A wave of advanced phishing campaigns is exploiting a novel combination of social engineering and browser-cache manipulation to infiltrate systems without triggering typical security alerts. The technique begins when a user is tricked into visiting a phishing webpage that pretends to be a trusted application—such as a VPN compliance checker. The danger lies in the instruction to copy and paste a network path into the Windows File […]
By R. Suryamurthy As Bihar heads to the polls on November 6 and 11, the contest is being pitched as a battle for identity, justice, and governance. But no matter which side wins—the NDA led by the BJP–JD(U) combine, the opposition Mahagathbandhan under the RJD-Congress, or the insurgent Jan Suraaj of Prashant Kishor—the victor will […]
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By Nantoo Banerjee If global oil giant BP plc’s ‘Energy Outlook 2025’ proves to be true, India will be a global leader in energy consumption, outpacing all other countries by 2050. The country will account for 12 percent of the global demand, up from seven percent from 2023, according to BP’s chief economist Spencer Dale. […]
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Microsoft has introduced a new avatar named Mico to lead its latest update of the Copilot assistant, marking a strategic move in how the company presents AI interactions. The Mico character joins an array of twelve new enhancements in the Copilot Fall Release, positioning the assistant as more expressive, collaborative and user-friendly. The visual identity of Mico is intentionally playful—an abstract, floating shape capable of changing colour […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The U.S. President Donald Trump is finally meeting the Chinese President Xi Jinping in Seoul by this month end, possibly on October 30, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in the South Korean capital scheduled for October 31 and November 1. Both the leaders are attending APEC summit, but […]
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MADRID, SPAIN – Media OutReach Newswire – 25 October 2025 – OPPO, a leading global smart device brand, today announced a deeper collaboration with Google to redefine personalized and secure mobile AI, focusing on personalized AI capabilities, AI model deployment, and AI privacy. Through this technical cooperation, OPPO aims to deliver more intuitive, secure, and comprehensive mobile AI experiences to users worldwide. “Working closely with partners like […]
By K Raveendran The market seems to have already done its arithmetic on the new US sanctions on two major Russian oil companies, Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil, gauging the immediate and medium-term consequences for energy supply lines stretching from Moscow to Mumbai. In a matter of hours, crude prices spiked, reflecting not just […]
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!Image!Image!Image A landmark leap in quantum computing has been announced by Google Quantum AI, which reports that its 105-qubit processor, named Willow, running the newly developed algorithm called Quantum Echoes, achieved a speed-up of approximately 13,000 times over the most advanced classical algorithms on supercomputers. According to the company, this is the first instance of a quantum algorithm that is both verifiable and out-of-reach for classical computation. […]
LAGOS – Fintech company Moniepoint Inc. announced yesterday that it has raised more than US $200 million in a Series C equity financing round aimed at accelerating its expansion across Africa and into diaspora markets. The round was led by British private equity firm Development Partners International through its African Development Partners III fund, with participation from impact-investor LeapFrog Investments, Google Africa Investment Fund, global payments giant […]
A study by the European Broadcasting Union in collaboration with the BBC has found that leading artificial-intelligence news assistants deliver flawed responses in nearly half of the cases evaluated. The analysis assessed over 3,000 replies from major tools including ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity, across 14 languages and involving 22 public-service media organisations from 18 countries. According to the report, 45 per cent of all answers contained […]
Behomes, a PropTech company specializing in CRM solutions for the real estate industry, has announced the launch of its Web Development Division. The new direction focuses on creating data-powered, SEO-optimized websites for agencies, brokers, and developers in the Middle East, Asia, and other expanding real estate markets. Expanding from PropTech to Full Digital Ecosystems Behomes has been developing websites for its clients for several years, but this was previously […]
Dubai– Nakheel has unveiled a new collection of ultra-luxury waterfront villas at its flagship Palm Jebel Ali development, signalling a major push in high-end residential real estate on the island. The release covers both the “Beach Collection” and “Coral Collection” villa clusters, with the broader master plan of the scheme now coming into sharper focus. The announcement highlights that the master community will include a 9,000 sq […]
Riyadh is advancing its push into artificial intelligence, sidestepping some of the previous fanfare around the massive urban-megaproject Neom, and signalling a new strategic pivot by its sovereign wealth arm Public Investment Fund. The fund is repositioning to attract global AI investment, deepen partnerships with major tech players and harness data-centre infrastructure at scale.
The kingdom’s leadership is steering resources away from grand construction ambitions to technology-driven growth. The newly formed Humain — a PIF-backed AI company — was launched in May with the mission of establishing Saudi Arabia as a global hub for AI. The firm plans to build advanced data centres, cloud services and one of the world’s most powerful Arabic large-language models.
Strategic deals have followed. U. S. chip-maker Nvidia has agreed to ship some 18,000 Blackwell chips to Saudi Arabia to support a 500-megawatt data-centre facility coordinated by Humain. PIF and international analysts say the move reflects a shift in focus: less emphasis on sprawling “giga-projects” of construction, more on the digital-infrastructure layer that underpins a future knowledge-economy.
