Leidos and DHL formed the Logistics & Mission Support Alliance to bid on the UK Ministry of Defence’s Future Defence Support Services programme. Arelion’s 2026 DDoS report found the Aisuru botnet responsible for approximately one-third of global attack traffic, with peaks reaching 31.4 terabits per second. CrowdStrike and Schwarz Digits expanded their partnership to deliver the Falcon platform on STACKIT sovereign cloud and acquired XM Cyber intellectual property for Exposure Management. Cloudflare launched Precursor, a continuous behavioral bot-defense engine that analyzes full user sessions without interrupting legitimate traffic.

ValorC3 launched fully managed immutable Backup as a Service for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Salesforce, and on-premise data. Fortinet expanded FortiEndpoint with AI visibility and control, native data-loss prevention for AI applications, risk scoring, and FortiAI-assisted operations. VIAVI joined the EU-funded SHIELD-6G consortium with $1.1 million to develop AI-driven security testing digital twins for 6G networks. Vijilan Security and HaloPSA launched a bi-directional integration that automatically creates enriched security tickets inside the MSP service desk. Cyolo launched CPS Segmentation, extending its secure remote privileged-access platform into microsegmentation for critical infrastructure and operational technology. Palmetto launched the Energy Backup Plan, a no-upfront-cost subscription whole-home battery service with automatic outage backup and twelve-year maintenance.

Cloud and IoT News

Oracle OPERA Cloud is powering Minor Hotels’ global digital transformation across 106 properties in 59 countries, enabling centralized operations and faster openings. Meanwhile, DE-CIX research found that the average IT team still spends 11.5 hours per week troubleshooting cloud connectivity despite 96 percent of organizations claiming readiness for AI workloads, underscoring the ongoing gap between perceived preparedness and day-to-day operational reality.

Soracom launched its Automotive Suite for full-lifecycle connected-vehicle connectivity management with remote eSIM profile switching and split billing. Building on the push toward smarter connected devices, Identiv expanded its ID-Tiny HF/NFC tag portfolio for ultra-compact applications such as jewelry, surgical instruments, pharmaceutical vials, and luxury goods. In the automotive space, Verizon was named the U.S. connectivity provider for newly manufactured BMW Group vehicles through a KDDI partnership, delivering 5G Standalone and LTE for Connected Drive services. Completing the set of edge-focused advances, Supermicro, Red Hat, and Everpure launched validated Kubernetes Edge AI appliances that combine OpenShift and Portworx for distributed AI inference.

Innovation News

BTQ Technologies and ITRI completed the first milestone validating Quantum Compute-in-Memory architecture for post-quantum cryptography covering FIPS 203, 204, and 205. In parallel, SAMRI and CAS released the Polymer Frontiers report mapping nearly one million publications to identify global polymer innovation trends. On the software side, Amazon Aurora Serverless now scales faster for AI workloads, reaching up to 12 ACUs within a second and continuing to 256 ACUs with automatic scale-down to zero. Meanwhile, Mousterian Corporation and Samsung Heavy Industries signed an engineering contract for the first U.S. floating data center, with each unit delivering 50 megawatts of critical IT capacity.

Extending the infrastructure theme, Sophia Space and Caltech secured a U.S. patent for space-based data centers that use solar power and passive radiation cooling into deep space. Ericsson is supplying its next-generation AI-powered RAN Compute platform to NTT DOCOMO for Japan networks, delivering up to twice the capacity at less than half the energy consumption. In Europe, Orange and Morrison entered exclusivity to create a 50/50 data-centre joint venture in France targeting 400 megawatts of capacity with a €3 billion investment programme. Separately, NVIDIA and Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence Inc. formed a long-term strategic partnership in which NVIDIA is investing and providing Vera Rubin systems to expand SSI’s compute by an order of magnitude.

Siemens expanded its partnership with NVIDIA to deliver self-verifying agentic AI workflows for semiconductor and PCB design by integrating the Fuse EDA AI Agent with NVIDIA AI infrastructure. Complementing those advances in secure computing, Terra Quantum and Apex.AI successfully demonstrated NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography for secure edge-to-cloud communication in robotics and software-defined systems.