TACC Launches CFDE Cloud Workspace for NIH Common Fund Datasets
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has publicly launched the Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) Cloud Workspace, a collaborative effort with Johns Hopkins, Penn State and the San Diego Supercomputer Center’s CloudBank. The platform gives researchers instant, no‑cost access to NIH Common Fund biomedical datasets through a multi‑cloud, high‑performance computing environment. Integrated tools such as Galaxy, Jupyter Notebooks, VS Code and command‑line interfaces support both interactive exploration and large‑scale analyses. The service is live at cfdeworkspace.org and includes a free introductory compute tier for new users.
New Flashing Warning Systems Roll Out at High-Risk Intersections Across Denver Metro Area
Colorado Department of Transportation launched a $1.45 million conflict‑warning project to install radar‑based flashing signs at four high‑risk rural intersections along CO 83, CO 86 and CO 74. Sturgeon Electric began work on March 9, with a second phase adding lane closures on March 23, and...
ICC Launches Aquarius R-117A Immersion-Native 1U Server with 6 NVIDIA H200 GPUs
ICC unveiled the Aquarius R-117A, an immersion‑native 1U server that packs six NVIDIA H200 SXM GPUs and a single‑socket AMD EPYC Turin processor with up to 192 cores and 3 TB DDR5 RAM. The system delivers 846 GB of combined GPU memory...
Automate ISO 27001, SOC 2, and DORA Compliance with Expert CISO Support, Starting at -2,999/Year
Copla, an EU‑based compliance‑automation platform, offers automated ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA and other frameworks with dedicated CISO support, starting at €2,999 ($3,269) per year. The tool claims up to 80% reduction in compliance workload by reusing controls across six standards and...
You May Not Have to Return That Item to Get Your Money Back — Here’s Why
Retailers are increasingly offering “refund without return” policies, allowing customers to keep low‑margin items while receiving a full refund. The approach saves on shipping, labor, and warehousing costs that often exceed the product’s resale value. Major players such as Amazon,...
Cuba's Renewable Push Stymied by U.S. Sanctions
I don’t think people understand how much work Cuba is actually putting towards transitioning their grid to run on renewables. They don’t want to rely on their old thermoelectric system. But US sanctions force it upon them.
VectorWave Emerges From Stealth with Breakthrough Neuromorphic Analog Platform
VectorWave Corp launched a neuromorphic analog compute platform that processes raw RF signals directly in silicon, bypassing traditional digital conversion. The chip cuts inference latency from milliseconds to nanoseconds, enabling ultra‑fast, resilient communications in crowded wireless environments. The company secured...
Ransomware Group Claims It Stole Data From Monmouth University
The PEAR (Pure Extraction and Ransom) ransomware gang announced it stole roughly 16 terabytes of data from Monmouth University in New Jersey. University President Patrick Leahy confirmed unauthorized access and said cybersecurity experts and law‑enforcement are investigating. Comparitech highlighted the breach as...
Rugged 600-V Gate Drivers Come in Multiple Configurations
Microchip Technology has launched a new family of 600‑V gate drivers, offering twelve devices across half‑bridge, high‑side/low‑side, and three‑phase configurations. The drivers deliver fast switching with current‑drive capabilities ranging from 600 mA to 4.5 A and operate on 3.3‑V logic, simplifying integration...
Open Quantum Design, Western Digital, and QuScript Form Open-Source Error Correction Working Group
Open Quantum Design, Western Digital, and QuScript have formed an open‑source Error‑Correction Working Group to build a full‑stack quantum computer prototype. The collaboration will integrate trapped‑ion hardware, decoder technology, and specialized algorithms to demonstrate quantum error correction (QEC) and create...
‘Update Now’: Apple Issues Urgent Warning to iPhone Users
Apple released iOS 26.4 on March 26, 2026, urging all iPhone 11 and newer, plus recent iPad models, to install immediately. The update bundles 37 security fixes, including six WebKit XSS patches, mitigation of the DarkSword full‑chain exploit, and kernel‑level protections against privilege escalation....
