IT, AI & Telecommunications

PALO ALTO – – October 09, 2026 -- Anjuna Security's Anjuna Northstar, billed as the first AI model and data fusion clean room, has won the "Data Privacy Solution of the Year" award in the 10th annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards.

The 2026 program drew thousands of nominations from organizations in more than 20 countries, according to the organizer. CyberSecurity Breakthrough is part of Tech Breakthrough LLC, which states that its recognition reflects its own opinions and not statements of fact.

Northstar targets the limits of legacy clean rooms for AI workloads

Anjuna Northstar runs on Anjuna Seaglass, the company's Universal Confidential Computing Platform. The vendor says code and data stay protected from ingestion through processing to analysis. The product is aimed at AI operations teams and data scientists, who can share sensitive data with partners, develop and run models, and obtain results without exposing the underlying data.

Blue Bell, Pa. – October 08, 2026 -- Unisys (NYSE: UIS) has been named a Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group's 2026 Digital Workplace Services PEAK Matrix Assessment for North America, advancing from a Major Contender ranking in 2025.

Unisys becomes one of four Star Performers recognized for year-over-year market gains

Everest Group evaluated 29 providers of digital workplace services across North America based on market impact, vision and capability. The firm attributed Unisys' advancement to its AI-enabled smart workplace tools, an experience-led employee support model and a differentiated field-services approach.

Northbrook – October 08, 2026 -- Old World Industries (OWI), maker of PEAK and Thermal Charge Heat Transfer Fluids, and critical-infrastructure monitoring firm Integrity Systems have formed a partnership to pair coolant chemistry expertise with real-time predictive analytics for data center cooling loops.

Partnership targets unscheduled downtime in AI-driven data centers

Rising AI and high-density computing workloads are straining cooling infrastructure, and operators currently rely largely on periodic laboratory testing to assess coolant condition. The OWI-Integrity Systems collaboration adds continuous field monitoring between testing intervals, aiming to flag changing cooling-loop conditions before they trigger failures.

Tel Aviv – October 08, 2026 -- NewCore, a next-generation identity provider for humans and AI agents, has been named Identity Management Platform of the Year by the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards, a global recognition program for information security innovation.

NewCore unifies identity governance for human and AI workforces under one architecture

The platform discovers identities across systems and directories, surfaces orphaned, dormant, and over-privileged accounts, and consolidates authentication, access, security, and governance into a single identity core. For AI agents specifically, NewCore enforces scoped and time-bound permissions, eliminates standing credentials, and provides continuous visibility into agent activity with rapid access revocation capability.

Atlanta – October 08, 2026 -- Sercomm Corporation (TWSE: 5388) is making its RDK Video Accelerator set-top box, built on the Broadcom BCM74116 chipset, available as reference hardware for application developers, the company said, deepening its collaboration with Broadcom and expanding the hardware options available to the RDK open-source community.

Device will also serve as a YouTube reference platform

The Sercomm 74116 platform is designed for application development, validation and testing on RDK, targeting next-generation video entertainment, interactive TV, cloud gaming and AI-enabled services. Beyond its role as an RDK reference device, the hardware will also function as a YouTube reference device.

New York and Tel Aviv – October 08, 2026 -- Rein Security has closed a $25 million Series A round, lifting total funding to $35 million as enterprises race to secure autonomous AI agents operating inside production systems. The round was co-led by Glilot Capital and Sienna Venture Capital, with participation from Corner Ventures, Atlacle and RNP Capital Advisors.

Gartner forecasts AI security spending to hit $7.7 billion by 2028

The market for securing AI is projected to reach nearly $4.8 billion in 2027, a 68.7% jump from 2026, before climbing to $7.7 billion in 2028, according to Gartner. Rein's platform uses patented sidecar technology that monitors agent activity at runtime without routing company or customer data through a gateway or proxy, giving security teams visibility into every line of code an agent executes.

New York – October 08, 2026 -- Corel has rolled out a Text-to-vector AI workflow in its September 2026 Update to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2026, letting designers convert written prompts into editable, scalable vector graphics directly inside the application. The update was reviewed by Consumer365, which flagged the feature as the centerpiece of the release alongside a reworked PowerTRACE engine and expanded CorelDRAW Web tools.

Text-to-vector tool turns prompts into editable vector objects

The new capability sits inside CorelDRAW's AI Generate docker, letting users start either from a text prompt or existing artwork. Output arrives as editable vector objects with manual node control, rather than locked raster images, and supports styles including Line art, Comic book, and Icon. Color handling follows the active document's color mode, aligning generated assets with existing production files.

Singapore – October 08, 2026 -- ONLYOFFICE has released version 10.0 of its open-source office suite, bundling context-aware AI tools, four new modular applications, and fixes for 35 security vulnerabilities. The autumn update packages roughly 50 new features and more than 1,000 bug fixes across the online, desktop, and mobile editors.

AI tools move directly into document, spreadsheet, and PDF editors

A dedicated AI tab with built-in chat now lets users draft, summarize, translate, and format content without exporting files to third-party tools. Legal teams can summarize contracts inside the editor, analysts can generate forecasts or Pivot Tables, and managers can convert raw notes into structured presentations using ready-made prompts and saved custom actions.

Barcelona – – October 08, 2026 -- Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) will convene over 600 speakers and an expected 27,000 attendees from November 3-5 at Barcelona's Gran Via venue, organized by Fira de Barcelona under the theme "Urban Solutions, Real Impact."

Four mayoral continents send representatives to Barcelona summit

The 2026 edition elevates its political profile with Anne Hidalgo, former Mayor of Paris and Global Ambassador of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, joined by Andre Dickens (Mayor of Atlanta), Haris Doukas (Mayor of Athens), Giuseppe Sala (Mayor of Milan), Gergely Karácsony (Mayor of Budapest), Daryl Barron (Lord Mayor of Dublin) and Yvonne Aki-Sawyer (Mayor of Freetown).

New Delhi – October 08, 2026 -- Fibocom and India-based IoT ODM Grid-OS are expanding their partnership to cover smart payment and vehicle tracking devices, unveiling new products at IMC 2026 as India's digital payments volume hits 24.51 billion UPI transactions in August 2026 alone, according to NPCI data.

Grid-OS showcases payment soundbox built on Fibocom's LE270 module

The Payment Soundbox uses Fibocom's LE270 LTE Cat 1 bis module to deliver stable 4G connectivity for real-time transaction alerts. The module's low-power design, optimized for connected-mode and DRX standby consumption, enables roughly 7-8 days of battery life on a 2000mAh battery.