A Hitchhiker's Guide to RSAC: What You May Have Missed, From Post-Quantum to NSA Veterans
The RSA Conference (RSAC) highlighted a surge in post‑quantum cryptography initiatives, with several vendors unveiling prototype algorithms and migration roadmaps. Former NSA cyber experts presented new threat‑intel platforms that blend AI with traditional analytics, aiming to shorten detection cycles. Cloud‑native security solutions dominated the expo floor, emphasizing zero‑trust architectures for hybrid environments. Attendees also noted heightened focus on supply‑chain resilience after recent high‑profile breaches.
LSEG Launches Workspace Top 50 to Track Market Trends
LSEG has introduced Workspace Top 50, a monthly feature that ranks the most searched commodities and equities among finance professionals worldwide. The list is published within the LSEG Workspace platform and shared on LinkedIn, offering a quick view of emerging...
Where Should Retail Media Networks Make Their Pitch for Ad Dollars?
Retail media is transitioning from a lower‑funnel, conversion‑only model to a full‑funnel, brand‑building channel, prompting networks to showcase broader capabilities. Major players such as Albertsons Media Collective and Walmart‑Vizio used this year’s IAB NewFronts to demonstrate scale, data assets, and...
Residential Proxies Evaded IP Reputation Checks in 78% of 4B Sessions
GreyNoise analyzed 4 billion malicious sessions and found residential proxies evaded IP reputation checks in 78% of cases. Roughly 39% of the traffic originated from home networks, yet most proxies disappear within a month, preventing reputation feeds from cataloguing them. The...
How AI Is Changing Food Supply Chains
Food manufacturers are turning to AI to overcome pandemic‑induced supply chain volatility, especially for perishable goods. CookUnity, a chef‑to‑consumer meal subscription service, now uses AI to lift its sales‑forecast accuracy from roughly 55% to 80‑90%, enabling precise, temperature‑controlled deliveries. The...
Medtech Giant Stryker Says It’s Back up After Iranian Cyberattack
Medtech leader Stryker announced it is now fully operational after a March 11 wiper attack by the Iranian‑linked Handala group, which crippled order processing, manufacturing and shipping. The breach, framed as retaliation for U.S. actions in the Israel‑Palestine conflict, forced...
Army Launches $50B IT, Professional Services Solicitation
The U.S. Army has issued the final solicitation for a potential $50 billion, ten‑year contract that merges information technology and professional services into a single vehicle called MAPS. The contract will award up to 350 positions across five domains—engineering, management, R&D,...
YouTube Bringing AI Feature to Connected TV App
YouTube is extending its AI‑driven Ask feature from the mobile app to the connected TV app, with a rollout slated for the coming months. The new Ask button lets viewers pose questions about the video they’re watching using their remote’s...
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
Bloomberg reports that roughly half of U.S. data centers slated for opening in 2026 are facing delays or cancellations. Of the 12 GW of capacity announced for this year, only about a third is actually under construction, with similar shortfalls projected...
ScaleOps Closes $130M Series C to Advance Autonomous AI Infrastructure Management
ScaleOps announced a $130 million Series C round led by Insight Partners, lifting its valuation to roughly $800 million. The funding backs its autonomous AI‑driven platform that continuously balances compute, memory, storage and networking resources. Founded in 2022, the company targets chronic GPU...
Bitly Introduces AI-Powered Features to Simplify and Accelerate Marketing Analytics
Bitly has launched two AI‑powered features—Bitly Assist, a conversational chat assistant, and Weekly Insights, an automated performance‑highlighting report—aimed at speeding up marketers' data‑to‑action workflow. Assist lets users query link and QR‑code metrics and create assets through natural language, delivering answers...
Mappls App to Show Authorised Aadhaar Centres Across India
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has signed an agreement with MapmyIndia to embed a verified map of authorised Aadhaar centres into the Mappls navigation app. The feature, slated for rollout in the next few months, will let users...
Commure Launches AI-Powered Speech-to-Cursor Dictation Tool for Clinical Workflows
Commure has unveiled Commure Dictation, an AI‑powered speech‑to‑cursor extension that turns the company’s Ambient mobile app into a wireless microphone for clinicians. The tool eliminates the need for costly, dedicated dictation hardware and enables physicians to dictate notes, messages, and referrals...
