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Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

Amazon Web Services was "unable to restore access to the resources and data" hosted in some of the war-damaged data centers, according to an AWS dashboard update posted on September 15. The development was first reported by Reuters and suggests that the Iranian strikes inflicted catastrophic damage on the data centers.
Customer data was irretrievably lost in one of three AWS availability zones in the United Arab Emirates region, specifically the mec1-az2 availability zone.


Each availability zone is serviced by one or more Amazon data centers. The company is still working on "recovering regional resources" and restoring resources hosted in the other two availability zones in the United Arab Emirates... But the destruction was apparently even more widespread for the data centers in the Bahrain region, because Amazon said it was unable to restore access to resources and data across all three availability zones there. "The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand," the AWS update said.


The company had already suspended customer billing in the affected AWS regions in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates and has spent the past six months attempting to restore normal operations... [When the war began] AWS immediately urged customers to migrate resources to other cloud regions and use remote backups to restore any "inaccessible resources." The cloud service also reportedly issued $150 million in customer credits following the initial Iranian strikes in March.

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Earlier this year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested that Marvell’s optics tech would make it the next trillion-dollar company. On Thursday, Marvell took a big step towards securing that status by announcing an expanded partnership with GlobalFoundries, an American wafer fab well known for its work in silicon photonics manufacturing. The tie-up will see GloFo and Marvell work to expand silicon germanium (SiGe) wafer production at the fab’s Burlington, Vermont wafer plant. SiGe is commonly employed in the production of optical transceivers, which convert electrical signals to optical ones and back again, as well as in laser modules used in many high-end switches from Nvidia and others. According to GlobalFoundries, the additional capacity will support the production of near- and co-packaged optics (CPO/NPO) as well as “next-gen” pluggable optics. Nvidia already employs co-packaged optics in some of its Spectrum Ethernet and Quantum InfiniBand switches to cut power consumption and improve reliability. Pundits expect NPO to be used in large multirack systems such as Huawei’s new Ascend 960DT-based SuperPods. Nvidia’s future multi-rack systems are widely expected to use NPO as well. The fab says its SiGe tech has already been validated up to 200 Gbps per lane, which is required for 1.6 Tbps transceivers. Faster lane speeds could open the door to 3.2 Tbps transceivers, which are also on its roadmap. Demand for optics technologies has surged thanks in no small part to everyone’s favorite subject: AI. Speaking during Computex this spring, Marvell CEO Matt Murphy explained why demand for optics demand is set to explode. Up until now, optics have primarily been used to connect racks to resources across the datacenter. Anything within a few meters was well within reach of cheaper and less power hungry copper interconnects. But as lane speeds climbed from 25 Gbps to 50, 100, and then 200 Gbps, copper interconnects began running into practical reach limits. 400 Gbps per lane is essentially the end of the road for copper even in a single rack; beyond that point, copper cables can’t carry signal at speed further than 1.25 meters. Because of this, the broader ecosystem has been investing heavily to bolster optics and photonics supply chains, and GlobalFoundries isn’t the only one boosting production. Nvidia in particular has invested billions in the optics technology outfits, including $2 billion each to Lumentum and Coherent. A few months later, Coherent announced plans to boost production of indium phosphide wafers used in lasers, photodetectors, and modulators, at its Sherman, Texas, fab by 4x. ®

