| Report finds Aisuru Botnet Responsible for Third of DDoS Attacks Arelion announced the findings of its latest DDoS threat landscape report, providing insights on global Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) trends. The report shows that a single botnet, Aisuru, now drives approximately 33 percent of global DDoS attack traffic on Arelion’s network. |
| NVIDIA Launches National AI Infrastructure in Japan NVIDIA announced it is working with Noetra Corp. to launch an NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI factory with 13,750 NVIDIA Vera CPUs and 27,500 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs for national physical AI. Supported by Japan’s AI and industry leaders, the initiative marks the world’s first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, strengthening the country’s AI ecosystem across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, telecommunications and more |
| Adtran and Silo Communicatons Expanding Rural Broadband Adtran today announced that Silo Communications, a rural broadband provider based in northern Illinois, is using its fiber access portfolio and software applications to expand high-speed connectivity for underserved homes and businesses. |
| CrowdStrike and Schwarz Digits Evolving Sovereign Cybersecurity CrowdStrike and Schwarz Digits today announced an expansion of their strategic partnership, launching a multi-year roadmap to bring the AI-native Falcon platform to European enterprises on STACKIT, Schwarz Digits' sovereign cloud, and to extend access for customers across the region. |
| Cloudflare Unveils Precursor Bot Defense Cloudflare, Inc., today announced the general availability of Precursor, a continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management. |
| HPE Revolutionizes Self-driving Networks HPE announced major advancements that expand its self-driving networking strategy across AI factories, data centers, and the enterprise edge by introducing new AI data center networking, routing, Agentic AIOps, and security innovations designed to simplify operations and improve performance across increasingly distributed AI-driven environments. |
| FCC Drafts Agenda for August 2026 Open Commission Meeting The FCC announced its August Open Commission Meeting agenda, featuring proposals to reform Universal Service Fund administration, open over 200 MHz of unlicensed spectrum for direct-to-device satellite communications, replace the National Television Multiple Ownership Rule, and improve the Rural Health Care Program for telehealth in rural America. |
| UK Critical Infrastructure Strengthened With New Collaboration Siemens and NCC Group collaborate to protect UK critical infrastructure and industry from cyber threats. Their partnership focuses on securing operational technology (OT) across energy, defense, and industrial sectors. This agreement aims to provide end-to-end cyber resilience solutions, combining Siemens' industrial automation expertise with NCC Group's deep cyber security knowledge to address IT and OT convergence. |
| Agility Opens New Physical AI Development Facility Agility, a humanoid robotics and Physical AI company, opened a new 60,000-square-foot facility in Fremont, California. This Bay Area hub will accelerate Physical AI developments for its humanoid robot, Digit. Engineering teams will train and test AI technologies, enabling Digit to learn new skills and perform sophisticated tasks for customers. The facility will house nearly 200 employees including hardware, AI/ML software engineering, and field operations. |
| CNCF, Broadcom Deepen Partnership for AI-Ready Cloud Native Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced Broadcom upgraded its membership to Platinum. This commitment advances AI-ready cloud native technologies. Broadcom's investment supports open source collaboration for resilient AI infrastructure. Broadcom, a long-term contributor, moved Velero, a Kubernetes backup platform, to the CNCF Sandbox. It fortifies open technologies for Kubernetes. Both organizations aim to uplift the cloud native community and accelerate innovation. |
| Critical Enterprise Data Backup as a Managed Service has Launched in US ValorC3 Data Centers launched Backup as a Service (BaaS), a fully managed, immutable backup solution protecting critical enterprise SaaS data like Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Salesforce, and on-premise data. It counters the misconception that SaaS vendors fully protect against data loss, offering assured recovery from ransomware attacks by providing unalterable backup copies. |
| Parallel, Google Cloud Partner for Agentic Web Search on Gemini Parallel Web Systems announced a partnership with Google Cloud, integrating its agentic web search with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. This collaboration makes Parallel's search natively available across Gemini for API calls, grounding, and through the Google Cloud Marketplace. |
