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Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Shunkai quantum computer starts operation
Japan's Shunkai system is operating with an initial configuration of about 50 qubits as researchers begin work on stability, external access and larger-scale operation.
Story
Inside AFRINIC’s June Reserve Total
AFRINIC’s June financial report puts a reserve balance and an interest estimate on the same page. Reading the distinction properly changes what its $6.6 million total can tell members about growth, cash and the year ahead.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
North Media buys BEAM grid-balancing platform for DKK 9m
North Media has acquired BEAM, a software platform designed to aggregate distributed energy assets for Denmark's grid-balancing market.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Aize’s Samp Deal Opens a Door to Older Plants
Area-based software subscriptions can bring more people into a digital twin. Keeping the plant’s representation current still needs an owner.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Neo Space Group and Arabsat sign satellite services MoU
Neo Space Group and Arabsat will explore satellite communications, geospatial services and other space technologies across the Gulf and Middle East.
North America Datacenter Trends
Nscale closes $3bn financing for two US AI sites
Nscale will use the facilities to fund GPU systems and supporting infrastructure at its Ward County and Madison AI sites.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Powerlink awards 20km Queensland transmission contract
Powerlink has awarded CPP a contract covering 20km of transmission line, Calliope River substation upgrades and a 500MVA transformer.
CASE FILE
The Secure Channel Failed. The Client Was Not Allowed to Fall Back: RFC 9887
RFC 9887 turns a secure-transport upgrade into a rule about authority: when the protected TACACS+ path fails, reachability of the older path does not authorize the client to use it.
North America Cloud Services Trends
C3 AI’s Cash Rebound Has an Equity-Exercise Engine
The software company has returned to positive operating cash flow. Most of the increase in its financial reserves came from a different source.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
C-DOT unveils 14 quantum-security products
C-DOT has unveiled 14 QKD and post-quantum products for communications networks, moving its quantum-security work into named hardware and software systems.
North America Datacenter Trends
California judge tentatively orders 330MW data-centre review
The tentative ruling would put a project-level environmental review ahead of grading and construction for IVCM's proposed Imperial County campus.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
SoftBank completes Japan HAPS trial ahead of 2027 service
The trial connected ordinary smartphones through a high-altitude platform over Japan as SoftBank works towards commercial HAPS services from 2027 onward.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Maxis to fibre 151 Melaka telecom towers
Maxis will fibre-connect 151 MICTH towers in Melaka under a RM30 million programme replacing microwave backhaul.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Orange acquires Obvios's Dome private 5G core
The acquisition brings Dome's private 5G core and its developers into Orange Business for defence and critical-infrastructure deployments.
Story
RIPEstat’s Empty IP Lookup and the Route Beside It
A user’s two differently worded requests produced different views of a route. A successful retest leaves a narrower question than an outage: what did an empty answer actually establish?
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Microsoft sets November opening for Saudi Arabia East cloud region
Microsoft has set a November 2026 opening for its Saudi Arabia East region, giving customers a firm date for locally hosted Azure and AI workloads.
ICANN
An ISO Change Can Trigger an IDN ccTLD Exit. It Does Not Give ICANN a Territory Verdict.
An identifier system needs stable references. It also needs to know when a reference has changed. Those two necessities become dangerous when a technical process quietly starts to sound like it has decided the political fact from which its reference was drawn.
CASE FILE
Outsourcing Email Does Not Assign the DMARC Work
A survey of 99,300 domains puts an old procurement assumption under pressure: a hosted mailbox and a working domain-authentication programme are not the same purchase.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Sterlite’s Credit Upgrade Puts the Next Capex Cycle in Focus
A stronger credit rating recognises the optical-fibre maker’s financial reset. Keeping that improvement while it invests in equipment is a separate task.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Avantel wins ₹117.88 crore DRDO satellite hub contract
Avantel will develop, install and commission a satellite communications ground hub for voice and data services under a ₹117.88 crore DRDO contract.