News•Jan 15, 2026
CloudSEK Secures Strategic Investment From Connecticut Innovations
CloudSEK, the Bengaluru‑based AI‑powered cyber‑threat‑intelligence firm, secured a strategic investment from Connecticut Innovations as part of a $10 million Series B2 round. The funding follows a $19 million Series B1 raise and will fuel the company’s U.S. expansion, including a new regional hub in Connecticut. CloudSEK now serves more than 300 enterprises across BFSI, healthcare, technology, and government sectors. The state‑backed capital deepens its foothold in the competitive American cybersecurity market.
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 15, 2026
Global Agencies Release New Guidance to Secure Industrial Networks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre, and the FBI released a joint set of security principles for operational technology (OT) environments. The guidance addresses the expanding attack surface caused by increased connectivity between...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 15, 2026
How Dark Asteroids Die
A new study from Luleå University of Technology experimentally confirms that low‑albedo asteroids undergo instantaneous thermally‑driven erosion when they approach within about 0.1 AU of the Sun. Using the Space and High‑Irradiance Near‑Sun Simulator (SHINeS), researchers observed carbonaceous chondrite simulants heat,...
By Universe Today
News•Jan 15, 2026
Copilot Studio Extension Now Available in VS Code
Microsoft announced the general availability of the Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code, allowing developers to create and manage Copilot agents directly within their IDE. The tool mirrors traditional software development workflows by integrating source control, pull‑request reviews, change...
By SD Times
News•Jan 15, 2026
Former Adyen Exec Edgar Verschuur Joins Gigs
Gigs, a leader in embedded connectivity, has appointed former Adyen Global Head of Payments Edgar Verschuur as Head of Connectivity. Verschuur will spearhead Gigs' strategic push into local consumer plans, global roaming solutions, and enterprise connectivity offerings. The hire signals...
By Finextra
Social•Jan 15, 2026
Guard Small Signals: Culture Drift Undermines Growth
We lose a team member before that team member drags down culture. That's not about the person we lose. It's about the people who stay. My job as a leader is to create an environment where everyone can thrive. Culture...
By Lincoln Murphy
News•Jan 15, 2026
FinovateEurope 2026 Sneak Peek Series: Part 1
FinovateEurope 2026’s sneak‑peek highlights four innovators set to demo in London on February 10. AAZZUR offers a vendor‑agnostic, plug‑and‑play platform that can launch banking and card products in four to six months at a fraction of traditional costs. Francis delivers an...
By Finovate
News•Jan 15, 2026
Managing an Orbital Economy as Space Grows More Congested
In a Space Minds interview, Neuraspace CEO Chiara Manfletti explains how AI‑driven space situational awareness is evolving from debris tracking to automated orbital logistics as megaconstellations and high‑capacity launchers crowd low‑Earth orbit. She highlights the shift toward autonomous decision‑making for...
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 15, 2026
‘Half of India’s Next Wave of Unicorns Will Be AI Companies’: Google Exec Seema Rao at AI Startups Conclave
Google’s Managing Director Seema Rao told the AI Startups Conclave that within three to five years more than half of India’s new unicorns will be AI‑focused firms. She highlighted how generative AI collapses product‑development cycles, enabling rapid prototyping and multilingual...
By Indian Express AI
Social•Jan 15, 2026
Swap Resolutions for Habits: Discipline Drives Success
Instead of resolutions this year, I'm focused on habits. I don't often control the outcome, but I absolutely control the work, discipline and regularity of how I get there. This year I have four things in mind: 1️⃣ Health I...
By Matt Heinz
News•Jan 15, 2026
NDSS 2025 – SKILLPoV: Towards Accessible And Effective Privacv Notice For Amazon Alexa Skills
Researchers at NDSS 2025 introduced SKILLPoV, a tool that automatically generates voice‑based privacy notices for Amazon Alexa skills. By analyzing skill code and leveraging ChatGPT, SKILLPoV creates concise notices delivered at skill launch, achieving 91.3% detection accuracy and 96.4% completeness....
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 15, 2026
Alfasigma Gains Neuro Treatment; BridgeBio Offers $550M in Notes
Alfasigma has secured worldwide rights to a parenteral formulation of adibelivir for the treatment of HSV encephalitis, an ultra‑rare neurological condition. The agreement positions Alfasigma to commercialize the therapy across major markets. Meanwhile, BridgeBio announced a $550 million senior unsecured note...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 15, 2026
Boston Scientific to Acquire Penumbra for $14.5B
Boston Scientific announced a $14.5 billion acquisition of Penumbra, paying $374 per share in cash and stock. Penumbra’s portfolio of clot‑removal and embolization devices will broaden Boston Scientific’s reach into fast‑growing thrombectomy and vascular bleeding markets. The deal values Penumbra at...
