Next-Generation Hydrogen-Powered Drone Platforms & End-to-End Solutions
Heven AeroTech has joined Unmanned Systems Technology’s global supplier ecosystem as a Gold Partner, showcasing a full suite of hydrogen‑powered UAVs. Its portfolio includes the Z1‑H2D250 VTOL with 10+ hours endurance, the modular Raider fixed‑wing with 12+ hours flight, the octocopter H2D55, the heavy‑lift Atlas H100, and the customizable Urban X. All platforms deliver zero‑emission operation, rapid hydrogen refuel, low acoustic and thermal signatures, and are positioned for defense, public‑safety, and industrial missions. The company also offers end‑to‑end hydrogen support services such as generation, storage, and mobile refueling.
Qlik Partners with Starburst
Qlik announced a partnership with Starburst to fuse its data integration, replication and analytics suite with Starburst’s federated query engine and context layer. The joint offering lets enterprises query, move, prepare and govern data across cloud, on‑premises and hybrid environments...
SCIM in HashiCorp Vault Standardizes Provisioning in Platforms
HashiCorp announced a beta release of SCIM support for Vault Enterprise and Vault Dedicated, bringing a standards‑based identity provisioning layer to its secret‑management platform. The integration lets organizations automate joiner, mover and leaver workflows by syncing users and groups from...
Google Adds AI Shopping Visibility Insights to Merchant Center
Google is adding AI‑driven performance insights to Merchant Center, giving retailers visibility into how their products appear across Google’s AI‑powered shopping experiences. The new reports will benchmark share of voice, track funnel performance, surface popular conversational queries, and flag missing...
Carissa Véliz on the Dangers of Predictive AI
In a Sifted podcast, Oxford ethicist Carissa Véliz warns that predictive AI amplifies power imbalances, echoing ancient oracles that told leaders what they wanted to hear. She highlights how algorithmic hiring and firing can embed bias and opacity into corporate...
Warby Parker to Enter New Category with Intelligent Eyewear
Warby Parker announced its first Intelligent Eyewear line, a smart‑glass frame powered by Google’s Gemini AI and Samsung hardware, running on Android XR. The lightweight nylon frames will support prescription lenses and are slated for a fall 2026 launch with...
NASA Astronaut Andrew Morgan Retires
Former NASA astronaut and Army Brig. Gen. Andrew R. Morgan announced his retirement from NASA after a 12‑year tenure that included 272 days aboard the International Space Station. Morgan logged more than 115 million miles, completed 4,300 Earth orbits and performed seven...
Nordic Extends AI Assistance From Firmware Development to Deployed IoT Fleets
Nordic Semiconductor has launched AI‑assisted development tools that span the entire IoT device lifecycle, from early prototyping on its chip‑to‑cloud platform to post‑deployment fleet debugging. The solution integrates the company’s hardware, SDK, development environment and cloud services, allowing developers to...
Vanessa Fox on the Birth of Google Search Console
Vanessa Fox, the architect behind Google Search Console, sat down for an in‑depth interview that traces the tool’s evolution from early XML sitemaps to today’s AI‑enhanced interface. She recounts life at Google’s Kirkland office, collaboration with Matt Cutts, and the...
Snowflake’s $6B AWS Bet Signals New Era of Enterprise AI Infrastructure
Snowflake announced a five‑year, $6 billion commitment to Amazon Web Services for compute and AI infrastructure, emphasizing AWS Graviton ARM processors and GPU instances. The deal coincides with Snowflake’s strongest quarter, reporting FY27 Q1 revenue of $1.39 billion, a 26% year‑over‑year increase,...
Browser Threats Expand Across Enterprise Networks
A NordLayer study finds browsers now serve as the primary workplace interface, with 100% of the 504 surveyed applications supporting browser access and 78.8% being fully browser‑based. Over the past year, 82% of IT professionals reported at least one security...
A Malware Dev Has Committed a Magnificent Self-Own After an AI-Coded Malicious Package Leaked Its Own GitHub Private Token
Ox Security uncovered an AI‑generated npm package, mouse5212‑super‑formatter, that targeted Claude users and stole files by uploading them to a GitHub repository. The malicious code inadvertently exposed its own private GitHub token, allowing researchers to trace the attacker’s activity. The...
