The Hidden Potential of Trump’s Critical Minerals Stockpile – by Rebecca Egan McCarthy (Grist.org – March 5, 2026)
Despite a broader rollback of renewable-friendly policies, the Trump administration has accelerated efforts to build a domestic critical‑minerals stockpile. The move targets metals essential for both advanced military hardware and clean‑energy technologies, aiming to reduce U.S. reliance on China. By streamlining permits and launching new procurement programs, the government hopes to secure supply chains for batteries, wind turbines, and solar components. Analysts see the stockpile as a potential, if underutilized, lever for future renewable deployment.
New AI Community Watch Tool Showcases X API Power
Sneak peek: A new way to watch all of AI community here on X. Coming soon, want your feedback as I put finishing touches on it. Built as joint project with @blevlabs and me. OpenClaw can't do as good, neither can any other...
Eco-Friendly Cotton that Repels Water and Separates Oil
Researchers at INL have introduced a fluorine‑free technique that coats cotton with hydrophobic nanoparticles and hexadecyltrimethoxysilane, creating a water‑repellent, stain‑resistant fabric. The treatment forms micro‑ and nanoscale textures that preserve breathability while allowing oil to pass, enabling efficient oil‑water separation....
Coherent Introduces Thermadite Liquid Cold Plates for High-Power Compute Applications
Coherent Corp has launched Thermadite 800 liquid cold plates, a new cooling solution for high‑power AI accelerators. The material delivers 800 W/(m·K) thermal conductivity—about twice that of copper—while being 60% lighter. In benchmark tests, the plates lower chip temperatures by more than...
Oukitel WP63 Rugged Phone Has an Igniter for Starting Fires, a Camp Light, and a 20,000 mAh Battery
Oukitel unveiled the WP63, a rugged smartphone that packs a 20,000 mAh battery, a 6.7‑inch 120 Hz display, and an unprecedented electric igniter for starting fires. The device is IP69‑rated, MIL‑STD‑810H certified, and includes a bright LED camp light, 33 W wired charging...
Dominion Dynamics Says It Will Invest $50 Million to Build a “Sovereign Autonomous Wingman”
Dominion Dynamics, an Ottawa‑based defence startup, announced a CAD 50 million investment to develop an Autonomous Collaborative Platform (ACP), a sovereign “autonomous wingman” that will operate alongside manned fighters. The company plans to deliver a sub‑scale prototype within 24‑36 months, leveraging advanced...
TDL | Defense Before Offense: Leadership, Risk, and the Cost of Bad Decisions | Steven Elliott
In a recent episode of The Defender’s Log, Adam Networks CFO Steven Elliott draws on his Army Ranger background to argue that defense must precede offense in cybersecurity. He outlines a "priorities of work" framework—security, maintenance, personal care, and sleep—as...
Houston ISD to Convert Elementary Schools Into 'Future 2 Schools'
Houston Independent School District will convert Gregg Elementary and Clemente Martinez Elementary into “Future 2” schools focused on artificial intelligence starting next school year. The decision follows a board vote to close 12 schools because of declining enrollment, and Betsy Ross...
MicroVision Targets Sub‑$200 LIDAR for Mass‑market Cars
LIDAR is expensive to add to most cars. That’s why until now, it’s only been used for high-end autonomous vehicles. But MicroVision wants to lower LIDAR prices, designing a sensor that costs under US $200 to produce. https://spectrum.ieee.org/solid-state-lidar-microvision-adas
AI Assistant Cuts Founder Admin to Zero
If you run a business, you need to see this 👀 @HeyNoahAI is a new assistant built strictly for Founders and Execs, designed to slash your admin and coordination time to absolute zero 📉 Mark your calendars for March 10th, 2026. Grab your...
Qnity Announces $61.5M Investment in New Advanced Semiconductor Research & Manufacturing Facility
Qnity Electronics announced a $61.5 million investment to acquire a new advanced semiconductor research and manufacturing facility in Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Park. The site will house state‑of‑the‑art clean rooms, research labs, warehousing and office space to boost advanced‑node and packaging capacity....
