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ViaSat-3 F3 cleared a mechanical gate, not the service-entry gate
Viasat says the reflector and boom on ViaSat-3 F3 have deployed successfully 35,786 kilometres above Earth. That removes one of the mission's most visible mechanical uncertainties and allows in-orbit testing to advance, but Asia-Pacific capacity is not yet an operating service.
Global National Telecom Trends
KORE leaves the stock market before its new capital plan becomes measurable
KORE's acquisition by Searchlight Capital Partners and Abry Partners is complete, and its shares stopped trading before the market opened. Private ownership may give the IoT connectivity company a longer investment horizon, but the closing notice quantifies the exit price—not the…
Global Cloud Services Trends
IREN has contracted the run rate; it still has to commission the revenue
New AI cloud agreements worth $2.8bn put about 85% of IREN’s raised year-end ARR target under contract. Customer prepayments make the expansion easier to finance, but the company’s own definition places delivery, testing and acceptance between a signed deal and earned revenue.
Global Cloud Services Trends
GitHub Actions outage spread to APIs, Pages and downstream workflows
GitHub restored a critical Actions incident after failures in its runner path reached API Requests, Issues, Pages and Git LFS, then disrupted delivery workflows at CircleCI and OpenAI. The services recovered, but the public record still lacks the failure mechanism GitHub says it…
Global Datacenter Trends
Prysmian’s €550m prepayment turns an AI cable forecast into a capacity wager
Molex is putting cash ahead of delivery while Prysmian commits €1.25bn to fibre and optical-cable expansion. The arrangement shares some demand risk, but its headline maxima are neither guaranteed orders nor revenue already earned.
Global Cloud Services Trends
OpenAI mitigates errors across Voice and Work Mode without disclosing the cause
OpenAI says it has applied a mitigation for elevated errors in its consumer service that reached conversations, Voice, Connectors/Apps and Work Mode. Recovery was still under monitoring at the fixed news cutoff, leaving customers with a restored service claim but no public…
Global Institutional Trends
Adam Lueck and the Network No One Sees Until It Fails
Live sport is presented as a contest between athletes, but it reaches the public through a second contest behind the scenes: the effort to make temporary venues behave like dependable media and technology platforms. Adam Lueck's public record, from corroborative…
Global Institutional Trends
Mirjam Kühne and the Work of Making Experiments Public
Between a fragile prototype shown in Moscow in 2009 and a mature publication handed to a new editor in 2020, Mirjam Kühne helped give experimental Internet-infrastructure work a public life: not by claiming the tools as her own, but by explaining why unfinished ideas…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Nebius puts GPUs and customer cash flows behind a $775m facility
Nebius's first senior secured facility shows how long-term AI capacity contracts can turn fast-depreciating hardware into financeable infrastructure, while leaving the operator with execution and covenant risk.
Global Institutional Trends
Cristiano Amon and Qualcomm's 5G Optionality Under Pressure
On 12 March 2018, a United States presidential order stopped Broadcom's proposed takeover of Qualcomm, turning a dispute over corporate control into a public test of research cadence, licensing economics and national security. The order was an act of government following CFIUS…
Global Institutional Trends
Gaurab Raj Upadhaya and the Bounded Custody of the Root Key
A small metal key helps explain a large institutional achievement: how the root of DNSSEC can depend on a volunteer's presence while denying that volunteer the power to act alone.
Global Institutional Trends
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin's long test of patient capital
NASA’s 2021 choice of SpaceX for its first Human Landing System award, followed by the GAO’s denial of the Blue Origin Federation protest and Blue Origin’s loss in the Court of Federal Claims, made exclusion unmistakable; NASA’s 2023 decision to add Blue Origin as the second…
Global Institutional Trends
David Meyer and the Uneasy Work of Making Network Control Public
David M Meyer's public record crosses four ways of coordinating a network that no entity fully controls: exposing interdomain routing through RouteViews, expressing routing policy through RPSL, serving standards and operator communities, and helping to lead OpenDaylight's early…
Global Cloud Services
Google network update disrupts VMware stretched clusters
A faulty network update disrupted the connections that allow Google Cloud VMware Engine stretched clusters to operate across zones.
Global Cloud Services
IPC and Luware Partner to Provide Cloud Compliance Recording Service
IPC integrates Luware Recording into its communications suite, providing financial firms with a unified recording service across voice and collaboration platforms.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
Nokia Launches AI-RAN Platform for Phased Upgrades
Nokia offers operators several ways to add accelerated computing to RAN networks while retaining compatible radio equipment during the initial upgrade.
Global Datacenter Trends
S&P flags changing contract models for AI data centres
AI data centre contracts are increasingly defining how projects are financed and delivered before construction begins.
Global Datacenter Trends
Nscale secures US$900m credit facility for AI data centres
Nscale has added a syndicated bank credit facility to support the next stage of its global AI data centre expansion.
Global Datacenter Trends
National Grid invests $1.75bn in Joulent power venture
National Grid's investment in Joulent shows how utilities are moving beyond supplying electricity to investing directly in power infrastructure for large data centre projects.
Global Datacenter Trends
IBM brings z17 mainframe to standard data centre racks
IBM's latest rack-mounted systems bring mainframes closer to standard data centre environments, making them easier to deploy alongside existing infrastructure.