Bedrock Data Extends DSPM to Atlassian Confluence, Mapping SaaS Data to AI Inference Risk
Bedrock Data announced native Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) support for Atlassian Confluence, enabling automatic discovery of spaces, pages and blogs. The platform classifies unstructured content for PII, secrets and intellectual property, resolves inherited permissions, and maps that data to the AI models that may surface it during inference. The integration works with a read‑only Atlassian token, extending DSPM visibility beyond traditional databases into collaborative SaaS environments used by generative AI.
Satellite Reentry: Atmospheric Implications
The rapid growth of satellite mega‑constellations means thousands of spacecraft are de‑orbited each decade, releasing heavy‑metal and black‑carbon particles into the stratosphere. Harvard physicist John Dykema warns that these emissions can alter sunlight absorption, disrupt stratospheric circulation, and accelerate ozone...
Seen Finance Signs with Nova Credit to Expand Access to Credit
Seen Finance, an affiliate of Snap Finance, announced a strategic partnership with Nova Credit to broaden credit access for qualified applicants. By integrating Nova Credit’s multi‑aggregator cash‑flow data platform, Seen can supplement traditional underwriting with richer financial insights. The collaboration...
Domo Launches App Catalyst to Turn AI Ideas Into Production-Ready Business Applications
Domo unveiled App Catalyst, a new feature of its AI and Data Products Platform that lets users describe an app in natural language and instantly receive a production‑ready, pro‑code framework. The tool pulls data from major cloud warehouses such as...
MNTN’s Latest Innovation, QuickFrame AI, Scales Rapidly With New AI Video Features Including Consistent Characters, Products, and Locations Across Campaigns
MNTN unveiled major upgrades to its QuickFrame AI platform, enabling brands to generate professional TV and social video in minutes. The new release introduces reusable brand building blocks for products, characters, and locations, director‑level controls, an effects library, and an...
Incubeta Launches New Agentic AI Products to Help Brands Understand What Truly Drives Marketing Performance
Incubeta unveiled two agentic AI solutions—Creative Performance Index (CPI) and OutperformBI—to give marketers clearer insight into what truly drives campaign results. CPI analyzes granular creative elements such as branding, calls‑to‑action, and emotional cues, linking them directly to live performance data...
U-Space Implementation Handbook: Turning Early Experience Into Guidance
Europe has published the U‑space Implementation Handbook, a comprehensive guide that captures early deployment experience of the continent’s unmanned traffic management framework. Produced by the U‑ELCOME project and co‑funded by CINEA, the handbook consolidates 70 lessons learned, six technical appendices,...
292: Move Over Perovskite - There’s a New Solar Kid in Town
In this episode, Matt and Sean Ferrell shift focus from perovskite to kesterite, a newer solar‑cell material that could become a cheaper, less toxic alternative to current technologies. They explain kesterite’s historical roots, its manufacturing challenges, and why it may...
Cellares Raises $257M in Series D Funding
Cellares, a San Francisco‑based Integrated Development and Manufacturing Organization, secured $257 million in Series D financing. The round was led by BlackRock and Eclipse, with participation from T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford, and other institutional investors. The new capital lifts total funding to $612 million...
EPC Issues RFI for Fraud Information Sharing Platform
The European Payments Council (EPC) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to find operators for a central fraud‑information sharing platform under its Frida scheme. The initiative anticipates the EU Payment Services Regulation (PSR) that will take effect in early...
MHS Lift and Movu Robotics Announce Partnership to Advance Next-Generation Warehouse Optimization
MHS Lift has become the first North American integrator to commission a second Movu Robotics Atlas four‑way shuttle system, extending a partnership that began in 2019 with the region’s first deployment. The Atlas solution uses autonomous robots to move pallets...
Blue UAS for First Responders
First responders are increasingly adopting small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for search‑and‑rescue, firefighting, and post‑incident analysis. The Department of Defense’s Blue UAS Cleared List now offers a vetted catalog of compliant drones, simplifying acquisition for public‑safety agencies. The SAVER AEL...
