Czech Ministry Apologizes to Journalist for Blanket Collection of Mobile Phone Data
The Czech Supreme Court ruled that the country's blanket retention of mobile phone metadata violates EU law, labeling the practice a long‑term and serious rights infringement. Following the decision, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued a formal apology to journalist Jan Cibulka, opening the door to possible financial compensation. The ruling obliges lawmakers to amend the data‑retention statute, but the minister has indicated no immediate legislative timeline, awaiting EU guidance. Civil‑society group IuRe, which financed the lawsuit, continues to pressure the government and telecom operators to cease illegal data collection.
Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Starts with Open Source
EDRi, together with Access Now and Vrijschrift.org, submitted a response to the EU’s Open‑Source Digital Ecosystems Strategy, arguing that free and open source software (FOSS) is a strategic foundation for Europe’s digital sovereignty. The brief highlights how Europe’s current reliance...
Ensuring Human Rights-Based, Global Perspectives in the DSA Enforcement: The DSA Human Rights Alliance’s Guidelines
The DSA Human Rights Alliance released an eight‑principle guide urging the European Commission and national regulators to embed a human‑rights‑centered approach as the Digital Services Act moves into enforcement. The recommendations stress cross‑border effects, inclusion of diverse civil‑society groups, and...
How Recommender Algorithms Threaten Election Integrity
A study by ApTI examined how Facebook, Instagram and TikTok recommendation algorithms delivered political content during Romania’s 2025 presidential election. Using four controlled accounts, the researchers found that algorithms routinely overrode explicit user choices, showing adult users political posts from...
KnowBe4 Report Reveals U.S. Public Sector Faces Unrelenting Cyber Threats
KnowBe4 released a white paper highlighting the U.S. public sector’s exposure to escalating cyber threats, with ransomware affecting an estimated 43 % of local governments by 2025. The report identifies four core challenges: relentless attacks, chronic staffing shortages, mounting compliance pressures,...
European Commission’s Plans Will Lead to Worse Regulations
EDRi warns that the European Commission’s plan to amend the Better Regulation framework will degrade EU lawmaking by introducing procedural shortcuts, reducing scrutiny, and favoring private interests. The civil‑society group submitted evidence highlighting failures in impact assessments, a politicised ‘urgency’...
‘Menacing’ Call of Duty TV Ad Gunned Down by Watchdog
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned the TV spot for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, deeming its aggressive tone and imagery as trivialising sexual violence. The ad, featuring comedian Nikki Glaser and actor Peter Stormare as “Replacer” security officers, showed...
Drata Opens San Francisco Headquarters
Drata, the leading agentic trust management platform, announced the opening of its new San Francisco headquarters, marking a strategic commitment to the tech hub after a five‑year anniversary. The company reported 190% year‑over‑year enterprise customer growth, 60% revenue growth, and...
Assume Failure, Let AI’s Smartest Teams Lead
Assume it will go wrong. Work back from there. Israeli thinking an entrepreneur building a computer vision company once told me in Tel Aviv. I have the most complete lists of those working on AI anywhere. Really of smart people in all fields. Lucky...
AHR Expo Reflections: Elevating the BAS Visual Layer for Real World Operators
At AHR Expo, industry leaders highlighted a persistent gap between building automation system (BAS) visual design and the needs of everyday operators. While user experience is a buzzword, many graphics are still engineered for technicians rather than the people who...
Krisp AI Note Taker Raises the Bar for Meetings by Expanding Its AI Meeting Suite With Accent Conversion
Krisp AI Note Taker expands its meeting suite by adding real-time accent conversion alongside its established noise cancellation. The voice‑AI platform now offers AI‑generated transcripts, summaries and action items while normalizing diverse accents, improving clarity for participants. To date, the...
Intellinetics, Inc. Appoints Alison Forsythe as President and CEO
Intellinetics, a NYSE American‑listed digital transformation solutions provider, announced Alison Forsythe as its new President and Chief Executive Officer effective February 17, 2026. Forsythe brings over 20 years of SaaS and enterprise software leadership, most recently as CEO of AI‑powered...