Governor Sherrill Proposes Statewide Controls on AI Data Center Growth
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill unveiled a proposal that would make large AI‑focused data centers finance the power generation and grid upgrades needed for their operations. The plan also mandates semi‑annual disclosure of electricity and water use, statewide community‑benefit agreements,...
Google Expands Customer Acquisition Targeting with “New Prospects” Mode
Google is launching a new “prospects” targeting mode that aims to reach consumers who have never interacted with a brand. The AI‑driven system automatically excludes past purchasers, brand‑searchers, site visitors, and YouTube engagers, focusing ad spend on cold audiences. The...
AI Presses Nursing Education to Evolve, but Which Way Will It Go?
A new report from nursing science leaders calls for standardized AI education, ethical safeguards, and rigorous evaluation frameworks to ensure AI tools enhance, not hinder, patient care. It emphasizes that nurses must understand AI mechanics, bias, and workflow impacts, and...
FDA Approves Durvalumab in Combination with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin for High-Risk Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
The FDA approved durvalumab (Imfinzi) in combination with Bacillus Calmette‑Guerin for BCG‑naïve, high‑risk non‑muscle invasive bladder cancer. The decision follows the POTOMAC trial, which enrolled 1,018 patients and demonstrated a 32% reduction in disease recurrence risk (hazard ratio 0.68, p=0.015)....
Reactor
Reactor, founded in 2025, is a private developer platform that powers real‑time AI video models. It delivers an inference infrastructure with persistent state, bidirectional streaming, and sub‑50 ms frame latency to support world‑model applications. The company secured a seed round from...
Efimis Continues to Expand AI Capabilities with Eve, Its In-App AI Assistant for Legal Finance
Efimis has launched Eve, an in‑app AI assistant embedded in its legal‑finance platform, allowing law firms to retrieve financial and operational data through natural‑language queries. Eve currently covers fees, performance, debtors, matter balances and broader analytics, cutting the need for...
Zone & Co Partners With Nixtla For TimeGPT Forecasting And Anomaly Detection
Zone & Co has partnered with Nixtla to embed Nixtla’s TimeGPT foundation model for time‑series directly into its ERP‑native financial platform. The integration delivers continuous anomaly detection for billing and usage and cash‑flow forecasting without requiring a data‑science stack. TimeGPT’s...
Bring on the Breakthroughs: ASCO Takes Translation to More Patients
The 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago spotlights the theme “The Science and Practice of Translation,” showcasing data that move laboratory breakthroughs into everyday cancer care. Highlighted trials include PROTEUS, a phase‑3 study adding apalutimide to...
Wyoming Data Center Power Projects Highlight New Entrants, Partnerships in Power Generation Market
Tallgrass Energy’s Cheyenne Power Hub in southeast Wyoming, a $7 billion venture, will deliver roughly 1,150 MW from two combined‑cycle plants and a fuel‑cell yard to power the adjacent Project Jade data center. The project exemplifies a growing trend of midstream infrastructure...
Sage Intacct Expands Automation Across Finance Systems
Sage announced a suite of new capabilities for its cloud‑based Sage Intacct platform, aimed at automating core finance workflows and extending AI integration. The May 2026 release adds AI‑driven 3‑Way Matching for accounts payable, Payment Reminders for receivables, Custom Approvals for purchasing,...
Cruise Operator Carnival Discloses Personal Data Breach
Carnival Corp disclosed a data breach on May 27 after a compromised employee account in April exposed names, addresses and government‑issued identification numbers. The company halted the intrusion, engaged third‑party investigators and is notifying affected parties. U.S. customers receive two years...
Revolv Space Enters In-Orbit Servicing Market with Infinite Orbits Deal
Revolv Space, the Italian‑Dutch satellite hardware firm, has secured a contract with French in‑orbit services provider Infinite Orbits to supply its Solar Array Drive Assemblies (SADAs) for geostationary orbit (GEO) servicing missions. The deal marks Revolv’s first entry into the...
Noida to Launch 100 E-Buses From June 15 to Boost Airport and City Connectivity
Noida Authority and UPSRTC will launch a fleet of 100 electric buses on June 15, the same day the city’s new international airport begins commercial flights. The service includes ten double‑deckers, five routes covering 200 km daily, and a fare cap...