By BioPharma Dive
News•Jan 15, 2026
What to Consider When Comparing Personal Loan Options
Choosing a personal loan requires weighing APR, fees, repayment terms, and lender reputation. While a low APR reduces monthly payments, hidden fees and inflexible terms can erode savings. Borrowers must assess eligibility criteria, credit‑score impact, and the flexibility to make...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 15, 2026
Visa, Mastercard Rebuff Merchant Gripes
Visa and Mastercard have filed a federal court reply defending a proposed settlement that would modestly lower interchange fees and grant merchants new card‑acceptance options. The settlement, announced in November, would cut posted credit interchange rates by ten basis points...
By Payments Dive
News•Jan 15, 2026
Hackers Increasingly Shun Encryption in Favour of Pure Data Theft and Extortion
Cyber‑criminals are increasingly abandoning encryption‑based ransomware in favor of pure data‑theft extortion. Symantec and Carbon Black report a jump from 28 incidents in 2024 to nearly 1,500 in 2025, while traditional ransomware remained flat at about 4,700 attacks. The surge...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 15, 2026
Selective GlcNAc to GalNAc Epimerization via Kinetic Control
The latest Bioengineer roundup highlights several cutting‑edge chemical and biological advances. A thermal [2+2] cycloaddition delivers gem‑difluoro bicycloalkanes, while cobalt‑catalyzed siloxycarbene chemistry enables efficient thioester coupling. Researchers also report a homologative difunctionalization method that broadens alkene functionalization, a biocompatible ligand...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 15, 2026
Parsons Buys Altamira for $375 Million to Expand Space and Intelligence Portfolio
Parsons announced a $375 million acquisition of Altamira Technologies, paying $330 million in cash with a $45 million earn‑out tied to 2026 performance. Altamira, a specialist in signals intelligence, missile‑warning and space‑focused data analytics, brings AI‑enabled tools for processing satellite sensor feeds. The...
By SpaceNews
Social•Jan 15, 2026
Turn Customer Conversations Into Decisions in 4 Weeks
My cat has a more rigorous research process than most B2B companies (it's probly the glasses) Meanwhile, companies are treating customer research like throwing spaghetti at a wall and asking AI to help them figure out what noodles stick. Here's...
By Anna Furmanov
Social•Jan 15, 2026
Qilu Mirrors JNJ with New CD79b‑CD20 Trispecific
Qilu appears to be aping $JNJ in trispecific T-cell engagers. First BCMA x GPRC5D, now CD79b x CD20. Via @ApexOnco -> https://t.co/d4pBcl0MuF
By Jacob Plieth
News•Jan 15, 2026
Turning Crystal Flaws Into Quantum Highways: A New Route Towards Scalable Solid-State Qubits
A new theoretical study shows that crystal dislocations, traditionally seen as defects, can serve as quantum highways for nitrogen‑vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Using GPU‑accelerated first‑principles simulations, researchers from Ohio State and the University of Chicago demonstrated that NV qubits...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
Social•Jan 15, 2026
AI Drives Next-Gen Defense Innovation and Industrial Revitalization
AI: Future of Defense & Warfare w US Under Secretary of War Emil Michael @emilmichael for @NoPriorsPod *Innovation Priorities for the DoW *Autonomous Defense Technologies *Architecting https://t.co/NVUvKPe1OY *Future of Warfare *Rebuilding the US Industrial Base https://t.co/Z1LbVotQeO
By Elad Gil
Social•Jan 15, 2026
Instantly Detect and Track Anything with One Phrase
Turn chaos into clean cuts. Here’s the aha moment that stopped me: I can type a single phrase like “all cyclists” and instantly detect, segment, and track every one of them, even as the scene changes. No pipelines. No re-training. No frame-by-frame pain. This...
By Ronald van Loon
Social•Jan 15, 2026
IBRX’s Dilutive ATM Funding Fuels Pump‑and‑Dump Tactics
$IBRX Anktiva q/q sales growth slowed, cash balance decreased. How much dilutive cash did the company raise from its adjusted ATM in January? https://t.co/UTKcVOAs4x Classic: Issue lots of press releases, pump stock higher, sell stock.
By Adam Feuerstein
News•Jan 15, 2026
Grok AI: What Do Limits on Tool Mean for X, Its Users, and Ofcom?
