The Scramble for Green Hydrogen in South Africa: Screening and Discussion
The UK will host the UK premiere of the documentary “The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa” on 5 May 2026, spotlighting the nation’s aggressive green‑hydrogen agenda. Britain aims for 10 GW of production by 2030, backed by over £2 billion (≈ $2.5 billion) in funding for domestic electrolyser projects. The film reveals that this push relies heavily on platinum‑group metals mined by Anglo American in South Africa and Zimbabwe, triggering community displacement, water scarcity and energy poverty. Campaigners will discuss whether green hydrogen truly serves climate goals or entrenches new injustices.
Blockbuster Live: AI Pro Tips For Claude Code, NotebookLM, OpenClaw, NanoBanana, Google CLI From A Top AI Substack Creator
Last week AI influencer Wyndo hosted a 90‑minute Substack Live, demonstrating how cutting‑edge tools like Claude Code, NotebookLM, OpenClaw, NanoBanana and Google CLI can move AI from simple chat to autonomous task execution. He walked viewers through real‑world workflows, showing AI not...
Clio Adds Agentic AI Capabilities to Clio Work, Also Launches Vincent Mobile App
Clio announced two major AI upgrades: an agentic layer for its Clio Work platform and a new mobile app called Vincent. The agentic AI can automatically generate task roadmaps, pull relevant case law, score litigation risk and draft documents, all under...
Universal Migrator Releases Scripts that Migrate Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom to Clio, MyCase, Litify and Lawmatics
Universal Migrator announced a suite of new data‑migration scripts that move financial and case‑management data from Quickbooks, LexiPi, and INS Zoom into leading practice‑management platforms such as Clio, MyCase, Litify and Lawmatics. The scripts expand the company’s library to over 144...
Inside Midjourney 8: The Hidden New Features & Missing Legacy Tools
Midjourney 8 launches as an alpha‑only upgrade that reshapes AI image generation with a revamped prompting system, high‑resolution rendering tools, and a new personalization engine. Key additions include negative prompting to filter out unwanted elements, D‑HD mode for ultra‑detailed outputs, and...
How to Stop AI From Answering Question You Never Actually Asked
The post warns that large language models answer the question you ask, not the one you mean, because they operate on statistical word patterns rather than true intent. Human‑crafted jargon and industry‑specific frames embed hidden assumptions that steer AI toward...
You're Loading 66,000 Tokens of Plugins Before You Even Type. That's Why Your Limit Disappears.
The article reveals that AI plugins are preloading roughly 66,000 tokens before a user even types, inflating Claude usage limits and driving unnecessary costs. It argues that the high expense of frontier AI models is a myth; the real culprit...
Building Banani: How a Canvas-First AI Designer Is Raising the Floor on Product Design
Banani has transformed a simple Figma‑plugin proof‑of‑concept into a canvas‑first AI design platform that can churn out hundreds of thousands of UI mockups each week. The tool focuses on generating HTML/CSS designs rather than full‑code applications, allowing designers to keep...
Webinar – How to Reclaim Margin in Advanced Nodes
The ClockEdge webinar highlighted a hidden crisis in sub‑5 nm chip design: excessive guard‑banding caused by modeling uncertainty, which can strip 25‑35% of the clock period and cut performance‑per‑area (PPA) by up to 35%. Dave Johnson explained the “abstraction tax” and...
How BIG W Boosted Sales with Rapid RFID Tagging: RFID Journal Case Study
After COVID, BIG W tackled size‑level inventory gaps by launching a rapid RFID tagging program across 180 Australian stores. Partnering with Checkpoint, Sensormatic, Zebra and others, the retailer applied tags to every non‑seasonal item, achieving 100% tag saturation in months. Full...
Webinar Replay: Inside Harvey’s AI Agents & Shared Spaces
Harvey’s AI agents and Shared Spaces were highlighted in a Legal IT Insider webinar, showcasing how the platform’s agentic workflows can automate complex, multi‑step legal processes. Launched a year ago, the agents can plan, adapt, and interact with users, while...
