News•Jan 28, 2026
Bing Ads Revenue Up 10% - Is Growth Slowing?
Microsoft reported second‑quarter 2026 results showing Bing Ads revenue grew 10% year‑over‑year, a slowdown from the 16% and 21% gains in the prior two quarters. Overall company revenue reached $81.3 billion, up 17% YoY, while operating income rose 21% and net income jumped 60% on a GAAP basis. The earnings release highlighted AI’s expanding role, with CEO Satya Nadella noting the early phase of AI diffusion across Microsoft’s portfolio. Non‑GAAP metrics exclude OpenAI‑related expenses, revealing a 24% rise in diluted EPS.
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Jan 28, 2026
Control, Clarity, and Confidence: Navigating Australian Taxation When the Stakes Are High
Australian tax is no longer a back‑office task for high‑net‑worth individuals and multi‑entity businesses; it now drives strategic decisions around asset holding, succession and cross‑border activity. Complex structures such as trusts, companies and superannuation must be regularly reviewed to stay...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 28, 2026
ServiceNow Inks Another AI Partnership, This Time with Anthropic
ServiceNow has signed a multi‑year agreement with Anthropic, making the Claude family of models the default AI engine across its workflow platform and internal tools. Claude now powers the ServiceNow Build Agent and Claude Code is being rolled out to the...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Jan 28, 2026
Silicon Valley Wades Into a Trade Spat with South Korea
Coupang, South Korea’s e‑commerce powerhouse with $35 bn in sales, suffered a massive data breach that has escalated into a diplomatic dispute. U.S. officials, backed by allies in the Trump administration, are pressing for tighter security controls on the firm’s handling...
By The Economist » Business
News•Jan 28, 2026
Nautilus, Weill Cornell Team Up to Apply Single Molecule Proteomics Tech to Parkinson’s
Nautilus and Weill Cornell Medicine‑Qatar have secured $1.6 million from the Michael J. Fox Foundation to develop a single‑molecule proteomics assay for alpha‑synuclein proteoforms in Parkinson’s disease. The collaboration merges Hilal Lashuel’s expertise in alpha‑synuclein post‑translational modifications with Nautilus’s Iterative Mapping...
By GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News)
News•Jan 28, 2026
Gut Bacteria Lysogeny Alters Genome Profiles Significantly
Researchers led by K. Pick and T.L. Raivio applied transcriptomic profiling to a lysogenic Escherichia coli strain cultured in simulated intestinal fluid. Integrated bacteriophage DNA caused extensive changes in both core and accessory gene expression, notably affecting virulence and metabolic...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 28, 2026
OnePay Adds Free In-App Tax Filing
OnePay has launched a free, in‑app tax‑filing feature for its Cash customers, allowing them to file federal and state returns directly through the mobile app. The service, powered by AI‑driven tax engine april, promises no hidden fees, early refund deposits...
By Finextra
News•Jan 28, 2026
COMAU�s Intelligent In.Grid Robot Monitoring Platform Accelerates Digital Transformation at IVECO
COMAU has installed its cloud‑based in.Grid Robot Monitoring platform at IVECO’s Valladolid plant in Spain. The system continuously captures robot data from the Door Ring and Mascherone lines, flagging anomalies and measuring KPI compliance. By delivering real‑time visibility and predictive...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Jan 28, 2026
Mastercard Launches Accreditation Program for UK FinTech Sponsors
Mastercard has launched the “BIN Sponsor Plus” accreditation framework to streamline market entry for UK fintech startups. The program connects fintechs with a vetted network of banks that can provide rapid card‑program launches while meeting heightened due‑diligence and training standards....
By PYMNTS
News•Jan 28, 2026
Now That's a Team-Up: Samsung and Nvidia Expected to Join Forces to Feature 'Revolutionary' HBM4 Memory Modules in Upcoming Vera...
Samsung Electronics and Nvidia are set to embed Samsung’s next‑generation HBM4 memory into Nvidia’s Vera Rubin AI accelerators, with mass shipments slated for February 2026. The HBM4 modules operate at 11.7 Gb/s and are built on Samsung’s 4 nm logic base die, giving the...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 28, 2026
The Smartest Choice for Futures Traders: Your Comparison Site
Futures prop trading firms supply capital to traders in exchange for a share of profits, but terms, fees, and technology offerings vary widely. A dedicated comparison website such as propfirmsync.com aggregates these variables, delivering transparent overviews of profit‑sharing models, cost...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 28, 2026
AI Local Visibility Is up to 30x Harder than Ranking in Google: Report
SOCi’s 2026 Local Visibility Index reveals that AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity surface far fewer business locations than Google’s local 3‑pack. Only 1.2% of 350,000 locations appear on ChatGPT, 11% on Gemini, and 7.4% on Perplexity, compared...