Elon Musk’s X announced technical safeguards that stop the @Grok AI tool from generating images of real people in revealing clothing, such as bikinis. The new limits apply to all users, including the platform’s 2.6 million paid subscribers, and extend to...
By The Guardian AI
Social•Jan 15, 2026
Teach Robots Complex Tasks Instantly, No Hours Needed
Teaching #Robots to do complex tasks WITHOUT spending hours training them via @IlirAliu_ #Robotics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #MI #Tech https://t.co/6z46kWJaEn
By Ronald van Loon
News•Jan 15, 2026
Thredd and Paywith Team to Launch Australian Card Programs
Thredd has partnered with Australian payment‑orchestration platform Paywith to launch flexible, customer‑centric card programs. The joint solution leverages Thredd’s API suite, tokenization, 3DS, push provisioning, and fraud monitoring to deliver prepaid cards with earn‑and‑redeem capabilities. Paywith can now bring these...
By PYMNTS
News•Jan 15, 2026
Vulnerabilities Surge, But Messy Reporting Blurs Picture
The National Vulnerability Database recorded a record 48,177 CVE identifiers for 2025, marking the ninth consecutive year of growth. Reporting is now dominated by new CNAs, with Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan contributing 23% of all entries and MITRE falling to...
By Dark Reading
News•Jan 15, 2026
Wikimedia Foundation Announces New AI Partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and Others
The Wikimedia Foundation announced new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, Mistral AI and several others through its commercial offering, Wikimedia Enterprise. The deals give these tech firms high‑volume, low‑latency access to Wikipedia’s 65 million articles in 300 languages, supporting...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Jan 15, 2026
Higgsfield Raises $80M in Series A Extension Funding
Higgsfield, a San Francisco AI‑native generative video platform, secured $80 million in a Series A extension, bringing total Series A capital to over $130 million and valuing the company at more than $1.3 billion. The funding follows a rapid growth trajectory that saw the firm...
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 15, 2026
Coxwave Raises $5M in Pre-Series A Funding
Coxwave, a Seoul‑based AI product analytics firm, closed a $5 million pre‑Series A round. The financing was led by L&S Venture Capital and included Hyundai’s venture arms and KDB Capital. CEO Joowon Kim says the capital will boost technical development and broaden...
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 15, 2026
ConverSight and Katana Partner to Help Growing Businesses Forecast Demand and Optimize Inventory with AI
ConverSight announced a strategic partnership with Katana Cloud Inventory to embed its AI employee, Athena, into Katana’s real‑time inventory platform. The joint QuickStart AI for Katana offers SMB manufacturers, e‑commerce, wholesale and retail firms three months of free access, delivering...
By AiThority
News•Jan 15, 2026
Key Senate Staffer Is “Begging” NASA to Get on with Commercial Space Stations
Senate staffer Maddy Davis told the Texas Space Coalition that Sen. Ted Cruz is pressing NASA to fast‑track Commercial LEO Destinations (CLDs) so a private space station is operational before the International Space Station retires in 2030. The Senate Commerce...
By Ars Technica (Space)
Social•Jan 15, 2026
Apply NMF to Single‑Cell RNA‑seq with Our Tutorial
Non-negative matrix factorization is a commonly used technique in genomics data analysis. Read my tutorial on how you can use it for single-cell RNAseq data https://t.co/2SA1JdLfkT https://t.co/6kI1gcqyOe
By Ming Tang
News•Jan 15, 2026
Seerist Launches AskAnna, a Breakthrough AI-Powered Q&A Tool Transforming Security and Intelligence Workflows
Seerist has launched AskAnna, an AI‑powered natural‑language Q&A tool that taps the company’s proprietary event models and Control Risks’ human‑generated analysis to deliver fully sourced intelligence answers. The platform instantly synthesizes thousands of vetted reports, providing line‑item attribution and transparent...
By AiThority
News•Jan 15, 2026
GrowthPal Raises $2.6m to Accelerate AI-Led M&A Deal Sourcing
GrowthPal announced a $2.6 million funding round led by Ideaspring Capital to fast‑track its AI‑driven M&A sourcing platform and broaden its global footprint. The solution replaces traditional banker networks with AI agents that scan a database of over four million technology...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 15, 2026
Affirm to Offer BNPL for Rent
Buy‑now‑pay‑later provider Affirm Holdings announced a pilot with fintech platform Esusu to extend its installment loans to renters. The service will let eligible tenants split rent into two interest‑free payments every two weeks, with some qualifying for zero‑APR loans. While...
