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Gulf CIOs shift focus from recovery to cyber resilience as regional threats intensify

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Cyber resilience has become a board-level priority for organisations across the Gulf as regional tensions, increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks and the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) reshape enterprise risk strategies. According to Yahya Kassab, senior director and general manager for Gulf and Saudi Arabia at Commvault, recent geopolitical developments have acted as a wake-up…

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Interview: Emmanuel Frenehard, chief digital officer, Sanofi

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Emmanuel Frenehard, chief digital officer (CDO) at biopharmaceutical giant Sanofi, recognises that the CDO role often means different things in different companies. At Sanofi, it was decided that the role would be an all-encompassing position, overseeing business applications, infrastructure, cyber security, data, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital services. There are also professionals in Frenehard’s team…

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‘Basically a free $400 upgrade’: Redditor lucks out as dead Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU is reportedly replaced by an RTX 5070 Ti

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A Redditor reports that their RTX 5070 (which they were gifted) diedPNY replaced the faulty graphics card with an RTX 5070 TiThese kinds of upgrades can happen with returns if you get very lucky, and others on Reddit have similar tales to shareIf your graphics card goes kaput, that’s obviously regarded as bad news —…

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‘DDR5 prices fall sharply across US, China and Europe’: TrendForce report sparks fresh hope over RAM crisis, but I wouldn’t get carried away here

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A new report from TrendForce gives us some optimistic nuggets of info about the RAM crisisIt appears that retail prices are dropping in the US, Europe, and especially over in China right nowThe bigger picture hasn’t changed much, though, according to memory chip makers, but we can still hope this is the start of a…

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‘We’ll continue to see volatility and cost increases through the rest of 2026’: Framework warns on RAM crisis, while GPU prices also get hiked

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Asus RX 9070 XT GPUs have been hit with a sudden price hike in the USFramework has warned that while memory costs have stabilized in some areas, this is likely just a temporary reprieveThe laptop maker predicts that “We’ll continue to see volatility and cost increases through the rest of 2026.”There’s been a fresh round…

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‘Slowly but surely’ — latest Intel drivers make Crimson Desert playable on Arc GPUs, but there’s still work to be done

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Crimson Desert is now playable on Intel Arc GPUs, seemingly after Intel’s latest driver updateThe game previously wouldn’t launch on any Intel GPU, due to Pearl Abyss omitting compatibilityVisual glitches are evident, but an official future update from Pearl Abyss or Intel should fix themPearl Abyss’ Crimson Desert has provided a joyful experience to a…

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‘This was one of the rarest GPUs we’ve seen destroyed’: repair shop receives $5K Nvidia RTX 5090 that the owner practiced soldering skills on

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Someone bought an MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z, which is a $5,000 GPUThey then practiced their soldering skills on the board, and broke the graphics cardWhy? It’s surely because they wanted to implement a hardware mod that allows for an extreme BIOS to be run on the GPUMSI’s RTX 5090 Lightning Z is a rare…

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DDR4 RAM price falls, finally, after ‘soaring more than 2,200% over the past year’ — but don’t get excited yet

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The spot price of a 16GB DDR4 chip has dropped by 5%It’s the first time this price has fallen in over a yearWhile that’s obviously a good thing, there’s a lot of storm remaining to weather with the RAM crisis yetWe’ve witnessed another hint that the RAM crisis is deescalating — at least a touch…

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US suspension of Anthropic models prompts AI sovereignty calls

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Anthropic has been forced to suspend two of its artificial intelligence (AI) models globally after the US government issued a directive prohibiting their use by foreign nationals over “national security” concerns. The move to suspend Anthropic’s models came just days after the launch of the Claude Mythos 5 frontier model, with the US government claiming…

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Core42 partners with Solutions+ on Mubadala sovereign AI

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Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure provider Core42 has announced a strategic partnership with Solutions+ to accelerate the deployment of sovereign AI infrastructure across the Mubadala Investment Company (MIC) Group and government entities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The agreement establishes a framework for delivering secure cloud, data and AI infrastructure services designed to…

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