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Amazon is warning customers that its data centers in Bahrain and the UAE will be offline for several months following damage from Iranian drone and missile strikes. The company has suspended billing for affected customers and is urging them to migrate workloads to other regions, a stark reminder of how physical conflict can reach into the cloud infrastructure underpinning global commerce.
Shifting to the sea, Britain's Royal Navy chief has laid out a vision for what he's calling a Hybrid Navy, blending traditional crewed warships with drone escorts and autonomous long-range strike platforms. The argument is straightforward: a stretched fleet needs to project more capability with fewer personnel, and autonomous systems are increasingly seen as the practical answer to that math.
And on the developer side, a project called Wah has surfaced on GitHub, offering a WebAssembly interpreter packed into a single header file. It's a niche but genuinely clever piece of engineering, the kind of minimalist tool that appeals to developers who want to embed scripting capability without pulling in a full runtime dependency. Small footprint, real utility.
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