INTERVIEW: Motive’s Nyanya Joof on Driver Monitoring and Safety
Motive introduced the AI Dashcam Plus, an edge‑AI device powered by Qualcomm’s Dragonwing QCS6490 processor that runs over 30 neural models simultaneously. The dashcam fuses stereo vision, audio, telematics, GPS and motion sensors to deliver real‑time risk detection with reduced latency and false positives. Motive’s 2026 AI Road Safety Report, analyzing 1.2 billion dash‑cam hours, underpins the product’s safety claims. Nyanya Joof highlighted how heterogeneous computing across CPU, GPU and DSP enables scalable, low‑latency inference for fleet safety applications.
Energy Department Patched Flaws Enabling Email Impersonation in Critical Minerals System
The U.S. Energy Department patched an identity‑verification flaw in its critical minerals portal that let outsiders register with email addresses mimicking official energy.gov accounts. Security researcher Ronald Lovelace uncovered the issue using subdomain enumeration and reported it through the department’s...
Spotify Rolls Out AI-Powered Prompted Playlists to the UK and Other Markets
Spotify is extending its AI‑powered Prompted Playlists to Premium users in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Sweden after earlier tests in New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada. The feature lets listeners generate custom playlists by typing natural‑language prompts that describe...
Comstock Metals Approved as Authorized Solar Panel Recycler in California
Comstock Metals received approval from California’s Dept. of Toxic Substances Control to operate as a universal waste recycler for solar panels. The authorization adds a drop‑off facility in Kings County, enabling end‑of‑life panels to be collected locally and then shipped...
Food Security for the Arctic and Deep Space Takes Next Step in New CSA Opportunity
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has issued a tender to co‑develop a conceptual design for a deployable Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) unit, mandating partnership with an Inuit firm from Nunavut. The 23‑month contract, valued up to $745,000, aims to produce...
What the FDA’s Priority Voucher Decision Means for Psychedelic Drug Development
The FDA’s Commissioner’s National Priority Review Voucher (CNPV) pilot compresses review timelines to one‑to‑two months for qualifying drugs, but its criteria favor applications with mature data packages. Compass Pathways’ synthetic psilocybin (COMP360) was listed as eligible yet did not receive...
How to Achieve Superior BCMA Response Rates without the Liability of Delayed MNTs
Recent analyses of BCMA CAR‑T therapies reveal that superior response rates can be achieved without the historically accepted trade‑off of delayed movement and neurocognitive toxicities (MNTs). Emerging data pinpoint specific construct features—particularly signaling domains and hinge designs—as the primary drivers...
Samsung’s Galaxy Book 6 Laptops Start at $1,049 in the US, Launch on March 11
Samsung announced the U.S. launch of its Galaxy Book 6 laptop series on March 11, with three models priced from $1,049 to $2,449. The lineup, revealed at CES 2026, features a slimmer design, Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, and an Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU in...
Ubicquia Secures $106 Million in Series D Funding
Ubicquia, a provider of intelligent infrastructure solutions, closed a $106 million Series D round. The financing was led by 67 Capital and Marunouchi Innovation Partners, with participation from Hamilton Lane, ClearSky, GMS and strategic partner Sercomm. The capital will accelerate AI development for...
Karma-Karma-Karma Chameleon
Balancing potency with oral bioavailability remains a core hurdle as drug candidates grow larger and more complex. Researchers now focus on "chameleonicity"—the ability of a molecule to toggle between polar and lipophilic conformations—to reconcile solubility and permeability. The article outlines...
Astronomers Discover Rare Super-Jupiter Orbiting Distant Star
Astronomers using NASA's TESS have identified a rare super‑Jupiter, TIC‑65910228 b, orbiting a bright F‑type star 864 light‑years away. The planet is 1.08 Jupiter radii, 4.78 Jupiter masses, and completes a 180.5‑day orbit at 0.7 AU, making it one of the longest‑period transiting worlds...
CPU-Only Compute Still Matters To A Lot Of HPC Centers
After three decades of gradual adoption, cloud providers are now offering CPU‑only HPC instances that can compete with on‑premise clusters. Amazon Web Services introduced the HPC8a family, built on AMD’s latest Turin EPYC 9R15 processors and delivering 192 physical cores across...
