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Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
CEC launches standalone BizAxis IaaS in Japan
CEC has launched a Japan-based infrastructure service that runs independently of VMware, with backup, monitoring and security sold separately.
North America Datacenter Trends
Texas orders enforcement over data-centre water reporting
Missing water-use reports can now affect permits and ERCOT interconnection, putting water compliance alongside power in Texas data-centre development.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
NTT DOCOMO deploys Nokia baseband in Open RAN
NTT DOCOMO is using Nokia's latest baseband with radios from other suppliers in its commercial LTE and 5G network.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
SES launches final three O3b mPOWER satellites
SES has completed the O3b mPOWER launch programme, but the final three satellites must still be commissioned before their capacity can serve customers.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
Sarvenmaa data-centre consultation closes
Polarnode's Keminmaa project includes power connections extending into Tornio, putting infrastructure beyond the data-centre site inside the planning review.
Global Institutional Trends
GitLab patch deadline passes for exploited flaw
Self-managed GitLab users need an urgent patch that can take single-node installations offline while database migrations complete.
Africa National Telecom
NIGCOMSAT orders NigComSat-2A from Thales Alenia Space
NIGCOMSAT has ordered a nearly four-tonne GEO satellite covering much of Africa, but no launch date, contract value or service-entry timetable has been disclosed.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SECI, HyperVault sign Hyderabad power MoU
The agreement covers renewable generation, land, and transmission for HyperVault's proposed campus, but does not yet set megawatts or an energisation date.
North America National Telecom Trends
Samsung and Verizon test 5G crowd sensing in Dallas
Samsung and Verizon used a virtualised 5G network and 40MHz of CBRS spectrum to map crowd density in near real time without separate radar equipment.
North America Cloud Services Trends
PaperCut replaces emergency patches as CISA deadline passes
PaperCut's new maintenance builds give administrators clearer version records, but site and secondary servers still need to be checked.
North America Cloud Services Trends
CISA deadline passes for exploited ScreenConnect flaw
ConnectWise says the flaw affects ScreenConnect clients, not servers, leaving providers to verify updates across the endpoints they support.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
ESpanix adds DDoS filtering in Madrid and Barcelona
Nokia Deepfield Defender lets participating networks filter attack traffic inside ESpanix rather than always diverting it to an external scrubbing centre.
Global Institutional Trends
MikroTik patch deadline passes for RouterOS flaw
CISA's deadline has passed for CVE-2026-86060, but patched routers may still need checks for changes made before the update.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Mumbai backs data centres, plans regulation
Mumbai's civic chief has backed data-centre development while signalling future regulation, leaving project-level rules and site conditions unresolved.
North America Regional ISP Trends
Ripple plans Statesville fibre build
Ripple's Country Club build overlaps streets named in an earlier Zirrus permit, but two construction projects do not yet mean two live services.
North America Institutional Trends
Defence and space SPAC deals double in 2026
Six space and defence SPAC deals have been announced in 2026, while Quantum Space shows why valuation can overstate cash available at closing.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Z.AI raises $5bn through shares and bonds
Z.AI raised $5bn through shares and zero-coupon convertible bonds due in September 2027 to fund model development and expansion.
CASE FILE
The Algorithm Label Changed. The Key Refused to Follow: RFC 9709
An attacker can rewrite a cryptographic label without breaking the advertised cipher. RFC 9709 answers that awkward fact by making the complete encoded algorithm identity part of the key itself—and by forcing operators to separate successful processing from evidence they can…
History
The Label Said JPEG. Every Other Identifier Said GIF: RFC 2158
One line in RFC 2158 refused to agree with the record around it. The heading said GIF. The X.400 body-part name said GIF. The entity-identifier branch said `gif-image(4)`. The MIME field alone said `image/jpeg`. That small fracture turns a three-page standard into a useful lesson…
CASE FILE
The IG Lab May Use AI to Organise Proposals. It Must Not Let AI Judge Them
The first Internet Governance Lab closes its call with a useful rule and an unfinished method. AI-assisted tools may help the IGF Secretariat organise or analyse submissions, but may not evaluate them. That boundary will matter only if the administrative outputs can be followed…