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The day the cloud went out

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By: Damilare Dosunmu
5 January 2026 at 06:00
November 18 was supposed to be a routine workday for Rwanda-based entrepreneur Derrick Ikenga. But it turned out to be a nightmare he wasn’t prepared for. Cloudflare, a U.S.-based cloud...

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India gives Musk 72 hours as X floods with obscene images generated using Grok

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya
5 January 2026 at 05:29
Elon Musk’s Grok is under fire in India after its viral “bikini” trend. On January 2, India’s IT ministry issued a 72-hour ultimatum to X over its artificial intelligence chatbot...

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The year in charts

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By: Rest of World
30 December 2025 at 06:00
We at Rest of World love a good chart. So much so that this year we launched Charts, a page dedicated to preserving all the original charts we put into...

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Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout

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By: Rest of World
19 December 2025 at 06:00
Countries around the world are investing millions of dollars in building data centers to meet the growing demand for generative artificial intelligence, while also storing data within their own borders....

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Law student and activist Rodrigo Vallejos stands in front of Google's data center water storage tanks in the Quilicura district. The data center extracts water from the district's underground wells. Vallejos has been monitoring data centers in Santiago's metropolitan area for the past two years.
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