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Will Iran Target Tech?

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Tech News, Technology, News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Is the Iran war coming for US tech companies specifically? Meta unveils new smartglasses. A leak gives us a look at how Claude Code works. SpaceX is losing contact with satellites for reasons we don’t know yet. And Whoop is the big wearable player I guess we don’t talk about enough. Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East (The Hill) Iran’s hackers go to war (FT) The latest Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are more customizable and expensive (Engadget) Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know (VentureBeat) Google commits to video generation, announces Veo 3.1 Lite (9to5Google) Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded (The Verge) Whoop, a Wearable Health Device Maker, Raises $575 Million (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the TechBrew right home for Tuesday, March 31st, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough.

0:38.3

Today is the Iran War coming for U.S. tech companies specifically.

0:42.3

Meta unveils new smart glasses. A leak gives us a look at how Claude Code works.

0:46.3

SpaceX is losing contact with satellites for reasons we don't know yet.

0:50.3

And whoop is the big wearable player. I guess we don't talk about enough. Here's what

0:55.8

you miss today in the world of tech. Don't know if this will end up being a big nothing burger

1:05.3

or not. I hope it is a nothing burger, but Iran says it will start targeting U.S. tech companies like Apple,

1:13.3

Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla in the Middle East, starting on 8 p.m. local time

1:19.4

on April 1st. So tomorrow, quoting the Hill, in a statement published by Sepah News, the IRGC's official news outlet, the military arm named

1:30.0

18 companies that accused of being involved in planning and tracking targets for U.S. attacks.

1:34.9

This included meta, invidia, Oracle, Tesla, HP, Intel, and IBM. The only non-U.S.

1:40.2

company on the list appears to be the United Arab Emirates's AI champion G42. The IRGC

1:46.5

advised employees to leave their workplaces immediately, noting that it planned to begin

1:50.6

targeting those firms Wednesday at 8 p.m. local time. Iran has previously listed American

1:55.7

tech companies as potential targets amid the conflict. In early March, Iranian drones struck

2:00.7

and damaged several

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