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HPE just dumped a massive networking upgrade that merges tech from Aruba and the Juniper acquisition they closed five months back, and the whole thing is built for AI workloads running at scale. The company rolled out unified AIOps tools and shared hardware between both platforms, plus they...

OKX threw open a new UAE office after grinding out a full year with its Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority license, and the crypto exchange is doubling down on the Middle East with over 100 people running regional ops. The company has been stacking retail and institutional customers since they...

e& Egypt just locked down another year with Viu to keep pumping Arabic movies and Korean dramas to its premium customers like Emerald and Hekaya subscribers. The telecom company made the call at GITEX Global after seeing how much people ate up the content during their first partnership round...

Fractal Design released the Epoch XL mid-tower case that fits cards stretching out to 425mm and can hold either a 280mm or 360mm radiator up front or on top. The thing ships with three Momentum 14 fans already installed, and you can cram in seven 120mm fans total if you really want to go wild...

TEAMGROUP dropped the PD40, a tiny external SSD that weighs 22 grams and hits 4000 MB/s read speeds with 3500 MB/s writes through USB4 Type-C. The thing comes in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB sizes and basically feels like carrying around a flash drive instead of a chunky external storage brick. The drive...

Transcend told its distributors that SanDisk and Samsung stopped sending NAND flash chips their way since October, and the storage company is staring down massive shortages for SSDs, memory cards, and USB sticks through the fourth quarter. The supply crunch hit both NAND and DRAM because data...

AMD dropped a write-up on how they want to build the next wave of embedded hardware, and they're pushing three main things: better processing power, rock-solid connectivity, and security baked into the chips themselves. The company thinks these pieces need to work together instead of being...

Eidos Montréal just axed another round of workers, and this time it looks like they killed the Legacy of Kain project those devs were on. The studio already canned a Deus Ex game last year and cut 97 people, then dropped 75 more recently while shutting down other stuff they had going. Pretty...

British American Tobacco Zimbabwe just lost both its managing director, Kenneth Gitonga, and finance director Lucy Irungu, with Rumbidzai Hondora and Tumisang Lebogang taking over next month. The company had a rough year, posting a $7.1 million loss after bringing in $9 million profit the year...

Atlantic Music Group bumped Dave Rocco up to Chief Creative Officer after he spent the past year running visual campaigns for acts like Cardi B, FKA twigs, and Don Toliver. The guy came over from Universal Music Group, where he handled creative stuff across multiple divisions, and before that he...

Beatdapp dropped a trust and safety platform that goes way beyond its usual streaming fraud detection gig by bundling identity checks, AI music detection, bot spotting, and account hijacking prevention into one system. The Vancouver company raised $17 million earlier this year and is pitching...

Cher locked down her half of Sonny and Cher royalties after a judge ruled that her 1978 divorce settlement trumps copyright law termination rules. Mary Bono tried yanking the singer's cut by claiming heirs could reclaim rights under federal copyright provisions, but the court sided with Cher and...

Live Nation snagged Royal Arena from Realdania and Copenhagen City after running the 17,000-capacity Danish venue since it opened back in 2017. The concert giant plans to drop cash on upgrades like rooftop solar panels, full LED lighting conversion, and battery storage systems that should save...

Universal Music Benelux boss Kees van der Hoeven is bouncing after running the Dutch operation for over 25 years and handling the broader Benelux region since 2013. Frank Briegmann from Central Europe will take over the gig temporarily while the company figures out what comes next. Van der...

Daddy Yankee dropped a massive lawsuit against his ex-wife, Mireddys González-Castellanos, and former manager Raphy Pina over what he claims was a 20-year hustle to steal his publishing money. The Puerto Rican rapper filed the complaint in federal court, alleging that Pina fraudulently added...

Bending Spoons is dropping around $500 million in cash to scoop up Eventbrite, which is pretty wild considering the San Francisco ticketing platform was valued at $1.8 billion before going public back in 2018. The Milan-based private equity outfit has a track record of buying tech brands that...

WME snagged Carín León for worldwide representation, with Kirk M. Sommer running point on pushing the Mexican artist into fresh markets beyond his Regional Mexican stronghold. The five-time Grammy winner crushed attendance records at RODEOHOUSTON earlier this year with over 70,000 people showing...

JioSaavn hit 500 million downloads on Google Play, making it the second-biggest entertainment app in India behind JioHotstar. The streaming platform holds around 100 million monthly users who access more than 100 million songs across 15 languages, though that user count has basically stayed the...

MuseScore Studio dropped version 4.6.4 with Online Sounds that hooks into Cantai's AI vocal tech for instant sung playback when you type lyrics into scores. The desktop notation app became the first one to let composers hear AI-generated singing in real time while they mess around with vocal...

Acon Digital rolled out Extract Dialogue 2 with upgrades aimed at post-production folks who kept complaining about janky reverb and needing seventeen different plugins just to get clean audio. The company built this version after talking to dialogue editors and mixing engineers who wanted better...