New Clutch and Conductor Data Reveals 87% of Content Marketers Increasing Budgets in 2026 as SEO Expands Into AI Search
Clutch and Conductor’s 2026 State of Content Report shows content marketers are boosting investment as SEO expands into AI search. Eighty‑seven percent plan to increase budgets next year, and one‑quarter now write primarily for large language models. The survey of...
Apple Watch Detects Hypertension with 69% Accuracy
A lot of people don't even know they have high blood pressure, while over 200 million people wear an Apple Watch. The bridge between the two is whether an Apple Watch can properly detect hypertension. A new JAMA study aimed...
ScribeRyte ClickNote Seamlessly Flows AI-Generated SOAP Notes Into Browser-Based EMRs
ScribeRyte AI introduced ClickNote, a free Chrome extension that automatically inserts AI‑generated SOAP notes into any browser‑based EMR. The tool leverages ambient speech technology, multilingual support, and HIPAA‑secure protocols to streamline documentation. ScribeRyte claims providers can reclaim up to ten...
Microsoft Defender Update Lets SOC Teams Manage, Vet Response Tools
Microsoft Defender now includes a Library Management feature that lets security operations centers (SOCs) organize, preview, and control the scripts and tools used in live response. Analysts can upload PowerShell, batch, and other response files ahead of investigations, making them...
Petra Durnin: You Don't Need More Tech — You Need Better Data
In this episode, Petra Durnin, a veteran CRE researcher and tech‑to‑impact strategist, explains why the industry’s biggest hurdle isn’t more tools but cleaner, more integrated data. She walks through her career trajectory, from a temp analyst to leading data and...
Kipu Health Launches Elevate 2026
Kipu Health announced Elevate 2026, a three‑day customer conference in Carlsbad, California, showcasing its AI‑native Kipu Helix Intelligent Operating System for behavioral health. The event gathers executives, operators and administrators to explore AI‑driven strategies, hands‑on programming and peer insights. Kipu...
When Senior Leaders Are Asked To Carry Too Much
Biopharma senior leaders are increasingly shouldering operational work left behind by downsizing, stretching their capacity beyond strategic duties. The overload fragments focus, slows decisions, and erodes communication, while burnout remains hidden behind continued presence. As pressure builds, the organization’s decision‑making...
Britain’s Renewed Appetite for Credit Cards
The UK credit‑card market has rebounded, with net lending up 12.4% year‑on‑year in December 2025 and outstanding balances reaching a record £78 billion. Despite higher unemployment and elevated household debt, arrears sit at just 1.2%, and debt‑service ratios are roughly half...
Drug Discovery Platform Peptris Raises Rs 70 Cr in Series A Round
Peptris, a Bengaluru‑based AI drug‑discovery startup, closed a Rs 70 crore ($7.7 million) Series A round co‑led by IAN Alpha Fund and Speciale Invest. The capital will accelerate its pipeline, moving novel chemical entities and repurposing programs toward clinical readiness within 24 months. Peptris’ platform...
Fossil Fuels Waste Two-Thirds of Energy; Clean Tech Thrives
The remarkable inefficiency - and destructiveness - of the fossil fuel energy system: two-thirds of all primary energy inputs are wasted, and do not convert into useful energy >When petrol powers a car, three-quarters of the energy is wasted as heat...
Robots Build Robots, Generating Data for IPO
robots building robots… • unitree dropped a video of their g1 humanoid assembling robot legs in their own shenzhen factory using the unifolm embodied ai model. yes, robots building robots at actual production speed • the tasks are real bimanual...
TopQuadrant Launches Enterprise Context Platform to Build Trusted AI
TopQuadrant unveiled TQ Data Foundation, an enterprise context platform designed to close the AI "context gap" that keeps many large firms in pilot mode. The solution layers knowledge‑graph technology over existing data assets, delivering unified models, reference terms, metadata, and...
