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Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Cavaliere banned pop star Chappell Roan from performing at the city’s events on Saturday, in response to Italian-Brazilian professional soccer player Jorginho accusing the “Pink Pony Club” singer of sending her security guard to intimidate his 11-year-old daughter after she smiled at her, which he said left the young fan “extremely shaken” and “in tears.” Roan, meanwhile, responded to backlash by insisting she does not “hate” children, and claimed her security guard acted on his own.
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Chinese radar and tracking systems failed during the U.S.-Iran conflict. Photo courtesy of web.junhao.mil.cn
 
U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have demonstrated that Chinese military hardware does not perform as Beijing claims. Chinese-made air defense systems deployed in Iran were unable to intercept large-scale airstrikes, raising serious doubts about their combat effectiveness and damaging China’s credibility as an arms exporter.
Israel deployed around 200 fighter jets while the United States struck more than 1,000 targets using B-2 stealth bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles. Iran failed to shoot down a single aircraft. According to Global Defense Corp, EA-18G Growlers destroyed three batteries of Chinese HQ-9B surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and four YLC-8B anti-stealth radars in the first hour of the operation, with the HQ-9B system firing no interceptors and failing to detect incoming HARM anti-radiation missiles. The IAEA later confirmed that the Natanz nuclear facility sustained damage.
Iran had deployed China’s fourth-generation mobile radar, the YLC-8B, which Beijing first unveiled at the 2016 Zhuhai Airshow and claimed could detect U.S. F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters from 250 kilometers away. Chinese-origin JY-14 surveillance radars, alongside Iran’s indigenous Bavar-373 air defense system, also failed to down any coalition aircraft across more than 2,500 sorties. Post-strike analysis identified several technical weaknesses: software instability in targeting computers, poor resistance to radar jamming and spoofing, and an inability to share data across the broader air defense grid.
China had secretly supplied Iran with roughly $5 billion worth of weapons under an oil-for-weapons agreement, including 50 CM-302 supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles, three HQ-9B anti-ballistic systems, four YLC-9B radars, six HQ-16B surface-to-air missile systems, and 1,200 FN-6 MANPADS. Reports indicate that much of this hardware was destroyed on the first day of strikes. Iran fired 52 missiles and drones at the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group; U.S. Aegis destroyers intercepted all of them.
The CM-302 missiles failed mid-flight, either deviating from their targets due to guidance failure or failing to accelerate to Mach 3 in the terminal phase. Post-strike analysis attributed this to a design flaw: the missile relies on the same seeker as the C-802 but lacks a data link, satellite link, or active guidance in the terminal phase, receiving only a single tracking update at launch and no continuous radar data thereafter.
This was not the first time Chinese hardware failed in combat. During India’s Operation Sindoor in May 2025, Pakistan deployed Chinese-made radars and HQ-9B systems to protect key military installations, and they failed. Pakistan’s air force lost roughly 20 percent of its infrastructure, with analysts attributing the failure to over-reliance on an automated system easily disrupted by the volume of munitions India employed.
In January 2026, during Operation Absolute Resolve against Venezuela, Chinese-made JY-27A radar systems used by Venezuelan forces were disabled and failed to detect approaching U.S. aircraft before any missiles could lock on. China’s HQ-9B air defense system has now failed to prevent attacks in three separate conflicts, Iran, Pakistan, and Venezuela, with radar jamming cited as a consistent vulnerability across all three.
One significant analytical caveat applies to the Iran case. Multiple defense experts, including Xu Tianran and Joshua Arostegui of the U.S. Army War College, have argued there is no photographic evidence, no satellite imagery, and no U.S. or Israeli government confirmation that HQ-9B systems were ever deployed or delivered to Iran.
The Chinese Embassy in Israel denied that China had supplied Iran with the HQ-9B at all, stating that China never exports weapons to countries engaged in warfare. The broader failure of Chinese-supplied systems, JY-14 and YLC-8B radars, SF-200 drones, is widely reported and not meaningfully contested. The specific HQ-9B claims remain disputed.
