Digital Attenuator, DTA-200M18G-100-CD-EXT
Planar Monolithics introduced the DTA‑200M18G‑100‑CD‑EXT, an 8‑bit digitally tuned attenuator covering 0.2 to 18 GHz. It offers a massive 100 dB attenuation range with ±3 dB accuracy and flatness throughout. The device features fast switching (1 µs on, 0.5 µs off), a maximum insertion loss of 12 dB, and can handle up to 20 dBm input power. Physical dimensions are 4.0 × 1.8 × 0.5 inches with a 15‑pin Micro‑D control connector and SMA RF ports.

Anritsu, Qualcomm to Present Pre-6G 7 GHz Device Testing at MWC
Qualcomm and Anritsu will showcase a pre‑6G mobile‑device test case operating at 7.125 GHz during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The demonstration uses an upgraded Anritsu MT8000A test station, extending its RF hardware to cover 7‑16 GHz, thereby adding support for lower...

Mitsubishi Delivers First Ammonia Fuel Supply Systems for Marine Use
Mitsubishi Shipbuilding has shipped the first ammonia fuel supply system (AFSS) and ammonia gas abatement system (AGAS) for Japan Engine Corporation’s inaugural ammonia‑fueled marine engine, model 7UEC50LSJA‑HPSCR. The AFSS delivers ammonia to the engine safely and steadily, while the AGAS...

EzPaycheck Delivers Restaurant-Ready Payroll with Tip, Overtime, and Multi-Location Support for 2026 Compliance
Halfpricesoft.com unveiled a restaurant‑focused upgrade to its ezPaycheck payroll platform, adding built‑in tip, qualified overtime, and multi‑location processing tools to meet 2026 labor‑law requirements. The solution eliminates manual calculations, reduces costly errors, and operates without subscription fees, offering unlimited paycheck...
Slotegrator Introduces an AI-Powered Anti-Fraud Assistant
Slotegrator has launched an AI‑powered anti‑fraud assistant for iGaming operators, turning existing dashboard metrics into concise, structured insights. The tool does not create new data or make autonomous blocking decisions, instead offering analytical recommendations for human review. It targets new...

Wear OS Can Now Send Life-Saving Earthquake Alerts without Your Phone
Google is rolling out Play Services v26.07, enabling Wear OS smartwatches to receive earthquake alerts without a paired phone. The update works server‑side and activates on cellular or Wi‑Fi‑connected watches, leveraging built‑in gyroscopes and accelerometers to detect seismic activity. By removing...
Some Patients Listed as “Charlie Kirk” Or Dead After Major NZ Health App MediMap Hacked
New Zealand health‑tech firm MediMap was forced offline after an unauthorized intrusion altered patient records, including changing names to “Charlie Kirk” and marking individuals as deceased. The breach affected dozens of providers in aged‑care, disability, hospice and community settings, prompting the...
AMD's HIP Moves To Using LLVM's New Offload Driver By Default
AMD’s HIP runtime will now use LLVM’s new offload driver by default starting with LLVM 23, aligning it with CUDA and OpenMP offloading paths. The modern driver offers a unified interface, device‑side LTO, static library support, and cross‑platform compatibility. Previously, HIP...

Wishlink Raises $17.5 Million To Expand Creator Commerce Platform
Wishlink secured $17.5 million in a Series B round led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, bringing its total funding to $27.5 million. The platform now supports over 40,000 active creators who produce more than 300,000 pieces of content each month, driving...
Embrace Migration Complexity for Future Leverage
⚠️Reminder Systems/Software migration required focus. But short-term complexity is often the price of long-term leverage.

Hotshot + Legora Partner For AI Training Program
Hotshot, a legal learning platform, has teamed up with AI‑driven contract tool Legora to deliver a joint training program for law firms. The collaboration will produce high‑level, use‑case‑driven videos and instructor‑led workshops that let lawyers practice Legora on simulated matters...
Australia’s Biggest Renewable Grid “Stress Test” Facility Gets a $3 Million Upgrade
Australia’s CSIRO Renewable Energy Integration Facility (REIF) received a $3 million federal upgrade, doubling its power‑testing capacity. The enhanced lab now emulates microgrids, grid faults, and vehicle‑to‑grid scenarios, allowing realistic stress‑tests of solar, battery, wind and EV technologies. Operated from Newcastle,...

