News•Feb 2, 2026
European Investment Platform PeerBerry Reports €50M in Interest Paid to Investors
PeerBerry reported €28 million of new loan funding in January, a modest rise from December. Investors earned roughly €882 000 in interest that month, bringing cumulative payouts since launch to over €50.7 million. The platform’s loan portfolio expanded 1 % to €117.2 million and attracted more than 1,350 new members, pushing verified investors past 114 000. PeerBerry also rolled out a secondary‑market feature and urged users to review AutoInvest settings to capture competitive rates.
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Feb 2, 2026
Mars Rover Drives with the Help of Anthropic AI
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic's Claude AI to map a 450‑meter route for the Perseverance rover on Mars. By feeding Claude years of mission data, the system generated Rover Markup Language commands that covered 10‑meter segments and...
By Payload
News•Feb 2, 2026
Simmons Bank Hires New Leaders to Boost Organic Growth
Simmons Bank, led by new CEO Jay Brogdon, announced the hiring of two senior executives and the launch of an eight‑person private‑banking team to accelerate organic growth. The moves aim to diversify a loan portfolio that is heavily weighted toward...
By American Banker Technology
News•Feb 2, 2026
European Leveraged Loan Market Remained Relatively Stable in Past Year, Report Claims
PitchBook reports that the European leveraged loan market ended 2025 with relative stability, but emerging distress signals hint at future volatility. Default activity remained low overall, yet private‑credit defaults rose to 2.46% in Q4 and distress metrics edged higher. Yield...
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Feb 2, 2026
FDA Warned Corcept of ‘Significant Review Issues’ for Rejected Drug in Early Meetings
The FDA issued a complete response letter rejecting Corcept Therapeutics' relacorilant for hypercortisolism, citing significant review issues identified early in the submission process. While the Phase III GRACE trial met its primary endpoint, the agency questioned the hypertension data and warned...
By BioSpace
News•Feb 2, 2026
2025 - The Year of Quantum
Quantum computing is moving from theoretical research to commercial opportunity, with startups already delivering products in cybersecurity, networking, middleware, and sensing. Andy Leaver of Notion Capital argues that waiting for fault‑tolerant, cryptography‑breaking machines is unnecessary; viable markets exist today. He...
By Notion Capital
Podcast•Feb 2, 2026•30 min
Vishal Chatrath, CEO and Co-Founder of QuantrolOx
In this episode, Vishal Chatrath, CEO and co‑founder of QuantrolOx, explains how their quantum‑control software automates qubit tuning and calibration, dramatically speeding up chip characterization and enabling scalable manufacturing. He discusses the role of real‑time calibration and error‑correction loops, the...
By The Superposition Guy's Podcast
News•Feb 2, 2026
Commvault Pitches Geo Shield for Sovereign Data Protection
Commvault has launched Geo Shield, a sovereign‑data protection suite that lets enterprises dictate where data resides, who controls access, and who holds encryption keys. The offering spans four deployment models—from local hyperscaler SaaS to private sovereign clouds—supporting both BYOK and HYOK...
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 2, 2026
Unraveling DEHP’s Role in Allergic Rhinitis
A new study by Tang, Guo and Zhang applies network toxicology and molecular dynamics to map how the plasticizer DEHP and its metabolite MEHP interact with immune‑related proteins. The research identifies specific molecular pathways that link DEHP exposure to the...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Feb 2, 2026
Iconics SCADA Vulnerability Can Render Systems Unbootable
A newly disclosed flaw (CVE‑2025‑0921) in Iconics Suite’s Pager Agent lets a non‑admin attacker manipulate file‑system permissions to overwrite critical Windows driver files. By redirecting log output via symbolic links, the exploit can corrupt the cng.sys driver, causing the system...
By eSecurity Planet
News•Feb 2, 2026
Tailoring CRISPR–Cas PAM Specificity via AI Models
Researchers have unveiled AI-driven models that accurately predict and redesign protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) sequences for a wide range of CRISPR‑Cas enzymes. The platform leverages deep learning on millions of natural and synthetic PAM datasets, achieving up to 40% reduction...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Feb 2, 2026
FDA Knocks Back Pharming's Bid for Wider Joenja Use
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a complete response letter rejecting Pharming's request to extend Joenja (leniolisib) to children aged four to 11 with activated phosphoinositide 3‑kinase delta syndrome (APDS). The agency flagged potential under‑exposure in lower‑weight pediatric patients...
