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The Pentagon has not formally briefed the press on the war since May,
reversing a series of triumphalist press conferences that Hegseth conducted earlier in the conflict.
Details of hidden American injuries come after a weekend of intense fighting between the U.S. and Iran.
The U.S. conducted strikes after an American service member was killed in Iraq during the “controlled detonation” of an Iranian drone, according to the Pentagon.

Trump caught hiding true carnage of Iran war
The Department of Defense withheld reporting dozens of injuries to military personnel, according to a new report.

The US Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it sent hundreds of millions to the IRGC and helped Iran operate a Strait of Hormuz toll booth (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/18

BTC news: Iran's Strait of Hormuz toll booth has been settling in bitcoin since June
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned BitBank, a Tehran exchange it says moved hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin to the Revolutionary Guards and handled payments collected from ships buying passage through the world’s most important oil chokepoint.

«Cybercrime — Nordkoreanische Cyberkriminelle bestehlen IT-Fachleute auf Jobsuche:
Sicherheitsbehörden warnen vor einer Cybergruppe aus Nordkorea, die gezielt IT-Spezialisten angreift. Was hinter der Kampagne "Contagious Interview" steckt»
Das ist nicht neu aber intensiver, denn ua hat @… gestern (indirekt) darauf hingewiesen.
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Cybercrime: Nordkoreanische Cyberkriminelle bestehlen IT-Fachleute auf Jobsuche - Golem.de
Sicherheitsbehörden warnen vor einer Cybergruppe aus Nordkorea, die gezielt IT-Spezialisten angreift. Was hinter der Kampagne "Contagious Interview" steckt.

In its first year under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth,
the Pentagon dramatically slashed its teams responsible for taking efforts to reduce civilian harm in military conflicts, new reporting finds
— an undertaking that continued until as little as months before the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Minab, Iran, in one of the worst single incidents of a civilian massacre committed by the US

Pentagon Slashed Civilian Harm Reduction Staff and Is Instead Using AI
CENTCOM, which oversees the war in Iran, has had its civilian harm reduction team slashed from 10 to just one.

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Each talking to unique, isolated contexts, durable, relocatable and able to recover from crash without redoing any work.
Durable jobs, TUI, Slack, Discord app talking to hyper focussed private, local-first LLMs backed by knowledge and easy (very!) to write tools.

The UK FCA, alongside tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to "light-touch" crypto regulation (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/17

FCA steps up crypto enforcement with raids on illegal London P2P trading sites
Legal experts highlight that because zero P2P crypto firms currently hold FCA authorization, all commercial peer-to-peer venues in the U.K. are operating illegally.

Federal investigators were working in early 2025 to wrap up a two-year inquiry into claims of pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination at a company that makes weapons, vehicles and cybersecurity tools for the Pentagon.
The investigators had found, among other things, that some male managers at a Norfolk, Va., Navy shipyard had demanded oral sex and other sexual contact from female employees in exchange for promotions and overtime pay,
and that Black women had been paid less…

Trump Gutted Civil Rights Agency, Stifling U.S. Scrutiny of Workplace Bias
A little-known federal office spent decades investigating potential discrimination by government contractors — until it was stopped by the Trump administration.

The United States is continuing to bombard Iran amid an intensifying standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. Central Command said on Sunday the United States had struck 140 targets in Iran.
In retaliation, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted U.S. military facilities across the Middle East.
“U.S. CENTCOM, Central Command, and the Pentagon at large have concealed the impact of Iranian strikes, in some cases entirely,”
says Jeremy Scahill, co-founder o…

“Iran Is Not Going to Capitulate”: Jeremy Scahill on Renewed War, Strait of Hormuz & More
The United States is continuing to bombard Iran amid an intensifying standoff over the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command said on Sunday the United States had struck 140 targets in Iran. In retaliation, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted U.S. military facilities across the Middle East. “U.S. CENTCOM, Central Command, and the Pentagon at large have concealed the impact of Iranian strikes, in some cases entirely,” says Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News, add…

Tether says KPMG completed Tether's first full audit and found its 2025 financial statements fairly presented its financial position in all material respects (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/busines…

Tether (USDT) says it completed long-promised audit from KPMG, down to counting its gold bars
KPMG U.S. examined Tether's books and even counted its gold bars as the $180 billion USDT issuer said it completed its long-promised financial audit.