Cross River Bank has urged the U.S. Senate to preserve the newly enacted GENIUS Act provisions that allow yields on stablecoin deposits. The bank argues that these rules create competitive parity between digital and traditional financial products and protect consumer choice. It warns that rolling back the legislation would hinder fintech innovation and limit market options. Cross River also highlights its own compliant, scalable stablecoin infrastructure as a model for broader financial inclusion.
Researchers applied differential network analysis to human transcriptomes (ages 20‑70) across multiple tissues, uncovering age‑related transcriptional changes that standard differential expression missed. By integrating both methods, they identified a core set of genes consistently modulated with age, heavily enriched for...

Walmart is teaming with Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol and OpenAI’s ChatGPT to embed native checkout directly inside AI conversations. The UCP will let users complete purchases without leaving Google Search, Gemini or ChatGPT, while Walmart supplies inventory data and its...
In this interview, RDML T.J. Zerr outlines how the Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) is translating Red Sea combat lessons into faster, data‑driven training and tactics, notably through the Surface Warfare Combat Training Continuum (SWCTC) and increasingly sophisticated...

New research shows 64% of third‑party applications on websites access sensitive data without a clear business justification, up from 51% in 2024. Only 39% of security leaders have deployed dedicated web‑exposure solutions, despite 81% ranking web attacks as a top...
ExtractAlpha unveiled its Analyst Model Global, extending the firm’s AI‑driven stock‑selection engine to cover the United States, EMEA, APAC and the broader Americas. The new offering promises a single, consistent signal that can be applied across all major equity markets....

N Brown Group has created a chief operating officer position and appointed Natalie Rogers, who has served as chief people and sustainability officer since 2024, to fill it. Rogers previously led people functions at Moonpig and Unum UK. The new role is...

Illumina unveiled the Billion Cell Atlas, a genome‑wide perturbation database that profiles 20,000 genes across 250 disease‑relevant human cell types using CRISPR. The initial release contains data from 150 million cells and aims to expand to five billion cells within three years,...
Conferma, a global corporate travel payments leader, announced Mark Ledsham as its new chief executive officer. Ledsham brings a track record of scaling fintech and financial services businesses, having held senior roles at Currencycloud, XE.com, Euronet Worldwide, OFX, Macquarie Group...
Crypto discovery protocol DIGDUG.DO has entered its Zero Phase public testnet, offering a minimalist terminal interface that emphasizes transparency and verifiable progress. The system uses the native USDDD unit as an internal, non‑transferable fuel to manage access and pacing while...

Digital Silk’s new analysis maps seven primary sources organizations use to generate content ideas directly from customers. The study highlights questions, reviews, surveys, internal team insights, social interactions, community forums, and usage data as key inputs for content planning. By...

Lausanne‑based LegalTech startup Ex Nunc Intelligence closed an oversubscribed €1.8 million pre‑seed round led by Spicehaus Partners. The capital will speed development of its Silex platform, add specialised AI agents, and reinforce its secure data‑silo infrastructure. Ex Nunc positions Silex as...
Zypto positions itself as an all‑in‑one non‑custodial DeFi wallet that supports over 24,000 crypto assets across multiple blockchains. The app combines self‑custody, in‑app swaps, and real‑world payment tools such as crypto debit cards, bill payments, and a gift‑card marketplace. It...

AVAIO Digital announced the AVAIO Digital Leo campus, a new AI‑ready data center near Little Rock, Arkansas. The first phase involves a $6 billion investment, 150 MW of contracted grid power and the potential to scale to 1 GW. The 760‑acre site will...

Monzo’s 1p Savings Challenge, a gamified deposit product, quickly attracted users, demonstrating the bank’s capacity to mobilise a large audience at launch. Built for Mars’ analysis shows the challenge’s strongest performance occurs in the first few days, with engagement plummeting...

Microsoft released its latest Patch Tuesday update, fixing 114 CVEs including three critical zero‑day bugs. The zero‑days are CVE‑2026‑20805 (information disclosure in Desktop Window Manager), CVE‑2026‑21265 (secure‑boot certificate bypass), and CVE‑2023‑31096 (elevation of privilege in legacy Agere modem drivers). The...

