SUNDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2026
VARINDIA
Quick reads covering the latest enterprise technology, cybersecurity, cloud, AI, channel and industry developments.
Round About
Elon Musk has turned a licensing delay into a very public war with Asia’s richest man. Accusing unnamed “oligarchs” of a “monopolistic chokehold” and…
2026-10-17 16:54:37
Breaking News
CapitaLand Investment’s first Tamil Nadu data centre, unveiled by Singapore Deputy PM Gan Kim Yong and Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, will add 53 MW of capacity by end-2026,…
2026-10-17 16:41:47
Investments
American Express National Bank has been hit with a $350 million civil money penalty by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the main US banking regulator, over seri…
2026-10-17 16:01:45
Breaking News
Google has widened its Android Earthquake Alerts System from 98 to nearly 200 countries and regions, while adding richer details to warnings so people can act faster in the seconds…
2026-10-17 15:41:54
Breaking News
India’s national cyber agency says autonomous AI tools have entered organisational networks without permission, in some cases shrinking the gap between intrusion and damage t…
2026-10-17 15:21:11
Software
GoDaddy released a significant expansion to the GoDaddy Developer Platform, adding APIs for hosting, professional email and commerce. Building on the domain APIs introduced in July…
2026-10-17 00:00:00
Breaking News
Adobe and NVIDIA have widened their partnership to make Photoshop, Premiere and other apps run faster, speed up cloud video handling in Frame.io, and power more personalised custom…
2026-10-17 14:18:33
Breaking News
OpenAI has equipped ChatGPT with the ability to view, compare and act on pages open in Google Chrome, while a separate voice upgrade adds new voices and stronger support for Hindi…
2026-10-17 13:31:58
Breaking News
More than 400 researchers across 34 nations, among them AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, want a global authority to set containment rules and track serious security f…
2026-10-17 13:04:17
Round About
Bank of America has deployed 1,000 contractors alongside 3,000 internal staff to patch a wave of software vulnerabilities uncovered by Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model, layi…
2026-10-17 10:39:53
Breaking News
Canada-based Fairfax Financial Holdings will acquire a 60.72% stake in IDBI Bank for Rs 52,878 crore ($5.47 billion), following an approval from the Cabinet Committee on Economic A…
2026-10-16 17:58:47
Breaking News
The Department of Telecommunications has ordered operators to roll out Calling Name Presentation on 4G and higher networks nationwide, showing verified subscriber names alongside n…
2026-10-16 17:40:33
Data Center
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has launched four new ProLiant Gen13 servers built for agentic AI, inference and high-performance computing, featuring industry-first automatic encryptio…
2026-10-16 17:34:32
Breaking News
Meta has launched a new open-weight AI model which it claims can outperform similar products from leading Chinese developers. Meta's chief of AI Alexandr Wang wrote on X that Muse…
2026-10-16 17:30:39
Movers & Shakers
STL Networks, operating under the Invenia brand, has announced the appointments of Kiran Patel as Head of Design & Operations - Data Center and Gaurav Barjatiya as Chief Sales & Ma…
2026-10-16 00:00:00
Breaking News
Speaking at the IPO press conference, Akash Ambani outlined plans to take Jio’s in-house network technology overseas, expand its fixed wireless broadband and move toward 6G t…
2026-10-16 17:00:30
Movers & Shakers
AI-native cyber-platform provider, Acronis has announced the appointment of Prakash Panjwani as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. He succeeds Jan-Jaap “JJ&rdquo…
2026-10-16 16:39:01
Breaking News
Microsoft President Brad Smith has rejected the White House’s H-1B abuse allegations as “completely off base,” cautioning that curbs on skilled immigration could…
2026-10-16 16:17:10
Breaking News
Security, administrative and technical personnel at the Presidential Estate learned to spot online fraud, report suspicious activity and safeguard digital evidence in a Delhi Polic…
2026-10-16 15:59:06
Movers & Shakers
Appointment brings extensive technology investment and ecosystem experience as E2E advances its vision of building India’s Sovereign AI Factory E2E Networks , an AI infrastru…
2026-10-16 15:32:32
Technomania
Buyer activity jumped 1.8 times during the festive window, then fell back to pre-season levels within a month, as entry-level buyers use discounts to trade up to mid-range phones r…
2026-10-16 15:22:49
WHITE PAPER
Whitepaper highlights human oversight, verifiable AI decisions, and safety controls for high-consequence applications OptiValueTek , a technology and strategic advisory firm, has o…
2026-10-16 14:58:42
TELECOM
At Vi, the thought ‘Vi Pe Sab Hain VIP’ is built on the belief that meaningful benefits should be accessible to everyone. Continuing to bring this promise to life, Vi a…
2026-10-16 14:49:06
Cloud Computing
Akamai announced a new wave of customer adoption for its Akamai Cloud Computing services. Leading software, digital media, and technology organizations are expanding their reliance…
2026-10-16 14:40:19