
Japan Forms AI Cyber Unit as PHP Flaws Disrupt Transport and Banks
SoftBank halted disaster warnings while carriers, lenders and rail operators took digital services offline following global vulnerabilities in core web code.
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SoftBank halted disaster warnings while carriers, lenders and rail operators took digital services offline following global vulnerabilities in core web code.

Bidding for Reliance Industries’ digital unit topped four times the available shares on day two, as retail buyers took up their entire allocation inside two hours.

Founders Dennis Anthony and Maria Grace Uy push fiber into provincial hubs and open a 12-megawatt data center in Angeles City.

The cloud giant links internal tools to Weixin and WeCom as Chow Tai Fook and SML Group automate store workflows and inventory.

Carrier networks face thousands of monthly fiber disruptions as AI workloads push regional transmission requirements up to tenfold.

India reached 550 million 5G connections across 99.9 percent of districts as telecom equipment vendor Ericsson targets network upgrades driven by artificial intelligence.

Organic sales rose 7 per cent to 59.5 billion crowns, but the Swedish telecom gear maker warned rising component costs will hit margins next year.

Google switched its planned gigawatt-scale hub in Andhra Pradesh to air cooling to ease local water strains as activists push for an infrastructure moratorium.

Industry data shows nearly three quarters of telecom AI pilots succeed in testing, but legacy billing systems and architectural bottlenecks keep production deployments at 13 per cent.

The deal folds the virtual operator’s remaining subscriber base into StarHub following the acquisition of its broadband unit earlier this year.

The trial used a Japan Coast Guard remotely piloted aircraft equipped with a Disaster Relief Unit Pod to achieve download speeds of up to 20 Mbps.

The New South Wales government granted consent for the 96-megawatt Huntingwood facility, adding critical capacity as hyperscale operators face tighter community scrutiny in Sydney.

Malaysia’s state-backed wholesale carrier Digital Nasional Berhad replaces a government credit line as three private telcos prepare to take equal equity stakes.

Huawei will receive net patent payments from Qualcomm for the first time, pushing the Shenzhen group’s lifetime licensing revenue above $6.9 billion.

VEON subsidiary Beeline Kazakhstan has activated satellite messaging for standard smartphones in dead zones across the country through Starlink Mobile.

Vietnam completed its nationwide 2G switch-off after state operator Viettel migrated nearly 8.6 million users to higher-speed networks in eight months.
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