Iranian state media said on Wednesday that it targeted Amazon's data center in Bahrain due to the company's support of the U.S. military. The drone strike that occurred on Sunday disrupted core cloud services and caused "prolonged" outages. Two data centers in the UAE were also damaged by drone strikes. CNBC reports: All of the facilities remain offline, according to the Amazon Web Services health dashboard. The attack in Bahrain was launched "to identify the role of these centers in supporting the enemy's military and intelligence activities," Iran's Fars News Agency said on Telegram.

In addition to structural damage, the data centers also experienced power disruptions and some water damage after firefighters worked to put out sparks and fire. Some popular AWS applications experienced "elevated error rates and degraded availability" due to the incident. AWS advised cloud customers to back up their data, consider migrating their workloads to other regions and direct traffic away from Bahrain and the UAE.

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Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta pledged at the White House to pay for new power generation and grid upgrades needed to support their rapidly expanding datacenters. The Guardian reports: The agreement is meant to help mitigate concerns that big tech's datacenters are driving up US electricity costs for homes and small businesses at a time the administration of Donald Trump is seeking to curb inflation. "This means that the tech companies and the datacenters will be able to get the electricity they need, all without driving up electricity costs for consumers," the president said at the pledge signing event. "This is a historic win for countless American families and we'll also make our electricity grid stronger and more resilient than ever before."

The so-called "Ratepayer Protection Pledge" was first announced by Trump in his State of the Union address, and comes as communities and state legislators increase scrutiny of rapidly proliferating datacenters. Datacenters consume vast amounts of electricity to run server racks and cooling systems for the development of technologies such as artificial intelligence. "Some datacenters were rejected by communities for that, and now I think it's going to be just the opposite," Trump said, referencing cancelled or postponed projects in recent months across several states after local opposition.

The pledge includes a commitment by technology companies to bring or buy electricity supplies for their datacenters, either from new power plants or existing plants with expanded output capacity. It also includes commitments from big tech to pay for upgrades to power delivery systems and to enter special electricity rate agreements with utilities. The effort is aimed at drawing support from towns and cities that otherwise oppose the projects, said the Trump official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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After posting the video on the history of HyperCard the other day, I went down a bit of a HyperCard rabbit hole on the Internet Archive. There are a ton of HyperCard programs, manual & packaging scans, and other resources available on IA; among them:

• The Manhole, from the developers of Myst
• A bird identification quiz
• The 1991 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference Presentation (“Contains session info, presentations, and attendee list”)
• The “expanded book” version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• A guide to the first season of Twin Peaks
• The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog from Stewart Brand & Kevin Kelly

I also found this version of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies:

You can see why people call HyperCard “the web before the web”…it’s all right there.

Also, don’t miss this comment from Keith Dawson (who you may remember from the pioneering tech newsletter Tasty Bits From the Technology Front) on how HyperCard was almost called Wildcard.

Soon after, I took a call from Apple. Would we be willing to give up the name Wildcard, or at least license it for their use on a new product? We discussed it. No.

Wild.

Tags: Apple · Brian Eno · computing · HyperCard · Keith Dawson

After the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran, the country has responded with retaliatory attacks across the Middle East. The Guardian's defence editor Dan Sabbagh explains what military capabilities Iran has and how long it might be able to sustain the war

• Iran’s Shahed drones have brought terror to Ukrainian skies – now they are being deployed in the Middle East

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Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

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At least 13 hospitals and other health facilities have been hit during the US-Israel attacks on Iran, global health chiefs have said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was checking reports that four medics had been killed and 25 others injured.

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Intense waves of airstrikes have hit dozens of military positions, frontier posts and police stations along northern parts of Iran’s border with Iraq in what appears to be preparation by the US and Israel for a new front in their war.

Iran has warned ‘separatist groups’ in this region against joining the widening conflict and launched strikes against Iraq-based Kurdish groups it described as ‘opposed to the revolution’.

Could the involvement of these militant groups increase the risk of a civil war in Iran if the regime collapses? Nosheen Iqbal speaks to deputy head of international news Devika Bhat.

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PM defends decision not to join initial strikes by US and Israel and says UK is doing ‘everything we can’ to de-escalate situation

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Keir Starmer has said the Iran conflict engulfing the Middle East could continue “for some time” as he urged Donald Trump that the “best way forward” longer term was a negotiated settlement with Tehran.

The prime minister said the UK was doing “everything we can” to de-escalate the situation, a clear contrast to the US president who is focused on regime change and has said it was “too late” for the Iranian regime to negotiate.

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Exhibition at the V&A Dundee celebrates Maggie’s Centres created by Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and others

Maggie Keswick Jencks received her weekly breast cancer treatment in a windowless neon-lit room in Edinburgh’s Western general hospital. Her husband, the renowned landscape designer Charles, later described it as a kind of “architectural aversion therapy”.

