October 2025 - Vol. 68 No. 10

"We owe it to an increasingly digitally dependent society to make its digital infrastructure as resilient, reliable, and safe as possible."

A critique of AI based on generative models.

Bigger language models tend to use the first half of their layer stack to extract a single fact, no matter how many layers they have available in total.

AI may be adding a new layer to the cognitive processes that go into human decision making.

AI technologies and innovations are expected to unlock unprecedented experiences across AR and VR devices.

China’s experience with digital payment platforms suggest a roadmap for other central banks.

Software development always requires conversation. The meta question is: "How much communication?"

Ubiquitous operating systems are rapidly revolutionizing the ecosystem of consumer electronics and IoT.

The shape of data itself may hold valuable clues that could inform the success of data-driven scaling.

Trying to capture culture in datasets is akin to believing you have captured everything important about the world in a map.

The special section offers a snapshot of the region's momentum, featuring a diverse set of contributions that blend technical rigor with societal impact.

NTFPs offer high-altitude deployment, wide coverage, and robust backhaul capacity.

Internet addiction in the GCC is estimated at 33%, with higher prevalence among females (48%) than males (24%).

Developing Arabic text-to-speech remains challenging due to the morphological richness, phonetic complexity, and diglossic nature of the language.

Examining methods for combating misinformation in the Arab world.

Exploring the trajectory of Arabic LLMs, highlighting efforts to evaluate them through benchmarks and public leaderboards.

Multiple countries in the Arab world are investing in quantum computing research, fostering collaborations, and developing talent to engage with the transformative technology.

AI can leverage non-traditional data sources for humanitarian applications.

A cooperative strategy could position the Arab World as an influential contributor to global cybersecurity and AI development.

Arab world technologies play a pivotal role in optimizing network operations, automating management tasks, and enabling more efficient communication systems.

Despite promising advancements, the Arab region faces several challenges that are slowing down the adoption of digital twins.

Problems with software supply-chain security are fundamental and have no easy answers.

The way we refer to and address data matters, and can have unexpected effects down the line.

There's a critical need for alternative countermeasures to more effectively combat the potential and realized harms arising from synthetic media misuse.

Smash provides full placement flexibility in assigning data to any machine while reducing memory overhead costs compared to current approaches used in practice.

Smash achieves full placement flexibility, fast storage operations, fast recovery from node dynamics, and lower DRAM cost compared to existing hash-based solutions.

This puzzle abstracts the microRNAs sponges problem to its core algorithmic issues.