Guidefitter Deepens Strategic Partnership with Rocky Brands, Inc., Expands Platform to Include Muck and XTRATUF
Guidefitter, the outdoor‑recreation technology platform, has broadened its partnership with Rocky Brands to include The Original Muck Boot Company and XTRATUF alongside Rocky Boots. The expansion gives the two new brands access to Guidefitter’s network of more than 194,000 verified guides, outfitters, military and law‑enforcement professionals. Guidefitter now supports over 325 brand partners across hunting, fishing, shooting sports and outdoor recreation. The move underscores the proven value of direct, pro‑focused engagement for footwear manufacturers.
I Built Two Apps with Just My Voice and a Mouse - Are IDEs Already Obsolete?
Software developer David Gewirtz demonstrates that AI‑driven voice and terminal workflows can replace traditional integrated development environments. By prompting an AI assistant through Wispr Flow and using iTerm2, he built two multi‑platform Apple apps— a filament‑management tool and a sewing‑pattern manager—within...
From MTU Overages to Predictable Scale: How Apploi Rebuilt Its Customer Data Foundation
Apploi migrated from Segment to RudderStack in just 30 days, cutting data‑pipeline costs by 35% and moving to a warehouse‑centric architecture built around Snowflake. The shift replaced MTU‑based pricing with event‑based fees, giving the company predictable expenses as event volume...
Gold Medal Launches 2026/27 Caribbean and Mexico Portfolio
Gold Medal has unveiled its 2026/27 Caribbean and Mexico portfolio, supported by a month‑long marketing push and a dedicated online hub. The campaign features a 116‑page brochure, ready‑to‑use assets and 21 specially selected holidays from regional UK airports. Agents who...
Microsoft Reportedly Shifts Global Media Mandate to New Agency
Microsoft has transferred its $700 million global media spend from Dentsu’s Carat unit to Publicis Groupe after an internal review. The shift gives Publicis a major foothold in tech advertising, while Dentsu retains the Xbox media mandate despite losing the broader account....
New Opioid Painkiller Has Surprisingly Few Side Effects
Scientists have identified a new opioid, N-desethyl‑fluornitrazene (DFNZ), derived from the long‑abandoned nitazene class, that delivers strong pain relief in rodents without causing respiratory depression or high addiction potential. The molecule acts as a μ‑opioid‑receptor superagonist yet exits the brain...
Du Pay, GCash Digital Wallets Unite to Elevate OFW Remittances
du Pay, the digital financial arm of UAE telecom operator du, has signed an MoU with the Philippines' leading super‑app GCash to streamline remittances for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the UAE. The collaboration enables near‑instant transfers from du Pay...
Lower Your Risk and Increase Control of AI in Your Company, with Yoav Crombie of AGAT Software, Creators of PragatiX
Yoav Crombie, co‑founder of AGAT Software, identified two core hurdles slowing AI adoption: data privacy concerns and the need for granular control over AI behavior across regions. To address these, AGAG launched PragatiX, a platform that encrypts sensitive inputs while...
FDH Electronics Launches New Mil-Aero Ecommerce Website
FDH Aero has launched FDHElectronics.com, a dedicated e‑commerce site for its FDH Electronics division serving the mil‑aero market. The platform aggregates the company’s interconnect, wire, cable and electromechanical product lines into a single, searchable catalog. Designed with direct customer input,...
Ireland Must Accelerate Offshore Energy Production
Ireland aims for up to 37 GW of offshore renewable capacity by 2050, relying heavily on floating wind in its deep Atlantic waters. The government’s climate and industrial strategies earmark billions of euros—roughly $327 billion—in the National Development Plan, but current port...
STAT+: Lilly’s Obesity Pill Enters the Oral GLP-1 Game, Novo Responds
The FDA approved Eli Lilly’s oral GLP‑1 obesity pill orforglipron, marking the first FDA‑cleared oral weight‑loss drug. The approval puts Lilly into direct competition with Novo Nordisk, which is developing its own oral GLP‑1 candidate. Simultaneously, a draft Trump administration order could...
