
Fraud no longer looks like a discrete incident; data scientists see it as subtle behavioral deviations across a dynamic transaction ecosystem. Traditional rule‑based defenses create excessive false declines, eroding revenue and customer trust. Visa’s shift to deep‑learning models delivers 15‑20% higher authorization rates while cutting false positives. Continuous, AI‑driven monitoring now targets pre‑transaction signals, keeping pace with fraudsters who themselves use artificial intelligence.

Technological University Dublin launched the Research Ireland ARC Hub for ICT, a €32.21 million national initiative designed to fast‑track ICT and artificial intelligence research into commercial products. Co‑funded by the Irish government and the EU’s ERDF programme, the Hub offers targeted...

The European Space Agency released a new Sentinel‑2 image of Rudong County’s coastline on China’s eastern seaboard. The high‑resolution optical data showcases the region’s shoreline, wetlands and nearby maritime traffic. ESA highlighted the image as part of its open‑access Copernicus...

Dr. Clare Wareing, founder and CEO of Cumulus Oncology, discussed the company’s risk‑adjusted preclinical pipeline aimed at high‑unmet‑need cancers. Cumulus employs a platform‑agnostic, precision‑medicine strategy that prioritizes patient subgroups to improve development success. The interview highlighted the supportive Scottish biotech...

EBAday’s Fintech Zone returned for its sixth year, showcasing early‑stage startups that aim to partner with banks. The accelerator highlighted a cohort of winners whose solutions span payments, compliance, and digital identity. Follow‑up reporting now tracks each winner’s progress, noting...
Multiple randomized trials and electronic‑health‑record analyses show that a 14‑day course of metformin, started during or shortly after acute SARS‑CoV‑2 infection, significantly lowers the risk of developing Long COVID. Across four studies, one Long COVID case is prevented for every...

January 2026 saw a wave of senior appointments across the financial sector, with JP Morgan Payments naming former NatWest CDAO Zachery Anderson as chief data and analytics officer. Hargreaves Lansdown announced Vanguard veteran Matt Benchener as its incoming CEO, while HSBC Private...

Newport Beach‑based Pro Logica announced an expansion of its software and AI development operations to meet rising U.S. demand for production‑grade digital systems. The company is shifting focus from experimental prototypes toward custom, enterprise‑scale applications that emphasize security, performance, and...

DryvIQ has launched a Microsoft SharePoint Embedded connector that brings its intelligent data management capabilities to content stored within SharePoint Embedded applications. The new integration adds SharePoint Embedded to the platform’s more than 40 supported repositories, allowing analysis, classification, governance,...

Online learning has become core campus infrastructure, but passwords remain the weakest link, exposing grades, payments, and personal data. Passwordless authentication replaces reusable secrets with device‑bound credentials such as passkeys, security keys, magic links, OTPs, and push approvals. The shift...

Content Catalyst has launched DocuViewer, a mobile‑optimized viewer that delivers PDF and PowerPoint research content through a modern interface. The tool promises instant search, direct data extraction, seamless navigation, and embedded hyperlinks, eliminating the friction of legacy PDF readers. It...

Google unveiled Gemini 3 Pro, an AI model that simultaneously processes cricket video and live commentary, delivering real‑time insights during World Cup clips. The demo, highlighted by CEO Sundar Pichai, showed the system pinpointing players, wickets, boundaries and momentum shifts while answering...

Xumo, the Comcast‑Charter streaming joint venture, has linked its premium CTV inventory to The Trade Desk’s OpenPath through FreeWheel, creating the first direct‑supply path of its kind. The integration gives advertisers programmatic access to more than 60 million monthly active users...

Arkose Labs unveiled Arkose Titan, a unified platform that defends against both human‑driven and AI‑powered fraud, scraping, and bot attacks. The solution consolidates bot detection, device and email intelligence, API security, behavioral biometrics, and phishing protection into a single API...
Researchers have linked the circadian rhythm of soluble CD26 (sCD26) to acute graft‑versus‑host disease (aGVHD) risk in cord blood transplantation (CBT). Peak sCD26 levels suppress pathogenic T‑cell activity, creating a temporal window that lowers aGVHD incidence and severity. The team...

