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• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty

  Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Virgin Media O2 creates single team to challenge fixed wholesale market

  Leading UK operator places wholesale teams covering consumer and business segments into single structure

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  UK government signs US partnership to deliver Europe’s largest AI factory

  Some 120,000 GPUs are set to be deployed in the UK over the next 12 months, as the government says it’s laser-focused on attracting talent and startups

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Olilo launches multi-gig broadband service

  UK broadband service provider launches network built by engineers for techies, with no arbitrary throttling or traffic shaping and no ‘pointless rules’

• September 15, 2025 15 Sep'25

  Smart headset gives visually impaired a new way to ‘see’

  Researchers at the National University of Singapore have created a wearable device that combines a camera with conversational AI powered by Meta’s Llama models to give sight to the visually impaired

• September 09, 2025 09 Sep'25

  The digital forensics crisis in policing: What’s going wrong?

  Forensics experts say that most crime has a digital footprint, but the police are unable to keep up with the soaring number of devices that require analysis

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Dell AI server revenues leap but storage waits on Project Lightning

  During the past quarter, Dell’s datacentre sales went through the roof due to new server and networking products for AI – but storage has not shared the same dynamic

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  How Metrobank is tapping VMware Cloud Foundation

  The Philippine bank has adopted nearly all of the capabilities in VMware’s private cloud platform to modernise its IT infrastructure while reaping cost savings

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  Microsoft shows potential of analogue optical computing in AI

  Microsoft has worked with Barclays on a financial optimisation problem using consumer-grade electronics

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  IT departments face huge Windows 10 support bill

  When Windows 10 reaches end-of-life on October 14th, organisations will need to purchase an Extended Support contract to receive Microsoft patches

• September 03, 2025 03 Sep'25

  CityFibre appoints Simon Holden as CEO

  UK independent broadband provider sees new role for senior executive credited with being the driving force of its current status as ‘leading digital infrastructure challenger’

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  Netomnia completes £300m junior debt raise with additional £140m

  Funding facility designed to strengthen wholesale fibre operator’s claimed position as the UK’s fastest-growing altnet, supporting path to profitability in 2025 and to its target of five million premises by 2027

• September 01, 2025 01 Sep'25

  Flash drive prices grow quickly while SAS and SATA diverge

  Manufacturers have throttled back production of flash drives to tackle over-supply and it shows in rising prices

• August 29, 2025 29 Aug'25

  DFA, Ciena fibre test reveals capacity record

  Planned deployment of optical connectivity technology designed to future-proof South African wholesale network and drive economic growth across country

• August 29, 2025 29 Aug'25

  Enterprises believe networking will make or break AI adoption

  Research reveals more than 40% of enterprises in advanced stages of GenAI adoption plan to integrate artificial intelligence into 20-30 applications, further raising the stakes for modernised networks

• August 28, 2025 28 Aug'25

  Nvidia’s Jensen Huang lobbies Trump administration to sell Blackwell to China

  The AI acceleration technology provider is looking at the massive opportunity in selling high-end chips to China

• August 27, 2025 27 Aug'25

  Intel filing shows risks of US government stake

  The US government now has a significant stake in Intel’s business. This could effect its ability to obtain grants from other governments

• August 26, 2025 26 Aug'25

  Qualcomm claims enterprise mobile processor world first

  New chip combines integrated RFID with AI and advanced connectivity, enabling edge devices across retail, commercial and industrial sectors to connect, compute and interact in smarter, proximity-aware ways

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Moscow exploiting seven-year-old Cisco flaw, says FBI

  US authorities warn of an uptick in state-sponsored exploitation of a seven-year-old vulnerability in Cisco's operating system software

• August 21, 2025 21 Aug'25

  Routers key to broadband experience on NBN in Australia

  Study of wireline broadband connections across Australian households shows retail service provider-issued gateways outperform bring-your-own alternatives, while fibre-to-the-home is driving demand for higher speed tiers

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Nasa and IBM apply artificial intelligence to tackle solar digital disruption

  Solar storms and flares can have a big impact on digital society, which is why IBM and Nasa are forecasting solar weather with AI

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  Nokia, Netplus deliver advanced IPTV services for enhanced CX

  Indian internet service provider deploys the latest 400G routing technology and software-defined access network platform to scale high-speed broadband and IPTV services for Netplus across Punjab and other cities

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  UK chip strategy needs an AI acceleration slant

  Analysis for the government shows gaps in Labour’s AI plan of action, but the big opportunity is in optoelectronics

• August 20, 2025 20 Aug'25

  India banks on mature-node chips to build semiconductor niche

  India is doubling down on mature-node chips that power cars, healthcare and electronics, using incentives and global supply shifts to make its mark

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  Lumen lights up 400GB datacentre connectivity to fuel AI

  Network expansion across 16 major US metro markets and more than 70 third-party datacentres designed to support AI-first planning and multi-cloud architectures aimed to ensure high-performance environment for business applications

• August 18, 2025 18 Aug'25

  UK fibre broadband continues progress

  Study reveals continued pace of development of UK broadband market, with the number of fibre-to-the-premises locations rising 15.3% on an annual basis and the country’s leading provider passing fibre tipping point

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  SK Telecom to build sovereign AI infrastructure

  The South Korean telco is building the Haein Cluster AI infrastructure to support its Petasus AI Cloud service in a bid to meet the demand for AI training and inference within its borders

• August 14, 2025 14 Aug'25

  What’s going on inside Intel?

