Rapid AI Evolution Collides with Sophisticated Scams
Thailand’s financial sector is moving into a "Banking 5.0" era where generative AI shifts from experiment to core infrastructure, accelerating automation, fraud detection and personalized services. Regulators, led by the Bank of Thailand, are deploying AI‑based supervision to shift oversight from retrospective reporting to real‑time, data‑driven intervention. At the same time, organized scam networks are targeting nearly three‑quarters of Thai consumers, with 47% already experiencing fraud, prompting tighter anti‑scam measures. Stablecoin trading now averages about 2.8 billion baht (~$78 million) daily, creating new blind spots for payment‑rail monitoring.
Voyaging to ‘Space Beach’
Voyager Technologies Inc., a Denver‑based space‑defense firm, opened a 140,000‑square‑foot facility in Long Beach, positioning itself near the region’s aerospace cluster and the Space Force base in El Segundo. The move follows a record‑breaking 2025 where Voyager posted $166.4 million in net...
Leaker Claims PS6 Won't Be Delayed Because AMD Won't "Waste Resources" On Validation
Reputable leaker KeplerL2 argues the PlayStation 6 will not be delayed, asserting AMD will not waste resources on validating chips if a launch postponement were expected. The claim rests on the premise that AMD has already completed validation of its custom...
Choosing Between Galaxy S27 Pro and Ultra
It's still early, but between the rumored Galaxy S27 Pro and S27 Ultra, which one would you go for?
European Chips Skills Academy Launches the ECSA Learning Platform
The European Chips Skills Academy (ECSA) has launched the ECSA Learning Platform, a free digital hub offering more than 60 introductory to intermediate semiconductor courses. Developed with industry and academic partners, the platform integrates a Knowledge Hub, community collaboration spaces,...
AI Software More than Halves Hospital's MRI Exam Times
Experts at the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam have integrated AI‑driven synthetic imaging software into their MRI scanner, cutting abdominal exam times from roughly 23 minutes to nine minutes. The AI fills in missing slices, allowing technologists to acquire...
AI Outcomes Inconsistent
Australian governments are deepening digital transformation, with AI usage rising to 70% of public‑sector staff, up from 58% a year earlier. While AI now supports document handling, data analysis and decision support, agencies report uneven results when AI is layered...
Symbolic Learning Reverses Code, Beats Curve‑Fitting
With curve-fitting, you are recording a lossy approximation of the output of some generative program. With symbolic learning, you are losslessly reverse-engineering the source code of the generative program. Symbolic learning won't be the best fit for all problems, but for...
Semiconductor-Based Quantum Pilot Line ‘SPINS’ Launched with EU Support
The EU has launched the €50 million SPINS pilot line, one of six quantum pilot facilities created under the Chips Act. Coordinated by imec, SPINS unites 25 RTOs, industry players and universities to develop semiconductor‑based spin‑qubit chips. The initiative targets three...
2027 POTUS Budget Proposal Targets CISA With Funding Cuts
The FY2027 White House budget proposes cutting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) funding by up to $707 million, reducing its budget to just over $2 billion. The administration frames the reductions as a strategic realignment that narrows CISA’s focus to...
The Integration Challenge that Led Vitals AI to Shut Down
Vitals AI, a data‑reporting startup spun out of the $4 billion Csenge Advisory Group, announced it will cease operations after roughly a year. The firm served dozens of advisory firms with $10 billion in platform assets, but the technical and financial burden...
This Hidden Windows Menu Has All the Tricks You Need to Fix Battery Drain
Microsoft’s Windows 11 includes an often‑overlooked Energy Recommendations menu that aggregates the most effective battery‑saving tweaks in one place. Users can apply individual changes or click an “Apply all” button to instantly adjust power mode, screen refresh rate, brightness, USB...
Start Your Tech Career with Free Resources
If you want to break into tech but don’t know where to start, start here: • Learn tech fundamentals → freecodecamp.org • Understand Git & GitHub → try.github.io • Practice coding → leetcode.com • Learn design basics → canva.com/designschool •...