AMD Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT Fall Below MSRP in Germany
AMD’s RDNA 4‑based Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT have finally slipped below their European MSRP in Germany, with the ASUS Prime RX 9070 OC selling for €539 against a €629 list price and the ASRock RX 9070 XT Challenger at €640 versus €689. The price...
Now Publicis Media Lands Global Microsoft
Publicis Media has won Microsoft’s global media business, a contract valued at over $1 billion, adding to its recent acquisition of Microsoft‑owned LinkedIn. Both accounts were taken from Dentsu, stripping the Japanese holding company of its strongest international media line‑up. The...
30% Better Battery? The Galaxy Watch 9’s “Secret Weapon” Just Leaked
Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Watch 9, slated for a July 2026 launch, upgrades its internals while keeping the same silhouette as the Watch 8. The device ships with Qualcomm’s 3nm Snapdragon Elite processor and an on‑board NPU, delivering faster performance and...
Flags Over Facts: The Road to Obsolescence
The mortgage industry is accelerating a shift toward automated appraisals, highlighted by the Mortgage Credit Executive Order and the upcoming UAD 3.6 system. UAD 3.6 will require hyper‑granular, machine‑readable data, turning every appraisal into a data‑mining exercise and expanding automated flagging that...
☕ Morning Briefing — Wednesday, April 2, 2026
NASA launched Artemis II on April 1, sending four astronauts on a ten‑day lunar flyby to test deep‑space systems, marking the first crewed mission beyond low‑Earth orbit since Apollo 17. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to a Trump‑era executive order...
The Unstructured Data Revolution in CRM – Interview with David Roberts of SugarCRM
SugarCRM CEO David Roberts argues that today’s CRM platforms function more as management dashboards than as tools for sellers, creating friction for sales teams. He predicts AI will overhaul CRM by ingesting unstructured data—emails, calls, texts—and turning it into actionable...
The ‘New Mac’ Checklist: Everything You Need to Do
Apple’s macOS onboarding guide walks new users through essential interface elements such as the trackpad, Dock, menu bar, Control Center, window controls, and Finder. It details how to customize gestures, shortcuts, and visual settings to suit individual workflows. By mastering...
Nations Priced Out of Big AI Are Building with Frugal Models
While U.S. and Chinese firms pour billions into massive AI models, researchers in low‑resource regions are turning to frugal AI—small, open‑weight models that run on cheap, offline hardware. Projects like the Saving Voices initiative have built speech‑AI for India’s Soliga...
The Best Lightweight Linux Distros to Revive Your Old Hardware
Lightweight Linux distributions such as Lubuntu, MX Linux, Q4OS, and Antix Linux are positioned as efficient alternatives for reviving aging computers. These distros can operate on as little as 512 MB RAM and a 500 MHz processor, making them suitable for both...
Why It’s Getting Harder to Measure AI Performance
The article examines why gauging AI progress is becoming more difficult, focusing on METR’s task‑length benchmark and its recent Claude Opus 4.6 results. While the chart suggests accelerating capabilities, METR’s confidence interval (5‑66 hours) reveals high measurement noise. It also...
Lynx Digest - Bi-Weekly Mar 19 - Apr 2
The latest Lynx Digest highlights two dominant NYC VC themes: the reality of deploying AI at scale and the mechanics of venture returns. Prominent investors debate whether the AI market is in a bubble, citing inflated valuations and poor unit...
AI Across the Advertising Value Chain: What the Latest Research Reveals
Artificial intelligence is reshaping every stage of the advertising value chain, from concept creation to media execution, according to new research by Madison & Wall. The study, presented by CEO Brian Wieser, Managing Director Luke Stillman, and Adobe’s Principal AI...
Day 48: Sessionization for User Activity Tracking
The post outlines a production‑grade sessionization pipeline that turns raw event streams into actionable user sessions using Kafka Streams session windows, a Redis‑backed active‑session cache, and PostgreSQL for persistence. It highlights real‑time session tracking with sub‑millisecond lookups and a REST...