Abound, a credit‑tech firm, is entering the mortgage market by acquiring Ahauz, a specialist shared‑equity lender. The deal lets Ahauz keep its focus while gaining Abound’s AI‑driven affordability engine and capital. Abound’s first product is a Help‑to‑Buy‑style equity loan offering...
Enterprises are moving away from building custom internal developer platforms because of hidden costs in time, talent, and maintenance. Instead they are adopting purpose‑built or open‑source platforms that deliver scalability, governance and a ready‑made developer experience. Lakmal Warusawithana explains that...

Daimler Trucks North America built a living knowledge graph using Neo4j Aura to map its entire IT landscape after splitting from its parent in 2021. By ingesting real‑time network‑flow data from ExtraHop and coupling it with Claude’s large language model,...

Financial crime risk assessments are often framed around models and technology, but their true strength hinges on the people involved. The article stresses that human judgment, engagement, and organizational culture determine the accuracy and usefulness of these assessments. It highlights...

The Google 3‑pack, also known as the local or map pack, displays the three most relevant local business listings for location‑based queries. It shows the business name, rating, price range, address, hours and a clickable map, often outranking traditional organic...

Enterprises are hitting an "infrastructure wall" as AI adoption accelerates, with 65% of surveyed leaders saying their AI environments are too complex to manage. The 2026 AI Infrastructure Report, based on 600 U.S. IT and business decision‑makers, highlights cloud reliance...

A Dataiku survey reveals that half of senior British data leaders think more than half of their workforce is using generative‑AI tools without approval, a phenomenon dubbed “shadow AI.” 90% of those leaders flag data‑integration and proprietary‑data access as their...

European Space Agency‑backed InsurTech BirdsEyeView has closed an undisclosed seven‑figure funding round led by 24 Haymarket to accelerate its wildfire risk modelling and international expansion. The capital will fund rapid development of AI‑driven, satellite‑powered models, hiring of PhD‑level scientists, and...
The March 2025 White House Executive Order calls on states, localities and tribal entities to own their cybersecurity preparedness, while the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program (SLCGP) allocates $1 billion over four years to fund those efforts. The bipartisan PILLAR...

Website authority—how trustworthy a site appears to search engines and AI models—directly influences visibility in both traditional and generative search results. Semrush’s Authority Score (0‑100) quantifies this trust, with top‑industry averages ranging from 53 in construction to 75 in finance....
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A command‑injection flaw (CVE‑2026‑22718) has been discovered in the Spring CLI VS Code extension, affecting all versions up to 0.9.0. The vulnerability allows an attacker with local access to execute arbitrary commands, earning a medium severity rating and a CVSS score...
Progress in AI is not only measured by accuracy, but by awareness of its consequences
Australia has enacted a law prohibiting anyone under 16 from holding a social‑media account, forcing platforms to purge non‑compliant profiles. The move positions the country as a global test case for age‑based bans and sparks a broader debate on mandatory...
Parts ASAP’s CIO John Fraser credits a "listen first, act later" culture and talent acquisition for building a resilient e‑commerce engine that keeps industrial equipment running. By deploying a custom product‑information management platform, the firm can publish thousands of SKUs...

AstraZeneca is acquiring Boston‑based Modella AI to bring its pathology‑focused models, data, and talent directly into the company’s oncology research pipeline. The move shifts the relationship from a collaborative partnership to full ownership, aiming to embed AI in quantitative pathology,...

Former Moderna executive Dr Melanie Ivarsson has been named chief executive of the UK Health Data Research Service, a £600 million government‑backed unit that will create a secure, single gateway to NHS health data. The HDRS, based at the Wellcome Genome...

Microsoft confirmed that a recent Windows 365 update is preventing users from signing into their Cloud PC sessions, causing widespread access failures that began on Tuesday at 19:00 UTC. The issue, tracked under incident WP1217671, stems from a security‑focused update that unintentionally broke...

