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LoongArch Ready With New Features In Linux 7.0

The Linux 7.0 kernel introduces a suite of enhancements for the LoongArch architecture, a China‑origin CPU design derived from MIPS64 and RISC‑V. New capabilities include SMT hot‑plug support, 128‑bit atomic compare‑and‑exchange operations, and the memfd_secret system call. Additional updates bring BPF...

Intel: Fiscal 4Q25 and FY25 Financial Results

Intel reported FY 2025 revenue of $52.9 billion, essentially flat year‑over‑year, while Q4 revenue slipped 4% to $13.7 billion. GAAP earnings per share were a loss of $0.12 in the quarter, but non‑GAAP EPS turned positive at $0.15, and full‑year GAAP EPS remained...

Trane Technologies to Acquire LiquidStack to Accelerate End‑to‑End Data Center Thermal Management Solutions

Trane Technologies announced a definitive agreement to acquire LiquidStack, a specialist in liquid‑cooling solutions for data centers, with the deal slated to close in early 2026. The acquisition builds on Trane’s 2023 minority stake and adds direct‑to‑chip and immersion cooling...

Backblaze Publishes 2025 Drive Stats Report: 13 Years of Data Show Growing, Healthier Drive Fleet

Backblaze released its 2025 Year‑End Drive Stats, covering 344,196 drives across 30 models. The annualized failure rate dropped to 1.36%, down from 1.55% in 2024, with a quarterly AFR of 1.13% in Q4. High‑capacity drives now dominate the fleet, with...

Samsung Begin Mass Production of Up to 36GB HBM4 Memory With Performance for AI Computing

Samsung Electronics has begun mass production of its next‑generation HBM4 memory, shipping 24‑36 GB stacks that deliver 11.7 Gb/s per pin and up to 3.3 TB/s bandwidth per stack. The new DRAM uses Samsung’s 6th‑gen 10 nm‑class 1c process and 12‑layer stacking, offering a...

The Revisionists: Inside OpenAP With Brittany Slattery

OpenAP, founded in 2017 by the major broadcast networks, has evolved from a linear‑TV audience‑standardization consortium into a key player shaping streaming identity and ad‑currency frameworks. Its members—Paramount, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox—plus strategic investor Snowflake, use a shared foundation to...

Making Authenticity a Competitive Edge for Publishers

Publishers face a surge of AI‑generated content, with 50% of new web articles and one‑third of YouTube Shorts now created by algorithms. Advertisers are moving away from sheer volume metrics toward outcomes that require verified, engaged audiences. The article outlines...

How Does Cholera Colonize the Gut? Unmasking Virulence Activation with Cryo-EM

Cryogenic electron microscopy enabled researchers to solve five structures of Vibrio cholerae transcription activation complexes, revealing how the bacterium initiates virulence in the human gut. The study shows ToxR and TcpP transcription factors bind the RNA polymerase α‑C‑terminal domain via...

On Page SEO: The Complete Guide to Ranking Without Being an SEO Expert

Neal Schaffer’s guide breaks down on‑page SEO into actionable elements such as title tags, header hierarchy, internal linking, page speed, and mobile‑first optimization. He cites that the top Google result captures 27.6% of clicks, making first‑page rankings vital, and highlights...

INTX Selected by Xitus as Core Insurance Operating System

Texas‑based INTX Insurance Software has been chosen by Xitus to serve as its core insurance operating system for global run‑off, loss‑portfolio transfer (LPT), insurance‑backed transaction (IBT) and captive reinsurance activities across its Bermuda, UK and Europe subsidiaries. The selection covers...

The Standardization Trap: Why Deploying AI Agents in Healthcare Require Requires a Palantir-Style Approach to “Forward Deployed” Custom Workflow Engineering

The episode dissects the gap between commoditized AI agent infrastructure and the bespoke workflow engineering needed for healthcare deployments, arguing that while 60‑70% of the tech stack (LLMs, orchestration, vector stores, compliance layers) can be standardized, the remaining 30‑40% requires...