First Gen Hydropower Investments to Yield P16 Billion Annually by 2031
First Gen Corp., part of the Lopez Group, announced a $1.13 bn (P62 bn) investment in Prime Infrastructure’s pumped‑storage hydro portfolio, acquiring a 33% stake in the 1,400‑MW Pakil and 600‑MW Wawa projects. The facilities, backed by a 20‑year government offtake contract,...
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7 Best Free AI Image Editing Tools for Beginners in 2026
In 2026 a wave of free AI‑powered image editors is giving beginners professional‑grade results without costly subscriptions, with Canva, Pixlr, Fotor, Remove.bg, BeFunky, Remini and Google Gemini leading the pack. These tools emphasize low learning curves, browser access and one‑click...
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Claude Opus 4.8 Debuts as Anthropic Pushes for ‘Improved Honesty’
Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that emphasizes "improved honesty" by surfacing uncertainty and reducing overconfident errors. Internal tests show the new model is about four times less likely to let flawed code pass unnoticed and...
David Johnson: The Biology of AI and Its Role in the Survival of Healthcare
David Johnson likens AI’s rapid development to biological evolution, using Eric Beinhocker’s three‑stage model of differentiation, selection and amplification. He argues that AI’s “datanome” stack functions like a genome, encoding data, models and actions that continuously improve healthcare operations. The...
GAO Flags Electric Aircraft Hurdles
The Government Accountability Office released a report highlighting significant hurdles for electric aircraft adoption in the United States. It found that only 47 airports have electric charging stations on their layout plans, with 43 of them being small nonhub facilities,...
India Adds over 14GW of Solar in Q1 2026
India added roughly 14.2 GW of solar capacity in Q1 2026, a 95% quarter‑on‑quarter surge, driven mainly by utility‑scale projects that more than doubled to 34.85 GW. Rooftop installations climbed to 8.71 GW, buoyed by the PM Surya Ghar scheme, while off‑grid solar slipped...
The LLMs Have Spoken: Yelp Is the Top Source for AI Local Search
AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode now serve as the primary entry point for local‑business discovery, and they rely heavily on trusted review sites for answers. A joint analysis by AirOps and Yelp found that Yelp was...
Xiaomi Just Launched a Premium Smartwatch that Makes the Samsung Galaxy Watch Look Overpriced
Xiaomi unveiled its AIoT‑focused wearables, the premium Watch S5 46mm and the feature‑rich Smart Band 10 Pro. The Watch S5 sports a stainless‑steel or ceramic case, a 1.48‑inch 2,500‑nit AMOLED screen, dual‑band GNSS and a 21‑day battery, priced at about $210. The Smart...
MPN’s Weekly Video Podcast: Inside AI on the Lot 2025: Amazon’s Project Nara, Google Gemini and Hollywood’s AI Revolution
At AI on the Lot 2025, Amazon unveiled Project Nara, an end‑to‑end AI production suite now available to independent filmmakers through a grant program, and Google demonstrated Gemini Omni Flash, a multimodal tool that creates video, audio, text and images from...
AI Listens to Insect Body Signals to Guide Cyborg Cockroaches
Researchers at the University of Osaka introduced the Insect Synergy Circuit (ISC), a bio‑intelligent system that fuses a cockroach’s heartbeat, neural signals, and motion data with AI to infer its internal state. A wearable backpack captured these signals, enabling a...
IPC, 24X National Exchange Team up to Deliver Market Data Connectivity for Overnight US Equities Trading
IPC Systems has partnered with 24X National Exchange to provide market‑data connectivity for overnight U.S. equities trading. Leveraging IPC’s resilient, low‑latency global network, the collaboration enables 23/5 trading and real‑time data distribution across key Asia‑Pacific hubs such as Hong Kong,...
More Opposition to the EU’s New Space Law, This Time From European Companies
European aerospace leaders at SmallSat Europe voiced strong opposition to the EU’s draft Space Act, calling it monopolistic, slow and overly rigid. They warned that a twelve‑month licensing process would cripple the fast‑moving commercial space sector. Critics argue the legislation...
Google Cloud Responds to AI-Accelerated Cyberattacks with a Platform that Aims to Close Security Gaps in Minutes
Google Cloud unveiled AI Threat Defense, an end‑to‑end platform that automatically discovers, evaluates, and patches security flaws across enterprise environments. The solution stitches together Gemini for code analysis, Wiz’s risk‑assessment engine (acquired for $32 billion), DeepMind’s Codemender for auto‑generating patches, and...
