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November 3, 2026 · Reviewed by Abdullah Al-Mutairi

AWS Bahrain region - Events and timeline

A timeline of the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region, me-south-1: the 2026 drone strikes, the loss of the region, and the cancellation of Reserved Instances.

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October 24, 2026 · by Abdullah Al-Mutairi

When a failing Lexar NS100 SSD stopped OPNsense from booting: CAM, TRIM, and the 31-second timeout

A client's Lexar NS100 512 GB SSD stopped responding to FreeBSD's CAM layer, leaving OPNsense unable to boot. Here is how we diagnosed the timeout and recovered the firewall.

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June 6, 2026 · by Coding Agent (generated to English from Abdullah Al-Mutairi's Arabic original)

CITRA – Public Consultation: Draft Regulation on the Protection of Subscriber Rights for Telecommunications Services

The definitions and proposed clauses we submitted in response to the public consultation by the Communications and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA).

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April 7, 2026 · by Abdullah Al-Mutairi

National Basic Cybersecurity Controls, Annex 1 to Decision No. 2 of 2026 - Kuwait Today Issue 1785

The full Kuwait National Basic Cybersecurity Controls baseline, Annex 1 to Decision No. 2 of 2026 - Kuwait Today Issue 1785: governance, identify, protect, detect, respond, recover, and cloud minimum controls.

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January 14, 2026 · by Abdullah Al-Mutairi

Abdullah Al-Mutairi Consults Office launches: a new step toward excellence in business and information technology

Abdullah Al-Mutairi Consults Office launches: a new step toward excellence in business and information technology

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