By pharmaphorum
Blog•Feb 2, 2026
IRID + AIMING: The Pure-Play Quantum Computing Stocks vs Tech Giants Defining the Next Computing Era
Quantum computing investment is split between pure‑play hardware builders (IRID) and diversified tech giants (AIMING). The IRID group includes IonQ, Rigetti, Infleqtion and D‑Wave, each dedicated to manufacturing gate‑based or annealing machines, while AIMING comprises Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia...
By Quantum Zeitgeist
News•Feb 2, 2026
Chrome Ad Blocker Caught Hijacking Amazon Affiliate Links
A Chrome extension called Amazon Ads Blocker, marketed as an ad‑hider, was found to silently replace creator affiliate tags on Amazon product links with its own identifier (10xprofit‑20). Socket researchers discovered the extension injects the tag on page load and...
By eSecurity Planet
News•Feb 2, 2026
UK Government Launches Fuel Forecourt Price API
On 2 February 2026 the UK government launched Fuel Finder, a public service that publishes real‑time fuel prices from forecourts across the country. The platform provides price, location, brand, amenities and timestamp data via a RESTful API, CSV downloads and email subscriptions,...
By Hacker News
Social•Feb 2, 2026
AI-Driven Thought Leadership Turns SME Insight Into Sales
Thought leadership should be a sales tool, feed search results, and build authority. That's a lot. But what if AI could help you surface and scale that internal expertise? By pairing AI tools with intentional workflows, you can capture unique insights from...
By A. Lee Judge
News•Feb 2, 2026
Women in STEM: Inspiration From Innovators in Pharma
PharmTech interviewed Katy MacLellan, Technical Team Leader at Symbiosis, about her journey from a Scottish island to senior roles at Pfizer, Eli Lilly, CSL Seqirus and now Symbiosis. She highlights how female mentorship and visible STEM programs propelled her career and how companies...
By Pharmaceutical Technology
News•Feb 2, 2026
Advanced Ways to Use Competitive Research in SEO and AEO
The article urges marketers to integrate competitive research for both traditional SEO and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) in 2026. It contrasts the benefits of SEO tools—keyword intent, demand capture—with AEO tools that shape demand, influence early‑funnel decisions, and dictate brand...
By Search Engine Land
Podcast•Feb 2, 2026•51 min
How a Creator Made Five Figures with Live Shopping
In this episode of Tea with GaryVee, Gary outlines why Live Shopping is the biggest opportunity of 2026 and walks listeners through the exact steps to start selling on platforms like TikTok Affiliate, showing how a creator leveraged his framework...
By The GaryVee Audio Experience
Podcast•Feb 2, 2026•45 min
Quantum Leadership with Nadya Mason
In this episode, Prof. Nadya Mason discusses the transition from "quantum 1.0" to "quantum 2.0," emphasizing the pivotal role of quantum materials and superconducting devices as the bottleneck for scalable quantum technologies. She explains how the Pritzker School of Molecular...
By The New Quantum Era
News•Feb 2, 2026
Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-Style Inference Engine Works
Nano‑vLLM is a minimal Python implementation that reproduces the core features of the widely‑used vLLM inference engine, including prefix caching, tensor parallelism, and CUDA‑graph optimizations. Benchmarks show it matches or slightly exceeds vLLM’s throughput despite its 1,200‑line codebase. The architecture...
By Hacker News
Social•Feb 2, 2026
Close Your Pay Gap: 5 Revenue Streams for Independence
Your employer won't pay you what you're worth. They can't. Their model only works if there's a gap between what you produce and what you cost. A great way to close that gap is to work for yourself. Here are 5 different ways you...
By Justin Welsh
Social•Feb 2, 2026
Chinese Actors Hijack Notepad++ Updates, Infect Select Users
Between June and December 2025, a “likely Chinese state-sponsored group” compromised the infrastructure used by Notepad++ and served malicious updates to selectively targeted users. https://t.co/w5kp0kyy5z https://t.co/rug70afvgL
By Runa Sandvik
News•Feb 2, 2026
Shield Raises $100 Million From Thrive Holdings to Accelerate the Growth of Its IT Services Platform
Shield Technology Partners announced a $100 million investment from Thrive Holdings to accelerate its AI‑first IT services platform. The funding will boost product innovation, expand the company’s national partner network, and fund strategic M&A. Shield’s AI‑driven tools, Sentinel and Spectre, have...
By AiThority
News•Feb 2, 2026
Fancy Bear Exploits Microsoft Office Flaw in Ukraine, EU Cyber-Attacks
Russian‑linked group Fancy Bear leveraged the high‑severity CVE‑2026‑21509 Office flaw days after Microsoft disclosed it, targeting Ukrainian ministries and EU bodies. The malicious Word document triggered a WebDAV call that installed a DLL via COM hijacking, ultimately launching the Covenant...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Feb 2, 2026
Span Cyber Security Arena 2026: Only 10 Days Left to Secure Early Bird Tickets
Span Cyber Security Arena 2026 will be held May 20‑22 in Poreč, Croatia, at the five‑star Pical Resort. The event features three days of conference sessions plus two pre‑conference masterclasses on May 18‑19 for engineers, architects, and consultants. Keynote speakers include...
