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Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) Hardware News – June–July 2025

Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) Hardware News – June–July 2025

Azure announced in June 2025 that SGX-based DCsv2 confidential VM instances will be retired by June 30, 2026, with SGX capacity restrictions starting July 1, 2025 and a migration to DCasv5/ECasv5 or DCasv6/ECasv6 confidential VMs using AMD SEV-SNP or Intel TDX. Intel’s 5th-Gen Xeon Emerald Rapids processors with Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) are debuting in cloud services, with Microsoft Azure launching a preview of TDX-powered VMs in April 2025. Linux kernel 6.16, released mid-2025, merged host support for Intel TDX, signaling readiness for broad deployment. Google Cloud has generally available AMD SEV-SNP-based VMs on 4th Gen EPYC Genoa servers, enabling
10 July 2025
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Major ZTNA News and Trends – June & July 2025

Major ZTNA News and Trends – June & July 2025

On June 10, 2025, Cisco Live announced Universal ZTNA and AI-Era Security, including Universal Zero Trust Network Access that authenticates users, devices and AI agents, plus Hybrid Mesh Firewall and Splunk integrations. At Zenith Live on June 3, 2025, Zscaler unveiled the Zero Trust Everywhere Suite with Zero Trust Branch, Zero Trust Gateway for Cloud Workloads, AI-driven microsegmentation, a B2B Zero Trust Exchange, and disposable jumpboxes for contractors. DefensX announced its Premium+ Browser ZTNA on June 8, 2025, turning any modern browser into an enterprise-grade secure access platform with phishing-resistant authentication, identity protection, web threat isolation and data loss prevention.
10 July 2025
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Internet Access in Israel

Internet Access in Israel

In early 2024, 92.1% of Israelis—about 8.51 million people—were online, according to DataReportal. Israel has about 10.40 million mobile subscriptions, yielding 112.5% mobile penetration due to multi-SIM usage. Roughly 92.9% of Israelis live in urban areas, with 7.1% rural. Median speeds are high: fixed broadband 167.4 Mbps and mobile 40.2 Mbps (early 2024), and Speedtest ranked Israel around 16th worldwide for fixed broadband with a median of 226.6 Mbps in January 2025. Fiber deployment reached about 45% of homes by early 2024, up from about 35% in 2023, with Bezeq and Partner (Unlimited FTTH) as the main fiber players. HOT
10 July 2025
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Global Data Privacy & PETs Developments (June–July 2025)

Global Data Privacy & PETs Developments (June–July 2025)

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 19 June 2025 and updates UK GDPR with predefined “recognised legitimate interests”, higher PECR fines up to £17.5M or 4% of global turnover, and new Smart Data portability and digital identity frameworks. The European Commission extended the UK’s EU adequacy decision by six months to 27 December 2025 to reassess data protection adequacy. EU policy in May 2025 proposed GDPR simplification for SMEs, exempting organizations with fewer than 750 employees from processing records unless high-risk processing occurs. India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) entered into force in July
10 July 2025
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Global Digital Identity and Authentication Developments – June/July 2025

Global Digital Identity and Authentication Developments – June/July 2025

Intesi Group of Italy and iGrant of Sweden launched the EUDI Wallet Business Wallet, a cross-border platform that combines qualified electronic signatures with Qualified Electronic Attribute Attestations for legally binding transactions. Google and Germany’s Sparkasse announced a first-of-its-kind online age-verification service that uses Google Wallet’s Credential Manager API with zero-knowledge cryptography to enable one-click age checks without exposing personal data. authID and Prove joined to embed authID’s biometric selfie verification and the PrivacyKey tokenization feature into Prove’s onboarding platform to detect synthetic identities and deepfake impersonations. Evo Tech released Evolution 1.0, a modular AI-agent platform that analyzes images, video, audio,
10 July 2025
Hong Kong Drone Laws 2025: Comprehensive Guide to Regulations and Requirements

Hong Kong Drone Laws 2025: Comprehensive Guide to Regulations and Requirements

Hong Kong’s drone regime is governed by the Small Unmanned Aircraft Order (Cap. 448G) under the Civil Aviation Ordinance, which took effect on June 1, 2022 and became fully enforced on December 1, 2022. The framework uses a risk-based classification with Category A1 for drones up to 250 g, Category A2 for 250 g to 7 kg, and Category B for over 7 kg up to 25 kg. Category A1 is exempt from registration and most licensing, while Category A2 requires drone and remote-pilot registration, and Category B requires CAD permission and advanced training. Registration is via the CAD Electronic
10 July 2025
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

