Category: Biz Tech

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 emerged in late September 2025 when an over-privileged Active Directory account named “serviceaccount”,

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 supersample antialiasing support and soft shadows which cater to high-end GPUs. According to

A significant outage at Amazon Web Services rippled through the digital economy on 20 October 2025, cutting off access to dozens of major websites and applications. The disruption emerged from AWS’s US-EAST-1 data-centre region in Northern Virginia — a hub that hosts some of the world’s most critical cloud infrastructure. The fault, described by AWS as a failure in network-load-balancer health monitoring and associated DNS resolution problems, triggered widespread service interruptions across sectors.The outage struck early in the

The competition between the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and the Intel Core Ultra 7 265K highlights a deeper shift in desktop CPU design and market dynamics for 2025. While both are positioned for high-end users, their strengths lie in distinct directions: AMD emphasises gaming cache architecture, whereas Intel leans into hybrid core layouts and productivity-oriented features.In gaming performance, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D retains a marked lead. Independent testing assigns it the title “fastest gaming chip on the planet,” showing up to 35 % higher frame-rates at 1080p

The social-media platform X has introduced a dedicated “Handle Marketplace” that allows paying subscribers to request usernames tied to inactive accounts, marking a significant shift in its monetisation strategy. Under the scheme, Premium Plus and Premium Business users can browse a catalogue of unused handles and make claim requests under varying terms.Eligible subscribers will see available usernames divided into two tiers: “Priority” handles, which include full names, common phrases or alphanumeric strings, will be available at no extra cost;

[caption id="attachment_109256" align="aligncenter" width="800"] ChatGPT - Logo/AP File Photo[/caption]Artificial intelligence has witnessed significant breakthroughs over the past few years, particularly in natural language processing tasks. Models such as GPT have revolutionized everything from content generation to complex problem-solving. However, the process of fine-tuning these systems to produce accurate, contextually relevant results remains an ongoing challenge. A particular area of focus has been prompt engineering—the art and science of crafting the inputs given to AI models in a way that maximizes

Bahrain’s Beyon Cyber and global cybersecurity firm Haven Cyber Technologies have entered a strategic Memorandum of Understanding to deploy advanced AI-powered Security Operations Centres across the UK and internationally, integrating Beyon’s Orryx AI platform into Haven’s managed services portfolio.Under the agreement, Haven will adopt the Orryx AI platform through its UK subsidiary, ITC Secure, and embed agentic AI workflows into its threat detection and response operations. The collaboration aims to slash alert noise, boost accuracy of investigations, and reduce

Space42 has inked a memorandum of understanding with e& UAE to co-develop Vehicle-to-Everything systems that will underpin autonomous mobility and smart city infrastructure across the UAE. The pact seeks to marry Space42’s Sovereign Mobility Cloud and autonomous vehicle expertise with e& UAE’s 5.5G connectivity, edge computing and secure communications, forming a foundation for 6G-era applications.The collaboration will see both firms launch pilot projects, help shape regulatory frameworks, and test business models to support wider deployment of connected and self-driving

Google has introduced a “Help me schedule” feature inside Gmail that leverages its Gemini AI to suggest meeting times based on both email context and calendar availability.When the system detects language in a composed email indicating intent to set up a meeting, it surfaces a “Help me schedule” button in the toolbar. Clicking that prompts Gemini to analyse your Google Calendar and the tone and content of the email to propose suitable time slots. Users can adjust or remove

Europe’s industrial firms are expected to outperform across corporate sectors in the coming earnings cycle, as sharp increases in artificial intelligence investment and defence procurement drive demand for advanced machinery, components and systems.Industrial-sector earnings per share for the MSCI Europe Industrials Index are projected to rise by about 4.9 percent year-on-year, reflecting the strength of capital goods manufacturers amid surging AI and defence spending. Analysts attribute much of the upside to the rising need for semiconductors, automation, power systems and

Walmart has forged a deal with OpenAI to allow customers and Sam’s Club members to purchase goods directly through ChatGPT using its Instant Checkout system. The move turns the AI chatbot into a full-fledged retail interface, collapsing the gap between conversational query and completed sale.Shares of Walmart rose about 3 percent following the announcement, signalling investor confidence in this bold shift in e-commerce.The companies say that shoppers will be able to “simply chat and buy” — whether restocking household essentials,

Alibaba’s most advanced vision-language model, Qwen3-VL 235B, is now accessible via Ollama’s cloud infrastructure, signalling a milestone in multimodal AI deployment. The dense and sparse variants of the Qwen3 family—4B, 8B, 30B and 235B—are slated to become available for local use in due course.Qwen3-VL elevates visual reasoning capabilities: it can interpret graphical interfaces, recognise GUI elements, press buttons, call external tools and complete tasks autonomously. Its core strength lies in combining visual and textual reasoning, matching the language performance of