DP World Issuing £36M Contract to Construct London Gateway Automated System
DP World has launched a £36 million (≈$46 million) tender to build Boxbay, a high‑bay automated storage system for empty containers at its London Gateway terminal. The 55‑metre‑tall structure will cover roughly 323 m × 159 m, requiring over 5,000 precast piles, 15,000 tonnes of steel and...
Wizehire Launches Jobs App in ChatGPT as Job Search Moves From Job Listings to Conversations
Wizehire has launched “Jobs by Wizehire,” an app that brings local small‑business job listings into ChatGPT, enabling candidates to search and apply through conversational prompts. Industry research from Qualtrics and Gartner indicates that over 60 % of job seekers now use...
LONGi Launches Integrated Solar-Plus-Storage Strategy
Chinese PV leader LONGi unveiled its integrated solar‑plus‑storage solution, LONGi One, shifting from multi‑vendor architectures to a single‑partner model. The offering combines LONGi’s back‑contact solar panels with its 5S storage platform, featuring the OneBank 2.0 AC/DC solution for utility projects and...
M-Files and Microsoft Deepen Strategic AI Partnership
Document management firm M-Files announced new integrations with Microsoft 365 Copilot and the Copilot Agent Builder, embedding its context‑first repository directly into the Microsoft 365 experience. The partnership adds permission‑aware answers, metadata‑rich context, and seamless access to M-Files content alongside...
How Cities Can Encourage Faster, Cheaper Rooftop Solar
Cities across the United States are inflating residential solar costs by up to $7,000 due to cumbersome permitting, inspection bottlenecks, and outdated utility interconnection rules, according to a new report from Environment America and Frontier Group. Installers are increasingly bypassing...
Journalist Sues FAA Over Drone No Fly Zone Designed to Prevent Filming ICE
Minnesota photojournalist Rob Levine and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press have filed a lawsuit against the FAA over a temporary flight restriction that bars drones within 3,000 feet of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facilities and mobile...
How Block Is Bringing Installments to Cash App
Block announced that Cash App will offer a buy‑now‑pay‑later (BNPL) installment product to its U.S. user base. The service provides instant credit decisions, allowing purchases to be split into equal weekly payments with interest only on the remaining balance. Integration...
Former Exodus Data Center in Sydney, Australia, to Be Replaced with 70MW Facility
Digital Realty announced plans to demolish its legacy Exodus data center in Sydney and build a new 70 MW, 23,375 sqm multi‑story facility at 23‑25 Waterloo Road. The project, slated for a 1.2‑hectare site in Macquarie Park/North Ryde, could cost up to AU$700 million (about...
Software Package Makes Gene Regulation Easier to Study—And Tweak
Researchers at VIB and KU Leuven introduced CREsted, a new software package for modeling and designing gene regulatory enhancers. The framework unifies preprocessing, deep‑learning model training, interpretation, and synthetic enhancer generation into a single, reusable workflow. Demonstrated on mouse brain,...
Bourns Adds AEC-Q Option to SSA-2 Current Sensors
Bourns announced an AEC‑Q‑compliant assembly option for its SSA‑2 analog current sensors, giving automotive, industrial and energy designers a qualified part without restarting the qualification process. The SSA‑2 series delivers precise current measurement, ultra‑low insertion loss and electrically isolated outputs...
Crafting Reliable AI Systems with the Right Data Engineering
The DBTA webinar highlighted that AI projects fail more often due to fragile data pipelines than model flaws. Speakers Kevin Hu and Jerod Johnson outlined how data engineering must evolve to support continuous, real‑time data, lineage, and repeatable outputs for...
E.l.f. Promotes Affordable Beauty with True Crime-Inspired Mockumentary
E.l.f. Cosmetics launched a 10‑minute true‑crime mockumentary called “Vanity Vandals” to spotlight vanity clutter caused by its low‑priced products. The film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre with a live Twitch watch party and is supported by a Roblox experience,...
