SolarPower Europe’s New Hybrid Solar + BESS Due Diligence Reports Seek to Ensure ‘Long-Term Technical Excellence’
SolarPower Europe unveiled two technical due‑diligence reports aimed at utility‑scale hybrid solar‑PV and battery energy storage projects. The “Technical Due Diligence Best Practice Guidelines” and the third‑edition EPC Best‑Practice Guidelines provide a lifecycle framework covering planning, construction, operation and decommissioning, with new sections on biodiversity and cybersecurity. Developed by a workstream of more than 30 sector experts, the documents were launched at the Solar Quality Summit in Barcelona. They signal the growing maturity of hybrid projects as a core component of Europe’s clean‑energy transition.
Chinese Telecom Hackers Likely Holding Stolen Data ‘in Perpetuity’ for Later Attempts, FBI Official Says
The FBI disclosed that the Chinese state‑backed group Salt Typhoon infiltrated dozens of telecom operators worldwide, exfiltrating data from over a million Americans. The hackers accessed U.S. lawful‑intercept systems, targeting communications of senior officials in a campaign that began at least...
From Prime Day and Black Friday to Surprise Spikes: Why Retailers Are Rethinking Peak Sales Readiness
Retailers are abandoning the outdated notion of seasonal peak‑sales windows and adopting a year‑round growth‑readiness mindset. Unexpected demand spikes—from TikTok trends to surprise influencer drops—can now rival traditional events like Prime Day, exposing fragile point‑to‑point integrations. Mark Simon of Celigo...
Why AI Is Altering Planning for 6G Mobile Networks
Operators are rethinking 6G network design as AI applications demand flexible traffic handling. The NGMN Alliance study warns that multimodal AI, such as AR glasses and autonomous vehicles, will reverse the traditional downlink‑heavy pattern, requiring more uplink capacity and adaptable...
Luminus Leverages APC Partnership to Enhance Energy-Efficient LED Lighting Solutions
Luminus Devices and APC Electronics have formed an exclusive partnership that couples Luminus’s high‑brightness LED modules with APC‑E’s silicon‑carbide (SiC) power semiconductors. The integration promises up to 15% efficiency improvement in high‑power luminaires and a 50% reduction in power‑supply size...
Empowering STEM: Professor Redefines Robotics for All
#Noire #AI #Avatar #Robotics #Engineering #Professor teaches Robotics as part of her STEM for the streets. Changing the face of STEM one robot at a time. Support her books, robots, apparel and more at NoireSTEMinist.com
US, China and Russia Dominate Europe’s Ecommerce Top 10
ECDB’s Global E‑commerce Compass 2026 reveals that U.S., Chinese and Russian platforms dominate Europe’s ecommerce landscape. Amazon leads with a 2025 GMV just under $232 billion, almost equal to the combined GMV of the next nine players. Russian marketplaces Ozon and...
How to Create a Mobile Device Management Policy for Your Org
Mobile device management (MDM) policies are now a core governance tool for protecting data across corporate, BYOD, and hybrid workforces. The guide outlines five essential steps—defining purpose, engaging stakeholders, drafting usage rules, setting enforcement, and ongoing review—to build a robust...
CarGurus Purportedly Breached by ShinyHunters
CarGurus disclosed that approximately 1.7 million corporate files were taken by the ShinyHunters hacking group after a voice‑phishing attack compromised its single‑sign‑on credentials on Feb 13. The attackers threatened to publish the data unless negotiations were reached by Feb 20. ShinyHunters has previously...
Obesity Biotech Verdiva Plans Big Year of Data, Explores Deals
Verdiva Bio, an obesity‑focused biotech, is gearing up for a data‑heavy 2026, with Phase 2 results for its lead long‑acting peptide slated for the third quarter. The company is also courting strategic partnerships, eyeing potential deals with major pharma players after...
Jump Secures $80M to Expand AI for Financial Advisors
Jump secured $80 million in Series B funding, led by Insight Partners, to build an AI operating system for financial advisors. The round brings total capital to $105 million and reflects rapid adoption, with the platform now serving over 27,000 advisors and adding...