A zero-click vulnerability that allows remote code execution affects all of the major AI coding agents - Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, Google's Gemini CLI, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Microsoft-owned GitHub Copilot - and could give attackers full access to every asset and piece of data that the agent can reach, researchers say. The exploit, dubbed “Plugin4Shell,” is a “first-of-its-kind AI supply-chain attack,” according to threat hunters at Air, a security startup focused on protecting enterprise AI agents. Instead of targeting the model or agent, Plugin4Shell attacks trusted marketplaces that host plugins for major coding agents. Such attacks could therefore reach millions of users and machines, the researchers said. Almost 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies use Copilot, according to Microsoft, which also happens to be one of the two that didn’t ship a patch for the flaw. “The fix has to ship in the agent, and updating is the only complete mitigation where one exists,” Air researchers Or Nevo, Dor Granat, and Niv Hoffman said in a Thursday report. The Air team reported the security issue to all four vendors in June, and both Anthropic and OpenAI patched it in Claude Code 2.1.179 and Codex 0.146.0, respectively. Google has deprecated the Gemini CLI, and therefore told Air it will not patch, so every install remains vulnerable. Google does, however, suggest users migrate to its newer Antigravity agentic development environment, which is protected from this attack. Microsoft didn’t fix the flaw in Copilot. However, a GitHub spokesperson told us the Plugin4Shell attacks do not affect GitHub. “To prevent abuse of SHAs, GitHub does not allow users to create branch or tag names that resemble commit SHAs,” the spokesperson said. “This mitigation ensures the reported vulnerability cannot be exploited on GitHub.” The Air researchers said that the GitHub mitigation isn’t sufficient to defeat Plugin4Shell attacks. This is “because marketplaces can also be hosted in other platforms such as Bitbucket,” the team told The Register. “Microsoft Copilot is also still vulnerable because it supports marketplaces from such platforms as well, which exposes it to the vulnerability,” the researchers added. “Air also reported the same to Microsoft (since June), but unfortunately due [to] the amount of disclosure volume they’re currently getting we didn’t get a response from them.” Redmond did not immediately respond to The Register’s request for comment. The security hole sits in how agents enforce marketplaces’ SHA-pinning mechanism, which locks agent plugins and skills to a specific, immutable commit hash instead of a mutable reference like a version tag or branch name. This aims to prevent supply chain attacks: If a public skill repository is compromised, your AI agent will continue running the same, audited code hash it used when you pinned it instead of automatically pulling new, malicious payloads. The researchers describe the vulnerability as a “plugin SHA-pinning bypass.” “The agent checks out the exact commit the marketplace pinned but never verifies it landed there, so an attacker who controls the plugin's repo makes the checkout resolve to malicious code while the pin still looks honored," Nevo, Granat, and Hoffman wrote. “The result is zero-click remote code execution.” Agents’ plugin auto-update feature makes this a zero-click attack. When a pinned commit is swapped upstream, the agent’s plugin gets replaced with a malicious version, and both Claude and Codex automatically update installed plugins by default. The researchers say an attacker could abuse this flaw in two ways. In one scenario, the attacker submits a benign plugin to a trusted marketplace, the plugin passes review, and then the attacker later replaces the benign content with malicious code. The second attack involves hijacking a legitimate author's repository and then pushing the malicious version onto every agent that has it installed - essentially bypassing the SHA pinning safety mechanism that exists to stop this type of supply chain attack. The team demonstrates this type of takeover in their earlier SkillJacking and RepoJacking proof-of-concept attacks. “Together, the chain is proven end to end - takeovers happen at scale, and Plugin4Shell defeats the mechanism built to contain them,” the researchers wrote. ®