KAIST researchers have replaced traditional electronic timing signals in Very Long Baseline Interferometry with optical frequency‑comb lasers, delivering atomic‑clock precision across radio telescopes. The laser comb feeds directly into each dish’s receiver, establishing phase alignment at the fundamental stability of...
Digital services firm Cognizant announced a multi‑year extension of its strategic partnership with kitchen‑and‑bath manufacturer Kohler. The renewed agreement expands cloud management, modernized infrastructure, and AI‑driven security, including Cognizant’s Neuro® IT Operations platform. By integrating generative AI and advanced observability,...

Intruder announced record 2025 growth, with enterprise annual recurring revenue climbing 81% year‑over‑year. The surge was fueled by a 51% rise in new business and a 2.5‑fold jump in expansion revenue, alongside the rollout of Cloud Security Posture Management and...
A recent Pediatric Research study demonstrates that the systemic immune‑inflammation index (SII) predicts mortality in critically ill children with acute kidney injury (AKI). The researchers analyzed ICU data, finding that higher SII scores—reflecting neutrophilia, lymphopenia, and thrombocytosis—correlate with increased death...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched the "Encrypt It Already" campaign, urging major tech firms to fulfill announced end‑to‑end encryption promises, enable encryption by default, and broaden encrypted storage. The initiative groups demands into three categories—Keep your promises, Defaults...

Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs uncovered ShadowHS, a Linux post‑exploitation framework that operates entirely in memory. The tool leverages a weaponized version of hackshell with an AES‑256‑CBC encrypted loader, enabling fileless execution via /proc//fd/. ShadowHS provides an operator‑controlled environment for...

Apple introduced a new privacy setting called Limit Precise Location in iOS 26.3, which reduces the granularity of location data shared with cellular networks. When enabled, carriers can only determine a user’s approximate neighborhood rather than the exact address, while app‑level...
Selfotix unveiled Self Agent, an agentic AI feature that automatically generates complete web automation workflows within its Chrome extension. Users simply select an AI model and click “Generate Flow,” prompting the system to analyze page structure, create selectors, and build...
San Francisco AI startup Adapt announced a $10 million seed round co‑led by Activant Capital and Headline, positioning itself as the “AI computer” for enterprises. The capital backs a horizontal AI platform that embeds frontier models into any workflow via API...

KnowBe4 marks a decade of AI-driven cybersecurity by celebrating the tenth anniversary of its AIDA platform and the deployment of seven active AI agents in the market. The company appointed Harlan Parrott as Vice President of AI Innovation to head...

Yann LeCun, a founding figure of modern AI, warned that scaling large language models will not deliver artificial general intelligence. He argued that current systems cannot predict real‑world consequences, a gap that makes agentic AI unreliable. LeCun called for a...

MESCIUS USA, Inc. launched DsPdfAI, an AI assistant for its Document Solutions for PDF suite, bundled in version 9. The tool lets .NET developers automatically summarize PDFs, extract tables, and generate outline trees via simple API methods. Customizable request strings and...
Dr. Josef Neu’s recent article argues that reliable biomarkers for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remain elusive due to the disease’s heterogeneity, methodological flaws in prior studies, and the unique physiology of preterm infants. He highlights that single‑molecule indicators such as cytokines...
The CSO editorial team compiled a calendar of security conferences slated for February through May 2026, covering more than 30 events across Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. Highlights include multiple Gartner Security & Risk Management Summits, the BSides community...
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifted off from New Zealand, delivering South Korea’s first test smallsat for a planned observation constellation over the Korean peninsula. Later, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral, with the booster completing its fifth...

The article presents a comprehensive, end‑to‑end tutorial that builds a fully differentiable computer‑vision pipeline using Kornia and PyTorch. It starts with synchronized GPU‑accelerated augmentations for images, masks, and keypoints, then shows how to recover a homography through gradient‑based optimization. The...

Quiz, the UK‑based apparel retailer, is pursuing new financing after a disappointing Christmas period. The company, founded in Glasgow in 1993, now runs 40 stores and employs roughly 1,000 staff following a February pre‑pack closure of 23 loss‑making locations. Founders...

Iterate.ai, together with TD SYNNEX and HPE, launched Generate for Healthcare, an AI‑driven platform that helps hospitals identify and recover unpaid or underpaid insurance claims. The solution runs on HPE Private Cloud AI or HPE ProLiant DL380a Gen12 servers equipped with NVIDIA...

