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Rudie Opperman, Manager for Engineering & Training MEA at Axis Communications

Cisco’s dashboard now runs Axis cameras

In October 2016, the Mirai botnet commandeered hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices, a large share of them IP cameras and digital video recorders still running factory-default passwords, and turned them on

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Kyndryl appoints Maged Wassim as VP and MD for Middle East and Africa

Kyndryl has appointed Maged Wassim as Vice President and Managing Director for the Middle East and Africa. Wassim will lead the company’s regional business, focusing on helping organisations modernise technology environments and

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The AI didn’t build a weapon; it walked through the door you left open

What was meant to stay inside the laboratory chose to break the red line. At OpenAI, safety restrictions were removed from a model to see what it would do without them, and

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StarLink cuts procurement tasks from 30 minutes to three.

StarLink automates procurement with IBM agentic AI

StarLink and IBM have developed an agentic AI solution to automate purchase order lifecycles. Built on IBM Bob and watsonx Orchestrate, the tool handles email classification, document processing, and accounts payable. The

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Tim Pfaelzer, General Manager and Senior Vice President for EMEA at Veeam.

EMEA firms face shadow agent crisis and liability fears, Veeam finds

New research from Veeam reveals a dual crisis for EMEA enterprises: the rise of ‘shadow agents’ and growing executive liability. The study finds 70% of organisations have AI workflows interacting with sensitive

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15 technology leaders explain why most AI projects stall before they pay, and what the ones that paid did first

In July, Sharjah Maritime Academy in Khor Fakkan switched on Majid, an admissions agent that answers prospective students and their parents by voice and chat at any hour. The academy decided against

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From Doha 2006 to Riyadh 2034: the 20-year events playbook Mannai brought to its first LEAP

Mannai Information Technology built the data platform behind Qatar’s 2022 World Cup while COVID-19 was at its peak. At its debut as a LEAP exhibitor, its Saudi general manager explained why the

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Inside the Telco Betting That Saudi Arabia’s 4,000 Factories Need More Than Bandwidth

At LEAP’s fifth edition in Riyadh, Etihad Salam Telecom Company used its stand to announce a repositioning built on an uncomfortable industry statistic. Chief Business Officer Abdullah Khorami explains why the operator

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ACE Gallagher acquires UPI Brokers to expand Kuwait presence

ACE Gallagher Holding has acquired United Partners Insurance Brokers (UPI Brokers) to bolster its market share in Kuwait. The deal integrates UPI Brokers’ three decades of local expertise with ACE Gallagher’s regional

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Sri Lanka sets the global stage for World CIO 200 Grand Finale 2026 at high-level press conference in Colombo

Government of Sri Lanka and Global Enterprise Connect outline a global technology, investment and innovation agenda as 200+ technology leaders from 50+ countries prepare to converge in Colombo Sri Lanka officially set

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