SoftBank Corp. Subsidiary SAIMEMORY and Intel Collaborate to Commercialize Next-Generation Memory Technology
SoftBank’s wholly owned subsidiary SAIMEMORY has signed a joint development agreement with Intel to bring Z‑Angle Memory (ZAM) to market. The partnership leverages Intel’s Next‑Gen DRAM Bonding (NGDB) research from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Memory Technology program. Prototypes...

Xinnor Named Startup of the Year at StorageNewsletter Awards 2026
StorageNewsletter announced Xinnor as Startup of the Year at its inaugural 2026 awards, selected from more than 100 entries across 11 categories. The jury highlighted Xinnor’s pure‑software approach to large‑scale data protection, a segment gaining urgency as AI and high‑performance...
€1m Digital Mental Health Strategy for Ireland
Ireland has unveiled a €1 million digital mental health strategy that outlines a national roadmap for digital tools, shared records and technology‑enabled services. The plan builds on the 2020‑2030 "Sharing the Vision" policy and prioritises the HSE Health App, a national...
‘Garbage in, Garbage Out’ – Solar Industry Debates Reality of AI
The Solar Quality Summit in Barcelona highlighted AI’s ability to accelerate photovoltaic project planning, construction, and operations, but stressed that its value hinges on high‑quality data. Attendees warned that “garbage in, garbage out” can magnify mistakes, making validation and human...

DigitalOcean Elevates Its Agentic Inference Cloud with GPU Droplets Powered by AMD Instinct MI350X GPUs
DigitalOcean has launched GPU Droplets powered by AMD Instinct MI350X GPUs, enhancing its agentic inference cloud for production AI workloads. The MI350X, built on CDNA‑4, delivers lower latency, higher token‑generation throughput and doubles request throughput while cutting inference costs by 50%...
Build a Tiny End‑to‑end Pipeline, Then Ship, Measure, Explain
If you want practice that actually maps to modern AI engineering take-homes, do this. Not “study more questions”. Build a small pipeline and prove it works. A realistic weekend plan: Hour 0 to 1: pick 10 messy documents (invoices are perfect) Hour 1 to 3:...

Speedata Partners with Nebul to Bring High-Performance Big Data and AI Analytics to European Sovereign Cloud
Speedata Ltd. announced a partnership with Nebul to integrate its purpose‑built Analytics Processing Unit (APU) into Nebul’s European sovereign cloud. The APU claims up to 100× performance gains over CPUs and GPUs for Apache Spark workloads, cutting server counts and...

At Colorado Space Firms, Hegseth Casts Pentagon Bureaucracy as the Enemy
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used a Colorado stop at True Anomaly and Sierra Space to denounce the Pentagon’s acquisition bureaucracy as a "giant swamp" that favors entrenched prime contractors. He framed commercially driven space firms as essential antidotes that...

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra vs iPhone 17 Pro Max: Which Flagship Reigns Supreme?
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra and Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max represent the 2026 flagship duopoly, each championing a distinct design and ecosystem philosophy. Samsung leans on a brighter 3,000‑nit Dynamic AMOLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, a 200 MP camera and...

Credo Technology’s Toucan PCIe Retimer Achieves PCI‑SIG Compliance
Credo Technology announced that its 7 nm Toucan PCIe retimer has achieved PCI‑SIG compliance at 32.0 GT/s, meeting PCIe 5.0 speed specifications while being ready for PCIe 6.0 and future 7.0 roadmaps. The compliance validation confirms interoperability, signal integrity, and low‑power operation across standard...

Web Almanac Data Reveals CMS Plugins Are Setting Technical SEO Standards (Not SEOs) via @Sejournal, @Chrisgreenseo
The 2025 Web Almanac reveals that more than half of all web pages are built on content management systems, making CMS defaults the primary driver of technical SEO standards. Data from the HTTP Archive shows strong correlations between CMS adoption...

