News•Jan 26, 2026
Stock Futures Explained in Plain English: A Bitget-Focused Starter
Stock futures are derivative contracts that let traders capture equity price moves without owning the shares, offering two‑way exposure and higher capital efficiency. The contracts rely on notional value, margin, and leverage, meaning gains and losses are amplified relative to the collateral posted. Bitget now provides a dedicated stock‑futures platform where users can review specifications before trading. Proper risk controls—such as modest sizing, stop‑losses, and daily loss limits—are essential to avoid liquidation.
By TechBullion
News•Jan 26, 2026
Euroclear to Launch Same-Day Settlement for Stock Loan Returns Within CREST System
Euroclear will introduce same‑day settlement for stock‑loan returns (SLRs) in its CREST platform on June 15, 2026. The new service lets lenders approve immediate settlement by raising transaction priority, otherwise defaulting to T+1. This change accelerates collateral release, cuts settlement risk and...
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Jan 26, 2026
Merck Backs Off Revolution After Failing To Agree on Price: WSJ
Merck and Revolution Medicines ended acquisition talks after failing to agree on a purchase price, with proposals hovering between $28 billion and $32 billion. The biotech’s lead drug, daraxonrasib, has generated strong early‑stage data and earned an FDA priority voucher, making it...
By BioSpace
News•Jan 26, 2026
Google Ads Campaign Mix Experiments In Beta
Google Ads introduced Campaign Mix Experiments, a beta tool that lets advertisers run a single experiment across multiple campaign types, budgets, and settings. Users can assign existing campaigns to up to five experiment arms, enabling tests of account structures, consolidation,...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Jan 26, 2026
Emergency Meetings and Failed Billion-Dollar Talks Reveal the Chaos Behind Apple's Pivot to Google Gemini
The episode unpacks Apple’s turbulent shift from building its own AI models to partnering with Google’s Gemini, sparked by a Bloomberg leak that prompted an emergency meeting where Siri chief Mike Rockwell dismissed the report as "bullshit." Internal strife, talent...
By THE DECODER
News•Jan 26, 2026
Vennre Completes $9.6M Round to Grow Private Market Platform in MENA
UK‑based wealth‑creation platform Vennre closed a $9.6 million pre‑Series A round structured as equity and debt. The financing was co‑led by Vision Ventures and anb seed Fund, with participation from Sanabil 500, Ace & Co, Plus VC and strategic angels. Vennre’s technology‑driven platform gives high‑earning professionals...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 26, 2026
UK Medicines Agency Seized 20M Illegal Drugs Last Year, Including GLP-1s
Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) reported seizing nearly 20 million doses of illegally traded medicines in 2025, valued at roughly £200 million. The haul included a large share of GLP‑1 agonists, which have surged in demand for obesity and...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 26, 2026
AML Under Pressure: Coverage, Precision and Case Aging
AML teams are grappling with soaring alert volumes that mask true risk exposure. Regulators are moving beyond simple activity counts, demanding evidence of coverage, precision, prioritisation, and case‑aging in daily operations. The focus now is on whether high‑risk alerts surface...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 26, 2026
Google Ads Product Campaign View Report Is Useful
Google Ads introduced a Product Campaign View report that consolidates performance metrics for individual products across all active campaigns. Advertisers can click a product title to see conversions, spend, and other key indicators broken down by each campaign, including Standard...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Jan 26, 2026
New Fake CAPTCHA Scam Abuses Microsoft Tools to Install Amatera Stealer
Blackpoint Cyber uncovered a new fake CAPTCHA campaign that tricks users into executing a signed Microsoft script, SyncAppvPublishingServer.vbs, to install the Amatera Stealer malware. The attack directs victims to press Windows Key + R, paste a code, and run a command, while fetching...
By HackRead
News•Jan 26, 2026
Oakley Meta Readies Super Bowl Debut to Sell AI Glasses to Athletes
Oakley Meta is making its Super Bowl debut with a high‑profile commercial that showcases its AI‑powered performance glasses. The ad, created by Mother LA, features Spike Lee, streamer iShowSpeed, NFL star Marshawn Lynch and several Olympians, highlighting how the eyewear...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 26, 2026
How Superheavy-Lift Rockets Could Transform Astronomy by Making Space Telescopes Cheaper
Super‑heavy lift rockets such as SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s New Glenn can deliver roughly ten times the payload mass and twice the fairing diameter of legacy launchers. This capability could eliminate the costly folding optics required for telescopes like the...
By The Space Review
News•Jan 26, 2026
Kazakhstan's Space Strategy: Can Its High-Tech Assets Propel It to Eurasia's New Broker?