PSR Annual Work Programme 2026/27
On 26 March 2026 the Payment Systems Regulator released its 2026/27 annual work programme, outlining eight priority areas. The plan emphasizes delivering the National Payments Vision, overseeing Pay.UK and Faster Payments, and publishing an independent evaluation of APP fraud. It also seeks...
How to Leverage Claude for Data Analysis
Anthropic’s Claude Code helped a sales team produce a full data‑analysis case study in under an hour, turning natural‑language goals into Snowflake SQL without direct data access. By leveraging an existing dbt project, Claude iteratively generated and refined queries, quickly...
Global Research Trends in Robot-Assisted and 3D Printing Technologies for Total Knee Arthroplasty: An Analysis Based on Bibliometrics and Knowledge...
A bibliometric analysis of 180 papers from 2000‑2025 maps the rise of robot‑assisted and 3D‑printing technologies in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Publication volume accelerated after 2016, with robotic systems leading the field while 3D printing expands into pre‑operative planning, guide‑plate...
AI Can Strengthen Politics If We Choose Wisely
I absolutely love this. AI is an incredible tool. There's every reason to believe that we *could* use it to strengthen and improve our institutions, our politics, and our political process. To do so, we have to make some wise...
Open Quantum Design Launches Open-Source Hardware Repository for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing
Open Quantum Design (OQD) has published an open‑source hardware repository on GitHub that contains detailed designs for its Blade Trap Assembly and Optical Circuit Boards, the core components of its trapped‑ion quantum computers. The release extends OQD’s open‑source strategy from...
Why Best-of-Breed Beats All-in-One for Revenue Managers
Hotel IQ and RateGain have announced a strategic partnership that merges Hotel IQ’s internal business intelligence with RateGain’s competitive rate intelligence. The integration delivers a single‑sign‑on, real‑time view of pacing data and competitor pricing, powered by an AI engine that...
Pan-Cancer Variance Decomposition Nominates Translationally Actionable Therapeutic Antigen Candidates Across 33 Cancer Types
Researchers applied a genome‑wide variance decomposition across TCGA’s 60,656 genes and 33 cancer types to prioritize therapeutic antigens, moving beyond traditional mean‑expression screens. The analysis yielded 17 candidates that met functional dependency, safety, and immune‑cold criteria, with three highlighted: CRIPTO/TDGF1,...
Identification of Crucial Genes and Biological Pathways in Lung Adenocarcinoma by Network Pharmacology, Molecular Docking, and Simulation Studies
Researchers applied network pharmacology, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics to assess bioactive compounds from Pleurotus membranaceus for lung adenocarcinoma therapy. Four compounds passed drug‑likeness filters, linking to 226 overlapping disease targets and highlighting five hub genes. Docking showed isosorbide binding...
AI‑Driven Benefits Platform Raises $30M to Transform HR
Origin Secures $30 Million Series A+ to Scale AI‑Powered Global Benefits Platform Origin’s financing highlights a growing consensus that AI can unlock efficiency in traditionally manual HR functions. By centralising disparate benefits data, the platform not only cuts costs but also...
Prism Quattro Is a New Distribution Option
Adventure 33 introduced Prism, a purpose‑built global audio broadcasting ecosystem designed to replace traditional satellite distribution. The flagship Quattro receiver is a four‑channel, stereo‑capable 1RU appliance co‑engineered with Angry Audio. Prism’s architecture routes audio across five independent network layers, eliminating single...
Silicon Insurance: Why eFPGA Is Cheaper Than a Respin — and Why It Matters in the Intel 18A Era
As semiconductor nodes become ever more complex, the financial risk of ASIC respins has surged, with mask sets at Intel’s 18A process costing tens of millions of dollars. Embedded FPGA (eFPGA) offers "silicon insurance" by embedding reconfigurable logic that can...