MXene Smart Textiles Could Track Vitals, Kill Bacteria, and Harvest Solar Energy
Researchers at the University of Georgia reviewed MXene‑based smart textiles that can monitor heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature while providing antimicrobial protection and solar energy harvesting. MXenes, a two‑dimensional metal‑derived material, can be coated or printed onto fabrics, turning...
The Results Achieved From Implementing the B2B SaaS Growth System
Implementing the B2B SaaS Growth System delivers measurable, profitable ad‑driven growth. In a flagship case, monthly new customers from ads rose from 82 to over 370 within 27 months, while CAC remained at roughly 33 % of ACV and spend stayed...
The 10 Fastest-Growing Australian Instagram Accounts of February 2026
In February 2026 Korean‑Australian actress Yerin Ha topped the growth chart, adding 692.6 K followers to reach just over 1 million. Creative director Christian Watson, physiotherapist Heidi Barlow, radio host Liam Stapleton and UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski also posted sizable gains, each surpassing...
Tencent Games Unveils AI Tools and Developer Sessions for GDC 2026
Tencent Games announced a robust GDC 2026 program featuring more than 20 sessions and a technology showcase of its latest AI‑powered development tools. The company will exhibit six internal solutions—including VISVISE, MagicDawn, ACE anti‑cheat, WeTest, ASI World, and AI‑generated Kung Fu...
USSF Eyes ‘Dual-Use’ Ways to Boost Space Superiority, Prep for Guardians in Orbit
U.S. Space Force leaders are exploring dual‑use initiatives that can sustain today’s space‑superiority mission while laying groundwork for future Guardians—military astronauts—operating in orbit. At the AFA Warfare Symposium, officials warned that China’s fully integrated civil‑military space program could give it...
Stop Trusting Windows Drive Alerts: How to Pull Your SSD's Raw NVMe Error Log with Smartctl
Windows drive alerts often mask underlying SSD issues, but NVMe drives maintain a detailed error information log separate from SMART metrics. Using the open‑source Smartmontools suite, Windows users can retrieve this raw log with smartctl commands, provided the drive is...
Air Force Explores CRM Strategy to Improve Digital Services
The U.S. Air Force is piloting a customer‑relationship‑management (CRM) strategy built on ServiceNow to unify fragmented legacy systems and multiple ServiceNow instances. By centralizing citizen, contractor and partner interactions, the Air Force aims to deliver a consistent digital experience while...
Incognia Partners with Upwork to Boost Marketplace Trust
Incognia, a leader in cross‑device risk intelligence, has partnered with Upwork to strengthen the freelance marketplace’s trust and safety infrastructure. The collaboration integrates Incognia’s apartment‑level location precision, tamper detection, and device intelligence into Upwork’s platform, delivering real‑time risk signals for...
AI Empowers Solo Entrepreneurs to Build End‑to‑End Businesses
We are seeing the rise of the full stack entrepreneur. AI is expanding the scope of what an individual entrepreneur can do. She can have the idea. She can test it using a virtual customer panel constructed with LLMs. She...
Google PM Open-Sources Always On Memory Agent, Ditching Vector Databases for LLM-Driven Persistent Memory
Google has open‑sourced an Always On Memory Agent that eliminates traditional vector‑database retrieval in favor of a large‑language‑model‑driven memory layer. Built on the Agent Development Kit and powered by the low‑cost Gemini 3.1 Flash‑Lite model, the agent continuously ingests, consolidates, and serves...
Many PE Teams Embraced Mechanical Thrombectomy Early On: PERT Registry
Mechanical thrombectomy use for acute pulmonary embolism rose 18% annually from 2016 to 2024, overtaking catheter‑directed thrombolysis by 2021. The shift began before landmark trials such as STORM‑PE and PEERLESS, reflecting clinician confidence despite limited randomized data. Analysis of 2,958...
Coal-to-Gas Conversions Approved for Two Arizona Power Plants
Arizona regulators unanimously approved the conversion of coal‑fired units at the Springerville and Coronado power plants to natural gas. Tucson Electric Power’s Springerville conversion is budgeted between $170 million and $200 million and targets gas operation by 2030, while Salt River Project’s...