Federal AI Series: Security Priorities
Federal agencies are rapidly integrating artificial intelligence, prompting heightened focus on securing the underlying data and systems. Zscaler’s Federal Field CTO Chad Tetreault outlined the evolving AI threat landscape, highlighting supply‑chain vulnerabilities, data‑poisoning, prompt‑injection, and emerging agentic AI risks. He...
Google Unveils America-India Connect Network
Google announced the America‑India Connect, a multi‑continent infrastructure program built around a five‑year $15 billion AI investment in India. The plan creates a new subsea gateway in Visakhapatnam and adds three submarine cables linking India with Singapore, South Africa and Australia,...
Report: FinOps Priorities Are Shifting Left and Expanding
FinOps practitioners are moving financial decision‑making earlier in the software development lifecycle, a shift highlighted in the FinOps Foundation’s 2026 State of FinOps report based on 1,100 respondents. Pre‑deployment architecture guidance is now a top‑requested capability, and the scope of...
Claude Code's Rise Shows Coding Is Nearly Solved
Claude Code launched just one year ago. Today it writes 4% of all GitHub commits, and DAU 2x'd last month alone. In my conversation with @bcherny, creator and head of Claude Code, we dig into: 🔸 Why he considers coding "largely solved" 🔸...
Caregivers Find Much-Needed Relief with This Unique Eldercare Solution
CareYaya, a student‑matching platform, connects college students with seniors and disabled adults to provide non‑medical in‑home assistance. By paying students directly at about $20 an hour, the service reduces care costs roughly 50 % compared with traditional agencies. The app’s algorithm...
Distribution, Not Creation, Is the New Attention Bottleneck
Distribution and the human attention premium That marketing and distribution become the principal challenges of scaling content in an attention landscape awash in it seems like an obvious outcome as production costs collapse. But it has not yet emerged as a...
Focus on 4 Metrics, Not 50, to Drive Profit
You’re deluding yourself into thinking you’re organized by staring at a dashboard with 50 metrics... … and somehow, you're completely missing the only 4 that actually matter: MER (Marketing Efficiency Ratio): This is your early-warning alarm. If MER dips 10-15% below target, something's leaking....
Tradipitant
Vanda Pharmaceuticals received FDA approval for tradipitant (Nereus®), an oral selective NK1 receptor antagonist, to treat motion‑induced nausea and vomiting. The approval marks the first new drug for motion sickness in more than four decades, highlighting a significant regulatory milestone....
Ask the Problem First, Then Match Tools
This is an interesting thread. Everyone is suggesting tools to solve the problem. I’d start by asking more about the data and the questions the customer is trying to answer or problems they are trying to solve first before recommending...
Ice Maze: A Free Game That Makes English Learning Fun
Ice Maze is a free, browser‑based puzzle game that teaches English sentence structure through colour‑coded semantics. Developed by James Abela of Garden International School, the game lets students navigate a rabbit through mazes, collecting words to form grammatically correct sentences....
Illumination Zone: Episode 224 | Timothy Conlon of DarrowEverett Sits Down with Mary Mack and Holley Robinson
Timothy Conlon, a DarrowEverett partner, discusses his transition from family law to eDiscovery on the Illumination Zone podcast, highlighting his new book *Electronic Evidence for Family Law Attorneys*. He explains how smartphones act as “supercomputers in a pocket,” storing self‑disclosed...
Japan: Nintendo Switch 2 Sells 57K Units and Switch Family Sells 26K Units
Nintendo’s second‑generation console, the Switch 2, topped Japan’s hardware sales for the week of 9‑15 February, moving 57,779 units. The broader Switch family—including OLED, Lite and the original model—added another 26,481 units, bringing total weekly hardware shipments to over 84,000. PlayStation 5 titles...
Securitization's Unique AI Playbook, and What's Driving It
Finance chiefs report mounting board pressure to adopt AI, mirroring similar urgency in the securitization sector. ABS leaders, like Vervent’s David Johnson, argue AI adoption must deliver speed, transparency, and control, enabling faster tape‑to‑trade cycles, cleaner data, and scalable compliance....