Kazakhstan is leveraging its Baikonur Cosmodrome and emerging deep‑tech ecosystem to position itself as a regional space broker in Eurasia. A McKinsey‑WEF report projects the global space economy to rise to $1.8 trillion by 2035, creating a narrow window for Kazakhstan...
By The Space Review
News•Jan 26, 2026
COPD Patients Will Get Access to Dupixent via NHS
The UK’s health technology assessment agency NICE has recommended Sanofi‑Regeneron’s Dupixent for adults with eosinophilic, uncontrolled COPD, making it the first targeted biologic for the disease. Approved in September 2024, the IL‑4/IL‑13 inhibitor is prescribed alongside standard LABA/LAMA ±ICS therapy...
By pharmaphorum
News•Jan 26, 2026
Rainbow Weather Raises $5.5M Seed to Build Real-Time Environmental Intelligence for a Climate-Volatile World
Rainbow Weather, a climate‑tech startup, announced a $5.5 million seed round to scale its AI‑driven, hyper‑local weather intelligence platform. The platform fuses satellite imagery, radar, ground stations and smartphone barometer data to deliver minute‑by‑minute precipitation forecasts with 1 km resolution, updating every...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 26, 2026
Genmab Halts Enrollment for Cancer Drug From ProfoundBio Buyout
Genmab announced it has stopped enrolling patients in an early‑stage trial of a cancer candidate acquired from ProfoundBio. The drug was part of Genmab’s $1.8 billion purchase of the US‑China biotech firm. The pause comes shortly after the acquisition closed, raising...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 26, 2026
Deepfake ‘Nudify’ Technology Is Getting Darker—And More Dangerous
Deep‑fake “nudify” services now turn a single photo into realistic, eight‑second explicit videos, offering dozens of sexual scenarios for a small fee. Platforms ranging from web sites to Telegram bots automate image‑to‑video generation, with AI models capable of adding audio...
By WIRED AI
News•Jan 26, 2026
Winning Against AI-Based Attacks Requires a Combined Defensive Approach
Offensive AI is reshaping cyber attacks, with large language models generating and morphing malware in real time. Recent incidents such as Anthropic’s AI‑orchestrated espionage campaign and ClickFix steganography attacks show adversaries bypassing traditional endpoint detection (EDR). Network Detection and Response...
By The Hacker News
News•Jan 26, 2026
EXCLUSIVE: YouTube Overtakes Reddit as Go-To Citation Source on AI Search
Recent analysis shows YouTube has become the most cited social platform in AI-generated answers, surpassing Reddit. Over the past six months, large language models referenced YouTube in 16% of responses versus 10% for Reddit. The shift stems from YouTube’s rich...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 26, 2026
Quantum Computing Firm IonQ Acquires US Semiconductor Firm SkyWater for $1.8 Billion
IonQ announced a definitive agreement to acquire SkyWater Technology for $35 per share, valuing the semiconductor foundry at roughly $1.8 billion in a cash‑and‑stock transaction. The deal creates a vertically integrated quantum platform that combines IonQ’s fault‑tolerant quantum processors with SkyWater’s...
By Help Net Security
News•Jan 26, 2026
Quantexa Launches Claims AI Accelerator on Guidewire
Quantexa has launched a Decision Intelligence accelerator for Guidewire ClaimCenter, enabling insurers to embed real‑time analytics into their claims workflows. The accelerator, now listed on the Guidewire Marketplace, provides instant claims segmentation, fraud detection and contextual analytics across the entire...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 26, 2026
Axos Bank’s Kevin Hearn Simplifies, Trains and Embraces AI
Axos Bank’s SVP Kevin Hearn has overhauled the bank’s technology stack, retiring legacy tools like SharePoint and K2 in favor of the OutSystems low‑code platform. The shift has accelerated application delivery to eight‑week cycles, delivering a 60% productivity boost and...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 26, 2026
Traders Skip the Guessing Game with Prop Firm Match
Prop Firm Match launched a data‑driven marketplace that aggregates verified trader reviews and compliance‑checked rankings for proprietary trading firms. In its first year the platform attracted over 100,000 users, logged 12 million website visits, and listed 41 firms that passed its...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 26, 2026
NCA Hires Creatives Behind Just Eat and Moonpig Ads
New Commercial Arts (NCA) has added four senior creatives—Adam Taylor‑Smith, Steve Yeates, Rose Power and Niamh McBride—to its team. Taylor‑Smith and Yeates bring experience from McCann London, including the viral Just Eat ads, while Power and McBride have shaped brand...
