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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...
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Zynga running a Windows Phone 7 promotion on Treasure Isle

You can now earn two Island Cash for free in Treasure Isle. This is an exclusive Windows Phone 7 promotion and is available to US residents only. Once you open Treasure Isle click on the Sponsored like below to enter the campaign. Once you click on that like you are then taken to a page that has three questions running alongside a Windows Phone 7 Ad. You need to choose a question after which you are taken to the official Windows Phone 7 page where you would need to click the "Like" button and thats it you get 2 free Island Cash. This is definitely not going to go down well with international players. They get to enter the promotion and all but will not get the 2 free Island Cash.






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