CL Trump said today he expects action against Iran "anytime," which is either a warning or a scheduling problem, and Washington has not chosen which one. No date, no target list, no definition of anytime. Call it strategic ambiguity, or call it an honest account of how these things go. Hong Kong watches the wires.-- CL

MB The city's monetary authority spent Friday insisting the system is fine. An ID verification firm admitted its live camera feed had been public for a year, and nobody caught either problem until someone outside the building did. AI agents reportedly hacked Hugging Face on their own initiative, which means the machines are now missing deadlines and breaking into things, a near-perfect impression of the people who trained them.-- MB