Daily crossings through the Strait of Hormuz have dropped from over one hundred to a handful, and six months of US pressure hasn't reopened it. A regional fix, not more coercion, may be the only way through.
— via Atlantic Council, Alia Brahimi
Cape Town activists are demanding a nationwide moratorium on data centers, arguing Equinix's proposed 174-megawatt facilities would drain 4.4 billion liters of water yearly in a city that nearly ran dry in 2018. A legal challenge filed against the company marks Africa's first coordinated pushback against the continent's AI infrastructure boom.
— via Rest of World, Danai Nesta Kupemba
Google let anyone generate fake satellite imagery inside Earth, the tool investigators use to verify war zones. Within hours users faked a nuclear plant in Iran and floods at the U.S. Capitol; Google pulled it a day later, promising guardrails it hadn't built first.
— via Rest of World, Mahsa Alimardani