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Marking a historic milestone for foreign property ownership in Makkah, Thakher Development completes the SAR 2 billion sale of the 1,461-room Novotel Thakher Makkah and 14 development plots to Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund. MAKKAH, Saudi Arabia – SeaPRwire –  Thakher Development, the master developer of the Thakher Makkah megaproject, has officially completed the handover of property ownership certificates to Danantara Indonesia, Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund. The milestone marks one of the first major real estate acquisitions by an international sovereign investor in Makkah, completing Danantara’s SAR 2 billion (approx. US$ 533 million) purchase of the Novotel Thakher Makkah hotel towers and 14 adjoining development plots. The transaction was made possible by Thakher Makkah’s position as an established, integrated destination 1.2 kilometres north of the Grand Mosque. Spanning 320,000 square metres, with a total investment value of more t...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Hank Robotics just joined the 2026 U.S. Chamber of Commerce CO-100 list. The Miami firm is one of one hundred recognized American businesses. It sits among the ten Tech Innovators honorees. Founded in 2024, the company uses drones and robotics for commercial exterior work that once needed heavy gear and long setup times. The service list is concrete. High-rise window cleaning. Commercial roof washing. Façade cleaning. Pressure washing. Soft washing. Solar panel cleaning. Water tower and elevated tank maintenance. Thermal drone inspections. The company pairs drone-assisted methods with conventional techniques. It targets surfaces that are hard to reach. Clients include hotels, office towers, warehouses, shopping centers, industrial sites and property managers. The goal is efficient exterior maintenance with less disruption. Project numbers appear in the release. Approximately 570,000 square feet of warehouse roof and façade cleaning for H...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Sixty-one percent of leaders expect most AI agents to run largely on their own within four years. Only twenty-one percent say their organizations can redesign the processes that will surround them. The gap sits right there in the Deloitte numbers from August 2026. Five hundred one senior managers and executives in the United States answered the survey. The ambition is clear. The readiness is not. Seventy-four percent expect nearly half of their business processes to be rebuilt around AI agents in the same four-year window. Just five percent call their current processes highly prepared for autonomous AI. Only fifteen percent have scaled coordinated agents across multiple functions. An AI agent can already push multi-step workflows toward a goal. It can talk to external software without waiting for human approval on every step. That shifts the employee’s role. Policies must therefore spell out access privileges, escalation points for human re...

By: James Vance – SeaPRwire – Field changes walk away unrecorded and the next bid pays for it. Estimating Edge just put out a guide that treats as-built plans as the fix. The company builds The EDGE estimating software and sits under Foundation Software. The new piece is titled “The Contractor’s Guide to As-Built Plans (and Why Estimators Need Them).” It shows what those final drawings actually capture and how estimators can turn them into sharper prices. Official points stay tight. Construction almost never matches the blueprint exactly. When field changes stay off the record, contractors pay twice. Closeout and final payment stall first. The next bid then repeats the same misses. As-built plans are the final drawings that show the project exactly as it stands. Every change sits on them. That record gives a true account of what the job actually took. Each finished project then makes the following bid tighter. The guide walks through clear distinctions. As-built drawings...

By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – The livestream is off. President Trump on October 15 canceled the online broadcast of the firing-squad execution of former Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The decision reversed Defense Secretary Hegseth. Opposition from Republicans, religious leaders and the public had already stacked high. Hasan still faces the squad on December 3 at Fort Hood. He will be the first U.S. military prisoner executed by firing squad since 1945. No cameras will roll for the wider audience. Hasan killed thirteen people at the Fort Hood base in 2009. He was a major and a psychiatric medical officer. The Pentagon announced on October 8 that it would stream the execution to the public online. No platform was named. Trump said on October 10 he had not yet decided. An anonymous White House official told Reuters that Trump and his advisers had not known about the livestream plan beforehand. Families of the victims may still watch in person if they choose. That option re...

