AI Cameras In This State Are Busting Drivers Who Pick Up Their Phones In Work Zones
Arkansas began using AI‑enhanced cameras in two interstate work zones in January 2026 to detect drivers who pick up their phones, a violation of the state’s strict no‑touch law. The system captures still images, runs them through an AI model to spot handheld devices, and then alerts highway police who must verify the infraction before issuing a warning or fine. Signage warns motorists of the monitoring, and officials say any footage not needed for prosecution is deleted. Similar AI‑driven enforcement tools are emerging in other states, sparking privacy debates.
Independent Panel Approves Another Big Battery Sent for Review by Long-Distance Haters
The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission approved Foresight Australia’s Hume North battery, a 75 MW/150 MWh storage system near the Hume Hydro Power Station, despite 72 objections largely from distant anti‑renewable groups. The commission highlighted the project’s role in improving grid...
Meta Pulls Ads That Would Recruit Clients for Social Media Addiction Lawsuits
Meta announced it will remove all advertisements posted by attorneys seeking to recruit plaintiffs for social‑media addiction lawsuits. The decision comes after the company lost two high‑profile cases—one over sexual predators on Instagram and another involving alleged addiction harms. Meta...
M&M’S Powers up Marvel Tie-Up with APAC Gaming Adventure
Mars Foods is expanding its M&M’S‑Marvel partnership into eight Asia‑Pacific markets with a purchase‑linked gaming campaign that runs from April 1 to May 31, 2026. The initiative, built on SUPERFAN’s game engine, lets shoppers scan QR codes on packaging and...
You Don’t Have a Skill. You Have a Novice.
The article argues that AI "skills" are often just untrained novices; generic skills work out‑of‑the‑box, but context‑dependent skills need extensive feedback loops—hundreds of iterations—to become production‑ready. It outlines a four‑stage maturity model and warns that treating AI skills like plug‑and‑play...
Scientists Develop Three-in-One Diode
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have unveiled a GaN‑based PN junction photodiode that simultaneously handles photosensing, memory storage, and processing. By inserting an n‑AlGaN charge‑storage layer, the device can switch among three functional modes using...
Marktech Launches High Power 280nm UVC LEDs
Marktech Optoelectronics has introduced a family of high‑power 280 nm UVC LEDs available in single‑, two‑ and four‑chip formats. The devices deliver wall‑plug efficiencies up to 7% and are rated for more than 15,000 hours at the L70 degradation point. By...
Japanese Team Achieves 2 Μm-Band PCSEL Laser Oscillation
Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM) and Kyoto University have demonstrated laser oscillation in a 2 μm-band photonic crystal surface‑emitting laser (PCSEL). The breakthrough showcases PCSEL’s ability to deliver high directionality and ultra‑narrow linewidth in a compact infrared source. By operating at 2 μm,...
QuinAs Links Memory Device Physics to AI Performance
QuInAs Technology has published research linking its ULTRARAM compound‑semiconductor memory device directly to AI system performance. The paper introduces a physics‑based compact modelling framework that captures resonant tunnelling and floating‑gate dynamics, enabling hardware‑aware benchmarking of ULTRARAM as a synaptic element...
CEA-Leti, CEA-List and PSMC Collaborate
CEA‑List, CEA‑Leti and PSMC announced a collaboration to merge RISC‑V processor IP with silicon‑photonic interconnects on PSMC’s 3D‑stacking platform, targeting next‑generation AI systems. The joint effort will embed customizable RISC‑V compute blocks and microLED‑based optical links into high‑bandwidth chiplet architectures,...
AI Compute Boom Propels Foundry 2.0 Market to $360 Billion
The AI‑driven compute boom is pushing the Foundry 2.0 market toward a $360 billion valuation in 2026, with advanced nodes and CoWoS packaging remaining scarce. TSMC raised its 3 nm capacity target to 165,000 wafers per month and aims for a 44% market...
Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue to Exceed $1.3 Trillion in 2026
Gartner projects worldwide semiconductor revenue to exceed $1.3 trillion in 2026, reflecting a 64 % year‑over‑year increase. Memory revenue is expected to triple as DRAM and NAND flash prices surge 125 % and 234 % respectively, a phenomenon Gartner dubs “memflation.” AI semiconductors will...
