POLARIS Spaceplanes Wins Contract for Reusable Hypersonic Vehicle
Polaris Spaceplanes has secured a contract from Germany’s Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In‑Service Support (BAAINBw) to develop and flight‑test a fully reusable, two‑stage hypersonic vehicle dubbed the Hypersonic Test and Experimentation Vehicle (HYTEV). The vehicle, roughly fighter‑jet sized, will combine turbofan‑powered horizontal take‑off with an in‑house aerospike rocket for boost, and an expendable upper stage capable of deploying small payloads to low‑Earth orbit. First flight is targeted for the end of 2027, with the Bundeswehr positioned as an anchor customer while private capital underwrites much of the development. A parallel single‑stage concept, Aurora, and an air‑to‑air missile‑armed AirLAS system are also progressing under separate German contracts.
Terillium Launches Oracle AI Strategy Workshop to Help Organizations Turn AI Vision Into Business Value
Terillium has introduced an Oracle AI Strategy Workshop designed to help enterprises uncover, prioritize, and operationalize artificial‑intelligence use cases within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. The hands‑on engagement delivers a detailed AI Assessment Readout, outlining business value propositions, efficiency gains, cost‑reduction...
AI that Talks to Itself Learns Faster and Smarter
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology demonstrated that AI systems equipped with an internal "self‑talk" module and enhanced working memory learn faster and generalize better across tasks. By training models to engage in quiet internal speech while...
Yubico Extends Hardware Passkey Deployment Options
Yubico has broadened its YubiKey as a Service offering by adding self‑service ordering and a revamped Customer Portal. The new workflow lets employees and partners select YubiKey models, enter shipping details, and receive keys directly in the U.S., Canada or...
IXAfrica Data Centres Collaborates with Oracle to Deliver Kenya’s First Public Cloud Region
iXAfrica Data Centre Limited has partnered with Oracle to host the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) public cloud region in Nairobi, marking Kenya’s first locally‑hosted public cloud. The collaboration, announced by President William Ruto, leverages iXAfrica’s hyperscale, carrier‑neutral, AI‑ready facility to...
Debenhams Group Reports Trading Above Expectations
Debenhams Group raised its full‑year adjusted EBITDA outlook to £50 million after trading outperformed expectations through 28 February 2026. Momentum in the flagship Debenhams stores and a clear uplift in its youth labels, especially Pretty Little Thing, drove the results. The retailer accelerated its transformation...
Volante’s Multi-Cloud Resiliency Service Keeps Payments Running During Cloud Outages
Volante Technologies has introduced a Multi‑cloud Resiliency Service designed to keep payment processing operational when a primary cloud provider experiences an outage. The solution offers rapid, zero‑data‑loss failover to a secondary cloud environment, eliminating single‑provider dependency for banks and other...
Scientists Create Ultra Thin Metal with Never Before Seen Quantum Behaviour
Researchers at Monash University have engineered a three‑nanometre‑thin Mn₃Sn kagome film that exhibits a genuine three‑dimensional flat electronic band across the full momentum space. The team used molecular‑beam epitaxy and photon‑energy‑dependent ARPES to confirm the band’s existence, demonstrating that quantum...
Digital Element Announces NAT Detector — Industry’s New Standard for Accurate IP Geolocation and Risk Intelligence
Digital Element launched NAT Detector, a new feature in its NetAcuity IP intelligence platform that identifies Network Address Translation (NAT) and Carrier‑Grade NAT connections. The tool flags shared‑IP environments, helping advertisers, security teams, DRM providers, and fintech firms interpret IP...
UserTesting Unveils UserTesting for Figma, Embedding AI-Powered Customer Insights Directly Into Design Workflows
UserTesting announced a new Figma plugin that lets designers generate AI‑driven test plans and launch live user tests directly from their prototypes. The tool creates complete scripts—including tasks, instructions, and follow‑up questions—in under a minute and streams success metrics, behavioral...
PubMatic Expands Commercial Leadership Team to Accelerate Buy-Side and Publisher Growth
PubMatic announced a major expansion of its commercial leadership, appointing Joseph Dressler as SVP of Advertiser Solutions (Brands) and Bill McLaughlin as SVP of Advertiser Solutions (Agencies). The new team will accelerate adoption of PubMatic’s AI‑driven AgenticOS and Agentic Accelerator...
