Why the Axios Attack Proves AI Is Mandatory for Supply Chain Security
Two weeks ago a suspected North Korean group injected malicious code into the widely used Axios JavaScript library, which averages about 100 million weekly downloads across enterprises, startups and government agencies. An Elastic researcher identified the compromise within minutes using an AI‑powered monitoring tool that classifies code changes in real time, leading to the package’s removal in roughly three hours. During that brief window the compromised version may have been downloaded more than half a million times. The incident highlights that modern threat actors operate at machine speed, making AI‑driven security essential for protecting software supply chains.
EC Approves $92m Grant for Phase 3 of Patria-Led FAMOUS Project
The European Commission approved a €79 million ($92 million) grant for the third phase of the FAMOUS programme, bringing the total project budget to €115 million ($134 million). Led by Finland’s Patria, the consortium now includes 20 countries and over 50 defence firms. Phase 3...
SmallSat Europe Speaker Focus: Gen. Michel Friedling, Look Up Space
Former French Space Command chief Maj. Gen. Michel Friedling, now co‑founder of Look Up, warned that Europe’s space domain awareness must rely on commercial radar infrastructure. Look Up has built a global ground‑based radar network and offers a SaaS platform for real‑time object...
HB on the Scene: Newport Hospitality Group Brings ‘Living Hospitality’ to Life
Newport Hospitality Group hosted its 2026 Leadership Retreat at the Ellie Resort in Myrtle Beach, centering on the “Living Hospitality” theme. CEO Andrew Carey emphasized building a shared identity that transcends individual hotel brands, while offering practical tools to improve...
The Technomic Top 500: Another Tough Year for Chain Restaurants
Technomic’s 2026 Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report shows U.S. chain sales rose just 3% to $451.5 billion, lagging the 3.8% menu‑price inflation and marking the slowest growth since the Great Recession. Median sales growth was only 2.5%, translating to a 1.3% real‑dollar...
Bobyard 2.0 Offers Improved Takeoffs and Unified AI for Estimators
Bobyard launched Bobyard 2.0, an AI‑driven upgrade that speeds takeoff workflows and unifies its AI workbench for construction and landscaping estimators. The platform now automates roughly 70% of quantity takeoff tasks and claims a 65% average reduction in takeoff time,...
Google Plans Nearly Two Million New AI Chips as It Turns to Marvell for Custom Designs
Google is negotiating with Marvell Technology to design two custom chips for its data centers: a memory processing unit (MPU) that will work alongside its in‑house TPUs and a new inference‑optimized TPU. The company plans to produce nearly two million MPUs,...
Magnite, AMC Global Media Partner On Programmatic
Magnite announced a partnership with AMC Global Media to make the broadcaster’s linear‑television inventory available through programmatic buying. The deal coincides with the launch of the 2026‑27 TV upfront season, signaling a push to unify linear and streaming ad transactions....
Fresh Renderings for Santa Monica High-Rise at 1520 7th Street
A new high‑rise project is slated for 1518‑1524 7th Street in Santa Monica. Developed by Hankey Capital, the 23‑story, 256‑foot tower will contain 119 condominiums, five affordable units, and 216 parking spaces. Ottinger Architects designed a glass‑and‑steel façade with a...
Fresh Fizz Organic Soda Doubles Its Retail Footprint As It Enters National Distribution With Sprouts Farmers Market
Fresh Fizz, an organic soda brand founded by Yoni and Rebecca Schwartz, has secured its first national retail account with Sprouts Farmers Market, placing its products on roughly 500 Sprouts shelves. The launch includes a range of artisanal flavors—such as...
I Went Inside Mattel and Saw How Toy Story 5 Toys Are Built — and Made Interactive
Toy Story 5 toys are set to launch ahead of the June 19, 2026 film, and Mattel gave a behind‑the‑scenes look at its development process. Designers start with hand sketches before moving to a 3D‑printing lab that houses 14 large‑scale printers capable of producing...
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re Reading About Trump Boosting Psychedelic Treatment, the Future for Weight-Loss Drugs, and More
Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks warned that GLP‑1 weight‑loss drugs will likely reach only about half of the eligible overweight and obese population due to healthcare system complexities and cost barriers. Currently, just 10% of those who could benefit are...
