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500,000 Nvidia GPUs. One Drone Strike. The War Nobody in Silicon Valley Wants to Talk About.

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...

Facebook's problems with virtual suicide websites

We have had two sites that have been launched to help people cut themselves off from their online social life. 1. Seppukoo.com What this site does it that it lets you commit virtual suicide on Facebook. Once you login and join a RIP message is posted to your profile and you get deleted. As is the honor of a samurai you can commit online suicide and restore your life to being normal again. Facebook's reaction: Was to send them a cease-and-desist letter . As this goes against the sites policies. Facebook was provided as a way for people to keep in touch and if you do not want your account you can deactivate it or delete it completely Facebook told them that accessing Facebook using someone else's login details is against their terms and conditions. Also sendiong info, scraping details and free publicity is against the agreement of the site. So please desist as it goes against thie privacy policy also. 2. Web 2.0 Suicide Machine . What this site does is that it helps you complete...