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Is Email the Entry Point to a Well-Rounded Disinformation Attack?
Email remains the most exploited business communication channel, now serving as the entry point for coordinated disinformation attacks that blend text, voice and video. A recent $150 million funding round for Sublime Security highlights enterprise urgency, while Valimail’s 2025 report shows half of domains still use non‑enforcing DMARC policies. Modern BEC campaigns leverage AI‑generated deepfakes, causing average losses of $150,000 per incident and threatening sectors like finance, healthcare and government. Experts call for strict authentication, multi‑channel correlation and executive accountability to curb the threat.
Cybercriminals Exploit VMware ESXi Vulnerabilities Using Zero-Day Toolset
Huntress researchers uncovered a sophisticated campaign that leverages a zero‑day toolkit, MAESTRO, to exploit three critical VMware ESXi vulnerabilities disclosed in VMSA‑2025‑0004. The attack chain begins with stolen Domain Admin credentials used to compromise a SonicWall VPN, followed by lateral...
AI Agents Enable Cheap, Limitless Experimentation and Rapid Iteration
A deeply under-appreciated economic benefit of AI agents is the ability to experiment and throw away things at near 0 cost. Most projects traditionally get stuck on a one way train based on initial decisions that get made early on....
How a Party Side Hustle Became a Six-Figure Brand
In this episode, Bashify founder Bre Giglio explains how she transformed a modest party‑planning side hustle into a $600,000 balloon brand by launching small, leveraging social media, and prioritizing trust, transparency, and exceptional customer experience. She details the strategic use...
Ep 272- 645 Ventures Managing Partner Nnamdi Okike
In this episode, Nnamdi Okike, co‑founder and managing partner of 645 Ventures, discusses the current AI hype cycle and its implications for fintech startups, emphasizing the need to differentiate genuine innovation from hype. He offers practical advice for fintech founders...
See the Latest Advancements in Precision Motion Control and Nanopositioning Automation
Physik Instrumente (PI) unveiled a suite of next‑generation precision motion‑control and nanopositioning solutions aimed at high‑tech manufacturing. The offerings target fast‑focusing, photonics array alignment, laser processing, semiconductor testing, and high‑resolution microscopy. PI emphasizes scalability for silicon photonics chip production, AI‑driven...
KeyBank to Pay $7.77 Million to Settle PPP Fraud Allegations
KeyBank agreed to pay $7.77 million to settle allegations it sought forgiveness for fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program loans. The settlement covers nearly $6 million in SBA loans that a Conshohocken branch manager, Tommy Hawkins, allegedly secured by inflating payroll and employee numbers....
SpaceX Scrubs Midday Starlink Mission Launch From Cape Canaveral
SpaceX scrubbed the early‑afternoon Falcon 9 launch of the Starlink 6‑96 mission on Jan. 8, pushing the next attempt to Jan. 9. The delay was attributed to late arrival of the payload fairings containing 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites. The booster, tail‑number B1069,...
Honor Unveils Robot Phone at CES 2026
Chinese phone company Honor announced its new “Robot Phone” #CES2026 https://t.co/YEmgesJipU via @YouTube #CES2026 #CES26 #humanoidtech #humanoid #robot #Robotics #AI #TechRevolution #TechInnovation #mobile @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1 @jeancayeux @enilev @efipm @mvollmer1 @Nicochan33 @RagusoSergio @FrRonconi @Shi4Tech...
Novel Gene Therapy Approach Targets Pain Centers in the Brain
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have unveiled the first central‑nervous‑system‑targeted gene therapy designed to relieve chronic pain by modulating cortical opioid circuits. Using an AI‑driven mouse model, they identified a persistent affective pain signature that morphine reverses, then engineered...
Why WealthTech Matters in Southeast Asia
Urs Bolt and PhD candidate Liam Reeve discuss why WealthTech is crucial for Southeast Asia, highlighting that despite a slowdown in startup funding in 2025, technology is outpacing legacy financial institutions. They explain how digital wealth management platforms can bridge...
