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A massive humanitarian data breach is raising urgent questions about security in conflict zones. The World Food Programme confirmed that a security incident exposed the personal details of around six hundred thousand vulnerable Gazan families, including names, ID numbers, phone numbers, and location data. When aid registration systems become targets, the people least able to protect themselves pay the price.
Shifting to the infrastructure driving the AI boom, Australian data center operator AirTrunk has committed thirty billion dollars to build five gigawatts of AI data center capacity across India. That is a staggering bet on the subcontinent as a major node in the global AI buildout, and it signals just how fiercely nations are competing to host the physical backbone of artificial intelligence.
And in the crypto space, regulatory pressure is mounting. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has issued a formal warning against Hyperliquid, a perpetuals trading platform, adding to growing scrutiny of crypto derivatives markets globally. All twenty constituents of the CoinDesk twenty index were trading lower, with Bitcoin down nearly three percent, suggesting that when regulators speak, markets still listen.
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