| Ribbon PSX Engine Picked by Hub One for Voice Traffic Routing Ribbon Communications announced that Hub One, a leading French operator, selected Ribbon's PSX Policy and Routing Engine. PSX will be Hub One's core call routing engine, unifying voice traffic across unified communications, private 4G/5G, contact center, and SIP trunks. The solution provides centralized policy and call routing, offering least cost routing, quality of service, toll-free routing, and number translation. It also includes call validation to mitigate spoofing and robocalls. |
| CrowdStrike Appoints New Chief Product Officer CrowdStrike appointed AJ Shipley as Chief Product Officer to lead product strategy and accelerate Falcon platform innovation for enterprise AI security Shipley brings over two decades of experience from leadership roles at Splunk Cisco and Palo Alto Networks |
| Fiber Broadband now in Remote Navajo Communities Oso Internet Solutions partnered with Adtran to bring fiber broadband to the remote Ramah Navajo Indian Reservation in New Mexico The new network delivers high speed internet to homes and schools boosting economic opportunities and access to essential digital services across the community. |
| Vodafone Albania and Nokia Reveal Agentic AI-Powered 5G Slicing Vodafone Albania and Nokia have demonstrated how Agentic AI could be used to dynamically and quickly create dedicated slices of the network during emergencies, major public events, or unexpected surges in user demand. |
| Nokia Launches Industry First AI-native RAN Platform Nokia announced the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, marking one of the most significant shifts in radio network architecture in decades. As AI becomes the dominant workload in mobile networks, telecommunication providers need more capacity, stronger economics, and faster innovation without relying on traditional hardware upgrade cycles. |
| Identiv Expands ID-Tiny for Digtal Tracking in Small Applications Identiv expanded its ID-Tiny product family, introducing ultra-miniaturized HF NFC inlays and tags. These tags bring secure digital intelligence to compact products and high-value items, enabling connection of objects previously too small for conventional RFID. Applications span healthcare, luxury goods, consumer electronics, and smart packaging. |
| FCC Proposes D2D Satellite for Unlicensed Devices FCC Chairman Brendan Carr proposed a new proceeding to allow innovative unlicensed wireless devices to communicate directly with satellites. This initiative explores using over 225 megahertz of unlicensed spectrum to support Direct-to-Device services and clarifies that Part 15 authorized equipment is permitted within FCC-authorized spacecraft. The goal is to bring ubiquitous connectivity to dead zones and foster next-gen wireless innovation. |
| NEC Technology Generates 3D Models from Camera Footage NEC Corporation has developed a first-of-its-kind technology that uses proprietary AI to rapidly generate highly detailed 3D models solely from footage captured with general-purpose cameras while automatically removing unnecessary subjects. This technology was developed in collaboration with the Keio AI Research Center. |
| Oracle unveils Creating and Running Agentic Applications in Oracle Fusion Oracle announced a new AI-native builder experience for Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications that enables customers and partners to create and run Fusion Agentic Applications natively within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. |
| Nokia and Taiwan Mobile Extend Partnership Nokia and Taiwan Mobile signed a 5G expansion deal to build AI native networks. Nokia will deploy AirScale solutions and AI software to boost network capacity, automation, resilience, and energy efficiency. This helps Taiwan Mobile meet ESG goals and support high AI traffic. |
| Parks Associates Reports Over A Quarter-million in Cable Subscriber Loss Major US cable providers lost 280 thousand broadband users in Q1 2026, an improvement from Q1 2025 losses of 320 thousand. Cable MVNOs added 830 thousand mobile lines in the same period. Parks Associates reports companies are reducing churn and boosting customer retention through converged mobile and broadband bundles. |
| FCC States Their Build America Agenda Makes Great Progress FCC Chairman Brendan Carr highlighted major wins from the Build America Agenda including faster internet wireless growth drone dominance space bureau upgrades and cut red tape |
| Fortinet Adds New AI-Era Components to FortiEndpoint Fortinet today announced new capabilities for its unified endpoint platform, FortiEndpoint, designed to help organizations securely adopt AI, protect sensitive data, and reduce risk by bringing AI visibility and control, native data security, endpoint risk scoring, and FortiAI-assisted operations into FortiEndpoint. |