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    Ooredoo arms Qatar firms with AI cyber shields

    Qatar's big telecom, Ooredoo, just partnered with the AI cybersecurity firm Darktrace to offer smarter business security services. The deal was signed by the company's Chief Business Officer, Thani Ali I A Al-Malki, and a Darktrace regional director. This gives Ooredoo's business clients access...
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    Oman’s digital dreamers cook up AI fixes at hackathon

    Vodafone Oman and Sultan Qaboos University just wrapped up a three-day digital hackathon focused on building real-world solutions, not just winning a contest. Over one hundred twenty participants, from students to working professionals, formed teams to tackle themes like digital government...
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    Batelco supercharges Bahrain’s backbone with Cisco AI upgrade

    Bahrain's main telecom operator, Batelco, just inked a deal with Cisco to overhaul its core IP network infrastructure. The agreement was signed by Batelco's Chief Technology Officer, Rashid Mohammed, and Cisco's regional managing director, Zayan Sadek, at the Beyon Campus in Hamala. Company CEOs...
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    Cloud-native payment pioneer taps fintech veteran for board

    Cloud native payments processor CLOWD9 just added a seasoned entrepreneur, Scott Walker, to its board. Walker previously led Billmatrix Corporation, growing it before a major sale to Fiserv. His hiring is a clear play for deeper market leadership as the company eyes a global payments sector...
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    MEA growth surges on AI bets and digital cash boom

    The Middle East and North Africa region is expected to grow faster than the global economy next year, according to a Mastercard economic outlook. Their analysts predict MENA's real GDP will expand by three point six percent, beating the worldwide average of three point one. This performance is...
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    Congo students get digital boost, aim for 100% pass rate

    Officials in the Republic of the Congo just opened a new digital classroom at Denis Sassou N’Guesso High School in Abala. The Minister for the digital economy, Léon Juste Ibombo, attended the ceremony with local leaders and reps from the universal service fund, FASUCE. This multimedia room is...
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    NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra servers surge for 2026

    NVIDIA's top-tier AI server for next year, the Blackwell Ultra GB300, is forecast to see a huge shipment jump of one hundred twenty-nine percent. Major clients like Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are driving this demand, with industry estimates predicting up to sixty thousand racks shipped in 2026...
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    Ubisoft tricks Switch 2 into smoother 30fps magic

    Ubisoft managed to get its newest AAA games, Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows, running on the Nintendo Switch 2. They even pulled off a technical trick involving the console's variable refresh rate, or VRR. Since the hardware only officially supports VRR above forty frames per...
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    Clair Obscur stripped of GOTY over sneaky AI use

    The indie hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just had its Game of the Year award revoked by the Indie Game Awards committee. The organization stripped the title, along with a win for Debut Game, after confirming developer Sandfall Interactive used generative AI in the game's creation. This violates...
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    Titan Quest II rides into Arkadia, centaurs beware

    The next big patch for Titan Quest II is coming out shortly, adding the entire third chapter of its story. Developer Grimlore Games detailed the new content on Steam. Players will travel to the Plains of Arkadia and Mount Olympos, encountering Olympians and fighting through battlefields swarming...
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    Marathon leaks again, Bungie’s redemption arc wobbles

    Marathon, Bungie's first non-Destiny project in over ten years, keeps having its closed tests leaked online. Roughly twenty-seven minutes of new footage recently appeared, showing an intro mission, puzzle mechanics, a new sniper rifle, and PvP action. This comes after a brutally difficult...
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    Intel’s foundry faces trust issues, rivals wary

    A former Intel board member, David Yoffie, says the company's foundry business has a huge credibility problem because it also makes competing chips. Big potential clients like NVIDIA, AMD, and Qualcomm are reportedly scared to hand over their designs, fearing Intel could access their proprietary...
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    iPhone 18 Pro rumors shrink, pill stays put

    Leakers are going nuts about the iPhone 18 Pro models, but the latest gossip says not to expect a big visual shakeup. A source called Fixed Focus Digital on Weibo claims the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will look basically the same as the iPhone 17 versions, with only minor appearance changes. This...
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    Samsung hands out fat bonuses, DRAM drama pays off

    Samsung is tossing out some absolutely wild performance bonuses this year, with its chip and memory division, called Device Solutions or DS, getting the fattest stack. Employees over there are reportedly seeing bonuses worth one hundred percent of their base salary. That insane payout, a huge...
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    Tiny team, huge hit, no plans to grow

    Sandfall Interactive, that tiny French studio with like 33 devs, just scored a monster hit with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. They made the whole thing on a budget under ten million bucks, and it somehow pulled in over eight million players. Their founder, Guillaume Broche, says the game did a...
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    Samsung skips the modem in Exynos 2600, efficiency takes a hit

    Samsung’s new flagship processor might have a big efficiency problem because of a strange design choice. The Exynos 2600, built on their latest 2-nanometer technology, does not have a modem built into the chip itself. Instead, phones using it will rely on a separate, external component called...
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    Kojima says MGS2 wasn’t prophecy, just a warning we ignored

    People keep calling Hideo Kojima a prophet for his old game, Metal Gear Solid 2. That title from 2001 showed a world drowning in digital noise and controlled information, which feels way too familiar now. But Kojima himself says he wasn't predicting anything. He was just giving a warning about a...
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    TSMC eyes 2nm leap at Kumamoto plant to chase AI demand

    TSMC might be upgrading its planned factory in Japan to make more advanced chips. Reports say the company is considering switching its second Kumamoto plant from older production tech directly to the newer 2-nanometer process. This move is a response to huge demand from AI companies for...
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    Kojima teases hidden clue in OD trailer for screamers only

    Hideo Kojima is doing his usual cryptic thing, teasing a hidden clue in the latest trailer for his mysterious OD Project. He told an interviewer that watching the teaser a hundred times might reveal something, specifically pointing to the phrase 'for all players and screamers' as a major hint...
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    GT7 still racing strong with 2 million monthly drivers

    Gran Turismo 7 is somehow still pulling in over two million active players every month, years after it launched. The studio's head, Kazunori Yamauchi, says the game's current health is the best the franchise has ever seen, with its audience actually growing. This is a first for both the series...
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