NASA deployed the WB-57 and UAVSAR-equipped Gulfstream III to support Texas flood recovery, delivering high-resolution real-time data despite persistent cloud cover, with over 110 fatalities and more than 170 missing. The European Launcher Challenge finalists are Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, MaiaSpace, PLD Space, and Orbex, each eligible for contracts up to €169 million. Airbus Defence and Space España will build two PAZ-2 radar satellites for Hisdesat, delivering sub-25 cm SAR imagery with AI analytics, and first in-service expected by 2031, with 65% of work performed by Spanish firms. India approved Starlink to operate under IN-SPACe for five years, allowing
10 July 2025
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Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories in Innovation, AI, and Consumer Devices / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories in Innovation, AI, and Consumer Devices / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

Nvidia becomes the world’s first publicly traded company to reach a $4 trillion market capitalization in July 2025, reflecting AI hardware leadership and accounting for over 7% of the S&P 500. Samsung unveils Galaxy Z Fold7, Z Flip7, and Z Flip7 FE at Galaxy Unpacked 2025, with Fold7 at 4.4 mm unfolded, an 8-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display, a 200 MP main camera, and prices starting at $1,999 for Fold7 and $899 for Flip7 FE. OpenAI plans to launch an AI-powered Chromium-based web browser with integrated AI agents that could disrupt Google Chrome and its ad revenue. Johns Hopkins’ SRT-H
10 July 2025
The State of AI in 2025: Breakthroughs, Backlash, and the Battle for Trust / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

The State of AI in 2025: Breakthroughs, Backlash, and the Battle for Trust / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

In 2025, Nvidia became the first public company to surpass a $4 trillion market valuation, with its GPUs powering data centers for Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Microsoft reported over $500 million in annual AI-driven savings, with AI generating 35% of new product code and improving call-center efficiency. Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold is enabling rapid AI-designed drug discovery, with human trials imminent. The European Union’s AI Act bans manipulative algorithms, social scoring, and predictive policing to protect fundamental rights. Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot sparked global outrage for antisemitic and Nazi-themed content, triggering bans in Turkey and investigations in Poland and the
10 July 2025
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Internet Access in Zambia: Current Status and Outlook

Internet Access in Zambia: Current Status and Outlook

As of December 2023, ZICTA reported about 12.6 million internet subscriptions, representing 64.1% penetration. DataReportal’s Digital 2024 estimate puts Zambia at 6.51 million internet users, about 31.2% of the population, due to multiple SIM ownership inflating subscription counts. Over 99% of internet users rely on mobile broadband, while roughly 99,000 fixed-line subscriptions existed nationwide in 2023. Median download speeds were about 15 Mbps on mobile and 8.7 Mbps on fixed broadband in early 2023; by February 2024 mobile speeds rose to ~19.6 Mbps and fixed to ~21.3 Mbps, with uploads ~7.6 Mbps mobile and 5.3 Mbps fixed. MTN launched Zambia’s
9 July 2025
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API Management and Integration Platforms Mid‑2025: Key Innovations, Deals, and Trends

API Management and Integration Platforms Mid‑2025: Key Innovations, Deals, and Trends

In late June 2025 MuleSoft announced AI agent orchestration in Anypoint Platform, adding Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) support, an MCP Connector to expose APIs as MCP endpoints, Flex Gateway upgrades for secure MCP/A2A connectivity, and Anypoint Code Builder AI tooling. Google Cloud Apigee’s Gemini Code Assist reached general availability on June 18, 2025, integrating Gemini LLMs with Apigee’s API hub to generate OpenAPI specs via chat, provide AI-generated spec summaries, and support iterative refinement while enforcing enterprise security standards. Postman unveiled Agent Mode at POST/CON 2025 (June 3–4, 2025), an AI-native assistant that executes design, testing, documentation,
9 July 2025
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Web3 and DApp Platforms: June–July 2025 News Report