TGS Taps Tape Ark to Migrate Around 40 Petabytes of Data to the Cloud
Energy intelligence firm TGS has engaged Tape Ark to move roughly 40 petabytes of seismic and subsurface data into a hyperscale cloud environment. The migration leverages Tape Ark’s parallel ingest platform to accelerate high‑throughput transfer across multiple facilities. Once in the cloud, TGS...
A Sticky Business: Csquare CEO Spencer Mullee on the Colo Firm's Future Plans
Csquare, the Dallas‑based colocation arm of Brookfield, announced a $1 billion cash purchase of ten data‑center sites across the United States and Canada, expanding its footprint in key metros. The company completed the merger of Evoque and Cyxtera assets in just...
The Regulation Dilemma: Balancing AI Innovation with European Complexity
European firms are racing to adopt generative AI while the EU AI Act tightens rules for high‑risk systems, especially with Article 72 now in force. Executives are urged to embed AI directly into secure, governed workflows rather than layering on...
How to Spot Artificial Intelligence Recruiters Who Target Candidates From LinkedIn
Research firm Gartner predicts that by 2028 one in four job candidates worldwide will be fabricated, fueling a surge in AI‑generated recruiter outreach. Executives are receiving polished, generic emails that often originate from Gmail accounts and contain vague role descriptions,...
Spacebring Launches Lem AI Agent For Coworking Space And Flex Office Operations
Spacebring, a platform serving more than 500 coworking locations worldwide, has launched Lem AI agent to automate routine administrative tasks. The AI assistant handles support ticket triage, retrieves operational data via natural‑language queries, and drafts community communications. Lem AI is...
Jump Launches AI Associate
Jump has unveiled AI Associate, an agentic AI layer that lets financial‑services advisors act on insights in real time. The tool integrates with CRM, email, and planning systems, enabling users to pull data, update records, draft communications, and schedule meetings...
Watch James Manyika Talk AI and Creativity with LL COOL J.
James Manyika, Google’s senior vice president for research, labs, technology and society, sits down with hip‑hop legend LL Cool J for the latest Dialogues on Technology and Society episode. The pair discuss the evolution of creative tools, from early drum machines to...
How Gartner® Evaluates Revenue Action Orchestration Platforms Across the Revenue Lifecycle
Gartner’s new Critical Capabilities report expands its Magic Quadrant analysis to evaluate Revenue Action Orchestration platforms on functional depth. It assesses vendors across four core revenue use cases—acquiring new customers, retaining and growing accounts, managing pipeline and forecasts, and coaching...
Tech Issues Continue to Haunt 911 Systems
A Idaho Legislative Oversight report warns that the state’s 911 call‑centers and radio networks will reach end‑of‑life within two years, prompting a call for a unified statewide program. The analysis notes that 88% of U.S. emergency centers suffered a technology...
Collectly Acquires AI Automation Startup Pledge Health to Streamline Pre-Service Workflows
Collectly, an AI‑driven patient financial platform that has processed over $1 billion for more than 3,000 facilities, announced the acquisition of Y Combinator‑backed Pledge Health. The deal adds upstream pre‑service automation—coverage verification, cost estimates, and prior‑auth readiness—to Collectly’s existing post‑visit billing suite....
Opt-Out Is Not Consent
GitHub announced that, starting April 24, it will automatically use interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ individual users to train its AI models unless users manually opt out. The data includes code, file names, repository structure, cursor context,...
China Unicom Bets on AI Cloud Services to Break Telecoms Revenue Ceiling
China Unicom is accelerating AI deployment across consumer, enterprise, and home services, targeting 2026 as a launch point for new revenue streams beyond traditional voice and data. Its flagship AI Cloud Phone, built with Huawei, already has 18 million users and...
A Hybrid CNN–Transformer Network to EnhanceSolar Magnetogram Resolution for Flare PredictiveAnalytics
Researchers introduced MagRes‑Net, a hybrid convolutional neural network and transformer architecture that upscales low‑resolution SOHO/MDI magnetograms to match the detail of SDO/HMI observations. Trained on co‑aligned MDI‑HMI image pairs with physics‑aware constraints, the model restores fine magnetic structures while conserving...
