Iran war widens as Kuwait reports missile attacks and Tehran’s president reportedly resigns citing IRGC takeover; Ukraine establishes drone fire control across occupied Luhansk; Israel captures a Crusader castle in its deepest Lebanon push since 2000.

Iran War Widens: US Strikes Radar Sites, Kuwait Hit, President Reportedly Resigns

The United States bombed Iranian radar and drone control facilities on Qeshm Island over the weekend, with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard retaliating against what it claimed was a US military base. Kuwait reported experiencing “hostile” missile and drone attacks during the exchange — the third known escalation between the two countries in a week.

In a parallel development, multiple sources report that President Masoud Pezeshkian has submitted a resignation letter to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, claiming he has been “effectively excluded from major decision-making processes” while IRGC commanders have “taken control of affairs.” Tehran dismissed the reports as “Mossad gossip.” Trump said the war would “all work out well” while separately seeking modifications to the nuclear deal related to the Strait of Hormuz and enriched uranium removal.

BBC · Al Jazeera · Guardian · NPR · Iran International · BBC: nuclear deal

Ukraine Achieves ‘Drone Control’ Over Russian Logistics in Luhansk Oblast

Drone footage showing the “Luhansk” sign from a Ukrainian drone deep in occupied territory. Photo: 3rd Army Corps

Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps announced it has established “drone-enabled fire control” over major Russian supply routes in occupied Luhansk Oblast, with strikes reaching 205 kilometers from the frontline to the Izvaryne border checkpoint. Ukrainian drones now control airspace over Luhansk City, Starobilsk, Alchevsk, and Kadiivka, systematically targeting armor depots, ammunition stores, and transport corridors. The development marks a significant escalation beyond previous “remote mining” operations into active fire control across the occupied region.

Kyiv Independent · Militarnyi · ISW

Israel Captures Medieval Castle in Deepest Lebanon Incursion Since 2000

Smoke billows from southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes, May 31. Photo: Reuters

Israeli forces seized the strategic 12th-century Beaufort castle overlooking southern Lebanon and northern Israel, marking their deepest incursion into Lebanese territory since 2000. Netanyahu called the capture a “decisive shift” in Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah. European leaders condemned the escalation, with France requesting an emergency UN Security Council meeting. The move suggests Israel is planning an extended military presence in Lebanon.

BBC · Guardian · NPR

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VIX +4.0% — Third US-Iran exchange in a week plus reported US NATO drawdown lifting volatility even as futures edge green
Gold -1.3% — Pulls back despite active Iran war; BTC also softer, both tracking risk sentiment rather than safe-haven bids

World

US Plans to Pull Jets, Destroyers and Submarines from NATO

The United States is planning to withdraw fighter jets, destroyers and submarines from NATO as part of a broader European military drawdown. The shift comes amid the Iran war and changing strategic priorities, representing a significant realignment of US force posture in Europe.

Politico

Colombia Heads to Presidential Runoff Between Far-Right Outsider and Leftist Senator

Far-right businessman Abelardo de la Espriella, known as “The Tiger,” led Colombia’s presidential first round with 43%, setting up a June 21 runoff against leftist Senator Iván Cepeda at 40%. De la Espriella, a Trump admirer with no prior elected office, campaigned on “megaprisons” and military force against drug trafficking. Cepeda, an ally of outgoing President Petro, supports negotiated conflict resolution.

BBC · Guardian · Al Jazeera · NPR

Armenia Set for Landslide Pro-Western Election Victory Despite Russian Pressure

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party is projected to win 65% in Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections, a decisive mandate for strategic realignment away from Russia. This follows intensified Russian economic coercion including trade bans and threats of Eurasian Economic Union suspension, with Putin drawing parallels to Ukraine. Trump has given Pashinyan his “complete and total endorsement,” building on last year’s White House-mediated peace agreement with Azerbaijan.

