Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney.
The ICT Trends: latest ICT industry news
Telecom & 5G
All stories →Everton Football Club launches MVNO service
The English football club has phoned it in
Huawei Hosts 18th User Group Meeting UBB Session Alongside UBBF
The UBB session of the 18th Huawei User Group Meeting(HUGM) was held alongside Huawei UBBF, where Huawei held in-depth discussions with more than 40 global customers.
Comcast vows to fight $213M patent verdict
Comcast intends to appeal a jury verdict finding that the company owes $213 million on claims that its X1 platform infringed on a WhereverTV video tech patent. The case took several twists and turns to arrive at this point.
6G architecture is looking like 5G made smarter, not a clean slate
Panel maps the 6G path from standalone 5G to agentic AI cores In sum – what we know: 6G has started moving from vision to engineering, and with it comes…
Report finds telco jobs fall as labour costs rise
Global telecom employment fell 2.1% year-on-year in Q2 2026, extending a decline dating to 2016, according to a report by MTN Consulting.
Port authority in India bags private 5G licence
Mormugao Port Authority became the first body of its kind in India to get the nod for a private 5G network, as it eyes smart operations, cargo tracking and general digital transformation benefits.
Cloud & Data Centers
All stories →Google's EMEA energy team hiring for range of new positions
Further opportunities in the energy space at Google
Why data sovereignty is about control, not geography
The gap between residency and sovereignty is where most organizations get into trouble.
Plans for data center in Moncalieri, Italy, put on hold by town mayor
Before its application was halted, the project was billed as Italy’s ‘largest’ data center
Closing the Skills Gap in Data Center Facilities Management
Data centers require skilled professionals. Collaboration between IT and facilities, along with proactive maintenance and remote monitoring, helps address workforce shortages.
AirTrunk plans additional $1bn investment in data center campus in Inzai, Japan
Company plans to triple overall investment in country to $30bn
Openreach taps Ciena for 1.6Tbps WaveLogic 6 technology
Optical upgrades will support Openreach's wholesale offering
Artificial Intelligence
All stories →Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you
Would you like personalized shopping recommendations based on that conversation you just had?
SEMICON West 2026 Displays AI-Era Chipmaking, Workforce Development
The trillion-dollar semiconductor industry is ready to adapt and expand its fab infrastructure for the AI wave.
Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price
El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16
AI datacenter capex will far exceed forecast revenue through 2030
Investors are pouring more into AI data center infrastructure than they can hope to recoup by 2030, according to Gartner.
ChatGPT for Teens deemed to pose unacceptable risk
US non-profit Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute declared OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens an “unacceptable risk” and called for the company to halt access for users aged under 18-years until safeguards are independently tested and…
HPE’s Gen13 Signals Enterprise AI Shift to CPU-GPU Balance
HPE launched AMD Epyc-powered ProLiant Gen13 servers for enterprise AI inference, agentic AI, and traditional workloads, targeting enterprise customers with varied AI needs.
Cybersecurity
All stories →Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems
'Hold my beer, have fun getting into your offices'
MALFEX npm Package 'imgdecode' Hides Shellcode Loader in Windows Native Addon
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that's part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX.
Hackers Use Compromised ConnectWise Credential to Sign In to 173 Microsoft 365 Tenants
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to gain…
Critical BlockStrap flaw lets hackers run code on Magento servers
Researchers warn that hackers could soon exploit a maximum-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-103849) affecting Magento and Adobe Commerce, potentially allowing them to execute arbitrary PHP code on store servers.
Targeted ads installed Candiru spyware in zero-click attacks
Candiru spyware was delivered to devices at Al Jazeera Media Network via targeted online advertisements in a zero-click attack that required only rendering the malicious ads on the victim's device.
Eight Malicious npm Packages Downloaded 40,767 Times Deliver Overlord RAT and Stealer
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a long-running npm supply chain malware campaign that pushes information stealers and remote access trojans (RAT) to compromised hosts.
Semiconductors
All stories →Intel and Applied Materials to collaborate on chip manufacturing advancements
Work will take place at the companies' respective R&D facilities
Musk plays down TSMC presence at AI fab facility
Elon Musk ruled out Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company taking an operational role in Terafab, the billionaire’s advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility in the US state of Texas.
Monolithic 3D Memristor-TFT Stack For Programmable Neuromorphic Computing (SNU, Yonsei)
Researchers at Seoul National University and Yonsei University published a technical paper titled “Monolithic three-dimensionally integrated memristor-thin-film transistor for electrically programmable multimode reservoir computing.”…
AI Power Spikes Demand Chip-to-Grid Design Changes
AI data centers’ rapid power swings threaten grid stability, requiring coordinated chip-to-grid strategies across chip makers, operators, utilities, and infrastructure providers.
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus to establish CORE initiative to support semiconductor design and manufacturing
First phase will see launch of Design Solution Associates project
Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 6
Low-contact-resistance WSe₂ transistors; backside clock meshes for 2nm GAAFETs; row-parallel processing in DRAM; HBF for high-throughput LLM serving; formal security analysis of CAN XL; abstraction and validation from physical devices to…
Enterprise IT
All stories →Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers
You're building servers 'wrong,' says Ryan Dahl as Cloudflare gobbles his Deno startup
Cisco Unveils New Agentic Collaboration Experiences
New updates bring people, digital teammates, and enterprise context together across work, workplaces and customer experience More RSS Feeds: https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/rss-feeds.html
Logitech organises its RISE annual Partner Connect Program in Cairo
Logitech aims to equip organisations with innovative collaboration solutions that help teams become more connected, productive, and ready for the future.
PNY advances AI factories for enterprise deployment
Ultimately, optimising AI infrastructure is about achieving the right balance between performance, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
Cisco readies new control plane for quantum networks
Cisco continues to fill out its portfolio of quantum network technology, this week adding a core control mechanism for distributed quantum networks.
LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.
IoT & Smart Cities
All stories →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.