Littlefish Raises $9.5 Million to Scale Its Merchant Operating System Across Africa
South African fintech littlefish has closed a $9.5 million Series A round led by Partech to accelerate its merchant operating system across the continent. The platform bundles point‑of‑sale, CRM, payments and API services into a white‑label SaaS solution that banks can offer to small‑business merchants. Littlefish already powers Tier‑1 South African banks such as Standard Bank, First National Bank and Absa, and will use the funding to deepen those relationships and launch in more than ten additional African markets. The raise reflects growing investor appetite for infrastructure‑focused fintech models in Africa.
Anvilogic Launches Agentic Workflow Automation for AI SOC
Anvilogic unveiled Blueprints, an agentic workflow automation layer for its AI‑SOC platform, at RSA 2026. The feature lets senior analysts capture their investigative methods in natural language and deploy reusable AI‑driven playbooks within a day. By running on the Enterprise Security...
Exein Unveils Next-Generation Runtime Security to Protect the AI-Native World
Exein introduced Photon, a kernel‑level runtime security platform that blocks malicious code before it executes, targeting AI‑native environments such as IoT, edge, and autonomous systems. By moving protection from user‑space detection to pre‑emptive kernel enforcement, Photon eliminates attack windows and...
Quasi‐2D Chiral Perovskite Janus‐Structural Nanofiber Film With Tunable Spectrum and Energy‐Transfer‐Amplified Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Researchers have created a Janus‑type nanofiber film that couples chiral quasi‑2D perovskite nanosheets with achiral perovskite nanocrystals or dye molecules via efficient energy transfer. This architecture raises the photoluminescence quantum yield of the achiral component by four times and pushes...
Digest: Partners Complain About Slow Ads Rollout on ChatGPT; Musk Liable in Twitter Fraud Case; Broadcasters Push EU for Tougher...
OpenAI’s pilot of ads inside ChatGPT has attracted major agency groups, but partners complain the rollout is slower than promised, even as some allocate up to $250,000 per test. A San Francisco jury found Elon Musk liable for misleading statements about...
A Step-by-Step Guide: How to Use an AI Ad Generator for High-Converting Social Media Videos
The article walks marketers through using an AI ad generator to produce short‑form video ads for TikTok, Reels and Shorts in under 15 minutes. It outlines five practical steps—prompt creation, visual assembly, AI voiceover, optional avatar, and branding/export—using Vokes’ platform...
Australia Puts AI Data Centers on Notice With New Approval Rules
Australia has introduced a national framework that ties AI data‑center approvals to renewable‑energy investment, grid upgrades, water stewardship and local economic impact. The policy shifts from a market‑driven, speed‑focused model to one where compliance with national priorities determines access to...
Nintendo Reportedly Adjusting Switch 2 Production After Weak Holiday Sales
Nintendo is scaling back Switch 2 production to 4 million units this quarter, down from an initially planned 6 million, after weaker-than-expected holiday sales in the United States. The console’s US sales lagged despite strong performance of the lower‑priced variant, causing the stock...
Faces of HR: Pauline Loo on Leveraging AI to Shift HR From 'Reactive' To 'Predictive'
Pauline Loo, SVP of HR at Nippon Sanso Holdings, explains how responsible AI can shift HR from a reactive, problem‑solving function to a predictive engine that anticipates turnover, identifies skill gaps, and personalises development pathways. By automating repetitive tasks, AI...
BBB National Programs Backs CBPR 2.0
BBB National Programs praised the Global Cross‑Border Privacy Rules Forum for finalizing CBPR 2.0, a major update that tightens consumer data protections and accountability in cross‑border transfers. The revision adds stronger safeguards for sensitive and children’s data, a “Preventing Harm” principle,...
Pulsar Appoints Enzo Brizzi to Grow Enterprise Connectivity in Africa
Pulsar International has named Enzo Brizzi as Director of Enterprise Market Expansion & Partnerships to spearhead the company’s growth in Africa. Brizzi, a veteran with more than 25 years in satellite and telecom, will drive strategic alliances and scalable operating...
