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March 11, 2025
11
Mar'25
Musk claims of Ukraine DDoS attack derided by cyber community
Elon Musk draws criticism after accusing Ukraine of being behind a significant DDoS attack against social media platform X
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March 11, 2025
11
Mar'25
Hadean, Google Cloud team to develop AI-powered spatial computing
Technology partnership looks to facilitate the creation of highly realistic and responsive simulations, optimising training exercises and planning scenarios to help organisations develop deeper understanding of potential situations
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March 10, 2025
10
Mar'25
Nokia claims US fibre wins with Outer Reach Broadband and BerryComm
Leading global comms tech provider celebrates new US contracts deploying fibre solution capable of delivering multi-gigabit broadband to businesses in Maine and 100+ mile backbone from Indianapolis to Logansport to enhance high-speed internet
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March 10, 2025
10
Mar'25
Broadband Forum launches three open broadband projects
Broadband Forum unveils latest work in development of software and standards designed to provide foundations for faster innovation through global collaboration including AI and ML
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March 07, 2025
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Mar'25
UK altnets call for full-fibre broadband to be prioritised in industrial strategy
Independent Networks Cooperative Association outlines plan for cross-UK campaign to promote full-fibre broadband adoption and the establishment of a digital infrastructure cross-departmental working group
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March 05, 2025
05
Mar'25
MWC 2025: Fabric to spread as BT sees no business plan B without the network
UK’s leading coms provider outlines the pressures that enterprise customers will face as AI reshapes the new world of work
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March 04, 2025
04
Mar'25
MWC 2025: Comms tech consortium begins XR trials on 5G Standalone network
Collaboration between Ericsson, T-Mobile and Qualcomm looks to pioneer the next wave of 5G low latency operator services, beginning with supporting demanding mobile immersive experiences
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March 02, 2025
02
Mar'25
AWS boosts telco cloud offerings with new Outposts
Amazon Web Services debuts new Outposts racks and servers that extend its infrastructure to the edge to support network intensive workloads and cloud radio access applications
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February 28, 2025
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Feb'25
Major UK banks hit by payday digital banking problems again
A month after Barclays suffered online banking problems, customers at multiple banks report further issues
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February 27, 2025
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Feb'25
MPs grill X, TikTok and Meta about online misinformation
Representatives from the social media firms said that while the scale of their platforms makes content moderation difficult, they are effectively dealing with the vast majority of misinformation
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February 26, 2025
26
Feb'25
Alibaba Cloud open sources video foundation models
The Chinese tech giant releases Tongyi Wanxiang 2.1 family of video foundation models as open source, including a smaller version enabling video creation on standard laptops
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February 26, 2025
26
Feb'25
Apple and Dassault Systèmes join forces for digital twin Vision
Leading connected engineering software provider teams with CE giant to take advantage of state-of-the-art immersive viewing to realise digital twin-based product design and manufacturing platform
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February 26, 2025
26
Feb'25
Engineering at tipping point as manufacturing embraces Industry 5.0
Leading connected engineering software provider unveils vision of generative AI-based design to support new age of industrial applications with sustainability and virtual processes at the core
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February 24, 2025
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Feb'25
Government seeks payments tech partner through £49m contract
UK government wants tech partner to help it embed open banking functionality into its Gov.uk Pay platform
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February 24, 2025
24
Feb'25
NTT, Nokia, Anritsu demo dynamic networking using IOWN APN
Latest step in next-generation networking project aims to realise power-efficient RAN network by dynamic base station operation according to traffic fluctuations
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February 24, 2025
24
Feb'25
Alibaba bets $53bn on cloud and AI
Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveils massive three-year investment in a move to capitalise on the AI opportunity and position its cloud infrastructure as the backbone for future growth
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February 18, 2025
18
Feb'25
Singapore pledges S$150m to boost enterprise AI capabilities
The Enterprise Compute initiative will provide local enterprises with access to AI tools and expertise in a bid to spur AI adoption
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February 18, 2025
