Harbor Acquires CE Global Partners to Bolster HCM Offering
Harbor has acquired UK‑based HR and payroll specialist CE Global Partners, adding a 35‑person team to its recently launched human capital management (HCM) advisory practice. The deal expands Harbor from a pure advisory model to an end‑to‑end offering that includes delivery, managed services, and ongoing payroll operations. CE Global’s expertise in complex, multi‑stakeholder HR transformations complements Harbor’s legal‑sector technology and data capabilities. The acquisition also strengthens Harbor’s footprint in the UK, positioning it to meet growing law‑firm demand for integrated workforce modernization.
Harbor Acquires CE Global Partners to Bolster HCM Offering
Harbor, a leading legal‑technology provider, announced the acquisition of CE Global Partners, a specialist consultancy in human capital management (HCM). The deal, valued at roughly $45 million, brings CE Global's talent‑acquisition and workforce‑analytics expertise into Harbor's enterprise solutions platform. By integrating...
10 Smart Kitchen Gadgets That Actually Save Time
The article spotlights ten smart kitchen gadgets that promise measurable time savings during the summer cooking season. Core devices—an air fryer, a sensor‑driven microwave, and a vacuum sealer—cut cooking, reheating, and prep steps by up to 50 percent while also...
SwitchBot Launches E-Ink Weather Station with Integrated Smart Calendar
SwitchBot unveiled its Weather Station, a 7.5‑inch E‑Ink home display that combines weather data, indoor/outdoor sensor readings, a smart calendar and smart‑home scene controls. The device pairs with up to three SwitchBot sensors, offers six customizable themes, and supports Matter...
Blue Origin Should Be Able to Launch Again By End of 2026
Blue Origin’s launch complex 36 is back on track after gaining access to the pad and integration facility. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good condition, and the booster “Never Tell Me The Odds”...
Russia’s FSB Says Foreign Spies Infected Officials’ Phones With Malware
On June 2, 2026 Russia’s Federal Security Service announced it had uncovered a large‑scale operation by foreign intelligence that implanted malware on the mobile phones of senior Russian officials. The alleged code could steal data, intercept calls and activate microphones...
NASA Rethinks Commercial LEO Plans
NASA has abandoned its plan to launch a government‑owned core module that would serve as the anchor for future commercial space stations, a concept announced at the March "Ignition" event. Instead, the agency will revert to the original commercial low‑Earth‑orbit...
Power, GPUs, and the Great Pivot: How Former Crypto Miners Are Rebuilding AI Data Center Infrastructure
The rapid expansion of generative AI is straining data‑center capacity, driving demand for purpose‑built AI factories packed with high‑end GPUs. Companies that once mined cryptocurrency or operated niche data services are repurposing their power‑intensive facilities to serve AI and high‑performance...
How Cybersecurity Teams Can Leverage RFID
Cybersecurity teams are turning to radio‑frequency identification (RFID) to bridge the gap between physical and digital defenses. Encrypted RFID badges replace magnetic‑stripe cards, delivering precise access logs for data‑center doors and server closets. Tagging laptops, tablets and other hardware with...
How Embedded Payment Solutions Work: 3 Key Benefits (2026) – Shopify
Shopify outlines how embedded payment solutions keep the checkout experience on‑site, offering merchants deep customization, smoother user experience, and simpler operations. Juniper Research projects embedded payments will handle $228 billion in transactions by 2028, a 148% jump from 2024. The piece...
Digi Power X Secures NVIDIA Vera Rubin Systems, Advancing Its AI Infrastructure and Strengthening the NeoCloudz Platform
Digi Power X announced a $35 million purchase of NVIDIA’s next‑generation Vera Rubin platform to boost its NeoCloudz GPU‑as‑a‑Service offering. The company’s Phase 1 AI data center campus, delivering 15 MW of IT load, is on track for a Dec 15 2026 service start, with...
SAP Engagement Cloud Q2 2026 Release
SAP announced the Q2 2026 release of its Engagement Cloud, delivering a more sophisticated personalization and campaign engine. The update tightly integrates with SAP Customer Data Cloud (CDC) and Customer Data Platform (CDP), giving marketers richer data insights and the ability...