Stitching Precise Patterns – With Lasers
University of Pittsburgh engineers have devised a laser‑induced graphene (LIG) manufacturing method that uses an iron‑oxide ink layer to precisely control graphene formation on polymer films. The technique enables tunable electrode thickness and conductivity, and can create graphene on either...
Artemis Moon Mission Sets Record; Trump Sets Tuesday 8PM Deadline For Iran
NASA’s Artemis II crew set a new distance record, reaching roughly 252,760 miles from Earth during a lunar flyby and confirming Orion’s performance ahead of a planned 2028 Moon landing. The astronauts will splash down near San Diego on April 10 after...
Fintech VC Triple Bubble Nails $10 Million First Close on Its $50m Fund
Fintech venture fund Triple Bubble announced a $10 million Australian‑dollar first close (≈$6.6 million USD), anchored by Commonwealth Bank’s x15ventures. The fund, founded by Dom Pym, Brian Collins and Judy Anderson‑Firth, targets a $50 million Australian‑dollar final close (≈$33 million USD) by Easter 2028, drawing commitments from fintech founders...
EHR Giant Convenes App Developers with Open@Epic
Epic is hosting its second annual Open@Epic conference in Verona, Wisconsin, in October, inviting app developers to expand its connected health data ecosystem. Since the inaugural event, monthly patient‑directed data exchanges via Epic APIs have climbed from roughly 3.1 billion to...
Premier Health Launches 2 Clinical Decision-Support Tools
Premier Health, a five‑hospital system in Dayton, Ohio, is deploying two AI‑driven clinical decision‑support tools across its network. The first, UpToDate Expert AI, merges evidence‑based medical content with advanced artificial intelligence and has received approval from the system’s AI governance...
Rediscover HTC Universal: 2005 Pocket Laptop Nostalgia
I promise that some day I will get over my "pocket laptop" obsession – but today is not that day. NEW on the MrMobile YouTube channel: journey back 2 decades with me, for a look at a very special "High-Tech Computer"...
Anthropic Tops $30 Billion Run Rate, Seals Broadcom Deal
Anthropic announced its revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion, a dramatic rise from $9 billion at the end of 2025. The surge is driven by accelerating demand for its Claude AI services, with more than 1,000 enterprise customers now spending over...
Turning AI Ideas Into Reality at SAP: What to Do Next?
SAP announced a comprehensive AI roadmap for its Human Capital Management suite, unveiling a unified AI platform that embeds generative models across recruiting, talent management, and employee experience. The company emphasizes data hygiene, pilot‑scale experiments, and robust change‑management as prerequisites...
New Jersey Has No Right to Ban Kalshi's Prediction Market, US Appeals Court Rules
A 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled 2-1 that New Jersey lacks authority to regulate Kalshi’s prediction market, placing jurisdiction with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Kalshi argued its sports‑event contracts are swaps, not gambling, and the court...
North Haven to Automate $250 Fines for Passing School Buses
North Haven, Connecticut, will begin automatically issuing $250 fines on April 13 to drivers who illegally pass stopped school buses, using BusPatrol cameras that capture license‑plate data. During a warning phase, the town sent nearly 300 warnings to violators. The...
Investors Push Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to Disclose Site-Specific Data Center Water and Power Consumption — More than a Dozen...
More than a dozen investors, led by Trillium Asset Management, are urging Amazon, Microsoft and Google to disclose site‑specific water and power consumption for their U.S. data centers. The push follows recent cancellations of multibillion‑dollar projects and highlights that North...
AI-Assisted Supply Chain Attack Targets GitHub
A threat actor used AI‑assisted automation to launch the "prt‑scan" supply‑chain campaign on GitHub, opening over 500 malicious pull requests between March 11 and early April. The campaign targeted repositories that use the vulnerable pull_request_target workflow, compromising fewer than 10 %...
