Topic: cloud infrastructure
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Oman Data Park Expands OCI Services with New Ibri Region
Oman Data Park has expanded its cloud services with a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Secondary Dedicated Region in Wilayat Ibri, enhancing Oman's digital transformation and sovereign cloud capabilities. The dual-region setup with Muscat ensures low-latency, high availability, and disaster recove...
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Can AI Truly Personalize at Scale?
Consumers demand personalized content, with 71% expecting brands to anticipate their needs, yet only a third feel companies deliver this effectively. Brands struggle with fragmented content systems, manual tasks, and disconnected tools, which hinder personalization at scale despite rising content...
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Nscale Partners with Microsoft on Major AI Infrastructure Deal
Nscale has partnered with Microsoft to deploy nearly 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs across data centers in Europe and the U.S., significantly expanding AI infrastructure and establishing Nscale as a key global player. The deployment includes 104,000 GPUs in Texas, 12,600 in Portugal, and additional un...
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AWS Outage Cripples Fortnite, Alexa, and Snapchat
A major AWS outage is causing widespread service disruptions for platforms like Fortnite, Alexa, and Snapchat, primarily affecting the US-EAST-1 Region and other global areas. The outage has rendered services non-responsive, impacting smart assistants, scheduled routines, and applications from co...
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UAE Launches First Sovereign Mobility Cloud to Boost Autonomous Vehicles
The UAE has launched its first Sovereign Mobility Cloud, a secure national platform developed with Space42, Core42, and Microsoft to accelerate autonomous vehicles and advanced mobility solutions while ensuring data residency and compliance. The cloud will serve as core infrastructure for service...
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Europe's Push for Digital Sovereignty: Reclaiming the Stack
Europe is prioritizing digital sovereignty to reduce reliance on foreign tech giants and mitigate strategic risks associated with external control over critical infrastructure. Actions include adopting sovereign cloud platforms, open-source software, and local alternatives to decrease dependencie...
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Snapchat's Massive AWS Outage: A Live Recap
A major AWS outage on October 20, 2025, caused widespread downtime for numerous online services, including Snapchat, highlighting the digital world's heavy reliance on a few cloud providers. Snapchat experienced a significant disruption, with over 22,000 user complaints at its peak, as the app fa...
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Trump Administration Denies Social Security Data Breach
The Trump administration denied a whistleblower's claim that the Social Security Administration improperly copied the sensitive NUMIDENT database to an unsecured cloud system, asserting it was stored on a secured server with continuous oversight. Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano confi...
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Envision 2025: du Puts AI at the Heart of UAE's Digital Future
The Envision 2025 forum in Dubai highlighted how AI, robotics, and cloud computing are accelerating the UAE's digital evolution and economic growth. du's CEO projected AI will contribute $320 billion to the UAE's GDP by 2030, emphasizing five key tech pillars including generative AI and sovereign...
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Riverbed Launches Data Express for AI Data Transfer
Riverbed has launched its Data Express Service, a cloud-based solution that accelerates the transfer of massive datasets by up to ten times, significantly reducing project timelines and costs for AI model training. The service is built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and incorporates post-quantum ...
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Streaming's Future Hinges on Distribution
The modern video streaming landscape requires content owners to create and manage a unique, technically complex distribution feed for each individual streaming platform, creating a significant operational burden. This fragmented, bespoke distribution model is difficult to scale, prone to errors, ...
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Shuttle Secures $6M to Solve Vibe-Coding Deployment Issues
Vibe coding initially enabled rapid application creation from concepts, but developers soon faced ongoing maintenance and update challenges that these tools couldn't solve. Shuttle secured $6 million in seed funding to address infrastructure issues post-code generation, offering automated deploym...
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Ooredoo Kuwait Launches Unified Digital Platform with Liferay
Ooredoo Kuwait has launched a unified digital platform using Liferay's technology to modernize customer-facing systems and provide a smoother, integrated experience. The platform consolidates the website, customer portal, and e-commerce into a single framework with a headless CMS for faster conte...
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DOGE May Have Exposed Millions of SSNs on Insecure Server
A Senate report reveals that personnel from Elon Musk's DOGE team are operating a cloud server containing millions of Americans' sensitive personal data, including Social Security numbers, without adequate protective measures. The exposed database includes actual production data such as birth det...
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STC & Saudi Aramco Partner on Digital Infrastructure Project
solutions by stc and Saudi Aramco have entered a five-year agreement to enhance Aramco's digital infrastructure through high-performance computing systems, supporting Saudi Arabia's technological self-reliance. The deal involves solutions by stc providing and maintaining advanced computing server...