Nigerian Founder Launches ADT, a New AI Model for Cyber Defense
Glemad unveiled Autonomous Defence Transformers (ADT), the first frontier‑scale AI models built from the ground up for security reasoning and autonomous cyber defence. The PulseADT service now safeguards over 680,000 assets, handling 1.8 million security events per second, and delivers a...
Polygraf AI Announces Core AI Patent and Sweeps Major Cybersecurity Awards at RSAC 2026
Polygraf AI announced a core USPTO patent for its Content Source Detection AI model and swept several top cybersecurity honors at RSA Conference 2026, including the Global InfoSec Award for Most Innovative AI Usage Control, a gold win at the...
Relyance AI Releases Lyo, Aims to Set a New Enterprise Data Security Standard
Relyance AI unveiled Lyo, an autonomous data defense engineer that continuously monitors AI agents' interactions with enterprise data. Leveraging the company’s Data Exposure Graph, Lyo maps AI‑to‑data relationships, flags over‑privileged access, and provides real‑time contextual alerts. The platform includes a...
Generative AI Shifts From Market Boom to Disruption Risk
Prometeia’s latest event‑study shows investor sentiment on generative AI turning sharply negative, especially in technology, financial and real‑estate sectors. Over a ten‑day window after AI‑related news, S&P 500 firms now post cumulative abnormal returns below expectations, with software firms lagging 0.75%...
Moog Technology Successfully Steers Artemis II Launch
Moog Inc. supplied the critical actuation and motion‑control systems that steered NASA’s Artemis II launch, including thrust‑vector control, launch‑abort actuators, fluid‑control hardware, and mobile launch‑pad mechanisms. The SLS rocket lifted four astronauts from Kennedy Space Center, marking a record‑setting step toward...
Think Big: New 75-Inch Color ePaper for Digital Out of Home
E Ink has launched a family of 75‑inch color ePaper displays aimed at the digital‑out‑of‑home (DOOH) market. The rollout includes three distinct technology platforms, each offering the hallmark ePaper benefits of ultra‑low power consumption and high sunlight readability. These large‑format...
Alleged Starbucks Incident Exposes Code and Firmware
Threat group ShadowByt3s claims it breached Starbucks by accessing a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket, stealing roughly 10 GB of proprietary source code, firmware, and management tools. The data allegedly includes binaries for in‑store beverage dispensers, the Mastrena II espresso system, and...
Myntra CEO Nandita Sinha to Step Down: Report
Flipkart‑owned fashion e‑commerce platform Myntra announced that CEO Nandita Sinha will step down in the coming weeks, ending her tenure that began in 2022. Her departure comes as the company posted an 18‑fold profit jump to roughly $66 million and 18%...
Knocking on Quantum’s Door: QuiX Claims Photonic Error Reduction Breakthrough
QuiX Quantum announced the first below‑threshold error mitigation on a photonic quantum computer, using a 20‑mode processor and a photon‑distillation gate. The technique achieved a 2.2× reduction in photon‑indistinguishability error and a net 1.2× overall system‑error decrease. Collaborators include NASA’s...
Solar Companies Donate System to St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway
Solar industry partners Tigo, Greentech Renewables, and GOAT Solar donated a 5.72‑kW solar system for the 2026 St. Jude Dream Home in California’s Coachella Valley. The package includes a 3.8‑kW Tigo EI inverter, Tigo TS4‑A‑O MLPE devices, and installation services,...
AI Tools Simplify Complex Care Data, but Risks Persist
AI-driven platforms are increasingly helping patients decode complex medical records, offering simplified visualizations and personalized insights. However, experts like Leigh Burchell of Altera Digital Health warn that many of these tools lack HIPAA compliance, exposing sensitive health data to breaches....
OpenSSH 10.3 Patches Five Security Bugs and Drops Legacy Rekeying Support
OpenSSH 10.3 introduces five security patches and a suite of new features while removing legacy rekeying support. The update fixes a shell‑injection flaw in user‑name handling, a certificate‑principal matching bug, and an ECDSA algorithm enforcement issue. It also changes certificate behavior...
5 Best Practices to Secure AI Systems
As AI becomes integral to critical operations, its unique attack surface outpaces traditional security measures. Experts recommend a multi‑layered strategy that starts with strict access controls and encryption, followed by AI‑specific defenses such as firewalls and red‑team testing. Continuous visibility...