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 18-09-2026 01:15 CEST

In één oogopslag:
• 15.6°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 14.9°C / Max 16.2°C | Kans op neerslag 57%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 14.9°C, Max 16.2°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 5.0 mm, Kans op neerslag 57%, 🧭 1013.2 hPa ↗️ +3.4 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 27.4 km/u (7.6 m/s), richting: ↗ 210°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 15.7°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1009.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 230°
• 03:00: 16.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1010.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: → 259°
• 04:00: 15.4°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1010.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: → 265°
• 05:00: 14.9°C (Helder) 🌕, 🧭 1010.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: → 262°
• 06:00: 15.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1011.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: → 257°
• 07:00: 15.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 1%, 🧭 1011.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.7 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: → 253°
• 08:00: 15.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1011.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: → 264°
• 09:00: 16.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1012.3 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: → 266°
• 10:00: 16.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1013.2 hPa ↗️ +0.9 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: → 268°
• 11:00: 16.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1013.7 hPa ↗️ +0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: → 258°
• 12:00: 17.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 6%, 🧭 1014.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 15.1 km/u (4.2 m/s), richting: → 254°
• 13:00: 17.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, 🧭 1014.2 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: → 255°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• zaterdag 19 september: Min 14.9°C, Max 18.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1016.0 hPa ↗️ +2.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.0 km/u (6.4 m/s), richting: ↗ 242°
• zondag 20 september: Min 16.4°C, Max 19.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5 mm, Kans op neerslag 22%, 🧭 1022.2 hPa ↗️ +6.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 27.0 km/u (7.5 m/s), richting: ↗ 226°
• maandag 21 september: Min 13.9°C, Max 18.6°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 22%, 🧭 1030.1 hPa ↗️ +7.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 22.3 km/u (6.2 m/s), richting: → 274°
• dinsdag 22 september: Min 13.1°C, Max 17.6°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, 🧭 1029.0 hPa ↘️ -1.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 11.6 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: → 283°
• woensdag 23 september: Min 13.2°C, Max 20.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.6 mm, Kans op neerslag 8%, 🧭 1025.1 hPa ↘️ -3.9 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.0 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ↘ 294°
• donderdag 24 september: Min 14.3°C, Max 20.5°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 3%, 🧭 1019.9 hPa ↘️ -5.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 10.9 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↖ 121°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 15.6°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 15.2°C (-0.4°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ↗ 222°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 27.4 km/h (7.6 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 91%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1009.8 hPa ↗️ +0.7 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 8.3 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:19 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 19:52

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 35 🟢 (Goed)
• PM2.5: 6.6 μg/m³
• PM10: 11.4 μg/m³

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Spurs and Villa meet in desperation derby and Andoni Iraola faces test on south-coast return

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Chelsea have not won this west London derby since Brentford’s first Premier League season. Each visit since October 2021’s 1-0 win, Ben Chilwell the scorer, has been a draw. This season has continued the divergence between the clubs’ respective approaches, Brentford’s solidity and continuity compared to Chelsea attempting their latest reboot. Kevin Schade, after two well-taken goals at Bournemouth, will fancy facing a defence not yet attuned to Xabi Alonso’s configurations. Only one team has won a Premier League title with a defensive trio: Chelsea’s last title team, in 2016-17 under Antonio Conte. Alonso’s attack has been rather more successful, presenting another challenge for Jannik Schuster. Replacing Nathan Collins, the 20-year-old central defender had a tough examination from Bournemouth’s Evanilson on his first Premier League start, emerging with credit. For Chelsea, João Pedro has registered three goals and three assists, but doubts surrounding his fitness could lead to Danny Welbeck’s first league start. John Brewin

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Government spending watchdog warns of price of keeping publicly owned firm in business

Labour has been urged to lay out a credible plan for the future of British Steel, as the government spending watchdog warned of the “startling” costs of keeping the struggling manufacturer in business with no end in sight.

British Steel was taken into public ownership in July to protect “the future of steel production”, 15 months after the government stepped in to prevent the closure of its steelworks in Scunthorpe and the loss of 4,000 jobs.

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Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites

Shabana Mahmood has described the anti-asylum activist Daniel Thomas as “a far-right and outright racist” who will feel “the full force of the law” if his organisation commits crimes near contested asylum sites such as Piddington.

In an interview with the Guardian, the home secretary also “wanted to reassure” concerned villagers that asylum seekers due to move in to a neighbouring former defence site would not “put pressure” on local resources because they would be given “self-contained facilities”.

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Educator talks of ‘moral obligation’ and urges ‘every wealthy white celebrity’ to make similar donation

YouTube star Ms Rachel has said she is matching rapper Macklemore’s $1m donation to organizations supporting Palestinians, calling on other public figures to follow suit.

Macklemore, who was fired as the opening act on Ed Sheeran’s tour after saying “Free Palestine” on stage at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, pledged to donate the entirety of his earnings from Sheeran’s tour to several organizations focused on the Palestinian people.

