By: Abdulrahman Abotaleb When undersea cables off the coast of Jeddah were severed recently, slowing Microsoft services across the region, it was tempting to dismiss the disruption as a technical mishap. Yet these recurring outages—from the Red Sea to the Baltic—underscore a deeper reality: the internet is not a weightless cloud …
أكمل القراءة »The Geopolitics of Undersea Cables: Why the Internet’s Hidden Lifelines Need Protection
By: Abdulrahman Abotaleb A few days ago, millions of people around the world noticed their Microsoft services slow to a crawl. Video calls dropped, documents failed to load, and entire offices found themselves suddenly disconnected. The culprit was not a software bug but something far more distant and fragile: several …
أكمل القراءة »Yemen’s Digital Collapse Is a Crisis the World Can’t Afford to Ignore
By Abdulrahman Abotaleb While global attention on Yemen remains fixed on its humanitarian disaster and political deadlock, a quieter crisis has been unfolding, one that threatens to undermine humanitarian operations, civic life, and digital access: the collapse of Yemen’s cyber infrastructure. In July and August 2025, Yemen experienced a wave …
أكمل القراءة »Ramses Fire, An Alarm for Internet Governance in Egypt and the Region
By Abdulrahman Abotaleb “You Can Pay Later.” A Moment of Humanity Amid Digital Collapse On the evening of July 7, as flames engulfed Cairo’s Ramses Central telecom exchange, Rasha Al-Nemaky, a mother dining with her son at City Square Mall, encountered an unexpected problem: the card machine didn’t work. She …
أكمل القراءة »World Science Forum 2024: Global Science Leaders Convene in Budapest, Hungary
World Science Forum 2024: Global Science Leaders Convene in Budapest, Hungary The Science and Policy Interface at the Time of Global Transformations Budapest, 12 November 2024 – The 11th edition of the World Science Forum (WSF) is once again hosted by Budapest, Hungary, on 20-23 November to discuss global …
أكمل القراءة »Whitfield Diffie, The Man Who Revolutionized Cryptography (Interview)
Heidelberg, Germany Exclusive – Yemen Science Heidelberg – September 2024 By Abdulrahman Abotaleb لقراءة النسخة العربية من المقابلة Whitfield Diffie, a name synonymous with the foundations of modern cryptography, forever changed how we secure digital communications, revolutionizing digital signatures and secure key exchange.. A visionary in his field, Diffie co-invented …
أكمل القراءة »Launch of New Global Biodiversity Fund Marks Milestone in Environmental Sustainability
Abdulrahman Abotaleb VANCOUVER – In an unprecedented move aimed at combating the intensifying global biodiversity crisis, a new Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) has been inaugurated at the Seventh Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Supported by 185 countries, the fund aims to expedite investments in conserving and sustaining …
أكمل القراءة »Inaugural Winners of the GEF Assembly Inclusive Challenge Program Revealed
August 23, 2023 Abdulrahman Abotaleb The Global Environment Facility (GEF) announced on August 23rd the selection of 23 civil society organizations as the winners of the Inclusive GEF Assembly Challenge Program. Hailing from 26 different countries, these organizations received grants up to $100,000 for their commitment to community-centric projects against …
أكمل القراءة »July 2023, Highest Record-breaking Temperatures
In a stark revelation, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has declared, in a statement that Yemen Science received, that July 2023 witnessed the highest global surface air temperatures ever recorded in any month. This unsettling discovery, based on computer-generated analyses using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, and weather …
أكمل القراءة »Augmented Reality: Enhancing Experiences and Challenging Internet Architecture
By: Mohammed Gahlan A few weeks ago, Apple unveiled its latest innovation, Vision Pro, an augmented reality (AR) headset designed to revolutionize digital interaction. But Apple is far from alone in this space. Tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others have long been investing in AR, each contributing to its …
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