This week's roundup looked at the top news stories from the Global B2B tech & telecoms industry.
The stories cover topics including data centre projects, chatbots, identity theft, satellite defences, fibre connectivity, subsea cables, data breaches and cybersecurity.
Here are our highlights:
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Blackstone pledges $5bn to expand Spanish data centre project
Blackstone is looking to invest $5 billion to expand its planned project, which involves building data centres in Aragon in Spain to support cloud ambitions.
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Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots.
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Children at risk of identity theft and fraud from 'sharenting'
Children are at increased risk of being harassed, cyber-bullied and having their identities stolen in later life by having their photos posted online by parents, according to new research.
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EU to boost satellite defences against GPS jamming
The European Union will deploy additional satellites in low Earth orbit to strengthen resilience against GPS interferences and will improve capabilities to detect it, EU Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said on Monday.
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VodafoneThree Expands Full Fibre Coverage to 550k London Homes with Community Fibre
With this major network expansion, VodafoneThree becomes the largest full fibre provider in the UK.
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Meta and Safaricom to lay subsea cable connecting Kenya and Oman
Google told to pay $425m in privacy lawsuit
M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack
IT solutions company Uniserve to build 2MW data center in Vancouver, Canada
VMO2 Blocks 600 Million Scam Texts Amid Gambling & Recruitment Fraud Surge
Virgin Media O2 is urging Brits to stay vigilant after its latest analysis of suspicious messages reveals a significant increase in the number of recruitment, car finance and gambling prize scams.
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