Why Geo-Blocking Is the Essential Next Step for Every Job Board
Job boards are increasingly adopting geo‑blocking to limit traffic to target markets. A recent case study of UK healthcare portal Nurses.co.uk shows that blocking foreign visitors eliminated 82% of global users, raising domestic traffic share to 98%. The move was...
Pure Storage Snaps up 1touch in Data Management Pivot
Pure Storage announced the acquisition of data‑intelligence firm 1Touch and a corporate rebrand to Everpure, signaling a strategic pivot from pure flash hardware to comprehensive data‑management solutions. The deal will embed 1Touch’s orchestration capabilities into Pure’s Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC)...
Start with Bottom‑of‑Funnel, Flip Funnel, 44× SQL Growth
A cybersecurity SaaS came to us with a problem 👇 - Pipeline flat - About 1 demo per month - Marketing basically paused 12 months later: - 44x SQL volume - 1200% more opportunities - Deals closing 3x faster than...
Know What Security Tools Access Before They Exploit You
Until it hacks everyone’s GitHub accounts and wipes out all their IP. Be careful with tools like this. Make sure you understand what it can access and what it can do. Understand where it is sharing your code and storing...
Belgian Centre for Cybersecurity Reports Significant Phishing Scams
Belgium’s Centre for Cybersecurity recorded a sharp rise in phishing complaints, logging 226 reports in Q4 2025 and 106 in January 2026. Scammers frequently masquerade as police or representatives of telecom and banking firms such as Proximus, Argenta, and Card...
Cheap Chinese EVs: Attractive Until Companies Collapse
Cheap Chinese EVs are boon, until the company goes bust. "Neta Auto’s parent company filed for bankruptcy last year after failing to pay wages, stranding customers in Thailand without after-sales support. Singulato, Aiways, Byton, and Levdeo have all shut down." https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ev-exports-competition-price/
Imerys Halts British Lithium as Woodsmith Boosted by Anglo and Mitsubishi
French mining group Imerys announced that its British Lithium (IBL) project will be placed into “care and maintenance,” effectively pausing development. The decision comes as the UK seeks to build a domestic battery supply chain, and the move signals a...
Pixel Health Introduces One Thread™: An AI-Powered Experience Layer for Unified Patient Access
Pixel Health unveiled One Thread™, an AI‑powered experience layer that sits above existing EMR and technology stacks to unify patient portals, apps, websites, and contact centers. The platform provides a universal patient identity, personalized interactions, and automated workflow coordination while...
Protecting VFDs From Overheating: An Easy Way to Calculate Cooling Requirements
Variable frequency drives (VFDs) are gaining rapid adoption due to energy savings, but their compact electronics generate heat that can overheat sealed enclosures. Pfannenberg introduced simple rule‑of‑thumb calculations: 75 BTU/h of active cooling or 4 CFM of passive airflow per horsepower, based...
How Health Systems Are Tackling Behavioral Health Fragmentation
Health systems are confronting fragmented behavioral‑health delivery through multiple tactics, including rapid expansion of telepsychiatry, creation of integrated pediatric health hubs, and the launch of dedicated behavioral‑health urgent‑care sites. In West Virginia, virtual visits now account for just over half...
Prompts Boost Productivity Only Within Established Systems
“20 ChatGPT prompts to boost your productivity.” Useful? Yes. Transformational? Only if used correctly. Here’s the nuance most prompt collections miss 👇 1️⃣ Prompts don’t create productivity — systems do GTD, Pomodoro, Eisenhower, Ivy Lee… These frameworks worked before AI....
Reading the Enemy: How Genome Science Is Reshaping the Fight Against Wheat Stem Rust
Researchers used long‑read DNA sequencing to assemble chromosome‑level genomes of two wheat stem‑rust strains that caused recent outbreaks in Ethiopia and Italy. The study showed these strains are unrelated to the notorious Ug99 lineage and each harbors distinct avirulence‑gene mutations...