Beijing’s public response combined denial with deflection. Chinese officials blamed user error in the Pakistan case, accusing the Pakistani military of a lack of professionalism, and reportedly asked Islamabad to conceal or destroy evidence of the HQ-9B’s failure. On Iran, Beijing framed the U.S.-Israeli operation as evidence of American unilateralism. Xi Jinping remained publicly silent on the failure of Chinese-supplied hardware.
Some Chinese voices were more candid. Retired PLA colonel Yue Gang publicly urged China to re-evaluate its military capability and shift from reverse-engineering to domestic technology development, stating that what is inside military hardware matters more than how it looks. Military commentator Song Zhongping said China lacks multi-domain warfare capabilities and trains its military using a Soviet-era model from the early 1950s, lacking coordination among forces.
Chinese international relations scholar Shi Yinhong said the strikes on Iran indicate U.S. military power is superior and that America’s methods of warfare have further evolved. Georgetown University professor Dennis Wilder described the Iran war as a potential wake-up call for the PLA comparable to the 1991 Gulf War, which had previously driven dramatic changes in Chinese strategy and doctrine.
Corruption within China’s defense industry compounds the hardware performance problems. As of late 2025 and early 2026, numerous top PLA commanders, including navy admiral Miao Hua, were removed or placed under investigation for embezzlement, bribery, and misappropriation of state assets, particularly within the Rocket Force and major defense enterprises. Analysts assess that systemic corruption has likely led to substandard equipment and hindered overall readiness.
Experts assess that the U.S. and Israel demonstrated overwhelming superiority in electronic and cyber warfare, intelligence gathering, and multi-domain military integration across land, sea, air, and space. John Culver, a former CIA senior analyst on China’s military, noted that China’s force looks highly capable on paper but has not been to war in a very long time, and its ability to conduct complex, large-scale integrated joint operations remains untested. China is assessed to be roughly a decade behind the United States in advanced military technology.
The reputational damage to Chinese arms exports is being assessed as severe. Countries including Egypt, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, and Iran spent billions on Chinese air defense systems. In Latin America, Peru, Argentina, and Uruguay have opted for U.S. systems instead; Argentina and Peru chose F-16s over China’s JF-17. The most consequential dimension is the Taiwan scenario. Every failure of Chinese-exported hardware in real combat is a data point U.S. and Taiwanese planners are studying closely. The CM-302’s guidance failures, if repeated in a Taiwan contingency, would put billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese naval vessels at serious risk.
China is studying the war through satellite and other forms of imagery, gathering millions of data points that will be analyzed with AI to identify weaknesses in its own equipment and to look for vulnerabilities in U.S. and Israeli capabilities. But turning those lessons into reliable, combat-effective systems will take time. Building the next generation of improved systems could take years. As a result, Beijing’s timeline for a Taiwan invasion may extend beyond the widely cited 2027 target.
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U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jonathan B. Trejo)
When most people picture modern conflict, they may think about missiles and attack aircraft for deep strike missions like we have seen over the last week with Operation Epic Furry in Iran, drones, or perhaps cyberattacks. Most however, do not picture a ship dragging an anchor across the seabed to destroy a fiber-optic cable in cold water. However, that is exactly the point. The most dangerous attacks are often the ones that look accidental at first. In Europe, that is no longer a theory. It is a pattern. The Baltic has seen repeated damage to cables and pipelines since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the incidents continued into late 2025 and January 2026.
That matters because undersea cables are not niche infrastructure. They are part of the nervous system of our modern world. More than 95 percent of internet traffic travels through undersea cables and they support an estimated $10 trillion in financial transactions every day. If those lines are cut or disrupted, the effects do not stay underwater. They move quickly into banking, communications, logistics, and even military coordination; they are a matter of national security.
Those who have not already, should stop treating these incidents as isolated technical failures and start treating them as what they are: pressure tests on Western, and more specifically NATO, resilience. By January 2025, officials were already counting at least 11 damaged Baltic cables since October 2023. Then came more cases, including the recent seizure of the vessel Fitburg after damage to a telecom cable between Finland and Estonia on December 31, 2025, and then another cable incident between Lithuania and Latvia in early January 2026. Some cases may turn out to be negligence rather than sabotage. However, that does not make the strategic problem less serious. In gray-zone competition, ambiguity is the weapon.