Capitol AI announced the appointment of Rama Veeraragoo to head product management and roadmap development as it deepens its footprint in the United States and United Kingdom. Veeraragoo will translate frontline customer needs into trusted, high‑stakes AI systems, overseeing user...
Researchers at India’s ARCI have created a dual‑functional porous graphene carbon nanocomposite (PGCN) electrode that enables supercapacitors to operate at 3.4 V, exceeding the typical 2.5‑3.0 V ceiling. The material’s water‑repellent and organic‑electrolyte‑compatible surface boosts ion transport, delivering 33 % higher energy storage,...
Argo Graphene Solutions has begun specialized design and testing of a proprietary graphene‑infused asphalt mix at its Saskatchewan R&D facility. The program targets enhanced tensile strength, freeze‑thaw resistance, and thermal conductivity to improve road durability in extreme cold. The company...

Domestic‑abuse charity Refuge reports a sharp rise in technology‑enabled abuse, with a 62% increase in complex cases amounting to 829 women in Q4 2025. Referrals of victims under 30 grew 24%, highlighting younger women’s vulnerability to smart‑device stalking. Perpetrators are exploiting...
Human risk management (HRM) is emerging as a solution to the security awareness training (SAT) paradox, where 70‑90% of breaches originate from employee actions despite billions spent on training. While SAT spending is projected to grow 15% annually, its efficacy...

Black Duck announced it has begun the FedRAMP Moderate authorization process for its Polaris Platform, aiming to secure a federal‑grade cloud offering. The company partnered with stackArmor, a FedRAMP engineering specialist, to fast‑track the Authorization to Operate (ATO). Black Duck...

NTT DATA has signed a multi‑year Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Amazon Web Services to speed enterprise cloud migrations and responsible agentic AI adoption. The partnership leverages NTT DATA’s cloud‑native expertise and AWS’s scale to deliver industry‑specific solutions across finance, healthcare,...
Victoria’s Secret senior data engineering leader Venkatesh Gundu outlines how cloud migration, AI adoption, and disciplined cost management can accelerate enterprise‑scale transformation. Over sixteen years he delivered more than $5 million in savings, cut infrastructure spend by 30‑35 % and built an...

Researchers have uncovered a stealthy data‑theft method called “Exfil Out&Look” that abuses Microsoft 365 Outlook Web add‑ins to siphon email content. The technique leverages minimal‑permission manifests that execute on the OnMessageSend event, silently fetching email bodies and forwarding them via a fetch()...

PitchBook reports that the UK private‑capital market rebounded strongly in Q4 2025, driven by robust venture capital, private equity, and public‑market activity. Venture funding reached roughly $6.8 bn, highlighted by Revolut’s $3 bn round, the continent’s biggest deal of the year. Private‑equity...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released new guidance on mitigating Salmonella and Listeria contamination in commercially bottled apple juice. The recommendations emphasize high‑temperature short‑time (HTST) pasteurization, routine environmental testing, and the adoption of antimicrobial hurdle technologies. Early adopters report...

Helpdesk impersonation is a social‑engineering technique where attackers pose as employees or partners to trick IT support staff into granting unauthorized access. By leveraging publicly available information and urgency cues, they can obtain password resets, MFA device changes, and privileged...

ASOS has introduced a tiered returns policy that removes the £3.95 fee for shoppers who maintain a low return rate, and it now lets customers track their return history directly in the mobile app. The move highlights a growing industry...

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) calls for AI‑generated news to carry standardized “nutrition” labels that disclose the sources used, and for a UK licensing regime that forces tech firms to pay publishers for content. The think‑tank argues AI...

The European Space Agency closed 2025 with record funding commitments, yet its overall budget still lags far behind the United States and China. At the European Space Conference in Brussels, Director General Josef Aschbacher warned that past achievements are insufficient...

China leveraged Trump’s aggressive trade stance to pivot toward new partners, driving a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus in 2025. Monthly foreign‑exchange inflows surged to a historic $100 billion, while the yuan’s global settlement share more than doubled. Exports to the United...

In a reflective piece, Dave Wallace argues that the finance sector has lost its big‑picture perspective, becoming fixated on profit extraction rather than serving people. He recounts his own agency’s shift from strategic consulting to polishing existing processes, a move...