How to Stop Publishing Content Nobody Cares About and Create Content Your Audience Loves
The article advises founders to stop producing irrelevant content and instead focus on audience‑centric, authentic storytelling. It stresses that understanding who you write for, being genuine about successes and failures, and publishing consistently are essential for building trust, especially among...
Brussels’ Privacy Reforms Stumble Out the Gate
The European Commission’s digital‑omnibus package proposes to reshape the GDPR by redefining personal data, allowing pseudonymized information to fall outside strict privacy rules. National governments, led by the Cypriot Council presidency, have pushed back, warning the change could erode core...
Demand UK Digital Sovereignty
The Open Rights Group is urging the UK government to adopt a digital sovereignty strategy that reduces reliance on foreign tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Palantir. It argues that over‑dependence creates strategic fragility, citing the Trump‑ordered shutdown...
Tech Update: Zywave Unveils 4 New AI Agents; Cytora, Warren Group Partner to Improve Commercial Property Underwriting
Zywave unveiled four AI agents in its Winter 2026 release, already deployed with more than 35 insurance firms. The agents automate prospect identification, lead scoring, research enrichment, and outreach, while new platform features add TurboRater single sign‑on and expanded Benefits CPQ...
Indonesia Restricts Crude Palm Oil Exports Waste
Indonesia confirmed that the ban on exporting crude palm‑oil mill effluent (POME) and used cooking oil (UCO) will remain in place, prioritising domestic energy security and its emerging aviation‑fuel sector. President Prabowo framed palm‑based residues as strategic feedstocks for a...
MIT Engineers 3D Print Fully Functional Electric Motor
MIT engineers have unveiled a multi‑material 3D printer capable of fabricating a fully functional electric linear motor in a single print job. The system integrates four distinct extruders that handle conductive, magnetic, and standard plastic materials, allowing the motor to...
Flightradar24 Expands Global Coverage with Aireon Space-Based ADS-B Data
Flightradar24 announced integration of Aireon's space‑based ADS‑B data, extending its tracking beyond the 55,000‑receiver terrestrial network to oceans, polar and remote regions. The satellite feed updates aircraft positions every 15 minutes when out of ground coverage, shown with a blue...
Self‑review, Quality Gates, and Auto‑fix Loop Proven Effective
Anthropic's new research is out, and a few of my hypotheses just got confirmed. 1. Self‑review and quality gates matter. When users get less critical with polished outputs, automated verification layers compensate for that human tendency. 2. The iteration finding also...
Google Spinout Aalyria Achieves $1.3 Billion Valuation in Series B Round
Aalyria, a Google spin‑out focused on space‑based networking, closed a $100 million Series B round that lifts its valuation to $1.3 billion. The funding, led by Battery Ventures and J2 Ventures, will fund a one‑third staff increase and accelerate rollout of its Spacetime...
Teach Tools, Not Just “Just Say No,” Says Founders
“Just say no” isn’t the way to go, argue the founders of the Commons App, Shannon Godfrey and Julia Gustafson. When it comes to educating kids on risk factors like substance use and sexual health, we ensure that students have...
Nev. Sheriff Unveils ‘AI Brain'
Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill announced two flagship initiatives for 2026: the Meridian project, a 24/7 real‑time counter‑terrorism analysis desk funded by private donations, and the AI‑powered Knowledge Value Network (K.V.N.) that will integrate crime data across the department. He...
Write and Truly Understand Bash/Python for DevOps
Writing script and understanding it are 2 different things, you can vibe code and still not understand your script. If you want to learn to write and understand your bash, Python scripting in DevOps. Send me a Dm
Airbnb's Scalable Dynamic Config Prevents Outage Chaos
Config changes SHOULD be super boring, but we all see those public outages caused by misconfiguration. Here's a look at how Airbnb does dynamic config changes at scale ... https://t.co/S6jjDs54uv https://t.co/Xzvix5lw5G
This Latin American Rival to Amazon Reports Earnings This Week. How to Trade It with Options
MercadoLibre, the dominant e‑commerce and fintech platform in Latin America, will report its Q4 2025 results on Tuesday, with analysts forecasting roughly $28.6 billion in revenue for the full year. The company posted a 39% year‑over‑year revenue jump to $7.41 billion in Q3 2025,...