Lipocine's Postpartum Depression Drug Fails; AstraZeneca Claims Liver Cancer Win
Lipocine reported top‑line Phase 3 data for its postpartum depression candidate LPCN‑1154, revealing no statistically significant improvement over placebo and prompting a 77% plunge in its shares. The Utah‑based biotech’s safety profile was acceptable, but efficacy shortfalls undermine its commercial prospects....
RS and HMS Networks Enable Smart Oil and Gas Operations
RS has partnered with HMS Networks to offer Red Lion industrial networking solutions tailored for oil and gas operations across the value chain. The portfolio includes FlexEdge IIoT gateways, N‑Tron Ethernet switches, and Graphite HMIs, all engineered for extreme temperatures,...
Why Broadcom Gave Velero to the CNCF Sandbox — and What It Means for Kubernetes Data Protection
Broadcom has transferred ownership of the Velero backup and recovery project to the CNCF Sandbox, moving governance away from its VMware unit. The donation aims to eliminate perceived proprietary control and encourage broader community contributions. Broadcom positions this move as...
Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist: Key Steps for a Smooth Restore
The article outlines an 11‑step disaster recovery (DR) planning checklist that emphasizes inventorying assets, defining recovery objectives, and establishing a trained response team. It stresses leadership involvement in setting RTO/RPO, risk assessment, and budgeting for preventive measures. The guide also...
Why I Stopped Using RAID on My Plex Media Server
The author abandoned traditional RAID on his Plex media server in favor of Unraid’s parity‑based architecture. RAID’s requirement for identical drive sizes and dependence on a single OS/controller limited usable capacity and introduced single points of failure. Unraid allows mixed‑size...
PERC Module Prices up 20% in the US, as Overall Module Prices Remain Constant
PERC (mono) solar modules jumped 20% in the United States, reaching $0.33 per watt between November 2025 and February 2026, while the overall average module price barely moved to $0.285/W. In contrast, TOPCon modules slipped to $0.28/W, making them cheaper than PERC...
Triton Digital Selected by NBC Sports to Power Podcast Hosting, Measurement, and Monetization
Triton Digital announced that NBC Sports has chosen its platform to power the network’s podcast hosting, audience measurement, and advertising monetization. NBC will deploy Omny Studio for enterprise hosting, the Triton Ad Platform for programmatic ad sales, Podcast Metrics for...
AI Models Fail at Robot Control without Human-Designed Building Blocks but Agentic Scaffolding Closes the Gap
Researchers from Nvidia, UC Berkeley, Stanford and CMU introduced CaP‑X, an open‑access framework that evaluates how large language models control robots via self‑written code. Testing twelve frontier models—including Gemini‑3‑Pro, GPT‑5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5—across seven manipulation tasks revealed that without high‑level...
I Replaced My $120/Year Grammarly Subscription with Self-Hosted LanguageTool
The author swapped a $120‑per‑year Grammarly Premium plan for a self‑hosted LanguageTool Server, attracted by its free price and easy Homebrew installation. While the setup was quick, the grammar checker missed many errors and offered inconsistent suggestions compared with Grammarly....
Managing Drift in AI Models and Data
AI models inevitably experience drift as real‑world data diverges from their original training sets, eroding accuracy and business value. The article distinguishes data drift—shifts in input distributions—and functional (concept) drift—changes in underlying relationships. It outlines detection methods such as direct...
Investment Group Acquires Stake in TotalEnergies’ German Energy Storage Portfolio
TotalEnergies has sold a 50 % stake in its 800‑MW German battery storage portfolio to Allianz Global Investors for about €500 million (≈$577 million). The portfolio comprises 11 projects under construction, delivering 1,628 MWh of capacity and slated for commercial operation within two years....
HubSpot Moves to Outcome-Based Pricing for some Breeze AI Agents
HubSpot announced that, starting April 14, 2026, its Breeze AI Customer Agent and Prospecting Agent will shift to outcome‑based pricing. The Customer Agent will be charged $0.50 only for conversations it resolves, down from $1 per conversation, reflecting its 65%...