MENA+ Android Spyware
A newly identified Android spyware targeted Galaxy devices for close to a year, including users in the Middle East, researchers exclusively tell TechCrunch....
UAE NVidia Deal
This is significant: Cody Combs, The National, UAE secures Nvidia GPUs: What Microsoft’s AI announcement means, 3 Nov 2025“As part of Microsoft’s announcement on Monday that it plans to...
RSF Sudan (updated)
Important report from Yousra Elbagir #Sudan @skynewsrss.bsky.social: “A Sky News joint investigation with Sudan War Monitor and Lighthouse Reports reveals the harrowing fate of civilians and soldiers who fled...
Online Radicalisation Case (updated)
The online element of this case is significant (the earlier background story is below): online elements in this case [image or embed] — Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social) 4 November...
Academic Concerns
These are very significant issues across the sector; in this case (there are many others) and it also relates to Uyghur Muslims. China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism...
AI and the Visually Impaired
The New Arab, How AI is revolutionising life for the visually impaired in the Arab world, 3 Nov 2025. “Across the MENA region, blind and visually impaired individuals are...
AI Islam
Thoughts on AI/Islam issues from Relentless Reasoning; I explore some of these themes in Islamic Algorithms: Relentless Reasoning, Part 1: The Origins and Nature of AI Islam, 13 Oct...
Islamic Algorithms
Commercial break The paperback of ‘Islamic Algorithms’ is available now; it’s the ‘book of the website‘, so if you want to tap into my research on cyber-Islamic environments, this...
Seera
The National, Saudi all-women rock band Seera hit the right note on London debut, 31 Oct 2025 “All-women psychedelic rock band Seera have taken a leap forward for Saudi music, playing one of...