By Search Engine Land
News•Jan 28, 2026
Open Banking Continues to Outperform on Fraud
Open Banking’s latest financial‑crime report shows fraud rates of just 0.013 % of transactions, far below the 0.045 % industry average, and an improved performance versus 2024. While overall fraud remains low, Authorised Push Payment (APP) scams now represent 74 % of Open...
By Payments Cards & Mobile
News•Jan 28, 2026
Clay, an A.I. Sales Start-Up, Lets Employees Cash Out. Again.
Clay, an AI‑driven sales and marketing startup, announced a second employee tender offer, letting staff sell shares at a $5 billion valuation—up from $1.5 billion in its first tender. The new offer arrives nine months after the initial buyback and follows a...
By The New York Times – DealBook
News•Jan 28, 2026
The SpaceX IPO Could Finally Happen (and It’s a Big Deal)
SpaceX is reportedly preparing a 2026 initial public offering, having engaged four major Wall Street banks to manage the process. The company recently completed a tender offer that placed its valuation at $800 billion, with market speculation that the IPO could...
By TechCrunch - Space
News•Jan 28, 2026
U.S. Bancorp Says CEO Kedia Will Add Board Chair Title
U.S. Bancorp announced that CEO Gunjan Kedia will assume the board chair position in April 2026, succeeding executive chair Andy Cecere. The move reunites the bank’s governance structure, giving Kedia both CEO and chair titles—a model now held by most of...
By American Banker Technology
News•Jan 28, 2026
Unprecedented 3D Views of Sensory Cells Accelerate Hearing Research
University of California San Diego researchers unveiled Vision Analysis StereoCilia (VASCilia), an AI‑driven tool that creates high‑resolution 3D visualizations of cochlear hair‑cell stereocilia. By applying five deep‑learning models, VASCilia accelerates image analysis by roughly 50‑fold compared with manual methods. The...
By Phys.org – Biotechnology
News•Jan 28, 2026
NDSS 2025 – Recurrent Private Set Intersection For Unbalanced Databases With Cuckoo Hashing
Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi introduced a recurrent Private Set Intersection (PSI) protocol tailored for unbalanced databases. The solution combines leveled Fully Homomorphic Encryption with cuckoo hashing, delivering real‑time performance for repeated small‑set queries against a large set. Benchmarks using...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
Survey Surfaces Lots of Room for DevSecOps Improvement
A new UserEvidence survey of 506 security leaders reveals that while 80% of organizations have security and DevOps teams sharing observability tools, only 45% feel the teams are very aligned on tooling and workflows. Most respondents (93%) use three or...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
PlasmoBridge Chip Enables Ultrasensitive and Rapid Monitoring of Methotrexate
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences unveiled PlasmoBridge, a dual‑functional sensor chip that uses aptamer‑linked silver nanoparticles to generate plasmonic hotspots for methotrexate detection. The platform achieves a limit of detection of 4.64 × 10⁻⁸ M and, with a convolutional neural network,...
By Phys.org – Nanotechnology
News•Jan 28, 2026
Do Dwarf Galaxies Merge In The Milky Way's Halo?
Astronomers using Subaru’s wide‑field camera have identified an extended stellar distribution around the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy, revealing a population of main‑sequence stars beyond its tidal radius and aligned along a newly detected minor axis. The authors argue this...
By Universe Today
News•Jan 28, 2026
Complete Human Genome Tandem Repeat Catalog Released
An international consortium has released the first comprehensive catalog of tandem repeats across the entire human genome, covering more than one million loci. The database provides detailed repeat length distributions, population allele frequencies from over 100,000 sequenced genomes, and functional...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 28, 2026
Customer Service Is Emerging as the Proving Ground for Enterprise AI, Says Zendesk CEO
Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier says enterprise AI is shifting from pilot projects to full‑scale production, with customer service emerging as the primary proving ground. Companies that achieve over 50% automated resolutions are reporting higher satisfaction scores, faster response times, and...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
U.S. Space Command to Bring Commercial Firms Into Classified Wargame on Nuclear Threats in Space
U.S. Space Command announced that, for the first time, commercial space firms will join classified tabletop wargames addressing nuclear threats in orbit. The initial exercise, slated for March, will explore U.S. response options to a potential deployment of weapons of...