Russia understands this reality well. So do other authoritarian states that prefer deniable disruption over open escalation. A cable strike does not need to cause a nationwide blackout to succeed. It only needs to create uncertainty, disruption that force governments to divert resources, and remind the public that their societies depend on infrastructure they cannot see and rarely protect. That is why attacks on undersea systems are so attractive. They are cheap compared with the damage they can cause, and they sit in the gray space between commercial risk, criminal activity, and national security. NATO has now described the damage to Baltic energy and telecom cables as part of a broader campaign of sabotage and destabilization.
To be fair, NATO and the European Union are no longer asleep on this matter. NATO created the Critical Undersea Infrastructure Network in 2024 and launched Baltic Sentry in January 2025, adding frigate patrols, maritime patrol aircraft flights, drone-intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) asset employment, and closer coordination with national surveillance means. In February 2025, the European Commission released a Joint Communication to the European Parliament for an EU Action Plan on Cable Security, built around detection, response and repair, as well as deterrence. A year later in February 2026, the European Commission backed that plan with a new Cable Security Toolbox and roughly €347 million for priority projects, monitoring and repair capacity, with the Baltic as an early focus due to the recent heavy activity and incident rate. These are real steps in the right direction!
But they are they enough?

Right now, the West collectively is building a better response to cable damage. What we still lack, however, is a durable system for preventing it. Does NATO remain too dependent on temporary surges, national and international investigations and boardings, and reactive patrols after each new incident? The EU is improving resilience, but resilience is not the same thing as deterrence. It seems that we still do not have a standing, integrated structure that combines military surveillance, commercial operators and repair capabilities, intelligence sharing, legal authorities, and rapid repose management in one place.
So, is this the best next step for NATO to take? I argue that the time has come for the alliance, working closely with the EU, to establish a permanent undersea infrastructure protection mission with three jobs. First, they should maintain persistent maritime domain awareness over key cable corridors and chokepoints, using naval surface and air patrols, drones and unmanned undersea vessels (UUVs), commercial data, and national ISR sensors. Second, they should fuse government and industry information trough well established public private partnerships which fast and effective enough to identify suspicious behavior before a cable is damaged, not just afterward. Third, they should establish a real playbook for response: who investigates, who repairs, who communicates with the public, and what penalties follow if a hostile act is confirmed?
This should not be a loose coordination cell with broad talking points. It should be an operational mission with assigned roles and responsibilities, regular and reoccurring joint and allied exercises, and clear ties to commercial cable owners and repair facilities. NATO has already started moving in that direction. The problem is that our adversaries are moving faster. Every new incident teaches them something about what seams exist: where legal authorities break down, where private companies and militaries fail to share information, and where democracies hesitate because they are unsure whether a cable cut was sabotage, negligence, or just bad weather.
Some critics will say that NATO already has too much on their plate. Russia’s war against Ukraine continues. The Middle East remains unstable, and NATO partners are now kinetically involved in Iran. However, that is exactly why this issue matters. An alliance that cannot protect the infrastructure carrying its digital communications and finance data, as well as internet services at large, is weaker in every theater, not just one. Protecting undersea cables is not a distraction from collective defense. It is now part of collective defense.
Hopefully, the Baltic and all NATO partners have ended the old debate by now. The question is no longer whether critical undersea infrastructure is a security issue. NATO and the EU have begun to answer that question with their actions. Now part of the question, is it enough, and is the rest of the West ready to act with enough speed and seriousness to stay ahead of the next disruption. If we wait for a larger failure before building a stronger system, we will learn the same lesson too late: the modern world does not need to be bombed into silence. It can be quietly unplugged.

J.P. Thompson is an active-duty Officer in the U.S. Navy, with specialties in Anti-Submarine Warfare, Air & Missile Defense, and Intelligence. He is currently the Associate Professor of Naval Science at the University of Illinois and is a Doctoral student of Law & Policy at Northeastern University. 