By: Logan Pierce – SeaPRwire – The release calls it Player of the Week. Strip the polish and the core is simple. A senior safety from Corinth, Texas, turned one play into the weekly award. Peyton Bowen of Oklahoma intercepted a pass and ran it back forty-two yards for a touchdown. He added seven tackles, six of them solo. The Sooners beat number one Texas twenty-seven to twenty-four in the Red River rivalry. That interception was the third of his career. The vote process sits plain in the announcement. Former players, coaches and Lott IMPACT Trophy board members cast an internal ballot. Fans add a social media vote. Bowen cleared both. Last season the league coaches put him on the All-SEC second team. The SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll listed him each of the past two seasons. Those lines match the award’s own checklist. IMPACT stands for Integrity, Maturity, Performance, Academics, Community and Tenacity. The academic honor rolls cover the A. The pick-six and the tackle co...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Most software updates promise the moon and deliver a checkbox. Maxon’s Fall 2026 release, shipping the 2027.0 versions of Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Redshift, Red Giant and Autograph, feels different. It targets the exact friction points artists complain about in daily production. Bigger environments. Faster feedback. Fewer app switches. That is the real pitch. Look at the official list first. Cinema 4D 2027.0 adds a full Scatter System. The new Scatter Generator and Scatter Tag handle distribution, filtering, clustering and transforms. They plug straight into MoGraph Fields and Effectors so artists can shape and animate the scatter without leaving the familiar toolset. Liquid FX joins the unified simulation system. Foam, spray and bubbles generate automatically from the liquid and respond to its motion. The release also tightens the Cinema 4D–Redshift link, improves ACES 2.0 alignment and adds everyday quality-of-life fixes. ZBrush gets a native U...

By: Alex Mercer – SeaPRwire – Publishers on Fastly just got a third option. They can identify the AI crawler, publish machine-readable licensing terms, and decide per company whether to allow, block or charge. No CDN swap. No new origin infrastructure. Bots already exceed 49 percent of traffic. Most of that traffic pays nothing. That is the pressure point. Official release facts are clean. Supertab announced on 12 October 2026 from New York that Supertab Connect is live on Fastly Compute. Publishers can classify AI bot traffic, publish RSL licensing terms, and allow, block or charge individual crawlers at the edge. Fastly already serves a large share of media companies, publishers and content platforms. Activation runs through Fastly Compute. The same product stays compatible with other major CDNs, the WordPress plugin and the SDK. Fastly’s Threat Insights 2026 report states bots now make up more than 49 percent of all traffic. Most of that volume generates no revenue fo...

By: Logan Pierce – SeaPRwire – Two new Tidal Wave sites open in the same week. One in Claremore, Oklahoma. One in El Paso, Texas. Free premium washes run for twelve days. A $10 Founders Club deal locks new members into thirteen months of savings. Local schools and disability programs get the cash. That is the play. Official announcement facts are precise. The release is dated 9 October 2026 from Thomaston, Georgia. Tidal Wave Auto Spa opens locations this week in Claremore, Oklahoma and El Paso, Texas. The Claremore site is the company’s sixth in Oklahoma. The El Paso site is its twenty-third in Texas. The full network now stands at 335 locations across thirty states. Both sites offer twelve days of free premium washes from 7 October to 18 October. The free option is Graph-X4® + Super Shammy. Standard features include mat cleaning stations, complimentary tire air, spot-free rinse, undercarriage wash, foam and wax treatments, and tire shine. The Founders Club offer is ext...

By: Robert Sterling – SeaPRwire – Consumers want less sugar. They still demand the same taste. Governments keep tightening the rules. Food makers sit in the middle. Straight sweetness swaps rarely hold the product together. That is the real pressure point. Official release facts lay out the full case. The piece is dated 7 October 2026 from Northampton, Massachusetts. Global efforts to cut sugar intake keep expanding. Population health stays a priority for governments and public-health bodies. Consumers seek lower-sugar products that still taste good. Governments push reformulation through nutrition policies, front-of-pack labeling, nutrient profiling and, in some markets, fiscal measures. Sugar does more than sweeten. It shapes flavor, texture, structure, processing and shelf life. Cutting it requires a balanced approach that keeps product quality while meeting nutrition goals and consumer expectations. WHO recommends free sugars below 10 percent of total daily energy. M...