Qualstar Certifies ATTO XstreamCORE 8100T for Integration with Its Q-Series Tape Libraries
Qualstar and ATTO announced certification of ATTO’s XstreamCORE 8100T Intelligent Bridge with the full Q‑Series tape‑library portfolio, from Q8 to Q1000+. The bridge converts up to four SAS‑connected LTO‑8/9/10 drives into dual 10 Gb Ethernet iSCSI links, letting libraries attach to standard...

AI Chip Startup MatX Raises $500 Million to Compete With Nvidia
AI chip startup MatX, founded by two former Google semiconductor engineers, announced a funding round exceeding $500 million to accelerate development of GPUs that challenge Nvidia’s market dominance. The round was led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, with participation from...

Why Companies Are Hiring Abroad Instead of Fixing Talent Pipelines at Home
The global labor market is split, with layoffs in some sectors while major firms aggressively recruit abroad. Visa restrictions and talent shortages at home are driving companies to expand overseas hiring hubs. Google announced a 20,000‑employee campus in Bangalore, effectively...

Canary Speech, JubileeTV Partner on AI Voice Biomarkers for At-Home Care
Canary Speech has partnered with JubileeTV to embed its AI‑driven vocal‑biomarker technology into consumer video calls, marking the first deployment outside clinical settings. The system analyzes 40 seconds of natural conversation, extracting thousands of acoustic features to generate nondiagnostic scores...

Saga and Etermax Bring Trivia Crack’s Willy to Life as an AI Character Agent | Exclusive
Saga, a hyperscaling AI platform, partnered with Etermax to launch an AI‑driven version of Willy, the mascot of the Trivia Crack franchise. The new agent can converse with users across social platforms, aiming to deepen community interaction and attract fresh...
The New Rules of Ecommerce with Alex Dewison, Global Payments | Episode 469
In this episode, Alex Dewison, Director of Digital Solutions at Global Payments, explains how e‑commerce payments have shifted from basic checkout pages to seamless, invisible experiences driven by speed, security, and digital wallets. He outlines the hallmarks of a best‑in‑class...
TigerConnect Aims to Use AI to Modernize Hospital Operator, Management Systems
TigerConnect unveiled a cloud‑native operator console aimed at replacing decades‑old hospital switchboards. The platform unifies call routing, code activations, and alarm management into a single dashboard while integrating with EHRs, telephony and scheduling tools. AI‑driven automation and intelligent search streamline...

Nimble Raises $47M to Give AI Agents Access to Real-Time Web Data
Nimble announced a $47 million Series B round led by Norwest to scale its AI‑driven web‑search platform. The service uses autonomous agents to query the internet in real time, validates results, and outputs them as structured tables that can be queried like...

AITech Interview with Gil Pekelman, Co-Founder and CEO, Atera
Atera’s IT Autopilot introduces agentic AI that autonomously resolves Tier 1 tickets, freeing technicians for higher‑value work. Unlike traditional script‑based automation, the platform operates with contextual understanding and strict guardrails, delivering faster resolutions and a better user experience. Early adopters reported...

ICE to Outsource Decisions About What Surveillance Tools to Buy Next
Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it will contract a private firm to decide which surveillance technologies to acquire, pilot, or defer. The request for information outlines a mandate that includes identifying enterprise‑wide gaps, scouting emerging tools, and drafting problem statements...

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At a recent round‑table, a speaker outlined how the NHS 10‑year plan can be accelerated by applying platform‑centric principles drawn from the Platformland framework. The presentation highlighted four pillars: digital ways of working, platform‑based clinical functions, converting the public into...
Global Invacom Group Launches Rapid Deploy XY Antenna Range for Mission‑Critical, Multi‑Orbit Connectivity
Global Invacom Group has introduced a rapid‑deploy XY antenna family spanning four sizes—from 0.98 m to 2.4 m—to provide fast, multi‑orbit, multi‑band connectivity for government, defence, and commercial users. The modular terminals require no tools and can be calibrated and operational in...

Switching to Syai CGM for Easier Glucose Monitoring
I just started testing a new continuous glucose monitor (CGM) device from Syai. I tried Abbott Freestyle Libre 2 and Sibionics before, but the need for the reader with Libre was a pain in the process, and the Sibionics app is...

