Who Needs ‘Corrosive Intermediaries’ Anyway?
The Ozone publisher alliance, founded by UK titles such as The Guardian and The Telegraph, is tackling the broken programmatic supply chain by pooling inventory and data to push back against what its COO Danny Spears calls “corrosive intermediaries.” Spears argues that while macro pressures, AI‑driven search changes, and Google Core updates are squeezing margins, publishers can still shape distribution and retain value. He cites the Daily Mail’s premium‑experience push and Our Media’s shift to Apple News as examples of larger and smaller players adapting. The message is clear: control over the supply chain may be limited, but control over content pathways is not.
Who Needs ‘Corrosive Intermediaries’ Anyway?
Publishers are confronting a "perfect storm" of macroeconomic pressure, traffic declines, and AI‑driven search changes that threaten programmatic revenue. Ozone, a coalition of UK news brands such as The Guardian and The Telegraph, aims to counteract platform dominance by pooling...
First Quantum Diamond Microscopy System Lands in US for Advanced Chip Failure Analysis
QuantumDiamonds GmbH has installed its QD m.1 quantum‑diamond microscopy system at Eurofins EAG Laboratories in Sunnyvale, marking the first North‑American deployment of a commercial QDM tool. The QD m.1 uses nitrogen‑vacancy centers in synthetic diamond to produce three‑dimensional, micrometer‑scale magnetic current maps of...
TDOT Is Widening Tenn.'s Tourism Corridor
The Tennessee Department of Transportation is completing the third phase of a $64 million widening project on U.S. 411 near Pigeon Forge, expanding the corridor to five lanes with a center turn lane and 12‑ft shoulders. The 9.3‑mile effort, funded 80% by the...
GOFAR Brings Ag Robots to Spain for Live Field Demos
GOFAR is staging its first Iberian Field Day on April 15 at John Deere’s Parla Innovation Center near Madrid, where more than 15 agricultural robots will operate in real‑field conditions. The showcase, co‑hosted with John Deere and data‑platform provider Datagri, brings together over...
IAP Availability
The Depository Trust Company (DTCC) announced that its Issuer Agent Portal (IAP) will be offline on April 9, 2026, beginning at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and lasting through the evening. The outage is scheduled to accommodate routine system maintenance. All participants, agents,...
Walmart's 'Excellent Quality' Wireless Earbuds Come in 5 Fun Colors, and They Start at Just $10
Walmart is offering the Cshidworld T8Max wireless earbuds at a steep discount, with the black and pink models now $10 (down from $13) and the remaining three colors at $11. The earbuds feature Bluetooth 5.0, an IPX8 waterproof rating, and...
AR as The Remote Control for Agents
The post argues that augmented reality (AR) is finally reaching an inflection point because artificial intelligence provides the missing utility layer. Instead of treating AR as a standalone computing platform, the author frames it as a remote control interface for...
RIA Channel's High Speed Adoption of AI Is Delivering yet Another Blow to Slow-Footed Wirehouse Channel, Though a Morgan Stanley...
Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) are rapidly integrating artificial intelligence, leveraging modern data stacks to outpace traditional wirehouses in speed and breadth of deployment. Wirehouses, which manage roughly $6.5 trillion across 15,000 brokers, still benefit from centralized technology hubs but are hampered...
ZF Launches SolarBoost Solar Retrofit for Bus Fleets
German supplier ZF has introduced SolarBoost, a retrofittable solar panel kit for medium and large city and coach buses. The system feeds the 24‑volt auxiliary network, continuously recharging the battery and cutting fuel use by up to 3.5% depending on...
Renters’ Rights Act: Tech Steps up to Help Agents Adapt and Comply
The UK Renters’ Rights Act will overhaul tenancy structures, rent‑review rules and tenant‑request processes across the private rented sector. MRI Software is rolling out platform upgrades—including bulk conversion to periodic tenancies, a centralised rent‑review dashboard, digital pet‑request workflows, and timestamped...