Procore Integrates with NVIDIA Omniverse DSX
Procore Technologies announced an integration of its construction management platform with NVIDIA’s Omniverse DSX Blueprint, creating a live, high‑fidelity digital twin for AI factories and other critical infrastructure. The solution automatically translates more than 15 BIM and CAD formats into...
Appliance Makers Place the Future of Home Robots on Display at AWE 2026
At the 2026 Appliance & Electronics World Expo in Shanghai, traditional appliance manufacturers pivoted toward embodied intelligence, unveiling a range of home‑service robots. Companies such as Dreame, Ecovacs, Haier, TCL, Hisense and Tesla demonstrated prototypes for chores, elder care, and...
Kids-Focused Quick Commerce Platform OZi Raises $6.2 Mn Led by RTP Global
Kids‑focused quick‑commerce startup OZi announced a $6.2 million Series A round led by RTP Global, with participation from existing backers and notable angels such as Kishore Biyani. The funding follows a $3.3 million seed round and will be used to deepen its presence...
Asia-Pacific Telcos Urged to Balance AI Innovation with Trust, Governance, and Local Readiness
Telecom Review Asia’s March 17 webinar highlighted how AI is reshaping APAC telcos, delivering measurable gains in network reliability and customer experience. Operators such as Telekom Malaysia and Globe Telecom showcased proactive monitoring, computer‑vision‑driven field work, and low‑code platforms that...
Deals in Brief: QCraft Raises Series D Funding, Grab Acquires Foodpanda’s Taiwan Delivery Business, Seven China Investments, and More
QCraft closed a $100 million Series D round to push its Level 4 autonomous‑driving platform and world‑model AI research, targeting deployment in over 50 vehicle models by 2026. Grab agreed to buy Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda Taiwan operation for $600 million, marking its first expansion...
Optimistic Locking Vs. Pessimistic Locking: Handling Concurrency in High-Traffic Systems
The article compares pessimistic and optimistic locking as two core strategies for handling concurrent writes in high‑traffic systems. Pessimistic locking acquires exclusive locks early, blocking other transactions and guaranteeing consistency at the expense of latency. Optimistic locking allows parallel reads...
WHO Recommends New Diagnostic Tools to Help End TB
On World TB Day, the World Health Organization issued new guidelines urging countries to adopt point‑of‑care tuberculosis diagnostic tools and tongue‑swab sampling. The portable tests cost less than half of existing molecular platforms and deliver results in under an hour,...
QA Graphics Launches New eCommerce Platform
QA Graphics announced the launch of a new eCommerce platform, introducing two flagship products—QAGCharts and QAGMaps—designed for the Niagara building‑automation ecosystem. QAGCharts offers advanced data visualization at a one‑time price of $1,750 per user, while QAGMaps provides floor‑plan and geographic...
RecVue Launches Revenue Recognition on Salesforce AppExchange
RecVue announced the launch of RecVue Revenue Recognition for Salesforce, now listed on the Salesforce AppExchange. The solution automates ASC 606 and IFRS 15 revenue recognition, embedding GAAP‑aligned logic directly within the Salesforce ecosystem. It integrates with RecVue’s Agentforce Revenue Management platform...
Differentially Private Lasso: An ISTA Framework with Finite-Iteration Guarantees
The paper introduces an Iterative Shrinkage‑Thresholding Algorithm (ISTA) framework for differentially private (DP) Lasso regression in high‑dimensional sparse settings. It delivers finite‑iteration, high‑probability ℓ₂ error bounds that separate a non‑private baseline, a privacy‑induced noise term, and a vanishing optimization residual....
Saving the Planet From Humans: How Robots Are Transforming Environmental Monitoring and Cleanup
Robotics and autonomous systems are rapidly becoming the backbone of environmental monitoring and cleanup, shifting the industry from periodic, reactive actions to continuous, data‑driven operations. Drones, autonomous surface vessels, and underwater robots now provide real‑time intelligence on air quality, methane...
Samsung TV Plus Powers the Next Era of FAST, Showcasing Live Events, Creator-Led Content, Exclusive Offerings, and Interactive Features Accelerating...
