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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

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.

Nvidia in talks to invest in Firmus after failed IPO - report

Could invest hundreds of millions of dollars in neocloud

Eurobites: Wake up and smell the Starlink coffee, says EU's Kobosko

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: AI boosts Nokia in Q3; Ericsson detects drones; Zain, Ooredoo launch tower-sharing platform.

US considering 35 data center-related developments on public land, land records say

17 relate to campuses, 13 to broader AI infrastructure

GitLab warns of new max severity code execution vulnerability

GitLab has released security patches for a maximum-severity Regular Expression Compiler flaw that can let remote attackers run arbitrary code on vulnerable servers.

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…

Microsoft says ConnectWise breach let Chinese spies loose on 2,250 cloud tenants

AI agents did the dirty work, with hackers gaining privileged access in some environments in under three hours

Nokia dependent on AI boom for sales growth

In the third quarter Finnish kit vendor Nokia delivered solid numbers but nearly all of its revenue growth came from AI and cloud customers, rather than telcos.

Zain, Ooredoo close first phase of tower venture

Middle Eastern operators Zain Group and Ooredoo Group officially launched a joint venture tower platform after closing the first phase of the transaction by combining portfolios in their home markets.

Ericsson demos ISAC drone detection in Poland

Ericsson, alongside Play and Asseco, showed off how unauthorised drones can be detected using mobile networks in a demonstration for the Polish authorities.

Bell tolls on Canadian cybersecurity worries

Bell Canada flagged cybersecurity credentials as increasingly important in consumers’ choice of businesses after research found almost 40% would shun a company if its protections were doubtful.

Nokia chief continues to bang AI drum after Q3 gains

Nokia CEO Justin Hotard pointed to a boom in sales for its AI and cloud products during Q3, as he asserted the vendor is in a strong position to take advantage of growing demand for related infrastructure.

PHP2Shell Exploitation Started Days Before Patches

Initial attempts were observed on October 17, and mass activity began shortly after patches were released.

Also: BleepingComputer

Zuckerberg claims Muse agent has hit 10M users

Meta Platforms plans to expand its Muse personal agent and charge businesses for transactions it handles, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated on the company’s Q3 earnings call.

Nvidia Vera Rubin infrastructure now generally available on Google Cloud

Accessible via the Google Cloud A5X instances starting next month

Also: NVIDIA Newsroom

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.

Data Centers Can Delay, Not Dodge, the Power Crunch

Efficiency gains and flexible workloads may create near-term capacity for AI, but utilities will need proof that those reductions can be delivered when the grid needs them.

Beyond self-healing – the path to trusted autonomous networks (Reader Forum)

Autonomous networks must move beyond self-healing to coordinate decisions across RAN, transport, core and cloud, argues Droma’s Payal Kindiger, with trust, governance and verified service outcomes key to granting AI…

Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users About Privacy on Facebook

The $25 billion award far exceeds a $5 billion fine the Federal Trade Commission levied against Facebook in 2019.

Also: The Hacker News

Leading European Financial Services Organizations Embrace Open Models to Build Proprietary Intelligence

At GTC Berlin, banks, payment companies and financial data providers are showing what production-scale intelligence looks like — built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, powered by open weight models and running on their own infrastructure.

NVIDIA Cosmos Opens New Tools to Train, Evaluate and Deploy World Models

To help developers rapidly build world models, which help physical AI systems understand and simulate the real world, NVIDIA has expanded the Cosmos platform with new training tools, simulation checkpoints and Cosmos Data Factory…

How Companies Are Using NVIDIA DSX to Break the Power Bottleneck

Companies around the world are building on the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform to plan, simulate and run the grid and the AI factory as one system, from the substation to the rack.