By Help Net Security
News•Feb 2, 2026
Mixed Data Mars Sanofi's Venglustat Programme
Sanofi announced that its oral glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor venglustat achieved statistically significant neurological improvements in a Phase 3 trial for type 3 Gaucher disease, prompting regulatory filing plans. The same drug failed to demonstrate efficacy in a Fabry disease study, adding to...
By pharmaphorum
News•Feb 2, 2026
Google Ads Replacing Support Form With AI Agent
Google Ads has replaced its traditional support form with an AI‑driven chat agent, accessible via the usual support URL. The chatbot introduces itself as an AI advisor, prompting users to describe issues before offering assistance or escalating to human help....
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Feb 2, 2026
OPINION: Retail Subscriptions Need to Take a Leaf Out of the Digital Playbook
Retail subscriptions are the only vertical experiencing a decline, even as the broader subscription economy grew 8.3% year‑over‑year in 2026. Guy Meyers of Recurly highlights that consumers want flexibility, with 38% more likely to pause than cancel, and value pricing...
By InternetRetailing
News•Feb 2, 2026
Urban Outfitters and Dreams Under Fire for Using Gig Economy App
Urban Outfitters and Dreams have been criticized for using the gig‑economy app Temper to staff retail and delivery roles, with some workers earning below the UK minimum wage after fees. The TUC argues the model creates bogus self‑employment, denying basic...
By Retail Gazette
News•Feb 2, 2026
DeepL Launches Voice API for Real-Time Speech Transcription and Translation Enabling Instant Multilingual Communication
DeepL announced the general availability of its Voice API, a cloud service that streams audio and delivers real‑time transcription plus translation into up to five target languages. The API is aimed at contact centers and BPO providers, allowing agents to...
By AiThority
News•Feb 2, 2026
Sanofi’s Venglustat Succeeds in Phase 3 Gaucher Trial but Fails Separate Study in Fabry Disease
Sanofi’s substrate‑reduction therapy venglustat met its primary endpoint in a Phase 3 trial for type 1 Gaucher disease, showing statistically significant reductions in glucosylceramide levels and improved organ volumes. The study enrolled 400 patients across North America and Europe and demonstrated a...
By Endpoints News
News•Feb 2, 2026
This Stealthy Windows RAT Holds Live Conversations with Its Operators
Point Wild researchers uncovered a new Windows campaign deploying the Pulsar RAT, a .NET‑based remote access trojan that lives entirely in memory. The infection chain starts with a per‑user Registry Run key that launches a PowerShell loader, which decodes Donut‑generated...
By CSO Online
News•Feb 2, 2026
Shift Left Is Dead for Cloud PAM
In this episode, Cole Horsman, Field CTO at Sonrai Security, recounts his three‑year journey trying to apply shift‑left and just‑in‑time (JIT) models to cloud identity, ultimately concluding that both approaches failed because they target the wrong layer. He explains how...
By Security Boulevard
News•Feb 2, 2026
Q&A: Why Deep Tech Investors Are Turning To The Secondary Market For Liquidity
Celesta Capital’s founding partner Sriram Viswanathan explains that abundant capital and a shrinking pool of high‑quality deep‑tech deals are fueling a surge in secondary‑market transactions. Investors are using secondaries to gain liquidity as private exits stretch, especially in AI‑driven hardware...
By Crunchbase News AI
News•Feb 2, 2026
Threats: Results of a Pilot Survey on Threats, and a New Category on DataBreaches.net
A pilot survey of 112 security researchers and journalists was conducted from December 20 2025 to January 18 2026 to gauge legal and criminal threats they face. The study reveals that many respondents encounter litigation warnings, criminal investigations, and intimidation from cyber‑criminals. Findings are...
By DataBreaches.net
News•Feb 2, 2026
The In-House Vs. Agency Debate Misses the Real Paid Media Problem by Focus Pocus Media
The article argues that the long‑standing in‑house versus agency debate overlooks the real paid‑media challenge: how performance leadership is structured. Companies often see campaigns run smoothly, yet growth stalls because tracking, strategic ownership, and systematic testing are weak. The author...