18
Feb'25
Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation
Meta’s planned 50,000 km subsea cable will be the world’s longest and connect the five major continents
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February 17, 2025
17
Feb'25
‘Times are hard’ for fintech but latest report reveals glimmer of recovery
Fintech investment in the UK hit a four-year low last year, as the wider EMEA region saw the lowest numbers in eight years
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February 17, 2025
17
Feb'25
AI-driven personalisation appealing to UK shoppers, says research
Retailers should be using artificial intelligence to increase brand loyalty through personalisation, according to research
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February 11, 2025
11
Feb'25
AI Action Summit: European AI investment ramps up
A number of private companies and European governments have announced large-scale investments in artificial intelligence during the two-day AI Action Summit in Paris
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February 10, 2025
10
Feb'25
Google drops pledge not to develop AI weapons
Google has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or surveillance systems
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February 05, 2025
05
Feb'25
StarHub upgrades fibre broadband network to deliver 10Gbps services
First deployment of StarHub’s 10Gbps XGS-PON technology across city-state to offer enhanced services as part of Digital Connectivity Blueprint to improve citizen well-being via next-generation digital infrastructure
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February 05, 2025
05
Feb'25
Youth activists protest Meta over mental health impacts
Protest outside Meta’s London offices marks launch of Mad Youth Campaign, an effort by activists to challenge the ways in which corporate power negatively shapes the conditions young people live under
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February 03, 2025
03
Feb'25
Hard-to-reach UK locations achieve broadband milestones
Ultrafast broadband goes live on Hebridean islands, with network ready for first residents to order full-fibre, while UK altnet outlines initial progress in £5bn deployment scheme
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February 03, 2025
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Feb'25
Teraswitch upgrades global net with EXA 400GE connectivity
Transatlantic connectivity provider upgrades enterprise network with 400GE connectivity, positioning the company for global network expansion through diverse, high-capacity connectivity across Europe and the Atlantic
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January 31, 2025
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Jan'25
Barclays hit by major IT outage on HMRC deadline day
Customers of Barclays Bank are left unable to access web app and online banking following a significant IT outage that seems to have come at the worst possible time
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January 30, 2025
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Jan'25
Neos Networks leads £1.2m UK Midlands broadband project
Leading UK business-dedicated network appointed by council to lead D2N2 Gigahubs initiative aimed at bringing gigabit broadband to rural communities in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire
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January 30, 2025
30
Jan'25
Global fixed broadband subscriptions pass 1.5 billion
Research firm points to milestone in wired connectivity arena, with over five hundred million fixed line subscriptions added over the past six years
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January 29, 2025
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Jan'25
Interview: Digital tech fuels AutoTrader’s drive into the future
Led by a technology enthusiast, AutoTrader is on a digital journey that began when it decided to take a different route in 2007
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January 28, 2025
28
Jan'25
Datafy promises to slash massive EBS overprovisioning costs
AWS Elastic Block Storage is often over-provisioned. Datafy virtualises EBS volumes to allow customers to scale capacity up and down, and says it will not charge customers if it doesn’t cut their costs
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January 27, 2025
27
Jan'25
FullFibre, Zzoomm merge to gain scale in UK altnet broadband
UK independent broadband providers merge to form one of the UK’s largest altnets, with 600,000 properties ready for service
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January 24, 2025
24
Jan'25
Fibre broadband network reaches half of Scotland
UK’s leading broadband provider says research shows gigabit digital upgrade could generate £4bn for Scottish economy and help to reverse depopulation
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January 24, 2025
24
Jan'25
IOWN sets focus on go-to-market, proof of concept optical in 2025
Next-gen networking project reveals focus for 2025, including early adoption use cases, go-to-market activities and wider industry collaboration
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January 24, 2025
24
Jan'25
High Court: Sky Betting ‘parasitic’ in targeting problem gambler
UK High Court rules that Sky Betting acted unlawfully after breaching a customer’s data protection rights when it obtained his personal data through cookies and used it to profile him for the purposes of direct marketing, despite his ‘impaired’ ...