Globally, transformative AI applications — from generative-AI language models to edge computing in industries — require vast compute power, energy and state coordination. PIF’s governor Yasir Al‑Rumayyan has said the kingdom is well-placed, given its energy resources and large-scale capital, to become a “hub outside the U. S.” for AI development. Analysts suggest the pivot acknowledges market realities: mega-cities like Neom have proved slower to materialise than envisaged, while digital-economy bets offer faster, more measurable returns.
The megacity Neom and its flagship component – The Line – have faced scepticism over timelines, cost-overruns and foreign investor pull-back. Executive reshuffles in Neom’s leadership and recalibrated investment priorities have signalled the shift. Meanwhile, PIF has begun trimming the proportion of its portfolio allocated to global investments — moving foreign-allocation toward 18 per cent from previous targets — to double-down on domestic strategic sectors like AI.
The investment case for Saudi Arabia is sizeable. Humain aims to tap into the Arab-language market of over 450 million people, while deploying data-centre capacity measured in gigawatts. Academic and industry voices say the kingdom has already built one of the strongest AI-ready physical infrastructures in the Middle East: multiple super-computers, data centres and training programmes are in motion. On the human-capital front, programmes to train 20,000 data/AI experts by 2030 are underway through partnerships with international firms such as Microsoft, Accenture and Huawei Technologies.
For global tech firms and investors, Saudi Arabia’s offer now centres around “sovereign AI infrastructure” rather than purely construction or real-estate play. The deal with Nvidia is seen as precedent-setting: Nvidia’s CEO told reporters that AI infrastructure is “essential infrastructure” akin to power and internet. Moreover, the shift aligns with the kingdom’s broader strategic framework Vision 2030 — which seeks to reduce oil-dependence and build a diversified economy.
Nevertheless, risks remain. Observers caution that the AI ambition is spectacular in scale yet faces operational and regulatory challenges — from data-governance to talent retention and ideological scrutiny. The push may also attract geopolitical scrutiny given the involvement of U. S. technology in Saudi infrastructure. The earlier mega-project model illustrates how bold vision can be slowed by delivery hurdles.
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 23 October 2025 – The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) today released the results of the “AI Readiness in Workplace Survey 2025”, which delves into the overall readiness, actual needs, challenges and future development opportunities of local enterprises in the application of artificial intelligence (AI). Building on these insights, HKPC set out eight strategic recommendations to drive broad and […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The twist and turns in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dealing with the overtures to him from the US President Donald Trump in the last three weeks speak eloquently of the tussle that is going on at the highest level of the BJP leadership and the RSS over how to send the […]
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Lagos-based fintech firm Moniepoint Inc. has secured more than USD 200 million in its Series C equity funding round, a move that underscores its rapid growth, profitability at scale and continental ambition. The funding was led by Development Partners International’s African Development III fund and included heavyweight participation from LeapFrog Investments, Visa Inc., Google LLC’s Africa Investment Fund, the International Finance Corporation, Proparco, Swedfund and others. Moniepoint […]
Cybersecurity firms have uncovered a sophisticated backdoor dubbed ChaosBot, written in the Rust programming language, that uses the chat-and-voice platform Discord for command-and-control traffic, marking a distinct shift in how threat actors are orchestrating cyber-intrusions. The campaign appears to have begun in a financial-services environment, with attackers leveraging compromised credentials and advanced evasion methods to sidestep detection. According to reports from the vendor eSentire, the incident first […]
K Raveendran The very idea of a Lokpal riding in a BMW, reeks of irony so strong that it almost feels like satire. The institution that stands as the sentinel of public probity, the watchdog against corruption, has managed to draw ridicule upon itself by its desire for luxury wheels. A BMW-driven Lokpal […]
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The free, cross-platform karting game SuperTuxKart has officially released version 1.5, bringing a suite of graphic upgrades and performance enhancements as the project transitions into its next major chapter. The announcement by the development team highlights this as the final update of the 1. x series and sets the stage for the forthcoming “Evolution” version. Among the headline changes in version 1.5 are enhanced rendering capabilities, including […]
Trend Vision One™ ranked among top vendors in the NAV solutions market HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 22 October 2025 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704) announced today that it has been named a Leader in Network Analysis and Visibility (NAV) solutions by Forrester. The analyst firm’s independent market evaluation scores the flagship Trend Vision One™ platform highest among all 12 evaluated […]
By Nantoo Banerjee There is nothing to be particularly shocked about Tata Capital stocks declining 2.4 percent below the company’s IPO issue price of Rs. 326 per share a day after its debut in intraday trade on the Bombay Stock Exchange. Tata Capital, a Tata Sons subsidiary, made a flat debut on Dalal Street on […]
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By K Raveendran When Google announced that Visakhapatnam would be home to its $15 billion project to build the company’s first artificial intelligence hub in India, the news landed like a thunderclap across the southern states. For Andhra Pradesh, it was nothing short of a jackpot — a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rewrite the […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diplomatic woes are mounting as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposed visit to India on December 5 and 6 is approaching. US President Donald Trump is determined to ensure substantial reduction in Indian imports of Russian oil by November and this has been linked with the progress of the […]
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A public beta of Zorin OS 18 has been launched, offering a reimagined interface and a suite of tools aimed at easing the migration from Windows as support for Windows 10 ends on 14 October 2025. The developers position this release as a compelling alternative for PCs that don’t qualify for Windows 11, while businesses, schools and individual users explore paths away from Microsoft’s ecosystem. The new […]