By: Gavin Thorne – SeaPRwire – Trump says Ukraine needs a new president who will strike a deal. Zelenskyy answers that only Ukrainians choose their leader. He offers a concrete condition: sixty days of full ceasefire, then elections. The oil-price blame is rejected as easier talk than stopping Putin. That exchange is the current pressure point. Official statements fix the sequence. On 10 October Trump stated that Zelenskyy had many chances to reach an agreement to end the war but repeatedly refused. On 11 October Zelenskyy told ABC that Ukrainian leaders are decided by Ukrainian society and people. He said, with due respect to President Trump, the final decision rests with our society and our people, who will choose which leader. Ukraine is at war, making elections difficult. Secure infrastructure is required so people can vote. Timing, method and choice belong to Ukrainians. He added: tell Putin to give us two months, sixty days of full ceasefire, and we will organize e...

By: Alex Mercer – SeaPRwire – A closed-loop RFID system for hospital workwear and linen just claimed 97 percent traceability. One delivery worker now covers morning restock and afternoon collection at a 3000-staff site. Staffing for that task dropped 80 percent. That is the number that matters. Manual counts and single-barcode scans cannot match it. Official release facts list the full stack. ZHILAI MED announced an RFID-powered smart textile management solution on 10 October 2026 from Shenzhen. It targets healthcare facilities and industrial laundries. The goal is better traceability, efficiency and digital control of workwear, uniforms, linens and other reusable textiles. The system combines RFID identification, automated workwear dispensers, return units, laundry inventory tools and cloud software. Together they form a closed loop. Every textile item receives a unique RFID identity. It is tracked from registration through distribution, use, return, washing, inventory ...

By: Alex Mercer – SeaPRwire – Sixty percent layout. Hall Effect magnets. Factory thock. Fifty-nine ninety-nine. Epomaker just dropped a board that packs competitive tools into a footprint most FPS players already clear for mouse swings. The price sits low for what the spec sheet lists. That gap is the real signal. Official release facts start clean. The HE60 is a 60 percent Hall Effect gaming keyboard. It pairs ultra-precise control with immersive sound and flexible wireless links. Compact design frees desk space and opens more room for mouse movement. FPS players who need wide, fast mouse arcs get the direct benefit. Two-stage feet appear on the board. Those feet are rare on magnetic keyboards. Users can set the typing angle to match posture. Long sessions stay more comfortable. Factory-lubed Creamy Jade Hall Effect magnetic switches sit inside. The feel is responsive with a slightly firm press, strong rebound, and clear feedback. Rapid Trigger adjusts down to 0.005 mm ...

By: Christian Brooks – SeaPRwire – Premium water in the United States still arrives mostly in single-serve plastic. A Finnish brand is betting that larger bag-in-box formats and a low-mineral profile can change the daily habit. The product is already on OneLavi.com. Amazon availability is next. That listing will decide whether the format travels beyond early adopters. On 9 October 2026 NWB Finland Oy announced from Boca Raton that AINA Natural Water is coming soon to Amazon. The move continues the company’s planned U.S. rollout. AINA first became available to American consumers through OneLavi.com. Marita Weiman, Quality Assurance Manager at NWB Finland Oy, called the Amazon expansion an important next step. The goal is to make discovery and purchase easy while introducing what makes Northern Finnish water and the packaging approach different. The water originates in the Pudasjärvi region of Northern Finland. Groundwater is naturally filtered through layers of soil, sand...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Attackers now move from first foothold to data theft in as little as twenty-five minutes. That figure comes from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. Large enterprises can throw people and tools at the problem. Most small and medium businesses cannot. Their MSPs are left stitching together separate products that rarely share context. The imbalance is already visible. CyberSentriq is putting an AI engine into those MSP hands and calling it the fix. On 8 October 2026 in Galway, Ireland, CyberSentriq launched SentriqAI. The company describes itself as an AI-native cybersecurity and resilience platform backed by Bregal Milestone. SentriqAI is its new cybersecurity and data-resilience platform aimed at giving SMBs enterprise-grade protection through the managed service providers that already look after them. The release is the first major product milestone under CEO Myles Bray, who joined earlier this year to accelerate investment in AI-driven threat det...