Great AI Won’t Save Poor Customer Journeys
Today's reminder that, even in the age of AI, marketing still matters. In my exuberance over the launch of ChatGPT 5.4 yesterday, I hit a usage limit. But instead of using this as an upsell opportunity, I got the below...
Robotic Surgery Removes Hard-to-Reach Caudate Lobe Tumor in a 79-Year-Old
Researchers at Boston University successfully removed a caudate lobe liver metastasis from a 79‑year‑old using a surgical robot. The team combined a hanging maneuver on the Arantius ligament with indocyanine green negative staining to delineate tumor margins. Intra‑operative ultrasound guided...
One Person Can't Replace Four Without More Than AI
"Just hire someone smart and give them AI tools." That's not a strategy. That's a hope. Part 2 of the 10% OpEx series breaks down what actually has to be true before one person can do the work of four....
Your Accounts Aren't as Safe as You Think: The Danger of SMS 2FA
SMS‑based two‑factor authentication remains widely used but is increasingly exposed to SIM‑swap attacks and smishing phishing. Attackers exploit social engineering to hijack phone numbers, intercepting one‑time codes and compromising accounts. The article recommends replacing SMS 2FA with authenticator apps that...
First Fidelity Bank Taps Bud Financial for Insight-Driven Digital Banking Upgrade
First Fidelity Bank (FFB), a regional community bank with $2.9 billion in assets, has gone live with Bud Financial’s Enrich and Engage platforms to upgrade its digital banking experience. The partnership embeds Bud’s transaction‑data enrichment and personal financial management (PFM) widgets—such...
How the Best Brands Are Winning by Moving Faster
Brands that can activate creators within hours are out‑pacing competitors, not out‑spending them. The article outlines a speed‑to‑culture framework built on pre‑vetted creator rosters, master contracts, and a single decision owner, enabling rapid response to viral trends. Influencer‑marketing teams can...
How Brands Are Leveraging Live Commerce to Move Excess Inventory
Brands are turning to live commerce to liquidate excess inventory, gaining real‑time pricing, product visibility, and storytelling that traditional bulk liquidation lacks. Platforms such as Whatnot, eBay Live, and Poshmark Live let sellers showcase condition and price instantly, targeting niche...
Gov’t IT Spending Seen as Key to Building Europe’s Tech Ecosystem
European public‑sector IT spending is pivoting away from U.S. vendors as governments seek digital sovereignty. Germany, Denmark and France are replacing Microsoft Office, Windows, Teams and Zoom with open‑source or home‑grown alternatives, citing cost savings and strategic independence. The German...
Google Puts Apps That'll Drain Your Battery on Blast in Updated Play Store Listings
Google has begun rolling out a new warning in the Play Store for apps that excessively drain battery through background activity. The alert, displayed in a pale red banner, is triggered when an app holds a non‑exempt partial wake lock...
Is Your Solar Generator’s 200-Watt Panel Not Delivering 200 Watts? Here’s Why the Actual Output Is Often Much Lower.
Solar generators often list a 200‑watt panel rating, but that figure reflects ideal laboratory conditions, not everyday use. In real‑world settings, sunlight intensity, panel angle, temperature and efficiency typically reduce output to 50‑75% of the advertised number. Users must also...
Gradient Wall Microbottle Resonator Enables Large Scale Optical Trapping
The research team introduced a gradient‑thickness microbottle resonator that confines optical fields inside its silica walls, allowing large‑scale nanoparticle trapping over a 195 µm axial range with less than 0.2 mW of laser power. By shaping the wall thickness, peak fields are...
Reviewing What Is Known of the Virome in Aging
Recent open‑access review maps the human virome’s role in aging, highlighting how gut and circulating viruses influence immunity, inflammation, and metabolism. Age‑related virome changes include expansion of bacteriophage families, reactivation of latent herpesviruses, and altered viral diversity, with centenarians displaying...
NASA Changed an Asteroid’s Orbital Path Around the Sun, a First for Humankind
In September 2022 NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed into Dimorphos, the smaller member of the Didymos binary, deliberately altering its orbit. New analysis published in Science Advances shows the impact also slowed the entire binary system’s heliocentric speed by roughly 12 microns...