Redefining Obesity Treatment Beyond GLP-1 Limits
BioSpace’s Denatured podcast featured Verdiva Bio’s R&D head Jane Hughes and MitoRx CEO Jon Rees discussing next‑generation obesity therapies that move beyond the limitations of GLP‑1 agonists. They highlighted how GLP‑1 treatments can cause muscle loss and suffer from poor...
Tech Mastery Comes From Repeated Messy Attempts
Your first Terraform project will be ugly. Your second one will still be ugly. By the tenth, you’ll understand why the first nine failed. Progress in tech is cumulative. 💗
Scaling Warehouse Operations Through 3PL Outsourcing Models
Third‑party logistics (3PL) outsourcing is emerging as the preferred model for scaling warehouse operations amid surging freight volumes driven by e‑commerce. Purpose‑built 3PL facilities combine high‑speed infrastructure, real‑time inventory technology, and trained staff to keep inventory moving efficiently. Flexible capacity...
Remcos RAT Expands Real-Time Surveillance Capabilities
A newly observed Remcos RAT variant now streams webcam footage and transmits keystrokes in real time, shifting from local data storage to direct, encrypted communication with attacker‑controlled servers. The malware decrypts its configuration only at runtime, loads critical Windows APIs...
Engine Problems for Japan’s Lunar Lander Company Ispace
Japanese lunar lander firm ispace announced delays in its third mission after encountering development problems with the VoidRunner engine, a joint effort with Agile Space Industries. The engine replacement forced redesigns, pushing the NASA‑backed CLPS mission from 2026 to 2027....
Agentic Coding Mirrors ML, Inheriting Its Pitfalls
Sufficiently advanced agentic coding is essentially machine learning: the engineer sets up the optimization goal as well as some constraints on the search space (the spec and its tests), then an optimization process (coding agents) iterates until the goal is...
Associated Wholesale Grocers Adopts Forecasting and Fresh Optimization Solution
Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) has chosen Relex’s forecasting and fresh‑product optimization platform to improve distribution‑center planning across its extensive network. The solution targets the cooperative’s 1,100 supermarket members operating in 3,500 locations across 33 states, aiming to boost forecast accuracy,...
Archer Chooses Bristol as Its UK Engineering Hub
Archer announced that Bristol will host its new UK Engineering Hub, a centre designed to accelerate both commercial eVTOL and defence programmes. The company has already received hundreds of applications and begun hiring engineers to tap the city’s deep aerospace...
MedStar Health, Withings Bring Connected Devices to Concierge Medicine Program
MedStar Health is scaling its Signature concierge primary‑care program by partnering with Withings Health Solutions to supply patients with cellular blood‑pressure cuffs and scales. The collaboration leverages MedStar’s existing telehealth and remote‑patient‑monitoring infrastructure to collect real‑world physiologic data outside the...
Crystals Grown in Space
NASA released an image of lysozyme protein crystals cultivated aboard the International Space Station using Redwire’s PIL-BOX hardware. The experiment is part of a broader study examining how microgravity influences crystal formation across various compounds. Lysozyme, a common immune protein,...
Palo Alto Networks CEO Sees AI as Demand Driver, Not a Threat
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora told investors AI will drive, not diminish, cybersecurity demand. He argued AI expands attack surfaces, creating new risk categories that require robust security solutions. The company posted 15% year‑over‑year revenue growth to $2.6 billion and...
Researchers Call for Help with Reproducibility Crisis
Researchers from the Netherlands and France have launched a collaborative effort to replicate a 2012 study that claimed fluorescent quantum dots could detect copper ions inside living cells. Backed by an €8 million European Research Council grant, the NanoBubbles project is...
Beyond Gantt: The Rise of Flow-Based Production
In this episode, Antti Pukema of Sitedrive discusses moving beyond traditional Gantt chart scheduling to a flow‑based production approach that integrates CPM, Takt, and Last Planner systems into a single "one schedule". He explains how this methodology eliminates idle "white...
Hindi Linux for DevOps: Clear, Complete Guide
Recently I found a YouTube channel — TrainWithShubham He has explained Linux for DevOps in Hindi in a very clear and practical way. From basics like: • What is Linux • Commands • Users & permissions • Networking • LVM Everything is covered in one structured session. If you’re...