By DecisionMarketing
News•Jan 26, 2026
Tracking Corvid Vocalizations with Miniature Tech
Researchers published a study in *Animal Cognition* demonstrating that ultra‑light, low‑impact tags can record high‑resolution vocalizations from free‑living corvids. The tags captured real‑time calls and associated body language, revealing distinct vocal patterns for kin versus strangers. Findings highlight corvids' sophisticated...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 26, 2026
$6,000 “Stanley” Toolkit Sold on Russian Forums Fakes Secure URLs in Chrome
A new crime‑ware toolkit called Stanley is being sold on Russian‑language forums for $2,000 to $6,000. The kit disguises itself as the Notely note‑taking extension and guarantees that its malicious Chrome extension will pass Google’s Web Store review. Once installed,...
By HackRead
News•Jan 26, 2026
Analyzing Risk Factors in Hip Dysplasia via Ultrasound
A recent clinical study leveraged neonatal ultrasound to pinpoint risk factors for developmental hip dysplasia (DDH). Researchers correlated specific sonographic markers with maternal BMI, genetic predisposition, and biomechanical variables. The analysis demonstrated that early, standardized imaging can markedly lower the...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 26, 2026
Introducing the Sunday Times Tech 100: Life Sciences Part 1
The Sunday Times Tech 100 list shows that 23 of the 100 fastest‑growing UK private tech firms operate in life sciences, underscoring the sector’s momentum. The list aggregates £3.7 billion in revenue and 23,100 jobs, with a focus this week on five...
By pharmaphorum
News•Jan 26, 2026
Getting Your Work Apps up to Speed with AI Can Really Pay Off
Cloudflare’s new report warns that legacy applications and outdated infrastructure are creating a technical glass ceiling that hampers AI adoption. Companies that modernize their software are three times more likely to see clear ROI from AI tools, and when security...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 26, 2026
Google’s New User Intent Extraction Method via @Sejournal, @Martinibuster
Google researchers unveiled a two‑stage, on‑device method for extracting user intent from UI interactions. The first stage generates per‑interaction summaries on the device, while a second, fine‑tuned model aggregates these summaries into a comprehensive intent description. This approach outperforms larger...
By Search Engine Journal
News•Jan 26, 2026
Debt Settlement Firm One Payment Plan Offers Financial Literacy Guidance and Connects Clients with Qualified Debt Relief Partners
One Payment Plan, a Delaware‑based comparison platform, helps U.S. consumers navigate the crowded debt‑relief market by educating them on options and linking them to vetted partners. The service evaluates individual financial profiles—debt amount, income, goals—to recommend settlement, management or consolidation...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 26, 2026
Early Mortality Risks in Chinese Acute Leukemia Kids
A recent multicenter study of 1,842 Chinese children with acute leukemia identified several factors that double early‑mortality risk within 30 days of diagnosis. High‑risk features included age under one year, severe hyperleukocytosis, and delayed initiation of induction chemotherapy beyond 48...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 26, 2026
Inter Accounting Advisory Enters the Fray as Brokerage Firms Feel the Full Weight of Regulatory Crackdown
Regulators are intensifying audits of brokerage firms, targeting client‑fund segregation, trade execution and custodial practices. The crackdown has led to surprise examinations and heightened enforcement risk, including fines, account freezes or shutdowns. Inter Accounting Advisory has emerged as a go‑to...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 26, 2026
How Children with Cancer UK Is Getting a Fundraising Boost with Salesforce
Children with Cancer UK, which has raised over £300 million and helped lift childhood cancer survival from 67 % to 85 % since 1990, embarked on a digital transformation using Salesforce. The charity migrated to Salesforce CRM, Data Cloud and Marketing Cloud, creating...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 26, 2026
Gender Differences in Anxiety and Depression in Mice
A recent pre‑clinical study reveals pronounced gender differences in anxiety and depression phenotypes among laboratory mice. Female mice displayed significantly higher anxiety‑like behavior and depressive‑like immobility, while male mice showed milder responses under identical stress protocols. Hormonal profiling linked elevated...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Jan 26, 2026
SEB Analysts Say 2026 Marks Shift From Virtual to Physical AI
SEB analysts forecast that 2026 will mark a decisive shift from purely virtual AI to AI embedded in physical capital goods such as autonomous vehicles, drones and humanoid robots. The steep drop in AI usage costs in 2025 has broadened...
By Finextra
News•Jan 26, 2026
NetSupport Manager 0-Day Vulnerabilities Enable Remote Code Execution
Security researchers uncovered two critical 0‑day flaws—CVE‑2025‑34164 and CVE‑2025‑34165—in NetSupport Manager versions up to 14.10.4.0. The bugs reside in an undocumented broadcast feature and can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution by corrupting heap memory and reading stack...