AI Skills for IT Pros: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload Podcast
Artificial intelligence is reshaping IT operations, prompting a wave of reskilling among professionals. In a Computer Weekly podcast, Matt Stava, CEO of Spinnaker Support, urges IT workers to retool with AI tools and pursue emerging AI certifications. He warns that...
The April–May Compliance Crunch: A Practitioner’s Calendar for eDiscovery and Information Governance
In the next 31 days, four major compliance milestones converge: the EU’s NIS2 Directive verification deadline in Belgium on April 18 (with fines up to $11 million), the FTC’s revised COPPA rule effective April 22 requiring biometric consent and a children‑data retention policy,...
How to Earn Customer Decisions in Sales
Mark Hunter argues that sales success hinges on creating buyer certainty rather than applying pressure. He advises sellers to shift focus from moving the deal forward to moving the buyer’s thinking forward, using direct questions to surface hidden objections. By...
Fortescue Adds Another Electric Excavator, Says It Is Saving a Million Litres of Diesel per Unit
Fortescue Metals Group has deployed its 15th electric excavator in the Pilbara, claiming each unit saves about one million litres of diesel per year. The company now reports moving 100 million tonnes of ore with electric equipment and plans to install...
Unfold Named Intercom A/NZ Distributor to Drive AI-First Customer Service Adoption
Intercom has appointed Unfold as its authorized distributor for Australia and New Zealand, giving local partners direct access to its AI‑first customer‑service platform and Fin AI agent. The partnership is timed to meet rising demand for governed, outcome‑driven AI deployments that...
Claude Achieves Real‑time YouTube Search, Proving Connected AI
Claude just crossed a major gap most AI tools still struggle with. It can now search real, constantly updated YouTube data through Algrow meaning responses are no longer based on stale training alone. This is what “connected AI” actually looks like.
The Creativity Trade-Off: What Marketers Risk Losing In The Age Of AI
AI has become ubiquitous in advertising, with 83% of ad executives now using it in creative workflows, up from 60% in 2024, and 86% of video‑ad buyers planning AI‑generated content. While generative tools accelerate idea prototyping, studies from Wharton and...
The Creativity Trade-Off: What Marketers Risk Losing In The Age Of AI
Marketers are rapidly embedding generative AI into ad creation, with 83% of ad executives reporting deployment, up from 60% in 2024. While AI accelerates idea generation and video production, studies show it narrows idea diversity and reduces originality. High‑profile AI‑driven...
Generative AI Improves a Wireless Vision System that Sees Through Obstructions
MIT researchers have combined generative AI with millimeter‑wave radar to reconstruct hidden 3D objects and entire indoor scenes. The new Wave‑Former model fills missing surfaces in partial mmWave scans, improving shape accuracy by roughly 20 %. A companion system, RISE, uses...
AI K-Pop Startup Galaxy Aims For IPO in Seoul, New York
Galaxy Corp., a Seoul‑based AI startup, is pioneering a new K‑pop model that replaces human idols with synchronized humanoid robots performing in elaborate, futuristic settings. Founder and CEO Choi Yong‑ho showcased a high‑tech show featuring black‑clad robots in luxury hip‑hop...
Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupt U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Targeting Internet-Exposed PLCs
Iran‑affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet‑exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) across U.S. critical‑infrastructure sectors, including water, energy, and government facilities. The attackers use Dropbear SSH to gain remote access, manipulate HMI/SCADA displays, and disrupt device functionality, focusing on Rockwell Automation...
Digital Commerce in India Will Grow to $250 Billion by 2030: Google and Deloitte Report
Google and Deloitte project India’s digital commerce market will expand to $250 billion by 2030, up from $90 billion today. Growth will be powered by a surge of Gen Z shoppers, rapid‑delivery (quick commerce) services, and AI‑driven content commerce. Quick commerce alone is...