A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’
TeleGuard, a messaging app boasting over one million downloads, claims end‑to‑end encryption but stores users' private keys on its servers. Security researchers discovered that the keys can be accessed trivially, allowing anyone to decrypt messages. The flaw also enables attackers...
Inside Sweden’s Policy U-Turn: Q&A with the Government’s Nuclear Lead
Sweden has abandoned its nuclear phase‑out, lifting the ban on new reactors and unveiling a roadmap that adds 2.5 GW of large‑scale capacity by 2035 and aims for 8.2 GW by that year. The government introduced a state‑backed financing scheme covering the...
OT vs IT Security: Why Industrial Environments Need Different Protection
The 2021 Oldsmar water‑treatment hack exposed how connected operational technology (OT) can be weaponised, highlighting the stark contrast between OT and traditional IT security. In OT, availability outweighs confidentiality, because a brief outage can trigger safety incidents or regional blackouts....
Shionogi Enters $2.5 Billion Agreement to Acquire All Rights to Radicava
Shionogi completed a $2.5 billion acquisition of global rights to Radicava from Tanabe Pharma, adding an approved ALS treatment to its portfolio. The deal transfers all intellectual property, sales rights and the existing commercial team, delivering an estimated $700 million in annual...
(PR) IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
IBM announced a strategic collaboration with Arm to create dual‑architecture hardware aimed at enterprise AI and data‑intensive workloads. The partnership leverages IBM’s end‑to‑end system design expertise and Arm’s low‑power, scalable IP. IBM will integrate its Telum II processor and Spyre accelerator...
The Death Spiral: How Overloaded Servers Crash and How Load Shedding Prevents It
The article explains how finite server resources—CPU, RAM, and bandwidth—can be overwhelmed by sudden traffic spikes, leading to queue buildup and latency spikes. When request arrival rates outpace processing capacity, servers enter a "death spiral" where resource contention degrades performance...
Creality’s Compact Filament Cutter Patent Targets Smaller Toolheads
Creality has filed a patent for a compact filament cutter integrated directly into a 3D printer's printhead, aiming to streamline material swaps. The blade pivots around a shaft parallel to the filament path and uses the printer's existing gantry motion...
Jet2 Achieves Fuel and Emissions Savings with Lightweight Paint
Jet2.com has begun applying AkzoNobel’s lightweight aircraft paint to more than 80 of its planes, delivering a weight reduction of over 20 kg per aircraft. The paint saves roughly a quarter‑million litres of fuel each year, cutting carbon emissions by more...
APERION Launches SmartFlow, a Secure, On-Premises Alternative to Compromised Cloud AI Gateways
APERION announced the SmartFlow SDK, an on‑premises, Kubernetes‑native AI governance platform designed to replace compromised cloud AI gateways after the LiteLLM supply‑chain attack. The attack, which impacted roughly 36% of cloud environments, triggered a 200% surge in APERION web traffic...
The Scramble for Green Hydrogen in South Africa: Screening and Discussion
The UK will host the UK premiere of the documentary “The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa” on 5 May 2026, spotlighting the nation’s aggressive green‑hydrogen agenda. Britain aims for 10 GW of production by 2030, backed by over £2 billion (≈ $2.5 billion) in...
Blockbuster Live: AI Pro Tips For Claude Code, NotebookLM, OpenClaw, NanoBanana, Google CLI From A Top AI Substack Creator
Last week AI influencer Wyndo hosted a 90‑minute Substack Live, demonstrating how cutting‑edge tools like Claude Code, NotebookLM, OpenClaw, NanoBanana and Google CLI can move AI from simple chat to autonomous task execution. He walked viewers through real‑world workflows, showing AI not...
Networks Emerge as Critical Bottleneck in AI Adoption
South African firms risk stalling AI projects unless they modernize their networks, HPE executives warned. While global AI adoption sits near 30%, Africa lags at roughly 27%, and many deployments are reactive and fragmented. HPE argues that legacy networking lacks...