The opinions expressed are the author’s own.
This article was originally published by RealClearDefense and made available via RealClearWire.

Former ‘Saturday Night Live’ star David Spade is blasting California Democrats Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for the destruction of the film industry in Hollywood.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., condemned President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to U.S. airports on Sunday.Schumer made the comments while speaking on the Senate floor Sunday, saying Trump’s decision is “impulsive” and could make the situation at airports worse.”Today, Donald Trump and [Tom] Homan are saying they will deploy ICE agents to airports starting on Monday. This is really disturbing. ICE agents who are untrained and have caused problems everywhere they’ve gone lurking at our airports. That’s asking for trouble, and it will certainly make the chaos at the airports even worse,” Schumer said.”No one has any faith in ICE agents. They haven’t received training. They don’t know what it is to be a TSA person and do what you need to do,” he continued. “And the real problem here is they have no plan for using these ICE agents. Trump says, send them there. They send them there. And Homan says they’re still drawing up plans with less than a day’s notice. What is this? We know what it is. It’s another impulsive action by Donald Trump.”SCHUMER GAMBIT FAILS AS DHS SHUTDOWN HITS 36 DAYS AND AIRPORT LINES GROW”Some idea pops into his head and he announces it. And then the people working for him, a few of whom do have some degree of talent and ability. Not many underlings. They have to rush to try and implement what they know is an idiotic plan,” he said.The ICE deployment is Trump’s latest move in the battle with Democrats over funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Schumer and his allies have refused to approve DHS funding without reforms to immigration enforcement.TSA agents across the country have gone more than a month without a paycheck, with no clear end in sight.Trump first threatened to deploy ICE to airports on Saturday, demanding that Democrats “immediately sign an agreement” to fund DHS.DHS SHUTDOWN TRIGGERS TSA ‘EMERGENCY MEASURES’ AS LAWMAKER WARNS AIRPORTS COULD FEEL ECONOMIC PAINAirports across the country have reported huge numbers of employees calling out sick or not showing up for work. More than 400 TSA employees have quit their jobs.”On Monday, ICE will be going to airports to help our wonderful TSA Agents who have stayed on the job despite the fact that the Radical Left Democrats, who are only focused on protecting hard-line criminals who have entered our Country illegally, are endangering the USA by holding back the money that was long ago agreed to with signed and sealed contracts, and all,” Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social.Trump also predicted blowback from Democrats, saying they would complain “no matter how great a job ICE does.”

The Valspar Championship had a stoppage in play on Saturday when a young girl was hit by a golf cart, and Brooks Koepka, back on the PGA Tour after defecting to LIV Golf, sprang into action. Koepka was spotted running over to the girl to comfort her after she ended up underneath the golf cart, which was moving around spectators. At the time, Koepka was playing the par 3 15th hole. NBC Sports broadcaster Dan Hicks said the girl ended up under the golf cart, but did not suffer serious injury. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM”She’s going to be OK after medical evaluation,” walking reporter Smylie Kaufman said over the air. “Very scary moment.”Koepka, who heads into the final round on Sunday tied for 13th with a 5-under score, spoke about the incident after his Saturday round. “I just felt terrible for, I believe her name is Shay, so from all the reports you’ve got she’s OK, thankfully,” Koepka said, according to Golf.com. “So, that’s all that matters, as long as she’s OK.”BROOKS KOEPKA’S ATTORNEY GIVES INSIDE LOOK INTO GOLFER’S LIV DEPARTURE, REETURN TO PGA TOURKoepka added that he thought she was “probably a little scared.””I just felt for her at the time. So, it’s unfortunate, it shouldn’t have happened, but as long as she’s OK, no, nothing crazy happened to her, then it will be OK.”Koepka said the moment didn’t affect him once he got back to play on the course. The five-time major championship winner made headlines when he reached an agreement with the PGA Tour to return after defecting to LIV Golf after more than four years with the Saudi-backed rival tour. At the time, Koepka cited more family time as a key factor to his decision to get out of his LIV Golf deal. “Brooks has felt over the years that the travel being so intense and so international that it kept him away from his family, and I think as time went on, he longed to spend more time with his family and be closer to the U.S.,” Freedman, a co-founder of Liner Freedman Taitelman + Cooley LLP, told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. LIV Golf has had tour stops in Australia, Singapore and other places