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For the first time in 14 years, the internet is getting a ton more generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). When the internet’s domain system started back in 1985, there were only a few primary TLDs: .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov and .mil. The number of TLDs grew in small fits and spurts until 2012 , when 1,241 new gTLDs were added. The internet has changed over the last 14 years, and now ICANN is openi…

Oracle has reportedly signed a five-year, $7 billion agreement to provide Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent with access to roughly 100,000 advanced AI accelerators deployed in Oracle data centers across Southeast Asia, helping Tencent to sidestep restrictions on advanced AI equipment. The deal, first reported by the Financial Times , would represent Tencent’s largest overseas cloud commitme…

What if the three remaining hard disk manufacturers became two? Seagate Technology and Western Digital control 90% of the market, according to market researcher TrendForce, with Toshiba picking up the crumbs. Seagate and WD both make their own magnetic drive heads, but Toshiba relies on a third party, TDK, which also sells to Seagate and WD when they need extra capacity. Seeking to guarantee supp…

For the third week running, Citrix has issued a critical security warning to customers managing their own NetScaler ADC and Netscaler Gateway instances, this time warning of a memory overflow vulnerability enabling denial of service or remote code execution. This week’s vulnerability affects ADC and Gateway when configured as a SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) identity provider (IdP); ol…

Enterprise organizations typically use six to eight observability tools, creating integration, staffing, and visibility challenges as network operations teams adopt AI to help manage complex IT environments, according to research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). EMA surveyed 356 enterprise IT professionals and found that tool sprawl is consuming engineering time, increasing staffing d…

AI clusters depend on two types of networking. Scale-up networking connects accelerators inside a rack. Scale-out networking connects racks across the data center. A single AI job spans both, which is a challenge for many organizations that tend to treat the two as separate networks. Networking startup Upscale today introduced Token Fabric to bring the two together. The architecture combines the …

ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on internet and cloud traffic performance. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, includ…

SonicWall has disclosed yet another critical flaw in one of its core products. CVE-2026-102255 , rated 10 in severity, the highest possible on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), is a pre-authentication server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the SMA1000 Appliance Work Place interface. An unintended access path could allow attackers to order the appliance to issue requests…

Arista sees Ethernet as the scale-up networking fabric of choice for AI and continues to build up its alternative to proprietary interconnects such as Nvidia’s NVLink technology. This week, Arista rolled out new Ethernet reference architectures as well as a raft of integration partnerships with industry players—including AMD, Arm, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, and Qualcomm—aimed at helping large ent…

Dell Technologies is expanding its Dell AI Data Platform with a set of capabilities designed to give enterprise AI agents a more complete view of corporate data, while accelerating the preparation of that data for AI workloads. The new capabilities are part of Dell’s broader AI Data Platform, which serves as the data foundation of its Dell AI Factory strategy. The company is adding three new feat…

With an emphasis on high performance and embedded security, HPE is rolling out the next generation of its ProLiant server family anchored by AMD’s EPYC 9006 processor. The ProLiant Gen 13 portfolio includes four new models that boost core density, memory bandwidth, and I/O for running heavy enterprise-class workloads. At the high end of the new server portfolio are the HPE ProLiant DL585 and DL58…

As the demand for AI infrastructure continues to outstrip available capacity, AMD is planning a substantial increase in CPU and GPU supply in 2027. During her recent visit to Taiwan, AMD CEO Lisa Su confirmed that the company is working to expand supply across its ecosystem and is now planning capacity three to five years ahead. Su told reporters that AMD has increased its supply and capacity in …

Cisco continues to fill out its portfolio of quantum network technology , this week adding a core control mechanism for distributed quantum networks. Cisco’s prototype Quantum Network Controller is designed to coordinate all components of a quantum network—including quantum computers, quantum memories, and quantum switches—and make them usable on one network, without an application having to unde…

Google is overhauling its cloud modernization portfolio by bringing its existing migration and modernization tools along with new agentic migration tools and a new Modernization Hub under a new Google Cloud Modernize umbrella to accelerate infrastructure and application transformation at enterprises. The new agentic tools include an EKS-to-GKE Migration Agent, designed to help enterprises move Ku…

Security teams face a time problem, and AI is making it worse. Attackers use AI to find flaws and write exploits faster than any human-staffed security operations center can respond, while most defensive tools still collect telemetry, ship it somewhere, normalize it, and only then analyze it. Each step adds delay, and in security, delay is exposure. GTT Communications believes the answer is to st…