Search giant Google has signed an agreement with the Chilean government to deploy the first ever submarine data cable to span the southern Pacific Ocean, connecting with Australia and Asia.



French satellite operator Eutelsat and telecoms provider Orange have signed an agreement aimed at reinforcing the telco's position in low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications.

Southern Cross, Alcatel Submarine Networks and OMS Group have signed the SX Tasman Express “SX-TX” subsea supply contract, connecting Sydney (Australia) to Auckland (New Zealand).

Fastly, a provider of global edge cloud platforms released its Q1 2025 Threat Insights Report, providing an overview of security trends, attack vectors and threat activity across the application security landscape. The report reveals that the commerce industry’s attack volume doubled from 15% in Q1 2024 to 31% in Q1 2025.

Cybersecurity provider Bitdefender has announced GravityZone Compliance Manager, a new addition to its GravityZone platform that helps organisations reduce the burden of compliance and streamline audit readiness.

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire



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