imaginima/E+ via Getty Images Qatar's energy minister warned this week that the Middle East war could "bring down the economies of the world," predicting that all Persian Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within days and drive oil to $150/bbl. Saad al-Kaabi, also the CEO of QatarEnergy, told the Financial Times it would take his country "weeks to months" to return to a normal flow o...
imaginima/E+ via Getty Images Qatar's energy minister warned this week that the Middle East war could "bring down the economies of the world," predicting that all Persian Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within days and drive oil to $150/bbl. Saad al-Kaabi, also the CEO of QatarEnergy, told the Financial Times it would take his country "weeks to months" to return to a normal flow of deliveries into the global market after the world's second-largest producer of liquefied natural gas was forced to declare force majeure this week following an Iranian drone strike at its massive Ras Laffan LNG plant. "This will bring down the economies of the world," Kaabi told FT . "If this war continues for a few weeks, GDP growth around the world will be impacted. Everybody's energy price is going to go higher. There will be shortages of some products, and there will be a chain reaction of factories that cannot supply." If tankers and other merchant vessels cannot pass through the Strait of Hormuz, crude prices could soar to $150/bbl in 2-3 weeks and natural gas prices could rise to $40/MMBtu - nearly 4x the level from before the war began - Kaabi predicted. President Trump said this week that the U.S. Navy will escort ships through the strait and has offered to provide additional insurance to shipping companies. But Kaabi said it would be unsafe for vessels to pass through Hormuz - which is just 24 miles wide at its narrowest point and traces the Iranian coastline - as long as the war is ongoing. "Bringing ships into the strait ... it's too dangerous. It's too close to the shore to bring ships in. It will be difficult to convince ships to go in," Kaabi told FT . Production in Qatar will not restart until there is a complete cessation of hostilities, the minister said. ETFs: ( USO ), ( BNO ), ( UCO ), ( SCO ), ( USL ), ( DBO ), ( DRIP ), ( GUSH ), ( USOI ), ( UNG ), ( BOIL ), ( KOLD ), ( UNL ), ( FCG ) More on crude oil Oil Could Crash The S&P 500 Or Send It To 7,500 ...
"Saves two function calls, and one stac/clac pair. stac/clac is rather expensive on older cpus like Zen 2. A synthetic network stress test gives a ~1.5% increase of pps on AMD Zen 2." The Linux event poll "epoll" code for efficient I/O multiplexing and monitoring of file descriptors for seeing when I/O is possible has a new optimization merged today for Linux 7.0.Eric Dumazet of Google who has bee...
"Saves two function calls, and one stac/clac pair. stac/clac is rather expensive on older cpus like Zen 2. A synthetic network stress test gives a ~1.5% increase of pps on AMD Zen 2." The Linux event poll "epoll" code for efficient I/O multiplexing and monitoring of file descriptors for seeing when I/O is possible has a new optimization merged today for Linux 7.0.Eric Dumazet of Google who has been involved in some great improvements to the Linux kernel has adapted the eventpoll's epoll_put_uevent() code into a scoped user access for saving two function calls. Scoped user access functionality was introduced to the mainline kernel back in Linux 6.19. Scoped user access aims to reduce speculation barriers and the incurred performance penalty.Dumazet found that this epoll_put_uevent() using scoped user access yielded around a 1.5% increase in a network packets per second (PPS) benchmark on AMD Zen 2 hardware.Other CPU families are likely to benefit too with this scoped user access usage not being anything Zen 2 specific but is likely to benefit older CPU generations more where the speculation barrier costs can be higher than with newer CPU generations. In any event this now merged patch ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.0-rc3 release is a minor performance win for epoll while just adapting a few lines of code.
Chinese film director Zhang Yimou may be a household name who is celebrated as the country’s “national master” but his wife Chen Ting is little known and dedicates herself to their family. The woman behind China’s No 1 director recently attracted attention for appearing at the Beijing premiere of Zhang’s latest movie Scare Out in mid-February. Pictures of Chen, 44, dressed casually, went viral on ...
Chinese film director Zhang Yimou may be a household name who is celebrated as the country’s “national master” but his wife Chen Ting is little known and dedicates herself to their family. The woman behind China’s No 1 director recently attracted attention for appearing at the Beijing premiere of Zhang’s latest movie Scare Out in mid-February. Pictures of Chen, 44, dressed casually, went viral on mainland social media as internet users were impressed by her slim physique and relatively young appearance although she is the mother of three. Zhang Yimou and Chen Ting make a toast together. They first met in 1999. Photo: Handout Chen, who faced scrutiny for marrying Zhang, who is 31 years her senior, has come to win massive admiration online for supporting her husband’s career and taking care of the family for 26 years. Advertisement She was born in 1981 and grew up in Wuxi, eastern Jiangsu province. Chen learned dancing as a child and started living independently at a boarding school at the age of 13. Advertisement In 1999, Chen met Zhang for the first time at a casting event for his new film.