AI Capabilities Now Define Enterprise Cloud Competition
How AI Is Redefining Enterprise Cloud Competition #Cloud competition has fundamentally shifted from #infrastructure costs to #AI capabilities, with companies like #ByteDance and partnerships between #OpenAI and #Snowflake proving that AI-first platforms are now the fastest-growing segment. #Enterprise leaders must...
Spokenote Launches the First Video Platform Built to Scale Authentic Interaction
Spokenote unveiled the first video platform that combines automation speed with authentic, human‑focused interaction. The solution lets marketers generate personalized short‑form videos at infinite scale without manual editing or AI‑generated impersonations. Using modular components, each video adapts to viewer data,...
AWS Coding Agents Gain New Plugin Support Across Development Tools
AWS introduced Agent Plugins, a framework that equips AI coding assistants with native AWS capabilities. The initial "deploy‑to‑AWS" plugin lets developers issue natural‑language prompts to generate architecture recommendations, cost estimates, and infrastructure‑as‑code templates. It currently integrates with Claude Code and...
UAV Navigation & Ekolot Aerospace and Defense Partner on ZEUS VTOL Platform
UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía and Ekolot Aerospace & Defense have forged a strategic partnership to embed high‑precision flight‑control and navigation systems into the ZEUS VTOL platform. The ZEUS family, with a maximum take‑off weight of 100‑250 kg and payload capacity of 30‑150 kg,...
Africa Must Build Its Own AI Future
Professor Mpho Primus, speaking at the ITWeb Data Insights Summit 2026, warned that Africa faces a choice between passively consuming foreign AI or shaping its own digital destiny through an Ubuntu‑centred governance model. She highlighted that the continent’s real data...
The New Paradigm for Raising up Secure Software Engineers
AI‑assisted coding is set to dominate enterprise development, with Gartner projecting 90% of engineers using AI assistants by 2028. As AI automates line‑level vulnerability detection, security teams face a surge in code volume and reduced review windows. This forces a...
Routes Healthcare Unifies a Complex SaaS and ERP Landscape with BPA Platform to Strengthen Operations and Continuity
Routes Healthcare, a leading health and social care provider in northern England, adopted the BPA Platform to integrate its Sage 200 ERP with a wide range of SaaS applications. The low‑code integration layer unified data, automated workforce communication, recruitment, and...
Bolt Data Announces Bolt Data Connect, Developed on the Servicenow AI Platform to Unify Equipment Data and Operational Workflows Across...
Bolt Data unveiled Bolt Data Connect, a solution built on the ServiceNow AI Platform that streams live IoT data from industrial equipment into enterprise workflows. The offering automates field service actions, predicts maintenance needs, and provides real‑time visibility across asset...
CX for Industries Heats up - SAP's Balaji Balasubramanian on Why Retailers Must Balance Experience, Operations, and, Yes - AI
SAP’s Customer Experience unit is pushing industry‑specific AI, tying CX tightly to ERP and supply‑chain data to deliver truly intelligent retail interactions. At NRF 2026 the company announced embedded AI for planning, fulfillment and commerce, and a partnership with N4XT for...
Adopting a Time Series Database with InfluxData
Cole Bowden’s DBTA webinar highlighted when organizations should replace generic data stacks with a purpose‑built time‑series database. He urged teams to start simple—if data fits in memory or a single drive, a traditional RDBMS may suffice, but scaling pressures demand...
Fabless Semiconductor Startup Vervesemi Raises $10 Mn in Series A Round
Fabless semiconductor startup Vervesemi announced a $10 million Series A round co‑led by Ashish Kacholia and Unicorn India Ventures, with participation from Roots Ventures, Caperize Fina, and MAIQ Growth Scheme. The funding will accelerate commercialization of its machine‑learning‑enhanced analog signal‑chain ICs, expand...
AboitizPower Agrees to Supply 30 Megawatts to Negros Cooperative
Aboitiz Power Corp. will supply Northern Negros Electric Cooperative (Noneco) with 30 MW of electricity, combining 10 MW of solar generation and 20 MW of baseload power. The mixed supply aims to meet rising demand in the cooperative’s franchise area while smoothing the...