YuLife, the London‑based InsurTech focused on wellbeing‑linked life insurance, has appointed Tal Gilbert as chief executive officer to drive its next growth phase. Gilbert will lead the expansion of YuLife’s AI‑powered platform and broaden employee‑benefits offerings for employers, advisers and...
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Elastic has issued urgent patches for four critical Kibana vulnerabilities spanning versions 7.x through 9.2.3. The most severe, CVE‑2026‑0532, combines SSRF and file disclosure, allowing authenticated attackers to exfiltrate credentials. Three medium‑severity flaws can cause denial‑of‑service through resource exhaustion in...
Plumery announced AI Fabric, an event‑driven data‑mesh platform that creates an AI‑ready foundation for digital banking. The solution replaces fragile point‑to‑point integrations with a standardized, API‑first architecture, allowing banks to connect generative AI models directly to core data streams. By...
Authentic branding, trust and influence - Forrester are talking about it, Edelman are reporting on it. At a time when AI is diluting trust, brands are searching a way to strengthen it. In my experience, when sales, marketing and executives...
Toyota “Walk Me”: A Legged #Robotic Wheelchair Built for Any Terrain by @interesting_aIl #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/ncHS1SlvwJ
Lendscape announced Brett Promisel as its new Chief Executive Officer after an extensive global search. Promisel brings more than three decades of leadership experience at technology and financial‑services firms such as RELX, FIS Global and UBS, most recently heading Investor Services at...
"My CEO says we need to do AI, but my CFO won't give my budget. What do you we do?" with @kylecnorton "The answer: start with one AI Agent that solves a high ranking problem ... that is easy to deploy."...

Another reason a P3 study can fail while a P2 was successful is that P2 placebo groups, with narrower eligibility criteria & fewer patients, often have more variable placebo-adjusted effects Use Phase 3 data, often on drug labels, to make comparisons;...
Veera is launching a mobile‑first financial operating system that consolidates staking, yield generation, and tokenized assets into a single app, abstracting cross‑chain complexity for everyday users. The platform already serves more than two million global users, with 300,000 verified proof‑of‑human...
Shenzhou-20 update: there's an airspace closure notice suggesting the damaged Shenzhou-20 crew spacecraft will attempt reentry and landing between 0120-0150 UTC on Jan. 19. Will be uncrewed, of course, but will be interesting to see how it holds up.

China’s first launches of 2026 send Yaogan spacecraft into unusual orbit, loft Guowang satellites https://t.co/tqUqmewOs3 https://t.co/OZTi6ecDQY

A new EFRAG study shows most investors and financial institutions worry that the EU’s proposed simplified European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) could degrade ESG data quality. The draft revisions would slash mandatory datapoints by 61% and eliminate all voluntary disclosures,...
Reward has integrated Experian Mosaic into its Intelligence and Activation suite, merging first‑party transaction data from ten million UK banking customers with Experian’s demographic and lifestyle segmentation. The combined offering links the "what" of purchase behaviour to the "who" of...
AI4Eyes announced the closing of CAD 6.5 million in new capital, comprising a CAD 3.7 million internal financing round and CAD 2.8 million in non‑dilutive funding. The proceeds will fund regulatory approval efforts in Canada and the United States, expand clinical programs, and accelerate product development....

Sheridan Capital Partners announced the completion of its investment in ICANotes, a cloud‑based practice management and electronic health record platform built for behavioral health providers. The capital infusion arrives as demand for mental‑health services and associated documentation compliance intensifies, creating...
Airdrop strategies have transformed from simple social‑media tasks to sophisticated, multi‑layered engagement models. Between 2017 and 2021 projects moved from retweets and forms to on‑chain transactions, while 2022‑2024 introduced retroactive rewards based on usage depth. By 2025‑2026 eligibility hinges on...

In this episode, Michael Hammond talks with Trina, Senior Director of Servicing Product Strategy at ICE Mortgage Technology, about how AI is reshaping mortgage servicing. She explains that tools such as call prediction, note summarization, chatbots, and intelligent virtual agents...