Why Replacing Anthropic at the Pentagon Could Take Months
The Department of Defense has given Anthropic six months to remove its Claude model from classified networks, citing it as a supply‑chain risk. While swapping the model technically takes minutes, retraining personnel and re‑engineering workflows will take months. The move...
Apple Broadens Ecosystem With MacBook Neo And Formula 1 Rights
Apple unveiled the MacBook Neo, its cheapest MacBook yet, aimed at students and first‑time buyers, positioning the company against Chromebooks and low‑end Windows laptops. Simultaneously, Apple secured exclusive U.S. streaming rights for Formula 1 on Apple TV, adding premium sports content to its...
DSG Expands AI and Ecommerce Across Its Distribution Brands
Distribution Solutions Group (DSG) is embedding ecommerce and AI across its three main brands—Lawson Products, Gexpro Services and TestEquity—to boost sales efficiency and capture new customers. In Q4, Lawson’s online channel posted an 18% revenue increase, with over 30% of...
Clean Energy Funding Still Trails Military Budgets
On The Climate Brink, @hausfath.bsky.social writes about the trends of spending on clean energy vs. national defense: When will clean energy spending exceed military spending? https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/when-will-clean-energy-spending-exceed
Major Peptide Supplier Closes, Gray Market Faces Crackdown
Assuming this is real it may have something to do with their “must pay by Venmo to the following name” (at least that’s how it used to be). FDA is easing up on some aspects of peptides but gray market...
I'm Itching to Replay Classic Games with This Emulator Add-On
RetroAchievements adds a trophy system to roughly 10,000 classic games, offering over half a million achievements that work through the RetroArch emulator. By pairing the service with EmuDeck, users can transform a Steam Deck or similar handheld into a portable retro‑gaming...
Legacy Brand Stories Go Digital with Perfion PIM
We transition 50-year-old brand stories from paper catalogs to digital channels. Boyum's Perfion PIM maintains heritage as our single source of truth. Manage brand data with accuracy across all platforms. https://t.co/ZsEwnG4p2n https://t.co/jDz62lUBNZ
Naringenin Boosts Brain Longevity by Targeting Aging Hallmarks
Targeting aging hallmarks in brain health within the framework of preventive medicine: mechanistic insights into naringenin's role in longevity, synaptic function, and cellular homeostasis https://t.co/JPiEz5VnQe https://t.co/C0EYPRepwy
How Gaiia Used Its R&D to Help Finance a Pivot From Services to Software
In early 2023, Quebec‑based Oxio sold its ISP business to Cogeco for $100 million and rebranded as Gaiia, a software platform for challenger ISPs. The spin‑out entered a seed round of $13 million, but with less than $1 million in revenue and a...
Anthropic Could Break Slack’s Restrictive Data Policies
Slack is the most important text data source in most companies, but it has the worst data access policies in enterprise software. The only thing that will fix it is competition, and Anthropic is the right company to do it....
CIOs and CHROs Must Co‑lead AI Literacy for Scale
RT AI democratization is a change management problem. CIOs must partner with CHROs on AI literacy, "vibe then verify" cultures, and on-the-job learning that turns pilots into scaled outcomes. #ChangeManagement #AI #CHRO #CIO #AIDemocratization @Star_CIO https://t.co/8OLLAWNSNL
AI Platform Could Add $1,500 Annual Battery Savings
“Turning point:” New AI platform promises to boost home battery payback by up to $1,500 a year #energysky -- via Renew Economy: https://t.co/a6Zwu6PFYt https://t.co/hGz7GBwWiS
Spotify Launches Premium AI Tier, Becoming 2026 AI Winner
⚡️ Premium-Priced AI Tier Coming to @Spotify ⚡️ $SPOT Spotify will transform from AI loser to AI winner over the course of 2026 https://t.co/DgqxhetIEf
PEP Slows Aging by Blocking Inflammation Pathway
PEP protects against age-related inflammation, puts the brake on the aging process in mice, high levels in humans correlate with low inflammation So what is PEP, you ask? phosphoenolpyruvate, from glucose metabolism, a, master regulator, blocks cGAS-STING https://t.co/glMvaHSjOq https://t.co/MSVMBJbHm4