Dubai’s government has unveiled plans for a radical upgrade to its “Invest in Dubai” digital platform, enabling business licences to be granted in as little as 17 seconds. The platform’s new version, featuring Agentic AI capabilities, was introduced at GITEX Global 2025 and is expected to go live by the end of 2026.Ahmad Khalifa AlQaizi AlFalasi, CEO of Dubai Business Registration and Licensing Corporation, explained that the enhanced system will act as an autonomous reviewer. Applicants will upload documents,

Dubai—Dell Technologies asserts it commands more than 24 per cent of the UAE’s data centre server market, signalling a strong foothold in a region where demand for digital infrastructure is surging.Samer Al Jayyusi, Specialty AI & GenAI Regional Lead for Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa at Dell, made the disclosure at GITEX Global 2025, emphasising that national institutions have shown growing confidence in Dell’s solutions. He said the UAE’s technology vision and investment in data centre expansion

Security analysts have uncovered a large-scale phishing operation utilising 175 npm packages as infrastructure to redirect victims to credential-harvesting sites. The packages, collectively downloaded over 26,000 times, do not themselves execute malware; rather, they act as hosting points for malicious scripts delivered through npm’s public registry and the unpkg CDN.The campaign, dubbed Beamglea, is believed to have targeted more than 135 companies across industrial, technology and energy sectors. Its architecture shifts the threat paradigm: it treats legitimate open-source infrastructure as

Nanoprecise has selected AccuKnox’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform to overhaul its cloud security, governance and compliance architecture. This collaboration aims to merge Nanoprecise’s AI-driven predictive maintenance capabilities with a hardened Zero Trust posture across its cloud workloads.The decision followed a competitive evaluation involving top cloud security vendors, with Nanoprecise opting for AccuKnox’s agentless architecture, swift risk assessment, and modular pricing model. During the proof-of-concept phase, AccuKnox demonstrated capabilities in cloud security posture management, Kubernetes posture, and automated compliance

A newly observed wave of attacks is using the cutting-edge Single Executable Application capability in Node. js to deliver the Stealit malware to Windows systems, marking a strategic shift by threat actors to evade detection. Security analysts say the move underscores how attackers are co-opting development frameworks to bypass conventional defences.FortiGuard Labs security researchers discovered that this campaign packages malicious payloads using Node. js SEA, an experimental bundling method that produces a self-contained executable. That allows the malware to

Abu Dhabi — EDGE entity FADA has completed a week-long “Space Roadshow” across six Emirati educational institutions, aiming to galvanise youth interest in space sciences and strengthen the UAE’s space ecosystem.The roadshow, conducted in collaboration with the UAE Space Agency and Space42, carried the theme “Living in Space” and comprised workshops, interactive sessions, and networking opportunities touching on Earth observation, satellite communications, CubeSat technologies and astronaut life.FADA visited campuses including Higher Colleges of Technology, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi Polytechnic,

Qualcomm has confirmed its acquisition of Arduino, the Italian open-source electronic prototyping platform used by more than 33 million developers worldwide, in a move intended to deepen the chipmaker’s stake in edge computing and AI development.Under terms not disclosed publicly, Arduino will retain its brand, tools and mission, while joining Qualcomm’s broader technology and development ecosystem. As part of the deal, the two firms unveiled the UNO Q, a hybrid board combining a Linux-capable Qualcomm Dragonwing processor with a real-time

A fresh campaign deploying SnakeKeylogger is targeting users with weaponized emails that lead to the execution of PowerShell scripts and ultimately exfiltrate sensitive data. Security analysts warn that the threat now blends social engineering with native Windows scripting to evade detection.Emails purporting to be from “CPA-Payment Files” or similar remittance services carry attachments—most often ISO or ZIP files. Once opened, these contain a malicious BAT file that launches PowerShell commands to fetch a secondary payload. That payload is the SnakeKeylogger

OpenAI has unveiled a sweeping upgrade to ChatGPT, enabling developers to embed functional apps directly into the chatbot and turning it into a platform in its own right. The shift brings deeper integrations, a new proactive experience called Pulse, and a push to transform ChatGPT beyond conversational AI.At its developer event, OpenAI introduced a Software Development Kit that lets third-party services run seamlessly within ChatGPT. Apps such as Canva, Spotify, Booking. com, Coursera, Expedia, Figma and Zillow are now

OpenAI has raised alarms with European Union antitrust regulators, warning that the growing dominance of major technology firms such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple poses a threat to competition within the sector. The company’s concerns centre around the increasing control these companies hold over vast amounts of data, which it claims could stifle innovation and lead to unfair market advantages.In a detailed submission to the European Commission, OpenAI expressed its concerns about the monopolistic behaviour of these firms, particularly in

