IT, AI & Telecommunications

Berlin – November 09, 2026 -- Cyber risk has risen in every industry group examined by Mittelstand-Digital, even though cybersecurity levels improved in eight of ten groups, according to the study cited by information security consultant Joachim Reinke of einfachISO. He identifies five recurring misjudgments that leave German mid-sized companies exposed.

Automated scans make small companies targets by default

Many SMEs assume criminals ignore them. Attackers often deploy automated programs that search the internet for known vulnerabilities, test stolen credentials and send phishing emails in bulk. Criminals typically assess a victim's value only after breaching it.

Dortmund – November 09, 2026 -- Task Force IT-Consulting GmbH has released CMOne Agentic, an extension of its CMOne change-management system that lets AI agents develop, compile and unit-test changes to legacy IBM i applications. The product has been available since the fourth quarter of 2026 and is already in production use at fashion company LERROS.

CMOne MCP server gives AI agents application context without system access

The technical core is the CMOne MCP server, built on the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for giving AI systems access to information and tools. Through it, agents see the links between programs, their dependencies, the commands needed to edit them, and ongoing tasks, projects and changes already in quality assurance. The agents never access the IBM i system directly. All sources, information and commands pass through the MCP server.

Taipei – November 09, 2026 -- Acer Inc. (TWSE: 2353) reported consolidated October revenues of NT$26.39 billion, the highest for the month in five years and up 24.3% year-on-year. Year-to-October revenues reached NT$275.94 billion, up 24.0% and the highest for the period in 13 years.

PC revenues rise 21.1% year-to-October, led by desktops and commercial lines

Total PC revenues grew 17.8% year-on-year in October and 21.1% year-to-October. Desktop PC revenues rose 34.4% in October and 30.5% year-to-date.

The commercial line was the strongest core category over the longer period, growing 42.2% in October and 37.7% year-to-October.

Chromebook revenues double in October while tablets surge 756.3%

Chromebook revenues climbed 113.5% year-on-year in October, though year-to-October growth was a more modest 13.7%. Tablet revenues jumped 756.3% in October and 54.3% year-to-October.

SAN FRANCISCO – November 09, 2026 -- Nozomi Networks' Vantage for Government has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate certification, giving U.S. federal agencies an AI-powered, cloud-based platform for securing operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) environments.

Nozomi describes the product as the only AI-powered cloud platform purpose-built for large-scale government deployments. It centralizes management of OT and IoT security sensors and gives federal security teams a consolidated view of their cyber posture. The company says this speeds response times, strengthens compliance and reduces operational overhead.

Vantage for Government matches the commercial platform feature for feature

The government edition offers full feature parity with Nozomi's commercial platform, adapted to meet FedRAMP Moderate requirements. It has four core capability areas:

Shenzhen – November 09, 2026 -- Huawei has been placed in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure Platform Consumption Services. It is one of only three vendors worldwide in that tier and the only Chinese company among them. It is also the only non-North American vendor to make the Leaders group.

Gartner evaluates platform capability, service delivery and operations management

The report assesses vendors on IT infrastructure platform capabilities, service-oriented delivery and operations management. Huawei's entry is its DCS data center solution, which draws on 18 years of technical work. DCS combines storage, compute, network, virtualization, data and AI, and intelligent management functions.

Shenzhen – November 08, 2026 -- Gartner has named Tencent Cloud a Leader for its EdgeOne edge security and acceleration platform in the inaugural Magic Quadrant for Edge Distribution Platforms. The report cites the company's Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

EdgeOne runs on 3,200 edge nodes and a 400 Tbps backbone

The platform spans more than 3,200 edge nodes in over 70 countries. Its backbone network exceeds 400 Tbps and carries both inbound China traffic and international traffic. Tencent Cloud targets enterprises expanding overseas or entering the Chinese market.

Customers span finance, media, e-commerce, logistics, ticketing, aviation and hospitality. Gaming and video are the latency-critical anchor sectors.

STOCKHOLM – November 09, 2026 -- Ericsson holds 131,415,894 Class B shares in treasury following its latest repurchases, made between November 2 and November 6, 2026, under a buyback program of up to SEK 15 billion.

Buyback program runs through March 31, 2027

Ericsson announced the program on April 16, 2026. Repurchases started on April 23, 2026, and can continue until March 31, 2027 at the latest. The source release does not give the volumes or prices for the week; those are in a transaction breakdown attached to the announcement.

Board plans to cancel most repurchased shares

The Board of Directors intends to propose to the 2027 Annual General Meeting that the repurchased shares be cancelled. Shares used to fulfil Ericsson's obligations under its share-related incentive programs are excluded from the proposed cancellation.

REDMOND, Wash. – November 09, 2026 -- Halfpricesoft.com has released ezW2 2026, a desktop application that prepares and submits Forms W-2, W-3, 1099-NEC and 1096 directly to the SSA and IRS, built around the IRS 10-return electronic filing mandate.

Employers face February 1, 2027 deadlines for W-2, W-3 and 1099-NEC

Employers must furnish Copies B, C and 2 of Form W-2 to employees by February 1, 2027. The date moves from January 31 because that day falls on a Sunday. The statutory deadline for sending Forms W-2 and W-3 to the SSA, and Form 1099-NEC to the IRS, is also February 1, 2027, whether filed on paper or electronically.

FREMONT, Calif. – November 09, 2026 -- Niagara Networks has launched TLS 1.3 decryption for its ePacketron platform that delivers more than 90 Gbps of throughput and scales to 1 million concurrent decrypted sessions, according to the company's own performance testing.

The upgrade supports up to 110,000 new decrypted TLS sessions per second. It also adds Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)-aware selective inspection and post-quantum key-exchange support.

ECH adoption erodes hostname-based monitoring

ECH, defined in RFC 9849, protects sensitive TLS handshake information, including the actual destination hostname. That reduces the effectiveness of conventional passive monitoring and hostname-based security policies. Post-quantum cryptography adds new key-exchange mechanisms that security infrastructure must support to keep inspecting traffic.

Seattle – November 09, 2026 -- MIND has launched DLP for Agentic AI, a data-centric security product that identifies active AI agents across the enterprise and on endpoints, detects risky data access in real time, and autonomously alerts and remediates issues.

MIND targets data access before AI agents act

Agentic AI can autonomously create, access, transform and share data across SaaS applications, local devices, homegrown systems and third-party tools. MIND says that without clear visibility and controls, the resulting data security gaps can slow AI adoption and put business outcomes at risk.

The company says it secures the data rather than the models or their outputs. Sensitive data is understood, governed and protected before any AI agent can access or act on it.