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Threema DDoS Attacks Expose Hosted Messaging Availability Gap

Large DDoS attacks disrupted Threema’s hosted messaging service while On-Prem customers avoided the outage, prompting the company to add upstream DDoS filtering.

#cybersecurity #Threema #DDoS

August 17, 2026Read More →

GCC Sukuk Liquidity Nears Conventional Bond Levels After March Stress

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GCC Sukuk Liquidity Nears Conventional Bond Levels After March Stress

Fitch data show GCC sukuk trading close to conventional bond liquidity in dollar markets, with rating, currency and geopolitical exposure still shaping execution costs.

#GCC sukuk #Islamic finance #Fitch Ratings

August 17, 2026Read More →

Gemini 3.7 Flash Puts Google Agent Pricing On Trial

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Gemini 3.7 Flash Puts Google Agent Pricing On Trial

Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash with temporary API rates, stronger coding and workflow benchmarks, and a 2027 return to full pricing that leaves enterprises to test cost per completed task.

#Google #Gemini 3.7 Flash #AI agents

August 17, 2026Read More →

Korean Builders Chase AI Data Centre Work As Power Demand Doubles

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Korean Builders Chase AI Data Centre Work As Power Demand Doubles

The Korea Herald reported that Korean contractors are moving deeper into AI data centre construction as JLL expects global data centre power demand to rise from about 103 GW in 2025 to 200 GW by 2030.

#AI data centers #Korea #Hyundai E&C

August 17, 2026Read More →

AMD MI455X Turns CDNA 5 Into A Rack-Scale AI Server Test

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AMD MI455X Turns CDNA 5 Into A Rack-Scale AI Server Test

ServeTheHome detailed AMD's Instinct MI455X, a 320 billion-transistor CDNA 5 accelerator with HBM4 memory, TSMC N2 silicon and Helios rack-scale ambitions for AI data centres.

#AMD #Instinct MI455X #CDNA 5

August 16, 2026Read More →

AI Attack Speed Pushes Check Point Toward Exposure Automation

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AI Attack Speed Pushes Check Point Toward Exposure Automation

Check Point CEO Nadav Zafrir told Frontier Enterprise that AI is shrinking the window from vulnerability discovery to weaponisation, raising pressure on patching cycles, exposure management and mixed-vendor remediation.

#cybersecurity #AI attacks #Check Point

August 16, 2026Read More →

World Liberty Gets Conditional OCC Charter For USD1 Stablecoin

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World Liberty Gets Conditional OCC Charter For USD1 Stablecoin

The OCC granted preliminary conditional approval for World Liberty Trust Company, giving the Trump-linked crypto venture a trust-bank path to issue and redeem USD1.

#World Liberty #USD1 stablecoin #OCC

August 16, 2026Read More →

Dubai AI Ranking Turns Smart-City Strategy Into Infrastructure Test

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Dubai AI Ranking Turns Smart-City Strategy Into Infrastructure Test

Computer Weekly reported that Dubai ranked second in BCG’s inaugural Intelligent Cities Index and first for AI adoption, putting data-centre capacity, Khazna’s 1GW plan and city-service deployments at the center of the next proof point.

#Dubai #smart cities #data centres

August 16, 2026Read More →

Anthropic Revenue Surge Puts IPO Path Against Compute Costs

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Anthropic Revenue Surge Puts IPO Path Against Compute Costs

Bloomberg documents cited by CNBC showed Anthropic with more than $11.5 billion in preliminary second-quarter revenue, turning its possible IPO into a test of how public markets fund AI compute demand.

#Anthropic #IPO #cloud infrastructure

August 16, 2026Read More →

Crypto Funding Data Shows $11.2 Billion Shift Toward Regulated Rails

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Crypto Funding Data Shows $11.2 Billion Shift Toward Regulated Rails

Disclosed crypto funding reached $11.2 billion in the first half of 2026, with payments, stablecoins, prediction markets and trading platforms drawing the largest regulated-infrastructure checks.

#crypto funding #stablecoins #prediction markets

August 16, 2026Read More →

Gulf Sovereign AI Plans Face Control Test Beyond Data Residency

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Gulf Sovereign AI Plans Face Control Test Beyond Data Residency

Gulf governments are building sovereign AI programmes around local hosting, but control over access, agents, encryption keys and workload portability is becoming the harder policy test.

#Gulf #Sovereign AI #Data Residency

August 16, 2026Read More →

Neocloud Q2 Results Show AI Revenue Growth Running Beside Bigger Power Bets

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Neocloud Q2 Results Show AI Revenue Growth Running Beside Bigger Power Bets

CoreWeave, Nebius and Cerebras all posted faster Q2 2026 revenue growth, but their results also showed larger losses, heavy capex and rising contracted power commitments as AI cloud demand drives capacity expansion.

#CoreWeave #Nebius #Cerebras

August 15, 2026Read More →