Making Global Market Access Practical – How Medilink North of England Supports International Growth

Medilink North of England provides a structured market‑access offering that helps MedTech and digital‑health innovators move beyond regulatory clearance to achieve commercial adoption in overseas health systems. The service is built around five pillars—market segmentation, global strategy, regulatory documentation, reimbursement...

Your Foreign AI Vendor’s Black Box Is an Ethics Problem, Not a Technical One

Boards and senior leaders are confronting a growing dilemma: critical AI systems supplied by foreign vendors operate as opaque black boxes, delivering efficiency while limiting auditability. Ethicists Vera Cherepanova and Brian Haman argue this is fundamentally an ethical issue of...

LawNext on Location: Lunch with Alex Su of Latitude Legal In Alameda, Calif.

In a LawNext on Location lunch, Alex Su, chief revenue officer of Latitude Legal, outlines the company’s AI‑driven contract automation platform and its recent $30 million Series B round. He explains how Latitude Legal is expanding from large enterprises to mid‑size law...

Global Genomics: Representative Research Is Key to Unlocking the Full Potential of Precision Medicine

Professor Segun Fatumo highlights the stark under‑representation of African genomes in global research, where over 86% of GWAS participants are of European ancestry despite Africa housing the greatest genetic diversity. He explains how this gap limits the accuracy of polygenic...

Apple M3 With Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress, No ETA Yet For Shipping

Asahi Linux released a status update following the Linux 6.19 kernel, outlining progress on Apple Silicon support. The team reports that core M3 hardware components—keyboard, touchpad, Wi‑Fi, NVMe and USB‑3—are functional, though still requiring local patches. DisplayPort Alt Mode remains experimental,...

IRF7 Expression Drives Instability in Atherosclerotic Plaques

Researchers identified interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF7) as a master transcriptional driver that pushes vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) into a pro‑inflammatory, macrophage‑like state, a key step in plaque destabilisation. Single‑cell RNA sequencing and trajectory analysis uncovered an intermediate stem‑endothelial‑monocyte...

Intel Lands Initial Preparations For DSA 3.0 Accelerators In Linux 7.0

Intel’s Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) 3.0 support has been merged into the Linux 7.0 kernel, bringing native off‑load capabilities for recent Xeon processors, likely Diamond Rapids. The update introduces new sysfs interfaces that expose DSA 3.0 capability registers and adds...

NEW WEBINAR: From Systems of Engagement to Systems of Action: The Agentic CPO

On February 26, a one‑hour webcast titled “From Systems of Engagement to Systems of Action: The Agentic CPO” will explore how Agentic AI is reshaping procurement. Speakers Andrew Bartolini of Ardent Partners and Saquib Jawed of Zycus will explain the...

KVM In Linux 7.0 Adds Support For Virtualizing AMD ERAPS

The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel brings a major KVM update, adding native virtualization of AMD’s Enhanced Return Address Predictor Security (ERAPS). This enables guests to access a 64‑entry Return Stack Buffer, double the previous limit, and introduces user‑space fetching of SEV‑SNP...

SPhotonix Makes Two Senior Appointments to Deliver Accelerated Growth

SPhotonix, the pioneer of 5D Memory Crystal technology, announced two senior hires: Masaaki Sakakura as Principal Scientist and Konstantinas Zakalskis as Head of Growth. The appointments follow a $4.5 million pre‑seed round led by Creator Fund and XTX Ventures, positioning the startup for...

SimpleDocs Launches ‘Contract Intelligence Layer,’ Putting Policy, Precedent and Market Data Inside Microsoft Word

SimpleDocs introduced a Contract Intelligence Layer that embeds a law department’s internal policies, historical contract precedent, and verified market standards directly into its Microsoft Word add‑in. The AI‑powered feature surfaces relevant clauses and benchmarks as lawyers draft, cutting manual research...

Universal Migrator Reduces Pricing on Migration Tools for iManage, SharePoint, and NetDocuments

Universal Migrator announced a price cut for its migration script library, now starting at $3,500. The library covers major legal document management platforms iManage, Microsoft SharePoint, and NetDocuments. The new pricing eliminates per‑migration or size‑based fees, allowing consultants to run...