The Defense Industrial Base Is a Prime Target for Cyber Disruption
Cyber adversaries are moving beyond classic espionage to disrupt the defense industrial base (DIB), aiming to cripple production capacity and supply chains. Attackers now target everything from large primes to niche startups, especially firms with dual‑use technologies, using ransomware and...
Choose the Right AI Tool for Each Task
🤖 Which AI Tool Should You Use — And When? Not all AI tools are built for the same job. Here’s a practical breakdown 👇 🧠 Deep Reasoning & Logic Use DeepSeek → for multi-step reasoning, math-heavy logic, complex problem...
New Phishing Campaign Exploits Booking.com Partners, Targets Customers in Multi-Stage Fraud Scheme
A coordinated phishing campaign is exploiting Booking.com’s partner platform to steal hotel staff credentials and then target guests with payment‑stealing lures. The operation uses a three‑stage chain: email phishing to hotel inboxes, a bespoke partner login kit to harvest credentials,...
Japan to Offer Support for Exports of Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells
Japan announced a new subsidy scheme to support overseas installations of flexible perovskite solar cells, aiming to accelerate the export of its homegrown renewable‑energy technology. The program targets projects in Southeast Asia, with Indonesia and Thailand identified as early beneficiaries....
Ethiopia’s Car Import Ban Drives EV Surge
Two years ago, Ethiopia did something no other rich country has yet. It banned the import of new fossil fuel cars. In that time, the country went from less than 1% of its vehicles being electric to more than 6%...
Sumner Explains Benefits of Microsoft’s Pegasus Program for i-Genie.ai
i-Genie.ai has been accepted into Microsoft’s invite‑only Pegasus Program, unlocking Azure AI credits, dedicated success managers, and marketplace listing. The partnership grants co‑selling rights, early access to Microsoft product updates, and high‑visibility promotion at events like NRF and MWC. Leveraging...
Elastic MES Platforms Shift Focus to Adaptive Manufacturing Architecture
MES platforms are moving to elastic, modular architectures, breaking the monolithic deployment model. Rockwell Automation’s elastic MES framework combines modular components, hybrid edge‑to‑cloud infrastructure, and industry‑specific templates, letting manufacturers add capabilities incrementally. The global MES market is projected to triple...
AI Restores Voice, Restores Dignity for the Disabled
This is the kind of AI that moves me. After 18 years of silence, Ann spoke again. A brain implant reads signals from her speech cortex. AI decodes them in real time. A digital avatar restores her voice and facial expressions. What’s new? Not text on...
Conversion Tweaks Beat Pricey Platform Migrations Every Time
I spent $40k on a Shopify Plus migration. No revenue increase. Competitor optimized their product pages. 30% revenue increase. Platform doesn't matter. Conversion optimization does. Test everything.
Rinky Karthik Discusses SAP Talent Management Innovations
#SAP Talent Management Technology: a Chat with Rinky Karthik https://t.co/gMZ29hTtCL >a nice interview with @rinkysmile of #SuccessFactors talking about talent management. #EnSw #HRTech #HR #HCM #AI #Talent
Weekend Stanford Team Builds AI Operating System
A small team created an AI made operating system in a weekend at Stanford University. Now do you get why @hackwithtrees was so epic?
Banks’ AI Strategies Miss the Mark, Says Expert
Join me in Zurich at the NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum next month. I'll explore why many financial institutions are missing the mark in my keynote 'Your Bank’s AI Strategy Is Wrong.' https://t.co/XIQySs0LfD @qubevents #RegTech #Qubevents #NextGenPayments #Zurich https://t.co/RqffMqTRZS
Treat Employee Morale Like a Market Indicator
The Sentiment Ticker: Why We Should Track #Morale Like a Stock Market https://t.co/6TWOLgE0BQ #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #CPO #Hiring #Recruitment #PeopleManagement #Culture #Change #FutureofHR #HRCurator
Timing Is Just a Procrastination Disguise
If you keep delaying posting because the time is not ideal, you are using timing as a procrastination costume.