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• Hoops beaten again after chastening loss to Rangers

• Juventus hammer NEC, Besiktas pile woe on Marseille

Celtic suffered another European embarrassment as the Scottish champions were beaten 3-1 at home by Ferencvaros in the Europa League. Just weeks on from crashing out of the Champions League qualifiers to Austrian side Lask, despite at one point holding a four-goal lead, Celtic’s defensive flaws were exposed once more.

Martin O’Neill’s team also suffered a chastening 3-0 defeat to rivals Rangers last weekend and failed to deliver on their manager’s promise to respond. Bamidele Yusuf opened the scoring for the visitors before Mika Baur equalised late in the first half. However Kristoffer Zachariassen quickly put Ferencvaros back in front before Daniel Arzani’s sensational strike, on his return to Celtic Park, capped a fine night for Ferencvaros.

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Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” 

Those statements and a series of other mask-off moments feature heavily in an unredacted court filing that was unsealed Thursday in the behemoth New York Times vs OpenAI copyright lawsuit that has been winding its way through the court system for years. In a filing asking for summary judgment (basically, a filing with the court asking it to rule), lawyers for the New York Times laid out a series of admissions made by Microsoft and OpenAI executives in documents and depositions that until now had remained either sealed or redacted at the request of Microsoft and OpenAI. 

It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements, taken together, are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they worked, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. It is a reminder that even as AI becomes more powerful and companies try to shift the narrative to the supposed existential risk of “superintelligent” AI, the tools they have already built were created by stealing from human creativity and labor and are by definition existential threats to the human labor market.

“Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” an internal Microsoft document cited in the case read, adding “almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.”

The filing was written by lawyers for the New York Times but is largely comprised of statements and interviews with big tech executives that admit both that LLMs are largely trained on stolen content, that they represent an existential risk for the human writers, artists, and media companies that they stole from, and that their products have started a “doom loop” that is eating the web and destroying the businesses that these companies stole from. 

The unredacted filing was found by Jason Kint, the CEO of Digital Content Next, a trade organization that represents digital media companies. Kint has been closely following and posting about massive AI copyright lawsuits.

The court filing cites an internal Microsoft document that found that AI products steal from human content creators, then cannibalize clicks from the people and websites they’ve stolen from, thereby destroying their business models. 

“Our AI content strategy has started a ‘doom loop’ that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time: It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain,’” the document said. 

Microsoft executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, testified under oath that after ripping content from the New York Times and other news sites, clicks to those news sites fully cratered, falling by more than 90 percent on Bing. 

Documents obtained during the court proceedings found that OpenAI created “a hack to get around nytimes paywall,” to which OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman said “ah, nice.” Microsoft executive Brent Hecht wrote that LLMs steal content “without ways of distributing economic value down the supply chain, [which] necessarily threatens the economic stability of those who create the content.” 

OpenAI’s policy director Jack Clark wrote that the company was “creating systems that substitute for the labor of the people that define the ‘culture’ of society” and Microsoft, in a policy document, wrote that generative AI could “significantly disrupt the employment of the very people who generated the data on which the foundation model was trained […] LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain.” OpenAI called itself an “existential threat” to news publishers, and an OpenAI software engineer testified that “no matter how prominently we show the links, users won’t click.” 

None of this is at all surprising to anyone who has been paying attention to the development of generative artificial intelligence, but the document, taken in whole, is a real they-admit-it situation. OpenAI’s and Microsoft’s lawyers have been trying to argue that their model training is fair use and transformative under copyright law and that they are building something that is fundamentally different from the human labor that it was trained on. But internally, these executives know that what they have built has been built on stolen content and that the products they’ve made are cannibalizing the sources they’ve stolen from and destroying the internet as we know it.   

The tracker was still working on August 29th, when E7 [a female godwit] started flying southeast, over the Pacific. ... North of Kauai, she took a slight right turn and continued flying. On September 7th, after more than two hundred hours aloft, she landed at the mouth of the Piako River, back on the North Island of New Zealand.