The Biotech Bi-Weekly: A 48-Channel SPR Platform, Robust RNA-Seq Libraries and Microgravitational Discoveries

Carterra unveiled Vega, the industry’s first 48‑channel high‑throughput SPR platform, delivering roughly 12‑fold higher screening capacity for small‑ and large‑molecule drug candidates. Covaris introduced the truCOVER® Total RNA Library Prep Kit, enabling robust RNA‑seq libraries from as little as 10 ng...

Stella Legal and Ironclad Enter Into Partnership

Stella Legal, a rapidly scaling UK‑US legal‑tech consultancy, announced a partnership with CLM leader Ironclad on 18 February. The collaboration merges Ironclad’s advanced AI infrastructure with Stella’s service‑first methodology to create a proactive, data‑driven contracting model. Stella, founded a year...

Webinar: The State of Legal Tech – An End to the Status Quo?

Legal IT Insider announced a free webinar on March 4 featuring Clio’s senior director of product management, Robin Chesterman, to discuss the firm’s new State of Legal Tech report. The study surveyed more than 2,000 legal professionals in the UK...

Electronic Evidence Workbook 2026

LegalTech Daily announced the release of the Electronic Evidence Workbook 2026, a comprehensive guide for lawyers and forensic specialists handling digital data. The workbook updates the 2025 standards, adds new AI‑driven preservation tools, and includes practical checklists and templates. It...

EY: Organizations that Balance Technical Capability and Human-Centered Skills Will Lead in the AI-Driven Future

EY’s Global Assurance Talent Leader Sandra Oliver says the firms that combine AI technical capability with human‑centered skills will dominate the AI‑driven future. EY is investing heavily in upskilling its 130,000‑plus assurance professionals, embedding generative AI tools such as EYQ...

Actionstep Completes SOC 2® Type 2 Examination, Reinforcing Commitment to Law Firm Security

Actionstep, a cloud‑based practice‑management platform used by nearly 5,000 law firms, announced completion of its SOC 2 Type 2 examination conducted by Prescient Assurance. The audit evaluated both the design and operating effectiveness of the company’s security controls over a defined period, providing...

Nanoparticle-Based Gene Editing Could Expand Treatment Options for Cystic Fibrosis

UCLA researchers have engineered lipid nanoparticles to co‑deliver CRISPR/Cas9 components and a full‑length CFTR gene, achieving precise, mutation‑agnostic insertion in human airway cells. The non‑viral system corrected 3‑4% of cells yet restored up to 100% of normal chloride channel function,...

Injectable Nanocomposite Hemostat Speeds Blood Clotting for Trauma Care

Researchers at Texas A&M have created injectable nanocomposite hemostats that cut blood clotting time from six‑seven minutes to one‑two minutes, slashing bleeding duration by up to 70% in internal hemorrhage models. The devices combine clay‑derived nanosilicates with a shape‑memory foam...

Exa Capital Announced the Acquisition of StaffReady

Metabolic Disease, Misaligned Incentives, and What I Learnt at WHX Dubai

James Hounsell, co‑founder of Evolene, attended WHX Dubai and observed that metabolic disease—obesity, diabetes and related NCDs—is far more prevalent in Gulf nations than in the West. He highlighted that less than 2 % of health spending in the region targets...

Joe Cohen Joins Harvey as Legal Innovation Partner

Harvey has appointed Joe Cohen as its new legal innovation partner, tasked with helping law‑firm leaders reshape service delivery, business models, and operations through AI. Cohen brings over a decade of legal‑tech experience, most recently directing Advanced Client Solutions at...

Joe Cohen Joins Harvey as Legal Innovation Partner

Harvey has hired Joe Cohen as a legal innovation partner to help law firms reimagine AI‑driven service delivery, business models, and operations. Cohen will work with firm leaders to align AI strategies with long‑term business priorities. He arrives after a...

Our Free Education Session From AHR Vegas Online

AutomatedBuildings.com hosted 16 free education sessions during the AHR Expo 2026 online, drawing more than 2,000 attendees. The sessions spanned HVAC automation, controls, and sustainability topics, and each was recorded for on‑demand viewing. A YouTube playlist now provides access to...

