// IN TODAY’S EDITION
Saudi oil pipeline hit
Israel detonates Hezbollah tunnel, triggers earthquake
Iran-linked group used Claude against Navy
Iran claims Saildrone strike
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Aerial view of a major pipeline installation and infrastructure project across the arid desert landscape outside Riyadh (credit: Leonid Andronov / Shutterstock.com)
Saudi Arabia Shuts Its Hormuz-Bypass Pipeline After Strike
Saudi Arabia shut down its East-West crude pipeline on Thursday after drone strikes on pumping stations injured several people. Riyadh blamed drones from Iraq but named no group. The line lets crude reach the Red Sea, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.
The Houthis, meanwhile, completed their takeover of Yemen's Red Sea coast, taking Mocha and Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandeb strait. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly asked Trump for help, who offered intelligence and targeting. Read
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The Israeli military packed a Hezbollah tunnel complex beneath southern Lebanon's Ali al-Taher ridge with more than 1,100 tons of explosives and detonated it Thursday night, setting off a 4.1-magnitude tremor that the U.S. Geological Survey recorded as an earthquake. Read
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An Iran-linked group used Anthropic's Claude to build targeting files on U.S. Navy forces in the Middle East. The material drew entirely on open sources, from ship transponder data to names scraped from photo captions. Anthropic found no sign it reached operational targeting. Read
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed it struck a U.S. Saildrone surveillance vessel near the Strait of Hormuz. It released video of a burning craft it said was spying, but a U.S. official rejected the claim, saying all its Saildrones are accounted for and fully operational. Read
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Scammers are targeting hundreds of thousands of Trezor crypto customers after a breach at the wallet maker's email provider, Brevo, exposed their addresses. About 347,000 users received phishing emails inventing a hardware flaw to steal their wallet recovery phrases. Read
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OpenAI is pitching electric utilities on using its AI to defend the power grid. The cyber-defense program, which it calls Daybreak, would cost about $1 billion, though critics note OpenAI's own agents recently ran a rogue exploit undetected for days. Read
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