Zimmerman Op-Ed at PJ Media
Robert Zimmerman published an op‑ed on PJ Media urging President Trump and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to remove the crew from the upcoming Artemis II mission. He cites the Orion capsule’s heat‑shield damage during its 2022 re‑entry as a clear safety...
MiroMind’s MiroThinker 1.5 Delivers Trillion-Parameter Performance From a 30B Model — at 1/20th the Cost
MiroMind unveiled MiroThinker 1.5, a 30‑billion‑parameter model that delivers performance on par with trillion‑parameter rivals while costing roughly one‑twentieth as much per inference. The model introduces a "scientist mode" that forces verifiable research loops, dramatically cutting hallucinations and providing audit...
Epicor Sets Timeline to Sunset On-Prem ERP as Cloud Becomes the only Path Forward
Epicor announced a phased sunset of its on‑premise ERP suites—Kinetic, Prophet 21 and BisTrack—with final releases slated between 2026 and 2028 and active support ending by 2029. The company will shift all new functionality, AI agents and platform enhancements to Epicor...
Binance Founder CZ Backed YZi Labs Accuses CEA Industries of Shareholder-Hostile Tactics
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao‑backed YZi Labs has accused CEA Industries of deploying a poison‑pill shareholder‑rights plan to block investor influence. YZi, a major stakeholder, lodged regulatory filings to expand the board, reverse recent bylaw changes, and rally an investor coalition....
Lindy: The AI Agents That Ship Research, Analysis, Creative, and Campaigns While You Sleep
Lindy is an agentic AI platform that automates the entire marketing lifecycle, linking research, analysis, and creative production. It deploys specialized AI agents—research, analysis, trend, and creative—that share context to generate campaign briefs, assets, and execution‑ready deliverables. Early adopters like...
SANS Stormcast Thursday, January 8th, 2026: HTML QR Code Phishing; N8n Vulnerability; Powerbank Feature Creep
The episode highlights three emerging security concerns: attackers are embedding QR codes as HTML tables to bypass email filters and lure victims to mobile phishing sites; multiple critical vulnerabilities in the automation platform n8n, including an unauthenticated remote code execution...
DEX Logs Dust Signals In Space: ISRO
India's space agency ISRO announced that its Dust Experiment (DEX) instrument successfully logged orbital debris impacts from 1 January to 9 February 2024. The 140‑degree wide‑view detector, mounted on the PSLV‑C58 XPoSat mission, recorded a hit roughly every thousand seconds while skimming the...
Holes in Veeam Backup Suite Allow Remote Code Execution, Creation of Malicious Backup Config Files
Veeam disclosed four vulnerabilities in its Backup & Replication suite that let users with Backup Admin, Backup Operator or Tape Operator roles execute remote code or write files as root. The most severe flaw, CVE‑2025‑59470, carries a CVSS score of...
Timing Pays: Ventyx Deal Rewards Early IPO Investors
Ventyx $VTYX acquired by Lilly $LLY for $14/share or $1.2B valuation. IPO'd in 2021 at $16/share, around $800M market cap. So acquisition is like ~15% below the IPO price but ~50% above the IPO valuation Great pivot from TYK2 lead program...
2026 Marks First AI Prescription Renewals and ChatGPT Health
2026 is off with two new precedents in health and medical AI —@doctronic given green light in Utah for AI prescription renewals, pilot study 250 patients https://t.co/EQ3fmqWwyz —ChatGPT Health initiated https://t.co/VOvd3wVkeR @fidjissimo Both need prospective study, rigorous independent assessment, and report of results
Quick Claude Code Guide Empowers Non‑Technical Business Users
I will soon release my 'Claude Code in 5 Minutes' guide for non-technical business users... and I am drooling thinking about the impact. Follow so you don't miss it.
Trust Library Sources over Conspiracy for Vaccine Facts
Our friend needs to visit the public library, and rely less on conspiracy sites. I develop low cost vaccines for the world’s poorest people, which actually bypass big pharma. Almost all childhood vaccines are tested through RCTs, available National Library...
Alumis’ Phase III TYK2 Data Intensify Psoriasis Efficacy Contest
Alumis announced Phase III results for its oral TYK2 inhibitor envudeucitinib in moderate‑to‑severe plaque psoriasis. The trial met its primary endpoint, with 71% of patients achieving PASI‑90 at week 16, outperforming the active comparator and matching or exceeding data from...
