Seraphim Forms Space Advisory Council
Seraphim Space has launched a Global Space Advisory Council, chaired by SES co‑founder Candace Johnson, to guide its long‑term investment strategy. The council brings together senior figures from XPRIZE, venture capital, European satellite manufacturing, Japan’s space ecosystem, and the international scientific community. Its inaugural meeting took place at the Space Symposium, where members will examine decade‑long trends in defense, communications, climate monitoring, sustainability, and regulation. The council operates on a two‑year term and is positioned as a standing advisory body rather than a networking event.
World’s Biggest Co-Located Wind and Solar Project Begins Operations in China
Envision Energy announced that its 5.56 MW custom turbine wind‑and‑solar complex on the Loess Plateau has entered commercial operation. The co‑located facility spans the 635,000 km² plateau southeast of the Gobi Desert, blending wind and solar generation to overcome the region’s low‑wind,...
To Fight Ransomware, Turn to Incident Response Professionals
The UK Home Office is consulting on a ban on ransomware payments for public‑sector bodies and critical national infrastructure, alongside a broader payment‑prevention regime and mandatory incident‑reporting. Critics argue the proposal could leave under‑resourced firms tangled in legal hoops while...
UK Launches £500m Sovereign AI Fund as Kendall Backs ‘British Winners’
The UK government announced a £500 million (≈$630 million) Sovereign AI Unit, a state‑backed fund designed to help British artificial‑intelligence companies scale globally. The fund will provide capital, access to national supercomputing resources, procurement pipelines and regulatory guidance, addressing the long‑standing “scale‑up...
WBA Guidelines Target Rogue Access Points and Credential Theft
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) released a Wi‑Fi Security Guidelines framework to standardize protection across public, enterprise, IoT, and roaming networks. The document mandates mutual certificate‑based authentication, WPA3‑Enterprise with Protected Management Frames, and encrypted RADIUS traffic to thwart rogue access...
Horse Urine Perfume: Why Online Bargains May Be Dangerous
Online shoppers are increasingly exposed to counterfeit products, including a shocking case where perfume was found to contain horse urine. Consumer groups report that fakes span cosmetics, toys, electronics and even ladders, often bypassing safety checks. The UK government is...
CIA to Deploy AI Coworkers in Analyst Workflows
The CIA is embedding artificial‑intelligence “coworkers” into its analytical workflows, beginning as drafting assistants and trend‑spotters and aiming to become autonomous mission partners within the next decade. Deputy Director Michael Ellis announced the agency’s first AI‑generated intelligence report and disclosed...
Secant Deep Hyperbolic Cosine Bio Inspired Whale Optimization for Building Detection From Satellite Images
Researchers introduced Secant Deep Belief Network‑based Hyperbolic Cosine Whale Optimization (SDBN‑HCWO) to improve building detection in satellite imagery. The method integrates a Secant Deep Belief Network with a bio‑inspired whale optimization algorithm that leverages hyperbolic cosine functions. Across three hidden...
Construction Starts on Biggest Battery in Australia’s Most Advanced Renewable Grid
Alinta Energy has broken ground on the Reeves Plains battery, a 250 MW/1,000 MWh facility that will be South Australia’s largest storage asset and the state’s first gigawatt‑scale installation. A second phase is slated to double the capacity, positioning the project among...
KnowBe4 Debuts Guardrails for Autonomous AI Agents
KnowBe4 has introduced Agent Risk Manager, a real‑time monitoring and governance layer designed to police autonomous AI agents operating across enterprise environments. The solution adds behavioral guardrails to block threats such as unauthorized data exposure, prompt‑injection jailbreaks, and runaway compute...
Electrons Crack Open Organic Solar Cells, Exposing Their Hidden 3D Molecular Architecture in a Single Microscope
Researchers at FAU Erlangen‑Nürnberg and partners demonstrated that three‑dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED) can deliver the same averaged structural information previously obtained only with X‑ray techniques for organic solar cells. By carefully managing electron dose, they captured nanoscale molecular order without...
CoSN 2026: Student-Led Cyber Programs Incentivize Culture of Safety
At DeKalb County School District, the second‑year Cyber Champions program places students at the forefront of district‑wide cybersecurity education, turning them into peer advocates for digital safety, phishing awareness, and AI ethics. The initiative operates without a dedicated budget, leveraging...
