"We owe it to an increasingly digitally dependent society to make its digital infrastructure as resilient, reliable, and safe as possible."
October 2025 - Vol. 68 No. 10
Features
Language Models Wrestle with Gaps in Understanding
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.
How AI Could Supercharge AR and VR
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?”
Toward Ubiquitous Operating Systems: Lessons from the Field
Ubiquitous operating systems are rapidly revolutionizing the ecosystem of consumer electronics and IoT.
Not Every AI Problem Is a Data Problem
The shape of data itself may hold valuable clues that could inform the success of data-driven scaling.
Confusing the Map for the Territory
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.
Aerial Solutions for Supporting Large-Scale Events: A Case Study of the Hajj Pilgrimage
NTFPs offer high-altitude deployment, wide coverage, and robust backhaul capacity.
Digital Addiction Among Arab Families: Status, Contributing Factors, Responsibilities, and Solutions
Internet addiction in the GCC is estimated at 33%, with higher prevalence among females (48%) than males (24%).
Unlocking the Potential of Arabic Voice-Generation Technologies
Developing Arabic text-to-speech remains challenging due to the morphological richness, phonetic complexity, and diglossic nature of the language.
Combating Misinformation in the Arab World: Challenges and Opportunities
Examining methods for combating misinformation in the Arab world.
The Landscape of Arabic Large Language Models
Exploring the trajectory of Arabic LLMs, highlighting efforts to evaluate them through benchmarks and public leaderboards.
Quantum Computing Research in the Arab World
Multiple countries in the Arab world are investing in quantum computing research, fostering collaborations, and developing talent to engage with the transformative technology.
AI-Driven Disaster Response and Displacement Monitoring
AI can leverage non-traditional data sources for humanitarian applications.
Cybersecurity in The Arab World: Technological and Socio-Political Dimensions
A cooperative strategy could position the Arab World as an influential contributor to global cybersecurity and AI development.
Artificial Intelligence in Networking Research in the Arab World
Arab world technologies play a pivotal role in optimizing network operations, automating management tasks, and enabling more efficient communication systems.
Digital Twins: Initiatives, Technologies, and Use Cases in the Arab World
Despite promising advancements, the Arab region faces several challenges that are slowing down the adoption of digital twins.
Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply-Chain Security
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.
As Good as a Coin Toss: Human Detection of AI-Generated Content
There's a critical need for alternative countermeasures to more effectively combat the potential and realized harms arising from synthetic media misuse.
Technical Perspective: Where Is My Data?
Smash provides full placement flexibility in assigning data to any machine while reducing memory overhead costs compared to current approaches used in practice.
Smash: Flexible, Fast, and Resource-Efficient Placement and Lookup of Distributed Storage
Smash achieves full placement flexibility, fast storage operations, fast recovery from node dynamics, and lower DRAM cost compared to existing hash-based solutions.
Upstart Puzzles: Selective Sponges
This puzzle abstracts the microRNAs sponges problem to its core algorithmic issues.