OSHA’s Evolving Approach to Workplace Violence Prevention in Healthcare
OSHA is conducting its first workplace‑violence audit in 25 years, highlighting growing scrutiny of safety in health‑care settings. While a federal standard on health‑care violence has been shifted to Long‑Term Action status, delaying any rule for at least a year,...
Honeywell to Sell Productivity Solutions and Services Business to Brady Corporation
Honeywell announced it will sell its Productivity Solutions and Services (PSS) business to Brady Corporation for $1.4 billion in cash. The PSS unit, which generated about $1.1 billion in 2025 revenue, provides mobile computers, barcode scanners and printing solutions for warehouse and...
Shipping Caught in Between Geopolitical Powerplay
Shipping executives warned that escalating geopolitical flashpoints—from a U.S. strike on an Iranian container vessel to simmering disputes in the Strait of Hormuz, Red Sea and Black Sea—are turning maritime trade into a high‑risk arena. Industry leaders at Singapore Maritime...
Oregon Passes Bill to Support Medical Cannabis Among Hospice Patients
Oregon enacted Ryan’s Law, mandating hospice, residential and palliative care providers to permit qualified patients to use medical cannabis and to establish safety policies and staff training. The bill adds hospice and end‑of‑life care as a new qualifying condition for...
WPP Media Wins KFC, Pizza Hut Singapore Assignments
WPP Media has been named the integrated media agency for both KFC Singapore and Pizza Hut Singapore after a competitive pitch, taking charge of strategy, planning and buying across the market. The agency already works with the two brands in...
The Living Places Concept Can Transform the UK
VELUX has introduced its Living Places concept in Sunderland, creating 40‑50 mixed‑tenure homes on a reclaimed brownfield site that forms part of a larger 1,000‑home development. The project unites Sunderland City Council, developer Igloo Regeneration, MawsonKerr Architects and the Housing...
The Games Industry Will Never "Get Back to Normal", Lament Tony Hawk Devs Iron Galaxy, as They Make Another Round...
Iron Galaxy Studios, known for ports like Apex Legends and the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 remake, announced another round of layoffs, though the exact number remains undisclosed. The cuts follow a February reduction of 66 jobs that was labeled...
Becoming Greater than the Sum of Your Parts
Alan Whitman, former Baker Tilly CEO, explains how Nichols Cauley is built as a private‑equity‑backed financial‑services platform that unites a CPA firm, an insurance brokerage, and an investment‑banking boutique. The firm pursues growth through a unified brand, cross‑serve model, and disciplined ROI‑driven...
LACAHSA Approves $100M for New Affordable Housing
Los Angeles County’s Affordable Housing Solutions Agency (LACAHSA) approved more than $100 million in Measure A sales‑tax funding to support ten projects that will create or preserve over 500 affordable homes. The package includes three ground‑up developments—Casa de Mariachi, the Yolanda Project,...
Terafab’s Tricky Targets
TSMC chief C.C. Wei cautioned investors that the Elon‑Intel‑Terafab venture faces realistic construction and ramp‑up timelines, pushing volume production to the end of the decade at a 2 nm node. Even then, the fab would lag TSMC’s own roadmap, which targets...
Minidoka Memorial Hospital Updates Easter Morning Cyberattack
Minidoka Memorial Hospital in Rupert, Idaho experienced a cyber incident on Easter morning, April 5, that temporarily disabled imaging services and forced the transfer of some emergency patients. The hospital’s clinics continued treating patients, and a follow‑up update on April 17 confirmed...
Stopping Patient Attrition Before It Starts: A Proactive Approach to Healthcare Marketing
Healthcare leaders are shifting focus from pure patient acquisition to proactive retention, recognizing that capacity limits and rising marketing costs make keeping existing patients essential for revenue stability. Retention safeguards the trust investment made during onboarding and reduces churn that...
‘We’re Not Nespresso’: Inside Green Mountain Coffee Roasters’ New Campaign
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, part of Keurig Dr Pepper, launched the "That's Green Mountain Good" campaign on April 20, featuring a new mascot—a green mountain goat named Bruce—to highlight farm‑grown coffee origins. Developed by a Publicis Groupe‑led team, the 30‑second spot...