MetaRouter Strengthens Executive Leadership Team to Accelerate Global Growth in AI-Ready Marketing and Commerce Infrastructure
MetaRouter announced three senior executive hires—Ana Laura Zain as chief marketing officer, Jason Bagg as chief financial officer, and Jon Flugstad as chief business officer—to strengthen its leadership as it scales a privacy‑first, AI‑ready data orchestration platform. The appointments bring...
AiThority Interview With Claire Southey, Chief AI Officer at Rokt
Claire Southey, Rokt’s Chief AI Officer, outlines how the company embeds AI across product development, decision‑making, and culture. She describes Rokt’s AI‑driven recommendation engine, the $300 million acquisition of mParticle, and advanced modelling techniques like multi‑task learning. Southey predicts AI will...
Standard Bots Selects Cognibotics’ Calibration for Next-Generation AI Cobots
Standard Bots, an AI‑driven robotics firm, has chosen Cognibotics’ CogniCal calibration for its next‑generation cobot platform. The technology delivers world‑class accuracy, reducing geometric and payload‑induced deviations across robot units. By tightening precision, AI‑based task training becomes more efficient and transferable,...
TikTok Partners with Fluency to Grow Its New Automotive Ads Category
TikTok has teamed with Fluency to embed its new automotive ad category into Fluency’s Digital Advertising Operating System. The integration lets agencies and brands launch, manage, and optimize TikTok automotive ads—such as Product Cards and Multi‑link Carousels—directly from a single...
Qlik Joins Snowflake & Industry Leaders to Support Data and AI Interoperability Across the Ecosystem Through the Open Semantic Interchange
Qlik announced its participation in the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), an open‑source effort led by Snowflake to create a vendor‑neutral specification for semantic metadata. OSI aims to harmonize data definitions across business intelligence, data engineering, and AI tools, reducing metric...
Calabrio’s “Voice of the Agent” Report Finds the Modern Contact Center Balancing Empathy and AI in a Time of Transition
Calabrio’s 2025 "Voice of the Agent" report, based on over 500 contact‑center professionals in Europe and North America, shows the industry is shifting toward a blend of human empathy and AI‑driven tools. Agents report higher pride and purpose, with 75%...
Evaluating Vyvgart®’s Impact on Myasthenia Gravis in Spain
A recent multi‑criteria decision analysis by Cortés‑Vicente et al. evaluates Vyvgart® (efgartigimod alfa) for generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) in Spain. The study finds the Fc‑fragment therapy lowers pathogenic antibodies, improves muscle strength, and boosts health‑related quality‑of‑life. Safety compares favorably to...
Pondurance RansomSnare Blocks File Encryption and Data Exfiltration
Pondurance has added RansomSnare, a new module to its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service that halts ransomware the moment it tries to encrypt a file. The capability terminates the malicious process instantly, blocking both encryption and data exfiltration without...
Card Factory Festive Trading Impacted by Lower Footfall
Card Factory reported that its Christmas trading was hampered by a challenging consumer environment and reduced footfall on the UK high street. While total group revenue rose 4.3% in the final two months of 2025, store sales fell 0.8% and...
Pallma AI Closes $1.6M Pre-Seed Round for AI Agent Security
London‑based Pallma AI announced a $1.6 million pre‑seed round led by Marathon Venture Capital, with participation from tech leaders at AWS, Meta, and Google. The startup offers an AI‑native security platform that monitors, detects, and mitigates risks such as prompt injection...
Siemens Introduces Digital Twin Composer for Large-Scale Digital Twin Environments
Siemens announced Digital Twin Composer, a platform that creates large‑scale, photorealistic industrial metaverse environments by merging 2D/3D digital‑twin data with real‑time physical information via Nvidia Omniverse. The solution, part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, lets manufacturers simulate products, processes and...
Hospital Stay and Outcomes in CNS Lymphoma Study
French researchers conducted a retrospective multicenter analysis of primary central nervous system lymphoma patients, linking hospital length of stay to survival outcomes. The study found that longer admissions often reflected more intensive chemotherapy regimens, which were associated with improved survival,...
SelfAudit Launches Partner Program to Speed CMMC Readiness
SelfAudit AI introduced a Partner Program aimed at MSPs, MSSPs, and compliance professionals to accelerate Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) readiness. The initiative offers a standardized, AI‑driven workflow that streamlines gap analysis, remediation, and audit‑ready documentation. By integrating partners into...