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 28, 2026
Show HN: Cursor for Userscripts
Browser Code is a new browser extension that equips Claude, an AI coding agent, with a virtual‑filesystem view of any web page. It lets the agent generate, edit, and persist userscripts through Chrome’s userScripts API (and Firefox’s equivalent), automatically running them...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 28, 2026
WhatsApp Will Now Charge AI Chatbots to Operate in Italy
Meta will begin charging developers for AI chatbot responses on WhatsApp in Italy, following a regulator‑mandated reversal of its ban on third‑party bots. Starting February 16, the fee is $0.0691 (≈€0.0572/£0.0498) per non‑template message. The pricing applies only where law...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Jan 28, 2026
FDA Asks Court to Pause Louisiana's Abortion Pill Fight
The U.S. Justice Department, representing the Trump administration, has petitioned a federal court to suspend a Louisiana lawsuit challenging the FDA’s approval of the abortion medication mifepristone. The request comes as the FDA conducts a comprehensive safety and efficacy review...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 28, 2026
Rare Disease Therapies: From Niche Experiment to Strategic Growth Engine
Rare‑disease therapies have shifted from a niche experiment to a core growth engine for biopharma, driven by the 1983 Orphan Drug Act and subsequent incentives. Smaller, adaptive trials and surrogate endpoints have lowered development costs, with orphan drugs averaging about...
By Pharmaceutical Technology
News•Jan 28, 2026
Canadian Government Looks to Bring News Content Back to Facebook
Two and a half years after Meta blocked Canadian news, the Canadian government is negotiating with Meta to restore news content on Facebook and Instagram as part of revisions to the Online News Act. The original act would have forced...
By Social Media Today
News•Jan 28, 2026
SSO Vs. Federated Identity Management: A Guide
Modern enterprises face escalating identity challenges as employees and automated workloads proliferate across SaaS, micro‑services, and multi‑cloud environments. Single Sign‑On (SSO) centralizes human authentication, reducing password fatigue and providing a unified audit trail, while federated identity extends access across organizational...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
Halozyme Diversifies in Drug Delivery with Surf Bio Buy
Halozyme Therapeutics has bolstered its drug‑delivery portfolio by acquiring Surf Bio for a $300 million upfront payment, adding the ultrahigh‑concentration Snapshot platform. The deal follows a recent $750 million purchase of Elektrofi, giving Halozyme three complementary technologies for subcutaneous administration. Snapshot enables...
By pharmaphorum
News•Jan 28, 2026
HeyMax Raises $11m Series A to Scale Travel Loyalty Across APAC
HeyMax, a Singapore‑based travel rewards platform, closed an $11 million Series A round led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Betatron Venture Group and notable angels such as Agoda’s co‑founder. The capital will fund AI‑enhanced product features and accelerate expansion from its...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 28, 2026
Giving AI the Ability to Monitor Its Own Thought Process Could Help It Think Like Humans
Researchers led by Ricky J. Sethi have introduced a mathematical framework that gives large language models a metacognitive state vector, enabling them to monitor and regulate their own reasoning. The vector captures five dimensions—emotional awareness, correctness evaluation, experience matching, conflict...
By Live Science AI
News•Jan 28, 2026
Lonza Still Intends to Sell Its Capsules and Health Ingredients Business
Swiss CDMO Lonza reaffirmed its intention to sell its capsules and health ingredients division. The transaction, first announced more than a year ago, has not yet been finalized. Lonza cited ongoing negotiations and market conditions as reasons for the delay....
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 28, 2026
Google Launches New Google Ads Insights Podcast
Google has introduced the "Ads Decoded" podcast, hosted by Ads Product Liaison Ginny Marvin, to bridge marketers with the Google Ads product teams. The series will feature interviews covering the latest trends such as AI, SEO, and analytics. The debut...
By Social Media Today
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News•Jan 28, 2026
2026 Enterprise Security Trends: What Leaders Must Prepare For In An Interconnected Risk Landscape
Enterprise security in 2026 is defined by the merging of cyber and physical domains, the rise of AI as both an attack accelerator and defense multiplier, and the recognition that cloud outages are now security incidents. Recent incidents like the...
By Security Magazine (Cybersecurity)
News•Jan 28, 2026
Student Data at Risk: What the Victoria Education Breach Exposes About Public Sector Security
The Victoria Department of Education suffered a data breach that exposed personal information of current and former students, prompting a privacy investigation. The breach highlighted longstanding issues in public‑sector access governance, such as dormant accounts and overly broad permissions. Attackers...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
Europe’s First Drone Shot Down: A Line Crossed in Civil Airspace
A civilian in Nurmijärvi, Finland deliberately shot down a police‑operated drone during an armed‑suspect response, marking Europe’s first known incident of a drone being targeted in civil airspace. The drone was deployed to enhance officer safety and situational awareness. Police...