around the world.Freedman also praised the PGA Tour for welcoming Koepka back with semi-open arms.”I think the reaction was really positive. It’s great. The PGA has been wonderful, they welcomed him back. There are certainly restrictions that he has, and he’ll abide by them. “But I think they have been incredible in the way in which they have welcomed him back,” Freedman explained. “I think he’s really excited. I think he’s excited to make amends with the players and do his best to just kind of be a golfer among golfers, as a worker among workers, and really go in there and be humble and walk in with the humility and the grace that Brooks walks around with.”In his four events thus far this season, Koepka has one top-10 and two top-25 finishes, making three of four cuts in a successful return to the PGA Tour. Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is under fire for backing a plan that would slash New York’s estate tax exemption by nearly 90%, a move opponents say could drag middle-class families into a tax burden long aimed at the rich.New York is one of the states that imposes its own estate tax in addition to the federal levy, and the proposed changes would dramatically expand its reach—potentially sweeping in not just the wealthy, but families whose primary asset is a home they hoped to pass on to their children.MAMDANI’S RENT FREEZE, TAX HIKES A ‘ONE-TWO WEALTH DESTRUCTION PUNCH,’ ECONOMISTS WARNThe plan would sharply reduce how much of an estate can be passed on tax-free, cutting the threshold from $7.35 million to just $750,000, among the lowest in the country, meaning far more estates would be subject to taxation.In addition, Mamdani is proposing to more than triple the state’s top estate tax rate, raising it from 16% to 50%, a combination that could generate billions in new revenue for New York.Edward Pinto, a senior fellow and co-director of the AEI Housing Center at the American Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital the proposal could push residents and their wealth out of New York.”This proposal would destroy NYC’s wealth in a different manner,” Pinto said.”This estate tax proposal will mistreat capital and result in the voluntary exodus of NYC residents and their wealth to places like Florida and Tennessee,” he added.FROM FREE BUSES TO CITY-OWNED GROCERY STORES, HERE ARE MAMDANI’S KEY ECONOMIC PROMISESOthers echoed similar concerns, pointing to the potential impact on families and long-term financial planning.Joshua Rowley, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, said estate taxes can force families to liquidate assets and increasingly reach beyond the wealthy.”Estate taxes force citizens to liquidate assets to pay taxes on previously taxed assets—putting homes, retirement accounts, and businesses in the crosshairs,” Rowley said. “It would also discourage responsible retirement planning and punish parents for the sole crime of wanting to leave their children better off.”He added that proposals aimed at taxing the wealthy often expand over time.”But the Mamdani proposal also pulls back the curtain on all tax-the-rich solutions. What starts off as an exclusive tax on the rich invariably gets expanded to lower income groups to satisfy the government’s spending addiction,” Rowley said.The estate tax proposal is just one piece of Mamdani’s wider policy push.His housing plan, a campaign promise aimed at addressing affordability, includes an immediate freeze on roughly 2 million rent-stabilized apartments. Separately, his broader $127 billion budget agenda calls for higher taxes on wealthy residents and corporations, as well as a potential 9.5% property tax increase if state lawmakers decline to act.In the nation’s largest city and a global financial center, the outcome of Mamdani’s proposals could shape not only the future of New York’s housing market, but also broader debates over regulation, taxation and urban policy.Mamdani’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Most of us have received a random text that makes us pause for a second. Maybe it promises a prize. Maybe it claims to be from a delivery company. Lately, another type of message is spreading quickly: the remote job scam.That is exactly what happened to Peter from New York. He wrote in after receiving a suspicious message about a high-paying YouTube job.Here is what he sent:”I received this text today, and I think it’s a scam. How can I tell for sure, and what do I do next?”Below is the message Peter received. At first glance, it looks like a job opportunity. However, when you break it down line by line, several warning signs appear. Let’s walk through them.