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August 29, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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July 14, 2025
14
Jul'25
CityFibre to gain more than £2bn in financing round
CityFibre reveals cash injection to ‘supercharge’ next phase of growth and to boost UK economy through large-scale deployment of 10Gbps XGS-PON network
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July 10, 2025
10
Jul'25
UK and France forge closer cyber, tech research ties
The navigation and timing systems used by power suppliers and emergency services to run their operations will fall in scope of an Anglo-French research pact that will also foster development in AI and supercomputing
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July 07, 2025
07
Jul'25
Interview: Data processing for particle physics at Cern
We speak to Cern principal scientist Archana Sharma about pattern recognition, machine learning and quantum technology
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July 02, 2025
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Jul'25
DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer
Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025
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July 01, 2025
01
Jul'25
The road to quantum datacentres goes beyond logical qubits
Industry experts gathered in London to explore the missing pieces needed to deploy quantum computing at scale in datacentres
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June 30, 2025
30
Jun'25
How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape
Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing
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June 27, 2025
27
Jun'25
Citrix Bleed 2 under active attack, reports suggest
Days after news emerged of a Citrix NetScaler flaw comparable in its scope and severity to 2023’s infamous Citrix Bleed, there are already clear indicators that threat actors are taking advantage of the critical vulnerability
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June 25, 2025
25
Jun'25
Brightspeed, Calix conclude ‘innovative, seamless’ 50G-PON test
US broadband and telecommunications services provider’s technology advancement centre tests passive optical fibre network capabilities that it says will support rapid, scalable growth today and for years to come
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June 25, 2025
25
Jun'25
Arelion upgrades Scandinavian network to support AI ‘superhighway’
IP backbone and diverse connectivity services provider deploys 1.6Tbps and scalable 400G coherent pluggable optics for network between Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen
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June 24, 2025
24
Jun'25
Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware
We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training
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June 23, 2025
23
Jun'25
Industrial strategy: Takeaways for UK tech innovations
Labour wants to put the UK at the forefront of tech innovation. Its industrial strategy offers a funding boost for tech and lighter-touch regulation
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June 23, 2025
23
Jun'25
Europe’s semiconductor leaders are racing to meet energy demands
Innovative ideas are discussed at Leti Innovation Days, as datacentres swell under the weight of AI workloads
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June 23, 2025
23
Jun'25
Interview: Rolf Krolke, regional technology director, The Access Group
We talk to The Access Group’s technology director for APAC about integration and ongoing management of legacy systems in an extremely acquisitive company, and the worldwide storage refresh he’s overseeing as part of that process