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DA Steel Pools Brings Made-to-Fit Steel Pools and Cold Plunges to Canadian and North American Backyards

LANGLEY, British Columbia –Langley-based custom steel fabricator expands access to prefabricated steel pools, plunge pools and cold plunges built with Canadian steel.

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DA Steel Pools is expanding access to its made-to-fit steel pools, plunge pools and cold plunges for homeowners and project teams across Canada and North America. Based in Langley, British Columbia, the company designs and fabricates custom steel pool structures using Canadian steel, giving homeowners another option when a standard pool shape does not fit the space, access or design goals of the property.

For many homeowners considering a backyard pool, the first question is not the finish, the waterline tile or the final colour.

The first question is usually simpler.

Can a pool actually fit in this backyard?

That question can stop a project before it starts. A yard may be narrow, sloped, already landscaped or shaped around a patio, garden, fence line or entertaining area. A waterfront property may need to preserve a view corridor, follow a lot line or leave room for outdoor living. A homeowner may want a place to swim, cool down, relax or gather with family, but still need room for dining, planting, movement and the rest of the yard.

That is where custom steel pool construction changes the conversation.

Instead of choosing from a standard pool shape and then trying to make the yard work around it, the pool can be designed around the backyard itself. The length, width, depth and layout can respond to the property, the design plan and the way the space will actually be used.

For owner Devin Spink, a Red Seal certified welder with more than 20 years of steel fabrication and residential trade experience, that is the centre of the work. The company designs pool structures that are meant to fit the backyard, the project and the homeowner’s vision.

“In many cases, people are not asking for the biggest pool,” said Spink. “They are asking whether a pool can work in the space they already have. That is where custom steel makes sense. The pool can be designed for the backyard instead of forcing the backyard to fit the pool.”

The expanded availability follows interest from people outside the company’s local British Columbia market who wanted the same kind of custom steel pool structure but were not located in the Lower Mainland. The approach allows the pool structure to be designed and fabricated in British Columbia, then prepared for shipment to the project location.

Custom steel construction can support a range of backyard uses. A narrow lot may call for a slim swimming lane. A smaller outdoor space may be better suited to a compact plunge pool or cold plunge. A family backyard may need steps, benches or a shallow social area. A view-focused property may need the pool to work with a patio, garden, retaining wall, view corridor or existing landscape.

The pool structures are manufactured in the Greater Vancouver area using Canadian steel. The company’s product information notes that its pools are built with galvanized steel, designed for strength and durability, and backed by a 25-year warranty. Because the structures are prefabricated in a controlled environment, the pool can be built before arriving at the property. The prefabricated structure can then be transported and lifted into place.

For homeowners, the appeal is personal. A pool often becomes the centre of the backyard. It is where families gather, people cool down after a hot day, children learn to swim and friends spend summer afternoons. When the pool is designed around the space instead of squeezed into it, the whole yard can feel more natural and usable.

“A good backyard pool should feel like it belongs there,” said Spink. “It should work with the home, the yard and the way people want to live outside. Taking an idea from a conversation or a sketch and turning it into something real is one of the most rewarding parts of the work.”

As Canadian homeowners put more thought into how outdoor spaces fit the homes they have built, bought or renovated, the pool conversation is becoming more design-driven. The question is not always which model is available. Sometimes, it is whether the right pool can be made to fit.

About DA Steel Pools

DA Steel Pools is a family-run custom steel pool company based in Langley, British Columbia. Owned by Devin Spink, the company designs and fabricates custom steel pools, plunge pools and cold plunges for homeowners and project teams. The company focuses on Canadian steel, prefabricated construction, made-to-fit design and long-term craftsmanship for residential backyard projects.

Website: https://dasteelpools.com

 

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Second Arrest Warrant Issued for “Vegas Dave” Oancea After Missed Debtor’s Exam in $30 Million Nevada Judgment; Bail Set at $1 Million

Las Vegas, NVDefendant skipped a court-ordered asset examination on Sept. 30; an earlier no-bail warrant followed a six-day contempt trial.

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Defendant skipped a court-ordered asset examination on Sept. 30; an earlier no-bail warrant followed a six-day contempt trial.

A Nevada judge has issued a second bench warrant for the arrest of David Oancea, a Las Vegas sports betting personality known online as “Vegas Dave,” after he failed to appear for a court-ordered debtor’s examination on Sept. 30. Bail is set at $1 million.

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The examination was part of efforts to collect a $30 million judgment against Oancea for breach of contract, defamation and business disparagement, won by Cabo Platinum, a Los Cabos luxury vacation rental company.

The case began with an injunction request after Cabo Platinum said Oancea was blocking paid vacation rental bookings. Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District Court agreed. When Oancea repeatedly disregarded court orders and injunctions, the court held a six-day contempt trial, found him in contempt and issued a no-bail bench warrant.

Oancea has not been taken into custody. His public social media posts show private-jet travel to destinations including Bora Bora and Thailand, with posts from a Thai island appearing around the time he was due in court.