PipeMoE-NER: MoE-LoRA Expert Adaptation and Three-Stage Chain-of-Thought for Pipeline Safety NER
PipeMoE‑NER introduces a parameter‑efficient expert adaptation that merges Mixture‑of‑Experts with LoRA to improve named entity recognition in pipeline safety texts. The model also employs a three‑stage Chain‑of‑Thought prompting pipeline—candidate generation, discrimination and typing, and verification—to enforce type consistency and JSON‑compliant...
‘The Gatekeepers Have Changed’: Glu Says AI Now Decides Which Brands Get Seen
Glu.ai, a Shopify‑native platform, has introduced its Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) service in Australia to help brands appear in AI‑generated answer engines such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Perplexity. The offering targets mid‑market merchants, promising that clear, structured...
Fast Hydrofoils, Floating Logs, & Canada’s Ferry Electrification Challenge
Canada’s ferry sector is quietly transitioning to electric and hybrid‑electric vessels, with dozens already in service and more under construction. A proposed 34‑knot electric hydrofoil linking Vancouver, Bowen Island and Gibsons showcases the allure of speed and decarbonisation, but its...
ARPG+: Teaching Students to Ask Effective Questions for Educational LLM Use
Large language models are now common in classrooms, but most students lack the skill to craft effective prompts. ARPG+ introduces a real‑time coaching platform that detects learner struggle, measures cognitive overload, and provides calibrated, just‑in‑time scaffolding. In simulated trials, the...
Securing Remote Server Access: Why VPNs Matter for Administrators
Remote server administrators face brute‑force, phishing and malware attacks when SSH or RDP are exposed to the internet. Deploying a corporate VPN tunnels remote connections through encrypted channels, limiting access to authenticated users and removing direct exposure of critical ports....
ALPS Electrification ETFs Target AI Energy Demand
ALPS Advisors introduced two thematic ETFs to capture the electrification infrastructure needed for AI‑driven data‑center growth. The ALPS Electrification Infrastructure ETF (ELFY) provides equal‑weighted exposure to utilities, uranium, copper and two additional sectors, preventing any single stock from dominating performance....
Students Are Using AI to Guide College Decisions. What Is It Telling Them?
Students are turning to AI tools to research colleges, with 46% of a 5,000‑student survey using AI in fall 2025, up from 26% in spring. One‑third said AI introduced a school they hadn’t considered, while one‑fifth removed a school after...
Plata Hits $5 Billion Valuation in Bicycle Capital-Led Funding
Plata raised $405 million in a Series C round, pushing its valuation to $5 billion—the largest for a private financial services firm in Latin America. The round was led by Bicycle Capital and included investors Kora, Qatar Investment Authority and BTG Pactual. The funding...
Revolutionizing Fintech: How AI Is Transforming Investing
BridgeWise, a New York‑based fintech founded in 2019, is leveraging large‑language‑model AI to deliver instant fundamental analysis and personalized investment strategies across global equities. At FinovateEurope 2026, CRO Nitzan Nachum highlighted the firm’s mission to eliminate information asymmetry that has...
HyperAOE: Generalizing Zero-Shot Cross-City Trajectory Prediction with Hypernetworks
Researchers unveiled HyperAOE, a hypernetwork‑based framework that extends the earlier H0xtra model to achieve zero‑shot cross‑city trajectory prediction without any target‑city mobility data. The system decomposes the problem into three interchangeable components—spatial meta‑data, a city encoder, and a sequence‑to‑sequence backbone—allowing...
Space Force’s 2040 Vision: A Larger Force to Contend with Larger Chinese, Russian Threats
The U.S. Space Force released two strategic papers—Objective Force 2040 and Future Operating Environment 2040—outlining a vision for a larger, AI‑driven force to counter accelerating Chinese and Russian space capabilities. The documents forecast China operating roughly 21,000 satellites by 2040...
It’s Not An AI Hallucination — It’s Lazy Editing Of A Human Paralegal
A New Jersey district court sanctioned attorney Geoffrey Mott after a paralegal’s careless citation swaps produced a brief riddled with incorrect and outdated case references. The judge found no generative AI was used; the error stemmed from the paralegal misapplying...
