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Vusion & Qualcomm unveil AI-native vision for retail
Wearables

Vusion & Qualcomm unveil AI-native vision for retail

Vusion and Qualcomm set out vision for AI-native shops using BLE, smart shelves and edge computing to tighten operations and boost margins.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
ServiceNow unveils Autonomous Workforce & EmployeeWorks
Unified Communications

ServiceNow unveils Autonomous Workforce & EmployeeWorks

ServiceNow debuts Autonomous Workforce and EmployeeWorks, promising AI “specialists” that autonomously resolve most employee IT requests.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Phishing campaigns exploit .arpa DNS to evade filters
Firewalls

Phishing campaigns exploit .arpa DNS to evade filters

Phishing gangs exploit obscure .arpa DNS space and IPv6 tunnels to sneak past reputation-based web filters and lure users to fake sites.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Oracle extends AI-driven title deal with Red Bull Racing
Data Analytics

Oracle extends AI-driven title deal with Red Bull Racing

Oracle renews and deepens its title partnership with Red Bull Racing, putting AI at the heart of F1 strategy ahead of sweeping 2026 rules.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
ServiceNow unveils Autonomous Workforce & EmployeeWorks
Software-as-a-Service

ServiceNow unveils Autonomous Workforce & EmployeeWorks

ServiceNow launches Autonomous Workforce and EmployeeWorks, pairing AI “specialists” with chat-based support to automate routine workplace tasks.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
No compromise: Designing AI operations for sovereignty and reliability
Data Protection

No compromise: Designing AI operations for sovereignty and reliability

IT leaders are racing to redesign AI operations so sovereignty, data residency and reliability can coexist under tightening global rules.

By Shankar Gomathi • 5 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Oracle Red Bull extends AI partnership ahead of 2026
Data Analytics

Oracle Red Bull extends AI partnership ahead of 2026

Oracle Red Bull Racing extends its AI-heavy Oracle title partnership to power strategy, simulations and hybrid engine work for F1's 2026 era.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Securing the future: Simplified management, Scalable growth, and built-in compliance for K-12
Firewalls

Securing the future: Simplified management, Scalable growth, and built-in compliance for K-12

SonicWall unveils unified tools to help overstretched K-12 IT teams simplify security, scale quickly and embed compliance by design.

By Asif Mujtaba • 3 min read • Mon, 23rd Feb 2026

Stories from Other Regions

Infrastructure stories

UK councils join industry in new small cell push
Unified Communications

UK councils join industry in new small cell push

UK councils and telecoms firms form new Small Cell Forum group to simplify street-level 4G and 5G upgrades in towns and cities.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Leaseweb brings NVIDIA L4 GPUs to UK sovereign cloud
Private Cloud

Leaseweb brings NVIDIA L4 GPUs to UK sovereign cloud

Leaseweb has added NVIDIA L4 GPUs to its UK sovereign public cloud, offering pay-per-use AI capacity it claims undercuts hyperscalers.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
EY Canada patents hybrid quantum tool for decisions
Manufacturing

EY Canada patents hybrid quantum tool for decisions

EY Canada patents a hybrid quantum-classical tool to improve scenario planning and complex operational decisions under tight constraints.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
Innovation without infrastructure? The hidden risk in Canada's AI-powered care
Firewalls

Innovation without infrastructure? The hidden risk in Canada's AI-powered care

Canada's AI-led healthcare boom is running on ageing systems, raising cyber risks and outages that threaten the promise of smarter care.

By Shash Anand • 5 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026
The authentication paradox: securing payments without human presence
Fintech

The authentication paradox: securing payments without human presence

As AI agents start spending on our behalf, payments must be secured even when no human is present to pass traditional authentication checks.

By Ivan Vukelikj • 4 min read • Thu, 26th Feb 2026
Why the channel is key to driving a new network operating model
Firewalls

Why the channel is key to driving a new network operating model

AI-era networks demand the IT channel pivot from colocation hardware refreshes to cloud-native, automated architectures by 2026.

By Bruce Hockin • 3 min read • Thu, 26th Feb 2026
Indonesia launches Sahabat-AI app to drive local AI
Digital Transformation

Indonesia launches Sahabat-AI app to drive local AI

Indonesia rolls out Sahabat-AI app, giving users nationwide access to a home-grown, culturally tuned large language model on mobile.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Thu, 26th Feb 2026
McLaren wins Ada's first 70MW Docklands data centre
Hyperscale

McLaren wins Ada's first 70MW Docklands data centre

McLaren wins shell-and-core deal for Ada's first 70MW Docklands data centre, launching a 210MW AI-ready campus in London's Royal Docks.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Wed, 25th Feb 2026
Oxford study to shape UK's future open finance regime
Digital Transformation

Oxford study to shape UK's future open finance regime

Oxford's Saïd Business School and Raidiam will design and test rival models to underpin the UK's future open finance and smart data regime.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 3 min read • Wed, 25th Feb 2026
Vertiv showcases AI-ready cooling at Data Centre World
DataCentre infrastructure

Vertiv showcases AI-ready cooling at Data Centre World

Vertiv will spotlight AI-ready liquid cooling and modular data centre designs at Data Centre World 2026 in London's Tech Show.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Wed, 25th Feb 2026