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The FAA plans to launch SMART, a cloud-based AI system built by Air Space Intelligence, in the Washington, DC air corridor next week as the start of a phased nationwide rollout. The tool analyzes flight schedules, weather, and airport capacity to give airlines and controllers a shared view of traffic flow and potential conflicts, and was developed under an $875 million FAA grant.
Amazon Web Services has confirmed that customer data hosted in its Bahrain and United Arab Emirates regions was permanently lost following Iranian drone strikes on data centers six months ago. AWS said one of three UAE availability zones and all three Bahrain zones suffered damage beyond what its backup systems could withstand, and it remains unable to restore access to some resources.
Amazon Web Services has confirmed that customer data hosted in its Bahrain and United Arab Emirates data centers was permanently lost following Iranian drone strikes in March. The damage wiped out data across all three availability zones in Bahrain and one of three zones in the UAE, with AWS saying the destruction exceeded what its systems were built to survive. Amazon had already halted billing in the affected regions and spent six months trying to restore services before disclosing the losses.
Amazon Web Services disclosed on September 15 that drone strikes attributed to Iran destroyed data center infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain so severely that customer data and resources could not be recovered. AWS said the damage crossed multiple availability zones, exceeding the redundancy built into its regional and multi-zone systems, following earlier strikes in March and April that had already caused structural, power and fire-related damage.
The FBI seized the two domains operating NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire platform that had over 566,000 registered users and dozens of servers capable of launching attacks up to 200 Gbps. The takedown was carried out under Operation PowerOFF, an international law enforcement effort targeting DDoS-as-a-service infrastructure.
A New Jersey court ordered data broker Radaris to transfer control of radaris.com and more than a dozen related domains to Atlas Data Privacy Corp after the company repeatedly stonewalled a lawsuit alleging violations of Daniel's Law. The statute lets state law enforcement officials, judges and their families demand removal of their personal data from commercial brokers, with fines for noncompliance. Radaris, run by brothers Igor and Dmitry Lubarsky, had previously used a fictitious CEO and denied ownership claims made by investigative reporting.
Amazon Web Services has confirmed that customer data hosted in its Bahrain and United Arab Emirates regions was permanently lost following Iranian drone strikes on its data centers months earlier. An AWS status update posted September 15 said the company could not restore data in one UAE availability zone and across all three availability zones in Bahrain, though recovery work continues elsewhere.
Work For America launched as a career-matching platform aimed at helping federal employees who lost their jobs transition into state and local government positions. The service has since expanded to welcome all job seekers, including those with no prior public sector experience, functioning much like a LinkedIn tailored specifically to government careers.
Grab Holdings will acquire an initial 60% controlling stake in Singapore-based buy-now-pay-later platform Atome Financial for $1.49 billion in cash, with an option to purchase the remaining 40% about two years after the deal closes. CFO Peter Oey said the staged structure helps de-risk the transaction while giving Grab access to Atome's merchant network in travel, beauty and e-commerce. Grab shares fell 3.64% on Nasdaq after the announcement.
Google is rolling out a Play Services update that lets a phone's IMEI number appear in emergency info accessible from the lock screen, without unlocking the device. The feature targets devices running Android 12 or newer and is meant to help identify a phone's owner if it's lost or found. Users can disable it through Settings under Security & Privacy, Lost Device Protection, and Theft Protection.
A group of researchers argue that global urbanization, while celebrated for green city initiatives, is masking the steady degradation of the countryside that cities depend on. They cite up to 400 million hectares of abandoned land since the 1950s and roughly half the world's rangelands classified as degraded, driven by migration, land conversion and resource extraction to feed urban growth. They call for combined geospatial monitoring, landscape engineering and watershed planning to treat cities and their surrounding rural areas as one connected system.
A fractional Chief Marketing Officer who advises small business owners argues that generic marketing tactics like broad social ads and SEO campaigns waste money for niche businesses such as contractors and handymen. Instead, she recommends high-intent lead generation, hyper-local search tools like Google Local Services Ads, and partnerships within existing trust networks to reach customers making high-stakes decisions.