Don't Scan That QR Code Yet: The New Scam Threatening Your Phone
A new package scam uses QR codes on unlabeled deliveries to lure recipients into malicious sites or trigger malware downloads. The scheme, which began this summer, is expected to grow as holiday shopping and iPhone Air purchases increase. Victims are advised not to scan the codes, verify tracking numbers, and secure any compromised accounts. If a QR code has already been scanned, users should isolate the device, remove suspicious apps, and reset passwords.
BLOCK Power Advanced Series Power Supplies with Battery Control / UPS and More
AutomationDirect introduced the BLOCK Power Advanced series, a line of DC UPS devices that combine a switching power supply, battery‑control module, and UPS monitoring in a single unit. The series features a buffer control module that uses electro‑double‑layer capacitors for...
Get 64GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM for an Unbelievable $266 in This Newegg Bundle Deal — Ryzen 7 9800X3D Processor,...
Newegg is offering a limited‑time bundle that pairs a Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, MSI X870E Edge Ti Wi‑Fi motherboard, Corsair 3500X mid‑tower case and 64 GB (2 × 32 GB) of Corsair Vengeance DDR5‑6400 RAM for $1,099.99. The package represents a 43% discount, effectively pricing the high‑end...
Google: We May Use Spam Report Submissions For Manual Actions
Google has updated its spam‑report policy to state that user submissions can be used to trigger manual actions against sites violating its spam guidelines. When a manual action is issued, Google will forward the exact text of the reporter’s submission...
Takeda Continues to Prune Partnerships, Cuts Ties with mRNA-Targeting Veritas In Silico
Takeda announced the termination of its three‑year partnership with Veritas In Silico, a collaboration focused on small‑molecule drugs that target mRNA. The split, confirmed on April 13, follows a recent wave of collaborator cuts, including a break with Denali Therapeutics and...
Liverpool University Hospitals Announces 10-Year EPR Supplier
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has inked a 10‑year, £53 million (~$68 million) agreement with Nervecentre to deploy its electronic patient record (EPR) across Aintree, Broadgreen and Royal Liverpool hospitals. The deal brings roughly 1,600 beds onto a single, integrated digital...
Delhi-NCR Leads ChatGPT Adoption in India, Top 10 Cities Account for 50% Users: OpenAI Study
OpenAI’s first‑ever capability‑gap report reveals that Delhi‑NCR leads ChatGPT adoption in India, with the top ten cities accounting for half of all users despite representing only 10% of the population. India’s AI usage is three times more city‑centric than in...
Tata Motors to Launch Hydrogen Bus Production in Lucknow
Tata Motors announced it will start producing hydrogen fuel‑cell and hydrogen internal‑combustion‑engine buses at its Lucknow plant, expanding its green‑mobility portfolio. The launch was unveiled by Tata Sons chairman N. Chandrasekaran alongside Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, coinciding with...
Gupshup Launches Superagent
Gupshup unveiled Superagent, an autonomous AI agent that designs, launches, and optimizes customer conversations across major messaging and voice channels. The platform handles everything from campaign setup and journey orchestration to transaction processing and performance monitoring, all via simple prompts....
EXEC: Amazfit Parent Zepp Health Corp. Narrows Q4 Net Loss as Revenues Surge
Zepp Health Corp., the Dutch parent of Amazfit, posted Q4 2025 revenue of $85.2 million, a 43 % year‑over‑year increase that hit the top of its guidance range. Gross margin rose to a record 40.4 %, driven by a premium‑focused product mix and...
Executive Viewpoint: How AI Is Changing the Role of the Insurance Broker
Artificial intelligence is reshaping insurance broking from a transactional, renewal‑driven model to a continuous, data‑rich advisory practice. Large brokers are already using AI for benchmarking, coverage design and portfolio analysis, delivering faster, more consistent risk assessments and stronger client retention....
Sony and Fnatic Just Announced a Blazing-Fast 720Hz OLED Gaming Monitor with One Bizarre Compromise
Sony and esports powerhouse Fnatic have unveiled the Inzone M10S II, a 27‑inch OLED gaming monitor that can run at an unprecedented 720 Hz refresh rate. The panel offers two modes: 2560×1440 at 540 Hz and 1280×720 at 720 Hz, the latter sacrificing resolution...
I Tested DeepSeek Vs. ChatGPT: Which Is Better in 2026?
The article pits open‑source DeepSeek against OpenAI’s ChatGPT, testing both on ten real‑world tasks ranging from summarization to coding. DeepSeek shines in technical reasoning, multilingual translation, and data analysis while remaining completely free, whereas ChatGPT delivers higher polish, broader integrations,...
Walmart Rolls Out A New Onn Google TV Pro Streaming Player for Just $60
Walmart has begun stocking its new Onn 4K Pro streaming box, priced at $60, in select stores ahead of a formal launch. The device runs Google TV, features a quad‑core Cortex‑A55 CPU, 3 GB RAM, 32 GB storage, Wi‑Fi 6, and supports Dolby...