It was then, in the early 1990s, that the Scottish artist and garden designer imagined her own blueprint that would allow cancer patients “a space of their own” within the alienating, clinical confines of the hospital estate, one where they might “not lose the joy of living in the fear of dying”.

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The US president has made the easily debunked claim that there are no wind farms in China

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Maggie Oliver Foundation taking action over government’s alleged failure to adopt changes recommended by inquiry

Campaigners have accused the UK government of in effect allowing child abuse to continue by having an “inconsistent and arbitrary” approach to implementing recommendations from a seven-year statutory inquiry.

The claim was made at the high court in London, where a judge said a legal action against the Home Office could continue.

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LibreOffice steward says Commish undermines its own standards by asking for feedback via Excel spreadsheet

The Document Foundation has taken a swipe at the European Commission over its consultation on guidance for the EU's Cyber Resilience Act – because the feedback template is only available as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.…

MONACO (ANP) - Wielrenner Michael Matthews (35) is donderdag bij een training ten val gekomen en heeft breuken opgelopen in zijn beide polsen. Dat meldt zijn ploeg Jayco AlUla op sociale media. De Australiër is daardoor niet inzetbaar in "alle aankomende wedstrijden", aldus zijn ploeg.

Matthews mist door zijn blessure vermoedelijk de voorjaarsklassiekers. Afgelopen jaar werd hij vierde in Milaan-Sanremo. Die koers staat dit jaar op 21 maart op het programma. In de Amstel Gold Race, dit jaar op 19 april, werd hij in 2025 vijfde. Ook in de Ronde van Vlaanderen en Luik-Bastenaken-Luik eindigde de oud-renner van het Nederlandse team Sunweb in de top 15.

BRUSSEL (ANP) - Nederland gaat met een aantal andere EU-landen samenwerken om terugkeerhubs voor afgewezen asielzoekers buiten de EU te realiseren. Dat zei minister Bart van den Brink (Asiel en Migratie) in Brussel. Het gaat om een kopgroep van Nederland, Oostenrijk, Griekenland, Duitsland en Denemarken, zei de minister na een vergadering met zijn Europese ambtgenoten.

Het plan van het vorige kabinet om een terugkeerhub in Oeganda te realiseren, is door het kabinet-Jetten van tafel gehaald. "Maar we gaan zeker door op dat pad van terugkeerhubs", zei Van den Brink.

WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump wil persoonlijk betrokken zijn bij de selectie van de volgende hoogste leider van Iran. Dat zei Trump tegen nieuwssite Axios. Hij erkende dat de zoon van de gedode ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Khamenei, de meest waarschijnlijke opvolger is. Maar die is voor hem "onacceptabel".

"We willen iemand die harmonie en vrede in Iran brengt", aldus Trump. Hij noemde Mojtaba ​Khamenei een lichtgewicht. "Ik moet betrokken zijn bij de benoeming, net als bij Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela." Bij Amerikaanse en Israëlische bombardementen afgelopen zaterdag kwam de ayatollah om het leven. Sindsdien is er een interimbestuur aangesteld, maar een nieuwe opvolger moet nog worden gekozen. Dit zou mogelijk na de uitvaart van Ali Khamenei gebeuren.

Trump voegde toe dat hij weigert een nieuwe Iraanse leider te accepteren die het beleid van Khamenei zou voortzetten. Dat zou volgens hem de VS binnen vijf jaar weer tot oorlog dwingen.

Multiple news outlets are reporting on Israel’s hacking of Iranian traffic cameras and how they assisted with the killing of that country’s leadership.

The New York Times has an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/us/politics/cia-israel-ayatollah-compound.html"<article on the intelligence operation more generally.

Het aantal expats dat mag stemmen bij lokale verkiezingen neemt toe. Zeker in de internationale regio Eindhoven. Maar de expats zijn niet makkelijk naar de stembus te krijgen. Een kandidaat-raadslid hoorde van een man dat hij niets te klagen heeft, dus waarom zou hij gaan stemmen?

New York Attorney General files a lawsuit against Valve alleging that

Valve has made billions of dollars luring its users, many of whom are teenagers or younger, to engage in gambling in the hopes of winning expensive virtual items that they can cash in on. With this lawsuit, Attorney General James seeks to permanently stop Valve from continuing to promote illegal gambling in its games and to pay disgorgement and fines.

De politie denkt ‘bingo’ wanneer zij de woning van de verdachte betreden, 56.000 euro in het nachtkastje aantreffen en heel veel dure spullen: vast verdiend met drugshandel. Maar de man ontkent: “Ik heb altijd goed gespaard en bijverdiend.”