Samsung Ads unveiled a full‑funnel performance platform at IAB NewFronts 2026, pairing AI‑driven targeting with shoppable ad formats on Samsung TV Plus. The platform integrates Amazon’s Interactive Video Ad technology, enabling viewers to add Amazon items to cart directly from their...
TSMC Accelerates Fab 21 Expansion, 3nm Production Set for 2027
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is fast‑tracking its Fab 21 expansion, moving equipment installation to October 2026 and targeting initial production lines in early 2027. The company now expects mass production of 3 nm chips in the second half of 2027, a year...
Dietary Fructo-Oligosaccharides Dose-Dependently Modulate the Microbiome and Suppress Type 2 Lung Inflammation in a Murine Model of House Dust Mite-Induced...
Researchers fed BALB/c mice diets containing 1 %, 2.5 %, 5 %, or 10 % fructo‑oligosaccharides (FOS) before and during house‑dust‑mite sensitisation. While overall eosinophil recruitment to the lungs was unchanged, FOS dose‑dependently lowered lung Th2 cell frequencies and reduced key type 2 cytokines such...
AGI Arrived: Autonomous Execution, Not Human‑Level Intelligence
𝗔𝗚𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁. For years, AGI has been treated as a scientific milestone. Something that would arrive when AI reaches human-level intelligence across all domains. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴. When...
Govt Plans to Redirect 90 Lakh Tonne FCI Broken Rice to Ethanol Industry From Next Year: Food Sec
The Indian government will propose cutting the share of broken rice in the public distribution system from 25% to 10%, freeing about 9 million tonnes of broken rice each year for the ethanol industry. The move follows a 40% surge in...
AI-Driven Partnership Targets Unmet Gynecological Diseases
We are very happy to join forces together with the wonderful ASKA to go after Novel Targets for Women's Health. Gynecological diseases have long posed challenges, including difficult diagnosis, limited treatment options, and a substantial disease burden, affecting millions of...
DreamPartGen Brings Part Aware Text To 3D
DreamPartGen is a new research model that generates part‑aware 3D objects directly from natural‑language prompts, addressing the long‑standing gap where text‑to‑3D tools produce monolithic meshes unsuitable for functional assemblies. By representing each component separately and modeling their spatial relationships with...
Unilever's Food Business Picks Global Influencer Agency
Unilever has engaged global influencer agency SAMY to run its foods division’s influencer strategy, covering brands like Hellmann’s and Knorr across 13 markets. The partnership will leverage SAMY’s proprietary Maia platform, which connects Unilever to more than 120 million creators and...
EmbedUR Expands Arm Support in Fusion Studio
embedUR Systems announced a major expansion of Arm ecosystem support in its ModelNova Fusion Studio desktop application at Embedded World 2026. The update introduces native ExecuTorch integration for Ethos‑U85 and U55 NPUs, seamless deployment to Alif Ensemble development kits, and...
Gcore Radar Report Reveals 150% Surge in DDoS Attacks Year-on-Year
Gcore’s Q3‑Q4 2025 Radar report shows a 150% year‑on‑year jump in DDoS incidents, with attack counts climbing to 1.3 million in Q4 2025. Peak traffic surged to 12 Tbps, a six‑fold rise over the previous year, while network‑layer attacks now represent 82% of all...
Andhra Pradesh to Digitise Medical Reimbursements; End Paper-Based Process
The Andhra Pradesh government will overhaul its medical reimbursement system, moving from a hybrid manual‑digital process to a fully digital workflow. Developed by the Andhra Pradesh Centre for Financial Systems and Services and integrated with the existing Nidhi portal, the...
How Airports Are Accelerating the Energy Revolution
Airports worldwide are moving from passive energy consumers to active managers, deploying a mix of renewable generation, electrification, and emerging fuels. Venice Marco Polo Airport is installing 70 acres of agrivoltaic solar to generate 80 GWh annually, while San Francisco International is...
Channel Partners Are Sleepwalking Into an AI Code Generation Trap
Managed Service Providers are being asked to deliver full AI‑enhanced development stacks, but rapid adoption of AI code generators introduces hidden security risks. Studies show nearly half of AI‑generated code snippets contain vulnerabilities and 67% of organizations fail to assess...