Revolut to Open Its Paris Headquarters in the “Silicon Sentier” In 2027
Revolut has signed a 10‑year lease on a Haussmann‑style building in Paris’s “Silicon Sentier,” slated to open in early 2027. The 2,400 m² office will host 500 employees and serve as the Western European hub for more than 25 million customers across...
NGen Announces $62.7M in Funding for Canadian AI, Robotics & Tech Manufacturing Projects
Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) announced nearly C$25 million in new federal funding, matched by C$38 million from industry, to launch 14 advanced manufacturing projects centered on AI, robotics, digital twins and related technologies. The total C$62.7 million (~US$45.8 million) program was unveiled at...
Continuous Composites Expands Manufacturing Footprint to Support Production-Relevant CF3D Systems
Continuous Composites has moved into a new 17,000‑square‑foot facility in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, more than doubling its manufacturing footprint. The expansion is designed to support its CF3D continuous‑fiber 3D printing technology and to enable five‑times higher component output. The larger...
Why Fashion Brands Are Betting Big On Q-Commerce Ads
India’s quick‑commerce (q‑commerce) market surged to roughly ₹64,000 crore ($6.9 bn) in FY25, growing at a 142% CAGR and now serving 33 million monthly users across 150+ cities. Leading platforms—Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart—are turning advertising into a major revenue stream, with Blinkit...
Insurance-Linked Securities Sector Can Be a Big Beneficiary of the AI Revolution: SIFMA
The SIFMA insurance‑linked securities (ILS) conference in Miami highlighted AI as a transformative force for the catastrophe‑bond market. Industry leaders such as Guy Carpenter’s Bobby Bray and Beazley’s Richard Gray said the sector is still in early adoption but sees...
Kuli
Kuli, launched in 2024, is an AI‑driven influencer‑marketing platform that replaces manual creator vetting with multimodal video analysis across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. By indexing visual style, tone, brand mentions and narrative patterns, the system lets brands search for creators...
As the Hormuz Crisis Exposes ‘Fragile’ Global Supply Chains, How Will China Respond?
China’s top economic planner, Zheng Shanjie of the NDRC, warned that the US‑Israeli strikes on Iran and the resulting disruption of oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz expose the fragility of global supply chains. He said China had already...
What Happens When You Stop Taking Ozempic?
Clinical trials and recent reviews show that most patients regain the majority of weight lost on GLP‑1 drugs such as Ozempic once treatment stops. The STEP 1 extension found a two‑thirds rebound within a year, while a 2026 Cambridge meta‑analysis reported...
X-Humanoid's Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 Wins Beijing Robot Warrior Challenge with Fully Autonomous Run
The Beijing Yizhuang Robot Warrior Challenge on April 18 served as a proving ground for next‑generation disaster‑response robotics, where X‑Humanoid’s full‑size humanoid Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 completed every obstacle—pendulum traversal, barrier breaching, and obstacle clearance—without remote assistance. By securing the highest overall...
Best Broadband Deals in Ireland – April 2026
Irish consumers can now compare a slate of April 2026 broadband offers through Switcher.ie, which highlights discounted contracts from eir, Vodafone, Virgin Media and Pure Telecom. The deals range from 100 Mb to 1 Gb speeds, with monthly fees as low as...
Latvia To Join Artemis Accords Today
Latvia signed the Artemis Accords at NASA headquarters, becoming the 62nd nation to join the non‑binding framework for lunar cooperation. The signing fulfills a pledge made in October and brings all three Baltic states—Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia—under the agreement. The...
Singapore Food Agency Publishes List of Approved Novel Foods
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) released a comprehensive list of 14 novel foods approved for sale through October 2025, reinforcing its role as a regulatory pioneer in sustainable protein. The list features four cultivated‑meat products—including Eat Just’s serum‑free chicken, Vow’s cultured quail,...
Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce?
Prego has teamed with nonprofit StoryCorps to launch the Connection Keeper, a round puck that records family dinner conversations onto a 16 GB microSD card. The device, which has no Wi‑Fi or AI features, is limited to fewer than 100 units...
