IT, AI & Telecommunications

LISBON – November 12, 2026 -- IBM selected LivXP, a Swiss-American agentic AI startup, as winner of its Sports Tech Startup Prize Challenge at Web Summit Lisbon, ahead of six other finalists. The grand prize includes up to $100,000 toward a proof-of-concept project with IBM's Sports and Entertainment Partnership Team.

Prize package carries conditions on funding and credits

The $100,000 is earmarked for an eligible proof-of-concept project and is subject to separate review and agreement requirements. The package also includes up to $20,000 in IBM credits for services and technology, plus mentorship and evaluation opportunities under the Official Rules.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ told delegates at AI Infrastructure Field Day that roughly 9,000 GPU nodes cost about $15.6 million in GPU hours for every 30 days they sat idle, according to a CIQ calculation based on one customer's deployment. The company used the figure to argue for building AI infrastructure from independent, replaceable layers instead of buying a single-vendor stack.

CIQ says AI stack layers change on one-to-three-month cycles

CIQ's presenter said every layer of the AI stack is changing at once, with some layers turning over every one to three months and hardware revised within a year. In the customer example, GPUs arrived before the rest of the data center was ready. Teams under production pressure often request a complete AI factory from one vendor, which commits them to that vendor's fixed view of the stack at one point in time.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ says Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro AI (RLC Pro AI) deploys a GPU node in 3 minutes 44 seconds on the happy path and delivered 18% more model-loading throughput than Ubuntu 24.04 with the HWE kernel. The company presented the results at AI Infrastructure Field Day.

RLC Pro AI ships CUDA, NVIDIA drivers and tested frameworks inside the OS

The Enterprise Linux distribution bundles CUDA, the NVIDIA drivers, and frameworks such as PyTorch and Ollama, all tested together. On other distributions, CIQ says, a new GPU node means finding the right driver, compiling kernel modules, adjusting boot parameters and rebooting before a matching framework can be installed.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ's Fuzzball orchestration software lets operators describe an HPC or AI job in one YAML file and run it across five cloud platforms and on-premises clusters, so a new workload type no longer requires a separate stack, according to a session at AI Infrastructure Field Day.

One YAML file defines compute, containers, data and job order

A Fuzzball workflow specifies the compute each job needs, the container images it runs, the data it uses and the sequence of jobs. A training job can request GPUs, and a serving job can depend on it. Deployment targets are AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, CoreWeave and Azure, alongside on-premises clusters. Where an operator runs more than one cluster, Fuzzball places each job by cost, performance and data locality.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- CIQ shipped fixed PHP 8.0 packages for Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro (RLC Pro) LTS 9.6 and 9.2 about three and a half hours after the PHP project released its PHP2Shell fix, covering a version upstream no longer supports.

CIQ built PHP 8.0.30 fixes from source-only upstream backports

The PHP project announced a critical security release the day before, disclosing only its severity. CIQ staffed up ahead of disclosure. The upstream fix went public just before 14:00 UTC, and within the hour the base PHP 8.0 fixes for both LTS releases were in review.

The project shipped fixed releases for PHP 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5. For PHP 8.0 it published only "minimal source-backports" and no official binaries. RLC Pro LTS 9.6 and 9.2 ship PHP 8.0.30, so CIQ engineers built, tested and published php-8.0.30-3.4.el9_6_ciq for LTS 9.6 and php-8.0.30-1.2.el9_2_ciq for LTS 9.2.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- Warewulf Pro 4.7 keeps stateless compute nodes joined to Active Directory across reboots by moving the join to the Warewulf server, using two overlays shipped in the warewulf-overlays-sssd package. Nodes never run realm join; the join happens once per node on the server.

Two overlays carry the join to every booting node

Warewulf nodes boot from a network-served image, so anything written to the root filesystem at runtime, including a realm join, disappears on reboot. The sssd system overlay configures SSSD and the Kerberos default realm on each node. The krb5.keytab runtime overlay delivers each node's Kerberos keytab from the server.

The node image needs the sssd, sssd-ad, adcli, krb5-workstation and authselect packages, with SSSD selected as the authentication profile. Not every Warewulf node image includes authselect, so it must be installed explicitly.

Global – November 10, 2026 -- The PHP project shipped fixes on October 21 for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, both rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0 and enabling unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) over HTTP. Dubbed PHP2Shell, the flaws sit in the language itself, so every application built on PHP inherits the exposure.

Wiz says every PHP version back to 5.4 is affected

Wiz, one of the groups that reported the bugs, says PHP powers 70% of the world's websites. Against Apache with mod_php, the attack works before any application code runs.

Tokyo – November 10, 2026 -- NTT, Inc. will become an Official Partner of the McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team for the 2027 season and beyond under a multi-year agreement with McLaren Racing, the companies announced on November 4, 2026.

AI security governance anchors the technology scope

NTT will help McLaren become the most AI-fluent team on the grid, with AI security governance at the core of the deal. NTT will support the framework used to manage security risks from AI use, and the companies describe this as an increasingly important function as the technology evolves. The stated aim is responsible and innovative AI adoption across the team.

SYDNEY – November 10, 2026 -- Microsoft will stop delivering SMS and Voice multi-factor authentication (MFA) through Microsoft Entra ID from 1 February 2027. Australian communications company Soprano Design has launched a replacement delivery route for customers that still depend on both methods.

Microsoft shifts Entra customers to their own telephony providers

Microsoft is retiring telephony-based authentication delivery as it moves towards passkeys as the default authentication experience. Organisations that need to retain SMS or Voice MFA must select and manage their own telephony provider.

Soprano Connect for Microsoft Entra goes on sale via the Microsoft Security Store

The product carries per-user and per-transaction pricing options. It targets organisations with a business, regulatory, technical or operational requirement to keep SMS or Voice MFA beyond 1 February 2027.

MELBOURNE, Australia – November 10, 2026 -- Cisco is adding Anthropic's Claude Mythos to its AI Defense red teaming framework, giving security teams frontier-level adversarial reasoning to stress-test AI applications and agents, while Splunk and Cisco IQ updates tie agent cost and infrastructure exposure to remediation workflows.

Adaptive red teaming with Claude Mythos is coming soon for select enterprises. Cisco launched AI Defense in January 2025 and says it has since helped hundreds of customers find critical flaws in AI models, applications and agents before production.