By sUAS News
News•Jan 28, 2026
Separase’s Key Role in Nuclear Lamin Regulation
Researchers have uncovered that separase, the protease known for triggering sister‑chromatid separation, directly cleaves nuclear lamins during mitotic entry. The study demonstrates that separase-mediated lamin A/C cleavage is essential for nuclear envelope breakdown and proper chromosome segregation. Using CRISPR‑engineered human...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 28, 2026
Capturing the Moment of Organelle Handoff Inside Living Cells
Researchers have, for the first time, directly visualized autophagosomes moving from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) onto microtubule tracks inside living cells. By combining interferometric scattering microscopy with fluorescence labeling in a custom DySLIM platform, they captured the handoff event with...
By Phys.org – Nanotechnology
News•Jan 28, 2026
How a Government Shutdown Causes FDA Inspection Bottlenecks and Backlogs
A looming U.S. government shutdown could cripple FDA operational capacity, turning routine inspections into a bottleneck and creating a sizable backlog of pending reviews. While user‑fee‑funded core reviews may continue, the loss of predictability hampers agency responsiveness and administrative processing....
By Pharmaceutical Technology
News•Jan 28, 2026
Applied Industrial Emphasizes AI as Demand Shows Early Improvement
Applied Industrial Technologies is embedding artificial intelligence, automation and digital tools into core operations as industrial demand modestly improves. The company reported Q2 sales of $1.16 billion, up 8.4% year‑over‑year, with profit rising to $95.3 million. AI‑driven pricing analytics and sales productivity...
By Digital Commerce 360
News•Jan 28, 2026
Wave of Suicides Hits as India’s Economy Is Ravaged by AI
Advanced AI is reshaping India’s tech sector, prompting firms to slash hiring and automate tasks. The resulting layoffs, including a 20,000‑person cut at TCS, have intensified already grueling 90‑hour workweeks. A wave of suicides among engineers and support staff underscores...
By Futurism AI
News•Jan 28, 2026
Lessons Learned From Switching From Python to Rust
An engineering team migrated its backend from Python’s FastAPI to Rust’s Actix‑Web to address performance, cost, and reliability concerns. Benchmarks showed Rust delivering significantly higher request throughput, lower latency, and reduced memory footprints, while Diesel’s type‑safe ORM caught many errors...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 28, 2026
Canada’s Next Eye on the Moon
Western University’s team, led by Professor Jayshri Sabarinathan, has been awarded a $3.8 million Phase 0 contract by the Canadian Space Agency to build a Dual Sensor Multispectral Imager (DS‑MSI) for a lunar utility rover. The DS‑MSI integrates visible‑near‑infrared and short‑wave infrared...
By SpaceQ
News•Jan 28, 2026
I Bought "Remove Before Flight" Tags on eBay in 2010—It Turns Out They're From Challenger
On the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, the author uncovered that a lot of bright‑red “Remove Before Flight” tags purchased on eBay in 2010 were originally affixed to external tank ET‑26 for the STS‑51L mission. The tags bear “ET‑26”...
By Ars Technica (Space)
News•Jan 28, 2026
Long-Term Prognosis for Older Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients
A recent multi‑center analysis examined long‑term outcomes for patients over 60 with classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL). Using modern PET‑adapted regimens, five‑year overall survival rose to roughly 70%, though treatment‑related toxicity remains a key challenge. The study highlighted the benefit of...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 28, 2026
Fortinet Confirms CVE-2026-24858 SSO Flaw Under Active Attack
Fortinet has confirmed that the FortiCloud Single Sign‑On (SSO) authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE‑2026‑24858) is being actively exploited in the wild. The flaw, rated 9.4 on the CVSS scale, affects FortiOS, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and FortiProxy, allowing attackers with a valid FortiCloud...
By eSecurity Planet
News•Jan 28, 2026
Google’s New Chrome ‘Auto Browse’ Agent Attempts to Roam the Web Without You
Google launched Auto Browse, an AI‑driven agent for Chrome powered by Gemini 3, that can autonomously complete tasks such as flight bookings, apartment searches, and expense filing. The feature is accessed through the Gemini sidebar and is currently available only to...
By WIRED AI
News•Jan 28, 2026
Chrome Takes on AI Browsers with Tighter Gemini Integration, Agentic Features for Autonomous Tasks
Google is upgrading Chrome with a persistent Gemini sidebar, shifting from the previous floating window. The new sidebar can understand groups of related tabs, making price‑comparison and product research smoother. Integrated personal‑intelligence will let Gemini draw on Gmail, Search, YouTube...
By TechCrunch Apps