Model Capabilities Are Soaring—Prepare Your AI Strategy Now
Mythos from Anthropic is another clear reminder that there’s absolutely no wall in model capability progress right now. Meaningful double digit gains on critical benchmarks, and it appears we’re going to keep up getting insane gains from the other labs. And...
From Messages to Conversations: AI Agents Are Changing How We Find Culture
Web traffic is now dominated by machines, with AI bots accounting for over 10% of global visits and a 70% surge at ArtsJournal driven by bots. Traditional search is collapsing—Google queries are expected to drop 25% by 2026 as AI...
Siemens Healthineers Partnership Seeks to Boost Supply of Novel PET Imaging Agent
Siemens Healthineers has signed a clinical supply agreement with Australian biotech Radiopharm Theranostics to manufacture and distribute the novel PET imaging agent RAD101 in the United States. The fluorine‑18‑labeled small molecule targets suspected recurrent brain cancer that has metastasized and...
Mexico's Banco Plata: $550M Revenue, 200% YoY Growth
Banco Plata (@bancoplatamx) is Mexico's answer to Nubank. They are crushing it and no one is talking about them. - $550+ million annualized revenue growing >200% YoY - 4 year old company - core product is a credit card (same place Nubank...
Postgres Powers Full AI Agents without Extra ETL
Postgres has everything you need to build production AI agents, but most teams are only using a fraction of its capabilities. At @PostgresConf in San Jose on April 22, I'm walking through building an issue triage agent on Postgres, from...
Integration: Post-Closing Cyber Risks
A new FTI Consulting report reveals that cyber‑attacks frequently strike companies after M&A closings, with more than two‑thirds of affected deals reporting negative consequences. Nearly half of those incidents led to reduced deal value, and 20% caused delays or pauses....
Alien Disclosure Could Make XRP Interplanetary Currency
Alien disclosure could galvanize humanity requiring interplanetary commerce infrastructure. Greg Kidd calls XRP intergalactic currency. Space payments viable with internet connection. Offline transaction capability reconciles to ledger upon reconnection.
What Are Fitness Trackers? And Do You Really Need One?
Fitness trackers—ranging from wrist‑worn watches to clip‑on bands—monitor steps, heart rate, sleep and more, but accuracy varies by metric. Certified trainer Curt Fischer notes that while heart‑rate data is fairly reliable, advanced readings like body composition are estimates. The devices...
Who Is OpenAI’s Global Head of Ads, David Dugan?
David Dugan, a veteran of Meta’s advertising empire, has been appointed OpenAI’s global head of ads. His résumé includes leading Meta’s worldwide agency partnerships, selling BzzAgent to Tesco, and steering Havas Arnold Worldwide. OpenAI, which is burning cash as it...
AMD Medusa Point Leaked: 10 Cores, 32 MB L3 Cache, and First Geekbench Results for a Zen 6 APU
AMD’s engineering sample of the rumored Medusa Point APU surfaced on Geekbench, revealing a 10‑core, 20‑thread Zen 6 design with 32 MB of L3 cache. The sample runs at a 2.40 GHz base clock and peaked near 2.01 GHz, scoring 1,210 single‑core and 7,323...
Broadcom Secures Google’s Commitment Through 2031, and Anthropic Invests in the Next Generation of TPUs
Broadcom announced a multi‑year agreement with Google to develop and supply future generations of custom Tensor Processing Units and the networking components for AI racks through 2031. In parallel, Anthropic secured access to roughly 3.5 GW of Google‑based TPU capacity starting...
Axios Compromised: The Supply Chain Attack Shows How Thin the Line Between Everyday Packages and Malicious Code Has Become
On March 31 2026 the widely used JavaScript HTTP client Axios was compromised in the npm ecosystem. Google’s Threat Intelligence linked the attack to UNC1069, a North‑Korean financially motivated group, which injected a malicious dependency called plain‑crypto‑js into versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4. The compromised...