Court records show Oancea swore under oath, in four declarations, that he personally owned three Cabo San Lucas homes. After the judgment was entered, he claimed the properties belong to his father. Those homes are now listed by agent Hamead Rashead of Selling Sur Real Estate, which did not respond to a request for comment.

“Two warrants, a $30 million judgment, and a courtroom he keeps declining to enter,” said Mishan Andre, Managing Partner of Cabo Platinum. “The court has given Mr. Oancea every opportunity to comply. We will keep pursuing this judgment until it is satisfied.”

Website: https://vegasdavelawsuit.com/

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Artefact and BigID Announce New Partnership into North America to Secure the Data Foundations Behind Enterprise AI

New York, USAThe combination of BigID’s data security and AI data intelligence platform and Artefact’s AI Risk & Data Trust practice gives North American enterprises a single path from data exposure to governed, defensible

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The combination of BigID's data security and AI data intelligence platform and Artefact's AI Risk & Data Trust practice gives North American enterprises a single path from data exposure to governed, defensible

Artefact, the global AI-first consultancy, and BigID, the data security, compliance, and AI data intelligence platform, today announced a new strategic partnership across North America.

The alliance adds BigID’s data discovery, classification, and security posture management layer to Artefact’s AI Risk & Data Trust practice, giving joint clients a path that starts with knowing where sensitive data actually lives and ends with an enforced, auditable AI governance program built on top of it.

This partnership responds to a risk many enterprises are only beginning to address: AI tools now reach more of the business’s data than security teams can see or control, from shared drives and SaaS systems to the files and prompts that power today’s AI agents. As sensitive data increasingly flows into AI systems without oversight, it runs into a fast-expanding wave of state data-security, breach-notification, and AI governance requirements. These exposures  land on a CISO’s or general counsel’s desk directly, not as a line item in an AI governance policy.

“Enterprises want to move faster with AI, but they need confidence that sensitive data won’t end up in the wrong hands or the wrong AI workflow,” said Ian Williamson, SVP of Alliances at BigID. “BigID brings visibility and control over the data people and AI agents can access. Artefact brings the expertise to put those controls to work across the business. Together, we help customers build security into their AI programs from the start and keep pace as those programs grow.”

Artefact’s North American entity, led by Ghadi Hobeika, pairs regulatory and governance-architecture expertise with hands-on technical build, including policy-as-code implementation and MCP governance work for agentic AI systems, alongside advanced deployment partnerships with Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

Artefact was also named Google AI Partner of the Year in EMEA for two consecutive years and is among a select group of firms worldwide holding deployment certifications across all three major frontier AI platforms.

“Governance frameworks only work if you know what you’re governing,” said Ghadi Hobeika, CEO North America, Artefact. “BigID gives our clients the visibility and control layer; what sensitive data exists, where it lives, and who or what can reach it, including the AI systems now querying it directly. We build the program on top: executing the access controls, the audit trails, the operating model that turns visibility into an enforceable standard. This partnership lets us start engagements a step earlier and hand clients something more defensible at the end.”

Co-delivering AI trust and security

The partnership combines BigID’s Data Security Platform, including Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), AI Security Posture Management, DSPM-Augmented DLP, Data Access Governance, and AI Governance, with Artefact’s implementation capabilities across the data security and AI-readiness lifecycle: data discovery and classification, access governance design, AI data-exposure assessment, DLP and DSPM policy tuning, and integration into broader AI governance and automated decision-making technology (ADMT) programs already underway at client organizations.

As part of the expanded relationship, Artefact has also been certified as a BigID reseller for North America, allowing Artefact-led engagements to include BigID licensing directly under a single commercial relationship, reducing procurement friction for clients who want one accountable partner for both the technology and the delivery.

The substance of the partnership is the delivery model: joint methodology, cross-trained technical teams, and Artefact staff operating the BigID platform as part of broader AI Risk & Data Trust engagements, not a standalone software resale motion.

“The conversation about AI governance has gotten ahead of the conversation about data,” said Paul Laurent, Head of AI Risk & Data Trust, Artefact. “You cannot write a credible AI policy for data you haven’t classified, or attest to controls over access paths you haven’t mapped. This partnership lets us close that gap for clients before it turns up as a finding in their next audit.”

The partnership includes joint go-to-market programs, coordinated client enablement, and delivery teams cross-trained across both platforms, extending Artefact’s AI Risk & Data Trust practice down into the data security layer it depends on.

About Artefact

Artefact is a leading AI-native consulting and engineering firm that bridges the gap between visionary strategy and production-grade delivery to reshape the future of work. Headquartered in Paris and leading the market across Europe, our global force of 2,500+ professionals across 27 countries helps the world’s top brands turn AI potential into massive, measurable value. Since 2014, our team has moved past the pilot phase to design, build, and scale high-impact AI programs and agentic workflows for over 1,000 global clients, including some of the world’s most recognizable brands.