Reject Talen-Energy Capital Power Plant Deal, PJM Market Monitor Tells FERC
Federal regulators are being urged to reject Talen Energy’s proposed purchase of about 2.6 GW from Energy Capital Partners because the deal would amplify Talen’s market power in the PJM Interconnection. Monitoring Analytics warns the acquisition could pull capacity out of...
From Edge to Enterprise: How the Endpoint Became IT’s Most Strategic Layer and Why Lenovo Is Joining the Conversation at...
Enterprise endpoints have shifted from commodity devices to strategic layers in digital workspaces. As hybrid work, zero‑trust models, and cloud‑first applications proliferate, endpoints now enforce identity, security, and user experience. Lenovo is highlighting this evolution at IGEL’s Now & Next...
New Progress ShareFile Flaws Can Be Chained in Pre-Auth RCE Attacks
Researchers at watchTowr identified two critical flaws—CVE‑2026‑2699 and CVE‑2026‑2701—in Progress ShareFile’s Storage Zones Controller (SZC). The authentication bypass (CVE‑2026‑2699) lets attackers reach the admin interface, while the remote code execution bug (CVE‑2026‑2701) enables malicious ASPX webshell deployment. Chaining the vulnerabilities...
Senior Developers Resist, yet Benefit Most From Coding Agents
Resistance to coding agents like Codex or Cloud Code typically comes from senior engineers rather than juniors because these tools can feel like a challenge to their hard-earned expertise. While their concerns about code quality often stem from professional discomfort,...
Haivision Debuts Makito ONE Live Video Contribution Platform
Haivision unveiled Makito ONE, a single‑blade video transport platform that combines dual‑channel encoding and decoding with ultra‑low latency 4K/HD/HDR delivery. The system supports JPEG XS, HEVC and H.264 codecs over any network, including public internet, satellite and fibre, and offers both...
How Old Is Your Brain, Exactly? Brain Age May Impact Dementia Risk
Researchers applied a machine‑learning model to sleep‑EEG recordings from more than 7,000 participants, generating a “brain age” index that reflects how fast the brain appears to age. The analysis showed that a brain age ten years older than a person’s...
Actabl Launches AI Asset Setup
Actabl has introduced AI Asset Setup, an add‑on to its Transcendent hotel asset management platform that automates the collection and structuring of asset data using photo‑based input. The tool extracts details such as equipment type and serial numbers, eliminating the...
Llms.txt Was Step One. Here’s The Architecture That Comes Next via @Sejournal, @DuaneForrester
The article argues that llms.txt is only a first‑step for AI‑ready brand content, offering a flat list of Markdown files but no relational context. It proposes a four‑layer machine‑readable architecture—JSON‑LD fact sheets, entity‑relationship graphs, versioned content APIs, and provenance metadata—to...
Scaling Fast Can Cost More Than Funding
New @ThePeelPod with @sophiaamoruso We talk bootstrapping her vintage Ebay store Nasty Gal to $28m revenue, raising $50m, turning down a $400m acquisition offer, and declaring bankruptcy a few years later. We talk about what it was like failing so publicly, what...
Quantum Computer Capable of Breaking Encryption Nearing Reality
The first quantum computer to break encryption is now shockingly close | New Scientist https://t.co/HsfzVRqn1R
Boralex Secures $202m Ontario BESS Financing
Boralex and Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation have closed a CAD $202 million financing package (≈ US$147 million) for the 125 MW/500 MWh Oxford battery energy storage system in Ontario, slated for commercial operation in 2027. The deal, funded by Canadian Imperial Bank...
Delaying Coal Closures Risks Higher Prices and Unreliability
“It’s a risky strategy:” Why delaying coal closures may backfire on price and reliability #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/HYRCRQ04NT https://t.co/I4f2Ny9CkJ
AI's Strangeness Matters: Don't Simplify It to IT Automation
My piece in the Economist where I argue against de-weirding AI. It is a strange technology with both risks & opportunities that need to be discovered. Pretending AI works like normal IT automation can result in bad outcomes for companies...
