Zero-Emission Drone News From Ukraine: Flying Fuel Cells & Green Hydrogen
Ukraine’s drone maker Skyeton has moved its Raybird reconnaissance UAV from gasoline power to a hydrogen‑fuel‑cell hybrid, achieving combat‑ready flights of over 10 hours. The hybrid system operates across a –35 °C to +55 °C temperature span, matching the internal‑combustion version while cutting noise and heat signatures. Skyeton plans to extend endurance to 20 hours and offer on‑site hydrogen generation or cartridge‑style tank swaps for field units. Parallelly, Ukraine is building green‑hydrogen capacity, including a 2‑MW electrolyzer slated for 2025, to supply Europe and reduce reliance on fossil imports.
Bladder Toxicity Risk Appears Low for Psychiatric Ketamine Patients, Though Data Is Limited
A systematic review of 27 clinical studies found that short‑term ketamine and esketamine treatments for psychiatric disorders do not significantly increase bladder or urinary tract toxicity compared with placebo. Reported urinary symptoms ranged from 0 % to 25 % and were generally...
CDC Caught Burying Report on Real Effects of COVID Vaccine
A CDC report led by acting director Jay Bhattacharya found that COVID‑19 vaccines cut urgent‑care visits by 50% and hospitalizations by 55% for healthy adults. The study, slated for the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on March 19, was delayed over...
How Good Is Windows on Arm With Snapdragon X?
Qualcomm has introduced the Snapdragon X2 chipset, the first high‑performance ARM processor certified for Windows 11 on ARM. Microsoft has invested heavily in compatibility layers, allowing most users to spend 90% of their time in native ARM applications. The Prism...
You Can Now Control Your Roku TV or Roku Player From Your Windows Computer
QuickRemote for Roku has launched a native Windows application that lets users control Roku TVs and players directly from a PC for a one‑time fee of $1.29. The app adds private listening, routing Roku audio to PC speakers or headphones...
NSA Reveals Details of New LEO Security Report
The National Security Agency, together with Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the Australian Space Agency, has issued a Cybersecurity Information Sheet titled “Securing Space: Cyber Security for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communications.” The guidance breaks LEO sat‑com risk and mitigation into...
Amazon’s Major P&G Sale Is Back: Spend $80, Get $20 Credit – Save on Tide, Pampers, Dawn, Gillette, & More
Amazon has revived its partnership promotion with Procter & Gamble, offering shoppers a $20 Amazon credit when they spend at least $80 on qualifying P&G items. The deal covers household staples such as Tide detergent, Pampers diapers, Bounty paper towels,...
STMicroelectronics Unveils Lower-Cost PMICs With Reduced Power Rails
STMicroelectronics introduced two lower‑cost power‑management ICs, the STPMIC1L and STPMIC2L, aimed at STM32 microprocessor families. Both chips trim the number of power rails and shrink the package footprint, cutting the STPMIC1 price by about 21% to $1.34 and the STPMIC2L...
NDIS Commission to Have a New Intelligent Risk Engine by August
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission will roll out the core capabilities of an intelligent risk engine by August, as part of its four‑year, $160 million AUD (≈$105 million USD) Data and Regulatory Transformation (DART) program. The decision‑support tool will generate explainable...
Success Stories: Trustworthy AI
Purdue University has developed a patent‑pending AI image‑editing system that masks sensitive regions, such as faces, on the user’s device before processing. The platform reintegrates the masked area after applying commercial generative models, delivering photorealistic results while keeping raw biometric...
Australian Payments Plus Continues "Operating Model Harmonisation"
Australian Payments Plus (AP+) has consolidated its IT, risk and customer service functions onto a single ServiceNow instance, creating a unified digital front door for its three core businesses—BPAY Group, eftpos and NPP Australia. The move merged previously separate ServiceNow...
Your Say: Week Beginning April 13
A reader points out that Australia’s 15.7 million passenger‑vehicle fleet dwarfs the modest goal of 120,000 new electric‑vehicle (EV) sales per year over the next six years. Even a rapid uptake would barely dent the overall fleet, prompting a call for...