FreshBooks’ Small Business Software Integrates Kick’s Automated Bookkeeping
FreshBooks announced a strategic partnership with Kick, embedding the latter’s automated bookkeeping engine into its small‑business management platform. The integration automatically categorizes, reconciles and keeps transaction records tax‑ready, extending FreshBooks’ existing invoicing, payments, accounting and payroll tools. Targeted at U.S....
Physicists Built a Perfect Conductor From Ultracold Atoms
Physicists at TU Wien have created a one‑dimensional ultracold rubidium gas that transports mass and energy without any measurable resistance. By confining thousands of atoms to a single line with magnetic and optical fields, they observed that collisions merely exchange...
$1B-Plus Biotech Takeouts: 2025 Biggest Year in Last Decade
Biotech M&A in 2025 saw a surge in mega‑transactions, with deals exceeding $1 billion accounting for more than half of all takeouts. The total value of these large deals topped $10 billion, marking the strongest year for billion‑dollar biotech acquisitions in the...
Complex Finance Traps Consumers, Benefits Hidden Players
Why do consumers struggle with even basic financial choices? And who really benefits from that complexity? I explore these questions with Tarun Ramadorai of the @imperialcollege. Watch the full episode: https://t.co/ULBFc2UkuF https://t.co/QyvYkI9NI3
Ep. 202: How Performance-First B2B Marketing Drives Better Results
In this episode, Keith Turco, CEO of Madison Logic, explains how a performance‑first, data‑driven approach helps B2B marketers thrive amid budget cuts and rapid AI adoption. He stresses the importance of full‑funnel strategies that combine AI‑powered personalization, multi‑format channels like...
PayPal Boosts Advertising Platform with Cross-Merchant Purchase Data
PayPal has launched the Transaction Graph Insights & Measurement programme, giving merchants a cross‑merchant view of real shopper behaviour and ad performance. Leveraging its network of over 430 million consumer accounts and tens of millions of merchants, the platform maps the...
Stripe Partners Crypto.com to Offer Merchants Crypto Payment Option
Stripe has announced a partnership with Crypto.com to enable merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments directly through Stripe’s checkout platform. The integration allows Crypto.com users to spend their digital assets at online stores without first converting them to fiat. The solution...
Delay Discounting Correlates with Depression but Does Not Predict Relapse After Antidepressant Discontinuation
The AIDA longitudinal study examined whether delay discounting could predict depressive relapse after antidepressant discontinuation. While patients with remitted major depressive disorder displayed modestly higher discount rates than healthy controls and discounting correlated with HAM‑D scores, baseline discounting and changes...
e.l.f Beauty Launches Roblox Game
Cosmetics brand e.l.f Beauty has launched a new makeup game Glow Up! On Roblox
Ford Has an AI Assistant and New Hands-Free BlueCruise Tech on the Way
Ford announced an AI‑powered digital assistant that will first appear in its revamped smartphone app in early 2026, with native in‑vehicle integration slated for 2027. The assistant runs on Google Cloud using off‑the‑shelf large language models and will have deep...
Shared Neurogenetic Architecture Links Adolescent Neurodevelopmental Deviations to Adult Psychopathological Procrastination
A new study demonstrates that the same genetic factors shaping adolescent brain development also predispose individuals to pathological procrastination in adulthood. Using twin data, high‑resolution MRI and normative modeling, researchers identified overlapping neurogenetic signatures in cortical and subcortical regions linked...
Ford’s AI Voice Assistant Is Coming Later This Year, L3 Driving in 2028
Ford announced that its AI‑powered voice assistant will launch on mobile apps later this year and expand to in‑car use by 2027, while a hands‑free Level‑3 autonomous driving feature is slated for 2028 on the upcoming Universal Electric Vehicle platform....
UK Retail Innovation Council Reveals 2026 Agenda
The UK Retail Innovation Council has unveiled its 2026 agenda, outlining the strategic priorities its Executive Committee will tackle in early 2026. The roadmap emphasizes AI‑driven personalization, sustainable sourcing, and deeper omnichannel integration. It also flags supply‑chain resilience, real‑time data...
