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...
Justin.tv announced today that they would be integrating chat between themselves and other popular social networking sites like Myspace, Twitter and Facebook. The reason small sites than the leading social networks need to do this is because people are already chatting with their friends on the other networks. So by integrating all of these chat services together you can sign into Justin.tv chat with your Twitter, Myspace or Facebook account. Without having to create a Justin.tv ID. This kind of integrated chat will definitely grow to be the new thing on the Internet. This will alllow smaller sites to allow people to sign in with any of their Social account, without having to always create a new account. Justin.tv also said that you will now be able to import all your avatar's and enjoy the chat experience. An original post by Sociolatte