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‘The most powerful weapon is not always a missile’: How Iranian “Charming Kitten” hackers used old Cold War methods to steal tech secrets and plant malware on Apple and Windows users Checkpoint

‘The most powerful weapon is not always a missile’: How Iranian “Charming Kitten” hackers used old Cold War methods to steal tech secrets and plant malware on Apple and Windows users

Charming Kitten relies on deception rather than exploiting technical software vulnerabilities Fake identities build trust before phishing attacks compromise sensitive user credentials Operations extend across Apple and Microsoft platforms, affecting diverse users globally Iran-linked cyber operations are drawing renewed attention for relying less on advanced code and more on human…
bubmag
April 5, 2026
A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power Checkpoint

A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power

Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The multi-gigawatt monuments to Cold War-era engineering that still dot the American landscape were designed for…
bubmag
April 1, 2026
‘Cold War Choir Practice’ Off Broadway Review: David Lynch Lives in This Wild Reagan-Era Comedy Checkpoint

‘Cold War Choir Practice’ Off Broadway Review: David Lynch Lives in This Wild Reagan-Era Comedy

Without putting any dwarves on stage, Knud Adams has picked up the torch of David Lynch like no other stage director before him. With the same deadpan creepiness lurking just under the wood-panel normalcy of life in America, Adams brings Ro Reddick’s exhilarating “Cold War Choir Practice” to perverse life at…
bubmag
March 11, 2026
Iran War Is the Latest Blow for Europe’s Battered Industrial Backbone Checkpoint

Iran War Is the Latest Blow for Europe’s Battered Industrial Backbone

A Cold War chemical park in Germany shows how vulnerable Europe is in an era of energy insecurity. Author of the article: Bloomberg News Marilen Martin and Libby Cherry Published Mar 09, 2026 8 minute read 208)9dd5u54gdi]p97h55w08_media_dl_9.png German insolvency courts, compil Article content (Bloomberg) — In the east German industrial town of…
bubmag
March 9, 2026
From Cabinet secretary to doomsday president: What being America’s designated survivor is like Checkpoint

From Cabinet secretary to doomsday president: What being America’s designated survivor is like

WASHINGTON: They typically start the day as low-profile Cabinet secretaries. They end it that way, too, God willing. But when the rest of the government is gathered together for a big event, like President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night, a designated survivor is kept away to…
bubmag
February 25, 2026