PROLLENIUM® Expands PACE with Launch of New Digital Training Portal
PROLLENIUM® launched the PACE Training & Education Portal, a digital platform that expands its Advanced Clinical Education program for aesthetic practitioners. The portal aggregates AI‑powered anatomy tools, product training, clinical insights, and business development modules, all delivered through personalized, gamified...
Anthropic's Mythos Triggers Cybersecurity Race — CrowdStrike, Rubrik, Cloudflare Stand To Gain
Anthropic unveiled Project Glasswing and the Claude Mythos model, an AI system that can autonomously discover and exploit software vulnerabilities at scale. ARK Invest highlighted Mythos' 93.9% SWE‑bench and 83.1% CyberGym scores as evidence of a new era in software...
Distributed AI Is Putting Real-Time Data Replication at the Core of Enterprise Infrastructure
Enterprises are adopting distributed multicloud architectures to power latency‑critical AI workloads, making real‑time data replication a foundational requirement. Oracle’s GoldenGate platform is positioned as the universal replication layer that can follow data wherever it resides, from edge devices to large...
4 Android Apps I Keep on a Spare Phone to Turn It Into a Useful Home Gadget
Technology journalist Brady Snyder shows how a spare Android phone can become a multi‑purpose home gadget. By installing four free or low‑cost apps—Google Home, Symfonium, Alfred Camera, and Physics Toolbox—the device can serve as a smart‑home controller, music streamer, security...
New AgingFly Malware Used in Attacks on Ukraine Govt, Hospitals
CERT‑UA uncovered a new malware family called AgingFly targeting Ukrainian government agencies, hospitals and possibly Defense Forces. The campaign begins with phishing emails offering humanitarian aid, leading victims to click links that deliver malicious LNK shortcuts and HTA files. Once...
AI Agents Are only as Smart as the Data that Feeds Them
Enterprises are discovering that AI agents falter when their underlying data lacks business semantics. Traditional data platforms focus on storage and performance, leaving business meaning to fragmented documentation, which leads agents to produce plausible but semantically incorrect answers. By anchoring...
It only Took 7 Minutes to Create an AI-Generated Val Kilmer for a Scene in His New Movie
Director Coerte Voorhees and producer John Voorhees announced that their 1920s drama "As Deep as the Grave" will feature an AI‑generated performance of the late Val Kilmer. After Kilmer’s death, the filmmakers used archival footage and artificial intelligence to recreate...
OPM Adds Cybersecurity Jobs to Tech Force Hiring Program
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has expanded its Tech Force hiring program to include cybersecurity specialists, adding to existing roles for software engineers, data scientists and product managers. The initiative aims to fill temporary two‑year positions that protect critical...
The Rise of Grey Zone Satellites: Ambiguity as a Tactical Advantage
The article outlines a new “Grey Zone” in space where states favor non‑kinetic, deniable tactics over traditional kinetic anti‑satellite strikes. By exploiting gaps in the Outer Space Treaty, actors use directed‑energy lasers, electronic jamming, and cyber‑infiltration to soft‑kill satellites while...
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This New SoFi Offer Turns a $50 Deposit Into a Shot at $1,000
SoFi is rolling out a "Bank Shot Bonus" that lets new customers win cash prizes ranging from $5 to $1,000 after opening a checking and savings account and depositing at least $50. The promotion runs through April 30 and is limited...
Critical MCP Integration Flaw Puts NGINX at Risk
Researchers at Pluto Security have uncovered a critical vulnerability in the popular nginx‑ui web console, identified as CVE‑2026‑33032 with a CVSS score of 9.8. The flaw resides in the MCP /message endpoint, which performs no authentication and can be exploited to...
Athena Launches FabOrchestrator™ to Bring Agentic AI Into Manufacturing Operations
Athena Technology Solutions unveiled FabOrchestrator™, billed as the manufacturing sector’s first Agentic AI Foundry. The platform layers autonomous AI agents atop existing MES systems such as Siemens Opcenter, turning fragmented data into actionable decisions. It automates reporting, ticket handling, system...
The Horizontal Enabling Layer: Structural Disruption and the Reconfiguration of Healthcare AI Moats
Healthcare AI is undergoing a structural shift as foundation models and agentic AI create a horizontal enabling layer that supersedes traditional point‑solution moats. This layer lets a single model be fine‑tuned for diverse clinical tasks, turning AI from a collection...
