SITA hands airport networks to HPE Aruba — one managed fabric across 145 markets

SITA announced from Geneva on 22 April that its new managed campus-network service, built on HPE Aruba Networking, is available in 145 markets and plugs into the existing SITA global WAN that already links more than 600 airports. The service hands wired, wireless and security operations over to SITA rather than an airport's in-house team.

DigiTimes commentary: China's AI-chip race is 'no longer about who builds the fastest chip… but who writes the rules'

A paywalled DigiTimes commentary opens with the line: 'The global AI race is no longer just about who builds the fastest chip. Increasingly, it is about who writes the rules.' The piece names Tsinghua, TSMC, UMC and CUDA in its framing and argues China is revisiting a familiar semiconductor fork in the road.

Africa's AI build-out needs 2.2 GW and up to $20bn before it needs another model

A Nedbank CIB byline in TechCentral, authored by Gary Galolo and Patrick Ndebele, puts concrete numbers on the continent's AI ambition. Installed data-centre capacity sits at roughly 400 MW today, projected demand by 2030 is 2.2 GW, and up to $20 billion of capital will be needed to close the gap. Nearly half of Africa's DCs are currently concentrated in four markets: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt.

Musk names Intel 14A for Terafab, the $25bn Musk-Intel joint fab rising next to Giga Texas

Iran war re-prices Vietnam for Chinese factories: '6 yuan in Guangdong, 9 in Vietnam'

Chinese manufacturers are shelving overseas expansion plans as the Iran-war energy shock drives up production costs across Southeast Asia. SCMP quotes Lawrence Wong, a toy-factory owner near Ho Chi Minh City, saying a single toy costs 6 yuan to make in Guangdong but 9 yuan in Vietnam today. Wong is keeping the factory but has paused the planned expansion from 600 square metres to double that.

Beca wires GPT-5.1 onto New Zealand's national geotechnical database, cuts retrieval time by 40%

Beca has upgraded New Zealand's national geotechnical database (NZGD) with a digital-twin layer and an agentic-AI workflow powered by Azure OpenAI's GPT-5.1, TechTalkThai reports. Around 168,000 geotechnical test records migrated to Azure SQL in late 2024 are now queryable in natural language, with an average 40% reduction in retrieval time for the database's roughly 4,300 users.

Parasail raises $32m Series A for inference-only GPU orchestration across 40 data centres

Parasail has closed a $32 million Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, with Samsung's corporate VC arm joining, DCD reports. Founded by ex-Groq and ex-Mythic executive Mike Henry, Parasail connects customers to Nvidia H200 capacity across roughly 40 data centres in 15 countries on a pay-per-token, no-long-contract basis. The platform is inference-only; it does not serve training workloads.

Japan's cabinet clears lethal-arms exports to 17 allies; Beijing warns of 'new-style militarism'

Japan's cabinet approved on Tuesday a rewrite of the Three Principles on Transfer of Defence Equipment and Technology, scrapping the rule that limited exports to five non-combat categories (rescue, transport, warning, surveillance, minesweeping). Lethal systems can now be sold to 17 countries with existing equipment-transfer agreements, including the United States, Australia and Britain, plus, on SCMP's reading, India, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

CVE-2026-34040: Docker's 2024 authorisation bypass returns via a >1 MB request body

Docker has released Engine 29.3.1 to close CVE-2026-34040, a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) authorisation-plugin bypass discovered by Cyera. Any host on Docker Engine below 29.3 is exposed. The flaw is a direct descendant of 2024's CVE-2024-41110: the original patch closed the zero-length request-body case, but researchers found the same bypass still triggered when the API request body exceeded 1 MB. The advisory is GHSA-x744-4wpc-v9h2.

South Africa's digital ID lands: hosting live by 31 March 2027, operational in 2027/28

Home Affairs minister Leon Schreiber has tabled the department's 2026/27 annual performance plan, setting a 31 March 2027 deadline for completion of the national digital-identity hosting infrastructure. The platform will be hosted inside the South African Revenue Service's environment. Operational rollout (verifiable credentials issued to mobile wallets, PKI, certificate authority) is targeted for 2027/28. Facial recognition is the primary biometric; fingerprints are secondary.