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Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you might have missed during what for many of us was a long weekend, including
--Anthropic watch: US government dispute becomes AI governance fight,
--Operation Endgame wipes SocGholish infrastructure,
--Hackers hijack Brazil emergency alert system,
--London Hydro breach exposes customer data,
--Data breach in Korea exposes 5,000 startup applications,
--Acworth investigates cyberatta…
JD Vance has said that Iran has agreed to allow UN nuclear inspectors back into the country
as part of an agreement under which Washington will lift sanctions on Tehran’s oil exports and the strait of Hormuz will reopen, the US vice-president
Long-term independent monitoring of Iran’s nuclear programme, which it says is for energy purposes only, was in effect halted last summer after Israel and the US attacked the country.
Tehran suspended cooperation with the Internationa…
Trump vows Iran will not charge Strait of Hormuz tolls, but says US might
https://aje.news/hvcywg
Doc: nearly 200 US utilities, data center developers, and others have signed Trump's pledge to ensure AI energy use doesn't push up consumer electric bills (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…
Iran shuts Strait of Hormuz over Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon that have killed at least 32 people since dawn.
https://aje.news/o3j66i
Developers are turning to a large range of materials to store renewable electricity when it is available and use it to power everything from wearable technology to heating networks, factories and missiles.
Here are some of the energy storage innovations raising eyebrows.
🔸Liquid air
Late last year, on the site of a former coal plant in Trafford, the former mayor of Greater Manchester marked the start of construction on a long-awaited energy storage project that could usher …
Trump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz US territory after 'finishing defeating Iran' (very badly, pretty soon).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-15/trump-says-he-will-declare-hormuz-us-territory/107041530