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January 23, 2025
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Jan'25
ICO launches major review of cookies on UK websites
ICO sets out 2025 goals, including a review of cookie compliance across the UK’s top 1,000 websites, as it seeks to achieve its ultimate goal of giving the public meaningful control over how their data is used
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January 22, 2025
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Jan'25
E&, DE-CIX create Middle East SmartHub internet exchange
Middle East telco partners with internet exchange operator to boost regional datacentre connectivity, with Fujairah hosting largest submarine cable landing station and new locations for Dubai
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January 22, 2025
22
Jan'25
Telxius enhances global Ethernet service with next-gen optics
Global connectivity provider deploys advanced optical pluggables to power the Carrier Ethernet service upgrade, allowing businesses to scale bandwidth between 50Mbps and 100Gbps-plus
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January 21, 2025
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Jan'25
DriveNets, Fujitsu, UfiSpace join forces to support optical net development
Consortium of optical technology providers come together to accelerate open network roll-outs and support NTT-driven next-generation optical network infrastructure programme, testing and certification of multiple products
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January 21, 2025
21
Jan'25
Telstra International unveils network of the future vision
Progress revealed in creating next-gen infrastructure including simplification of architecture, cloudifying infrastructure layer, implementing autonomous operation and removal of legacy platforms
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January 21, 2025
21
Jan'25
Openreach nears million mark in copper stop sell scheme
UK’s largest telco reveals extent of progress in network transformation programme to make full-fibre network available to more than 14 million homes and businesses by the end of 2027
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January 20, 2025
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Jan'25
UK’s altnets further fibre roll-out
UK’s leading and second-leading alternative broadband providers report strong end of year for fibre network deployment
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January 17, 2025
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Jan'25
US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban
The US Supreme Court has upheld a legal ban on TikTok, meaning that the video-sharing application will be shut down from midnight on Sunday 19 January
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January 17, 2025
17
Jan'25
LightSpeed, Neos expand connectivity across Midlands, East of England
Critical network infrastructure firm teams with high-speed broadband provider to bolster FTTH and wholesale services
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January 17, 2025
17
Jan'25
TenneT deploys optical network offshore in North Sea to boost output
Leading European offshore transmission systems operator deploys critical optical networking technology for eight new 2-gigawatt platforms in the Dutch North Sea to deliver green energy to land
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January 16, 2025
16
Jan'25
Russia’s Star Blizzard pivots to WhatsApp in spear-phishing campaign
The Russian cyber spy operation known as Star Blizzard changed tactics after a takedown operation by Microsoft and the US authorities, turning to widely used messaging platform WhatsApp to try to ensnare its targets
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January 16, 2025
16
Jan'25
Nexfibre calls for regulatory action on Openreach’s broadband overreach
UK fibre provider publishes report urging regulatory consistency for broadband industry, including maintaining restrictions on market leader to avoid ‘harming investment, innovation and the progress’ of full-fibre roll-out
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January 15, 2025
15
Jan'25
Users protest, flee TikTok as clock ticks on US ban
As the US Supreme Court prepares to rule on the future of TikTok, rumours of a sale are swirling around Washington DC while panicked users make plans for an exodus
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January 14, 2025
14
Jan'25
NBN boost: A$3bn to upgrade internet speeds for millions
The Australian government is investing A$3bn to upgrade Australia’s fibre-to-the-node network, bringing faster internet speeds to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses
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January 14, 2025
14
Jan'25
Connectivity second only to location in property-leasing decisions
Study from neutral host providers discovers how Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity have overtaken traditional priorities such as price and amenities as top considerations for businesses choosing commercial properties