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May 2 Overnight Brief
In tech
Amazon says repairs to its cloud data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which were damaged by conflict-related drone strikes, will take several more months. Customer applications in those regions are still affected, billing for the disrupted operations is suspended, and Amazon is urging customers to shift resources elsewhere and use backups where needed. Some customers were able to recover quickly by moving overnight to other servers, which is what “business continuity” looks like when the business is suddenly not where it thought it was.
Anthropic also says it has opened Claude Security to enterprise customers in public beta, pitching it as a model for finding and patching software flaws and integrating it into cybersecurity tools.
In U.S. politics
Republican governors in Alabama and Tennessee are calling special sessions next week to redraw congressional maps after a Supreme Court ruling narrowed the Voting Rights Act. Alabama lawmakers are set to meet in Montgomery starting Monday, with a state deadline looming on May 19.
In the courts
A U.S. court has ruled to restrict mail-order access to mifepristone, the abortion pill used in medication abortions, which remain the most common abortion method in the country.
In the war in Ukraine
Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Black Sea port of Tuapse again, hitting the refinery for the fourth time in 16 days and worsening the pollution crisis along the coast. Russian authorities say they have cleared more than 13,300 cubic metres of fuel oil and contaminated soil. Russia, meanwhile, launched nearly 410 drones at Ukraine, injuring people in Ternopil and damaging several regions. Ukraine says it will begin army reforms in June to address infantry shortages and soldiers leaving the force.
In Latin America
Peru’s public prosecutor says many Peruvians are being deceived by false job promises and trafficked into fighting for Russia in Ukraine.
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