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportGet my best tech tips, urgent security alerts, and exclusive deals delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, you’ll get instant access to my Ultimate Scam Survival Guide — free when you join my CYBERGUY.COM newsletter.FAKE GOOGLE SECURITY PAGE CAN TURN YOUR BROWSER INTO A SPYING TOOLThe text comes from an unknown international phone number starting with +63, which is the country code for the Philippines. Legitimate companies rarely recruit through random text messages from unknown numbers. Real employers usually contact candidates through job platforms, email or professional networks like LinkedIn. When a job appears out of nowhere and promises high pay, it should immediately raise suspicion.The message claims:Those numbers are a major warning sign. Entry-level remote work, such as “boosting video views” or “YouTube optimization,” does not pay anywhere near that range. Scammers often use unusually high pay to trigger excitement and urgency. When money sounds too good to be true, it usually is.The text says “no experience required, free paid training provided.” Scammers often combine high income with zero qualifications. That combination is designed to attract as many people as possible.Real digital marketing jobs usually require:A company offering $10K per month with no requirements is not realistic.BE AWARE OF EXTORTION SCAM EMAILS CLAIMING YOUR DATA IS STOLENThe text claims the job is to “increase video exposure and view count.”That description is extremely vague. It does not explain:Scam job offers often stay vague so they can adapt the story later.The message says: “5 urgent openings available, first come first served.” This is a classic scam tactic. Urgency pushes people to respond quickly before they have time to research the offer. Real companies rarely hire qualified candidates on a first-come basis through text messages.The message tells recipients to reply “OK” and then send a numeric code. This step is often used to move the conversation to another messaging platform, such as Telegram or WhatsApp, where scammers continue the scheme. Once the conversation moves there, victims may be asked to:These scams are often called task scams, where victims complete simple online tasks and may even receive small payments at first before scammers demand larger deposits for payouts that never come. They have exploded worldwide over the past few years.The message never names a real company. It mentions a “manager” named Goldie but provides:Legitimate employers want applicants to know who they are. Scammers avoid details that can be verified.Many of these scams follow the same pattern. First, scammers promise easy money for simple tasks lsuch as liking videos or boosting views. At the beginning, they may even send a small payment to build trust. Then things change. Victims are asked to deposit money to unlock larger payouts or complete “premium tasks.” Once payments are sent, the scammers disappear. The Federal Trade Commission says Americans lost hundreds of millions of dollars to job scams in recent years, and text message recruitment scams are rising fast. Google warns about growing job scams and how to verify recruitersWe reached out to Google, and a spokesperson provided the following statement to CyberGuy:”Google is aware of these job scams happening across the industry and believes they’re growing around the world. We strongly encourage any candidate, or individual receiving them, to exercise caution and report it to the platform you received it on as a phishing attempt and/or spam. Our recruiting team focuses on contacting candidates in official capacities and are very clear about who we are, why we’re reaching out, and do so from legitimate emails or profiles on job sites. Jobseekers should verify anyone contacting them by email addresses, looking up the person online, such as on LinkedIn, and if something does seem suspicious, flag it to the outlet where it was received. Folks can also vet and report these scams to Google at support.google.com. Our Google careers page reflects all of our current job postings, so candidates should check offers against those. Generally speaking, Google also continues to offer a range of tools and insights that help people automatically spot and avoid scams like these whether they receive them via email, search results, text messages, etc.”FAKE GOOGLE GEMINI AI PUSHES ‘GOOGLE COIN’ CRYPTO SCAMIf you receive a message like Peter’s, here are some smart steps to take.Replying confirms your number is active. That can lead to more scam messages.Scam texts sometimes include links that lead to phishing pages designed to steal login credentials or financial information. Install strong antivirus software on your devices, which can help detect malicious links, block dangerous websites and warn you before you open something risky. Get my picks for the best 2026 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android & iOS devices at Cyberguy.com.Scammers often harvest phone numbers and personal details from data broker sites and public profiles. Using a data removal service to remove your information from these sites can make it harder for criminals to target you with job scams and other fraud. Check out my top picks for data removal services and get a free scan to find out if your personal information is already out on the web by visiting Cyberguy.com.Search for the company name online. Look for an official website, verified social media or job listings.Legitimate employers never require deposits for training, equipment or task