AI Agents Finally Get Production-Ready Integration Layer
AI agents just got their missing piece. 47,000 actions. 250+ apps. One integration layer. This is the infrastructure that makes agents actually useful in production.
Finance Ops Drives 45% AI Agent Market Surge
the ai agents market grew from $8.29 billion in 2025 to $12.06 billion in 2026. that's 45.5% year over year. and finance operations is the number one entry point. 33% of enterprise leaders are piloting agentic ai in finance ops first, ahead...
Stereoelectroencephalography in the Presurgical Evaluation of Drug–Resistant Epilepsy: Retrospective Analysis of Clinical Efficacy and Safety in 71 Procedures
A retrospective review of 71 drug‑resistant epilepsy patients undergoing stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) showed that the technique confirmed the pre‑implantation hypothesis in 85% of cases. SEEG‑guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation (RF‑TC) was performed in 52% of patients, yielding seizure improvement in 73% at 12...
Claude Automates Stack Setup, Making Deployment Effortless
Struggling to get a production stack together? Just get Claude to do it. Need to pay for it? Just get Claude to do it. Bit by bit autonomy is coming.
GitHub Defaults to Using Copilot Data for AI Training
GitHub will use your Copilot data to train AI models by default. Microsoft is a $3 trillion company. They can afford to ask. https://t.co/f7coXc6GcI
Pick the Right Deployment Strategy, Even with AI
I know we're somehow now talking about AI agents that just ship code directly to prod whenever, but yeah, you may still care about your software engineering rigor. Here's a post with common deployment strategies and how to choose the right...
Strategic Thinkers, Not Just Tech, Future‑Proof Lending
Technology alone won’t future-proof your institution. You need strategic thinkers who can anticipate change, not just react to it. Download the State of Digital Lending report: https://t.co/0wah7wPuXN https://t.co/Vo5PYR9wWL
Phenylalanine-Associated Ocular Risk Stratification in Early-Treated Children with Phenylketonuria: A Cross-Sectional Study
A cross‑sectional study of 33 early‑treated PKU children found ocular abnormalities common, linked to higher serum phenylalanine. Comprehensive eye exams revealed anterior and posterior segment issues. ROC analysis defined phenylalanine thresholds that predict elevated ocular risk. Findings suggest metabolic control...
Don't Let Small Deals Block Your Big Dreams
Enterprise sellers: Never let the types of deals you're closing today stop you from closing the types of deals you dream of closing. Good is the enemy of great: $50k deals are the enemy of $500k deals.
AI Governance Rises Globally—Readiness No Longer Optional
48 hours this week: US: constitutional protections for AI outputs. Europe: enforceable compliance requirements. Scotland: five-year national AI strategy. Three continents. One conversation. The governance infrastructure is being built. Your company's readiness isn't a factor.
Alaska LNG Doubtful; Accelerate Wind/Solar to Sustain Railbelt Gas
I don’t think the Alaska LNG facility is going to happen. We need to build the wind/solar projects quickly to extend the Railbelt gas supply.
Accelerate Deals with Timing, Extra Value, and Urgency
Founders: The deal acceleration playbook: 1. Find end of quarter/year pressure 2. Identify budget flush opportunities 3. Offer 14 months for 12 price 4. Add bonus implementation support 5. Create urgency with pricing changes Speed > discount.
China's S1 Humanoid Robot Operates Retail Kiosks
Meet S1: The Humanoid #Robot Running Retail Kiosks in China by @CyberRobooo #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/cm3OJSAIR2
Navy Shifts to Fielding Mature Uncrewed Vessels
Navy’s Drone Ship Plans Get Shaken Up Again The Navy wants to spend less time prototyping and focus on fielding already mature uncrewed vessel designs, which contractors might operate. https://t.co/LfNRpVJYnd
Can AI Master Empathy: State or Language?
Can AI "learn" empathy? Is empathy an inner social state or a set of linguistic strategies? https://t.co/REyUpNkS7H