By Payments Dive
News•Jan 15, 2026
HHS OCR Comments on Its 2026 Priorities
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released its 2026 enforcement roadmap, highlighting four priority areas: continuing the HIPAA Privacy Rule Right of Access initiative, expanding the Security Rule Risk Analysis to broader risk management, intensifying hacking and ransomware actions,...
By DataBreaches.net
News•Jan 15, 2026
Standard Chartered Completes First ICC-Swift API Standards Digital Bank Guarantee Transaction
Standard Chartered has completed the first digital bank guarantee transaction using the newly released ICC‑Swift API standards, partnering with Komgo’s Konsole platform. The API‑based workflow automates instruction receipt and guarantee issuance, delivering faster, more transparent service for a global energy...
By Finextra
News•Jan 15, 2026
How to Upgrade Your Clearpath Robots to ROS 2
Clearpath Robotics released detailed guidance for upgrading its robot platforms to ROS 2 Humble and Jazzy. The company provides a compatibility matrix showing which models support each ROS 2 distribution on amd64 and, for some, arm64 architectures, along with firmware‑aware installation images...
By Clearpath Robotics Blog
News•Jan 15, 2026
Monitoring Beer Fermentation at the Single-Cell Level with a Novel Raman Method
Scientists at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology have introduced “process ramanomics,” a single‑cell Raman spectroscopy workflow that monitors beer fermentation in real time. By capturing Raman fingerprints from individual yeast cells, the method accurately predicts 19 extracellular...
By Phys.org – Biotechnology
News•Jan 15, 2026
Frequency Comb Lasers Enable Clearer Observation of Black Holes
A research team led by KAIST professor Jungwon Kim has integrated optical frequency‑comb lasers into radio‑telescope receivers, achieving the world’s first laser‑based reference signal for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). The ultra‑precise comb provides thousands of stable frequencies, allowing exact...
By Phys.org - Space News
News•Jan 15, 2026
Cyber Threat Actors Ramp Up Attacks on Industrial Environments
Cybercriminals and hacktivists sharply increased attacks on industrial control systems in 2025, with vulnerability disclosures nearly doubling to 2,451 across 152 vendors. Siemens was the most affected vendor, reporting 1,175 flaws, while Schneider Electric faced a higher proportion of critical...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 15, 2026
CodeBuild Flaw Put AWS Console Supply Chain At Risk
Security researchers at Wiz uncovered a critical misconfiguration in AWS CodeBuild that let unauthenticated attackers inject malicious code into core AWS open‑source repositories, including the widely used AWS SDK for JavaScript. The flaw stemmed from an unanchored regular‑expression filter on...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 15, 2026
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 15, 2026
Google rolled out “Personal Intelligence” in the Gemini app, unifying Gmail, Photos, YouTube and Search with a single tap, and announced its upcoming arrival in Google Search AI Mode. The company also clarified that the new Universal Commerce Protocol will...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Jan 15, 2026
Satellites Spy Raging Bushfires in Australia | Space Photo of the Day for Jan. 15, 2026
On Jan 9, 2026, a European Copernicus Sentinel‑2 satellite captured a stark image of raging bushfires in Victoria, Australia. The high‑resolution multispectral data reveals extensive burn scars, smoke plumes, and displaced communities, providing precise boundaries for emergency responders. Sentinel‑2’s infrared capabilities enable...
By Space.com
News•Jan 15, 2026
Marketplace Briefing: Inside the Marketplace Strategies of Target, Best Buy and Nordstrom
At NRF’s Big Show, executives from Target, Best Buy and Nordstrom detailed how their third‑party marketplaces have evolved into strategic growth engines. After years of investment, each retailer is using the marketplace to broaden product assortments, boost margins and enhance...
By Modern Retail
News•Jan 15, 2026
GovDash Raises $30M in Series B Funding
GovDash, a New York‑based AI‑driven ERP for government contractors, closed a $30 million Series B round led by Mucker Capital and BCI. The funding will fuel engineering expansion, customer‑success initiatives, and new offices in New York and Arlington. In 2025 the company posted...
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 15, 2026
Uniqlo to Debut Stores in Miami, Add to Texas Footprint
Uniqlo will launch its first Miami stores this fall while entering Austin and adding a location at Houston’s Galleria, expanding its Texas presence that began in 2024. The new stores will showcase RFID‑enabled self‑checkout, on‑site alterations, RE.UNIQLO donation bins, and...
By Retail TouchPoints