WEDNESDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 2026
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Quick reads covering the latest enterprise technology, cybersecurity, cloud, AI, channel and industry developments.
Breaking News
The StopAndProtect campaign turned compromised WordPress websites into infrastructure for malware distribution, command-and-control operations and data theft, exposing visitors and…
2026-08-25 16:36:35
CSR Initiatives
PwC India and SAP India today announced an 18-month long immersive skill development programme for engineering students in the country. This initiative aims to equip students with…
2026-08-25 16:11:13
Breaking News
The acquisition will strengthen Infineon’s power-management portfolio for AI data centres while expanding its digital power capabilities and semiconductor research footprint…
2026-08-25 15:55:17
MagazineCoverage
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming more capable at discovering vulnerabilities, writing exploits and automating cyberattacks. A recent Hugging Face security experiment, wh…
2026-08-25 15:41:19
MagazineCoverage
Microsoft has warned business travellers about CaptiveCrunch, a cyberespionage campaign targeting hotel, airport, conference, and other public Wi-Fi networks. The campaign reported…
2026-08-25 15:35:28
MagazineCoverage
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to equip every field officer and agent with a body-worn camera by the end of August, marking a major expansion of technology ac…
2026-08-25 15:27:37
MagazineCoverage
India is entering a transformative era in artificial intelligence. AI spending is growing 2.2 times faster than overall digital technology investment and is expected to generate mo…
2026-08-25 15:18:31
MagazineCoverage
Lithium-ion batteries have become essential to modern travel, powering smartphones, laptops, cameras and power banks. But their growing presence aboard aircraft is creating a serio…
2026-08-25 14:57:08
MagazineCoverage
As AI systems become increasingly autonomous, security can no longer be an afterthought. Guardrails must be embedded into AI architecture from the beginning, ensuring systems opera…
2026-08-25 14:45:21
New Arrival
Ahead of its October debut, Google will reportedly make the screenless fitness tracker, the Fitbit Air, available for sale in offline retail stores in India. An X user shared photo…
2026-08-25 14:33:03
AI/ML
With key Digital Personal Data Protection Act requirements taking effect on May 13, 2027, Indian enterprises are preparing for new obligations around consent, personal data protect…
2026-08-25 14:27:24
Breaking News
IBM announced the first dual-architecture mainframe processor at the Hot Chips conference on Tuesday, designed to let enterprises run operating systems and applications on both IBM…
2026-08-25 14:22:31
Breaking News
As part of its ongoing crackdown on malicious loan apps, the Ministry of Home Affairs' Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) has directed Google to remove or disable three mo…
2026-08-25 14:14:27
Security
Mobile threat activity in Asia-Pacific is becoming more concentrated, with attackers focusing on a smaller pool of users and targeting each of them far more persistently, according…
2026-08-25 14:14:21
Breaking News
Calling the allegations “baseless and inaccurate”, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has rejected reports that it is using monitoring software to track individual employe…
2026-08-25 13:10:34
Movers & Shakers
Trellix has announced the appointments of David Pieterse as Chief Operating Officer - Go-To-Market (COO-GTM) and David Soto as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) . The appoi…
2026-08-25 12:59:54
TELECOM
Indian service providers are among the most confident of 12 global markets surveyed by Ciena on the revenue potential of AI-driven network services, with 67% strongly agreeing such…
2026-08-25 12:48:01
Breaking News
India is looking to clear regulatory hurdles for semiconductor equipment and auto component manufacturers. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said that new rules will be introduced wit…
2026-08-25 12:38:52
Channel Buzz
RAH Infotech has entered into a strategic partnership with Quantera Technologies , an Australian cybersecurity company, to bring its cyber risk assessment, security visibility, gov…
2026-08-25 12:35:31
Startup
Defense hardware startup Mara is raising $7 million in pre-seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to develop Spike, an automated counter-drone platform designed to protect military fo…
2026-08-25 12:08:23
Techno Blogging
Across nearly every regulated-industry AI story this year — India's DPDP Act , government deepfake detection, banking Secret Manager deployments, It is an appliance — t…
2026-08-25 11:59:06
Security
Microsoft Defender faces another security challenge after researchers disclosed ShieldBreak, an elevation-of-privilege technique that reportedly bypasses Microsoft's earlier fix fo…
2026-08-25 11:53:02
Investments
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is set to acquire Porsche AG’s automotive and consulting business MHP at an enterprise value of €320 million, or approximately $373 milli…
2026-08-25 11:48:47
Breaking News
SpaceX ’s reported $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor signals a major shift in the AI race—from competition between individual models toward vertically integra…
2026-08-25 11:32:37