By GBHackers On Security
News•Jan 26, 2026
How New ‘Concept to Commerce’ Event Helps Move Product Teams From Idea to Execution
Retail TouchPoints reports the inaugural NHS Concept to Commerce trade show launching March 31‑April 2, 2026 in Las Vegas. The event expands the National Hardware Show with over 400 exhibitors, including Global Manufacturing, Brand, and Inventor pavilions, and introduces an AI‑powered matchmaking tool...
By Retail TouchPoints
News•Jan 26, 2026
Brian Kent: Driving Healthcare Growth Through IDR Expertise
Healthcare providers are grappling with the No Surprises Act’s Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process, which determines out‑of‑network payments. Former attorney Brian Kent has built a consultancy that applies legal‑grade analytical rigor to select high‑value cases, prepare defensible arbitration submissions, and...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 26, 2026
PSA Prepares Issuing Support for Wero in Austria and Germany
PSA Payment Services Austria GmbH is rolling out issuing support services for the Wero digital wallet across Austrian and German banks. The move establishes the technical and operational framework needed for banks to connect to Wero, a real‑time, account‑based payment...
By Finextra
News•Jan 26, 2026
Fourthline Appoints Fleur De Roos as Chief Operating Officer
Fourthline, a European AI‑powered identity verification and RegTech provider, announced the promotion of Fleur de Roos to chief operating officer, effective immediately. De Roos, who joined as general counsel in 2022, brings a background in corporate law, financial services, and...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 26, 2026
How Payment Processing Works
The article breaks down payment processing into its core components, detailing the six key players—from cardholder to acquiring bank—and the four-stage transaction flow of authorization, authentication, clearing, and settlement. It explains the distinct roles of acquirers, processors, and gateways, then...
By Banking Dive
News•Jan 26, 2026
Why Voice-Based Scams Are a Growing Threat to Banks
Phone‑based scams have moved from a niche consumer problem to a material risk for banks, with U.S. consumers losing over $12.5 billion in 2024, many through voice attacks. Fraudsters exploit the inherent trust of human speech and caller‑ID spoofing to impersonate...
By Banking Dive
News•Jan 26, 2026
Payments for Retail: How Membership-Style Saves Money
Retailers are squeezed by rising costs and thin margins, and payment‑processing fees are a hidden drain on profitability. Traditional tiered, flat‑rate, or interchange‑plus models tie fees directly to sales volume, penalising growth. Membership‑based pricing swaps per‑transaction markups for a predictable...
By Retail Dive
News•Jan 26, 2026
From Detection to Prevention: How Sponsored Testing Can Transform Patient Outcomes
Diagnostic testing is evolving from a purely detection tool to a preventive strategy, especially in Canada where provincial coverage varies. Pharmaceutical sponsors are launching paid testing programs that eliminate cost barriers, granting patients access to advanced risk‑identification assays for conditions...
By BioPharma Dive
News•Jan 26, 2026
The Analytics Blind Spot: Why 70% of Marketers Can’t Prove Social Media ROI (and How to Fix It)
Only 30% of marketers can prove social media’s business impact, leaving 70% stuck with vanity metrics. The root cause is fragmented data and simplistic attribution that obscure ROI. Experts recommend consolidating analytics, tailoring ROI definitions, and building multi‑touch attribution while...
By Social Media Today
News•Jan 26, 2026
Why Your ESP Alone Won’t Carry You Into 2026
Retail marketers still rely heavily on email and SMS, but traditional ESPs only reach customers they already know. With up to 95% of website traffic remaining anonymous, the gap between known and unknown shoppers is widening and eroding engagement. Adding...
By Retail Dive
News•Jan 26, 2026
MyARC Launches New Platform for Fitness Creators Following €2M+ Funding Round
London‑based MyARC has raised over $2 million from investors including Araya Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Techstars and G Fund. The capital backs the launch of a next‑generation platform that automates personalized training, nutrition and app creation for fitness creators. MyARC claims its...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 26, 2026
The Crucial Role of Raw Material Selection for Success in Cell Therapy Manufacturing
Cell therapy’s promise hinges on manufacturing consistency, which is driven by the quality of raw (ancillary) materials such as media, cytokines, scaffolds, and disposables. Variability in these inputs can cause fluctuations in cell potency, safety, and regulatory compliance, especially when...
By BioPharma Dive
News•Jan 26, 2026
4 Challenges Growing eCommerce Businesses Often Overlook — and How to Address Them
Elavon outlines four common challenges that fast‑growing eCommerce firms often overlook: reaching the right customers, seamless payment processing, fraud protection, and scaling without overburdening systems. The company recommends integrated, all‑in‑one solutions that combine payment, marketing and analytics to reduce administrative...
By Retail Dive