NASA Weighs an Earlier End to the Crew-11 Mission After a ‘Medical Situation’ with an ISS Crew Member Postpones First...
NASA announced it is evaluating an early termination of the SpaceX Crew-11 mission after a medical situation involving an ISS crew member was reported. The issue prompted the postponement of the first scheduled spacewalk of 2026, originally set for Jan....
New GoBruteforcer Attack Wave Targets Crypto, Blockchain Projects
A new wave of GoBruteforcer botnet attacks is targeting cryptocurrency and blockchain projects by exploiting exposed FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL and phpMyAdmin services. The malware uses compromised Linux servers to scan public IP ranges, brute‑force default credentials, and drop web shells...
Cybersecurity Predictions Are a Window Into a Vendor’s Roadmap and Business Priorities
Every November the cybersecurity sector launches a predictable wave of vendor‑authored prediction reports. While marketed as forward‑looking guidance, these pieces are timed to influence budgeting cycles and often reinforce the vendor’s existing value proposition or pre‑justify upcoming roadmap items. The...
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: The Current State of Knowledge and Uncertainty
The article outlines the evolving UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) landscape, noting the shift from UFO stigma to a scientific framework that includes air, space, and maritime domains. Government bodies such as the DoD’s AARO and NASA now collect standardized reports,...
Trump Administration Backs Pediatric PRVs
The Trump administration is lobbying Congress to approve the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act, which would reauthorize the rare pediatric disease priority voucher (PRV) program. The bill has already cleared the House of Representatives. In the Senate, Senator...
Rep. Hill Rolls Out Community Bank Deregulation Package
House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill unveiled a community‑bank deregulation package aimed at curbing regulatory "flip‑flop" when administrations change. The bill proposes tailoring provisions, eliminating reputational‑risk components from examinations, standardizing stress tests, raising size thresholds and redefining brokered deposits....
Think of LLMs as a Compute‑Dial Family
New post: nanochat miniseries v1 The correct way to think about LLMs is that you are not optimizing for a single specific model but for a family models controlled by a single dial (the compute you wish to spend) to achieve...
GISAID Faces New Issues Compromising Viral Sequence Data
Repeating to fix link: More problems with #GISAID, the international database that is the key repository of #flu and #Covid viral sequences, @kakape reports. https://t.co/YCblC7jSpf
These Strategic ISRO Missions Are Set For 1Q 2026
India’s space agency ISRO will launch two strategic satellites in the first quarter of 2026. On 12 January, PSLV‑C62 will lift the DRDO‑built hyperspectral Earth‑observation satellite EOS‑N1 (Anvesha) alongside 18 small‑satellite co‑passengers. Later in Q1, GSLV‑F17 will place the GISAT‑2 (EOS‑05)...
NASA Highlights Artemis II at Houston Texans Space City Day
NASA Celebrates Artemis II During Houston Texans Space City Day https://t.co/ZFeOw9idga From left, NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, Johnson Space Center employees Tessa Rundle and Daniel Kolodziejcyk wearing Orion Crew Survival System suits, and Johnso… https://t.co/gi7MzO0jPz
Cyera Researchers Detail Critical ‘Ni8mare’ Vulnerability Allowing Full Takeover of N8n Instances
Cyera researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in the n8n workflow automation platform, catalogued as CVE‑2026‑21858 and rated 10.0 on the CVSS scale. The flaw, dubbed “Ni8mare,” stems from improper handling of the Content‑Type header in webhook and form requests,...
Gamma: Design Presentations, Websites, and Docs at the Speed of Thought With AI
Gamma is an AI‑driven platform that lets users generate presentations, websites, documents, and social media assets in minutes. Leveraging generative AI and smart layout engines, it automates design decisions so teams can focus on content rather than formatting. The service...
NASA Delays Spacewalk over Crew Member's Medical Issue
NASA is postponing tomorrow's spacewalk because of a "medical concern with a crew member that arose Wednesday afternoon." https://t.co/QQ83VS716l
