In early October 2026, a piece of international news began to move through the Bulgarian media landscape with quiet but unmistakable force: the data centers of Yandex, one of Russia’s leading technology companies, had been attacked. For many ordinary readers, the story may have seemed distant — a technical incident involving a foreign internet giant, far from everyday Bulgarian concerns. But for BROD, a Bulgarian media research and fact-checking organization and one of the fifteen national and regional hubs within the European Digital Media Observatory network, the story was worth a closer look. From 8 to 13 October 2026, BROD…

CoreWeave has had a brutal week. The AI infrastructure company, which builds and operates massive data centers designed to supply computing power for artificial intelligence workloads, saw its shares sink nearly 12 percent on Friday alone, and then slip another 1 percent in after-hours trading. By the end of the week, the stock had fallen more than 25 percent, marking the worst weekly decline since a roughly 26 percent drop back in November 2025. To put that in perspective, this is the kind of sell-off that shakes even patient investors, especially after months of eye-popping volatility. The concern is not…