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Europe's Open Source Plan to Ditch US Tech Giants Gains Steam
Europe is actively pursuing digital sovereignty to reduce reliance on American tech giants, driven by distrust and a strategic pivot toward open-source technology for greater independence. This movement is translating into concrete actions, with numerous European governments and agencies migratin...
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Ransomware Payouts Hit Record $3.6M as Attacks Evolve
The average ransom payment surged 44% to a record $3.6 million, even as the number of ransomware incidents decreased, indicating a shift toward more targeted attacks. Despite fewer attacks, 70% of victimized organizations paid ransoms, with critical sectors like healthcare and government facing a...
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Pakistan, UAE Forge AI & Cybersecurity Pact at GITEX 2025
Pakistan and the UAE have established a strategic partnership focusing on artificial intelligence, digital governance, and cybersecurity, following high-level discussions at GITEX Global 2025 in Dubai. Pakistan's Digital Nation vision aims to position the country as a regional innovation hub, sup...
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ServiceNow Reveals the Future of Enterprise AI at GITEX 2025
ServiceNow is showcasing its AI capabilities at GITEX Global 2025 to help Middle Eastern organizations transition from experimental AI projects to full-scale implementation, positioning itself as a key partner in the region's digital transformation. The company has strengthened collaborations wit...
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Bose SoundTouch Speakers Lose Smart Features on Feb. 18
Bose will discontinue all support for its SoundTouch Wi-Fi speakers and soundbars on February 18, 2026, rendering the companion app and cloud-based features like music streaming and multi-room audio synchronization inoperable. After the shutdown, the devices will still function via AUX, HDMI, or ...
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Insight Named a Gartner 2025 AI Consulting Leader
Insight Enterprises has been recognized as an Emerging Leader in Gartner's 2025 Innovation Guide for its comprehensive generative AI consulting and implementation services, emphasizing secure and ethical enterprise solutions. The company's approach integrates strategic advisory, infrastructure su...
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Oracle Seeks $15 Billion in Major Bond Sale
Oracle is preparing a $15 billion corporate bond sale, which may include an unusual 40-year bond, following its major AI infrastructure partnership with OpenAI. The company recently secured a $300 billion cloud computing deal with OpenAI and is reportedly negotiating another potential $20 billion...
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Zixi & OKAST Partner for Global FAST Channel Scalability
OKAST integrated Zixi's SDVP and ZEN Master to improve operational reliability, visibility, and cost-efficiency for its global streaming services. The integration resolved persistent issues like latency and blackouts, enabling seamless high-quality live stream delivery without architectural overh...
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Top Tech Skills Employers Want, According to McKinsey
Python is the most in-demand tech skill, with talent pools meeting only half of corporate demand, especially in AI, semiconductor, and cloud projects. Emerging fields like quantum computing face severe talent shortages (5:1 imbalance), while prompt engineering and blockchain expertise currently e...
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ChatGPT Agent Aided Gmail Security Breach by Researchers
A new attack called Shadow Leak exploited AI agents to access sensitive Gmail data without triggering alerts, highlighting vulnerabilities in AI systems with data permissions. The breach used prompt injection to manipulate OpenAI's Deep Research tool into extracting confidential emails, bypassing...
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SonicWall Firewall Backups Compromised by Attackers
SonicWall confirmed that attackers used brute-force methods to access its cloud backup API, compromising configuration backup files for all customers who used the service, contradicting earlier statements about a limited impact. The compromised files contain sensitive data like network settings, ...
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AI in Payments: Racing Ahead Without Guardrails, Report Finds
The payments industry widely adopts AI, but 91% of executives express serious concerns about risks like fraud and data leaks, highlighting a gap between innovation and readiness. Trust in AI is low, with 60% of leaders finding current fraud detection tools ineffective, despite over half of organi...
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Zoho Founder Takes on Microsoft with Superior User Experience
Zoho's founder claims it is the only global competitor to Microsoft's product range, emphasizing superior user experience and showcasing the company's growth since 2002. The company is increasing investments in R&D for cloud infrastructure, AI, and application development to accelerate innovation...
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Eagle Eye Launches Smart Rewards for Omnichannel Retail Loyalty
Eagle Eye has launched Smart Rewards, a real-time customer engagement platform that enhances omnichannel retail loyalty by delivering targeted incentives instantly at checkout. The platform processes complex loyalty calculations in under 150 milliseconds, enabling personalized experiences across ...
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Amazon's Vega OS: Cloud-Streamed Apps Are Here
Amazon has launched Vega OS, a new Linux-based operating system for entertainment devices, starting with the Fire TV Stick 4K Select, moving away from its Android-based Fire OS for future hardware. To address potential app shortages, Amazon will cloud-stream Android versions of popular apps to Ve...
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