Vibhor Kumar: Column_encrypt v4.0: A Simpler, Safer Model for Column-Level Encryption in PostgreSQL
The column_encrypt extension for PostgreSQL released version 4.0, a major simplification that consolidates all management functions under an encrypt schema and replaces the previous multi‑role model with a single column_encrypt_user role. Automatic log masking, stricter SECURITY DEFINER handling, and schema‑qualified...
Your Next CPU Doesn’t Need to Be New — These Older Chips Are a Smarter Buy
The article argues that buying a few‑year‑old processor can deliver near‑top gaming performance at a fraction of the cost of current flagship chips. It highlights several AMD and Intel models—such as the Ryzen 5 3600, Ryzen 5 5600X, Intel i7‑4770, i7‑8700K, i5‑12600K and Ryzen 7 5700X3D—available...
Stop Wasting Surveys on “Plain Vanilla” Calls: Using AI to Improve CSAT and Agent Evaluation
Contact‑center leaders can cut survey costs by up to 50 % by using AI to flag only the challenging interactions for CSAT surveys. AI automatically codes reasons for contact, detects dissatisfaction or delight, and routes the 30 % of complex calls to...
White House Tells Banks to Use Anthropic to Spot Vulnerabilities
The White House is urging the nation’s largest banks to deploy Anthropic’s Mythos AI model for cybersecurity vulnerability detection. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley have begun internal trials after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and...
Family in China Creates AI Clone to Comfort Elderly Mother After Son’s Death
After a traffic accident killed a man in Shandong, his family concealed his death from his 80‑year‑old mother, who suffers from heart disease. They commissioned AI specialist Zhang Zewe to create a digital twin using the deceased’s photos, video and...
China Accelerates Orbital Internet Deployment with Successful Smart Dragon-3 Sea Launch
China’s Smart Dragon‑3 carrier rocket lifted off from a sea‑based platform off Guangdong on April 11, delivering a test payload for its sovereign low‑Earth‑orbit internet network. The four‑stage solid‑propellant vehicle, now on its 11th successful flight, can place up to 1,500 kg...
Coachella Looks Like Fun and Glamour for Influencers. Behind the Scenes, They Fiercely Strategize
Coachella 2026 has become a high‑stakes arena where influencers treat the festival like a content‑creation boot camp. Creators such as Sam Mintesnot hustle for brand invitations, often securing passes just days before the event. YouTube streams the festival across seven...
Chrome's Memory Saver Is Underwhelming — This Free Extension Does What It Should Have Done
Chrome’s built‑in Memory Saver, introduced after years of demand, provides three preset levels but lacks granular controls, making it insufficient for heavy tab users. In contrast, the free Auto Tab Discard extension automatically unloads inactive tabs after ten minutes when...
The U.S. Military Is Missing Out because of Hegseth’s War on Anthropic
Anthropic unveiled its next‑generation AI model, Mythos, which automatically uncovered zero‑day vulnerabilities in all major web browsers and operating systems. The discovery shows AI can locate software flaws faster than traditional security teams. At the same time, Defense Secretary Pete...
Smallsats Dominate 2025 Launch Landscape as Mass Efficiency Peaks
In 2025, smallsats—satellites under 1,200 kg—accounted for 98% of all launches, marking a decisive industry shift. The second quarter saw 1,198 spacecraft lifted, with smallsats delivering 87% of the 743,770 kg upmass, while the third quarter maintained a 98% share despite a...
StockWatch: IPO Market Shows Sign of Life with Avalyn Filing
Avalyn Pharma, a Boston‑based biotech, filed an S‑1 on Wednesday seeking up to $100 million to advance its inhaled antifibrotic pipeline for pulmonary fibrosis. The filing marks the first biotech IPO since Generate: Biomedicines raised $400 million and revives a market that...
European AI. A Playbook to Own It. By Mistral
Mistral AI’s new whitepaper, "European AI. A playbook to own it," outlines a concrete roadmap for turning Europe’s academic excellence, human‑centric ethos, and 450‑million‑person single market into a self‑reliant AI powerhouse. It proposes ten‑plus actionable measures—including an EU AI compliance...
MIT STAR Lab Expands Scope From Lasercom Innovation to Space Policy Architecture
MIT’s Space Telecommunications, Astronomy and Radiation (STAR) Lab is broadening its focus from pure hardware innovation to a hybrid of high‑performance CubeSat technology and emerging space‑policy frameworks. Under Professor Kerri Cahoy, the lab is integrating astrophysics research, such as exoplanet...
