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...
Simon Cowell is leaving American idol and people are reacting in different ways. On Twitter people have reacted in various ways. Some are happy to see him go and feel the show may be doomed without him. Some said they never liked the show anyway. Some of them lashed out at CNN for labeling the story breaking news. While a whole lot of others are talking about his new show X-Factor and it's great possibilities. Many others though were sad and disappointed by the news. Twitter is buzzing with American Idol news and it has now become a trending topic. He is now going to be a Judge and Produce the UK TV Show X Factor One fan wrote God, please dont tell me that Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol ?! if he does then why watch it? american idol is nothing without him! An original post by Sociolatte