Abu Dhabi, data centers and a levee that won't close

Today’s lead changes: Russia, the United States and Ukraine return to a joint table, in Abu Dhabi, on November 10 and 11. It is the first trilateral meeting since February, and the source is direct — a Kremlin statement — with independent confirmation of the names of the delegations. It remains to be seen what happens over the two days of talks: for now there is a date and a composition of the tables, not negotiating content.

On the domestic front, the day brings two distinct episodes of tension that the note from Palazzo Chigi chose to link: Minister Tajani’s data ending up on the dark web at the hands of a pro-Russian collective, and the spread of fake images of the same minister, over which the prime minister also called out opposition figures. These are two matters of a different nature — a cyberattack and a visual manipulation — which the piece keeps separate in its reconstruction while noting how the premier presented them together.

In parallel, the second day of false bomb alerts in Europe — including the evacuation of newsrooms in Dublin on the eve of a summit — brings the first public institutional reactions: no device found so far, but a government, Ireland’s, openly speaking of a coordinated campaign.

On the markets, the correlation flagged on Thursday between the Texas vote and the Wall Street crash today finds a number: Goldman Sachs estimates that up to 45% of planned data center capacity in the United States is exposed to new restrictions. It is a projection, not a final figure, and the piece treats it as such.

We are also updating Health, with the CDC bulletin on measles in the United States — more than 5,100 cases, more than double 2025 — and Tech, with BBT SE’s official confirmation of a cyberattack on the Brenner construction site, systems isolated as a precaution.

Closing out is an analysis that does not chase the day’s news: twelve years after the Massa Carrara flood, a ruling from Turin sets compensation owed to eighteen families and three companies at 1.8 million euros. The sum has been set, not yet paid.

For everything else — Cinema & Entertainment, News, Culture, Europe, Italy — the articles published this morning at 6:30 stand. The next update is tomorrow’s edition, at 6:30.