Computex 2026: Pegatron Accelerates the Future of AI Factories with Nvidia
At Computex 2026, Pegatron announced a new AI infrastructure suite built around Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform, including the liquid‑cooled NVL72 supercomputer and HGX Rubin‑based servers. The NVL72 integrates 72 GPUs, 36 CPUs, NVLink 6, and BlueField‑4 DPUs, promising ten‑fold token efficiency...
Computex 2026: Phison Collaborates with Intel to Bring Larger Local AI Workloads to Intel AI PC Platforms
Phison Electronics announced a partnership with Intel to integrate its Pascari aiDAPTIV memory‑extension technology into Intel Core Ultra AI PC platforms. The solution bridges DRAM and high‑endurance NAND flash, allowing larger Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) models and agentic AI workloads to run...
Computex 2026: Lexar Eyes Next-Generation AI Solutions with ASUS Collaboration on Mini PCs, Handheld Gaming and High-Performance Gaming Memory
Lexar announced a strategic collaboration with ASUS at Computex 2026, targeting AI‑aware storage for edge devices and high‑performance gaming. The partnership showcases an AI‑grade Gen4 SSD in the ASUS NUC 15 Pro mini‑PC and introduces the PLAY X PCIe 4.0 SSD for handheld gaming,...
Computex 2026: Glyph Launches a High-Intensity USB4 80Gbps Portable NVMe SSD, the Atom EX80
Glyph Production Technologies unveiled the Atom EX80, a portable NVMe SSD that leverages an 80 Gbps USB4 interface to deliver up to 7,000 MB/s peak transfer rates. The drive ships in 1‑ to 8‑TB capacities, features a magnetic mounting system compatible with...
5 Fun Papers That Explain LLMs Clearly
The article curates five cornerstone papers that together demystify how large language models work, from the Transformer architecture to retrieval‑augmented generation. It highlights how "Attention Is All You Need" introduced self‑attention, how GPT‑3 proved in‑context few‑shot learning, and how scaling...
Did Claude Opus 4.8 Distill Alibaba's Qwen? Here's What the Evidence Says
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, and some users observed the model answering in Chinese that it was "Tongyi Qianwen," Alibaba’s Qwen family. The claim that Opus 4.8 had distilled Qwen spread across Hacker News, Reddit, and...
In Animal Study, Nanobots Repair Spinal Cords
Researchers have combined induced pluripotent stem cells with magnetic nanobots (NPC‑bots) to target spinal‑cord injuries in zebrafish and mice. The nanobots are steered by external magnetic fields, delivering electrical stimulation that drives stem‑cell migration, differentiation, and integration. In zebrafish, the...
The Sequence AI of the Week #871: Inside the Loop with Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, delivering a suite of reliability‑focused upgrades for AI agents. The model cuts unremarked code flaws by roughly four‑fold, patches silent tool‑call skips, and improves long‑context compaction. New dynamic workflows let the system fan out...
U.S. CISA Adds Android and Linux Kernel Flaws to Its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two critical flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Linux kernel CVE‑2022‑0492 and Android framework CVE‑2025‑48595. The Linux issue, scoring 7.0, lets attackers escape containers via a cgroups privilege‑escalation...
Why Tumors Resist Immunotherapy: How Removing Their Armor Can Turn Cold Cancers Hot
Researchers at UC San Diego identified microRNA‑25 (miR‑25) as a key driver of resistance to immune checkpoint therapy. Deleting miR‑25 in mouse melanoma, colon and breast cancer models did not affect tumor growth alone but markedly improved response to checkpoint...
NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver
NVIDIA’s open‑source Nova driver has released its 12th patch series, rebasing onto the drm‑rust‑next branch and adding Rust code improvements. The update brings Hopper and Blackwell GPUs into the driver’s enablement pipeline, including support for the Foundation Security Processor (FSP)...
China Is Training a Robot Future — One Folded Shirt at a Time
Chinese robotics firms are tackling the data bottleneck by paying residents to film household chores, a strategy highlighted by JD.com’s plan to generate 10 million hours of training data over two years. Participants earn roughly $3 per hour, with the program...
AI’s Data Center Boom Is Turning Career Choices Into An Ethical Minefield
The rapid expansion of AI‑driven data centers is generating a hidden environmental toll, from soaring local temperatures to massive water consumption and higher electricity costs. Workers are confronting a new ethical dilemma, questioning whether their salaries justify supporting infrastructure that...
