Category Archives: Tech News

How Saudi media group MBC's Shahid has become the biggest streaming service in MENA with a 22% share, ahead of Starz Play Arabia at 18% and Netflix at 17% (Financial Times)

Financial Times: How Saudi media group MBC’s Shahid has become the biggest streaming service in [...]

08
Jul
A look at concerns about Saudi Arabia's sportswashing in esports as it hosts the Esports World Cup; Saudi's PIF has bought some of the biggest gaming companies (Ben Church/CNN)

Ben Church / CNN: A look at concerns about Saudi Arabia’s sportswashing in esports as [...]

07
Jul
How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards Japan, the US, Jews, and others, became the subject of a debate and spreads despite censorship (Li Yuan/New York Times)

Li Yuan / New York Times: How xenophobic content on Chinese social media, directed towards [...]

06
Jul
Cloudflare launches a tool that aims to block bots from scraping websites for AI training data, available free for all customers (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Cloudflare launches a tool that aims to block bots from scraping [...]

05
Jul
Microsoft agrees to pay $14.4M to settle with the California Civil Rights Department over allegations it discriminated against workers who took protected leave (Associated Press)

Associated Press: Microsoft agrees to pay $14.4M to settle with the California Civil Rights Department [...]

04
Jul
A look at a US State Department program to train diplomats in cybersecurity, privacy, and other tech issues, allowing them to spot threats and advance US policy (Eric Geller/Wired)

Eric Geller / Wired: A look at a US State Department program to train diplomats [...]

03
Jul
Sources: Northern Data is weighing a US IPO of its combined AI cloud computing and data center businesses at a valuation of up to $16B as early as in H1 2025 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Northern Data is weighing a US IPO of its combined AI cloud computing [...]

02
Jul
Sources: BlackRock has agreed to buy Preqin, a UK-based provider of private markets data, for £2.55B in cash (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: BlackRock has agreed to buy Preqin, a UK-based provider of private markets [...]

01
Jul
How Avery Johnson and Warren Brodey, early members of the American Society for Cybernetics, created a lab in 1967 with a utopian vision to personalize computing (Evgeny Morozov/Financial Times)

Evgeny Morozov / Financial Times: How Avery Johnson and Warren Brodey, early members of the [...]

30
Jun
Source: Microsoft told over a dozen Texas agencies and public universities that their emails were exposed in the Russian hack of Microsoft, disclosed in January (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)

Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: Source: Microsoft told over a dozen Texas agencies and public universities [...]

29
Jun