Delegation Is a Risk Decision Every Leader Makes, Not an Ops Choice
Leaders increasingly delegate decision‑making authority to software, turning routine operational choices into enterprise‑level risk decisions. When systems automatically issue credits, payments, or pricing adjustments, the underlying authority often lacks explicit ownership, exposing organizations to financial, legal, and reputational fallout. Security...
A Billion Dollar Bet on AI-First Drug Development
In this episode, Marc Tessier‑Lavigne, co‑founder and CEO of Xaira, explains how the company is using an end‑to‑end AI platform to overhaul drug discovery by tackling three core bottlenecks: target selection, molecule design, and patient stratification. Xaira trains high‑dimensional "virtual...
US Charges 87 in Major ATM Jackpotting Scheme Linked to Tren De Aragua
A Nebraska federal grand jury has indicted a total of 87 defendants in a sprawling ATM jackpotting conspiracy tied to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The scheme used a variant of the Ploutus malware to hack ATMs nationwide, stealing...
Uncovering Ochratoxin A’s Role in Liver Cancer
Recent research has identified a stronger causal link between chronic exposure to the mycotoxin Ochratoxin A (OTA) and the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. The study combined long‑term rodent feeding trials with analysis of human liver biopsies, revealing a dose‑dependent increase...
Pets at Home Says Performance in Line with Expectations as It Works Through Turnaround Plan
Pets at Home reported third‑quarter results that met expectations, with group consumer revenue edging up 0.8% to £472 million. The vet‑group saw a 5% revenue rise driven by higher transaction values and Care Plan uptake, while retail consumer revenue slipped 1.1%...
Opportify Gains Early Adoption for Email Insights to Stop Sign-Up Fraud
Opportify has launched its Email Insights solution, a risk‑based intelligence platform designed to stop fraudulent sign‑ups at the point of entry. Unlike traditional validators that rely on simple syntax or MX checks, Email Insights scores each address on domain stability,...
Kairos: AI Interns for Everyone
AI startup Kairos launches an AI‑powered personal intern that can log into applications, navigate websites, and execute complex multi‑step tasks without human oversight. The platform includes a dedicated browser, native integrations with over 20 tools such as Gmail, Notion, and...
Link Between Oral Health and Dementia in Seniors
A new ten‑year longitudinal study of 5,000 seniors found that individuals with poor oral hygiene were 30% more likely to develop dementia. Researchers detected periodontal bacteria DNA in brain tissue of participants who later exhibited cognitive decline. The analysis controlled...
High-Severity Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Patched in OpenSSL
A total of twelve vulnerabilities in OpenSSL have been patched, including a high‑severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw. All issues were identified by a single cybersecurity research firm and disclosed through coordinated channels. The fixes address weaknesses that could allow...
Oversonic Robotics Launches Humanoid Robot RoBee in US Market
Italian robotics firm Oversonic Robotics introduced its latest cognitive humanoid, RoBee, to the United States this month, aiming to broaden its footprint in healthcare and advanced manufacturing. The launch coincided with a strategic North American partnership targeting medical and aerospace...
Exotrail and Astroscale France Join Forces to Build Deorbiting Capability for LEO
Exotrail and Astroscale France announced a partnership to test deorbiting capabilities for low‑Earth‑orbit (LEO) satellites. The effort, backed by France 2030 and a CNES‑led study, aims to demonstrate an interface between Exotrail’s service vehicle and Astroscale’s rendezvous technology. Selection by the...
Recognizing Pediatric Chordoma’s Poorly Differentiated Subtype
Researchers have identified a distinct poorly differentiated subtype of pediatric chordoma, characterized by loss of SMARCB1 (INI1) expression and unique histologic features. Advanced imaging reveals heterogeneous, infiltrative patterns that differ from classic chordoma presentations. Early clinical data suggest that conventional...
Prompt Injection Threat Turns AI Agents Against Employers
When AI Agents Turn Against You: The Prompt Injection Threat Every Business Leader Must Understand As organizations deploy #AIagents to handle everything from customer service to financial decisions, a critical #security #vulnerability threatens to turn these digital workers against their...
