The ICT Trends: latest ICT industry news

Defense panel puts ISAC ahead of the 6G standards clock

Radar, not standards, may be the faster path to ISAC drone detection In sum – what we know: Integrated sensing and communications, or ISAC, has become one of the more…

New fiber buys, AI grid systems, Starlink broadsides – as AT&T dusts off a decent quarter

AT&T chief John Stankey laid out a strategy built on fiber and 5G convergence, selective fiber acquisitions, and a future role connecting AI workloads across networks and clouds; he also…

Etisalat Money Partners With Visa to Expand International Transfers in the UAE

etisalat money, the fintech arm of etisalat, has announced a strategic partnership with Visa to expand international money transfer options for consumers and businesses in…

Iraq establishes first new satellite gateway since 2003, supporting security & aviation

New ground station arrives after a raft of successful international telecoms infrastructure projects

Iceland commences private 5G spectrum move

Iceland’s telecoms regulator commenced a process which could boost local and private 5G network deployments by a host of industries and align the nation with broader global rollouts.

EU awards fresh funds to ramp 6G drive

A body charged with pushing 6G-related developments in the European Union selected a quintet of projects to share €22 million in its latest funding award, including undertakings on connected devices and improving data for AI-native…

Microsoft files for data center campus in Floyd County, Georgia

Will feature three data center buildings

IBM infrastructure revenue bounces back after Q2 drop

CEO Arvind Krishna emphasizes the sovereign AI "tailwind" he foresees

HPE expands Private Cloud AI solution to support mixed Nvidia hardware clusters, launches Vera CPU rack

Arbol launches moratorium risk insurance coverage

First-of-its-kind cover will pay out on suspension of data center construction

Dell unveils Nvidia Vera CPU offerings, launches its first Groq 3 LPU rack-scale inference solution

All have been purpose-built for agentic AI, Dell said

Infineon and Nvidia to develop gallium nitride power conversion tech for 800VDC data center racks

Latest agreement in support of the move to 800VDC

Nvidia’s Berlin GTC: Faster AI factories, lower power use and more secure agents

Nvidia is hosting its GTC conference in Berlin this week, and while the bulk of the news is European-oriented, there are several stories of interest around the world.

UAE leads crackdown against AI fraud

A UAE-led international operation targeting AI-enabled fraud and cross-border networks identified more than $39 billion in funds and cryptocurrencies linked to scam activity.

A new neocloud for the agentic Edge

Vector Core Compute tries to find an edge with SambaNova

GENIE.AI: Empowering countries to shape their AI future

Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava, Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU Artificial intelligence (AI) is already one of the most transformative technologies of our time – but can it also transform the field of human social and…

Nokia thrives in AI boom, but its costs are mounting

Sales to AI and cloud customers accounted for nearly all revenue growth at Nokia as it continued to work on restructuring various parts of its business.

Nokia Q3 Sales Rise 9% as AI and Cloud Revenue Surges 123%

Nokia Corporation reported a 9% year-on-year increase in net sales on a constant-currency basis in the third quarter of 2026, supported by growth in its…

ThreatsDay: AI Secrets Leak, PingCAP Source Theft, Signal Hang-Up Flaw, Laravel Auth Bypass + 21 More

This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and hundreds of hijacked Tor relays.

Arista patches new VeloCloud Orchestrator zero-day exploited in attacks

Arista Networks released security updates to patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) On-Prem deployments.

Two CVSS 9.0 Linux KSMBD RCE Flaws Disclosed on Public Mailing Lists Before Kernel Fixes

Linux servers running KSMBD, the kernel's built-in SMB server, are exposed to two publicly reported remote code execution flaws rated 9.0 by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, with no fix yet in the mainline kernel.

Signal Vulnerability Lets Malicious Callers Block Hang-Ups

Affecting the open source calling library RingRTC, the bug prevented calls from ending properly.

Tech and Security Companies Respond to PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities

Vendors are checking their products for PHP2Shell, security firms are shipping detections, and governments are urging immediate patching.

Hackers pile on PHP2Shell as AWS reveals attacks began before disclosure

Cloudflare reports millions of exploit attempts, while Amazon spotted attackers trying their luck four days before patches landed

US pumps $400M into semiconductor R&D

The US Commerce Department awarded $389 million in R&D funding to four companies working on semiconductor development, under the government’s CHIPS and Science Act.

Intel makes construction move on delayed US chip plant

Intel heralded a construction milestone at a long-planned semiconductor manufacturing facility in the US state of Ohio after installing the first major structural truss years after it was announced.

To help world gorge on GPUs, Nvidia brings cash bucket to fatten wafer-thin supply chain

Signs Samsung to build substrates, bolsters spend with other players

Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure

And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model

A Composable Thermal Solver For Heterogeneous 2.5D/3D-IC Packages (Cadence, Notre Dame)

Researchers at Cadence Design Systems and the University of Notre Dame published “A Composable AI-Accelerated Iterative Solver for 3D-IC Thermal Modeling.” Abstract: “Accurate thermal analysis of heterogeneous 2.5D/3D-IC packages is…

Thermal Side Channels Create New Security Risks For Autonomous Vehicles (Missouri S&T)

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology published “Can Autonomous Vehicles Keep Their Cool?

Gartner forecasts 15% global IT spending growth, recaps top tech predictions

AI infrastructure and AI software will shape the next $1 trillion dollars in IT spending growth, according to Gartner. The research firm is anticipating a significant rise in AI-driven spending in a wildly changing tech environment.

Botched PHP2Shell disclosure revealed as panic continues

As security teams worldwide grapple with the deep impact of the PHP2Shell flaws, the PHP Foundation has revealed how a carefully planned vulnerability disclosure process went horribly wrong.

IT/OT convergence exposes skills gap. Cisco responds with new OT security certification

Cisco announced a new operational technology security certification designed to help network and security professionals develop the skills needed to secure industrial environments as IT and OT systems become more connected.

Grid ‘runs on coal-age data’, warns Open Climate Fix

Open Climate Fix says opening priority energy datasets could cut consumer bills, as a coalition of energy and data innovators urges ministers to act on the clean power mission

What to do as critical PHP flaws puts millions of websites at risk

Patch or go offline, say UK, US and EU agencies as two AI-discovered flaws in PHP, the language behind most websites, allow unauthenticated remote code execution

SONiC momentum continues at OCP Global Summit

Proponents of SONiC made a strong showing at last week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, where vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, and Nokia championed SONiC’s capabilities as an open Ethernet platform for AI networking.

IoT Global Awards 2026 winners announced

Recognising innovation in iSIM, industrial AI and fleet technology, the winners of the IoT Global Awards for 2026 have been selected. Following a rigorous evaluation by an independent judging panel … Continued

Omdia lifts lid on edge IoT deployments

A majority of businesses are prioritising edge computing in IoT deployments, with the approach now at a tipping point in terms of delivering tangible benefits, research by Omdia showed.

SEALSQ’s sister company WISeSat.Space completes business combination with Columbus Acquisition Corporation

WISeSat.Space ordinary shares have begun trading on Nasdaq under the ticker SAIQ, establishing a separately listed company focused on post-quantum-secure satellite IoT connectivity.

Telna opens Brazilian IoT door to Aeris

Physical AI and IoT connectivity platform provider Aeris chose Brazil as the beachhead for a core network tie-up with global mobile infrastructure player Telna intended to create a repeatable deployment scenario in a nation where permanent…

Aeris extends IoT eSIM orchestration for the Physical AI era

New SGP.32 orchestration, Single SKU eSIM and eIMaaS bring speed, simplicity and scale to global IoT deployments on the Aeris IoT Accelerator platform.