From Phoenix to Dayforce: Auditor General Warns of Risks
The Canadian federal government is replacing the troubled Phoenix payroll system with the Dayforce platform, a project now projected to cost more than $3 billion USD. An Auditor General report warns that slow simplification of pay rules has led to costly customizations—about $2.9 million USD per year—and a massive backlog of over 233,000 pay transactions affecting 133,000 employees. The rollout schedule has been accelerated, targeting full migration by 2029 instead of the original 2034, raising concerns about insufficient testing and risk mitigation. The audit also highlights the lack of clear cost‑saving metrics, urging the Treasury Board and PSPC to develop performance indicators to ensure value for money.
Better Grid Utilization Could Save Customers $170B: Brattle Report
A new Brattle Group analysis for GridLab and the Utilize Coalition finds that improving grid utilization by 10% could lower customer electricity rates by about 3.4% and generate $110 billion to $170 billion in savings for U.S. utility customers over the next...
Kroger Names First Chief Data and AI Officer
Kroger announced the appointment of Milen Mahadevan as its first Chief Data and AI Officer, a newly created role that will unify the retailer’s data and artificial intelligence strategy. Mahadevan will continue to lead 84.51°, Kroger’s data‑analytics subsidiary, while overseeing...
Tang Seizes Control of Aurinia, Taking CEO Post in Total Transformation of C-Suite
Kevin Tang, chair of Aurinia’s board and head of Tang Capital Management, has seized the CEO role, replacing Peter Greenleaf, and installed fellow Tang Capital executives as COO, CFO, and CSO. Tang Capital expanded its ownership from 5.1% in September 2024 to 9.2%...
NCSA Highlights Delta, DeltaAI Role in AI Framework for Astrophysics Workflows
Researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) used the Delta and DeltaAI systems to test RADAR, an AI-driven framework that fuses gravitational‑wave and radio‑astronomy data for multi‑messenger astrophysics. The framework demonstrated that analysis can occur where data reside,...
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Attackers Hide Infostealer in Copyright-Infringement Notices
Attackers are disguising a fileless phishing campaign as copyright‑infringement notices to deliver PureLog Stealer, a low‑cost infostealer. The operation targets critical sectors—including healthcare, government, hospitality and education—in Germany, Canada, the United States and Australia. Victims receive a seemingly legal PDF...
SaaS Finance Shifts to Real-Time Metrics and AI Close
Most SaaS finance teams are still working with delayed metrics… - Closing the books weeks after month-end - Reporting shaky metrics and data - And stitching everything together in spreadsheets That doesn’t scale. Tomorrow, I’m joined by NetSuite to break...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing On-Farm Agronomy and Decision-Making
At the World Agri‑Tech Innovation Summit, AI‑driven data platforms were highlighted as the next frontier in on‑farm agronomy. The technology can ingest soil tests, weather data, satellite imagery and equipment metrics in near‑real time, turning raw inputs into actionable recommendations....
Conn. Lawmakers Push for EMS Response Time Transparency
Connecticut lawmakers are advancing SB 238, which would require the Department of Public Health to build an online dashboard that publicly displays EMS response times broken down by geography, call type, and time of day. Current EMS data is two years...
Software-Defined Automation Ushers in IT-Like Engineering
Industrial automation is shifting toward software-defined automation (SDA), a paradigm that separates control logic from hardware using containerized, virtualized environments. By adopting IT‑like engineering practices such as DevOps, modular code, and version control, manufacturers can achieve rapid scaling, easier updates,...
HV-MELA-BAT Showcases Megawatt Charging System
The HV‑MELA‑BAT consortium, led by Fraunhofer ISE, unveiled a megawatt‑scale charging system that combines a high‑efficiency DC/DC converter with a novel contact system. The isolating converter reaches a record‑breaking 99.26% efficiency and a volumetric power density of 9 kW per liter....
AI Doctor Startup Doctronic Garners $40M
Doctronic, a New York‑based AI doctor startup, announced a $40 million Series B round, bringing its total capital raised to $65 million. The funding, co‑led by Abstract and Lightspeed Venture Partners, will fuel expansion into pediatrics and deepen partnerships with academic institutions, payers,...
Orange Rag Legaltech Clinic: “How Should Firms Go to Market to Select the Best Compliance Technology?”
Natalie Kuebler, managing director of Alt‑V Law, highlighted that compliance technology has become a strategic priority for law firms worldwide. She noted rising regulatory expectations and increasingly complex client due‑diligence requirements, driving firms to seek auditable, specialized solutions. Kuebler’s research...
3 Prompts Every Social Media Strategist Should Be Running Right Now
A marketer reduced her monthly social media calendar creation from three weeks to 15‑30 minutes using a three‑prompt AI workflow. Prompt 1 diagnoses current social gaps, Prompt 2 generates 20 trending, audience‑driven ideas, and Prompt 3 builds a 30‑day calendar with captions and...
Proudly South African AI Legal Assistant
Murphy’s Law is a South African‑built AI legal assistant trained by local practitioners to deliver jurisdiction‑specific advice. The platform automates compliance workflows, litigation document generation, contract drafting, legal research, and due‑diligence, while offering a chat interface, project vault, and courtroom...
Panther Lake Revives Intel on Laptops, Fulfilling G
Panther Lake is a real turning point for Intel. I've been on AMD since switching to Linux, but with 18A delivering Gelsinger's dream from 2021, it's a privilege to run blue again on the laptop side. And Intel working directly...
Europa Biosite Introduces Rapid RNA Production Technologies
Europa Biosite has formed a strategic distribution partnership with Quantoom Biosciences to bring Quantoom’s Ntensify® mano and micro RNA production technologies to European researchers. The deal also anticipates future distribution of Quantoom’s Ncapsulate® LNP formulation kits. By adding rapid, high‑quality...
AI-Powered Marketing Runs Your Campaigns While You Sleep
Most brands I work with have the strategy figured out. They just can’t execute fast enough. Someone built a fix for that. It’s called Helena — the OpenClaw for marketing. Give it your URL, and it runs your marketing for you: → Reads your site,...
NAIRR at 2 Years: Advancing American Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Leadership
Two years after its launch, the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) has become a nationwide AI infrastructure supporting researchers, educators, students, startups and small businesses. Backed by the NSF, 13 federal agencies and 28 private partners, NAIRR has provided...
Agentic AI Expands Attack Surface, Prompting Injection Focus
As AI systems become more agentic, we are rapidly expanding the attack surface. Prompt injection isn’t a corner case—it’s a natural outcome of: – untrusted inputs – tool access – delegated autonomy This shifts the question from “does it work?” to “how does it fail...
Integrating AI-Ready Data with Informatica and Snowflake
Informatica and Snowflake partnered in a DBTA webinar to showcase how metadata‑driven governance, data quality and observability can make Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud AI‑ready. The discussion highlighted Informatica’s end‑to‑end data management capabilities, including tag‑based PII masking, automated semantic classification and...
Cato Networks Unveils GPU-Powered SASE Platform with Native AI Security
Cato Networks announced two major upgrades to its SASE platform: Cato Neural Edge, which embeds NVIDIA GPUs across its global private backbone to accelerate AI‑driven traffic inspection, and Cato AI Security, a suite that merges AI governance and runtime protection...
Iran Built a Camera Network to Control Dissent, Israel Made It a Targeting Tool
Israel exploited Iran’s extensive street‑camera network to pinpoint Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, turning the regime’s own surveillance into a targeting tool. The operation, confirmed by leaked data and AP reporting, relied on dozens of unsecured cameras and AI‑driven video analysis...
PV Yield Uncertainty: What It Means for Engineers, Lenders and Investors
Utility‑scale solar projects hinge on the projected annual energy yield (PVOUT), but that figure carries inherent uncertainty from irradiance variability, modeling assumptions, and site‑specific losses. Engineers, investors, and lenders each interpret this uncertainty differently—design constraints, return probability distributions, and credit...
Japanese Operators Join Forces to Launch Emergency Roaming
Japan’s five major mobile carriers—NTT Docomo, KDDI, SoftBank, Rakuten and Okinawa Cellular—are launching a nationwide emergency roaming service called “Japan Roaming” on April 1, 2026. The service lets subscribers temporarily use another carrier’s 4G LTE network if their primary network is disrupted...
Trump’s AI Framework Concedes the Backlash Is Real
The White House unveiled a National AI Legislative Framework that acknowledges growing public backlash against artificial intelligence. Recent polls show 57% of voters believe AI risks outweigh benefits, prompting more than 11 states to consider data‑center moratoriums. Earlier federal attempts...
10 Early Wins Every New Salesforce Admin Can Achieve
New Salesforce admins can quickly demonstrate value by delivering a series of focused, low‑effort projects called early wins. These include building a high‑impact report, fixing a single user friction point, cleaning ambiguous fields, creating a concise dashboard, and conducting a...
FDA Approves Expanded Indication for Imcivree as Treatment for Hypothalamic Obesity
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals' Imcivree (setmelanotide) received FDA approval as the first treatment for acquired hypothalamic obesity, expanding its indication to adults and children aged four and older. The Phase III TRANSCEND trial demonstrated a 15.8% mean BMI reduction at 52 weeks, an...
Traliant Transforms Harassment Training with TV-Style Learning
Traliant unveiled a fully redesigned Preventing Workplace Harassment course that uses a cinematic, TV‑style narrative to teach anti‑harassment laws. The platform offers industry‑specific and international editions, automatically tailoring content to a learner’s role and location, and meets mandates across U.S....
AI API Bills Will Soon Dominate Budgets
$5,000. That's my Anthropic API bill. For 30 days. Just me — not the team. And honestly? It's the best money I spend every month. But it got me thinking about where this is heading. That $5K/month becomes $60K/year. Scale that across...
‘Urgent’ Reform of EU PV Recycling Needed to Tackle Growing Waste Volume
The EU’s photovoltaic recycling capacity of about 170,000 tonnes per year is set to be dwarfed by an estimated 2.2 million tonnes of PV waste annually by 2050. Germany alone could generate roughly 681,800 tonnes, far exceeding its 99,000‑tonne processing ability....
ThinKom Showcases Modular MILSATCOM Architecture for Contested Environments
At the 2026 Satellite Show in Washington, D.C., ThinKom Solutions unveiled a modular, high‑mobility ground architecture designed to replace static satellite command centers. The system, built around the Variable Inclination Continuous Transverse Stub (VICTS) phased‑array antenna, can connect to GEO,...
Texas-California Clean Power Race Heats Up | Reading and Podcast Picks - Mar. 23, 2026
Texas set a new solar generation record of over 33 GW, overtaking California as the nation’s leader in utility‑scale solar. The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects Texas will supply roughly 40% of all new solar capacity and 53% of battery storage...
What to Know About Carbon Markets in 2026
The voluntary carbon market now retires over 150 million credits annually, creating a complex landscape for corporate buyers. Experts from registries, consultancies and major firms advise newcomers to leverage public resources, diversify portfolios, and act quickly as high‑quality credits become scarcer....
Dell Technologies Integrates Quantum-Ready Security and AI Resilience Across Portfolio
Dell Technologies announced a portfolio‑wide security upgrade that embeds quantum‑resistant cryptography into firmware and BIOS across its commercial PCs and data‑center products. The company also introduced AI‑driven recovery tools in its PowerProtect line, delivering up to twice the backup speed...
New VP Leads Open, Collaborative AI Adoption Initiative
Excited to share that I've stepped into a new role as VP of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) 🎉 As AI reshapes our industry, it's critical that this technology evolves in ways that are open and collaborative. Hosted by the Linux Foundation,...
AI Surge Powers Energy, Robotics, and Infrastructure Stocks
AI Relief rally ,these stocks will make millionaires mark my words… $IREN +6.80% ⚡️ AI compute demand rising, energy-powered data centers driving growth higher $SYM +6.52% 🤖 Automation replacing warehouses, robotics adoption accelerating across logistics industry globally $VST +6.52% ⚡️ AI needs power, utilities like Vistra...
North Korean Hacker Lands Remote IT Job, Caught After VPN Slip
A North Korean hacker answered a generic help‑wanted ad, passed standard background checks, and was hired for a remote IT role handling sensitive Salesforce data on August 15, 2025. Ten days later, a login from an unmanaged device in St. Louis,...
Consumer Longevity Research Gains Momentum with Ginkgo Cloud Lab
Really excited about the use of @Ginkgo Cloud Lab for consumers to do research in longevity and other consumer apps. These areas are less well-studied than you'd expect as US research funding is largely oriented towards disease. Fun chatting with @LongevityTech about...
NASA Holds All‑Day Meeting on Trump's Artemis Order
Here's the NASA press release about tomorrow's (Tuesday, Mar 24) all-day meeting at NASA HQ about implementing Trump's Dec 2025 Executive Order re Artemis. https://t.co/fR9uM0P2io Livestreamed. Starts at 9:00 am ET. News conf at 4:45 pm ET.
FBI Says Iranian Hackers Are Using Telegram to Steal Data in Malware Attacks
The FBI warned that Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) hackers are leveraging Telegram bots as a command‑and‑control channel to exfiltrate data from dissidents, opposition groups, and journalists. Attackers first send phishing links masquerading as Telegram or WhatsApp apps,...
Auto‑close Your MyQ Garage Door Nightly for Security
Have a smart home garage door controlled by the MyQ app? You can program it to close automatically late every night for improved security. Here's how to set this automation up, step by step... https://t.co/QPxiWALNch #smarthome #security @Chamberlain https://t.co/WFmzGJF6oW
Design AgeTech With Seniors, Not Just For Them
The point about resident involvement in design is critical and often overlooked. Too many AgeTech solutions are built for older adults rather than with them, which is why adoption struggles. #HumanCenteredDesign #HealthyAging https://t.co/VvufqYUKVZ
New B2B Marketplaces Target Construction, Equipment and Data Center Sourcing
During Q1 2026, a wave of B2B marketplaces entered the U.S. targeting construction materials, equipment rental, and data‑center infrastructure. Platforms such as MatBook, DOZR, Kwipped and Start Campus Marketplace aim to replace phone‑calls and spreadsheets with real‑time pricing, inventory visibility, and...
AI Outperforms Humans, Larger Models Boost Creativity
Interesting finding in this paper showing that, for product development ideas, AIs consistently rank above humans (well, humans on Prolific) & larger and more recent models are more creative than previous ones. (It also tries a creativity intervention that doesn’t...
China's OpenClaw AI Fuels Lobster Agent Cybersecurity Panic
"Raising a lobster" is the new Labubu OpenClaw AI goes viral in China, raising cybersecurity fears Email deletion scare underscores risks as ‘lobster’ agents surge across real-world AI systems handling sensitive personal data #China #techwar #chips #tech @baoshaoshan @thecyrusjanssen @DOualaalou @lajohnstondr @PSTAsiatech https://t.co/LceRUFV7T6
Creating Your Own AI Tools to Replace Existing Ones
Are you building your own AI tools to replace the ones you've been using until recently?
US Patients Access Zegfrovy via Apex Oncology
Another win for Dizal, but how do US patients get hold of Zegfrovy? Via @ApexOnco -> https://t.co/4GVjyHS9vz https://t.co/bjjrnZkNL6
China Unlikely to Match Nvidia AI Chips Soon
I still do not believe China can build an AI chip to rival $NVDA. I don't see a path in the next 5 years either. These headlines are exhausting. 😬😮💨
Will Traditional ERP Evaluations Survive the AI Revolution?
As AI tools rapidly advance, replacing entire categories of software, will traditional ERP evaluation processes still make sense? The industry is preparing for potential changes in how we select and rely on tools. #AI #ERP #FutureOfWork https://t.co/pB8VPfihpK