This Open-Source App Lets You Search Your Entire Android Phone From One Bar
Quick Search is a free, open‑source Android app that provides a single, fast search bar for apps, files, contacts, settings, and web queries. It runs all processing locally, eliminating ads, trackers, and subscription fees common in Play Store alternatives. The...
Abundance of AI Threatens Depth of Meaningful Thought
🤔Can "too much" and "too easy" undermine what makes thought meaningful? 💡AI and the Abundance Bubble https://t.co/Uc4MgjZT1b
Collaboration Between Bioinformaticians and Wet Biologists Drives Science
🧵The most underrated superpower in science: Bioinformaticians and wet biologists working together. Here’s why it matters. https://t.co/PRuGiq6CbV
Digital Realty’s Aaron Binkley Outlines Heightened Focus on Data Center Energy Efficiency
Digital Realty’s sustainability chief Aaron Binkley highlighted the company’s intensified focus on energy‑efficient data centers as AI‑driven workloads surge. The firm is expanding its clean‑energy portfolio while adopting liquid‑cooling technology to curb water use. Binkley emphasized that transparent ESG reporting...
Velma Tops HuggingFace: 98.9% Deepfake Audio Detection
🚨 A startup just hit #1 on @HuggingFace for deepfake audio detection. 98.9% accuracy. 30–1000× cheaper than every competitor. Nobody is talking about this. It's called Velma by @modulate_ai and it changes everything about voice security. https://t.co/XGlxDUoCj2
Android 17 Adds Granular Notification Rules, Outpacing iOS
🔔 Android could extend its lead on notification management over iOS with Notification Rules New code in Android 17 Beta 3 reveals granular controls for silencing or highlighting alerts from specific apps and people ✅ Details - https://t.co/7Y2CwLPofv https://t.co/Lubu5NjWfR
Startup Debuts Agentic AI Assistant for War
Edgerunner AI unveiled WarClaw, a custom AI agent built for military tasks and trained by former operators, capable of running offline and integrating with Microsoft Office tools. The Pentagon’s new Agent Network signals a shift toward bespoke, controllable AI for...
AI Must Cut Costs or Boost Lifetime Value
ecom folks… what is something you’ve built with ai that had a meaningful impact on: - lowering cac - increasing customer LTV - lowering opex if it doesn’t make a *meaningful* difference to any of these…you’re just playing dress up as a washed out...
Detecting AI-Generated Writing: New Tools and Insights
NEW ODD LOTS: How to detect when something was written by AI @tracyalloway and I talk to @max_spero_ of @pangramlabs about this emerging world of written slop, and training models that know the difference between human and machine https://t.co/PZQsLtyCBV
Fortis Solutions on the Rise of Human-Governed AI: Building Trust Through Intelligent Infrastructure
Fortis Solutions is positioning human‑governed AI as a core enterprise strategy, emphasizing that AI must operate under clear ethical and operational rules. The firm promotes private large‑language models that learn from verified internal data, reducing hallucinations and security risks. Its...
A New Mental Model for Harness Engineering
NEW POST Birgitta Böckeler wrote some initial thoughts about Harness Engineering last month. Since then she's been researching more and has now written a thoughtful mental model for understanding the topic. https://t.co/ChuxpRqjHQ
AI Compute Becomes Collateral, Turning Expense Into Asset
CoreWeave just borrowed $8.5B using AI chips as collateral. Larger than the GDP of 40 countries. AI compute is no longer an expense. It's a financial asset. Every AI infrastructure decision you make now has balance sheet implications.
Outsource AI Risk to the Right People
Anthropic’s Claude was reportedly used by the Pentagon for airstrikes against Iran just hours after the Defense Department terminated its contract with the firm. The episode highlights a growing rift between U.S. officials and AI providers, while a wave of...
Cut the AI Slop: IAS Low-Quality GenAI Avoidance Is Now in Open Beta
Integral Ad Science (IAS) launched an open‑beta Low‑Quality GenAI Avoidance feature, integrated with its Context Control Avoidance suite, to block ads next to low‑quality AI‑generated content. The tool scores AI‑slop in near real time and works pre‑bid via a ready‑made...