Riot Games reverses its controversial decision to partner with the Saudi government. The developer had announced Saudi city-state development NEOM as a “main partner” for League of Legends esports tournament, the LEC. While many seem happy with the decision, Riot employees have also criticized the company’s bigger issues. After less than 24 hours of backlash…
Saudi Arabia is not known for making wise financial decisions. The Middle Eastern kingdom sold part of Saudi Aramco before crashing its value through a disastrous oil price war. Now, Saudi Arabia is trying to trick investors into buying a stake in its pipeline business. Will anyone take the bait? Saudi Arabia’s oil price war…
Lawmakers and security experts have long warned of security flaws in the underbelly of the world’s cell networks. Now a whistleblower says the Saudi government is exploiting those flaws to track its citizens across the U.S. as part of a “systematic” surveillance campaign. It’s the latest tactic by the Saudi kingdom to spy on its…
Saudi Arabian officials allegedly paid at least two employees of Twitter to access personal information on users the government there was interested in, according to recently unsealed court documents. Those users were warned of the attempt in 2015, but the full picture is only now emerging. According to an AP report citing the federal complaint,…
Saudi’s crown prince warned that war with Iran would lead to a sweeping shattering the world’s economy. In a rare televised interview on 60 minutes aired over the weekend, Prince Mohammed bin Salman addressed key issues such as the death of Jamal Khashoggi, the recent Iranian attack on a Saudi Aramco oil plant, and the…