Asteroid Bennu’s Minerals and Organic Matter Occur in Distinct Chemical Domains: Study
Scientists at Stony Brook University used nanoscale infrared and Raman spectroscopy on NASA’s OSIRIS‑REx sample OREX‑800066‑3 from asteroid Bennu. The analysis revealed that organic compounds and minerals occupy distinct chemical domains at 20‑500 nm resolution, indicating water‑driven alteration was spatially heterogeneous....
The IRS Wants to Shrink Its Workforce by Nearly 4,000 — and Use Technology to Make up the Difference
The Internal Revenue Service is proposing to cut a net 4,875 positions, targeting roughly $777 million in savings, as part of a $1.4 billion budget reduction for FY 2027. To maintain service levels, the agency plans to invest in technology modernization, including AI...
Autonomous Agents Pose a New Large‑scale Threat
An agent with a goal and agency can do real damage. We used to worry about compromised accounts. Now we need to worry about autonomous decision-making at scale. That is a very different risk model.
New Results Closely Match My Anthropic Model
They are tracking very closely to the model I built on Anthropic in this note. https://t.co/cspnwjWdqN
Scammers Posing as Federal Officials Drive Complaints up and Rack up $800 Million in Losses
The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Complaint Center report shows government‑impersonation scams nearly doubled from 2024, with complaints rising from about 17,300 to 32,500. Victims lost roughly $797 million in 2025, up from $405 million the year before, placing this fraud among the...
Zero‑build Libghostty Xcframeworks Now Auto‑published Each Commit
We now build binary "xcframework" packages for libghostty on every commit for macOS and iOS. They're available via GitHub releases and blob storage. Just drop them into Xcode or in a Package.swift and you're ready to go. No Zig headaches....
GitHub's Dominance Faces Cracks and AI Disruption Risk
GitHub is clearly super important developer infrastructure, and nothing replaces it anytime soon. But there are cracks. In uptime. In suitability for AI volume and use cases. And in company focus. There's disruption possibility. @GergelyOrosz explores: https://t.co/EjK7sA4FJ0
BluGlass Signs $1.3M Agreement to Advance Photonics Manufacturing Collaboration
BluGlass Limited announced a strategic collaboration worth approximately $860,000 (AUD 1.3 million) with an unnamed Fortune 500 data‑storage leader to accelerate photonics manufacturing research. The partnership will tap BluGlass' laser diode and GaN expertise to develop more efficient, lower‑power, and compact photonic...
China Unveils Self‑balancing Autonomous Electric Scooters
China has launched self-driving electric scooters with features like auto-balance. by @XueJia24682 #SelfDrivingCars #AutonomousVehicles #EV #Automation #Automotive #Transport https://t.co/m4MXrVAEvl
AI Self‑Improvement Likely Outpaces Biological Evolution
when do we see self-improvement in AI research vs. biology? @LiamFedus, Cofounder @periodiclabs and former lead of post-training OpenAI, on @NoPriorsPod https://t.co/NdyTDy1ynR
The Danger in the Global South’s Pursuit of AI as a Magical Cure
Western nations are grappling with an AI backlash, dubbed a "botlash," focused on bias, privacy, and environmental costs. In contrast, governments across the Global South champion AI as a cure for poor governance, corruption, and sluggish development, embedding it in...
AI Cancer Vaccines Thrive While Cities Reject Data Centers
incredible seeing (actual, live) AI-designed cancer vaccines one minute, and local city councils unanimously voting down data centers the next. cognitive dissonance.