Impacts of the RAM Shortage
Since late 2025, a global RAM shortage has emerged as leading chipmakers pivoted to higher‑margin AI data‑center memory, curtailing production for smartphones, PCs and other consumer devices. In Q4 2025, demand outstripped supply by roughly 10%, pushing RAM prices up...
Why NASA Put a First Responder Knife in Every Spacesuit
Artemis II launched on April 1, 2026, marking NASA’s first crewed Moon flight since 1972 and testing systems for future lunar missions. Each Orion spacesuit now carries a Benchmade 916SBK‑ORG Triage, a folding rescue tool originally built for first responders. The knife’s large grip,...
EFF’s Submission to the UN OHCHR on Protection of Human Rights Defenders in the Digital Age
The Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted a detailed report to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights warning that emerging online‑harm regulations are increasingly weaponized against human‑rights defenders. It cites the UK’s Online Safety Act as a template...
Salesforce & Shopify Inventory: One System of Truth for Orders, Stock & Fulfillment
Shopify merchants often face inventory mismatches that cause overselling and delayed fulfillment. Axolt replaces fragmented integrations with a native Salesforce ERP that synchronizes orders, stock, and finance in real time. The solution provides instant inventory updates across multiple warehouses, built‑in...
Legal Quants on Wall St: Why I Have 50 Attorneys From Top Firms Writing Code in the World Trade Center...
Norm has assembled 50 attorneys from elite firms to write code for its AI-driven legal platform, branding them as "Legal Engineers." These lawyers, many with no prior programming experience, undergo a rigorous certification to embed deep legal expertise into AI...
Broadband Nanoprobe Sharpens Optical Imaging Beyond the Diffraction Limit
Researchers at Xi’an Jiaotong University have unveiled a fiber‑based double‑slit plasmonic probe that uses linearly polarized light and Fabry–Pérot energy recycling to achieve broadband nanofocusing. The device delivers a six‑fold electric‑field enhancement and resolves a 28.6 nm slit, essentially matching atomic...
Legora Surpasses $100m Annual Recurring Revenue
Legora has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue within 18 months of its general‑availability launch, serving over 1,000 customers in 50 markets. The legal AI platform has shifted from single‑task tools to multi‑step, agentic workflows, handling large‑scale document reviews and...
Influences
The author argues that Artemis and other space programs are fundamentally engineering achievements, not merely scientific experiments. He emphasizes that design—leveraging materials, analysis tools, and modeling—is the core discipline that makes such missions possible. By drawing parallels to Old Structures...
PROPTECH-X : Genetec Highlights Why Governance Defines Secure Cloud Adoption in Physical Security
Genetec warns that enterprise physical‑security cloud projects must be governed, not treated as a simple migration. A new 2026 State of Physical Security Survey of 7,300 respondents shows 39% of large organizations adopt hybrid‑cloud for scalability and 38% for redundancy,...
A Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming for the Internet
Google’s quantum research team released a white paper showing it can break 256‑bit elliptic‑curve cryptography using roughly 20 times fewer physical qubits than previously estimated. The breakthrough threatens the cryptographic foundations of most blockchains and many internet security protocols. The article...
NR0B2 Is Protective of Cartilage, But Expression Decreases as Osteoarthritis Progresses
Researchers identified the orphan nuclear receptor NR0B2 (also known as SHP) as a protective factor in cartilage, with its expression markedly reduced in osteoarthritic tissue. In male mice, global or chondrocyte‑specific deletion of Nr0b2 worsened pain and joint damage after...
Record Pages to Page Layouts
Nonprofit organizations often create multiple opportunity record types—Donation, Grant, In‑Kind Gift, Matching Gift, Major Gift, Membership—and map each to a distinct Lightning page layout. However, In‑Kind Gift, Matching Gift and Major Gift are essentially sub‑categories of donations, allowing them to...
Possible US Government iPhone Hacking Tool Leaked
Google researchers disclosed a sophisticated iPhone exploit kit called Coruna, which chains 23 iOS vulnerabilities to silently install malware via compromised websites. Evidence points to the toolkit’s origins in the U.S., specifically the Trenchant division of defense contractor L3Harris. Former...