Web3 and DApp Platforms: June–July 2025 News Report

Executive Summary Platform Updates Ethereum Following the May 2025 Pectra upgrade, Ethereum’s PoS chain showed robust health. Staking surged to new heights: over 35 million ETH (28.3% of supply) was locked as of mid-June cointelegraph.com, driven in part by renewed confidence after the upgrade. Analysts noted ~500K ETH was staked in the first half of June alone cointelegraph.com. Liquid staking protocols lead – Lido holds ~25% of staked ETH, Binance ~7.5%, Coinbase ~7.4% cointelegraph.com. The network’s roadmap continues with Layer-2 scaling and new improvements, though no major on-chain governance events occurred in June–July. Markets remained bullish: CoinDesk reports DOT’s (Polkadot)
9 July 2025
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Global AI Language Technology & NLP Update (June–July 2025)

Global AI Language Technology & NLP Update (June–July 2025)

Baidu open-sourced Ernie 4.5 LLM family under Apache 2.0, releasing 10 variants from 300M to 424B parameters and claiming the 300B model outperforms rivals at half the size. ElevenLabs released an alpha of its v3 model with 70+ languages and partnered with Cisco to embed lifelike voice AI into Webex contact centers. Apple announced Live Translation at WWDC 2025, delivering real-time on-device translation across iOS 16, FaceTime, and calls using Apple’s foundation language model. MIT researchers published on June 17, 2025 a study identifying the root cause of position bias in transformers and proposed architectural fixes to improve topic-tracking in
9 July 2025
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High-Performance Computing Highlights (June–July 2025): Exascale Era, HPC-AI Convergence, and Global Supercomputing Advances

High-Performance Computing Highlights (June–July 2025): Exascale Era, HPC-AI Convergence, and Global Supercomputing Advances

El Capitan at LLNL leads the June 2025 TOP500 with 1.742 exaFLOPS (HPL) using HPE Cray EX hardware, AMD 4th Gen EPYC CPUs, and MI300A accelerators. Frontier at ORNL is #2 with 1.353 exaFLOPS on HPL, powered by HPE Cray EX235a and AMD 3rd Gen EPYC CPUs plus MI250X GPUs. Aurora at Argonne is #3, delivering 1.012 exaFLOPS on HPL with Intel Xeon Max CPUs and Data Center GPU Max accelerators. JUPITER Booster at Jülich debuted at #4 with 0.793 exaFLOPS (partial) on a BullSequana-based system using NVIDIA Grace Hopper GH200 chips and built by Atos Eviden, containing about 4.8
9 July 2025
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ChatGPT-5: The Next ‘Omnimodel’ AI Revolution is Coming – Here’s What We Know

ChatGPT-5: The Next ‘Omnimodel’ AI Revolution is Coming – Here’s What We Know

GPT-5 will be a unified model that merges OpenAI’s GPT series with its experimental o-series reasoning models, so ChatGPT-5 will automatically know when to think deeply or to use tools without users selecting a mode. GPT-5 will be OpenAI’s first chain-of-thought AI, enabling step-by-step internal reasoning and integrating the o3 reasoning model to improve math, coding, and multi-step analysis. GPT-5 will support multimodal inputs and outputs, including text, voice, and images, with OpenAI hinting at eventual video capabilities and a canvas feature for image generation and editing. GPT-5 will include integrated deep search and autonomous web research with citations, via
9 July 2025
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Shocks the Tech World with New Upgrades, Bold Features & Big Controversies

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Shocks the Tech World with New Upgrades, Bold Features & Big Controversies

In February 2025, xAI unveiled Grok 3, claiming it runs on “10x” more computing power than Grok 2 and was trained on an expanded dataset including court filings. Grok 4 is slated for release shortly after July 4, 2025 and is expected to include a specialized coding module to write software like a human developer. Grok 3 introduced a Think mode and a faster Grok 3 Mini, using dedicated Reasoning models to step through problems, with xAI claiming it outperforms OpenAI’s o3 on some math and science benchmarks. Grok features DeepSearch, an integrated real-time web search that pulls in updates
9 July 2025
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Global Satellite Internet Showdown: Starlink vs Viasat vs OneWeb vs Kuiper – Which One Will Connect the World?

Global Satellite Internet Showdown: Starlink vs Viasat vs OneWeb vs Kuiper – Which One Will Connect the World?