Phaser 4 Level Selection Screen Tutorial in TypeScript
Emanuele Feronato released a comprehensive level‑selection tutorial built with Phaser 4 and TypeScript. The example features a horizontal, paginated selector that supports swipe, drag, mouse‑wheel navigation, snap‑to‑page behavior, and clickable thumbnails. Code is organized into dedicated TypeScript classes for scenes, thumbnails,...
How Banks Are Competing with Fintech Apps for Small Businesses
Banks are feeling pressure as small businesses shift payments to fintech peer‑to‑peer apps like Venmo and Cash App. To retain these customers, banks are rolling out integrated tap‑to‑pay, instant payment tools such as Zelle, and white‑label solutions that let merchants...
Zee Continues as Broadcast Partner for DP World ILT20 Season 5
Zee Entertainment Enterprises has renewed its broadcast partnership for the DP World International League T20 Season 5, which kicks off on November 22, 2026 and runs through December 20. The Gulf‑region league features six teams across 34 matches and will be shown on...
In the Wake of Artemis 2, America Needs to Consider the ‘Why’ of Its Government Space Program
The Artemis 2 mission, backed by the $10.08 billion One Big Beautiful Bill Act, reignited debate over the value of government‑funded space programs. While SpaceX dominates low‑Earth‑orbit launches, the article argues that commercial firms still depend on government‑led missions to de‑risk cislunar...
Repay’s Latest Proposal and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 4/20/26
Repay Holdings Corp. disclosed an unsolicited, non‑binding cash offer from Forager Capital Management at $4.80 per share, topping the $4.11 closing price. Nayax Ltd. announced the upcoming launch of Yellow Account, a business‑checking product aimed at small sellers with real‑time...
How StackAdapt Quietly Built an Adtech Giant
StackAdapt, a Canadian adtech firm, now pulls roughly $500 million in revenue and $100 million in earnings each year, making it one of the country’s most profitable private tech companies. The firm’s early bet on artificial intelligence allowed it to lower adoption...
A Vaccine for Lyme Disease Could Be on the Horizon
Pfizer and Valneva reported that their Lyme disease vaccine candidate LB6V reduced cases by about 70% in a Phase 3 trial. The four‑dose regimen targets the OspA protein, preventing bacterial transmission from ticks to humans. If regulators approve it, the...
New York Dispensary Brand Execs on the Nuances of Cannabis Financing
Luxury cannabis retailer The Travel Agency is expanding across Manhattan and Brooklyn, guided by a finance‑led leadership team. CEO Paul Yau, a former CFO, partnered with CFO Roy Cysner, whose background spans Warby Parker and BuzzFeed, to embed rigorous financial...
TechCreate Group Ltd. And pQCee Intend to Collaborate on One of the First Quantum-Safe QR Hybrid POS Terminal
TechCreate Group Ltd. announced a partnership with quantum‑security firm pQCee to embed NIST‑approved post‑quantum cryptography into its QR‑Hybrid point‑of‑sale terminals. The collaboration will replace vulnerable RSA and ECC algorithms with quantum‑safe encryption, aiming to thwart harvest‑now‑decrypt‑later attacks. Both companies plan...
The Farmer's Dog Reinvented Dog Food. Walmart Takes It Mainstream
The Farmer's Dog, a fresh, human‑grade dog food startup, is launching a personalized meal‑plan service on Walmart.com, moving beyond its direct‑to‑consumer model. Founded by Jonathan Regev and Brett Podolsky after a home‑cooked rescue of a sick dog, the company now...
Why AI Is Redefining the Future of Commercial Power Infrastructure
AI-driven workloads are reshaping commercial power infrastructure, creating rapid, high‑density load fluctuations. Traditional designs built for steady loads now face transformer overloads, switchgear wear, and heat‑related failures. Companies are adopting modular, real‑time monitored, and battery‑integrated systems to add capacity flexibly...
Accelerating Industrial Robotics with NVIDIA Jetson, EverFocus, and EyePick
Industrial robotics face a deployment gap, not an AI shortage, as most pilot projects stall before production. NVIDIA’s Jetson hardware, combined with EverFocus’s rugged EAC‑30N edge computer and EyePick’s Maestro OS, delivers a low‑latency, plug‑and‑play architecture that bridges vision models...