Sesame, the Conversational AI Startup From Oculus Founders, Launches Its iOS App
Conversational‑AI startup Sesame, founded by Oculus’s original team, unveiled a public preview iOS app that lets users interact with four distinct AI agents. The app leverages fast parallel search and retrieval so the agents can pause, think and inject up‑to‑date...
Tieto Banktech Layers AI Defence Against Payment Fraud
Tieto Banktech’s Financial Crime Prevention unit has rolled out a multi‑layered AI architecture that blends real‑time detection with human oversight. Its Token Enrolment Monitoring (TEM) system now blocks 70‑80% of token‑based card fraud before activation, while Card Transaction Monitoring (CTM)...
We're Getting Our First Call of Duty Game on a Nintendo Platform in 13 Years
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is set to launch on October 23 across Nintendo Switch 2, PC, Xbox and PlayStation, marking the franchise's return to Nintendo after a ten‑year hiatus. Infinity Ward confirmed the release following a brief, now‑removed YouTube leak. The...
Attackers Move Past Typosquatting to Realistic Package Impersonation
Sonatype’s latest research of 4,309 malicious open‑source packages reveals a dramatic shift away from classic typosquatting. Only 9% of the threats rely on misspelled names, while 91% use naming‑variant tactics such as suffixes, prefixes, and version mimicry. The most common...
Low Noise Amplifier, PEC-30-10M20-SFF
Planar Monolithics (PMI) introduced the PEC‑30‑10M20‑SFF, an ultra‑low noise amplifier covering 0.01 to 20 GHz. It delivers a typical gain of +27.6 dB with ±2 dB flatness at 18 GHz and a 3 dB noise figure. Output power reaches a minimum 13 dBm at 1 dB compression and a...
Threat Actors Exploit Critical FortiClient EMS Flaw to Deploy Credential Stealer
Threat actors exploited a critical pre‑authentication API bypass (CVE‑2026‑35616) in FortiClient Endpoint Management Server to push a credential‑stealing payload disguised as a legitimate update. The attack leveraged the legitimate fortitray.exe to run a Base64‑encoded PowerShell script that downloaded FortiEndpoint_Patch.exe, harvesting...
NewSpace Systems Announces European Expansion with New Netherlands Subsidiary
NewSpace Systems announced the creation of a European subsidiary in the Netherlands during the SmallSat Europe conference, marking a key step in its continental growth strategy. The new entity will initially focus on business development, customer engagement, and technical support...
Ghana Rolls Out Biometric Digital Visas as Part of Travel Modernization Push
Ghana has launched a biometric digital visa platform that offers free visas to African passport holders and charges $260 for non‑African applicants. The system, built through a public‑private partnership, processes applications online within 48 hours and integrates with chip‑enabled passports...
Digital Phase Shifter, PS-100M20G-8B-SFF-MIL-SM
Planar Monolithics introduced the PS-100M20G-8B-SFF-MIL-SM, a digitally controlled phase shifter operating from 0.1 GHz to 20 GHz. The device delivers continuous 0°‑360° phase adjustment with 13 dB insertion loss and ±5° phase‑shift error. It switches in 500 ns, offers ±1 dB amplitude error, and meets...
Wealthsimple to Offer Early Access to IPO Trading
Wealthsimple announced that its platform will now allow retail investors to request shares of selected U.S. and Canadian IPOs at the initial offering price, a privilege traditionally reserved for institutions and accredited investors. The service operates through allocations from investment...
Japan’s IHI Begin to Benefit From ICEYE SAR Imagery
Japan’s IHI corporation will start using ICEYE’s synthetic‑aperture‑radar (SAR) imagery as the first two of a four‑satellite constellation become operational. The procurement, signed in October 2025, covers four Japan‑built SAR satellites with an option for 20 more. The high‑resolution radar data...
Digital Debit Card Use Surged in the First Quarter, a Galileo Report Finds
Galileo’s inaugural Debit Spend Index shows debit card usage climbing sharply in Q1 2026. Restaurant transactions rose more than 18%, while saved‑card purchases grew to 24% of all debit activity and posted an average ticket of $61.23, 65% higher than...