By Search Engine Land
News•Feb 2, 2026
Starlink and the Unravelling of Digital Sovereignty
In January 2026 Iran shut down landline and mobile networks to suppress protests, but smuggled Starlink terminals gave demonstrators a lifeline to stream video and coordinate actions. SpaceX responded by waiving fees for Iranian users, while Iranian security forces deployed military‑grade...
By SpaceNews
News•Feb 2, 2026
CesiumAstro to Scale Operations with $470 Million in Equity and Debt Financing
CesiumAstro announced a $470 million financing package on Feb. 2, comprising $270 million in equity and $200 million in debt. The round was led by Trousdale Ventures and included investors such as Toyota’s Woven Capital, Airbus Ventures, and the U.S. Export‑Import Bank. The capital...
By SpaceNews
News•Feb 2, 2026
Valentine’s Day Spending Projected to Be Record-Setting
The National Retail Federation forecasts Valentine’s Day spending to hit a record $29.1 billion, surpassing the 2025 high of $27.5 billion. Average shoppers plan to spend $199.78 on gifts, up from $188.81 last year. The holiday’s reach is widening, with 55% of...
By Retail Customer Experience
News•Feb 2, 2026
Normalization of Deviance
The Space Review highlights NASA’s Orion heat‑shield issue as a classic case of normalization of deviance, where repeated acceptance of performance shortfalls erodes safety standards. After a design change post‑EFT‑1, the shield failed to ablate on Artemis 1, prompting a costly...
By The Space Review
News•Feb 2, 2026
Dragonship: China Builds a Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier While Satellites Watch
China is reportedly constructing its first nuclear‑powered aircraft carrier, dubbed the Type 004, at the Dalian shipyard. Satellite photos captured in 2025 show two large square sections consistent with reactor compartments, suggesting a shift from the conventionally powered Fujian and Shandong...
By The Space Review
News•Feb 2, 2026
01C Launches Amara to Generate Full 3D Worlds From Simple Prompts
London‑based startup 01C has launched Amara, an AI‑powered platform that lets designers, game developers and 3D artists generate complete, production‑ready 3D environments from simple text or photo prompts. The tool is built natively for Unreal Engine and plugs directly into...
By Tech.eu
News•Feb 2, 2026
From Pacifism to Pragmatism: Japan's Evolving Space Security Policy
Japan has shifted from strict pacifism to a pragmatic space security stance, codified by the 2008 Basic Space Law. The law, prompted by North Korea’s 2006 missile launches and China’s 2007 anti‑satellite test, authorized non‑aggressive military space capabilities and centralized...
By The Space Review
News•Feb 2, 2026
BIO Tells Congress How to Maintain US Biotech Leadership
BIO submitted a statement to the House Ways & Means Trade Subcommittee urging Congress to adopt policies that preserve U.S. biotech leadership. The organization highlighted the sector’s explosive growth, projecting a $4.25 trillion global market by 2033, and called for expanded...
By Bio.News
News•Feb 2, 2026
Chicago's Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust Closed by State Regulator
Chicago’s Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust was shut down by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation on Jan. 30, with the FDIC stepping in to oversee the closure. All insured deposit accounts were transferred to First Independence Bank, ensuring...
By Fintech Futures
News•Feb 2, 2026
Bright Streak Lights Up New Zealand Sky: Was It A Meteor?
On 30 January 2026 a bright green fireball streaked across the night sky above Wellington, New Zealand, and was recorded by a webcam at the Heretaunga Boating Club. Eyewitness videos quickly spread on social media, prompting experts to debate whether the phenomenon was...
By Orbital Today
Blog•Feb 2, 2026
Reshaping Nanoporous Gold Leads to New Electronic and Optical Properties
Researchers at Umeå University have shown that reshaping gold into a nanoporous, sponge‑like metamaterial dramatically changes its interaction with light. When exposed to ultrashort laser pulses, the porous film reaches electronic temperatures of about 3200 K, far exceeding the 800 K observed...
By Nanowerk
Blog•Feb 2, 2026
Web-Based Tool Visualizes Catalyst Gene Profiles for Materials Design
Researchers at Hokkaido University have launched a web‑based graphical interface that visualizes catalyst gene profiles, turning complex catalyst datasets into intuitive, interactive visualizations. The platform clusters catalysts by sequence similarity, displays synchronized heat maps, and lets users explore global trends...
By Nanowerk
News•Feb 2, 2026
Securing the Mid-Market Across the Complete Threat Lifecycle
Mid‑market firms face tight budgets and lean security teams, making traditional, siloed tools costly and inefficient. The article advocates a full‑lifecycle approach—prevention, protection, detection, and response—delivered through integrated platforms such as Bitdefender GravityZone. By unifying endpoint, cloud, identity, and network...
By The Hacker News