Show HN: Sandbox Agent SDK – Unified API for Automating Coding Agents
The Sandbox Agent SDK introduces a Rust‑based server and TypeScript client that let developers run AI coding agents—Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp—inside isolated sandboxes while controlling them over a unified HTTP/SSE API. By normalizing disparate agent interfaces into a single...
Palladyne AI Awarded U.S. Air Force Contract to Advance Swarming Capabilities for Integrated Cross-Domain Operations
Palladyne AI secured a contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop its HANGTIME program, aimed at unifying autonomous systems across space, air, maritime and land. The effort will deploy the company’s patented SwarmOS™ platform to enable drones, ships...
‘AI Is There to Support Teachers as an Assistant, Not to Replace Them’: Google VP of Education on How Gemini...
Apera AI Accelerates 4D Vision Deployments with Launch of Apera Vue 9.52 and 4X Faster Apera Forge AI Training
Apera AI unveiled Vue 9.52, adding programmable Autopilot, range‑finding pipelines, and enhanced TCP visualization to streamline 4D Vision robot setup. The release also accelerates its Forge AI training platform, delivering up to four‑fold faster model training in as little as six...
Why One-Size-Fits-All ERP Fails Mid-Market Retailers
Mid‑market retailers facing tighter margins are abandoning legacy, monolithic ERP systems in favor of cloud‑native platforms that promise speed, simplicity, and real‑time control. Traditional on‑premise solutions require extensive customization, long rollouts, and costly maintenance, limiting visibility into inventory and sales....
Abstract Security Partners with Netskope to Bring Real-Time Detection Into Security Data Streams
Abstract Security announced a partnership with cloud‑security leader Netskope to embed real‑time detection directly into Netskope One telemetry streams. The integration streams high‑fidelity Secure Service Edge data into Abstract’s adaptive pipeline, allowing on‑the‑fly enrichment, filtering and routing to SIEMs, data...
Stop Wasting Data: Turn Skills Into Real Work Impact
We’ve never had more data about people, yet we've never been worse at using it to help them grow. Said another way... We have the most instrumented workforce in history, and we’re using almost none of that signal to help...
Datatruck Raises $12M to Scale AI-Native Operating System for Long-Haul Trucking
Datatruck Inc. announced a $12 million Series A round led by Avenue Growth Partners to accelerate its AI‑native operating system for long‑haul trucking. The platform unifies dispatch, load management, compliance, accounting and driver communication into a single system of record. Embedded AI...
NovaUCD and CeADAR Open Applications for 2026 AI Ecosystem Accelerator Programme
NovaUCD and CeADAR have opened applications for the 2026 AI Ecosystem Accelerator, a six‑month programme aimed at Irish AI‑first start‑ups that have market validation and are seeking to close a funding round in 2026. The accelerator, now in its third...
Apiiro Introduces Guardian Agent to Secure AI-Driven Software Development
Apiiro Ltd. launched Guardian Agent, an AI‑driven application security agent that prevents vulnerable and non‑compliant code generation. The solution continuously monitors software architecture, attack surface, runtime exposure, and policy compliance, rewriting prompts to secure AI coding assistants in real time....
Platform Engineering Brings Multicloud Support to Its Formae Infrastructure-as-Code Platform
Platform Engineering Labs announced a major update to its open‑source formae infrastructure‑as‑code platform, adding beta support for four additional public clouds – Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Microsoft Azure and OVHcloud. The new multicloud capability expands formae beyond its...
Bruce Momjian: New Presentation
Bruce Momjian delivered a talk at Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day titled “What’s Missing in Postgres?” highlighting that most gaps in the open‑source database are performance‑related rather than functional. He fielded audience questions that ranged from the role of extensions to...
AI that Generates Gives Way to AI that Executes? Genpact Prepares for Autonomous Agents in the Enterprise
Genpact’s "Autonomy by Design" research finds enterprises are eager to move from "AI that generates" to "AI that executes," but only 12% feel prepared. Executives anticipate autonomous AI decision‑making in strategic functions within three years, yet integration complexity and workforce...
ThriveCart Introduces Installment Payments
ThriveCart has launched ThrivePay Installments, a new payment option that splits purchases into 3, 6 or 12‑month installments using customers’ existing credit‑card limits while paying merchants upfront. The service taps the roughly $4.1 trillion of pre‑authorized credit in the U.S., aiming...