Starlink’s residential service delivers about 100–250 Mbps down and 10–20 Mbps up, with latency around 20–50 ms and a median near 45 ms as of mid‑2025. Starlink pricing is typically around $120 per month for standard residential service, with a $80 Lite tier in some regions, and it offers month‑to‑month service with a 30‑day trial. Starlink operates in more than 50 countries globally and had over 3 million customers in nearly 100 countries by late 2024, reaching remote regions from the Arctic to the Amazon. Starlink’s second‑generation satellites (V2) can handle roughly 80–100 Gbps per satellite, with a goal to
9 July 2025
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Future Combat Air Systems: The Global Race for Sixth-Generation Fighters

Future Combat Air Systems: The Global Race for Sixth-Generation Fighters

FCAS/SCAF aims to field a “system of systems” including a Next-Generation Fighter (NGF) with remote carrier drones and a combat cloud, targeting 2040 in-service and costs exceeding €100 billion. The United States’ NGAD is a “family of systems” with a manned core fighter plus loyal wingman drones, potentially costing around $300 million per fighter and planned to enter service around 2030–2032. The UK–Italy–Japan Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) was announced in December 2022 and aims for a 2035 operational fighter, with a crewed demonstrator by 2027–2028, a tri-national engine program, and data-link networks delivering 10,000x radar data throughput. Japan’s F-X
9 July 2025
Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:02 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:02 CET

SpaceX operates over 7,000 satellites and posted $4.2 billion in revenue for 2024, with a target valuation of $400 billion to $4 trillion in upcoming funding rounds. Starlink aims for 22,000 satellites by 2030 and could capture 15% of global communications spending. Ovzon secured a SEK 72 million order from Sweden’s FMV for mobile satellite terminals, with deliveries starting in Q3 2025. MEASAT received IN-SPACe approval to provide satellite services in India, expanding access to over 600 TV channels and 11 million DTH customers. EarthDaily Analytics launched the first of its ten-satellite EarthDaily Constellation, delivering daily AI-ready, scientifically calibrated global
9 July 2025
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The State of Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Risks, and the Road Ahead (July 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:00 CET

The State of Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Risks, and the Road Ahead (July 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:00 CET

Microsoft’s MAI-DxO AI system achieved 85.5% diagnostic accuracy on NEJM benchmarks, outperforming doctors. Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that AI could replace up to 50% of US office workers, with accountants and cashiers most at risk. Turkey banned Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot after antisemitic outputs, marking the country’s first AI ban. The European Union advanced the AI Act with no delays, enforcing phased rules through 2027 as the world’s first comprehensive AI regulation. UNESCO warns AI could consume up to 4% of global electricity by 2030, while design changes could cut energy use by up to 90% through model
9 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

Home Depot stock price: jobs, inflation and a Feb. 24 earnings test loom

Home Depot stock price: jobs, inflation and a Feb. 24 earnings test loom

7 February 2026
Home Depot shares rose 0.7% to $385.15 Friday, trading between $379.10 and $386.37. Investors await a delayed U.S. jobs report Wednesday and CPI data Friday, both postponed by a brief government shutdown. Home Depot reports fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 24. The Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time.
JPMorgan stock price jumps 4% into weekend as Wall Street braces for a busy data week

JPMorgan stock price jumps 4% into weekend as Wall Street braces for a busy data week

7 February 2026
JPMorgan shares rose 3.95% to $322.40 Friday, outpacing other major banks as U.S. stocks rallied and the Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time. The bank recently completed a $3 billion subordinated notes offering. Investors are watching for delayed U.S. jobs data and inflation figures next week, ahead of JPMorgan’s Feb. 23 company update.
AbbVie stock price: ABBV ends week near $223 after earnings swing — what to watch next

AbbVie stock price: ABBV ends week near $223 after earnings swing — what to watch next

7 February 2026
AbbVie shares rose 2% to $223.43 Friday, capping a volatile week marked by earnings and drug sales scrutiny. Moody’s upgraded AbbVie’s credit rating to A2, citing strong performance in immunology and neuroscience. Investors remain focused on Skyrizi and Rinvoq growth amid rising competition and recent regulatory filings. Trading volume stayed below average, with the stock still 9% off its 52-week high.
SK hynix stock price slips into Monday after S&P upgrade, tech selloff

SK hynix stock price slips into Monday after S&P upgrade, tech selloff

7 February 2026
SK hynix shares closed at 839,000 won, down 0.36% Friday and 8% for the week, as tech stocks retreated across Asia. S&P Global Ratings upgraded the chipmaker to “BBB+” with a positive outlook, citing strong HBM sales. The KOSPI fell 1.4% Friday, ending a six-week winning streak. Traders await Monday’s Seoul open for signs of further tech weakness.
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