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ISLAMABAD (ANP/RTR) - Er is een vredesakkoord tussen de VS en Iran bereikt. Dat meldt de Pakistaanse premier Shehbaz Sharif op X. Dit zal op 19 juni in Zwitserland door beide landen ondertekend worden.
Volgens Sharif hebben beide partijen aangekondigd dat "de militaire activiteiten op alle fronten, inclusief in Libanon, onmiddellijk en definitief worden beëindigd".
Google Cloud customers with resources in India have had to deal with elevated latency for several days – and there’s no end in sight. Per a Google status page, on June 9th “A fire at a third-party data center facility required an emergency power shutdown of networking equipment, isolating a non-compute local Point of Presence (POP) in Delhi and reducing available network capacity in the metro area.” That shutdown caused “intermittent periods of elevated latency and possible packet loss” for network traffic headed to Google Cloud from Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and surrounding areas. “Customers may experience slightly elevated latency and non-optimal network routing into Google Cloud until the affected facility is fully restored,” Google warned. Google has implemented “traffic mitigations” that it says have improved performance “for some Cloud customers,” and is trying to arrange extra peering capacity. That work is ongoing, with the ads-and-cloud giant promising it is “further augmenting our Delhi backbone capacity” and hopes to have better news on Monday. The web giant is also working to improve regional peering capacity in the city of Chennai, to assist large ISPs in India and hopes that work will be complete on Wednesday, June 17th. Japan’s space truck is back in business Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) last week successfully launched its H3 rocket, a welcome return to form after its previous two missions failed. This success will be doubly sweet for JAXA, because the H3 used for this mission employed a pair of outboard boosters – the first time the agency has used the launcher in this configuration. The rocket launched on June 12th and placed six satellites in orbit. South Korean tech exports boom, not just because of AI South Korea’s Ministry of Science and IT on Sunday announced exports of IT products reached $47.8 billion in May, a new record and a sum 128 percent higher than tech exports in May 2025. Semiconductor exports surged by 162.9 percent year over year, due to the AI boom. Mobile phone exports also grew by 15.9 percent, while a category the Ministry calls “computers and peripherals” saw 259.6 percent year-on-year growth. “Displays rebounded due to increased demand for OLEDs for new mobile phones and strong sales of new laptops,” the Ministry said. “Overall exports of mobile phones increased due to a rise in the average selling price of high-spec finished products and robust demand for high-value components such as camera modules.” South Korea imported over $15.7 billion worth of tech in the month, up 36 percent year-over-year, but still achieved a record trade surplus of over $32 billion. Zoho builds its own servers Indian SaaS giant Zoho has cooked up a custom server called “Nathu La” that it says will reduce the cost of operating its platform. “The design philosophy behind Nathu La is rooted in the Open Compute Project (OCP), emphasizing modularity, thermal efficiency, and ease of maintenance, and enabling Zoho's data centers to significantly reduce total cost of ownership and power consumption,” according to a company statement. The machines run Intel Xeon 6 processors and Chipzilla helped to design them, but Zoho says “all intellectual property [is] owned in India.” Zoho says the servers will also help to lower inferencing costs. The company didn’t say how it calculated its performance numbers. The Reg fancies Zoho has compared its own boxes to whatever machines it currently buys off the shelf, and believes that servers tuned to its own needs will deliver better performance. That’s a conclusion many hyperscalers reached years ago. NTT Data’s new boss Japanese tech giant NTT Data has a new president and CEO: Kazuhiko Nakayama scored the twin roles last week, capping a career with the company that started in 1989 and most recently saw him serve as chief financial officer. Previous CEO and president Yutaka Sasaki will become senior executive vice president. “Over the past three years I have had the honour of working closely with Mr Sasaki and the leadership team on a strategic course that has established NTT DATA among the top five IT services businesses globally,” Nakayama said, according to NTT Data’s announcement of its new leadership. “That experience has reinforced my conviction in the strength of our offering, the quality of our people and the size of the opportunity ahead. As I take on the responsibilities of CEO and lead the growth of the NTT DATA Group going forward, I feel a deep sense of dedication, possibility and excitement." ®
BREEK want volgens de Pakistaanse premier Shehbaz Sharif hebben de Verenigde Staten en Iran een akkoord bereikt over het stoppen van de oorlog (voor tenminste 60 dagen vol onderhandelingen over het Iraanse kernprogramma), inclusief een wapenstilstand in Libanon. De deal zou komende vrijdag in Zwitserland getekend worden. Een deal leek vandaag nog even in gevaar te komen toen Israël luchtaanvallen op Beiroet uitvoerde, waarop Iran dreigde met het nieuwe raketten richting Israël. Of dat nog gaat gebeuren is onduidelijk, maar goed VOLGENS PAKISTAN (de bemiddelende partij) is het dus over met het schieten. Zowel Iran als de Verenigde Staten hebben nog niet gereageerd op het bericht van Sharif. De afgelopen weken en dagen werd vooral door 'US sources' het ene gezegd over de inhoud van de conceptdeal, terwijl 'Tehran officials' dus weer precies het andere zeiden. Waar de waarheid ligt, wat ervan terecht komt en waar deze hele operatie nu precies toe diende (het Iraanse volk bevrijden, iemand??) zullen we nog zien.
UPDATE 23:37 - TRUMP BEVESTIGT deal op TruthSocial. Straat van Hormuz gaat OPEN, aldus Trump. 'Ships of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!'
Update 23:45 - Iran blaast poging tot opblazen van Israël af, aldus NYT.
Labour grandee was MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook from 1964 until his retirement from the Commons in 1997
Roy Hattersley, the former Labour deputy leader and author, has died at the age of 93.
Keir Starmer described Hattersley as a “giant of the labour movement”.
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From Deadline: Oliver Tree, very well known singer, artist and musician was killed this morning in a crash involving two helicopters. He was 32.
Explore his youtube.com; more words at Stereogum.
Explore his youtube.com; more words at Stereogum.