Optimistic About AI, Yet Skeptical of Near‑Term AGI
"Two Hours of AI Optimism - Grounded in Reality". My opening talk at @Abundance360, with demos of Google tools by @DynamicWebPaige. I explain why I'm bullish on AI and yet skeptical of near-term AGI or fast take-off to super-intelligence. https://t.co/flutju2hNj
Cell 'Snowball' May Be Answer to Large-Scale Tissue Engineering
Researchers at Penn State have created bio‑hybrid cell spheroids that self‑assemble like a snowball, rapidly increasing in size while preserving oxygen and nutrient flow. By embedding living cells in microgel particles, the new spheroids overcome diffusion barriers that traditionally limit...
Experts Weigh Pros and Cons of At‑home Biological Age Tests
What's your biological age? Experts explain the benefits and risks of at-home tests https://t.co/NSr8O4EGnU via @nbcnews
AI Is Now Taking over Game Servers, and Stormgate Is the First Casualty
Multiplayer servers for the RTS Stormgate will go offline at month‑end after its hosting partner Hathora was acquired by AI firm Fireworks AI, which is repurposing the infrastructure for AI inference. Frost Giant Studios will release an offline‑only patch but...
SAP Business Data Cloud Explained: A New Model for ERP Data and Analytics
SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is a fully managed SaaS that unifies data management, governance, and analytics across SAP and non‑SAP systems, tackling the fragmentation that still plagues most ERP environments. A recent SAPinsider benchmark shows only 3% of organizations...
Treating Previously Untreatable Cancers: How CAR-T Cell Therapy Could Be Made Accessible to More Patients
CAR‑T cell therapy, a personalized immunotherapy that re‑programs a patient’s T cells, has transformed treatment for certain leukemias and lymphomas but remains prohibitively expensive in Canada, with commercial products costing roughly $325‑$466 k USD per patient and requiring 4‑6 weeks for manufacturing....
“The Problem Is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders Don’t Trust CEO
OpenAI unveiled a draft industrial‑policy agenda that includes $100,000 research fellowships and up to $1 million in API credits to steer AI toward public benefit. Simultaneously, The New Yorker published an investigation based on over 100 insider accounts that question CEO...
Biological Intelligence: Strategic Rationale for Anthropic's $400 Million Acquisition of Coefficient Bio
Anthropic announced a $400 million all‑stock acquisition of Coefficient Bio, a boutique AI‑biology startup with fewer than ten employees. The deal gives Anthropic a proprietary vertical model based on Discrete Walk‑Jump Sampling (dWJS), enabling high‑success‑rate protein design and end‑to‑end drug‑discovery workflows. Valued...
Questions Linger About the Long-Term Viability of X
X’s ad revenue has slumped to $2.26 billion in 2025, down from $4.14 billion in 2022, while active users in Europe fell 15% in the second half of 2025. The platform survives thanks to a March 2025 merger with Musk’s AI venture xAI,...
SAP and ODI Team Up to Make Enterprise Data AI‑Ready
SAP and the Open Data Institute (ODI) have launched a global program to create AI‑ready data foundations for enterprises. The initiative underpins IDEA (Interchange for Data and Enterprise AI), a neutral framework that defines governance, semantics, and lineage across heterogeneous...
Kenya Dispatch: High Court Suspends Automated Traffic Fines System, Testing Due Process Rights
Kenya’s National Transport and Safety Authority launched an AI‑driven Instant Fines Traffic Management System on March 9, issuing automated penalties of KSh 500–10,000 ($3–$67) via SMS. Within days, civil‑society groups filed a petition alleging the system breaches constitutional rights to fair trial...
Unlock Efficient Model Deployment: Simplified Inference Operator Setup on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Amazon announced the SageMaker HyperPod Inference Operator as a native EKS add‑on, delivering one‑click installation and managed upgrades. The operator automates IAM role creation, S3 bucket provisioning, VPC endpoint setup, and required add‑ons, removing the need for complex Helm charts....
Grass Valley Launches Future Playmakers Program
Grass Valley has introduced the Future Playmakers Program, a global initiative aimed at cultivating the next generation of sports production and media technology professionals. The program offers up to ten annual scholarships, hands‑on training with industry‑standard equipment, and direct collaboration...