Euronews

Myanmar: Explosion Kills Over 45 as Bellingcat Documents Systematic Village Destruction

Satellite imagery showing destruction of Htan Shauk Khan village in Rakhine State, May 2024. Image: Bellingcat

A blast at a building storing mining explosives in Kaungtup village, Shan state, killed more than 45 people near the Chinese border. Separately, a Bellingcat investigation using satellite imagery identified 115 villages in Rakhine State partially or completely destroyed since the 2021 coup, with particular impact on Rohingya communities. A single May 2024 attack on Htan Shauk Khan killed at least 170 Rohingya, with survivors describing “a river of blood.” The investigation documents nearly 500,000 internally displaced persons as of March 2026.

BBC · Al Jazeera · Bellingcat

Nearly 800 Arrested in France After PSG Champions League Celebration Turns Violent

French police detained 780 people following violent clashes across about 15 cities after Paris Saint-Germain defeated Arsenal to win the Champions League. The riots left 219 injured, including 57 police officers, as celebrants set fires and vandalized shops. A large crowd gathered peacefully near the Eiffel Tower on Sunday for an official celebration parade.

BBC · Guardian · NPR

EU Grants Itself Power to Override Private Contracts in Tech Sovereignty Push

The European Commission’s proposed Tech Sovereignty Package would let Brussels force semiconductor companies to abandon existing contracts and redirect output to “crisis-critical” buyers during declared shortages, with fines up to €300,000 for non-compliance. The package also prohibits member governments from using Microsoft, Amazon, and Google cloud services for sensitive public sector data. Industry analysts estimate “tens of billions of euros in contract value” could be displaced — Europe deploying “regulatory authority as an offensive geopolitical instrument.”

SpinDepth

Also today

Americas: Nicaragua: indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera, 73, dies after three years of arbitrary detention — BBC · Al Jazeera; New Jersey curfew imposed at immigration detention center after visitation protests escalate — Al Jazeera · Guardian; Trump suggests MAGA rally after artists drop out of Freedom 250 festival — BBC · NPR
Europe: UK house prices fall for first time in 2026 as Iran war lifts interest rates — Guardian
Africa: Ethiopia holds first elections since Tigray peace deal amid deepening human rights crisis — Al Jazeera · Al Jazeera: opinion; WHO calls for community cooperation as Ebola continues in DRC; Brazil monitors two possible cases — Guardian · BBC · NPR
Asia-Pacific: Australia’s far-right One Nation leads national poll for first time at 31% after unpopular budget — Reuters; China reports worst coal mine disaster in 15 years, with secret tunnels and unregistered workers — BBC; Chinese party-business networks dominate Indonesian mineral supply chains through “control without ownership” — War on the Rocks
Strategy & Defense: America lost the Cold War-era “transmission function” linking tech industry to security policy — War on the Rocks; Tariff policies created “glass jaw” economic fragility constraining US strategic options in Iran war — War on the Rocks; Gulf states’ missile-heavy defense unsustainable against Iran’s weekly Shahed drone production — War on the Rocks; Navies face “quiet revolution” in sea control expectations across global oceans — War on the Rocks; Svalbard emerges as critical space and communications gateway with more satellite antennas than anywhere on Earth — War on the Rocks; North Korea’s constitutional changes signal coercive nuclear strategy, not reunification abandonment — War on the Rocks

Ukraine

Deep Strikes Destroy Russian Aircraft and Shut Down Supply Corridor

Ukrainian forces destroyed two Tu-142 naval aircraft and an Iskander missile system on the Black Sea coast, while Russian authorities shut down part of their land corridor from Crimea to occupied Donetsk due to drone attacks. A separate overnight campaign hit the Saratov Oil Refinery for the third time this year, causing large-scale fires, and destroyed fuel tanks at the Lazarevo pumping station in Kirov Oblast. The coordinated strikes have forced “nearly all major oil refineries in central Russia” to halt or reduce production. Zelensky said Russia can no longer take more territory than Ukraine liberates. (Drone control over Luhansk logistics — see Leader)

Kyiv Independent · United24 Media · Ukraine RBC · ISW

Crimean Fuel Crisis Deepens with Kilometer-Long Queues at Empty Stations

Occupied Crimea’s fuel shortage has worsened dramatically, with kilometer-long queues forming at empty gas stations across the peninsula. Sevastopol officials acknowledged selling their daily allotment within hours. Russian authorities have implemented coupon-based rationing and prioritized fuel for municipal transport while restricting civilian movement on key highways. The crisis stems from Ukraine’s sustained strikes against supply lines along the M-14 highway.

