IT, AI & Telecommunications

San Francisco – November 06, 2026 -- Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) has named six keynote speakers for ONE Summit Japan 2026, from SoftBank, NTT, NGMN Alliance, AI-RAN Alliance, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Linux Foundation. The event runs Dec. 10-11 in Tokyo alongside Open Source Summit Japan.

Operators, alliances and the Pentagon fill the keynote stage

The lineup includes Ryuji Wakikawa, head of the Research Institute of Advanced Technology at SoftBank, and Masahisa Kawashima, IOWN technology director at NTT. Marlan Macklin, deputy principal director for FutureG in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, will also speak. Anita Döhler, CEO of NGMN Alliance, and Alex Choi, executive director of AI-RAN Alliance, complete the external speakers. Arpit Joshipura, general manager of Networking, Edge & IoT at the Linux Foundation, will also present.

Englewood, Colorado – November 06, 2026 -- WOW! Internet has appointed Gregory M. Casey, a government affairs executive with more than 15 years of experience, as director of government affairs. The hire comes as the fiber-broadband provider expands its network following its take-private by DigitalBridge and Crestview.

Casey takes charge of federal, state and local policy relationships

Casey will lead WOW!'s relationships with federal, state and local officials, as well as civic and community stakeholders, across its markets. He will advocate for the company's public policy priorities, including legislation and regulations that affect broadband deployment.

Riverside, Calif. – November 06, 2026 -- KORE Group Holdings, Inc., a global Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity provider, has selected 3CLogic to replace disjointed legacy telephony systems with a voice AI and contact center platform built natively inside ServiceNow Customer Service Management (CSM).

KORE targets manual logging and fragmented agent desktops

KORE handles a high volume of complex technical inquiries. Its legacy telephony stack forced agents into manual call logging, limited data visibility and fragmented desktops, which hurt productivity. The company's stated goals are to end "swivel-chair" work between systems, cut Average Handle Time (AHT) and give agents and supervisors one workspace.

HERNDON, Va. – November 05, 2026 -- ePlus inc. (NASDAQ: PLUS) reported record quarterly gross billings of $1,066.8 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2027, up 4.3% from $1,022.7 million, and raised its full-year guidance after net sales climbed 9.7% to $667.9 million.

The company now expects fiscal 2027 net sales and gross profit to grow in the upper single digits year over year. It expects adjusted EBITDA to grow in the low double digits.

Product sales rise 12.8% on cloud and security demand

Product segment sales increased to $547.1 million from $485.0 million, driven by cloud, security and collaboration products. A decline in networking products partly offset the gains. Segment gross margin widened to 25.8% from 24.5% on a shift in product mix and higher sales of third-party maintenance, subscriptions and services recognized on a net basis.

Berlin – November 05, 2026 -- The Wirtschaftsrat der CDU is presenting Federal Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger with its AI strategy paper "Deutschland 2030 - Auf dem Weg zur KI-Nation" at the Wirtschaftstag der Innovationen (WTI) in Berlin. The paper outlines how Germany can take a leading role in industrial AI application and how the Mittelstand can be supported in a targeted way.

The event runs under the theme "Empowering Europe: Digitale Souveränität als Standortfaktor und Wettbewerbsmotor". It is streamed free of charge from 9:00 to 20:30 on wti26.de.

Broomfield – November 05, 2026 -- Quantinuum Inc. (Nasdaq: QNT) raised its full-year 2026 revenue outlook to $31 million to $34 million, up from $28 million to $32 million, after third-quarter revenue rose 233% year-over-year to $9.1 million from $2.7 million.

Losses widen as margins improve

GAAP gross margin reached 33.3%, compared with negative 43.5% a year earlier. Adjusted gross margin was 74.6%, up 853 basis points year-over-year.

Losses grew alongside revenue. Adjusted EBITDA loss was $80 million, against $45 million in the prior-year period. GAAP net loss was $118 million, against $52 million, or $0.46 per Class A share. Adjusted net loss per share was $0.29. Cash and cash equivalents stood at $1.94 billion on September 30, 2026.

CEO Rajeeb Hazra said the momentum gives the company "more confidence than ever" in its opportunity.

Scottsdale – November 05, 2026 -- Axon has made the largest single investment in its history, putting $1.2 billion into drone maker Skydio and raising its fully diluted ownership to 37%. The company also became Skydio's exclusive public safety distributor in the U.S. and Canada, and reported third-quarter Software & Services revenue up 43% year over year to $437 million.

Skydio deal extends Axon's reach into Drone as First Responder

Skydio expects about $1 billion of bookings this fiscal year. Axon says deployed Skydio docks through Axon Air have more than doubled year over year.

Axon acts as a direct channel partner, and revenue is recognized on a net basis in Software & Services. Axon plans to combine Skydio with Axon 911, Axon Fusus, digital evidence and Dedrone airspace security into one integrated platform. Skydio remains free to pursue aerial robotics across other industries.

CHICAGO – November 05, 2026 -- The share of enterprise software buyers allocating more than 10% of their IT budget to AI rose from 23% in 2025 to 74% in 2026, according to a new West Monroe survey that also finds sellers misreading buyer behavior on build-vs-buy decisions, AI priorities and pricing.

The consulting firm's report, The New Rules of Enterprise Software & AI Spend, adds a seller perspective to last year's buyer-only baseline. It was conducted online in Q3 2026 among 300 U.S. executives. Buyer respondents represented organizations with at least $100 million in annual revenue. Seller respondents represented technology and software companies with at least $30 million in annual revenue.

DELRAY BEACH – November 05, 2026 -- The global time-sensitive networking (TSN) market will grow from USD 0.50 billion in 2026 to USD 3.96 billion by 2032, a CAGR of 41.3%, according to MarketsandMarkets.

Industrial automation replaces proprietary fieldbus with deterministic Ethernet

Expanding industrial automation and edge data processing are increasing the number of connected Ethernet nodes in each facility. As demand for deterministic performance rises and network architectures converge, TSN is displacing traditional proprietary fieldbus solutions. Operators are adopting IEEE 802.1AS for time synchronization, IEEE 802.1Qbv for time-aware shaping, and centralized network configuration architectures. Emerging applications include industrial robotics, motion control, predictive maintenance and automotive zonal architectures.

Global – November 05, 2026 -- CIQ patched every affected kernel stream, more than a dozen across three major releases, within 72 hours of the first customer report on critical Linux vulnerability CVE-2026-98432, which carries a CVSS score of 9.8. The first fixed kernels reached CIQ repositories about 45 hours after the first customer questions.

Anthropic exploit demonstration raised the vulnerability's priority

On Tuesday, October 27, Anthropic reported a working proof-of-concept exploit for the flaw. Many CVEs are patched without proof of exploitability, so a demonstrated exploit raised the priority beyond what the severity score alone indicated. The kernel's CVE Numbering Authority assigned the 9.8 score.

The bug is a use-after-free in the Linux kernel's IPv4 TCP code, triggered by IP options on incoming connections. A network-based attacker can exploit the kernel's continued use of memory it has already released.