How Agentic Analytics Is Shaping Decision-Making Within Enterprises
Enterprises are moving beyond static dashboards to Agentic Analytics, an AI‑driven approach that monitors, interprets, and acts on real‑time data without human prompts. By embedding autonomous agents into finance, supply‑chain, and sales workflows, companies can flag risks, predict outcomes, and...
TPB Consults on AI Guidance
The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has released draft guidance on the use of artificial intelligence by registered tax professionals. The guidance, issued in mid‑April, makes clear that AI engines are not registered agents and must be employed within existing ethical...
“Lord of the Moon”: As NASA Crew Prepares for Splashdown, One Man Has Sold Millions in Lunar Real Estate
NASA’s Artemis II mission, its first crewed lunar flyby in over five decades, launched on April 1, 2026 and is slated to splash down in the Pacific off San Diego on April 12. The four‑astronaut crew includes Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Jeremy Hansen. While NASA...
I Had 15 Years of Experience, but I Still Had to Start over – Nigerian Lady Building Marketplace and Magazine...
Nigerian media veteran Abiodun Adetu relocated to Canada and discovered her 15‑year career didn’t translate into local credentials, prompting her to complete a digital‑marketing course. She leveraged that experience to launch Naija Market Day, a traveling Nigerian‑style marketplace now operating...
Australia’s Bellevue Gold Achieves 90% Renewable Energy at Off-Grid Mine in March
Bellevue Gold announced that its off‑grid mine ran on 90% renewable energy in March, cutting diesel to just 1.3% of total project costs. The hybrid power plant—27 MW solar, 24 MW wind and a 15 MW/30 MWh battery—enabled the company to claim net‑zero Scope 1‑2...
Data Minimisation vs AI Context Maximisation: The Battle Defining the Future of Smart Systems
AI product teams chase higher accuracy by feeding models ever more context, but privacy regulations demand strict data minimisation. The article argues that the conflict is structural: richer data improves personalization and retrieval, yet expands exposure and governance risk. It...
Fortescue Steps up Its War on Diesel
Fortescue Metals Group announced an accelerated rollout of a fully integrated green energy grid to power its Pilbara mining assets, aiming to eliminate diesel use. The initiative, part of its Real Zero carbon‑neutral strategy, will combine solar, wind, battery storage...
Watch the Artemis II Crew Return to Earth
The Artemis II crew is set to splash down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego on April 10, and CBS News will broadcast a live one‑hour special covering the return. Hosted by Jericka Duncan, the program features astronaut Suni Williams, Lt. Col Dave Mahan, and other...
Your Programmatic Budget Is Feeding A Ghost Economy
Dan Johns of Tumbleturn Marketing warns that a massive portion of programmatic ad spend never reaches real users, instead flowing to bots, fake sites, and opaque exchanges. Global bot traffic topped human traffic in 2024, with 51% of all visits...
We’re Coding 40% Faster, but Building on Sand: The 2026 Quality Collapse
Software teams are delivering code 40% faster thanks to large language models, but the rapid pace has exposed a growing quality collapse. AI‑generated code floods repositories while developers’ understanding lags, tripling the time needed for meaningful pull‑request reviews. Experts warn...
SLB OneSubsea Lands Gulf of Mexico Subsea Boosting Deal
SLB OneSubsea, a joint venture of SLB, Aker Solutions and Subsea7, secured a contract from Beacon Offshore to supply a high‑pressure, high‑temperature (HPHT) multiphase boosting system for the Shenandoah field in the Gulf of Mexico. The system is engineered to...
‘Wasting A Lot Of Budget’: Heatseeker’s New CTO On Why Guessing Without Testing Is Failing Marketers
Heatseeker has appointed former Google AI leader Kawal Gandhi as chief technology officer, signaling a push to replace traditional survey‑based market research with AI‑driven behavioural experiments. The platform runs live “ghost ads” on social media to capture real clicks, sign‑ups...
