IT, AI & Telecommunications

McLean – October 14, 2026 -- Altair Semiconductor is integrating Iridium NTN Direct into its ALT1350 and next-generation ALT1550 IoT chipset platforms, so device makers can add satellite connectivity without a separate satellite modem, Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) announced.

Single chipset combines terrestrial cellular and Iridium satellite links

Device manufacturers, module makers and mobile network operators (MNOs) get terrestrial cellular IoT and Iridium satellite connectivity on one chip. Iridium NTN Direct is a 3GPP standards-based non-terrestrial network (NTN) service. It runs on Iridium's low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation and globally coordinated L-band spectrum, and supports NB-IoT and direct-to-device (D2D) applications on compatible chipsets.

New York – October 14, 2026 -- Cyphlens has made in-document encryption generally available, letting AI tools read a contract while the confidential terms inside it stay unreadable. The company was also named a 2026 Gartner Cool Vendor in the "Coolest Vendor Innovations in Data Security" report.

Cyphlens replaces selected document regions with ciphertext in place

In one example, AI reviewing a customer agreement can find the renewal deadline but sees a cipher where the negotiated price would be. Only an authorized person can reveal the protected information.

The file remains an ordinary Word or PDF, with no encrypted container. Each protected region carries its own recipients, so one document can disclose different content to different readers. The capability is applied through a Cyphlens skill for Claude.

North Little Rock – October 14, 2026 -- Caliber Public Safety has launched Caliber OneView, an add-on for Caliber Online RMS that lets officers search and cross-reference agency records with plain-English questions, cutting tasks such as monthly command reports from up to a week to an instant, built-in process.

OneView replaces separate screen searches with a single cross-referenced query

Law enforcement users currently search separate screens for people, vehicles, citations and incidents. OneView runs that cross-referencing automatically. An officer can, for example, find a subject using a physical description plus a pre-set tag such as a firearm on file, narrowing thousands of records and surfacing links between people, vehicles and addresses.

Singapore – October 14, 2026 -- DayOne Data Centers has upsized its senior secured multi-currency syndicated term financing in Malaysia to approximately US$7.2 billion and surpassed 1GW of Billings, the Singapore-headquartered data center platform said.

Seven-lender consortium doubles Johor debt package from May 2025 level

A seven-lender consortium arranged the upsized financing, which supports continued development of DayOne's data center platform in Johor. It builds on the approximately US$3.5 billion syndicated financing the company secured in May 2025.

Since 2024, DayOne has raised over US$6 billion in equity across several financing rounds. It has also drawn project financing from more than 30 local and global banking partners.

Vienna – October 14, 2026 -- Fibocom is showing a 5G-Advanced fixed wireless access (FWA) module that adds Upper 6GHz (U6G) support and delivers peak 5G downlink speeds of up to 10Gbps. The FG390-MEA-30 variant is on display at NetworkX 2026.

FG390-MEA-30 adds NR n104 and cross-band aggregation with Sub-6GHz

The module is built on MediaTek's 3GPP Release 18 T930 platform. It supports NR n104 and works alongside Sub-6GHz bands through carrier aggregation combinations including CA_n41A-n104A and CA_n78A-n104A. Fibocom says pairing U6G bandwidth with established Sub-6GHz coverage raises throughput while keeping connectivity reliable.

The module targets customer premises equipment (CPE), outdoor units (ODUs) and enterprise gateways. Fibocom says it simplifies product development, streamlines certification and shortens time to market.

Singapore – October 14, 2026 -- NTT, Inc. held 79 business meetings between NTT Group companies and Asian startups at its second Partnership Day in Singapore on September 3, 2026, after 20 partner organizations submitted 325 startup recommendations.

Nine NTT Group companies set the challenges for startups

The recommendations responded to business and regional challenges presented by nine NTT Group companies. The source names NTT EAST, NTT WEST, NTT DATA, NTT DOCOMO GLOBAL, NTT DOCOMO SOLUTIONS, NTT Advanced Technology, NTT TechnoCross and NTT Com Ashi, plus one other company. Selection and advance coordination preceded the meetings.

NTT DATA joins fully and partner network grows from 15 to 20

NTT fully launched collaboration with the NTT DATA Group in 2026 and broadened the range of challenges covered by the program. It also expanded the partner organization base from 15 to 20 after the first Partnership Day in 2025.

Seattle – October 14, 2026 -- Chainguard has launched Chainguard Checks in Beta, a continuous verification engine that returns signed, trusted test results to developers and AI agents in seconds, before code reaches a pull request.

The product targets a bottleneck created by agentic development. Traditional CI was built for developers who push code a few times a day, while agents iterate constantly. Every change lands in the same queue, and results often return after the agent has lost its working context. Teams also pay repeatedly for the same setup work.

Chainguard Checks suspends agent sessions during test runs to halt compute use

Chainguard Checks works with the newly launched Chainguard Workspaces. An agent session suspends while checks execute, which stops compute consumption. It then resumes in seconds, with structured failure logs injected directly into its context so it can iterate until tests pass.

Seattle – October 14, 2026 -- Chainguard has launched Chainguard Harness, a cyber harness that runs frontier AI models such as Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5.1 against a live build of a customer's application and delivers only reproduced vulnerabilities, each paired with an engineer-reviewed fix. The product is available through the Claude Marketplace by Anthropic, so enterprises can buy it with their existing Anthropic commitment.

Harness tests running applications in isolated microVMs instead of scanning static code

Harness connects to a team's repository through the Guardener GitHub app, builds the application as it ships, and boots it in an isolated microVM. A frontier model then probes the running instance the way an attacker would. Chainguard says this approach surfaces logic flaws, injection paths and resource exhaustion bugs that appear only at runtime and that traditional static scanners miss.

San Antonio – October 14, 2026 -- Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has won Frost & Sullivan's 2026 Asia-Pacific Customer Value Leadership Recognition in data centre infrastructure and operations, backed by a portfolio approaching two gigawatts of capacity at the time of assessment.

Frost & Sullivan scored PDG on strategy effectiveness and execution across varied APAC markets

The analyst firm benchmarks candidates on two dimensions: strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. It said PDG performed strongly on both, aligning growth with hyperscale customer demand while executing consistently in markets that differ in infrastructure maturity, regulation, power availability and construction ecosystems.

Kirkland, Wash. – October 14, 2026 -- Seventy-seven percent of security leaders expect an attacker to exploit a software vulnerability at their organization within 12 months, while 54% admit their companies knowingly leave high or critical vulnerabilities unpatched at least sometimes, according to a Chainguard report surveying 1,300 security leaders.

The report, titled The AI Exploit Gap, measures the distance between how fast AI-powered tools can find and chain vulnerabilities and how fast human teams can fix them. Ninety-one percent of respondents say AI-accelerated attacks have changed their job more than anything else in the past decade. Ninety-three percent worry their companies cannot remediate AI-driven exploits quickly enough.