By: Alex Mercer – SeaPRwire – Security systems are adding sensors, cloud links and AI models faster than many organisations can verify them. Detection improves. False alarms fall. Central dashboards multiply. At the same time the attack surface of the security stack itself expands. Trust in the data and the platform has become equal to the physical coverage. That tension sits at the centre of the latest industry outlook. On 5 October 2026 Securitas Technology, one of the world’s largest electronic security companies, released its 2027 Global Technology Outlook Report from Uniontown, Ohio. The report is the ninth annual edition. It draws on perspectives from more than 16,000 end-user clients across 19 countries, independent research with more than 575 security decision-makers, 26 leading manufacturers and innovators, and Securitas Technology subject-matter experts worldwide. The company presents it as the industry’s most comprehensive view of how security programmes are e...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Keyword alerts still miss most brand appearances inside video. A logo flashes for three seconds. A creator mentions a product while the camera is pointed elsewhere. Traditional tools never see it. Multimodal systems that read visual, audio and context together are rare and expensive to prove outside a home market. Buzz & Beyond just signed its first U.S. commercial data agreement. The real test starts after the free pilots expire. On 5 October 2026 in San Francisco the Seoul-based company announced the deal with a Silicon Valley analytics firm. The agreement arrives ahead of its appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt, where it was selected for Startup Battlefield 200, the early-stage cohort drawn from thousands of global applicants. The company has also signed non-disclosure agreements with four U.S. firms while it explores sales and operational collaborations in North America. Its platform, vling, uses multimodal artificial intelligence to a...

By: Alex Mercer – SeaPRwire – Institutional crypto still carries two frictions that traditional wholesale desks refuse. One is the need to prefund. The other is the need to build and maintain a separate exchange API. 4OTC’s Libre Liquidity Bridge has just removed both for TP ICAP’s Fusion Digital Assets. Liquidity providers can now stream spot prices directly. The open question is whether the flow follows the connection. On 5 October 2026 in the City of London, 4OTC announced the integration of its Libre Liquidity Bridge with TP ICAP’s Fusion Digital Assets. The link lets liquidity providers stream spot cryptocurrency liquidity to the venue at ultra-low latency. TP ICAP selected 4OTC on the basis of the firm’s existing record in both digital-asset and FX segments. The connection is described as a fast, resilient and streamlined route that supports efficient price distribution and execution through 4OTC’s low-latency technology. Fusion Digital Assets runs a matched-princ...

By: Alex Mercer – SeaPRwire – Procurement teams still buy server power on the largest number printed on the label. A 3,600-watt CRPS module looks decisive. Real output depends on input voltage, temperature, airflow and the platform’s own limits. Treat the headline figure as available capacity and the configuration fails under load or under single-module operation. That is the gap Powernexu is forcing into the open with the Great Wall CRPS3600T2. On 3 October 2026 Powernexu Technology Co Limited in Hong Kong highlighted the Great Wall CRPS3600T2 for system integrators, distributors and technical purchasing teams. The company supports model selection and sourcing for AI, GPU and high-performance computing projects. The module is listed at 3,600 W with a 12 V main output and a separate 12 V, 3 A standby rail. Physical size is 185 × 73.5 × 40 mm. Efficiency class is Titanium. Input range is given as 90-264 VAC or 180-320 VDC. Powernexu states that the relevant question is ho...

By: Robert Sterling – SeaPRwire – Local car-wash memberships just became temporary. Club Car Wash has taken over Glide Xpress. Thirteen Mid-South sites will close for short renovations and reopen under a new brand. Pricing stays frozen only until the end of 2027. After that the numbers change. That fixed deadline is the real pressure on every existing member. On 2 October 2026 Club Car Wash announced the acquisition of Glide Xpress Car Wash from Columbia, Missouri. The company will renovate thirteen stores across the Mid-South. President Collin Bartels stated the change is large for Glide customers. He said the firm is honored to continue the relationships, service and legacy of the previous business. He asked for patience during the transition and expressed confidence that customers will see why Club Car Wash stands out. Current Glide memberships will be honored. Plans and pricing remain unchanged through 31 December 2027. After that date they convert to Club Car Wash p...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – The latest market report puts a hard number on concentration. Taiwanese firms take more than 75 percent of the combined revenue of the world’s ten largest wafer foundries. AI and high-performance computing keep pushing demand higher. Capacity still sits heavily in one place. That imbalance is the immediate pressure point the numbers expose. MERXWIRE released its Asia-Pacific Wafer Foundry Market Analysis and Forecast Report covering 2026 to 2030 on 2 October 2026 from Taipei. The study looks at regional market overview, industry structure, technological developments, supply-chain landscape and outlook. It is aimed at semiconductor companies, technology firms, investment institutions and researchers. Global semiconductor industry revenue is projected to exceed US$1.5 trillion in 2026. Expansion of AI infrastructure and computing-power demand is cited as the main driver. That demand supports advanced process technologies, wafer manufacturing,...