Citi's Mandated Transformation Nears Its End, Bring on the AI Spending
Citigroup is scaling back its broad technology transformation program and trimming staff after reporting that 90% of its projects have hit or are close to their targets. The bank will redirect those resources toward a methodical, large‑scale rollout of artificial...
Google Ads Consolidating Enhanced Conversions With On/Off Switch
Google Ads is consolidating its Enhanced Conversions for web and for leads into a single, unified setting that can be toggled on or off. The change eliminates the need to choose between implementation methods such as the Google tag, Google...
Do Data and AI Talent Needs Conflict with a Workforce Seeking Stability?
The Analytics Institute and SAS released the Data Salaries & Job Sentiment Analysis 2026, revealing that 64% of organisations plan to expand their data teams while 70% of data and AI professionals say they will not change employers this year. The report...
TOBY Secures US FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for Urine-Based Multi-Cancer Test
TOBY has received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its urine‑based Multi‑Cancer Early Detection (MCED) test. The non‑invasive platform analyzes volatile organic compounds in a single urine sample using spectroscopy and machine‑learning algorithms to identify multiple cancer types. The designation positions...
Cyberscammers Are Bypassing Banks’ Security with Illicit Tools Sold on Telegram
Cybercriminals are buying virtual‑camera kits on Telegram that spoof facial‑recognition checks, allowing them to defeat KYC verification in banking apps and crypto exchanges. The tools replace live video with pre‑recorded images or deepfakes, enabling scammers to open mule accounts and...
Sri Lanka Partners With Alipay+ to Tap Into Asia’s Booming Travel Market
Sri Lanka’s Tourism Development Authority and national payments network LankaPay have teamed up with Alipay+, the unified wallet gateway owned by Ant International, to streamline payments for Asian travelers. The partnership enables users of Alipay+ partner e‑wallets to pay via...
TDX 2026 Roundup: Agentforce Edition
At Salesforce TDX 2026 the company unveiled a suite of tools to accelerate enterprise agent development. It open‑sourced Agent Script, a strongly‑typed language that lets developers declaratively mix LLM reasoning with deterministic logic. The new Agentforce Labs Quickstart removes provisioning friction, while...
CamGraPhIC Lands €211 Million to Tackle AI’s Data Bottleneck – in One of Italy’s Largest DeepTech Funding Deals
CamGraPhIC, the Pisa‑based spin‑out of the Cambridge Graphene Centre, secured €211 million (about $227 million) in state‑backed funding, one of Italy’s largest DeepTech investments. The money will fund a graphene‑based optical interconnect platform and a pilot manufacturing line near Milan, slated to...
Vodafone Rolls Out New Scam Fighting AI Tool
Vodafone has integrated an AI‑driven Scam Call Protection feature into its Secure Net Mobile service, automatically analyzing inbound calls and flagging suspicious numbers with on‑screen alerts. The tool operates in the background, requiring no extra apps, and joins existing safeguards...
Isle of Barra Prepares for US Debut
Isle of Barra Distillers, Scotland's westernmost whisky producer, has secured a distribution deal with Total Wine & More to introduce its gin, vodka and Island Dark Rum to the U.S. market. The launch will roll out in June across more...
Meta Expands Broadcom Partnership to Co-Develop Custom AI Silicon
Meta is expanding its collaboration with Broadcom to co‑develop multiple generations of its Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) custom AI chips. The partnership will cover chip design, advanced packaging, and Ethernet‑based networking, with an initial commitment of more than 1 GW...
AGIBOT and Longcheer Technology Achieve World’s First Embodied AI Deployment in Consumer Electronics Precision Manufacturing Mass-Production Line
AGIBOT announced that its G2 embodied‑AI robots are now operating on Longcheer Technology’s tablet production lines, marking the world’s first large‑scale deployment of such systems in consumer‑electronics manufacturing. The robots handle precision loading, unloading and testing tasks at up to...
Pi Green, EcoGuard Partner to Digitise Carbon Capture and Build dMRV Systems
Pi Green Innovations and EcoGuard Global have signed a partnership to digitize Pi Green’s carbon‑capture methodology and launch a digital measurement, reporting and verification (dMRV) platform for Indian and global clients. The deal leverages Pi Green’s patented Carbon Cutter and...
Why ETL Needs a Mindset Shift
Most organizations still treat ETL as a one‑time project, assuming pipelines are set once and never need change. In reality, evolving CRM fields, new finance rules, and compliance requirements constantly break static pipelines, forcing teams back to manual fixes. The...
Second AI System Deployed for Asylum Caseworkers to Be Deployed This Month as Ministers Vow ‘Decision-Makers Cannot Use the Tool...
The UK Home Office will roll out a second AI‑driven tool, Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS), to all asylum caseworkers this month. ACS analyses interview transcripts and produces concise summaries to aid decision‑makers, joining the already‑deployed Asylum Policy Search (APS) chat‑based...
