Iran is ready for a more intense war and will escalate its counterstrikes if the US continues attacking its territory and infrastructure, according to a senior official from the Islamic Republic

JAPAN TURNS TO AI SATELLITES FOR FASTER DEFENSE RESPONSE Japan plans to develop AI-powered satellites to speed up military counterstrike decisions, Nikkei reports. The Defense Ministry will work with Japanese companies to build test satellites between fiscal 2027 and 2029. Launches are planned for fiscal 2030 or later to test their capabilities in space.

Saudi warplanes struck Yemen's Taiz province, which as per reports killed three people. The more consequential fact in this story isn't the latest strike and counterstrike, it's the timing of the territorial picture underneath it. The Houthis are consolidating control over Bab el-Mandeb at the exact moment Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz meaning two of the world's most critical oil chokepoints are now under pressure from the same aligned axis simultaneously, not as separate regional crises but as a coordinated squeeze on global energy transit. Saudi Arabia isn't just responding to an attack near its holiest city, it's trying to degrade a force that's actively expanding its grip on the one alternate route that matters if Hormuz stays shut.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is making an unexpected comeback. Even though Counter-Strike 2 is still the biggest game on Steam, thousands of players are returning to CS:GO after it became available as a standalone game again. The game recently reached a new peak of 68,664 concurrent players, the highest since its return.