By: James Vance – SeaPRwire – Transportation design still breaks down at the handoff. Engineers run precise simulations. Then the files leave the room. Clients reply days later. Comments scatter across email threads. Revisions pile up. The specialist tools stay accurate. The process around them stays messy. That gap is the core problem InSTRATO now tries to close. Transoft Solutions launched the web-based platform on October 1, 2026 from Vancouver. It targets transportation engineers, planners, and designers. The company frames it as the next chapter for AutoTURN Online. That product has delivered web-based swept path analysis since 2018. More than 110,000 practitioners have used it. AutoTURN Online now sits inside InSTRATO. It keeps the same simulation technology and vehicle libraries. Users who need advanced or custom vehicles are still pointed to the AutoTURN Pro desktop version. Beyond the existing module, InSTRATO adds Parking Design tools that apply built-in standa...

By: Marcus Sterling – SeaPRwire – The third carrier is already at sea and the calendar is the real weapon. Trump turned down Tehran’s seven-day offer in plain language. Officials now say the next bombs could fall in November, once the midterms are finished. That is not a rumor floating in the Gulf. It is the sequence the White House has drawn for itself. Official accounts list the movements with clinical detail. The Theodore Roosevelt left San Diego on 27 September for a long deployment into Central Command waters. The Makin Island amphibious ready group sailed the next day with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard. Two carriers, the George H.W. Bush and the George Washington, are already on station. If the Roosevelt arrives and the Washington stays, the United States will field three carrier strike groups in the same theater for the first time since April. Roughly nine to ten thousand additional sailors and Marines are expected by the end of November. More than fif...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Resume writing still feels like unpaid overtime for most people. You open a blank document, stare at the cursor, and start second-guessing every line. Layout choices multiply. Formatting drifts. The finished file looks either too plain or overdesigned. Versand.com just put a stake in that exact frustration by opening CV Studio inside its existing document platform. The company, based in Offenbach am Main and operating out of Germany, framed the move around a guided workflow rather than another free-form editor. Users walk through employment history, education, skills and related sections one by one. A live preview updates as they type. Twenty-four templates and fifteen color palettes sit ready. More than 250 prepared formulations are available for common sections. Anyone who already holds a PDF resume can upload it and pull the content straight into the editor. Export stays simple: finished files leave as PDF. The same site already handles ...

By: TechVanguard – SeaPRwire – Artists still spend hours on hierarchy cleanup, multipass setup and basic tracking. Maxon just opened a local channel so Claude or ChatGPT can take those chores. The artist stays in the driver’s seat. Every change lands as native Cinema 4D data that can be inspected, refined or undone. Maxon announced built-in Model Context Protocol support for Cinema 4D on 30 September 2026. The new Cinema 4D MCP server lets artists use natural-language instructions to direct Claude, ChatGPT or Codex AI assistants securely inside Cinema 4D workflows. The design keeps artists in control. AI assistants work interactively so artists can review, refine and iterate on the results as they go. CEO David McGavran said the idea is simple: artists retain control while handing off any tasks they consider a chore. MCP support makes Cinema 4D more powerful without taking the creative process away from the artist. Countless small technical and repetitive tasks stand bet...

By: Christian Brooks – SeaPRwire – Clients already call the MSP when systems break. Now they want visibility into how work actually runs. Insightful is handing Managed Service Providers a full Work Intelligence platform they can resell and run. The relationship stays with the MSP. The recurring revenue stays with the MSP. Insightful launched the MSP Partner Program on 29 September 2026 at the MSP Summit. The program and the new MSP Partner Portal let Managed IT Service Providers resell and administer Insightful for their clients. It is built for MSPs whose customers need clearer daily-operations data as AI adoption accelerates. Instead of stitching together data from dozens of IT systems, partners can launch Insightful as a fully managed service that collects insights on how work is done inside the client organization. Partners keep the customer relationship and the recurring revenue. They also gain a concrete value proposition as clients ask for work insights to improve...