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Uzbekistan and ZTE forge strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation

Partner Content ZTE and Ministry of Digital Technologies sign MoU at MWC 2026 to modernize telecom infrastructure and explore 6G, Wi-Fi 7/8, and satellite innovations

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No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships

UALink splits work on physical layer and protocol specs to speed things up, literally and metaphorically

Networks07 Apr 2026 | 1

US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks

Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems

Networks02 Apr 2026 | 8

AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer

We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control'

Networks02 Apr 2026 | 6

FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines

But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cut

Networks30 Mar 2026 | 33

ZTE and Kcell sign strategic MoU to boost terminal ecosystem and FWA services in Kazakhstan

ZTE and Kcell aim to bridge Kazakhstan’s connectivity gap

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Explainer: Self-driving networks

Here’s how your next network will look after itself

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Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink

Networks24 Mar 2026 | 189

Ransomware crims abused Cisco 0-day weeks before disclosure, says Amazon security boss

Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed

Security18 Mar 2026 |

North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un

Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators

Cyber-crime18 Mar 2026 | 27

Britain's satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus

No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability

Offbeat18 Mar 2026 | 34

Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses

Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information

Networks17 Mar 2026 | 11

Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet

Feature SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else

Networks17 Mar 2026 | 73

AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to ‘paralyse’ it

A 'web of litigation'

Networks13 Mar 2026 | 29

Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them

Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults

Networks13 Mar 2026 | 24

Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak’s Astound merge

Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder'

Networks12 Mar 2026 | 3

Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study

Subscribers north of the border suffer the most long-running failures per £100 spent

Networks11 Mar 2026 | 20

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Uzbekistan and ZTE forge strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation

No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships

US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks

AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer

FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines

ZTE and Kcell sign strategic MoU to boost terminal ecosystem and FWA services in Kazakhstan

Explainer: Self-driving networks

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says

SpaceX hits back at Amazon in orbital datacenter dispute

Feds disrupt monster IoT botnets behind record-breaking DDoS attacks

Ransomware crims abused Cisco 0-day weeks before disclosure, says Amazon security boss

North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un

Britain's satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus

Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses

Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet

AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to ‘paralyse’ it

Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them

Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak’s Astound merge

Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study

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Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators

Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care

T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation

Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'

Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie

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Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own

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Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines

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Polish cops bail 20-year-old bedroom botnet operator