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Eurobites: CityFibre still on the acquisition trail

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: VMO2 calls BT's takeover of TalkTalk a 'stitch-up'; INCA welcomes blocking of Openreach's discount offer; Hayo hopes to boost API take-up in Africa, Middle East

Google overhauls cloud modernization portfolio with new AI agents

Google is overhauling its cloud modernization portfolio by bringing its existing migration and modernization tools along with new agentic migration tools and a new Modernization Hub under a new Google Cloud Modernize umbrella to accelerate…

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The DAS decision hospitals can’t treat as an afterthought (Reader Forum)

Hospitals increasingly need DAS to solve three problems at once: public-safety compliance, clinical connectivity and security.

LibreOffice and OpenOffice Flaws Let Malicious Spreadsheets Run Code Without Macro Warnings

A malicious spreadsheet can make LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice run an attacker's code as soon as the file is opened, security researchers have shown. There is no warning first, of the kind either program shows before it runs a macro.

ABB launches range of DC power products

Vendors looking to be ready for 1MW racks and 800vDC architectures

ByteDance takes up one-fifth of China's data center capacity

Majority of capacity is leased from third-party providers

Claro completes acquisition of 72.8% stake in Brazilian fibre operator Desktop

Brazilian operator Claro has completed the acquisition of a 72.83% controlling stake in fibre broadband provider Desktop.

UAE Launches National Vault Initiative to Strengthen Cyber Resilience

Dell Technologies, the UAE Cyber Security Council (CSC) and CPX announced a strategic collaboration to advance the development of a National Vault initiative aimed at…

HF Sinclair launches cooling fluid for direct-to-chip environments

Oil company follows on from launch of immersion fluid in 2024

Tech Mahindra Partners With Google Cloud to Scale Agentic AI Readiness

Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of AI-powered digital transformation and technology consulting solutions to enterprises across industries, announced an expansion of its agentic AI readiness…

Lumos snaps up Allo Fiber's Joplin, Missouri, fiber network

The acquisition will bolster T-Mobile's fiber footprint as part of its JV

Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits

The Wikimedia Foundation says rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and may have been partially responsible for a May outage.

Wikimedia Says OpenAI Agents Tried to Compromise Etherpad and Use Wiki Tools as Proxies

The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful efforts to compromise Etherpad, a public note-taking tool, and edit Wikipedia…

QTS acquires former Microsoft exec during European expansion

QTS Data Centers (QTS) has appointed Val Walsh as its new president of Europe, adding a former Microsoft executive to its team.

E& changes its name back to Etisalat

E& is reverting to its old Etisalat name at group level, shedding a brand it adopted (to widespread incredulity) less than five years ago.

Welcome to the Jungle: What We Found Inside 15,465 Public MCP Servers

In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The protocol delivered.

Dish DBS exits Chapter 11, but Dish Wireless is still stuck

EchoStar's pay-TV unit shed about $4.35B of debt as it worked its way out of bankruptcy. Tower companies still want their money, and mediation runs to November 4.

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.

Nokia and Q13 to modernise Brazil's research and education network

Nokia has announced that Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP), Brazil's national research and education network (NREN), has selected Nokia and technology company Q13 to modernise rede Ipê, which it describes as critical infrastructure…

Long-Running NPM Malware Campaign Accumulates 40,000 Downloads

Since August 2023, attackers have published eight malicious packages as part of the MALFEX supply chain campaign.

Ofcom probes Meta over Instagram Instants

Meta's Instagram Instants launch may have breached the UK's Online Safety Act.

Kazakhstan targets 295MW of data centre capacity by 2028 as Ekibastuz build begins

Kazakhstan says it will bring 186MW of data centre capacity online in 2027 and a further 109MW by mid-2028, with its flagship Data Center Valley now under construction.

Deutsche Telekom boss's 'AI optimism' isn't shared

Investors are unimpressed by Deutsche Telekom's AI plans and employees are bound to feel less optimistic about the technology than company management does.

CXL-Connected MRAM Address AI Storage Latency

Everspin’s demo shows how a 4-GB pool of persistent MRAM can serve as a new tier of storage between DRAM and NAND flash.