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AT&T, T-Mobile US, Verizon-led satellite JV is official, gains temporary leader

Senate Passes Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Healthcare Cybersecurity

More than 730 cyber breaches affected over 270 million Americans last year, costing an average of $10 million per breach.

Apple Plans Tighter macOS Full Disk Access Controls Over AI Agent Data Access

Apple has announced that it's taking steps to tighten controls around a macOS setting called Full Disk Access (FDA) due to security risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) agents.

OpenAI will show visual ads in ChatGPT while you generate images

OpenAI is expanding ads in ChatGPT, and one of the first new formats will show visual ads while you're generating images.

BT kicks off regulatory furore with £400 million TalkTalk buy

BT has brokered a deal that will see it pay £400 million for TalkTalk's consumer arm and PlatformX Communications.

UAE E-Invoicing: Less than four weeks left for AED 50m+ businesses to appoint a provider

With a limited number of accredited providers and a fixed deadline, onboarding capacity becomes a real constraint in the final weeks.

Nexfibre CEO slams 'counter fantasy' of CityFibre buying Netomnia

After UK authorities raise 'counterfactual' objections to Nexfibre's takeover of Netomnia, Nexfibre's Rajiv Datta questions the logic.

3 best practices for CIOs to assess AI ROI

Most CIOs can easily describe their AI initiatives, but struggle to demonstrate and report on AI value and ROI.

Consortium gets backing for integrated private 5G solution

A gang of 8 UK organisations, led by Bath-based network operator Aerix, have won Innovate UK backing for a project designed to show that 5G technology can be deployed and managed as a single integrated system.

Microsoft: Windows KB5124010 update crashes some games and apps

Microsoft confirmed over the weekend that some games and applications using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding will crash after installing the September 2026 KB5124010 Windows 11 preview update.

Huawei And Qualcomm Sign Multi-Year Patent Licensing Agreement

Huawei and Qualcomm announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement that includes cross licenses to the companies’ patent portfolios across a range of technology fields,…

Interview: Biting AI realities push data to the fore

NetApp principal architect and field CTO Rahul Sharma explains why data is a constant in industrial digitalisation as the realities of AI deployments bite.

Software architecture as the first line of climate defence

True digital sustainability requires addressing software waste. Refactoring bloated code cuts computational overhead, lowering enterprise energy consumption and hardware churn

Vertical Data Centers Face Cost-Proximity Trade-Offs

A proposed 20-story Kansas City data center trades suburban sprawl for urban density, offering proximity and network diversity – but at higher construction costs that only specific workloads may justify.

From automated response to reasoning: Building confidence in AI-driven NetOps

The concept of probabilistic automation can be off-putting, even divisive. Consider self-driving cars. They’re part of the progression of vehicle automation that includes parallel parking assist, driver assistance and hands-free driving.

Why judgment matters more, not less, in the AI era

For a few years now, the headlines have become familiar: yet another company laying off workers as a result of AI. But in recent months, we’ve seen a new twist.

£400m and 2.5 million customers: BT’s TalkTalk rescue reopens the UK broadband consolidation debate

BT Group has acquired TalkTalk Telecommunications Limited and PlatformX Communications Limited (PXC) out of administration.

Basata Expands B2B Payment And Collection Solutions In Egypt

Basata Holding for Financial Payments continues to strengthen its presence in the business-to-business (B2B) sector through its integrated suite of payment and collection solutions, including…

NEOPAY To Acquire 65% Stake In noon Payments

NEOPAY announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 65% controlling stake in noon payments (the “Transaction”), marking a significant step…

Facebook whistleblower urges AI firms to honour US safety pledge

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen reportedly cast doubt on whether AI companies would honour a voluntary safety pledge agreed after a meeting with US President Donald Trump last week.

Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what

Orange Egypt And Huawei Deploy World’s First CCIC Microwave Technology

Orange Egypt and Huawei have announced the successful deployment of the world’s first Co-Channel Interference Cancellation (CCIC) microwave technology, marking a significant development in wireless…

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.

MobileX names Datla as CFO

MobileX beefed up its executive team by hiring Raju Datla as its CFO, which followed special purpose acquisition company CONX taking a controlling stake in the MVNO in August.