Pharma Pulse: Foundayo’s FDA Approval and the Strategic Risk of Pharmacy Data Consolidation
Eli Lilly’s Foundayo became the first new molecular entity approved under the FDA’s National Priority Voucher pilot, clearing in a record 50 days. It is the only GLP‑1 weight‑loss pill that can be taken without food or water restrictions, aiming to...
Orphaned Page Layouts
A client’s Salesforce org contained five Contact page layouts, including a Lightning layout that was actually a classic layout. An admin discovered the redundancy by reviewing the Page Layout Assignment, revealing that all profiles shared the same layout. After confirming...
What Will Approval of Foundayo GLP-1 Tablets Bring?
The FDA has approved Foundayo (orforglipron), the first non‑peptide oral GLP‑1 tablet for obesity. As a small‑molecule drug, it sidesteps the manufacturing complexities that plagued peptide injectables like semaglutide and tirzepatide. Daily oral dosing promises easier adherence compared with weekly...
Why Your Video Strategy Has a Scale Problem
Olivier Reynaud, former Teads executive, launched Aive to solve the video‑scaling dilemma facing brands and agencies. Netflix’s production of 1.5 million distinct Stranger Things trailer versions highlights the impossibility of manual editing at such volume. Aive’s platform converts video into data,...
Axios Hack Exposes AI-Coding’s Dependency Problem
Hackers breached the npm account for the widely used JavaScript library Axios, injecting malicious code that was downloaded millions of times before being pulled. The incident follows a similar supply‑chain attack on the LiteLLM PyPI package, highlighting how AI‑coding tools...
From Static Data to Spatial Teammates: How SIMA 2 Breathes Life Into BIM
Google DeepMind’s SIMA 2 introduces a general‑purpose AI agent that can reason, act, and learn inside 3D virtual worlds, turning static Building Information Models into interactive environments. By embedding the agent in BIM and GIS models, users can issue natural‑language...
(PR) Gigabyte Goes Dark with the X870E AERO X3D DARK WOOD
Gigabyte unveiled the X870E AERO X3D DARK WOOD motherboard, a premium AM5 platform that combines a genuine dark‑wood veneer with high‑end performance features. The board supports Ryzen 7000‑9000 CPUs, DDR5 up to 9000 MT/s, and offers a 16+2+2‑phase VRM with VRM Thermal...
Port of Rotterdam Develops Liquid Hydrogen Facility
Air Products is building a liquid hydrogen plant in the Port of Rotterdam that is now more than 65% complete and slated to start operations in 2027. When online, it will be Europe’s largest liquid hydrogen facility, bolstering Rotterdam’s status...
China's OpenClaw Mania: The Rise of AI-Run One-Person Firms
OpenClaw, an autonomous AI agent created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger, is enabling a new class of one‑person companies (OPCs) in China by simulating full‑scale business functions. Municipal programmes in cities like Shenzhen are offering free computing power, hardware discounts,...
Italy Signs Agreement with NASA to Cooperate on Moon Base
Italy and NASA have signed a Statement of Intent to jointly develop the U.S.-led lunar surface base, extending a 2022 cooperation that tasked Italy with designing a multi‑purpose habitation module. The agreement covers habitation, communications and scientific payloads, and guarantees...
Mobile AM Robots to Roam Factory Floors
Researchers introduced a closed‑loop control framework that enables mobile additive manufacturing robots to print while navigating dynamic factory floors. The system tightly couples real‑time motion planning, obstacle avoidance, and material deposition, allowing the robot to adjust its path without stopping....
9 Storytelling Strategies To Help Coworking Spaces Stand Out
The article outlines nine storytelling angles coworking operators can use to differentiate their spaces, ranging from origin stories and core values to community profiles and unique advantages. By shifting focus from merely solving workspace problems to sharing human‑centric narratives, operators...
You Can Now View TSA Checkpoint Wait Times Directly in the United Airlines Mobile App At These Seven Airports
United Airlines has added estimated TSA checkpoint wait times to its mobile app for seven major hub airports, covering both standard security lanes and TSA PreCheck. The feature appears on the app’s ‘day of travel’ page, giving passengers a quick...