Before dawn on March 1, 2026, while most of the Gulf was asleep, a swarm of Iranian Shahed drones crossed into the United Arab Emirates. They weren't headed for a military base. They weren't aimed at a port or an airstrip. They were looking for something far more valuable — and far more vulnerable. They found it. Two Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE took direct hits. A third in Bahrain was damaged by a nearby strike. Structural damage. Fires. Power knocked out. Fire suppression systems flooded the hardware with water. Two of the three availability zones in AWS's entire Middle East region went dark simultaneously — something the system was never designed to survive. Banks went offline. Payments failed. Careem, the Gulf's dominant ride-hailing and delivery platform, went down. Emirates NBD, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank — all reported disruptions. The UAE stock market halted. AWS quietly told its customers to migrate their workloads to othe...
For those of us not from Korea this is what wikipedia has to say about Choi Siwon. Choi Si-won (born February 10, 1987), also credited as Siwon , is a Korean pop singer and actor . He is a member of super boy band Super Junior and is part of its subgroup, Super Junior-M . Siwon is best known for his role in the 2006 Hong Kong historical action film A Battle of Wits as the young prince, Liang Shi. He is also one of the first four Korean artists to be on Chinese postage stamps. Yesterday was the birthday of fellow band member Han Geng and the topic was trending as #beijingfriedrice which was his popular nick name. Today fellow band member Choi Siwon celebrates his birthday and Twitter goes Trending with Birthday wishes from his fans. He is a member of the band Super Junior-M. Choi Siwon is Trending on Twitter at number 3. An original post by Sociolatte