Claude Apps: How Anthropic’s New Interactive Apps Can Up Your AI Productivity
In this episode, Jordan Wilson explores Anthropic’s new Claude Apps, interactive tools embedded within the Claude LLM that aim to streamline AI‑driven workflows. He explains the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that powers these apps, walks through enabling them, and compares...
Movitz to Bring Global Verification of Payee to EU Banks with JPMorgan Kinexys
JPMorgan Chase has entered a partnership with Movitz Payments to launch the Kinexys Link solution across European banks. The service provides a single‑network connection for global payee verification, extending coverage to more than 70 countries. By integrating this platform, European...
Options Technology Introduces Quantum Computing Into Market Infrastructure Behind FX and CFDs
Options Technology has launched what it calls the first commercially accessible quantum computing node in New York City, linking it to its low‑latency global infrastructure. The service lets clients offload specific, high‑value workloads—such as large‑scale portfolio optimization and derivatives risk...
Purple Launches ‘Engage’: The All-in-One CRM and Email Platform to Help Venues Turn Visitors Into Regulars
Purple has unveiled Engage, an all‑in‑one CRM and email marketing platform that turns venue Wi‑Fi connections into a compliant customer database. The solution bundles data collection, segmentation and automated email campaigns in a hardware‑agnostic interface designed for small cafés to...
New Ecommerce Tools: January 28, 2026
A wave of AI‑enhanced ecommerce solutions launched this week, ranging from Yolando’s competitive‑intelligence platform and Voxelo’s video‑to‑3D content studio to DiversiFi’s AI billing suite for 3PLs. PayPal’s acquisition of Cymbio adds agentic commerce capabilities, while Yottaa, Lightspeed, and Commercetools introduce...
AI for Wealth Management Firm Zocks Lands $45 Million Investtment
Zocks, a privacy‑first artificial‑intelligence platform for wealth‑management advisors, announced a $45 million Series B round. The round was co‑led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and QED Investors, with participation from Illuminate Financial and existing backers such as Motive Partners, Expanse Venture Partners, Entrée...
Kipu Health Survey: AI Becomes Essential in Behavioral Health
A new Kipu Health survey shows AI moving from experiment to expectation in behavioral health. Adoption jumped 59% year‑over‑year, with 27% of organizations using AI in 2025 and many planning further rollout. Clinicians report that AI frees up to three...
Airbus Taps Skynopy for Pléiades Neo Ground Stations
Airbus Defence and Space announced a partnership with European startup Skynopy to integrate its software‑defined ground‑station technology into the Pléiades Neo Earth‑observation constellation. The collaboration targets reduced latency between image capture and upload to Airbus’ OneAtlas platform. Skynopy’s approach centralises...
Figure AI Shows Robot that Really Puts Its Hip Into Dishwasher Duty
Figure AI unveiled Helix 02, a humanoid robot governed by a single neural network that controls its legs, torso, arms, and fingers in real time. In a four‑minute kitchen demo, the robot completed 61 autonomous actions, including loading and unloading a...
Kddi Selects the Digital Vending Machine® From Bango to Power Content Offering for Povo2.0 Pre-Paid Subscribers
KDDI, one of Japan’s largest telcos, has partnered with Bango to integrate the Digital Vending Machine (DVM) platform into its povo2.0 prepaid service. The DVM will let KDDI instantly bundle leading streaming subscriptions with mobile plans, giving prepaid customers a...
GoTo Resolve Tool’s Background Activities Compared to Ransomware Tactics
Point Wild’s Lat61 Threat Intelligence team has identified the GoTo Resolve remote‑administration tool, specifically the HEURRemoteAdmin.GoToResolve.gen component, as a Potentially Unwanted Application that can install silently and maintain a hidden, persistent presence on Windows machines. The tool bundles a hidden “32000~”...