Iceye Pitches 1,000‑satellite EU Network by 2030
Radarsat provider @Iceye proposes 1,000-sat network including SAR/optical, RF-sensor &transport layer for European govts. Several billion euros - within current EU/ESA budgets, says CEO. Initial service 2028, ops by 2030 feasible. Just an idea. #defis_eu @esa #Europeanspaceconf https://t.co/6HLJ6jeVCV
CERT UEFI Parser: Open-Source Tool Exposes UEFI Architecture to Uncover Vulnerabilities
The Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University released the CERT UEFI Parser, an open‑source utility that statically parses UEFI firmware binaries and source code into a structured, machine‑readable model. By extracting modules, execution phases, protocols and dependencies, the tool gives...
Hearing “Can’t Afford”? Wrong Market or Wrong Audience
If you keep hearing “we can’t afford that,” you’re either in the wrong market… or you’re marketing to the wrong people.
HydroGraph Scales up Graphene Capacity with Two New Hyperion Reactors
HydroGraph has begun construction of two additional Hyperion graphene reactors, each capable of producing about 10 tons per year of its FGA‑1 fractal graphene. The reactors, identical in size to the existing unit (6 × 6 × 18 feet), will be commissioned in Manhattan, Kansas, in...
Tencent Hunyuan Releases HPC-Ops: A High Performance LLM Inference Operator Library
Tencent Hunyuan has open‑sourced HPC‑Ops, a CUDA‑based operator library that accelerates large language model inference on NVIDIA GPUs. The library provides high‑performance kernels for Attention, Grouped GEMM and fused MoE, supporting bf16 and fp8 precisions via a compact C++/Python API....
Segway Navimow Expands Robotic Mower Lineup for 2026
Segway Navimow unveiled five new robotic mower series for 2026, targeting both residential and commercial markets. The X4, i2, H2 and Terranox lines replace perimeter wires with network RTK, vision and solid‑state LiDAR navigation. New models boast enhanced terrain handling, steep‑slope...
Edikted to Open First UK Store
US‑based fashion label Edikted announced the opening of its first standalone store in the UK and Europe on London’s iconic Carnaby Street. The 4,800 sq ft flagship will showcase women’s apparel and accessories that blend streetwear, runway trends, and contemporary style. Edikted’s...
Why Prevention-First Secrets Security Will Define Enterprise Scale: Learnings From a Leading Telecom
Orange Business discovered that traditional secret detection tools generate massive false positives, leading developers to ignore alerts. By implementing mandatory GitLab pre‑receive hooks and a three‑layer defense, they reduced new secret leaks by 80% while keeping false positives below 5%....
Major Cyberattack Cripples Russia’s Alarm and Vehicle Security Provider Delta
Russian security firm Delta suffered a large‑scale external cyberattack on Jan 26, crippling its alarm, home, and vehicle security platforms. The breach disabled online services, phone lines, and the mobile app, leaving thousands of customers unable to control alarms or unlock...
Multicondition Profiling Challenges Role of Housekeeping Genes
A new multicondition profiling study demonstrates that traditional housekeeping genes are not uniformly stable across diverse biological states. By analyzing thousands of RNA‑seq datasets, researchers found significant expression fluctuations in genes long used for normalization. The findings call into question...
Tesollo Unveils Compact and Lightweight Humanoid Hand
Tesollo announced the DG‑5F‑S, a compact humanoid robotic hand that weighs under 1 kg and retains the five‑finger, 20‑degree‑of‑freedom architecture of its DG‑5F predecessor. The new model costs roughly 60% of the original, making it more accessible to startups, research labs,...
EU Demands National Military Space Programs Interoperate with EU Infrastructure
.@defis_eu Commissioner @KubiliusA: National milspace efforts are understanable but 'a challenge' to overall EU defense effort. They must at least be interoperable w/ EU infrastructure. @bundeswehrInfo #europeanspaceconf.https://t.co/rXWxNLcpI6 https://t.co/8hI8ESBcvt
XGSynBot Unveils Dual-Arm Mobile Robot at CES Showcase in Las Vegas
XGSynBot showcased an AI‑powered dual‑arm mobile robot at a private CES event in Las Vegas. The platform merges force‑controlled manipulators, an omni‑directional chassis and a multi‑sensor vision system to serve industrial and commercial tasks. Marketed as a universal, cross‑scenario solution, it...
