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Sofiah Nichole Salivio
News Editor
Sofiah Nichole has balanced a dual passion for technical precision and the written word since 2017. Before diving into the world of Civil Engineering, she spent years navigating school press conferences and contributing to university publications, honing her skills as a versatile staff writer. Outside of her engineering labs, you can find her advocating for student voices and looking for the next great story to tell. She believes that whether you are building a bridge or a news report, the foundation must be rock solid.

Stories by Sofiah Nichole

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RateGain & Juspay launch RG Pay for travel payments

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RateGain and Juspay unveil RG Pay, an embedded payments layer to boost cross-border checkout performance for global travel brands.
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Sign Customiser powers USD $75m in global sign sales

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Australian-built Sign Customiser says its online design and pricing tools have powered more than USD $75m in global sign sales.
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Tineco brings steam floor cleaner roadshow to Australia

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Tineco launches an Australian roadshow for its steam floor cleaners, with Melbourne and Sydney pop-ups and models from AUD $399 to AUD $1,499.
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CIQ unveils Rocky Linux Pro AI for GPU inference at scale

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CIQ launches Rocky Linux Pro AI, a tuned RHEL-compatible distro promising higher GPU inference throughput from day one at production scale.
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East West adds Thai motor plant to bypass US tariffs

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East West opens Thai motor plant with CBM to expand Asian capacity and give OEMs a tariff-friendly route for US-bound shipments.
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Creditinfo rolls out fraud & AML platform in Uganda

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Creditinfo launches fraud and AML platform in Uganda, targeting rising digital payment risks and bolstering banks' compliance tools.
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SurePath AI unveils real-time controls to secure MCP use

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SurePath AI launches real-time MCP policy controls to lock down AI tool access, aiming to secure fast-growing workplace agent workflows.
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10ZiG Manager v5.5 boosts scale for large deployments

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10ZiG Manager v5.5 brings major server, web console and database upgrades to scale thin client management to many thousands of endpoints.
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Norton unveils Genie scam detection assistant in ChatGPT

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Norton launches Genie scam assistant in ChatGPT, letting users tag @Norton to analyse emails, texts, images and links for fraud risks.
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Mitel unveils WX framework for unified workforce comms

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Mitel debuts WX, a role-aware, AI-enabled comms framework unifying frontline, mobile, knowledge and contact centre workers on one layer.
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Red Access unveils firewall-native, agentless SSE layer

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Red Access launches firewall-native, agentless SSE layer, promising hours-long rollout and reduced complexity for securing web, SaaS and GenAI use.
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EcoOnline report tracks shift to connected risk data

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EcoOnline's first Mega Trends Report charts a shift from compliance checklists to connected risk data and real-time frontline engagement.
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Wandsworth digital billboard gets luxury-ready revamp

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BackLite and Wildstone unveil a revamped Wandsworth digital billboard, targeting luxury brands amid rising UK premium ad spend.
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Scopey Onsite raises €523k to expand construction AI platform

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Scopey Onsite has raised EUR €523k in pre-seed funding to expand its AI-based construction reporting platform across Ireland, the UK and Australia.
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Google debuts Gemini Embedding 2 multimodal AI model

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Google has launched Gemini Embedding 2, a multimodal AI model that unifies search and analysis across text, images, video, audio and documents.
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Tetrate unveils Built on Envoy open source extension hub

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Tetrate launches Built on Envoy, an open source extension hub to speed enterprise adoption of Envoy, especially for AI-heavy workloads.
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DataBahn deepens Microsoft Sentinel tie-up to cut SIEM costs

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DataBahn deepens Microsoft Sentinel integration, promising faster SIEM roll-outs, AI-driven telemetry routing and up to 60% cost savings.
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Nvidia pushes Jetson as edge hub for open AI models

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Nvidia is pitching Jetson as the key edge platform for open generative AI, pushing speech, vision and robotics models out of the data centre.
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Nvidia unveils data-centre RTX servers for game dev

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Nvidia pitches RTX PRO data-centre servers to virtualise game development, unifying creative, AI and QA workloads on shared GPUs.
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Equinix unveils global distributed AI hub & fabric

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Equinix launches a global distributed AI hub and Fabric Intelligence layer to unify, govern and optimise multi-cloud AI infrastructure.