Cyber resilience has evolved from a mere operational necessity to a core strategic focus for businesses across the globe. As cyber threats continue to escalate in complexity and volume, companies are now recognising the importance of not just preventing cyberattacks, but also ensuring they can quickly recover and continue functioning in the face of such threats. Synology, a leader in data storage and network solutions, has taken this paradigm shift to heart, unveiling its latest suite of enterprise-grade solutions during

Deloitte has agreed to repay a portion of its contract with the Australian government following the discovery of errors generated by artificial intelligence in a series of reports. The company acknowledged the involvement of Azure OpenAI, a generative AI language system, in producing the erroneous documents, which prompted a review of its practices and the government's decision to seek financial restitution.The AI errors were identified in a set of reports produced for the Australian government under a contract aimed

Smartphone storage is on the cusp of its biggest leap in years as the Universal Flash Storage 5.0 specification arrives with headline sequential bandwidth touted at up to 10.8GB/s, nearly a twofold jump over today’s mainstream UFS 4. x. The stated aim is clear: keep pace with feature-rich camera pipelines and the growing wave of on-device AI so that apps open quickly, multitasking holds steady, and background processes don’t stall when models or media files are streamed from flash to

Apple has removed Eyes Up, an iPhone app that collected and archived videos of U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests, marking the second platform the company has taken down after ICEBlock. The swift removal followed concerns from U. S. law enforcement that such apps pose risks to officers.Eyes Up’s functionality allowed users to upload videos, tag arrest locations, and view past incidents on an interactive map. Unlike ICEBlock — which crowdsourced live sightings of ICE agents — Eyes

Google is replacing its long-standing Assistant with a new AI system named Gemini across smart home devices, and the company says the next generation of its Nest Hub will be fully powered by this shift. The move signals an acceleration of AI integration in consumer hardware, transforming how people interact with their homes.Under the rebranded “Gemini for Home” strategy, Gemini becomes the default intelligence for smart speakers, displays, cameras and doorbells, bringing more conversational capabilities and contextual understanding to everyday

Google has broadened the reach of its Opal AI-powered app builder, enabling users in 15 additional countries to create mini web apps using text prompts and visual workflows. The expansion comes with performance upgrades and improved debugging tools to support more complex, no-code app development.Opal now operates in Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Argentina and Pakistan. The move follows strong uptake in the U. S., where users built unexpectedly

Law Blocks AI, a UAE-based legal tech startup, is staging an event titled “From Disputes to Digital Trust: ADR Meets AI & Blockchain” on 14 October at Emirates Financial Towers in Dubai, scheduled alongside GITEX and Future Blockchain Summit. The firm aims to present its integrated platform combining artificial intelligence, blockchain, and alternative dispute resolution to legal professionals, corporates and technologists.At the heart of the company’s proposition are AI-driven legal document generation tailored to jurisdictions, blockchain-anchored digital signatures, and storage

Google DeepMind has made public a new AI model, Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, capable of interacting with web and mobile user interfaces by mimicking human actions such as clicking, typing and scrolling. The model is now available in preview through the Gemini API, via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, allowing developers to build agents that can directly operate interfaces otherwise inaccessible via backend APIs.The model rests on the visual reasoning and comprehension capacity built into Gemini 2.5 Pro, extended

Riyadh — DataVolt, in partnership with the Energy & Water Academy and Innovatics, has inaugurated the Kingdom’s first industry-integrated National Diploma in Data Science and AI, embedding real-world projects into foundational training for Saudi talent.The diploma carries full approval from the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation and College of Excellence, and is granted endorsement by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology alongside support from the Human Resources Development Fund. Students selected for the programme will work collaboratively with

OpenAI has struck letters of intent with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to supply undiced DRAM wafers for its ambitious “Stargate” AI infrastructure initiative, with projected demand reaching as high as 900,000 wafers per month—potentially equivalent to 40 percent of global DRAM output.The agreements were announced during meetings in Seoul among OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, Samsung Chairman Jay Y. Lee and SK Chairman Chey Tae-won. The memory chips are intended to support the massive compute

AMD signed a long-term agreement with OpenAI to supply six gigawatts of AI chips over multiple years, with the first delivery of its Instinct MI450 GPUs slated for the second half of 2026. In tandem, OpenAI will have the right to acquire up to 160 million AMD shares—roughly 10 percent of the company—subject to performance and stock-price milestones.Under the pact, AMD will act as a core compute partner for OpenAI’s next-generation infrastructure. The deal is structured in tranches: the initial

The U. S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has designated CVE-2021-43226, a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Microsoft’s Common Log File System driver, as actively exploited and added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.The flaw allows a local, authenticated user to bypass security controls and elevate privileges to the SYSTEM level—a shift that can lead to full system compromise. Microsoft rates the vulnerability with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8.CISA’s action is prompted by evidence of