DeepMind workers revolt over Pentagon “Project Epic Fury”

UK-based staff demand union recognition to block military AI integration…

Internal letter blasts the “capricious Iran war” and US government partnerships…

The ethical firewall in the AI labs is starting to crumble under state pressure…

The engineers who built the code don’t want to see it on the front lines.

A server-room mutiny at the worst possible time for the Department of Defense.

Employees at Google DeepMind’s UK offices have voted 98% in favor of unionizing with the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union, seeking to halt the company’s AI technology involvement with the US military and Israel, including the Project Nimbus deal. The roughly 300 London-based staff sent a letter to management demanding formal recognition within 10 days or face legal action, with plans for protests and research strikes if unmet.

Engineers are citing the “capricious Iran war” and the 2025 removal of Google’s “No Harm” pledge as evidence of bad-faith leadership. One software developer noted that while they were hired to “predict weather,” their code is now being repurposed to “analyze drone footage in Gaza.”

https://citizenwatchreport.com/deepmind-workers-revolt-over-pentagon-project-epic-fury/

Massive Oil Slick Spotted Off Iran's Kharg Island, Cause Unknown

An apparent large oil spill spanning dozens of square miles of sea has been spotted off of Iran's main oil hub of Kharg Island, according to open source satellite imagery and reporting in both the NY Times and Reuters on Friday.

The reports cite images from Copernicus's Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-3 satellites taken from monitoring May 6 through 8 which show a huge grey-and-white slick extending out to the west of Kharg Island.

The slick appears visually consistent with oil," said Leon Moreland, a researcher at the Conflict and Environment Observatory, to Reuters. He believes it to be covering an area of approximately 45 square km (or nearly 18 sq miles).

While it's unclear what may have caused it, or the extent of possible damage to Kharg Island infrastructure or possibly docked tankers, the island has been attacked by US aerial forces in the recent post.

One regional source provides the following commentary:

It could be the result of a leak. Other claims have suggested oil was pumped into the sea because storage space had run out due to the blockade. In newer images, the oil slick appeared to be moving south.

Social media users expressed concern over what appeared to be an oil spill in the satellite images.

“This must be dealt with quickly before the oil reaches the coasts of other Gulf states,” a Saudi influencer wrote on X, where he has more than 750,000 followers.

And separately a regional monitor and expert explains the following:

Synthetic aperture radar imagery shows a large surface slick emanating from the waters around Kharg Island, Iran's primary crude oil export terminal responsible for roughly 90% of the country's oil exports.

At the time of detection, multiple tankers were simultaneously loading at the Kharg Island terminal. It is not yet clear whether the spill originated from a loading operation, a vessel, subsea infrastructure, or the terminal itself.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/massive-oil-slick-spotted-irans-kharg-island-cause-unknown