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Maldives co-sponsors UN resolution demanding freedom of navigation in Hormuz and an end to Iranian attacks on Gulf ships. Tourism losses from the Iran conflict already top $500M.

Maldives adds 17.5 MW solar across 32 islands, cutting the $443M annual oil bill for power. Renewable energy target: 33% by 2028, doubling to 220 MW capacity.

Dropbox is doubling down on virtual-first while everyone else pushes return to office - their people chief says hybrid is the worst of all worlds.

Maldives and Seychelles sign visa waiver allowing 30-day stays for citizens. The agreement, effective May 15, marks 46 years of diplomatic ties between the Indian Ocean neighbours.

Xbox is going full caps - XBOX. CEO Asha Sharma polled fans and the all-caps version won. It's a throwback to the original 2001 logo.

Block gave its AI coding agent Goose to the Linux Foundation after trademark worries slowed enterprise adoption. The tool already had 12,000 internal users in two months.

YouTube's letting any adult scan their face to hunt deepfakes of themselves on the platform, though so far barely anyone's asked for takedowns.

Windows 11 Insiders can finally move their taskbar to the sides or top and resize the Start menu - Microsoft's rebuilding trust one nostalgic feature at a time.

ArXiv's had enough of AI slop in preprints - upload a paper with hallucinated references and you're banned for a year.

Sony's AI camera demo photos got roasted into memes - the before/after examples looked like someone cranked exposure to max. People are wondering if this was rage-bait since Sony makes great cameras.

El Niño's likely to hit soon. There's an 82% chance it starts this summer and a 96% chance it lasts through winter. 2026's already on track to be one of the warmest years ever, which could mean very strong conditions.

Analogue 3D’s new firmware lets you save anywhere in an N64 game and pick up exactly where you left off.

OpenAI reshuffles again - Greg Brockman now leads all product as the company merges ChatGPT and Codex into one agentic platform. Latest move in their push to dominate the AI agent space.

Tulsa's Rose Rock Bridge pairs energy companies with startups using a demand-first approach - 33 startups incubated, $2M invested, $55M combined valuation. Build it alongside the companies that'll use it.

PM Modi kicked off his UAE-Europe tour calling for the Strait of Hormuz to stay 'open and safe' - critical for India since half its oil flows through that chokepoint that Iran's largely blocked.

Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus is down to $279.99, about $45 off. It trades blows with AMD's pricier X3D chips in gaming benchmarks.

Dozens of empty Waymos keep showing up at one Atlanta cul-de-sac at 6am. Residents tried blocking them with a neon mannequin and got eight driverless cars stuck. Waymo says they've addressed the routing but won't say why.

Zcash hit $530, up 1200% while Bitcoin dropped 21%. Zero-knowledge proofs and privacy are suddenly cool again - something about AI companies hoovering up everything on the internet.

Google's cracking down on sneaky tactics to game its AI search results - think biased 'best-of' lists or recommendation poisoning that try to trick AI Overviews into showing certain content.

Pope Leo XIV calls AI in warfare a 'spiral of annihilation,' pointing to Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran. Says tech shouldn't absolve humans of responsibility. First encyclical dropping soon.