Take2 Raises $14M to Power AI Healthcare Hiring

AltaClaro and Verbit Launch DepoSim, an AI-Powered Deposition Simulator for Litigators

AltaClaro, a legal‑training specialist, unveiled DepoSim, an AI‑driven deposition simulator built with Verbit.ai. The platform creates realistic, on‑demand deposition scenarios and automatically transcribes witness testimony using Verbit’s speech‑to‑text engine. After each session, litigators receive structured, objective performance metrics and actionable...

Czech Ministry Apologizes to Journalist for Blanket Collection of Mobile Phone Data

The Czech Supreme Court ruled that the country's blanket retention of mobile phone metadata violates EU law, labeling the practice a long‑term and serious rights infringement. Following the decision, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued a formal apology to...

Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Starts with Open Source

EDRi, together with Access Now and Vrijschrift.org, submitted a response to the EU’s Open‑Source Digital Ecosystems Strategy, arguing that free and open source software (FOSS) is a strategic foundation for Europe’s digital sovereignty. The brief highlights how Europe’s current reliance...

Ensuring Human Rights-Based, Global Perspectives in the DSA Enforcement: The DSA Human Rights Alliance’s Guidelines

The DSA Human Rights Alliance released an eight‑principle guide urging the European Commission and national regulators to embed a human‑rights‑centered approach as the Digital Services Act moves into enforcement. The recommendations stress cross‑border effects, inclusion of diverse civil‑society groups, and...

How Recommender Algorithms Threaten Election Integrity

A study by ApTI examined how Facebook, Instagram and TikTok recommendation algorithms delivered political content during Romania’s 2025 presidential election. Using four controlled accounts, the researchers found that algorithms routinely overrode explicit user choices, showing adult users political posts from...

European Commission’s Plans Will Lead to Worse Regulations

EDRi warns that the European Commission’s plan to amend the Better Regulation framework will degrade EU lawmaking by introducing procedural shortcuts, reducing scrutiny, and favoring private interests. The civil‑society group submitted evidence highlighting failures in impact assessments, a politicised ‘urgency’...

AHR Expo Reflections: Elevating the BAS Visual Layer for Real World Operators

At AHR Expo, industry leaders highlighted a persistent gap between building automation system (BAS) visual design and the needs of everyday operators. While user experience is a buzzword, many graphics are still engineered for technicians rather than the people who...

Britain’s Renewed Appetite for Credit Cards

The UK credit‑card market has rebounded, with net lending up 12.4% year‑on‑year in December 2025 and outstanding balances reaching a record £78 billion. Despite higher unemployment and elevated household debt, arrears sit at just 1.2%, and debt‑service ratios are roughly half...

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Launches CardMedic to Break Down Communication Barriers and Reduce Health Inequalities

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will pilot CardMedic, a clinically validated communication app, for twelve months starting with a soft launch in October across four key departments. The charity‑funded initiative aims to eliminate language, visual, hearing and...

Antitrust Lawyers: AI’s Wartime Consiglieres

The piece warns that AI’s high fixed costs, winner‑take‑all dynamics, platform leverage and data lock‑in will drive market concentration, turning antitrust into a primary battleground. Private lawsuits are expected to outpace government enforcement, using timely complaints to stall rivals and...

SendGrid Vs. Mailchimp: Which Email Platform Is Better In 2026?

In this episode Vytautas Palubeckas compares SendGrid and Mailchimp, highlighting that SendGrid is a developer‑focused platform optimized for high‑volume transactional emails, while Mailchimp is a marketer‑friendly suite offering drag‑and‑drop design, robust automation, and broader CRM tools. Key takeaways include the...

Intel: Every Second PC Is to Become an AI System, Panther Lake Provides the Leverage

Intel announced that by 2026 it expects one in two PCs to ship as AI‑enabled devices, anchored by its new Panther Lake platform. The chipset embeds a fifth‑generation NPU capable of up to 50 TOPS, aiming to bring on‑device inference for language...