AI Is 'Fuelling' Shift Work Economy Despite Employee Scepticism
Deputy’s new report, based on 41 million shifts and 268 million hours, shows AI is accelerating the shift‑work economy rather than displacing frontline jobs. AI tools are trimming documentation, improving patient coordination in hospitals, and sharpening demand forecasting and staffing precision in...
TCS, Kyndryl, NEC & Two Other Firms Empanelled to Build, Run AI for Government Departments
The Indian Ministry of Electronics and IT has empanelled six firms—including Tata Consultancy Services, Kyndryl, NEC, Innefu Labs, CoRover and Cactus Communications—to develop and run AI solutions for government departments. More than 80 companies bid, with Innefu Labs winning the...
OpenAI Projects $100 Billion In Ad Revenue By 2030
OpenAI announced that it expects to generate $2.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2026 and to scale that figure to $100 billion by 2030. The forecast rests on a user base of roughly 2.75 billion people by the end of the decade. Achieving...
Energy Insiders Podcast: Why Wind Projects Are Stalled at the Gate
Large‑scale wind projects are hitting a financing wall, leaving many proposals stalled before construction. Richie Merzian of CEIG points to a looming carbon‑price (CGT) risk and structural flaws in the Clean Energy Incentive Scheme (CIS) as key deterrents. The episode...
Surprise: Not Every Lenovo Laptop Is Worth Recommending in 2026 - the Yoga 7i Is Proof
Lenovo’s Yoga 7a 2‑in‑1 positions itself as a mid‑range convertible with a premium 2K OLED screen and an improved magnetic stylus sleeve, but its performance and pricing lag behind newer rivals. Powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 7 445 CPU, up to 24 GB RAM and...
Abound and NEAR AI Partner to Launch ‘Financial Autopilot’ for Non-Resident Indians
Abound, the Times of India‑backed super‑app for Indians abroad, announced a partnership with NEAR AI to launch an AI‑powered “Financial Autopilot.” The service will move beyond recommendations, automatically executing remittances, managing NRE/NRO accounts, paying bills and providing a real‑time net‑worth...
Google Owns the Most AI Compute, and It Built It Its Way
Google is now the largest single owner of AI compute, holding roughly one‑quarter of the world’s capacity – about 5 million H100‑equivalent units, most of which are its own TPU chips. By contrast, only about 25 % of that compute relies on...
Elon Musk Says WhatsApp's End-to-End Encryption Can't Be Trusted, Mark Zuckerberg's Company Calls It ‘Absurd’
Elon Musk publicly questioned the reliability of WhatsApp’s end‑to‑end encryption after a class‑action lawsuit alleged Meta accessed private messages and shared them with contractors such as Accenture. In response, Musk urged users to switch to X Chat, promoting it as a...
Mississippi Data Center Construction Expands With $12B New Phase in Madison and Clinton
Amazon announced a $12 billion expansion of its Mississippi data‑center portfolio, adding an $11 billion build‑out in Madison County and a $1 billion conversion of a former Delphi plant in Clinton, Hinds County. The phase will create 800 new jobs—700 in Madison and...
Microsoft Says New Windows Recall Bypass Isn't a Vulnerability
Microsoft defended its Windows 11 Recall utility after researcher Alexander Hagenah released a tool that can extract decrypted screenshots and metadata by injecting a DLL into the AIXHost.exe process. The bypass works from a standard logged‑in user account and does not...
Cash Flow Underwriting Expands Economic Opportunity by Looking at Behavior in the Present, Not the Past
Cash flow underwriting replaces reliance on historical credit data with real‑time analysis of transactional accounts. By monitoring spending patterns, income streams, and debt management, lenders gain a dynamic view of a borrower’s current financial health. The approach complements traditional credit...
Microsoft’s Reauthentication Snafu Cuts Off Developers Globally
Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Program reauthentication drive, launched in October, inadvertently suspended numerous independent software vendors (ISVs) after missed or ignored verification emails. The lockouts halted developers’ access to Microsoft systems, causing downstream disruptions for their global customers. Executives on X...
DVSA’s New £735m Theory Test Contracts to Offer Option to ‘Explore Remote Testing’
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has launched a £735 million (≈ $940 million) procurement to appoint three regional suppliers that will run the UK driving theory test centre network from September 2028 through 2035. The contracts, split into £235 million for the north,...
Government Pledges ‘Local Conversations and Events to Encourage Participation’ in Digital ID Consultation
The UK government announced a series of in‑person roadshows, roundtables and a "workshop in a box" to boost participation in its digital identity consultation, which runs from 10 March to 5 May. Citizens can respond via an online form, email or post,...
Macquarie Centre Launches A/W 2026 Season with New Digital-First Campaign via iD Collective
Macquarie Centre has teamed with iD Collective to roll out a digital‑first Autumn‑Winter 2026 campaign, spotlighting its premium fashion mix. The effort features Australian actress‑singer Tammin Sursok and model Francesca Hung modeling collections from Aje, Polo Ralph Lauren, Witchery and Zara. iD...
NBA Superstar James Harden’s Signature Beard Inspires AI-Animated Short
Utopai Studios partnered with NBA star James Harden to produce an AI‑driven 3D animated short that spotlights his signature beard. The film was created using PAI, the studio’s proprietary screenplay‑to‑screen AI that generates characters, shots, and sequences without prompt‑based tinkering....
Anthropic and OpenAI Target Big Businesses with Enterprise-Grade Controls and Lower Pricing
Anthropic announced enterprise‑grade controls for its Claude Cowork agent, adding role‑based access, team spend limits, and OpenTelemetry observability to help large firms manage AI deployments. OpenAI responded by cutting the price of its Codex Pro plan to $100 per month, offering...
Anthropic Model Scare Sparks Urgent Bessent, Powell Warning to Bank CEOs
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell convened an emergency meeting with senior Wall Street executives on April 10, 2026. The gathering focused on the security implications of Anthropic PBC’s new AI model, Mythos, which regulators fear...
NBTC to Embed OTT Oversight in Plan
Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) reached a consensus that it has the authority to regulate over‑the‑top (OTT) platforms and will embed this oversight in its 2026‑2030 Broadcasting and Television Master Plan. After a five‑hour board debate, the regulator...
India Proposes New Rules to Regulate News and Political Posts on Social Media
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has proposed amendments to the country's IT rules that would extend the existing news‑publisher code of ethics to influencers, podcasters and other non‑publisher users who share news‑related content on platforms like Facebook, YouTube...
Can Diversification Boost CRUS' Revenue Stability & Margin Profile?
Cirrus Logic (CRUS) is shifting its growth strategy away from a heavy reliance on a single smartphone customer toward broader exposure in PCs, automotive, and AI‑enabled interfaces. The company leverages its low‑power analog and mixed‑signal expertise to launch new codecs,...
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
OpenAI announced support for Illinois Senate Bill 3444, which would shield AI developers from liability for "critical harms" such as mass deaths or $1 billion‑plus property damage, provided the labs publish safety, security and transparency reports and did not act intentionally...
AI Is Making Bad Decisions Easier to Justify
AI is increasingly deployed as a decision‑making co‑pilot, but its confident outputs often cement outcome bias, turning good processes into post‑hoc justifications. The article argues that organizations should stop judging decisions by results and instead evaluate the rigor of the...
Far Away Objects
Artemis II has set a new record for the farthest distance traveled by a crewed spacecraft, reaching a peak of 406,771 km from Earth. The mission demonstrates NASA’s progress toward deep‑space crewed flights beyond low‑Earth orbit. By contrast, the most distant human‑made...
DevOps Anti-Patterns: What They Are and How to Avoid Them
DevOps anti‑patterns—practices that appear helpful but undermine speed, collaboration, and reliability—are detailed in a comprehensive guide. The article highlights common pitfalls such as creating a separate DevOps team, focusing solely on tooling, inserting manual steps into CI/CD pipelines, neglecting continuous...
AI for Scientific Research: Building the Research Platform that Science Needs with Red Hat AI
Red Hat OpenShift, combined with OpenShift AI, provides a Kubernetes‑based platform that integrates large‑language‑model customization, model serving, and observability for research institutions. The Slinky operator containerizes Slurm, allowing traditional HPC workloads to share GPU resources with cloud‑native AI jobs on the...