Machine Learning System Design Interview #46 - The Jitter-Latency Trap
Waymo’s interview scenario highlights that streaming raw sensor data to the cloud is impractical for real‑time autonomous driving. Continuous 5G transmission of LiDAR and 4K video would exhaust bandwidth and introduce network jitter, causing system failures. The recommended architecture uses...
Cheerio, TEFCA
The UK Parliament is debating the NHS Modernisation Bill, which would create a statutory framework for a Single Patient Record that links general practitioners, hospitals, and social‑care providers. Key provisions reside in sections 250E and 250F, outlining how longitudinal health...
Converge Bio Receives $2.5M Gates Foundation Grant to Extend AI Platform to Crop Genomics
Converge Bio has secured a $2.5 million, 37‑month grant from the Gates Foundation to repurpose its generative‑AI drug‑modeling platform for crop genomics. The funding will support a multimodal, long‑context foundation model that can pinpoint causal genetic variants linked to yield, climate...
Munters Acquires Optifarm to Strengthen AI Livestock Monitoring Across Speria Platform
Munters, a global climate‑optimization firm, has acquired UK‑based Optifarm to embed its AI‑driven livestock health intelligence into the Speria FoodTech platform. Optifarm’s technology monitors real‑time animal behavior and environmental signals, such as water consumption, to detect early health deviations and...
History Repeating: The BACnet Revolution and the Battle for Your Data
The building‑automation industry shed its proprietary shackles in the mid‑1990s when BACnet emerged as an open communication protocol, allowing new players to compete on controller quality and price. Decades later the battle has shifted from device talk to data ownership,...
OM in the News: AI Is Coming to Tear Down Cubicle Jobs
Phoenix has long served as America’s back‑office hub, housing low‑skill, cubicle‑based roles in customer service, data entry and payroll. AI adoption at firms like Lumen Technologies is rapidly automating these repetitive tasks, prompting a sharp decline in local back‑office employment....
I Used Claude Every Day for Years — Here's the Setup I'd Start With Today
The post argues that most users treat Claude like a search engine, resetting context with every query, which wastes the model’s learning potential. It outlines an eight‑step workflow that starts with dedicated project chats and a "how‑I‑work" context file, then...
Glasswing Widens: Anthropic Puts Mythos Inside Power, Water and Hospital Operators Across More than 15 Countries
Anthropic announced the second phase of Project Glasswing, extending its Claude Mythos offensive‑security model to roughly 150 additional organizations across more than 15 countries, including power utilities, water authorities, hospitals, telecom carriers and hardware makers. Since April, the restricted Mythos...
Microservices Platforms - Part 8: Getting Started with Platforms
The eighth installment of the Microservices Platforms series examines why up to 70% of platform‑engineering teams under‑deliver and outlines steps to improve outcomes. Drawing on the author’s QCon talk and a New Stack study, the piece highlights common pitfalls such...
How One California Couple Turned Old Electronics Into a Thriving eBay Business
eWaste Direct, a California electronics recycler with nearly two decades of experience, runs the eBay storefront Angie’s GreenGo Surplus. The store refurbishes and resells thousands of laptops, phones and component parts that would otherwise become landfill waste. By pairing skilled...
AULUMU Introduces the G05 Pro Multi-Function Mag Kickstand – A Pocket-Sized Urban Survival Toolkit with Five Functions in One Compact...
AULUMU unveiled the G05 Pro Multi‑Function Mag Kickstand, a pocket‑sized accessory that combines a 25 N Halbach magnetic stand with five built‑in micro‑tools. Weighing just 38 g and forged from aerospace‑grade aluminium, it supports up to 2.5 kg and offers a 0‑80° adjustable...
Foundation 365, Litera’s AI-Powered CRM Platform for Law Firms, Is Now Available Within Microsoft 365
Litera has launched Foundation 365, its AI‑powered CRM for law firms, as a native component of Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Teams and the new Microsoft 365 Copilot. The platform, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, was previously known as Peppermint Client...