TASKING Integrates Modern AI Technology to Enable Robust Software Verification and Validation (V&V)
TASKING announced that its embedded software toolchain now incorporates agentic AI workflows, allowing OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to automate design, debug, and verification tasks with large language models. The new capabilities use the open‑source Model Context Protocol to let LLMs...
Saudia Signs Five-Year Partnership with Six Flags Qiddiya City
Saudi Arabian airline Saudia has inked a five‑year strategic partnership with Six Flags and Aquarabia Qiddiya City, becoming the exclusive Official Premier Partner in the airline category. The deal will see Saudia create travel packages to the new theme park,...
Rohde & Schwarz Advances AI-RAN Testing Using Digital Twins with NVIDIA
Rohde & Schwarz, together with NVIDIA, unveiled an AI‑driven testbed at MWC Barcelona 2026 that combines the NVIDIA Sionna Research Kit with a DGX Spark server for hardware‑in‑the‑loop, site‑specific channel emulation. The platform runs a software‑defined 5G NR stack via...

Shopify Adds ChatGPT to Merchant Ad Network
Well, that's interesting -> Shopify Shows Ads on Behalf of Its Merchants in ChatGPT "Shopify has started arranging for ads to promote its merchants to run in ChatGPT, the company told merchants, in an expansion of Shopify’s existing ad network. The...
ET Fuels Secures Bunkering Buyer for Texas E-Methanol
Irish developer ET Fuels has signed a binding long‑term offtake agreement with UK shipping firm RFOcean to supply e‑methanol at a fixed price starting in 2030. The fuel will be produced at ET Fuels’ advanced Rattlesnake Gap plant in Texas,...
AntennaWare and SynchronicIT Collaborate to Offer Significant Improvements in UWB Applications
AntennaWare has partnered with Dutch module vendor SynchronicIT to integrate its BodyWave™ antenna into UWB‑based real‑time location systems. The patented antenna boosts link margins by 6‑12 dB in non‑line‑of‑sight scenarios, effectively doubling range or halving power consumption for on‑body and on‑metal...

Citizens’ CIO on the Ethos that Led the Bank Into the Cloud and Beyond
Citizens Bank’s Chief Information Officer Michael Ruttledge outlines how the institution’s "Next Gen Technology" initiative has driven a full migration of its legacy mainframe workloads to public cloud platforms Azure and AWS. Since joining in 2019, Ruttledge has overseen a...
Sustainable Spectrum Policy Dossier Updated for 2026
The Sustainable Spectrum Policy dossier has been refreshed for 2026, adding a new research note on space sustainability. It highlights the ESA Zero Debris Charter’s net‑zero target for 2030, the APRSAF “Nagoya Vision” on responsible space use, and IADC’s global...

Even Top Experts Stumble on Their Own Messaging
The smartest experts I work with can solve anyone's problem... but their own. Case in point? My client Chris Piper is brilliant. He’s helped multiple businesses scale past 8-figures. He even helped Codie Sanchez grow her business from $2M to $10M in...

Agentic AI Revolutionizes Biomedical Research, Featured in Nature Biotechnology
Our perspectives piece on Agentic AI for biomedical research has been published in Nature Biotechnology https://t.co/PpFeGcvv0x #agenticAI #artificialintelligence #agents https://t.co/xoADUc7T7K

Master LLMs: Tune Parameters, Not Just Prompts
Most people tweak prompts. Advanced users tweak parameters. 🎛️ Temperature → randomness Top-p / Top-k → diversity control Max tokens → cost & length Frequency / Presence penalty → repetition control Stop sequences → hard stops If you’re building with LLMs, these are non-negotiable. #AI #LLM #GenAI

Blizzard Blackout Leaves Over 500,000 Homes Dark
Blizzard Blackout Hits More Than Half a Million Homes #energysky -- via Heatmap News https://t.co/ZW2z42zXZC https://t.co/OjDd9rCw4f
Enphase Launches Updated Control Software for IQ8, IQ9
Enphase releases new control software for its IQ8, IQ9 microinverters #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/o1N5C7Pn4z
Slate Secures $130M, Launches Chinese Headache Drug
Slate starts up with $130M and a headache drug from China https://t.co/6DEltQAI8s by @gwendolynawu #biotech #startups $HLUBF