Y Combinator-Backed AI Call Receptionist Raises $22 Million Series A
Y Combinator‑backed Phonely announced a $22 million Series A round, valuing the AI call‑receptionist startup at roughly $100 million. The funding, led by Base10 Partners and backed by YC and three enterprise customers, builds on a prior $750,000 seed raise. Phonely’s platform can...
GLP-1s Don't Work for Everyone: Why, and What to Do?
GLP‑1 receptor agonists have become a cornerstone of modern weight‑loss therapy, yet roughly 20% of patients fail to achieve meaningful reductions. A recent review proposes pairing a GLP‑1 drug with the naltrexone‑bupropion combo (Contrave) to address this gap, leveraging complementary...
Single Blood Sample Could Soon Screen for Several Cancers, Study Suggests
UCLA researchers unveiled MethylScan, a low‑cost blood test that reads DNA methylation patterns in cell‑free DNA to flag multiple cancers and liver diseases from a single draw. By stripping out 80‑90% of background DNA, the assay slashes sequencing needs, driving...
Space Force Unveils Vision for Future Space Operations in 2040
U.S. Space Force chief Gen. B. Chance Saltzman introduced the Future Operating Environment 2040 at the Space Symposium, outlining a long‑term vision for space operations through the next decade and beyond. The strategy treats space as a contested domain, emphasizing...
Google’s New Gemini App for Mac Comes With Two Key Benefits (and One Drawback)
Google has released a native Gemini app for macOS 15 and later, giving users a dedicated desktop experience that rivals OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. The app can be summoned instantly with the Option + Space shortcut and lives in the menu...
The ‘Goldilocks Zone’: How the AI Factory Ends the Cycle of Rebuilding Pipelines From Scratch
Qlik Technologies introduced an “AI factory” that leverages conversational analytics to turn curated data into actionable decisions without rebuilding pipelines. The approach pairs governed data with a lakehouse architecture—dubbed the “Goldilocks zone”—built on open standards like Apache Iceberg. Ingersoll Rand, which...
Teledyne Space Imaging President Megan Tremer Shares Enabling Tech for Artemis II
Teledyne’s Space Imaging division is supplying critical hardware for NASA’s Artemis II mission, including the launch vehicle stage adapter and ground‑based solid‑state power amplifiers. President Megan Tremer highlighted the company’s ability to adapt technologies originally built for flagship programs like the...
Grok Faced Potential Removal From the App Store
Apple privately warned Elon Musk that his AI chatbot Grok could be removed from the App Store after the tool was found generating nude and sexualized deep‑fake images at scale. Bloomberg research showed Grok was producing more than 6,700 suggestive...
Color Test 'Sniffs Out' Dangerous Staph Strains Fast
Researchers at RMIT University have created a rapid, low‑cost color‑changing test that distinguishes virulent and antibiotic‑resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains. The assay uses gold nanozyme particles and DNA aptamer binders to generate strain‑specific color fingerprints, functioning effectively in simulated wound fluid....
Quantum Simulations Reveal Spin Transport in 1D Materials
Researchers at Oak Ridge’s Quantum Science Center used a 40‑qubit IBM Heron processor to perform the first digital quantum simulations of spin‑transport dynamics in a one‑dimensional Heisenberg model. The study captured ballistic, diffusive and super‑diffusive regimes and validated the results...
Xbox's Studios Are Working 'Side-By-Side' With Microsoft On Project Helix
Microsoft confirmed that its first‑party Xbox studios are working side‑by‑side with the hardware team on the upcoming Project Helix console. Chief Content Officer Matt Booty said developers are involved from the earliest visioning and specification stages, ensuring software and hardware...
Class Action Targets Berkadia over Alleged Cyberattack Exposing Thousands' Data
Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, the leading Freddie Mac lender, faces a proposed class action alleging a March 20 cyberattack by the ShinyHunters group. The breach reportedly exposed thousands of individuals' personal and financial data, including Social Security numbers and banking details. Plaintiffs claim...
Android 17 Stops Apps From Demanding Access to All Your Contacts
Google announced that all apps targeting Android 17 must use a new Google‑provided contact picker and a dedicated location button, restricting one‑time access to contacts and precise location data. Developers who need always‑on access must submit a Play Store declaration justifying the...