Fluid Becomes a CNCF Incubating Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Technical Oversight Committee has promoted Fluid to an incubating project, recognizing its maturity as a data‑orchestration layer for Kubernetes. Fluid adds an abstraction layer that enables elastic dataset caching, dynamic source switching, and cross‑storage acceleration...
Tekton Becomes a CNCF Incubating Project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Technical Oversight Committee has accepted Tekton as an incubating project, marking a key maturity milestone after its stable v1.0 Pipelines release. Tekton is a Kubernetes‑native CI/CD framework with over 11,000 GitHub stars, 600 contributors, and...
AI Could Run Entire Companies and Revolutionize Drug Discovery
Personally, I think that in two years (or less) the entire company can be run by AI including code generation and product deployment. Even humans can be controlled by AI (imagine yourself installed as a "skill" into the organizational AI)....
SEO 2.0: How Content Marketing Drives Visibility in AI Search via @Sejournal, @Hethr_campbell
The on‑demand webinar "SEO 2.0" hosted by Heather Campbell explains how AI‑driven search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot retrieve, evaluate, and cite web content. It delivers a practical, content‑first framework that helps marketers make their assets citation‑worthy, boosting both...
Old Kindle Highlights Resurface to Fuel New Writing
Most highlights die in Kindle. Readwise brings them back and connects them. The power isn't in the capturing. It's in the resurfacing. Sometimes a highlight from two years ago connects perfectly to what you're writing today. https://www.ssp.sh/brain/readwise
AI Now a Boardroom Accountability Imperative
#AI Is No Longer An #Innovation Bet—It Is A Boardroom Accountability Issue by Amit Basu @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/GEwbzea4ml #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #ML https://t.co/TDzOjyWG74
BT Boosts Connectivity, Security for Northern Ireland Electricity Networks
BT Group has signed a 10‑year agreement worth up to £200 million (about $255 million) with Northern Ireland Electricity Networks (NIE Networks) to provide upgraded connectivity, cybersecurity and IT services. The contract will support NIE’s digital transformation across its 966,000‑customer base and...
Nvidia Launches Jetson Orin Nano Super AI Computer
#TechTuesday. Dec 17, 2024. Nvidia introduced the Jetson Orin Nano Super #AI #Computer. (Cheddar) #History https://t.co/Rdt2Hl1SMF
1ha Solar and Battery Powers Remote Indigenous Communities
There's 1000-1500 MWh/year (varies by location) Back of envelope: ~3MWh day from 600kW Add a 2MWh battery, and we're done https://t.co/bwagWj8doa
RSAC 2026: ZeroTier Launches ZeroTier Quantum, the World’s First End-to-End Quantum-Secure Networking Platform
ZeroTier announced ZeroTier Quantum at RSAC 2026, positioning it as the world’s first end‑to‑end quantum‑secure software‑defined networking platform. The solution meets the highest NIST and NSA CNSA 2.0 post‑quantum standards and promises on‑wire, data‑center‑level speeds. Built on a Rust‑based ZeroTier Transport...
Denon Debuts Sonos‑Rival Wireless Speakers with Stereo, Multi‑Room Design
Denon launched 'Sonos-busting' 200, 400, and 600 wireless speakers — think multiple drivers, all-stereo presentation, multi-room smarts, and chic looks https://t.co/fUdmKttp4t
Agentic Commerce Reshapes Payments; Providers Must Rethink Differentiation
Thanks to UKI Acquirer Innovation Hub for hosting me last month. We had a great discussion about 'Discoverability in an Agentic World', exploring how agentic commerce will reshape payments and why providers might need to rethink how they differentiate. https://t.co/irpi0R2B2k
Cybercriminals Have Open Access to Enterprise PCs 76 Days Per Year, According to New Research From Absolute Security
Absolute Security’s 2026 Resilience Risk Index reveals that endpoint security software fails to protect devices about 21% of the time, leaving enterprise PCs exposed for an average of 76 days per year. The report highlights a 127‑day average lag in...
