SK Telecom, the largest wireless carrier in South Korea, has committed to provide all of its 23 million subscribers with free replacement SIMs from today (28 April 2025) after a recent security breach.



Japanese telco KDDI has done a deal with chipmaker AMD to use its latest generation AMD EPYC CPUs for KDDI’s advanced 5G virtualised network.

Gaming laptops are big, heavy and bulky and can’t do AI, right? Well, not anymore. The 2025 update of MSI’s popular Stealth is upon us and it’s everything you could want from a laptop.

Datadog, a monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, announced it has acquired Metaplane, an end-to-end data observability platform that provides advanced machine learning-powered monitoring and column-level lineage to prevent, detect and resolve data quality issues across a company’s entire data stack.

PepsiCo has announced 10 startup finalists for its Greenhouse Accelerator Program in Asia Pacific and they include two Australian startups. Calyx.eco, a Sydney-based startup providing data driven insights into the environmental impacts of the supply chain for food and beverage companies, and Endua, a Brisbane-based startup developing production of green hydrogen.

Rubrik has appointed Kavitha Mariappan as its Chief Transformation Officer. The newly created role is aimed at deepening executive engagement and accelerating cyber resilience outcomes for global enterprises and public sector organisations.

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Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire