New Rules Loom for Home Solar and Batteries, as World’s Biggest Isolated Grid Tackles “Unique Challenge”
Western Australia will raise inverter connection limits to 30 kW from 1 May 2026, allowing larger rooftop solar and battery systems on the South West Interconnected System (SWIS). The rule change also mandates compliance with AS/NZS 4777.2 for undervoltage ride‑through and remote disconnect capability (“Big Solar Button”). Systems that do not meet the new standards will be capped at 1.5 kW export. The measures aim to stabilise the world’s biggest isolated grid and boost household participation in virtual power plants.
Better Satellite World: From Connectivity to Intelligence Episode 1: What Happens When the Network Thinks? Benny Retnamony of Quvia on...
In this inaugural episode of SSPI’s "Connectivity to Intelligence" series, host Tamara Bond‑Williams talks with Benny Rettnamone, founder and CEO of QVIA, about the challenges of handling massive data streams at the edge—on aircraft, ships, and offshore rigs—where connectivity is...
Reading DNA Sequence and Epigenetic Modification State in 1 Molecule
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have unveiled an integrated sequencing workflow that simultaneously reads DNA sequence and distinguishes cytosine modifications—5‑methylcytosine (5mC) and 5‑hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC)—on a single molecule. The method creates a hairpin duplex, incorporates deamination‑resistant analogs on the copy...
NASA Targets April 1 for Artemis II Launch
NASA announced a target launch date of April 1 for Artemis II, the first crewed mission beyond low‑Earth orbit since 1972. The crew—NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen—will fly a 10‑day lunar flyby. After a series...
AI Bridges Contact Center Data to Automated Service Tickets
Your Contact Center is a goldmine of unstructured data, but if it isn't hitting your #ServiceManagement platform, your IT and Product teams are flying blind. AI is the bridge that turns a customer complaint into an automated internal ticket. 🔗 Build...
Unlock Mac-Specific Accent Colors
Mahdi Bchatnia’s Accents app enables any Mac to use the exclusive accent colors originally reserved for the iMac and MacBook Neo. The utility taps into macOS APIs to apply these hardware‑specific palettes without requiring system hacks. Michael Tsai highlighted the...
Third‑Party Code Now Top Cloud Threat; AI Offers Remedy
Unfortunately for the vibrancy and velocity of modern developer ecosystems (something I’ve been bullish on for two decades), third-party software has now become the #1 initial access vector in cloud intrusions, jumping from under 3% to 44.5% of cases in...
DOE Unveils Initiative to Add 5 GW of Nuclear Capacity Through Uprates and Restarts
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the Utility Power Reactor Incremental Scaling Effort (UPRISE), targeting 2.5 GW of additional nuclear capacity by 2027 and 5 GW by 2029 through power uprates, plant restarts, and life‑extension upgrades. The program taps the DOE’s $289 billion...
Canary Technologies Introduces F&B Mobile Ordering to Boost Hotel Revenue
Canary Technologies launched F&B Mobile Ordering, a mobile‑first platform that lets hotel guests place food and beverage orders from their own devices. The solution integrates with major property management and point‑of‑sale systems, updating menus and availability in real time. Hotels...
MacBook Neo Targets New Users, Not Existing MacBook Owners
If you currently use a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, I have my doubts you will move to a MacBook Neo. It's not that different than a iPad Pro vs. iPad dynamic. Neo's power won't be derived from picking off...
Marvell Partners with Mojo for Trillion‑bit Optical AI Interconnects
Marvell at the Mojo By using a grid of micro-LEDs instead of lasers, Mojo delivers 100x more bandwidth/channel + lower energy/bit. Mojo’s fiber has thousands of physically discrete channels for massively multiplexed bandwidth + redundancy for reliability in orbital data centers. Today,...
ReMix: Reinforcement Routing for Mixtures of LoRAs in LLM Finetuning
The paper introduces ReMix, a reinforcement‑learning based routing strategy for Mixture‑of‑LoRAs that eliminates the common “routing weight collapse” where a single adapter dominates. By assigning constant, equal weights to all activated adapters and training the router as a policy, ReMix...
Fever Dreams: On Demand Launch, Daily Launches, Responsive Space
The March 2026 New Space Economy piece separates the hype of daily orbital launches from the emerging reality of responsive space. While on‑demand launch remains a niche tool, true responsiveness is being built through standby assets, modular spacecraft, and flexible licensing,...
Xplore Program 2026: A Remote Summer Fellowship in Longevity
Longevity Xplorer (LongX) has opened applications for its 2026 Xplore Program, a fully remote summer fellowship that bridges the gap between academic interest in aging and hands‑on work in longevity biotech. The nine‑week curriculum combines a month of intensive biology...
This Top-Secret Satellite Spied on Enemy Weapons for the U.S. Air Force, Declassified Files Reveal
The National Reconnaissance Office declassified the JUMPSEAT satellite program, a covert U.S. space‑based intelligence system that operated from 1971 to 2006. Using highly elliptical Molniya orbits, the satellites intercepted signals, emissions, and imagery to monitor Soviet weapon development throughout the...
Product & Service Launches – 3/12/2026
Morningstar, WealthBox, and FutureVault each unveiled AI‑powered tools designed to embed intelligent assistants directly into adviser workflows. Morningstar’s AI assistant integrates with its Direct Advisory Suite, enabling natural‑language navigation from client setup to portfolio analysis. WealthBox added autonomous Agents, one‑click...
Avoid Overfitting Evaluations: Blend LLMs and Human Judgment
I think there is something important going on here that is worth figuring out: 1) most models overfit to evals. that said, we need some evals to tell a model if they are good bullshit detectors before we go off and...
Commercial Spyware Opponents Fear US Policy Shifting
Recent U.S. actions have raised alarms among spyware opponents, as ICE reactivated a contract with Paragon Solutions and the Treasury lifted sanctions on Intellexa executives. Meanwhile, major spyware firms Paragon and NSO Group were sold to U.S. investors, signaling potential...
Naboo
Naboo.ai announced a Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with partner Antoine Moyroud joining the deal. The AI‑driven platform automates corporate event planning across the UK and Europe, handling venues, catering, activities, and transport in a single invoice. It...
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Vs. Xiaomi 17 Ultra: Brand Perception Is Everything
Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra arrives as a lighter, stylus‑enabled flagship that keeps pricing steady while offering seven years of software support, a new Privacy Display, and 60 W wired charging. Xiaomi’s 17 Ultra counters with a 12‑bit AMOLED panel that reaches...
Tennessee Grandmother Jailed After AI Facial Recognition Error Links Her to Fraud
A Tennessee grandmother, Angela Lipps, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police mistakenly identified her via an AI facial‑recognition system as a suspect in a North Dakota bank‑fraud case. The software matched her to surveillance footage despite her never...
ASRock PRO Series PRO-650G 650 W ATX 3.1 Compatible 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Power Supply....$49.99 W/Fs
ASRock has launched its PRO‑650G 650 W ATX 3.1‑compatible power supply at a striking $49.99, complete with free shipping. The unit carries an 80 Plus Gold efficiency rating, positioning it as a budget‑friendly alternative to higher‑priced models. Community posts highlight comparable offers, such...
Channel Surfer Lets You Watch YouTube Like It’s Old-School Cable TV
London developer Steven Irby launched Channel Surfer, a web app that turns YouTube into a retro‑style TV guide. Users can flip through 40 pre‑made channels covering news, tech, music and more, joining live streams as if watching cable. The static...
Is the Nintendo Switch 2 Worth It? We Broke Down Everything to Consider.
The Nintendo Switch 2 launched in 2025 at $450, introducing a larger 7.9‑inch HDR display, 120 Hz refresh rate, and 4K docked performance. Early exclusive titles such as Yoshi and the Mysterious Book and a new Fire Emblem are slated for 2026,...
Ciena’s CEO Sees MOFN as a Key Service Provider Growth Segment
Ciena’s CEO highlighted Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN) as a core growth engine, noting a 40% year‑over‑year rise in Indian orders and record shipments of its RLS product line. The optical networking segment surged 67.9% to $1.02 billion, helping lift total...
Femtum Thinks Its Semiconductor Cutting Lasers Are Better than Yours
Quebec‑based startup Femtum announced an oversubscribed CAD 16 million Series A round, led by BDC Capital and joined by FTQ, Cathay Venture and other backers. The company’s flagship laser cleaning and trimming system claims to cut chip power consumption by 20‑40 % while boosting...
MELI Plunges 35% Despite Booming Growth Metrics
MELI is down 🔻35% from its 52-week high, meanwhile: • 25+ quarter of >30% revenue growth • 83 million unique active buyers (+24%) • Total payment volume of $83B (+42%) And now trading at its lowest valuation ever.
AI Has Created ‘Almost Infinite Demand’ for Memory Components, Dell Execs Say
Dell Technologies executives warned that artificial intelligence has generated an "almost infinite" demand for computer memory, creating a critical supply‑chain bottleneck in the United States. The shortage of DRAM and other memory chips is driving prices higher and limiting the...
QphoX Launches Quantum Transducer for Distributed Long-Distance Networking
QphoX has released a commercial Quantum Transducer that converts microwave‑based qubit states into optical photons for transmission over standard fiber at room temperature. The device leverages photonic integration, MEMS and superconducting nanofabrication to achieve high‑fidelity, low‑noise state conversion. IBM will...
Inside Brinks Home’s AI Strategy to Reduce Call Volume and Modernize Customer Support
Brinks Home leveraged generative AI to shift most support interactions from voice to digital channels, cutting call volume by over 50% while keeping satisfaction high. The company deployed a retrieval‑augmented help center, AI‑powered agent assistance, and near‑100% quality monitoring. It...
Intelligence Will Soon Be Sold Like Utilities
🚨COGNITION as a COMMODITY Here's a clip of Sam Altman describing a future in which intelligence becomes a utility that can be sold like electricity or water on a meter. To me, it was a striking comment, and I understand the...
Virtual Field Now Known as Carrot
Virtual Field has rebranded as Carrot, signaling a strategic shift beyond its original virtual‑reality visual‑field testing niche. The company’s headset has already logged more than five million exams across 2,400 clinics, demonstrating substantial market penetration. Carrot plans to broaden its...
SpaceX Space AI Ramp
SpaceX and Elon Musk’s xAI are preparing a massive orbital AI compute network, targeting a million solar‑powered satellites that act as Dyson‑swarm data centers. The plan hinges on a $50‑100 billion IPO slated for mid‑2026, which will fund new launch pads,...
Jefferies Paints WVE Data as Win‑win‑win; Bear Sees Combo Role
Doing some reading ahead of the next wave of $WVE INHBE "body composition" 🙄 data, smirking at the Jefferies analyst set up, which basically frames 6-month data as a win-win-win for the stock price. His "bear case" "Bear case would still...
Regional AI Transformations Unveiled at MWC2026
#AI at #MWC2026: How leaders are transforming, region by region. (McKinsey) #MWC26 #MWC #JVGpost https://t.co/q6azSptnUD https://t.co/gXtGMSqk67
We Are All AI Immigrants Now: A New Land, A Proven Mindset
Jayshree Seth argues that generative AI has turned every professional into an immigrant navigating an unmapped landscape. She introduces the GRANT framework—Grit, Resourcefulness, Adaptability, Navigation, Transcendence—as a mindset to guide AI adoption. Seth highlights that leaders must model iteration, reward experimentation,...
China Resumes Launches with CZ‑8A, Nine LEO Satellites
LAUNCH at 1948 UTC of a Chang Zheng 8A from Hainan Commercial Spaceport of nine Xingwang Digui (SatNet LEO) Group 20 satellites, the first Chinese orbital launch in a month after an unusual stand-down
Unified Multimodal AI Brings Human‑like Reasoning Closer
More evidence that AI will become a unified model that can fully grasp multimodality within a single context. Similar to human thinking. Will unleash much more insightful inference, and help achieve superintelligence soon. Congrats to Google on this major advance.
Four Months Into Its Comeback, Zapata Stakes Its Claim In Quantum Software
Zapata Computing, once a leading quantum‑software startup, collapsed after a mis‑guided SPAC pivot and filed for bankruptcy in late 2024. In September 2025 the company re‑emerged as Zapata Quantum, resolving over $18 million in debt and attracting fresh capital while preserving...
AI Leverages Multi‑Industry Client Data for Insightful Answers
Prompt AI to answer questions using historic and current client data across industries and geographies. We'll analyze lessons learned and dive into AI toolsets. #AI #ClientData #Analytics https://t.co/uUyBo9DlPc
Haptic Exoskeletons Boost Violin Duo Coordination Over Visual Cues
A new Science #Robotics study demonstrates that #haptic feedback from wearable upper body #exoskeletons can improve coordination between violin duos more effectively than visual cues. https://t.co/iLG2uygK1v https://t.co/ZWKc88BaUy
Medical Technology Company Stryker Disrupted Globally by Cyberattack
Stryker, a leading medical‑technology supplier, announced a cyberattack on March 11 that compromised its Microsoft environment, though no ransomware or malware was detected. The breach disrupted the company’s global operations and prompted immediate containment efforts. Stryker is coordinating with hospital networks...
AI Gives Cities 24‑Hour Flash Flood Warnings
Protecting cities with AI-driven flash flood forecasting https://t.co/CuGhkm1sPu < I really love that we do this sort of work. @GoogleResearch is helping us give up to 24 hours advance notice for flash flood risks. https://t.co/HIVZuV6ZWP
LeCun's AI Philosophy Vs. AGI Hype Exposed
Here is an excellent paper that clearly explains the philosophy that guides @ylecun's research in AI and his new company, AMI Labs. It also perfectly expresses my complaints about the trope of artificial general intelligence--AGI, or BS for short. https://t.co/nwN07TB6Y0
Fairview Health Services Selects Workday to Modernize HR, Finance, and Supply Chain on One AI-Powered Platform
Fairview Health Services announced the selection of Workday’s cloud suite to replace legacy systems across human resources, finance, and supply chain. The move consolidates three core functions onto a single AI‑powered platform, promising real‑time analytics and automated workflows. Workday will...
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Wins Best‑In‑Show at MWC 2026
#ThrowbackThursday. February 28, 2026. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra introduced at #MWC2026. Awarded 'Best In Show' March 3, 2026. #MWC26 #MWC https://t.co/yzXZwKHkBQ
Jobs' Return Sparked iMac G3's Iconic Debut
#ThrowbackThursday. May 6, 1998. Steve Jobs introduced the original Bondi Blue iMac G3. It was the first major product launched after his return to Apple. #Computer #History #JVGpost https://t.co/OMpPkmHlAH
NATO Wants AI that Can Get in the Enemy’s Head
NATO’s Allied Command Transformation has issued an innovation challenge to develop agentic artificial‑intelligence tools that can influence adversary decision‑making on the cognitive battlefield. The solicitation, posted on Sam.gov, seeks systems that autonomously aggregate open‑source data, detect sentiment shifts, map influence...
Eridu May Be
Is AI networking upstart Eridu working on a high radix, waferscale switch ASIC? Maybe. Just maybe. $NVDA $AMD $AVGO $MRVL https://t.co/4337xttDy2
Choosing the Right Med Spa Platform Boosts Bookings and Growth
The right med spa platform can improve bookings, streamline ops, and support growth across multiple locations. Here’s how today’s top platforms stack up: https://t.co/KqeNCzTGNM #Meevo @AestheticsPro2 @mangomint @Vagaro #medspa #HITSM
