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Microsoft shares dropped over 2% after word got out that the company slashed sales targets for Azure AI Foundry because teams kept missing their numbers last fiscal year. The platform lets businesses build autonomous AI agents that handle tasks without humans babysitting them, but getting...

Kuwait just made hawala operations illegal after the Cabinet signed off on changes to the Commercial Licensing Law. The amendment targets informal money transfer networks that move cash outside official banks and exchange companies, and violators can face up to six months in jail plus fines...

AWS just dropped something called AI Factories for governments and big companies that need to keep their data locked down while running massive AI stuff. The setup drops dedicated infrastructure straight into customer data centers and comes loaded with NVIDIA chips, Trainium processors, and all...

AWS rolled out new P6e-GB300 UltraServers that pack NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 chips, and these bad boys are getting hyped as the beefiest GPU setup you can grab on Amazon EC2 right now. The hardware handles massive AI models with a trillion parameters, which basically means it can run those fancy...

Rubrik Inc. just set up shop in Saudi Arabia by teaming up with Echelon Digital Group, and this marks the company's first real local footprint in the country. The partnership will roll out data protection and cyber-recovery tools for big players in energy, finance, and government sectors across...

Red Hat and AWS teamed up to run generative AI workloads on custom Amazon silicon like Inferentia2 and Trainium3 instead of relying purely on Nvidia GPUs. The setup uses Red Hat AI Inference Server with vLLM optimization to handle any model while cutting costs by 30 to 40 percent compared to...

CyberKnight just locked down a partnership with Horizon3.ai to push automated penetration testing across the Middle East and North Africa. The deal got announced at Black Hat with Matt Percival and Tamer Odeh from Horizon3.ai meeting up with CyberKnight's CEO Avinash Advani and Chief Strategy...

Zoho dropped a bunch of upgrades to Zoho One that bundle its 50 apps into customizable Spaces for personal tasks, company-wide comms, and department functions like HR or finance. The revamped dashboard pulls data from Zoho and third-party tools into one view, and there is a new visual collab...

Thales and Arab International Optronics locked in a renewed deal to push Egypt toward tech independence and turn the country into a regional manufacturing hub. The French defense giant is dropping over 800 engineers into the mix to build locally made systems, and the partnership covers...

Veeam and HPE just beefed up their partnership with a bunch of new tools aimed at making data backup way less painful for big companies. The big ticket item is a beta plugin that lets Veeam protect VMs running on HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, and they are also bundling HPE Private Cloud Business...

AMD might drop new X3D chips that actually let you game hard without tanking your productivity scores. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 and Ryzen 7 9850X3D are rumored to use fresh Zen 5 CCDs that could hit 5.6 GHz or maybe even 6.0 GHz, and the idea is to match the regular 9950X in multi-core tasks while...

ASUS might be sitting on a major data breach after the Everest ransomware crew said it yanked about a terabyte of internal files from the company. The group dropped directory screenshots showing what appear to be firmware repos, dev materials, and engineering docs, but ASUS has not confirmed...

Intel's next-gen Panther Lake chips are packing Xe3 graphics that apparently smoked AMD's Radeon 840M by around 26 percent in early benchmark runs. The test involved a four-core Xe3 iGPU on an engineering sample, and the results hint at better efficiency rather than just throwing more cores at...

INET over in Sweden hit pause on shipping the ASUS ROG Matrix RTX 5090 cards after spotting something weird in the first production batches. The retailer says it is waiting for ASUS to figure out what is up before sending more units out, and early word suggests the problem might be related to...

Nvidia axed support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta cards in its new 590 driver branch for Linux, which means the GTX 900 and 1000 series are basically cooked. The 970, 980 Ti, 1060, 1080, and even the ancient 750 Ti got dropped from active development, and anybody trying to run the fresh drivers...

Pulsar Gaming just put out a Bruce Lee-themed peripheral bundle with an 80-percent TKL keyboard, a super-light wireless mouse, and matching mouse pads done up in navy and white. The PCMK 3 HE board runs Gateron magnetic switches that let you dial in actuation from 0.01 mm to 4 mm, and it hits...

ASUS dropped the ExpertCenter P600 AiO with a Ryzen AI 7 350 chip, 32 gigs of DDR5 RAM, and a terabyte SSD crammed into a 23.8-inch touchscreen setup. The thing runs integrated AMD graphics, and it supports VESA mounting if you want to stick it on an arm or slap it against a wall. Gigabit LAN...

President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa told Zanu PF members at the 389th Politburo session to stop chasing personal wins and stick to what the party Constitution says. He gave props to provincial leadership for keeping grassroots structures tight at the cell and village level, and he said...

General Emmanuel Matatu got bumped up to lead the Zimbabwe Defence Forces after General Philip Valerio Sibanda retired, and President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa made it official at State House in Harare. The move is causing some grumbling because both Matatu and Sibanda came out of Zipra during...

DJ Masomere, a ZANU-PF hype man, and his partner Kennedy Sithole are getting hammered over sketchy mining deals tied to a Chinese-registered outfit called Wan Wenjin Jewellers. The government yanked their licenses in Mutasa District after the Mines Minister found registration problems, and Chief...