Samsung Employee Leaks Galaxy S26 via Chromium Bug Report
Samsung (employee) leaked the Galaxy S26 in the most unlikely place last year Last October, a Samsung employee filed a bug report to Google’s Chromium Issue Tracker sharing a video of S26 ✅ Details - https://t.co/mfLeDMV5I2 https://t.co/AoanqBdUEr
Turn Your AI Boardroom Into a Battlefield of Multiform Outputs
My AI Boardroom is now an AI Battlefield ⚔️ Way more fun. Reminder: explore outputs beyond text files. Go for pdfs, spreadsheets, code, dashboards, interactive worlds, animations... not just because it tells the data story better, but because it's a f*cking...
Educate.ie Launches EdPal, a Digital Learning Platform Built for Irish Classrooms
Educate.ie has introduced EdPal, a digital learning platform tailored for Irish post‑primary classrooms. The solution combines lesson delivery, student engagement and assessment, and is pre‑populated with curriculum‑aligned ebooks from Educate.ie’s own catalogue. Developed through direct teacher collaboration, EdPal is being...
C‑Suite and Front‑Line Miss AI Efficiency Gap
The AI efficiency gap: Why the C-Suite and the front line are living in different worlds by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/oDC8OKpx4r @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #TechNews #Sales #Marketing #Culture #Strategy https://t.co/ACegbrqNxG
OpenAI's 800M WAUs Show Chart
If OpenAI has 800m WAUs then this chart grossly overestimates the number of people who have never tried ai chatbots
Smarter ECOs: Inside Easy-Logic’s ASIC Optimization Engine
Easy‑Logic Technology Ltd. has commercialized EasylogicECO, an automated functional Engineering Change Order (ECO) engine that generates minimal logic patches from RTL or specification updates. The tool leverages formal equivalence and optimization algorithms to preserve timing closure, layout integrity, and DFT...
Demand Risk Mitigation Details for Efficient Money Transfers
My unsolicited comms advice: if you're going to go on at length about making it more "efficient" to move money to places like Venezuela (sanctions risk) and Colombia (narcotrafficking/money laundering risk), also explain how (if?) you mitigate these risks. https://t.co/rN8g9ibBhf
AI Boom Boosts Demand for Compliance and Security
“We didn’t know the AI boom was about to happen.” But it’s now driving more demand for everything @DrataHQ does - compliance, security assurance, vendor risk. @markowitzadam on the difference between luck and positioning. Full episode: https://t.co/QqQ8deMpCS https://t.co/FaqsVeUjfP
Applied Launches New Benefits Innovation
Applied Systems unveiled a new Benefits experience within its Applied Epic platform, consolidating benefits workflows, automation, and AI‑driven pre‑fill into a single hub. The upgrade expands last year’s Benefits Overview with full plan‑management, renewal, and enrollment capabilities, making Epic the...
Treasury Unveils AI Lexicon and Risk Framework for Finance
Risk says "model risk." Tech says "ML system." Compliance says "automated decision tool." Legal says "algorithm." US Treasury just fixed this: AI Lexicon + Risk Framework for financial services. 230 control objectives. NIST-adapted. "Treasury releases AI lexicon and sector-specific risk framework"...
Only 5% of CIOs Escape AI Pilot Purgatory
Pilot purgatory is where AI ROI goes to die. 💀 Break the cycle. Learn what the 5% of successful CIOs are doing differently in 2026. Full episode: https://t.co/dJs86sTyRD #CXOtalk #AIValue #CIO https://t.co/n8dG53BcbS
Collaboration at Its Core: Launching Spain’s First Fully Integrated Spatial Omics Platform
IRB Barcelona has unveiled Spain’s first fully integrated spatial omics platform, uniting spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, histopathology, advanced microscopy and bioinformatics under one workflow. The facility draws on five core units to deliver an end‑to‑end pipeline from sample preparation through computational...