"I didn't know how to be alive the way I wanted to be, and it was difficult," she said. "But I do not for a second regret it, and I think I've been able to transform it and recognise our vulnerabilities as humans in the world.
"I didn't know how to be alive the way I wanted to be, and it was difficult," she said. "But I do not for a second regret it, and I think I've been able to transform it and recognise our vulnerabilities as humans in the world.
"You can't meet all those demands but this demand in this way was something, it wasn't about money, it wasn't about priorities, it was just about a terrible, terrible event that the country was determined should lead to a change."
"You can't meet all those demands but this demand in this way was something, it wasn't about money, it wasn't about priorities, it was just about a terrible, terrible event that the country was determined should lead to a change."
"We look out the window and saw the tornado go right down the strip and that's where my daughter is, where my parents, where I live down the road," a Three Rivers, Michigan resident told the BBC's US partner CBS News. "I was just very grateful that God protected my daughter and my mom and sister and my family."
"We look out the window and saw the tornado go right down the strip and that's where my daughter is, where my parents, where I live down the road," a Three Rivers, Michigan resident told the BBC's US partner CBS News. "I was just very grateful that God protected my daughter and my mom and sister and my family."
As the war in the Middle East rages on, US president Donald Trump has acknowledged that deploying ground troops in Iran in future is not off the table. Pressed by the Guardian on whether he would send in troops to secure the enriched uranium, believed to be stored at Iranian nuclear sites that the United States bombed in Operation Midnight Hammer last year, Trump suggested that was a possibility. ...
As the war in the Middle East rages on, US president Donald Trump has acknowledged that deploying ground troops in Iran in future is not off the table. Pressed by the Guardian on whether he would send in troops to secure the enriched uranium, believed to be stored at Iranian nuclear sites that the United States bombed in Operation Midnight Hammer last year, Trump suggested that was a possibility. “We haven’t talked about it,” Trump said. “At some point, maybe we will. It would be a great thing. Right now, we’re just decimating them. We haven’t gone after it but something we could do later on. We wouldn’t do it now.” Here are the key stories at a glance. Catching up? Here’s what happened 6 March 2026.
Find your next quality investment with Simply Wall St's easy and powerful screener, trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Oracle and OpenAI have canceled plans to expand a flagship AI data center project in Abilene, Texas, after negotiations over financing and project scope stalled. The decision comes as Oracle announces large-scale layoffs and cost-cutting tied to the financia...
Find your next quality investment with Simply Wall St's easy and powerful screener, trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Oracle and OpenAI have canceled plans to expand a flagship AI data center project in Abilene, Texas, after negotiations over financing and project scope stalled. The decision comes as Oracle announces large-scale layoffs and cost-cutting tied to the financial pressure of rapid AI infrastructure investment. The canceled expansion could open space for Meta as a potential tenant, with Nvidia involved in facilitating a transition at the site. Oracle, traded as NYSE:ORCL, is in the spotlight as it pulls back on a high profile AI data center project while also cutting thousands of jobs across several divisions. The stock last closed at $152.96, with a return of 5.2% over the past week and 4.3% over the past month, while year to date it is down 21.8%. Over longer periods, returns of 88.6% over 3 years and 143.9% over 5 years indicate how much value creation has already been priced in by the market. For investors, the scrapped Texas expansion raises fresh questions about how Oracle will balance AI infrastructure spending with profitability and capital discipline. Key areas to watch include how Oracle reshapes its cloud roadmap, whether relationships with partners such as OpenAI and Nvidia evolve, and whether new tenants such as Meta step in to reshape the economics of the abandoned build out. Stay updated on the most important news stories for Oracle by adding it to your watchlist or portfolio. Alternatively, explore our Community to discover new perspectives on Oracle. NYSE:ORCL Earnings & Revenue Growth as at Mar 2026 📰 Beyond the headline: 3 risks and 2 things going right for Oracle that every investor should see. The decision to walk away from the Texas expansion while pushing through large-scale layoffs points to Oracle tightening capital allocation around its AI buildout rather than pulling back from AI entirely. The core 4.5 gi...
撰文｜画画 last day 这天，林俊旸发了一条朋友圈。 “不是这几天，我都不知道这世界这么多人爱我。今天last day，当大家为我鼓掌那一下，我真是忍住了泪水。”他写道，“不管别人说我什么，我至少内心里真觉得做到了为兄弟们好为阿里云好为集团好，虽然很多真没做到位，抱歉”。 配图是一首歌的分享链接：《未完成的结局》。 这是他宣布离职以来的第三次朋友圈更新。前两次分别是3月4日凌晨宣布离职时分享...