Microsoft's Approach to LLM: MAI-Thinking-1
Microsoft’s AI team released a technical report on MAI‑Thinking‑1, a reasoning model that achieved 52.8% on SWE‑Bench Pro and 97% on AIME 2025, matching frontier‑size models. The model was trained on 30 trillion human‑written tokens without any external model distillation, emphasizing learning...
In CTOs We Trust: Legal AI’s Challenge Is Confidence at Scale
Law firms are rapidly moving from AI curiosity to widespread use, with 80% of lawyers at large UK and Irish firms employing AI for research and two‑thirds using it for document‑related tasks. Yet only 30% report that AI is embedded...
Will AI Ruin the Social Sciences — or Revolutionize Them?
Researchers across the social sciences warn that large language models are infiltrating survey research, with estimates that up to 45% of responses may be AI‑generated. The contamination threatens data validity and could undermine trust in behavioural studies. Journals are already...
Beyond Go-Live: How to Turn Your CRM Into a Growth Engine
Law firms often see CRM projects stall after go-live, but the real payoff comes from turning the system into a growth engine. The article outlines a maturity path—from basic visibility to actionable insight, then impact—showing how firms can embed relationship...
Micron at Computex 2026: AI Needs Not only Compute Power, but Memory with Throughput
At Computex 2026 Micron showcased a comprehensive AI‑focused memory and storage lineup, emphasizing that modern artificial‑intelligence systems need far more than raw compute. The company announced volume shipments of a 36 GB HBM4 stack delivering over 2.8 TB/s bandwidth and 20% better energy...
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D: A PassMark Leak Becomes an Official 16-Core Processor for AM5 Workstations
AMD officially unveiled the Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D, a 16‑core, 32‑thread Zen 5 processor for AM5 workstations, featuring 128 MB of 3D V‑Cache and a 5.5 GHz boost clock. The chip carries a 170 W TDP, supports ECC DDR5 and AMD PRO security features, but disables overclocking and EXPO...
Law Professors Prefer AI Over Peer Answers
A Stanford Law School study found that law professors preferred AI‑generated answers over peer‑written responses for first‑year contracts questions. Researchers fed 40 typical queries to Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and NotebookLM, then had the same professors blind‑rate the answers. The AI...
10 Hacks Every Perplexity User Should Know
The LifeHacker piece outlines ten practical hacks that transform Perplexity from a simple Q&A tool into a robust research assistant. It highlights built‑in features such as the Perplexity Computer for background processing, the Comet AI browser for live web access,...
The Details of Trump’s Long-Awaited, Scaled-Back AI Order
President Donald Trump signed a pared‑down executive order on June 2, 2026 aimed at bolstering cybersecurity against AI‑driven threats. The order directs federal agencies to prioritize AI‑enhanced cyber defenses and creates a voluntary AI cybersecurity clearinghouse for sharing vulnerability patches....
"The Value Didn't Arrive": Bain Finds Cost-Savings From AI Are Falling Far Short Of Projections
A Bain Global Survey of 951 firms with revenues over $100 million reveals AI‑driven automation is delivering far less cost‑savings than expected. Only 40% of respondents reported reductions of 10% or less, and 44% are planning the next wave of AI...
Sony WF-1000XM6 Gets a Pill-Shaped Redesign: 5 Upgrades Worth Your Money in 2026
Sony unveiled the WF‑1000XM6 earbuds in February 2026, introducing a pill‑shaped design and a new QN3e noise‑cancelling processor that is three times faster than the QN2e used in the WF‑1000XM5. The earbuds feature an eight‑mic array, delivering 25 % more mid‑to‑high‑frequency noise...
Legend Biotech (LEGN) Soars 42% on Promising Cancer Therapy Results
Legend Biotech (NASDAQ:LEGN) saw its stock surge 42% to $36.28 after reporting Phase 1 data for its in‑vivo CAR‑T candidate LB2501. The trial enrolled six patients with relapsed/refractory B‑cell non‑Hodgkin lymphoma, all of whom responded, and five achieved complete remission with...
OpenAI Expands Codex Beyond Coding with Role-Specific Plugins for Analysts, Marketers, Sales, and Other Knowledge Workers
OpenAI is extending its Codex platform beyond software development with six new role‑specific plugins aimed at analysts, marketers, salespeople and other knowledge workers. The plugins aggregate 62 third‑party applications and 110 AI‑driven skills covering data analytics, creative production, sales, product...