IT, AI & Telecommunications

Boston – October 19, 2026 -- Aura (ASX: AXQ) will release its Q3 2026 financial results on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, before the ASX market opens, and will hold a webcast at 10:30am AEDT the same day to discuss results and business outlook.

Appendix 4C and activities report due Oct. 30

The online safety and wellbeing company will file its Appendix 4C and Quarterly Activities Report for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2026, on Friday, Oct. 30. That filing comes 13 days before the full Q3 results.

Webcast set for 6:30pm EST on Nov. 11 for U.S. investors

The earnings call starts at 10:30am AEDT on Nov. 12, which is 6:30pm EST on Nov. 11. Aura will post a replay on its investor relations website. Registration for the live session is handled through an online event platform.

William Lundregan, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, authorized the announcement.

San Jose – October 18, 2026 -- Linktel Technologies says its 1.6T Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) 2DR4 module runs at power consumption as low as 10W. The company presented the module to data center architects at the 2026 OCP Global Summit as a way to ease power and cooling loads in AI networks.

Linktel's DSP-free 1.6T LPO design targets latency and component bottlenecks

The linear optics architecture cuts signal processing delays, which Linktel describes as critical for high-performance AI scale-out fabrics. Eliminating the optical DSP also removes component choke points, according to the company, supporting scalability for mass deployments.

Linktel reported multi-switch platform interoperability at the early September 2026 1.6T LPO-MSA Plugfest. It describes that result as a foundation for the 200G-per-wavelength ecosystem.

Global – October 18, 2026 -- Coalition Incident Response (CIR) has documented rival Business Email Compromise (BEC) attackers using the names of inbox rules as a chat channel inside the same compromised mailbox, and says the exchanges expose gaps in default email platform security.

Two intruders negotiate and fight through rule names

Abusing inbox rules to evade detection (MITRE ATT&CK T1564.008) is a widespread tactic. Attackers use it to hide, redirect or forward emails containing keywords such as "invoice" or "confidential." In one CIR investigation, an attacker aware of a second intruder appeared willing to cooperate so that neither ruined the payout. In another incident, two actors fought over an inbox in a prolonged argument recorded as a sequence of rule names.

Texas – October 18, 2026 -- Third Wave Innovations, a Texas-based managed security service provider (MSSP), has eliminated dedicated Level 1 analyst triage from its core business after adopting Wirespeed Automated Detection and Response (ADR). The platform now filters background noise so the team receives only one or two meaningful items per week.

Legacy SIEM and XDR stack capped the MSSP's growth

Third Wave, which has served small and midsized businesses for nearly a decade, hit an operational ceiling while planning to expand its managed security offerings. Its heavy security information and event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR) architecture was complex and dependent on correlation. Analysts spent billable hours working through high-volume, low-context alerts and chasing minor events regardless of actual risk.

Global – October 18, 2026 -- Coalition says its Wirespeed platform cuts alert noise by 99.99% before any alert reaches a customer queue, replacing analyst-driven managed detection and response (MDR) with automated verdicts and containment in milliseconds.

Coalition acquired Wirespeed to address a bottleneck it attributes to legacy MDR: human analyst capacity. Adding headcount widens the alert queue and raises prices for customers without speeding up response, the company argues. Forrester Research recognized Coalition in its report The Managed Detection And Response Services Landscape, Q3 2026.

Global – October 18, 2026 -- Citrix confirmed on September 27 that two critical NetScaler zero-day vulnerabilities, each scoring 9.5 in severity, were exploited in the wild. According to cyber insurer Coalition, the vendor's public communications lagged the first reports by at least 36 hours.

Two flaws allow remote code execution on unpatched NetScaler appliances

CVE-2026-88771 is a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw that lets an unauthenticated attacker run arbitrary commands. CVE-2026-88772 is a memory overflow vulnerability that can lead to RCE or a denial-of-service condition. The Citrix patch also fixes six other flaws, bringing the total to eight.

NetScaler provides remote access to internal applications and desktops and is often exposed directly to the internet, which makes it a frequent target. Enterprises across all industries use it.

Global -- Coalition sent just 49 Zero-Day Alerts (ZDAs) between May 1 and October 18, 2026, even as Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday swelled to 569 vulnerabilities, and 94% of its policyholders did not receive a single one.

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday count nearly triples in one month

June's Patch Tuesday set a record with 206 vulnerabilities. July's release nearly tripled that to 569. Before Microsoft adopted multi-model AI for vulnerability discovery, it typically shipped around 100 fixes a month. Windows said in July that it would apply AI across security analysis to find flaws earlier and at greater scale, which Coalition says likely contributed to the jump.

Attackers are also moving faster. Anthropic disclosed earlier this year that Mythos could create working exploits for newly discovered vulnerabilities in hours rather than weeks.

Global – October 18, 2026 -- ConnectWise is investigating attempted unauthorized access to its Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365 service, formerly SkyKick Cloud Backup, after disclosing the incident on October 16. The company says containment measures are in place and it has no indication that partner backup data was accessed. The investigation is ongoing.

Community reports allege attacker used the backup app's Entra credentials

Separate reports in the MSP community describe an attacker using the backup service's Microsoft Entra application to enter customer tenants and exfiltrate email, SharePoint and Teams data. ConnectWise has not confirmed these reports.

ConnectWise published indicators tied to the suspicious authentication activity: source IP 144.172.64.128 and the user agents Python-urllib/3.12 and python-requests/2.31. The company notes that their presence alone does not confirm compromise.

Paris – October 17, 2026 -- SAP intends to acquire TechWolf, a skills-intelligence vendor that Brandon Hall Group says surfaces in nearly every in-depth enterprise skills discussion it holds with clients.

TechWolf's context graph is meant to ground SAP's Joule agents

SAP says TechWolf's context graph can serve as a grounding layer for agent queries. According to SAP, that foundation can make token usage more efficient and make Joule more intelligent in skills-based hiring, workforce planning and role redesign.

Brandon Hall Group Chief Strategy Officer commentary frames the deal as broader than skills. TechWolf increasingly pairs Skills Intelligence, Work Intelligence and Market Intelligence. That model links individual tasks, the skills employees apply and conditions in the external labor market.

Global – October 17, 2026 -- Brandon Hall Group began tracking Workforce Intelligence as a distinct HCM technology category in 2025, arguing that vendors using the term are often describing different capabilities.

Brandon Hall Group defines Workforce Intelligence as continuous, connected understanding of workforce and work

The analyst firm defines the category as the continuous understanding of the workforce, the work being performed, available skills and the external talent market, using connected data to improve workforce and business decisions. Workforce movement is central to that definition: hires, exits, internal moves, and shifts in turnover, attendance, scheduling, compensation and employee sentiment.