Achieves 0.94 Fidelity: LiDMaS Advances Fault-Tolerant GKP Photonic Qubit Injection
Researchers at Georgia Tech introduced LiDMaS, a lightweight density‑matrix modeling framework for fault‑tolerant magic‑state injection in GKP‑encoded photonic qubits. By varying squeezing, loss, and surface‑code distance, they achieved repeat‑until‑success injection success probabilities above 94% with average overhead near one. After...
ClearBank Founder Andrew Smith Is Building "the Home of UK Sports Finance" With New Banking Venture Sporta
Former ClearBank founder Andrew Smith is launching Sporta, a dedicated banking platform for UK sports organisations. The venture aims to address chronic financial pressure on clubs—only 20% finish the year with a surplus—by offering AI‑native banking, loans and sponsorship tools....
Social Channel Insights In Search Console: What It Means For Social & Search via @Sejournal, @Rio_seo
Google is piloting Social Channel Insights within Search Console, adding metrics that show a website’s social reach, referral traffic, and the search queries that lead users to social posts. The feature appears only for sites where Google can associate official...
Cal.com Broken Access Controls Lead to Account Takeover and Data Exposure
Cal.com, an open‑source scheduling platform, patched critical broken‑access‑control vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to hijack accounts and expose booking data. The flaws included an authentication bypass in the organization signup flow that let attackers take over any user by using an...
NK Cell Insights Into Ankylosing Spondylitis Severity
Recent immunological research reveals that natural killer (NK) cells play a pivotal role in the severity of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). The study found a proportional increase in peripheral NK cell frequency and activation markers correlating with higher Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis...
Amaze To Sponsor SoCom 2026
Amaze Holdings announced its official sponsorship of the second‑annual SoCom Conference, a premier social‑commerce event in Venice Beach on Feb. 26, 2026. The partnership underscores Amaze’s focus on creator‑led retail as the global social‑commerce market heads toward a $5.2 trillion valuation by 2030,...
The Secret to Successful AI Outcomes? It’s Data, Says Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy
Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy says data quality is the single most critical factor for successful AI outcomes, emphasizing robust data governance and context‑aware accuracy thresholds. He warns that many enterprises launch AI pilots without clear goals, leading to wasted...
Hackers Hijack Exposed LLM Endpoints in Bizarre Bazaar Operation
Researchers at Pillar Security uncovered a large‑scale cyber‑crime operation dubbed “Bizarre Bazaar” that hijacks exposed LLM endpoints. Over 40 days they logged 35,000 attack sessions, showing attackers exploit misconfigured AI APIs to mine cryptocurrency, resell access, exfiltrate data, and pivot...
Multiwavelength Analysis Finds No Radio Pulsations From Accreting Millisecond X-Ray Pulsar
Researchers conducted a multi‑wavelength campaign on the accreting millisecond X‑ray pulsar MAXI J1957+032, covering its 2022 and 2025 outbursts and quiescent intervals. Timing analysis revealed a 3.19 ms spin period, ~1.01 h orbital period, a spin‑down rate of –0.0573 pHz s⁻¹ and a dipolar magnetic...
Acquiring Existing Startups Cuts Risk, Boosts Execution
One of the reasons people are successful acquiring startups is simple: they’re not starting from zero. Zach Simmons is a good example of this. Instead of building something new from scratch, he acquired Appraiva (@appraiva) on @acquiredotcom which already had real...
China Targets 2026 Crewed Lunar Test and Reusable Rockets
China set for crewed lunar tests, record launches, moon mission and reusable rockets in 2026 https://t.co/SRz6ry5HmO https://t.co/wTtpwQaXpz
J&J’s Darzalex Faspro Notches Another Multiple Myeloma Indication, Pushing Into Frontline
The FDA approved Johnson & Johnson’s Darzalex Faspro as part of a four‑drug regimen for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients who cannot undergo stem cell transplantation. This is the drug’s twelfth overall and fifth frontline indication. Phase III CEPHEUS data showed 52.3%...
Quantum Computing Achieves Precise Machine Failure Detection Using 133 Qubits
Researchers from Woodside Energy and IBM demonstrated a quantum‑enhanced failure detection algorithm on IBM's 133‑qubit Heron processor. By projecting sensor data into quantum feature space and applying density‑ratio change‑point detection, the method identified machine anomalies with higher precision than classical...