Man Suing City After AI Camera Flags Him For Wrongful Arrest
Nevada resident Jason Killinger has filed a lawsuit against the city of Reno, alleging that an AI facial‑recognition system mistakenly identified him as a banned casino patron, leading to a 12‑hour wrongful arrest. The suit expands an existing case against...
Starlink Speed in Asia Pacific: Growth, Regulation, Pricing and Performance Trends
Starlink now serves over 10 million subscribers in 155 countries, capturing 97.1% of global satellite Speedtest samples in Q3 2025. In Asia‑Pacific, Oceania leads with median download speeds of 162 Mbps and 35 ms latency, while Southeast Asian markets show mixed results—Malaysia up to...
Silent Data Corruption: A Major Reliability Challenge in Large-Scale LLM Training (TU Berlin)
Researchers at Technische Universität Berlin released a paper exposing silent data corruption (SDC) as a hidden reliability threat in large‑scale LLM training. By injecting faults into GPU matrix‑multiply instructions, they mapped how bit‑level errors propagate into loss spikes, NaNs, and...
The Unstructured Data Revolution in CRM – Interview with David Roberts of SugarCRM
In a recent Punk CX interview, SugarCRM CEO David Roberts argues that today’s CRM platforms function more as management dashboards than true seller tools. He predicts AI will ingest unstructured data—emails, calls, texts—to deliver real‑time contextual guidance, eliminating manual data entry....
Automated GPU Health Monitoring with NVIDIA NVSentinel on the Rafay Platform
GPU clusters cost tens of thousands of dollars per unit, and hardware faults can halt AI training and inference, jeopardizing service‑level agreements. NVIDIA’s open‑source NVSentinel adds continuous health monitoring, automatic quarantine, and self‑healing to Kubernetes‑managed GPU fleets. Rafay integrates NVSentinel...
EXEC: Resale Activity Continues to Boom
ThredUp’s 2026 Resale Report shows the U.S. secondhand apparel market reached $56 billion in 2025 and is projected to hit $78.8 billion by 2030, outpacing traditional retail. Gen Z and Millennials will generate 64 percent of incremental resale spend, with Gen Z alone driving 40 percent...
Windows Wrap: Snapdragon X PCs Are the Latest Victims of Lazy Takes and Willfully Ignorant Tech Journalists
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 processor powers the newest wave of Windows 11 on Arm laptops, including the ASUS Zenbook A16. Microsoft’s enhanced Prism emulation now runs most legacy apps with minimal slowdown, and major software like Chrome and Adobe work natively. Despite these...
Firefox Does One Thing Chrome Simply Won't on Android
Firefox for Android distinguishes itself by supporting a robust library of over 6,500 free extensions, a capability Chrome on the same platform still lacks. While Chrome remains the default due to deep Google integration and features like AI‑generated podcasts, its...
You Need to Try This CarPlay Customization Trick that No One Talks About
Apple’s Shortcuts app now lets iPhone users attach a custom audio cue to CarPlay connections, turning a routine boot‑up into a personalized moment. By creating an automation that runs immediately, users can select any sound stored in the Files app...
Five Signs Data Drift Is Already Undermining Your Security Models
Data drift occurs when the statistical profile of inputs to a security‑focused machine‑learning model changes, eroding its detection accuracy. The article outlines five practical signs—performance drops, distribution shifts, altered prediction patterns, rising uncertainty, and broken feature relationships—that indicate drift is...
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The Death of Standing Privilege in the Age of AI Agents
Privileged Access Management (PAM) teams have reduced standing privileges, yet identity‑related breaches still affect 74% of organizations. A new survey of 200 CISOs reveals that 86% do not enforce policies for AI identities, only 17% treat them like human users,...
UK Regulators Rush to Assess Risks of Latest Anthropic AI Model, FT Reports
British regulators—including the Bank of England, FCA and Treasury—are meeting with the National Cyber Security Centre and leading banks to evaluate cyber‑security risks from Anthropic’s new AI model, Claude Mythos Preview. The model, released under the controlled Project Glasswing, reportedly uncovered thousands of...
Generative Engine Optimization: The New Tech Hustle or a CX Reality?
The marketing world is moving from traditional SEO to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), where large language models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini decide which sources appear in AI‑generated answers. Because these platforms hide query volumes and ranking formulas, a new...
Mac Mini and Mac Studio Go Out of Stock – Is It the RAM Crisis or an M5 Refresh?
Apple’s US online store listed high‑RAM Mac mini (32 GB, 64 GB) and Mac Studio (128 GB, 256 GB) configurations as unavailable on 11 April 2026, with no delivery dates. The shortage follows a March removal of the 512 GB RAM option for Mac Studio and a 25% price...
The Closing of the Frontier
Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, releasing its flagship Mythos model only to a handful of enterprise partners such as Microsoft, Cisco and CrowdStrike. The author argues this marks the closure of an AI frontier, creating a neofeudal divide where powerful intelligence...
JAXA Plans to Bring Back Pristine Early Solar System Samples From a Comet
Japan’s space agency JAXA has outlined the Next Generation Small‑Body Return (NGSR), a large‑class mission to retrieve pristine material from comet 289P/Blanpain. The 2034 launch will send a lander that will impact the comet’s surface, collect subsurface ice and dust,...
Net Zero by 2050? This Decade's Fuel Choices Will Decide
Green‑hydrogen based synthetic fuels face a coordination deadlock that threatens the shipping sector’s net‑zero pathway. Shipping alone would need 100‑150 million tons of green hydrogen each year, requiring $2‑3 trillion in upfront capital, while hard‑to‑abate industries collectively demand 500‑600 million tons and $9 trillion...
As RSV Evolves, a Two‑pronged Antibody Cocktail Aims to Stay Ahead
Chinese researchers at Xiamen University have engineered a two‑antibody cocktail, 1A2 and 1B6, that targets separate, conserved regions of the RSV fusion protein. Preclinical tests in mice and cotton rats showed the combo neutralized both RSV A and B subtypes...
2X Names Emily Atkinson Chief Client Officer to Operationalize Its Unified GTM Engine
2X announced Emily Atkinson as its new Chief Client Officer, a role created to unify the company’s go‑to‑market (GTM) engine across strategy, execution, technology, and AI. Atkinson will oversee the global client organization, aiming to close the execution gap that...
Your Smart Devices Are Speaking to Hackers. Your Security System Isn’t Listening
Researchers warn that AI‑driven intrusion‑detection systems excel in lab settings but falter in real‑world IoT environments. While academic models boast 98‑99% accuracy on balanced datasets, actual networks contain millions of devices where attacks make up less than 1% of traffic....
Two New Takes on Making a Type of Targeted Cancer Therapy Even Better
Two biotech startups announced fresh capital to boost next‑generation antibody‑drug conjugates (ADCs). Sidewinder Therapeutics raised a $137 million Series B, bringing total funding to $162 million, to develop bispecific ADCs that bind a tumor‑driving receptor and an internalizing receptor, aiming for tighter cancer...
Botched IT Upgrade Ended Liquor Sales for the Entire State of Mississippi
Mississippi’s single state‑run liquor warehouse halted operations after a contractor installed an incompatible IT system and removed conveyor belts without staffing replacements. The glitch left 171,190 orders pending, a 21.7% drop from early February, and forced restaurants and stores to...
Show HN: BoringBar – a Taskbar-Style Dock Replacement for macOS
Show HN introduces boringBar, a taskbar‑style dock replacement for macOS Sonoma and later. The app reorganizes windows by desktop, offers instant thumbnails, a searchable launcher, and one‑click desktop switching, while optionally hiding the native Dock. Users can trial the full...
SYNAOS Scales NA Operations as Demand for Interoperable Intralogistics Accelerates
SYNAOS, a provider of intralogistics orchestration software, announced a major expansion of its North American operations to meet rising demand for vendor‑agnostic automation. The move follows its collaboration with Rockwell Automation and OTTO Motors to advance the VDA 5050 standard for mixed‑fleet...
YouTube Adds More AI
YouTube has extended its conversational AI assistant from phones and browsers to smart TVs, gaming consoles, and streaming devices. The feature, accessed via an on‑screen “Ask” button or remote microphone, lets viewers pose questions about a video without stopping playback....