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Spain’s Telefónica, Ericsson, and Google headlined laboratory work to orchestrate an end-to-end automated network slicing concept in a 5G standalone (SA) environment, including lifecycle support and radio resource portioning. Read more.

Darktrace launched a set of proactive security capabilities, dubbed PREVENT, moving the security artificial intelligence (AI) vendor one step closer to delivering a closed-loop cyber AI platform. Read more.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) committed more than $266 million for two additional rounds of support through the Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) as part of the bipartisan American Rescue Plan Act. Read more.

GitHub’s newly-available Copilot artificial intelligence (AI) pair programmer suggests blocks of code and algorithms during development to improve productivity and facilitate learning by doing, but critics have raised concerns about the ownership of suggested code. Read more.

IBM reported robust second-quarter operating results that beat most Q2 expectations and showed continued strength in the vendor’s hybrid-cloud strategy. Read more.

Elon Musk is likely correct in his claims that Twitter provided inaccurate and insufficient information about the platform’s spam and robot accounts, according to former CIA cyber officer Dan Woods. Read more.