KSA eSports Hub
Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, From fatwas to ‘Fortnite’: Saudi Arabia’s $38-billion play to rule esports, 9 Jun 2025 “Neom, the futuristic megacity on the Red Sea coast, intends...
UAE Screen Burn
Katy Gillett, The National, Rethinking screen time this summer: UAE experts urge parents to focus on connection over control, 8 Jun 2025 “In a new UAE-wide survey by Gen...
Malaysia Data Acquisition
Joseph Sipalan, SCMP, Malaysia assures users their privacy is protected in mobile data grab: ‘truly anonymous’, 9 Jun 2025 “Malaysia’s communications regulator has assured the public that their privacy...
Pakistan Influencer Murder
Abubakar Siddique, RFE/RL, Teenage TikTok Star’s Killing Sparks Outrage Over Violence Against Women In Pakistan, 6 June 20205 “For many women in Pakistan, the latest killing of a social...
Geolocation Issues
Foeke Postma, Nathan Patin, Bellingcat, Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation?, 6 Jun 2025 “To assess how LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI compare today, we ran 500...
UAE AI Hub
Alexander Cornwell, Reuters, US-UAE multi-billion dollar AI data campus deal far from finalised, sources say, 6 Jun 2025. “A multi-billion dollar deal to build one of the world’s largest data...
KSA+UAE Tech Hub Developments(?)
Cathrin Schaer, Deutsche Welle, Saudi Arabia to become high-tech manufacturing hub?, 28 May 2025 “Saudi Arabia and the UAE avoided high tariffs imposed by the US government. In the...
KSA-Israel Technology ‘Ties‘
Assad Gilead, Jerusalem Post, Under the radar: Israeli cyber companies operating in Saudi Arabia, 5 Jun 2025 “A “Globes” investigation reveals that most of the Israeli companies active in...
AI Türkiye
Ylenia Gostoli, New Lines Magazine, Turkey’s AI-Powered Protest Crackdown, 5 Jun 2025 “Sinclair-Webb noted that some defendants are facing charges of inciting a crime based solely on social media...
Gaza Under Siege (cont/d)
Multiple stories and issues are emerging associated with human rights, war crime allegations, and conflict, in which, in the absence of journalists, those on the ground are documenting digitally....