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Can AI Detect a Silent Internet Outage Before It Occurs?

A router can look perfectly healthy while silently dropping data. Researchers at Istanbul Technical University have built an AI model that flags these network black holes shortly before they happen. We explain how it works, what its 98% detection claim really measures, what it does not yet prove, and how UK businesses can catch a silent internet outage on their own connections today.

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US Air Traffic Vulnerabilities Exposed by Old Computers, Severed Cables and Stalled Upgrades

A failed circuit and a severed backup fibre line at Philadelphia TRACON halted flights across the US Northeast on 21 September 2026. This article explains what broke, why old Compaq computers, 1960s copper and floppy-disk displays remain in service, what the GAO found a week earlier, why forty years of upgrade plans stalled, what the $12.5 billion programme buys and what it will really cost.

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A Roadmap for Agentic 7G AI-Powered Wireless Networks

HKUST researchers led by Khaled B. Letaief have published the first engineering roadmap for agentic 7G wireless networks in npj Wireless Technology. Their reasoning-empowered task-oriented communication framework lets AI agents decide what to share, when to transmit and why — turning networks from bit pipes into engines of collective intelligence. This article unpacks the three core capabilities, the 3GPP Release 21 timeline it sits against, the five open research gaps, and what agent-first networking means for businesses today.

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Hotel VLAN Design: How Many Networks Does a Hotel Actually Need?

VLAN design is the one hotel IT decision that gets made twice: once badly, in an afternoon, by whoever installed the switches, and once properly, years later, by whoever has to pass a penetration test. The question that decides which version you end up with is disarmingly simple. How many networks does this hotel actually […]

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How Much Does a Hotel WiFi Upgrade Cost in the UK?

Hotel WiFi upgrade cost in the UK lands somewhere between £150 and £1,057 a bedroom, and the reason that range is so wide has almost nothing to do with the brand of access point on the quote. It has to do with how many radios you hang, how much new cable you pull, whether an […]

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