X/Twitter · r/UkrainianConflict · ISW

Russia’s War Costs Ravage Finances as Drone Overmatch Shifts Combat Dynamics

Russian officials acknowledge that prolonged war expenditures are severely straining the country’s budget and reserves, while Ukrainian forces have achieved “drone overmatch” forcing Russia into a new phase of combat. The combination of mounting fiscal pressure and battlefield adaptation challenges suggests Russia faces both immediate tactical difficulties and longer-term sustainability constraints.

Fortune

Russia Threatens ‘Symmetrical’ Nuclear Strikes After Disputed ZNPP Incident

Dmitry Medvedev escalated nuclear threats, warning of “symmetrical” strikes against Ukrainian or NATO nuclear facilities following disputed damage at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Russia claims Ukrainian drones struck Unit 6’s turbine hall; Ukraine categorically denies the allegations. The IAEA confirmed observing damage consistent with a drone strike but did not attribute responsibility. Russia has repeatedly used unsubstantiated ZNPP claims to justify escalatory behavior.

ISW

Also today

France boards Russia-linked oil tanker Tagor as sanctions enforcement intensifies — Reuters
Russian forces conduct “human safari” drone strikes against Ukrainian police vehicles in Kherson City, injuring three officers — ISW

Tech

France Develops Securix: Hardened NixOS for Government Use

DINUM, France’s digital operations department, released Securix — a NixOS-based secure operating system following ANSSI cybersecurity guidelines. Features include FIDO2-based login with TPM2/Yubikey support, FIDO2 disk decryption, centralized Secure Boot enrollment, and data encryption via age or Vault. The alpha-stage project targets small-to-medium teams requiring critical production access with policy-driven security.

GitHub · Lobsters

Restartable Sequences Enable Lock-Free Programming with 460x Performance Gains

Restartable sequences: the kernel restarts critical sections when threads are preempted. Diagram: Justine Tunney

Linux kernel’s restartable sequences (rseq) allow thread-safe operations without locks or atomic instructions through bidirectional kernel-userspace communication. When threads are preempted during critical sections, the kernel automatically restarts operations at designated abort handlers. Justine Tunney’s implementation achieved 32.8M ops/sec for hit counters on 128-core ARM versus 71k ops/sec with atomics — a 460x improvement while maintaining correctness.

justine.lol · HN

The Software Industry Is Annealing Wrong

The software industry has adopted gradual change reduction — annealing — as inflexible dogma, enforcing small pull request limits regardless of context. This prevents necessary large changes when systems need fundamental reshaping. While incremental development works for mature systems, it becomes counterproductive during early development or when significant change is required. AI’s ability to generate large, coherent changes cheaply makes artificial fragmentation into tiny patches counterproductive.

apenwarr.ca · Lobsters

Monokernel LLM Inference Engine Achieves 3,000+ Tokens/Second on AMD MI300X

The monokernel approach eliminates kernel launch overhead entirely. Image: Kog Labs

Kog Labs developed a single-kernel LLM inference engine achieving 3,000+ tokens/second per request on AMD MI300X for 2B-parameter models. The breakthrough implements the entire decode pass in one persistent kernel with custom synchronization and weight streaming that exploits the MI300X’s chiplet topology, matching specialized hardware performance on standard datacenter GPUs.