access.You can report scam texts directly from your phone.On iPhone:Open the message, tap the phone number at the top of the screen, scroll down and select Block Contact. You can also tap Report Spam under the message. If the option appears, then click Delete and Report Spam, which sends the report to Apple and deletes the message.On Samsung Galaxy phones:Steps may vary slightly depending on your Samsung model and software version.Open the Messages app and select the conversation. Tap the three-dot menu in the upper right corner, then tap Block and report spam, then confirm by tapping Yes. This blocks the number and helps Samsung identify and filter future scam messages.In the United States, you can report scams at reportfraud.ftc.gov. Reports help investigators track large scam networks.The safest move is simple. Peter should not reply to the message. Instead, he should block the number and report it as spam. If he has already responded, he should stop communicating immediately and avoid clicking any links or sending money. If he shared personal information such as his phone number, email address or financial details, it may also be wise to monitor his accounts closely and consider signing up for an identity theft protection service. The good news is that spotting the red flags early can prevent a much bigger problem later. See my tips and best picks on Best Identity Theft Protection at Cyberguy.com.Scammers constantly adapt their tactics. Today, it might be a fake delivery notice. Tomorrow, it might be a high-paying remote job. The message Peter received hits many of the classic warning signs: unrealistic pay, vague job duties, urgent language and a request to reply quickly. When a stranger promises easy money through a random text message, pause for a moment. That short pause can save you a lot of trouble.Now I am curious. If a text suddenly promised you $10,000 a month for simple online tasks, would you recognize the warning signs before replying? Let us know by writing to us at Cyberguy.com.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy Report Get my best tech tips, urgent security alerts, and exclusive deals delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, you’ll get instant access to my Ultimate Scam Survival Guide — free when you join my CYBERGUY.COM newsletter. Copyright 2026 CyberGuy.com.  All rights reserved.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Saudis have had enough of Iran’s strikes.
The Iranian strategy of firing its missiles against the Gulf countries because of their collaboration with the US-Israeli strikes threatens turning these neighboring states against the mullahs’ regime.
In the case of Saudi Arabia, the threats of military action from Riyadh have evolved into the expulsion of Iranian diplomats over the aggression against the Kingdom.

Saudi Arabia announced the expulsion of Iranian military attachés and embassy staff, declaring them persona non grata and ordering them to leave the Kingdom within 24 hours, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Saturday. https://t.co/vi2i1srTzH
— Saudi Gazette (@Saudi_Gazette) March 21, 2026

Gulf News reported:
“The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs renewed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s unequivocal condemnation of the blatant Iranian attacks against the Kingdom, the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and a number of Arab and Islamic countries.
[…] Reaffirming the ministry’s statement issued on 9th March 2026, […] the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has notified the military attaché of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Kingdom, the assistant military attaché, and three members of the mission staff to leave the Kingdom, and has declared them personae non gratae. They are required to depart the Kingdom within 24 hours.”
Iranian missile launch – Wiki Commons
The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) stated that the continued targeting by Iran ‘constitutes a flagrant violation of all relevant international conventions, the principles of good neighborliness and respect for states’ sovereignty, the Beijing Agreement, and United Nations Security Council Resolution 2817’.
EFE reported:
“Saudi authorities warned that Tehran’s actions risk further escalation and could have lasting consequences for bilateral relations.
‘The kingdom will not hesitate to take all necessary measures to preserve its sovereignty, safeguard its security, and protect its territory, airspace, citizens, residents, and resources’, the Foreign Ministry said, citing Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which recognizes the right to self-defense.
Since the start of the conflict involving the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28, Saudi Arabia, like other Gulf countries, has faced repeated missile and drone attacks, most of which have been intercepted by its air defense systems.”
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NEW: Saudi Arabia Threatens Military Action Against Iran (VIDEOS)

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