Voicebox Dethrones ElevenLabs with Open-Source, Local TTS
ElevenLabs just lost its moat 🤯 Voicebox just dropped: → Powered by Alibaba's Qwen3-TTS for near-perfect cloning → Ships with a DAW-like "Stories Editor" → No cloud, runs locally on your machine 100% Open Source. 100% Local. Link to repo in 🧵↓ https://t.co/m7aQ5wutK3
Elon Musk Boasts That Grok Says America Isn’t Built on Stolen Land, Which It Obviously Is
Elon Musk promoted xAI’s Grok chatbot for bluntly denying that the United States was built on stolen land, sharing a screenshot where Grok answers “No.” He praised the response as “BASED,” contrasting it with more nuanced answers from ChatGPT and...
FDA Proposes Single Pivotal Trial as Approval Standard
FDA leaders say one pivotal trial, not two, should be ‘default’ for drug approvals https://t.co/ADRb1miphf by Kristin Jensen #biotech
NASA's Award-Winning Camera Reveals Invisible Shock Waves
Award-Winning NASA Camera Revolutionizes How We See the Invisible https://t.co/4l8gHwzgAN 4 Min Read Award-Winning NASA Camera Revolutionizes How We See the Invisible A shock wave interacting with a thin layer of fluid at Mach 10 in a … https://t.co/upxwqHYGvJ
Ulta Beauty’s Big Branding Play; Why Conglomerates Should Consolidate
Ulta Beauty’s latest branding initiative underscores a broader shift toward consolidation in the beauty sector. Record growth at niche perfume house Amouage, a surge in online fragrance sales, and the decline of traditional department‑store beauty hubs illustrate mounting pressure on...
Use Your Product First; Proof Builds Trust and Growth
He refused to sell his product until his team used it themselves first. Then 100 customers signed in 6 weeks. 1,000 in year one. @markowitzadam built @DrataHQ to $100M+ ARR by proving trust with evidence - not promises. https://t.co/MZNP2TLl8H
Indium Oxide Semiconductors Rise in 3D Integration Race
As the semiconductor industry gets serious about monolithic 3D integration, indium-based oxide semiconductors are drawing more and more attention. https://t.co/TCRHH3C2p6 #semiconductor #3Dintegration @ieee_iedm #indiumoxide #BTI #IGZO
Altera Digital Health Names Sean Sykes as Executive Vice President for Ventus
Altera Digital Health announced the appointment of Sean Sykes as Executive Vice President for its Ventus portfolio, which delivers integrated revenue cycle and administrative solutions. Sykes brings more than 20 years of experience building high‑performing sales and customer‑success teams in...
Building Resilient Electricity Systems for Future Threats
Impactful discussion with 🇳🇱 @MinisterKGG, 🇬🇧 @Ed_Miliband, 🇦🇺 Stephen Jones, 🇪🇸 Sara Aagesen Muñoz & other leading figures on what is needed to ensure electricity systems can cope with the growing range of threats they are facing, both old and...
Silicon Valley's Private Shadow Grid Faces Skepticism
Silicon Valley’s energy appetite is so insatiable that it is now trying to build a colossal shadow power grid for itself nationwide. But will it work? Said @JigarShahDC : “This whole thing feels like a fairy tale concocted on...
Tech Fails in Fee‑For‑Service, Aledade Shows Value‑Based Solution
What happens when you drop great tech into a fee-for-service system? Farzad Mostashari has a blunt answer—and it’s worth hearing. See what Aledade is doing to make the math work for value-based care: https://t.co/iMKzsdQSrl @AledadeACO #ValueBasedCare #HITsm https://t.co/lL49Ha2UHC
Taalas Chip Excels at Llama3.1, but Lacks Flexibility
AI chip startup Taalas @taalas_inc is showing off a chip that can do 16,000 tps/user on Llama3.1-8B, many multiples of its nearest competitor. The catch? The chip ONLY runs Llama3.1-8B, and a model like DeepSeekR1-671B would need 30 separate tapeouts: https://t.co/IJuprQZqaE
