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The Digital Iron Curtain: Is Iran About to Crash the Global AI Boom?

 For decades, the "Middle East crisis" was a headline about crude oil, tankers, and the price at the pump. But as of March 2026, the stakes have shifted from the engine to the motherboard. While the world watches drone strikes over Isfahan and naval skirmishes in the Persian Gulf, a more quiet, more lethal war is being fought over the very building blocks of the 21st century: semiconductors. The "Digital Iron Curtain" is falling, and it isn't just dividing East and West—it’s threatening to starve the global AI revolution of its most basic needs. The Helium Hostage: Why the Strait of Hormuz is the New Silicon Valley We’ve long been told that the South China Sea is the "front line" of the chip war because of Taiwan’s dominance in fabrication. But the ongoing U.S.-Israel war with Iran has revealed a terrifying bottleneck: The Middle East is the lungs of the semiconductor industry. To make the world’s most advanced 3nm chips, you don’t just need engineers;...

How to delete a post on someone else's Facebook Timeline

Now that you have begun to cleanup your Timeline and make sure it is ready for public viewing, this is if you have just got Timeline as your new profile. If you have had Timeline for sometime and have been busy deleting posts and adjusting your Timeline. You might now want to check what you have posted on other people's profiles that is now showing up on your friends' Timelines. This will include all your posts, pics, images and videos. There is an option for you to quickly find all your posts and see all your posts that you have posted on other people's wall that is now showing up on their Timelines. The instructions below will help you on, how to delete a post on someone else's Facebook Timeline . How to remove or delete your posts from other people's Timelines. (Including likes, events and other posts) 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on your name to bring up your Timeline 3. Click on activity log 4. Click on 'All' found on the top right-hand corner 5. Choo...

Facebook Timeline: Control who can view your Timeline and make it private

If you are worried that your new FB profile, now known as Timeline is visible to everyone under the 'Public' settings on Facebook, you can change that now. There is a Global setting reserved for who can view your Facebook Timeline and there are three options available. You can choose between 'Everyone', 'Friends' and Friends of friends'. The implications of this setting would be you can set your Facebook Timeline to private and ensure that only your FB friends are able to view your Timeline. If you do not want everyone who visits your profile to view your Timeline you can limit the audience of your Timeline.  How to adjust your Facebook Timeline visibility settings 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on the down arrow next to the home button 3. Choose privacy settings 4. Beside 'how you connect' click on 'Edit Settings' 5. Beside 'who can look up your Timeline by name or contact info' click on 'everyone' 6. Now you can choose betwee...

Why is Google redirecting my Blogger Blog to country specific URLs

Launched first in India if you are a blogger with a blogspot address, visitors to your blog will now be redirected to a .in URL. So if you have a blog with abc.blogspot.com, users accessing your blog will now see abc.blogspot.in. This comes close on the heals of Twitter adding the ability to censor Tweets that might not comply with local law in certain countries . Especially in India Facebook, Twitter and Google were pulled up by the Government and have been asked to take down certain objectionable content. This might have caused a backlash of sorts. One of the reactions might be this. In fact Google on their support page have said that blogspot blog across the world will be getting country specific domain names.  How to view a blogspot blog without the country specific URLs (ccTLDs ) Let us say you are visiting abc.blogspot.com, You will now need to use abc.blogspot.com/ncr , NCR stands for 'No Country Redirect'. This way you get to view the original blog without any country s...

Facebook IPO Price: $100b? OMG LOL!

Image source: industryleadersmagazine It is expected by investors that Facebook will be ready to file an Initial Public Offering sometime later this week. Facebook will seek to raise $10 billion and be valued at $100 billion. Making this IPO the hottest and biggest when it comes to companies whose main business is online web services. Once Facebook debuts as a public company it will be ranked alongside the largest companies in the world alongside McDonald's, Amazon and Bank of America. WSJ is reporting that Facebook is almost final in picking Morgan Stanley over Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter.  Once this goes through it will make over a 100 millionaires in Silicon valley and make Mark Zuckerberg richer by $20 billion at least on paper. Facebook is the most awaited TECH IPO since Google Inc. Both Google and Facebook depend on advertising for revenue and therefore the fight for online ad dollars is set to get on fire. Although Google's ad revenue last year was five times ...

How to see who has unfriended you on Facebook

Source: Hello-kitty.tumblr If you want to know who has unfriended you on Facebook there is a browser plug-in for that. Known as Unfreind finder this cleaver app goes through your friends list and shows you who has ditched you and gone on with their lives. Without the plug-in the only way to do this is to keep a close eye on all your pals and when your friend count goes down, figure out who is missing. This workaround or shortcut however makes things a little easier. Now not everyone wants to know who unfriends them on Facebook, if there you have found this page it must mean you want to know and keep a track on all those people who decide to leave you and walk away on Facebook. This cleaver app will also let you know if you have been removed or you friend has actually left Facebook and deactivated their account. Unfriend Finder: How does it work It is compatible with FireFox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer To use it on FireFox you will first need to install the greasemonkey...

Control who can see my friends list on Facebook Timeline

Facebook Timeline has a feature that is very similar to the one found on LinkedIn. You can adjust your friends list privacy settings and decide who gets to see your list of friends. There are many reasons you might want to do this on Facebook . Many teens have been leaving Facebook and heading to Twitter citing privacy concerns. Now that their parents, uncles, aunts and grandparents have been sending them friend requests. Their space has slowing been slipping away online. Not to worry, the new Timeline does have some good to it and one of them is the ability to hide your friends list from certain people, or make it public and available to everyone or just visible to your friends. You can also make it visible to once certain lists you have like your business list or close friends list, you get to decide and choose. How to Control who can see my friends list on Facebook Timeline and adjust full friends list privacy settings 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on your name to bring up your new...

Tennis player screams 'God' - thunder erupts

This video is currently doing the rounds on Reddit. It's an old video and posted way back in 2007 - you're saying this is so yesterday and yes it is. There is just problem however there was no Reddit and Redditors to comment on it way back then. Reddit is now and this video has found a place and a voice in 2012. Reddit is filled with people who talk religion and therefore this video now makes a lot of sense. Redditors and and their large community of atheists. Whatever be the context this video can be funny or ironic depending on how you look at it. Seguso swears God and thunder erupts in the heavens, he actually stops and looks at the skies. a must watch. An original post by Sociolatte