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Globe Wants Telecom Restoration Treated Like Power After Disasters

Globe Wants Telecom Restoration Treated Like Power After Disasters

Globe is proposing a National Utility Resiliency Plan that would put telecom restoration on par with power after disasters, with priority logistics, security support and faster permits for repair crews, plus incentives for sturdier networks.

Ledger Freezes Wallet Sales Across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong Over Spy Implants

Ledger Freezes Wallet Sales Across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong Over Spy Implants

Ledger has asked resellers in the Philippines, six other Southeast Asian markets and Hong Kong to pull its hardware wallets from shelves while it investigates devices fitted with a hidden implant that steals recovery phrases. Suspected losses top US$86 million.

NOW Telecom Contests ₱4.04 Billion NTC Fee Bill, Asks for Recomputation Back to 2005

NOW Telecom Contests ₱4.04 Billion NTC Fee Bill, Asks for Recomputation Back to 2005

NOW Telecom is disputing a ₱4.04 billion NTC bill for unpaid supervision and regulation fees and penalties, saying the regulator used the wrong capital figures. It wants every assessment since 2005 recomputed and collection paused meanwhile.

Meta's Muse Builds Dossiers on Users and Their Friends, Investigations Find

Meta's Muse Builds Dossiers on Users and Their Friends, Investigations Find

Meta's Muse AI agent tops the App Store, but TIME, Hunterbrook, EPIC and Fast Company report hourly relationship dossiers, profiles of non-users, training on chats by default, and real mishaps. Here is what is confirmed and what Meta says.

Juniper Patches Four Critical Junos Flaws, Including Root Takeover on MX Routers

Juniper Patches Four Critical Junos Flaws, Including Root Takeover on MX Routers

Juniper has patched four CVSS 9.8 Junos flaws that need no login: a root code execution bug in MX routers' certificate-based IKE handling and three J-Web takeover bugs. None are known to be exploited yet, but there are no workarounds, so upgrading is the fix.

GitLab Patches CVSS 10.0 Flaw That Lets Attackers Run Code Without Logging In

GitLab Patches CVSS 10.0 Flaw That Lets Attackers Run Code Without Logging In

GitLab patched CVE-2026-97229, a CVSS 10.0 flaw that could let an unauthenticated user run code on self-managed GitLab servers through a crafted regex in CI/CD config. Fixed in 19.4.2, 19.3.5, and 19.2.8. Upgrade now.

Equinix Bought Its Way Into the Philippines. Here's What That Tells Us

Equinix Bought Its Way Into the Philippines. Here's What That Tells Us

Equinix entered the Philippines by buying three TIM data centers for $183M instead of building from scratch, while PLDT defers its Vitro REIT IPO to 2027. A network consultant's take on what global players buying in means for local colocation buyers.

PLDT's Vitro Data Center REIT Moves IPO to 2027

PLDT's Vitro Data Center REIT Moves IPO to 2027

PLDT has deferred the Vitro data center REIT IPO to 2027, citing rising interest rates. Its CEO now targets the first half and still eyes about $400M for 49%. What it signals for local data center capacity and government data under EO 119.

Opinion: The SAFE Kids Act Trades Children's Privacy for a Headline

Opinion: The SAFE Kids Act Trades Children's Privacy for a Headline

The House passed HB 11566, the SAFE Kids Act, 287–3. It is not law yet and goes to bicam with SB 2424. My view: it forces ID and biometric age checks, hands children's data to the platforms that already failed them, and is blind activism. It should be stopped.

DICT Secretary Aguda Resigns as Ombudsman Probes "Ghost Internet" in Free Wi-Fi Program

DICT Secretary Aguda Resigns as Ombudsman Probes "Ghost Internet" in Free Wi-Fi Program

DICT Secretary Henry Aguda has resigned while the Ombudsman probes alleged "ghost internet" projects in the Free Wi-Fi program. No successor yet. A network consultant's view on why paid-for connectivity should be measurable by default.

Filipino Scam Victims Lose Money Through E-Wallets Far More Than Their ASEAN Neighbors

Filipino Scam Victims Lose Money Through E-Wallets Far More Than Their ASEAN Neighbors

AMRO data shows 74 percent of Filipino scam victims who lost money paid through e-wallets, more than double the 34 percent ASEAN average, while only 20 percent of ASEAN victims got any money back. The ASEAN Foundation also flags the Philippines as a new scam hotspot.

Japan's Ruling Party Calls a Wave of Cyberattacks a "State of Emergency in Cyberspace"

Japan's Ruling Party Calls a Wave of Cyberattacks a "State of Emergency in Cyberspace"

Japan's ruling party calls it "a state of emergency in cyberspace" after Times Car leaked 6.6M accounts and a ransomware attack on SoftBank's IDC Frontier hit 495 customers, including JR East. What happened, and why it matters for Philippine networks.