Day: May 18, 2026
Iran eyes challenging stock market reopening after lengthy war closure
The capital market is not Iranian economy’s main financing engine, but it still matters politically and psychologically.
Tourist beaches lined with chilling ‘Dragon’s Teeth’ tank defences as paranoid Putin fears liberation landing in Crimea
“DRAGON’S Teeth” are covering the beaches of Russian occupied Crimea, turning them into a military fortification zone. Seized by Russia in 2014, the Black Sea coastline – famous as the “Crimean Maldives” – is being reinforced with World War II pyramid-…
Public Amazon bucket leaks sensitive guest data from Japanese hotel platform Tabiq
A hotel check-in system exposed over 1 million passports, IDs, and selfies online due to a misconfigured cloud storage bucket. A security lapse in the Reqrea’s Tabiq hotel check-in system exposed over 1 million passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos online. The issue came from a misconfigured Amazon cloud storage bucket that was left […]
WHO issues bombshell global pandemic warning
A report has identified three concrete priorities for political leaders to reverse the worrying trends.
Abducted flotilla activists release pre-recorded messages calling for help
Several abducted activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla have released pre-recorded messages calling for help.
Sources: internal competition among Google staff and researchers for TPUs intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research (Julia Love/Bloomberg)
Julia Love / Bloomberg:
Sources: internal competition among Google staff and researchers for TPUs intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research — In the race to build the infrastructure that po…
‘Capitalism has to become more humane’: a Stanford economist on big tech, power hoarding and democracy
Mordecai Kurz argues tech oligarchs erode democracy through monopolies – and predicts how the trend may endThe billionaires of today are unusually aggressive in their hoarding of cultural and technological influence, according to Mordecai Kurz, a Stanf…
Rare strike forces busiest US commuter line to a halt
Talks to reopen the Long Island Railroad were ongoing into Sunday night between union leaders and New York government representatives, hoping to reopen the crucial commuter transport network ahead of the work week. The rail network has been shut down …
What Is an Al Agent in Cybersecurity?
At the Milken Conference in May 2026, Robert F. Smith, founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, described a shift that every security leader should hear. Software, he said, has moved through three states: product, then service and now wo…