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APNIC Logged 57,088 Addresses as M&A Transfers. Its Daily File Still Shows 2007.
One APNIC file says that nine IPv4 prefixes changed hands on 1 September 2026. The next daily statistics file gives every resulting row the date 3 December 2007. This is not a contradiction or a stale update. It is what happens when an event clock and an origin clock share the…

ICANN
ICANN Records a Retraction. Its Public Page Does Not Say Who Acted
One entry in an open ICANN consultation now consists of a name, a date and the sentence “This Submission has been removed.” The tombstone preserves an important fact: something was submitted and its status later changed. But ICANN’s own rules allow both submitter-initiated…

North America Datacenter Trends
Bitdeer’s $100m Rockdale Land Deal Adds No Disclosed Megawatts to Its 742MW Plan
Bitdeer has converted a leased-land risk into fee-simple control over roughly 200 acres near Rockdale. That is a real asset change. The power headline is different: 563MW online plus 179MW planned already appeared in the company’s site tables before the purchase. The disciplined…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
OHB wins nearly €1bn IRIS² contract
OHB will develop and build 18 MEO satellite platforms for SES as IRIS² moves into manufacturing ahead of first launches planned for 2029.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Bull wins €387.8m LUMI-AI contract
Bull will deploy LUMI-AI at CSC's new Kajaani data centre in the second half of 2027 under a €387.8m EuroHPC procurement contract.

CASE FILE
The Cache Header Said Fresh. RFC 9919 Says the Signed Response Decides
A cached OCSP response can arrive without the client ever touching the responder. Its HTTP envelope can announce that the entity is fresh, public and reusable. RFC 9919 permits that efficiency at immense scale, then draws a hard evidentiary line: those headers guide the cache…

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The Response Was Signed. Its “Good” Status Had Expired: RFC 9919
A cached OCSP response can remain perfectly signed after it has stopped being evidence of current certificate status. RFC 9919 makes that distinction the centre of scalable revocation checking: distribution may be shared, but the authority of “good” ends at a signed time boundary…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Nokia sets up Saudi R&D centre for network automation
Nokia is setting up its first Saudi R&D centre in Riyadh to develop network-automation software, with operations expected to begin within two months.

North America Institutional Trends
AEye Calls Its Lunar Lidar Award Multi-Million-Dollar; Q2 Revenue Was $202,000
AEye’s Apollo lidar has been selected for Lunar Outpost’s Pegasus rover. The size label is striking beside AEye’s tiny revenue base, but the filing leaves the exact value, quantities, delivery schedule and accounting milestones undisclosed. The commercial question is no longer…

Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Nvidia invests $3.5bn in MediaTek
MediaTek will help customers develop custom AI accelerators that connect to Nvidia’s interconnect and rack-scale architecture.

CASE FILE
W3C Put Peer-to-Peer Inside WebTransport’s Scope, Not Its Deliverable List
A new WebTransport charter gives peer-to-peer work a legitimate place to be explored, but not yet a named standards output. That distinction is the useful part of the decision. It lets engineers test local-network and NAT-traversal ideas without asking readers to confuse an…

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
AWS sets December launch for Saudi Region
AWS says its first Saudi Region is on track for December 2026, while AWS and HUMAIN target up to 50MW in a separate AI Zone by 2028.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
UK firms flag unclear ownership during network faults
A survey found 45% of UK connectivity buyers had faced faults where responsibility between suppliers was disputed or unclear.

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The CA Was Trusted. Its Other Certificates Entered the Control Plane: RFC 9918
A NETCONF server can trust the right certification authority for the wrong breadth of purpose. RFC 9918 warns that if the listed CA also issues certificates for unrelated uses, those certificates can be accepted into the management channel. The TLS chain may validate perfectly…

Global Datacenter Trends
NVIDIA starts shipping Vera CPUs at scale
NVIDIA says Vera CPU systems are shipping at scale, moving its new AI processor from launch plans into customer integration.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Boldyn adds RedCap sensors to West Sussex private 5G
Boldyn is using 5G RedCap to connect a livestock sensor to its West Sussex private network, testing support for simpler, lower-power IoT devices.

Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Together AI, HUMAIN plan 250MW Saudi data centre
The partnership links HUMAIN's Saudi AI infrastructure with Together AI's cloud platform and customers, with a new 250MW facility planned.

North America Institutional Trends
GOWell’s SPAC Unlocks 3.34m Shares at Closing; 4.48m May Vest on Day 90
GOWell’s proposed combination with Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. V now carries two different post-closing supply clocks. A 31 August amendment removes specified lockups from 3,337,500 sponsor and representative shares at closing. Another 4,481,250 restricted shares may vest…

North America Datacenter Trends
CoolIT expands Calgary operations as AI cooling demand rises
CoolIT is expanding manufacturing, engineering and R&D in Calgary as liquid cooling moves from specialised hardware into higher-volume AI infrastructure production.

CASE FILE
The Error Was Seen in Reverse. The Forward Link Was Removed: RFC 9917
A router at the far end records receive-side errors. Policy turns that observation into a colour on the reverse directed edge. Another router can then remove the forward edge from a Flex-Algorithm topology. RFC 9917 makes this chain computable; it does not make the colour a…