Turkey to Race Ahead of EU on Battery Storage Amid Fossil Fuel Crisis
Turkey has approved more than 33 GW of battery storage since 2022, outpacing the combined 12‑13 GW capacity of leading EU nations such as Germany and Italy. The surge is driven by a 2022 mandate that grants preferential grid access to renewables...
Robot Maker Kuka Eyes US, Asia as Europe’s Factories Lag on AI
German‑Chinese robotics firm Kuka AG warns that European manufacturers are falling behind in artificial‑intelligence adoption, leaving them vulnerable to faster‑moving rivals. CEO Christoph Schell cites legacy equipment and data silos as key barriers. Backed by China’s Midea Group, Kuka is...
Data Centers and the Abuse of Secrecy
Big‑tech firms are using nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) to conceal critical details of new data center projects from local communities, as illustrated by a contested Google‑linked facility in Pine Island, Minnesota. These NDAs mask the owner’s identity, water and power consumption,...
Hawaii Sustainability Expo: The Importance of an Experience-Based Event for the Future of Clean Energy — with Life of the...
Bill McKibben, co‑founder of 350.org, highlighted that solar and wind have become cheaper than fossil fuels and urged faster action at the Hawaii Sustainability Expo. The three‑day event, April 24‑26, 2026, offers a $7 ticket price and combines a Pro...
Cummins, Alstom, and the Long Tail of Hydrogen Mistakes
Cummins and Alstom have both stumbled on hydrogen, but their exposures differ. Cummins spread its capital across fuel cells, electrolyzers and other pathways, only to see hydrogen demand stay weak and subsidy‑dependent, prompting write‑downs and a halt to new commercial...
Claude Agents Now Outpace GPT in Most Tasks
I have been building several agents on Claude and wow it is so much better than GPT on almost all fronts. Have been testing on both for various things and its wild to see the difference a few months can...
Next‑Gen Mask Promises 50× Protection Over N95
#WhatsNext? This mask could replace the traditional N95. Claims to provide 50X the protection of current masks. (GiGadgets) #Innovation #HealthTech https://t.co/IjU2xp2eW8
Microchip Hybrid MCU Targeted at Automotive, E-Mobility HMI Applications
Microchip Technology introduced the SAM9X75D5M, an AEC‑Q100 Grade 2‑qualified System‑in‑Package that combines an Arm926EJ‑S processor with 512 Mbit DDR2 SDRAM. The hybrid MCU targets automotive and e‑mobility human‑machine interfaces, supporting up to 10‑inch XGA displays via MIPI DSI, LVDS or parallel RGB....
Japan Loosens Privacy Rules to Become AI Development Haven
Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’ https://t.co/TVnDNb7oW5 https://t.co/LwIp1Fsy1m
Built an AI to Keep Up with X's AI Community
You say you can't keep up. So I built you an AI to do it. https://t.co/kiuZ7QXLzb It's been working in public a few days now. What do you think? EVERYTHING is from the AI community here on X.
Ultra Plan Throttles RPM, Poor Support, Not Worth It
they offer an ultra plan with 30k calls/5 hours but then absolutely throttle RPM you can barely get 1/3 - 1/2 of what you pay for. and they don’t respond to support requests.
Seestar S30 Pro Brings the Cosmos to Your Backyard
The Seestar S30 Pro brought the wonders of the universe into my backyard. Here's what I love about it. https://t.co/Z95qFERXbb
Pocket‑sized Waterproof Backpack Expands for Massive Storage
#WhatsNext? Waterproof backpack that can store a lot of stuff and when empty can be carried in your pocket. (GiGadgets) #Innovation https://t.co/dcFuYxjbnF
Permitting Delays Could Add 10% to Renewable Costs
Federal permitting delays in the US could drive cost of renewable energy deployment up by 10% #energysky -- via pv-tech: https://t.co/LgTIWGTc8V
Amazon to End Support for Pre‑2012 Kindles May 20
It shouldn't come as a surprise, but some users are being emailed that their pre-2012 Kindles will lose support from May 20. https://t.co/hNC4ZxbeET