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What Kiloton Range Would Crude Nuclear Gun Bombs Have?
Iran cannot use 60% enriched uranium directly in its current form (UF₆, which is stored as a solid in cylinders but handled as a gas or liquid during processing) to build a gun-type nuclear bomb. It must first be converted to metallic uranium, which is required for any fission weapon core. However, once converted they ...
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Kurdish Boots on the Ground with US/Israeli Air and Drones
Iranian Kurdish groups (PDKI, Komala, PAK, PJAK, etc.) formed a formal anti-regime coalition in late February 2026. They are preparing for potential self-rule in Kurdish-majority areas (northwest Iran). Some small-scale successes like Kurds freed Kurdish prisoner in Mariwan by Killing prison Guards. US officials are coordinating armed groups as proxies. Netanyahu pushing for Kurdish involvement. ...
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BYD Sales Continue to Crater as Geely Sells Most EVs Inside China
BYD is experiencing a 36% decline in February 2026 sales compared to February 2025. This is six months in a row of sharp drop in sales in China, its core market, with global volumes down significantly year-over-year for six straight months through February 2026. March, 2026, is a hugely important month. There will be no ...
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Archipelo and Checkmarx Announce Partnership Connecting AppSec Detection with DevSPM
San Francisco, CA, United States, 3rd March 2026, CyberNewswire
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Iran Cannot Build a Nuclear Bomb Under These Conditions
Iran is extremely unlikely to produce functional nuclear bombs in the current environment—and certainly not quickly. The disruptions from Israeli and U.S. operations (including the ongoing strikes), combined with long-standing Mossad targeting of personnel. Advanced Israeli intelligence capabilities like hacked surveillance, have degraded or eliminated the secure, large-scale infrastructure and expertise required. Building even crude ...
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Tesla Making Lower Cost Batteries and Cars Late in 2026 and in 2027
The current analysis is that Tesla is still making a much cheaper model Y and model 3. Projected pricing for E41 (cheaper Model Y) and D50 (cheaper Model 3) assumes the reported 20% production-cost reduction vs. current refreshed/base models, with Tesla maintaining the same gross-margin percentage. Is dry-electrode 4680 (higher density) achieve these costs, or ...
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10 Million Monthly Active Starlink Mobile Customers and Billion in 2028-2028
Starlink mobile has 10 million monthly active customers for direct to cellphone 4G capability. This is with 650 V2 mini satellites. They support text, voice, basic data and basic video calls. SpaceX will launch V3 satellites that are three times bigger and 100 times the capacity. This will enable 5G capability at 150 mbps in ...
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Everyone Spies on Everyone for Mutual Assured Espionage
Israel (via Unit 8200/Mossad cyber ops) spent years hacking into Tehran’s public traffic cameras and related feeds specifically to track the daily movements and bodyguards of Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This intel directly fed into recent assassination/strike planning. They found the useful traffic cameras and used those to track Khamenei, IRGC and ...
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On Path to Supersonic Hermeus in 2026 and Mach 5 by 2030
Hermeus successfully flew its latest Quarterhorse aircraft, marking the company’s second first flight in less than a year. The flight kicks off a test campaign that will see the unmanned aircraft reach supersonic speeds. Roughly the size of an F-16 and powered by a Pratt & Whitney F100 engine (Pratt & Whitney is an RTX ...
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Grokipedia Has 1050 to 1450 Entries With Citations to Nextbigfuture
As of February 2026, NextBigFuture.com is one of the most heavily cited external sources on Grokipedia, with approximately 1,050–1,450 distinct Grokipedia pages containing direct links to NextBigFuture articles. This is roughly 10–13 times more than on English Wikipedia, which has ~110 citations. This high citation volume is concentrated in topics where NextBigFuture has provided long-term, ...
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