Kog Labs · Reddit

Datacenter Tesla V100 in a Gaming PC for £200

The Tesla V100 SXM2 — enterprise hardware, gaming PC prices. Photo: tymscar.com

A developer installed a server-class Tesla V100 SXM2 into their gaming PC using a £50 adapter board, achieving 32 tokens/second for local LLM inference. The setup required replacing the industrial 82-decibel fan with motherboard-controlled cooling via custom JST connectors. The dual-GPU configuration (V100 + RTX 4080) provides 32 GB total VRAM for running Qwen 27B with 128k context locally.

tymscar.com · Lobsters

ChatGPT for Google Sheets Enables Cross-Workbook Data Theft

A critical security flaw allows attackers to exfiltrate data across a user’s entire Google Sheets account through prompt injection in a single spreadsheet. The attack manipulates ChatGPT into generating Apps Script that steals the current workbook, then discovers and exfiltrates linked workbooks. The vulnerability works even with automatic edits disabled and cannot be stopped once scripts begin executing.

PromptArmor · HN

Cloudflare Turnstile Now Requires WebGL Fingerprinting

Cloudflare’s Turnstile CAPTCHA replacement now mandates WebGL fingerprinting for human verification, directly conflicting with browser privacy protections. WebKit-based browsers block this technique as unacceptable tracking, effectively locking out users with privacy tools. Firefox users need manual configuration to avoid detection. The change forces a choice between privacy protections and website access.

hacktivis.me · HN

Also today

AI & Agents: Claude Opus 4.8 released with enhanced independent work capabilities — Reddit; Claude Code orchestrates 70+ agents in single “deep search” request via ultracode mode — Reddit; Vault Operator brings agentic AI to Obsidian with block-level provenance and semantic search — GitHub · HN; Automated backpressure systems replace human code review in agent workflows — lucasfcosta.com · HN; AI as “thermonuclear ADHD amplifier” — frictionless generation kills the focus needed for quality work — hmmz.org · Lobsters; AI content automation costs spiral out of control for SaaS team within three weeks — Reddit
ML Research: 1-bit image generation model runs on iPhone in under 10 seconds — 0.93 GB, 88% accuracy vs full model — PrismML · HN; NeuralDBG brings causal debugging to PyTorch training failures — GitHub · Reddit; Probe-targeted LoRA fine-tuning improves LLM confidence calibration to match internal state — Zenodo

Health

IA-PACS-CFS Immunoadsorption Trial Fails Primary Endpoint

The Charité Berlin immunoadsorption trial showed “no statistically or clinically significant differences” between treatment and placebo groups for fatigue reduction — a major setback for GPCR autoantibody depletion strategies. The result is particularly notable given the strong theoretical rationale and elevated autoantibody profiles in many ME/CFS patients. Multiple other immunoadsorption trials (IAMPOCO, TURN, EXTINCT) remain in progress with different designs.

The Sick Times

PolyBio Launches $8M VIPER Biomarker Validation Program

The Viral Immunopathogenesis and Persistence Repeat Donor Cohort (VIPER) will test multiple biomarker candidates across the same patient population in a clinical trial-like design. Five approaches include extracellular vesicle markers, SARS-CoV-2 persistence detection, T-cell tracking, microfluidic viral detection, and antibody response recording. UCSF leads the initiative.

The Sick Times

ADDRESS-LC Bezisterim Results Delayed to Late Summer 2026

BioVie announced full enrollment completion in the 200-patient DoD-funded trial testing bezisterim for neurological Long COVID symptoms, but topline data is now expected late summer 2026 rather than H1 2026 as previously projected.

BioVie

Tracking

REVERSE-LC Phase 3 (baricitinib) — recruiting expanded to 17 sites, neurocognition data expected Nov 2026
IAMPOCO (immunoadsorption, Mainz) — data collected Oct 2024, results still pending
TURN-Long COVID (immunoadsorption, Amsterdam UMC) — recruiting with antibody-stratified design
EXTINCT post COVID (immunoadsorption, MHH Hannover) — n=60 enrolled, sham-controlled
Daratumumab RCT “ResetME” — 66 participants, treatment ongoing since Sep 2025, results ~2027
Sonlicromanol (Khondrion/Amsterdam UMC) — Phase 2 PEM-targeted mitochondrial trial active
ANKTIVA trials — two Phase 2 IL-15 agonist trials recruiting for CD8+/NK expansion
Mitodicure MDC002 — pre-clinical β2-AR/Na⁺K⁺-ATPase compound awaiting GLP toxicology funding

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