In North America, our specialized AI Risk & Data Trust practice works with enterprise clients in financial services, insurance, healthcare, and technology to build the crucial governance infrastructure required to deploy AI responsibly at scale. Backed by Cinven, Artefact holds advanced deployment partnerships with industry giants Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, and was proudly named Google AI Partner of the Year in EMEA for two consecutive years. This is where top-tier consulting meets engineering-grade execution to build a smarter, more responsible, and more productive tomorrow.

For more information, visit artefact.com

About BigID

BigID helps organizations connect the dots in data & AI: for security, governance, privacy, compliance, and AI data management. BigID enables customers to find, understand, manage, protect, and take action on high-risk & high-value data, wherever it lives. Customers use BigID to reduce their AI & data risk, automate security and privacy controls, achieve compliance, and understand their data throughout their entire data landscape: from the cloud, on-prem, and everywhere in between. BigID has been recognized for innovation as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer; named to the Forbes Cloud 100; the Inc 5000 for 4 consecutive years; the Deloitte 500 for 4 consecutive years; Market Leader in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM); and an RSA Innovation Sandbox winner.

For more information, visit bigid.com

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NovaChargeX Unveils XDriveMax™, a New Hybrid Energy Architecture Designed for the AI Infrastructure Era

SAN FRANCISCO, CAProtected standalone-capable technology developed to enhance existing energy systems and support growing power demand from AI data centers, industrial facilities and next-generation infrastructure

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Protected standalone-capable technology developed to enhance existing energy systems and support growing power demand from AI data centers, industrial facilities and next-generation infrastructure

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, data centers and electrified infrastructure is creating a growing challenge for the global energy sector: how to provide reliable, scalable electricity while existing grids, renewable resources and generation assets continue to face capacity, efficiency and reliability constraints.

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For NovaChargeX, this challenge represents more than a market opportunity. It reflects the growing need for new energy technologies and different approaches to how energy systems are designed, integrated and enhanced.

NovaChargeX has developed XDriveMax™, a protected hybrid regenerative energy architecture designed to operate as a standalone system or integrate with existing energy infrastructure. The technology is intended to expand energy-system capabilities in environments that may already include grid electricity, solar, wind, battery storage or other generation resources.

Unlike technologies designed around a single operating configuration, XDriveMax™ provides flexibility across multiple applications. It can function independently where a standalone energy architecture is required or be deployed within existing energy environments to support broader system performance without requiring the replacement of infrastructure already in operation.

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This flexibility reflects NovaChargeX’s focus on developing new energy architectures rather than simply introducing another source of electricity. The company has designed XDriveMax™ as a technological platform capable of operating independently while also complementing existing and emerging energy systems.

The significance of this approach is becoming increasingly clear as global electricity demand accelerates.

Modern AI data centers require substantial and continuous electrical power, often operating around the clock. Reliability, availability and resilience have therefore become central considerations for developers, utilities and infrastructure operators seeking to support expanding computational workloads.

Meeting future energy requirements will likely require multiple technologies working together, alongside architectures capable of operating independently when necessary. Existing generation assets and electric grids will continue to play a critical role, while additional technologies can contribute greater flexibility, integration and capacity to support the expansion of high-demand infrastructure.

Within this evolving environment, NovaChargeX is pursuing a clear objective: bringing XDriveMax™ into commercial applications supporting AI computing facilities, data centers, industrial operations, commercial developments and other energy-intensive infrastructure through either standalone deployment or integration with broader energy systems.

The company is actively exploring commercial deployments, strategic partnerships and integration opportunities across multiple international markets as it advances commercialization of the XDriveMax™ platform.

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Rather than positioning the technology solely as a replacement solution, NovaChargeX is focused on environments where its hybrid regenerative architecture can provide independent capability or work alongside existing infrastructure to expand the flexibility and resilience of broader energy systems.

NovaChargeX is also developing the NCX digital infrastructure layer alongside XDriveMax™ to support deployment authorization, operational data management, system coordination and future infrastructure administration across installations.

NovaChargeX’s technology is supported by intellectual-property filings and protections in the United States and other jurisdictions, forming part of the company’s strategy to establish and commercialize its proprietary energy architecture internationally.

As demand from AI infrastructure, advanced manufacturing facilities and other energy-intensive industries continues to grow, generation capacity, reliability, system integration and intelligent energy management are becoming increasingly interconnected.

NovaChargeX intends to participate in this transition by bringing a new energy architecture to market—one designed to operate independently when required and to work alongside the energy infrastructure already being built and deployed around the world.

The company’s next chapter is therefore not simply about supplying more energy. It is about expanding the ways energy can be generated, integrated and managed for a new generation of power-intensive infrastructure.

About NovaChargeX

NovaChargeX is a U.S.-based energy technology company developing XDriveMax™, a protected hybrid regenerative energy architecture designed to operate as a standalone system or enhance existing and emerging energy systems, together with the NCX digital infrastructure layer. The company focuses on deploying and integrating its technology across industrial, commercial and next-generation infrastructure applications.

NCX Infrastructure Layer: www.novachargex-ncx.com

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