The ICT Trends: latest ICT industry news

Ericsson turbo-charges VodafoneThree's massive mid-band portfolio

VodafoneThree is rolling out Ericsson's fancy new AIR 3266 radio, a world first that promises to make the most out of its mid-band spectrum.

Ericsson CTO outlines AI-RAN possibilities

LIVE FROM TIP FYUZ 2026, SEATTLE: Ericsson CTO Erik Ekudden believes operators can prepare their networks to be AI-capable before 6G, arguing many of the required elements are already in roadmaps or the field.

DE-CIX and Ooredoo Oman to launch IX connecting Muscat and Salalah

DE-CIX and Ooredoo Oman announced on Tuesday they have signed an agreement to launch Gulf Gateway-IX, a new internet exchange (IX) that will interconnect the country’s dual subsea corridors in Muscat and Salalah.

Harmonic revenues break beyond Comcast and Spectrum

In further evidence that it is diversifying its broadband business, Harmonic said four customers topped 10% of Q3 revenues, expanding from its two marquee customers – Comcast and Spectrum.

GSMA warns of growing risks to mobile networks from extreme weather

Mobile comms body wants a joined-up approach from governments and regulators to mitigate downtime

Cellnex signs €375m loan with EIB to support rollout of 5G infrastructure

Will fund new tower builds across Cellnex's European markets

California Resources and Bloom Energy eye 1GW of fuel cells across California to power data centers and other offtakers

Intend to couple the systems with carbon capture and storage

Trump Onsite Power Push Meets AI Data Center Reality

Trump’s onsite power push highlights a hard reality: most AI data centers will likely need hybrid energy strategies rather than fully off-grid designs.

Samsung SDS breaks ground on Gumi AI Data Center in South Korea

150 years of Ericsson

A trip down memory lane provides inspiration for the vendor’s AI-focused future

Foxconn details quantum ambitions, wants to become world’s “largest quantum computer manufacturer”

However, technology not expected to be viable for at least two years, company said

Putin gives Russian companies permission to use foreign data centers after Ukraine drone strikes

Russia's data center firms ordered to reserve capacity for government departments

Orange deploys AI agents for customer support

Orange rolled out AI agents to handle billing and account queries across several markets, using search technology from US-based Algolia to boost automation across its customer operations.

Nokia thinks AI will make up almost half of network traffic

Nokia has published a report forecasting that AI will drive nearly half of global network traffic by 2035, and says networks had better be ready.

TIP turns to agentic AI, data, 6G

LIVE FROM TIP FYUZ 2026, SEATTLE: Telecom Infra Project board chair and AT&T VP of RAN Technology Rob Soni told attendees the organisation now covers far more than open RAN, with focus areas including core, transport, open Wi-Fi and…

AT&T, DT put agentic AI, sensing at heart of 6G push

LIVE FROM TIP FYUZ 2026, SEATTLE: AT&T and Deutsche Telekom are using today’s 5G networks to get a head start on 6G, beginning with agentic AI and integrated sensing and communication.

British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted

Turns out cheap tokens get engineers doing things that save time, like debugging and tackling Jira tickets

AI policy wonks declare 'sovereign agents' a threat to civilization

These are AI agents that operate outside of human control and 'pursue open-ended, evolving survival'

Radio With No Radar: Why Agent Runtime Security Fails Without the Layers Beneath It

Nearly every agent security pitch now ends on the same promise: the product stops the bad action in real time. The promise holds for one kind of agent, the kind whose traffic passes through a gateway the enterprise owns.

Hackers hijack cPGuard autoupdate to deploy backdoor, steal data

Attackers have compromised the update infrastructure for the cPGuard web security suite to distribute a backdoor and a data-stealing script.

WorkOS says attacker used ARTEX AI to breach internal sales app

Developer platform WorkOS suffered a data breach after a threat actor accessed business contact records and summaries of customer communications.

mSecure Warns Users to Change Passwords, Reset 2FA and Passkeys After Suspicious Activity

Customers of the mSecure password manager are being urged to act now to protect the confidential information they store in it, possibly by changing passwords, resetting two-factor authentication (2FA), and removing passkeys.

Chainstack Reports Production Systems Breach Exposing Customer Data and Password Hashes

Blockchain infrastructure provider Chainstack on Tuesday disclosed that it was targeted in a cyber attack that allowed an unauthorized party to gain access to some parts of its infrastructure.

Binance Reveals How Fake Job Interviews and AI Tool Abuse Led to $6.43 Billion Theft

Binance on Tuesday said the record-setting theft of $6.43 billion in assets from the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange was the culmination of a "sophisticated, multi-stage campaign" that involved the use of a tampered Homebrew…

Viettel reveals homegrown security chip co-developed with Vietnam govt

Viettel Group and Vietnam's Government Cipher Committee revealed on Wednesday they have jointly developed a semiconductor security platform featuring VGC v1.0, a homegrown chipset that integrates a domestic cryptographic algorithm directly…

Fast, Sub-Volt HZO Ferroelectric Capacitors For DRAM-Like Memory (SNU)

Seoul National University-led researchers published “Resolving the Kay–Dunn limit and the speed–endurance dilemma in ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 for DRAM-class sub-volt capacitors.” The first author, Geun Hyeong Park, Ph.D., summarizes the…

AI Is Changing How Semiconductor Fabs Work — and Engineers Are Moving Faster Because of It

Demand for advanced chips is rising. The processes to build them are getting more complex. And the margin for error is shrinking.

AI Image Enhancement Improves Detection Of Flip-Chip Interconnect Defects (MCL, PVA TePla, ASE)

Researchers at Materials Center Leoben, PVA TePla, and Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) published “AI-Based Image Enhancement Improves Detection of Interconnect Defects in Microelectronic Packaging.” Abstract Excerpt: “Traditional…

3D Integration Reduces Embodied-Emissions Impact Of GPU Scaling (imec, VUB)

Researchers at imec and Vrije Universiteit Brussels published “Embodied Emissions of 2.5D and 3D Scaling in Chipletized GPUs for Low-Carbon AI.” Abstract “GPU compute resources are scaling to support growing AI workloads, leading to…

Quantum Interconnects Link Two 120-Qubit Processors (IBM Research)

Researchers at IBM Research published “Meter-scale quantum interconnects between large quantum processors.” Abstract Excerpt: “Modular quantum architecture requires long-distance quantum interconnects to stitch together individual…

ASUS brings “Design You Can Feel” to life at Dubai Design Week with THEA Café takeover

The 3–5 November takeover combines hands-on product discovery, café culture and design-led interactions while showcasing ASUS’s wider premium portfolio.

Amdocs decides to give insurance a go with $340 million EIS acquisition

Software vendor Amdocs reckons its telecoms expertise will come in handy in the insurance technology space.

Barracuda’s security appliances have a security problem of their own

Barracuda, which offers a wide variety of cybersecurity devices, has been bitten by a bug itself.

Cisco Schedules Conference Call for Q1 Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Results

TSB releases shocking fraud data to urge caution as Black Friday and Christmas near

TSB data shows that purchase fraud losses among its customers are up 4% this year

Aramco acquires 49% stake in Saudi Arabia's Humain

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.