, and Gemini are currently the main models used. Deepseek and GPT 5.2 are for generating general context, non-professional context, when super-quality is not required. SBER is for searching and correct Russian.

The comments + QTs to this, and the Reddit communities around it, show you how AI is actually used by a huge number (maybe close to an outright majority?) of people. And when it comes to image/video generation, it's that, but actually 99% of users.

@clashreport Even I, a simple man in the street, understand that the Shah-Padishah is a somewhat parodic character for modern politics.

WATCH: Senator Graham waving lion and sun flag of Iran in Munich today.

@clashreport He was driven in Mindich's car to a fake "public" drug test. Or am I mistaken?

Zelensky: Even one “Viktor” can think about how to grow his belly, not how to grow his army to stop Russian tanks from returning to the streets of Budapest.

@DefenseTrends 1. During a modern war, an armored personnel carrier will 100% not reach the firing positions and will be destroyed by the first drone. 2. Soldiers do not run around the trenches and constantly sit in cover and observe from it.

Target impact demonstration of the MK44 Bushmaster II 30 / 40 mm 🇺🇸 cannon on a Kongsberg MCT-30 🇳🇴 turret.

@AricToler The compromising material was collected through PR and the involvement of celebrities with cultural or scientific influence. You'd have to be an idiot to not understand the CIA's presence and blame it on foreign intelligence agencies.

The redactions got really sloppy sometimes. This is apparently Leon Botstein, President of Bard College. Which we know through a lot of the context of the emails, and also the DoJ just forgetting to redact his full email in one thread. More: nytimes.com/2026/02/04/us/…

@yarotrof When a relatively intelligent journalist promotes information garbage, what conclusions should we draw?

An alarming wargame, and real-life concerns. European officials fear that Russia may stage an incursion into NATO and the EU much sooner than the previous readiness deadline of 2029. In one scenario, a Russian force of 15,000 troops was enough to sever the land corridor between the Baltics and the rest of the alliance. wsj.com/world/europe/a…

@A_Kapustin Много багов, но они в общем не портят картину. facebook.com/10000043734997…

оперативы все равно не упить, так хоть от Городка в исполнении БиллИИ Айлиш кайфуйте

@clashreport In Roman society, right up to the Borgias, such behavior was the norm. Gates would have even been forgiven for wearing unwashed underwear, but married women, strangely enough, are taking revenge for their youth. They wouldn't let me, and now I'm fucking your wives.

Melinda Gates says Bill Gates must “answer for his behavior” after being named in Epstein files, adding that “no girl should ever be put in those situations.” She says the revelations are “personally hard” because they “bring back memories of some very, very painful times” in her marriage, but insists she has “moved on” and that the remaining questions are for “my ex-husband… not me.”

@clashreport I think the Starlink thing is just a newspaper hoax. The controls are advertised as multi-channel on other systems.

For the first time, Russian BM-35 drone was confirmed to be controlled via Starlink. Previously, Starlink was only seen on Molniya drones. Shahed drones using Starlink are likely coming soon. Such drones are resistant to electronic warfare and can strike targets accurately under direct operator control from Russia.

@ewong @nytimes The 89th SS, disguised as Civil Guards, stormed the Federal Chancellery building in Vienna. Dollfuss attempted to escape through a secret door, but it was locked. Government troops and police remained loyal to the regime. The attempt to overthrow the government failed.

Our @nytimes story from last week broke the news that US officials had discussed a “Phase Two” land operation against Maduro that would involve Delta Force. It’s the definitive story on how Trump, Rubio and Miller converged on the actions today. Gift link: nytimes.com/2025/12/27/us/…

@clashreport @58.9920346,27.7466017,299m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4694f993971dda2b:0xa00b36f6fe718d0!8m2!3d59.011781!4d27.7036222!16s%2Fm%2F0ch2yr3?authuser=0&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">google.com/maps/place/%D0… The problem is that Google Maps and the Estonian image have different border lines.

Three Russian border guards entered Estonian territory for about 20 minutes on Dec. 17, Estonia said. Estonia said the incident was recorded on video and it remains unclear whether it was accidental or deliberate. Source: Bloomberg

@Skostnialy @clashreport The article format is silly, but the creation (0.55 NA) is a matter of time, and it's clearly not a copy if the dimensions and shape are different. The EUV technology itself came from Taiwan, when their company was acquired by ASML.

@tallinn @clashreport You realize that they are talking about basic EUV when ASML has already shipped High-NA EUV? Also this article is probably bs. Few months ago China needed ASML help cause they destroyed older DUV machine when they tried to reverse engineer it xD

China’s ‘Manhattan Project’ for Chips Nears Breakthrough China has secretly built a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine—the most advanced tool needed to make cutting-edge AI chips—marking a major step toward semiconductor self-sufficiency. Developed in a high-security lab in Shenzhen and completed in early 2025, the machine was reverse-engineered by former ASML engineers and now fills nearly an entire factory floor. It can generate EUV light but has not yet produced working chips. China aims for success by 2028, though insiders say 2030 is more realistic. The project, described by Reuters sources as a Chinese “Manhattan Project,” is backed by the government, coordinated in part by Huawei, and involves thousands of engineers operating under strict secrecy. Recruitment of retired and overseas Chinese experts, aggressive incentives, and the reuse of parts from older Western machines have accelerated progress. Despite the breakthrough, China still lags behind ASML in precision optics and reliability. Even so, the existence of a working EUV prototype suggests China is far closer to rivaling Western chipmaking capabilities than previously believed, despite years of U.S. and allied export controls. Source: Reuters