  Chipmaker Intel has had a tough couple of weeks: job cuts, Donald Trump calling for the CEO’s resignation, and now an attack by its former chief executive

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack

  The Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  MX Fiber extends gigabit access across south-east Mexico with optical network

  New photonic net in region traditionally underserved by digital infrastructure set to transform connectivity for datacentres, industrial zones and subsea hubs, while laying groundwork for smarter commerce, transportation and public services

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  Why Intel’s woes show the fragility of the European Chips Act

  Intel is facing political pressure and stress across its business, with its 2022 plans to manufacture in the EU one of the casualties

• August 11, 2025 11 Aug'25

  McCullough Review into PSNI spying on journalists and lawyers delayed

  Angus McCullough KC is to present findings of an independent review of police spying on phone data of lawyers, journalists and NGOs in Northern Ireland in October  

• August 07, 2025 07 Aug'25

  Trump slaps 100% tariffs on chips to get tech onshore

  The chip sector is being shaken up by the US administration’s plans to levy a tariff on semiconductors imported into the United States

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Attacker could defeat Dell firmware flaws with a vegetable

  Cisco Talos discloses five vulnerabilities in cyber security firmware used on Dell Latitude and Precision devices, including one that could enable an attacker to log on with a spring onion

• August 05, 2025 05 Aug'25

  Broadcom unveils Jericho4 for distributed AI networking across datacentres

  Global semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions provider scales over one million specialised processing unit clusters beyond single facility limits

• July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25

  Apple pushes almost 30 security fixes in mobile update

  Apple pushes what will likely be the last major security update to its current iPhone and iPad operating systems, fixing 29 vulnerabilities in its mobile ecosystem

• July 30, 2025 30 Jul'25

  Mixed Q2 for VMO2 with broadband dipping as mobile furthers reach

  Leading UK operator reveals mixed bag in terms of financial and customer performance at the end of the first half of 2025, with gains in wireless business division offset by headwinds in fixed arena

• July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25

  Kioxia launches 245TB LC9, the biggest flash drive on the market

  Japanese drive maker piles one card on top of another to produce 245.76TB E3.L drive, with lower capacity variants in 2.5in and E3.S formats, and claimed low energy use benefits

• July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25

  Accelerated fibre deployments to take broadband tech spend to $20.1bn by 2028

  Analysis shows growing broadband market optimism, reflecting stronger growth outlook to 2029 with increasing homes passed as cable and fibre ISPs ramp up DOCSIS 4.0 and deployment projects

• July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

  US seeks ‘unquestioned’ AI dominance

  US AI action plan sets out aims to expand American dominance in the world of artificial intelligence

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  Microsoft confirms China link to SharePoint hacks

  Microsoft confirms two known China-nexus threat actors, and one other suspected state-backed hacking group, are exploiting vulnerabilities in SharePoint Server

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  UK government signs partnership with OpenAI

  Deal sees firm behind ChatGPT collaborate with government on AI security research to explore investment opportunities

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage

  S3 Vectors allows customers to store AI vector data in S3 object storage, a move that potentially allows for much cheaper storage of vectorised data usually held in vector databases

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  Hitachi Vantara claims Hitachi iQ the most complete AI stack

  Hitachi Vantara says its approach to storage and AI offers the most comprehensive solutions, based on its industrial heritage and RAG-like functionality it claims others don’t have

• July 18, 2025 18 Jul'25

  First Post Office Capture conviction referred to Court of Appeal

  A former Capture software user’s 1998 theft conviction is the first to be referred to the Court of Appeal

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  UK government plans to ramp up sovereign computer capacity

  Isambard-AI and Dawn are two of the supercomputers that mark the beginning of the UK’s goal to deliver 420 Exaflops of computer by 2030

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  ASEAN’s first driverless bus service debuts in Singapore

  The fully autonomous shuttle will operate at Resorts World Sentosa, marking a significant step in Singapore’s push to integrate autonomous vehicles into its public transport network

• July 17, 2025 17 Jul'25

  LG adds extra gear to automotive content platform for Kia

  Electronics giant’s Automotive Content Platform to power in-car streaming for European models of all-electric SUV, marking an expansion of in-car experience to key region following successful deployments in Korea

• July 16, 2025 16 Jul'25

  UK mobile, broadband outpace delivery targets

  Second year of government department said to be driving the UK’s leading position in science and technology, and makes clear the success of current broadband roll-out plans

• July 14, 2025 14 Jul'25

  Brits clinging to Windows 10 face heightened risk, says NCSC

  Businesses and consumers alike may not feel the need to upgrade to Windows 11 as its predecessor approaches end-of-life, but they are putting their own security at risk, says the NCSC