Memory Crunch Ends up Benefitting Apple in China
Global smartphone shipments fell 6% in Q1, but Omdia’s adjusted view shows a modest 1% rise, reflecting delayed effects of the memory‑price surge driven by AI data centers. In China, the market slipped another 1% as rising DRAM costs forced...
Dahua Technology Unveils WizColor 2.0, Advancing Full-Color Monitoring in Low-Light Environments
Chinese video‑AI leader Dahua Technology launched WizColor 2.0, its latest low‑light monitoring platform featuring the new WizColor X sensor suite. The upgrade introduces an ultra‑large F0.8 UltraSight lens, a 4 µm pixel sensor and AI‑ISP 2.0 processing that together boost light...
SubscriptionX 2026: Why Recurring Revenue, Membership and Loyalty Are Converging
SubscriptionX 2026, held on 17 June at Convene in London, spotlights the convergence of recurring revenue, membership and loyalty as a unified growth engine for retailers. The agenda shifts focus from rapid sign‑ups to retention, margin and lifetime value, with...
Enhancing Oxidase‐Catalyzed Biosensing via Hydrophobic ZIF‐7 Nanomaterials: A Micro‐Triphase Interface Approach
The study introduces ZIF-7 nanoparticles as hydrophobic oxygen reservoirs in a solid–liquid–air triphase enzyme electrode, boosting oxidase‑catalyzed biosensing. By releasing pre‑stored O₂, the system raises Vmax 21‑fold and widens the glucose linear range from 2 mM to 20 mM, a ten‑fold improvement...
Electrochemiluminescent COFs and HOFs as Porous Material Engineering Systems for Bioanalysis and Environmental Monitoring
The review outlines how covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and hydrogen‑bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) are reshaping electrochemiluminescence (ECL) biosensing. COFs contribute robust, high‑surface‑area, π‑conjugated networks that accelerate charge transfer, enabling ultra‑sensitive detection of biomolecules, toxins and pesticides. HOFs, built from reversible...
Bioadhesive Scaffold for Dual Delivery of Methotrexate‐Loaded Liposomes and Chondrogenic miRNA in Advanced Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapy
Researchers have engineered a bioadhesive scaffold that couples inflammation‑responsive methotrexate‑loaded liposomes with miRNA‑140‑bearing nanoparticles to treat advanced rheumatoid arthritis. The scaffold, composed of collagen, polydopamine‑modified hyaluronic acid and PEGDE cross‑linker, adheres to joint tissue, releases methotrexate when matrix metalloproteinases are...
Tumor Microenvironment‐Responsive Dual‐Enzymatic Flasklike Nanobots for Enhanced Chemotherapy
Researchers have engineered a flask‑shaped nanobot (GC‑M@FPNbot) that harnesses glucose oxidase and catalase to self‑propel in response to tumor‑specific proton and hydrogen peroxide gradients. Loaded with doxorubicin, the bots exhibit chemotactic motion that enables deep penetration of extracellular matrix and...
High‐Performance Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Formic Acid on Cypress‐Like Enzyme‐Antimony‐Bismuth Biohybrid
Researchers have created a cypress‑like biohybrid catalyst that couples carbonic anhydrase enzyme with antimony‑decorated bismuth to electrochemically reduce CO2 into formic acid. The enzyme acts as a CO2 shuttle, concentrating the gas at the electrode surface, while antimony tunes the...
Light‐Guided Molecular Patterning for High‐Throughput Single‐Molecule Mechanical Characterization (Small 21/2026)
Researchers led by Wesley P. Wong have introduced a light‑guided molecular patterning technique that arranges UV‑responsive oligonucleotides on solid substrates using a digital micromirror device (DMD). The method projects programmable UV illumination without photomasks, delivering precise spatial control. This approach...
Multimodal Analysis of the Early Stage of Amyloid Formation via Graphene Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy
Researchers have combined graphene liquid‑cell transmission electron microscopy (GLC‑TEM) with semi‑ensemble and time‑sequential analyses to watch amyloid‑β oligomer formation in real time. The multimodal approach reveals that early‑stage aggregates exist in a kinetic quasi‑equilibrium, where rapid association‑dissociation events keep population...
Synergistic Polysulfide Regulation by Nanodiamond and Sulfur Iodide on Cathode for Achieving Long‐Cycling Na–S Batteries
Researchers have created a sulfur‑iodine‑carbon‑nanotube/nanodiamond (SIC/ND) composite cathode for sodium‑sulfur batteries. The design uniformly coats sulfur iodide on a conductive CNT framework while embedding nanodiamonds for mechanical support and catalytic activity. The cathode delivers a specific capacity of 1,096.7 mAh g⁻¹ after...
Michigan’s New Bill Takes Aim at AI Employee Surveillance
Michigan’s Responsible AI Security for Employees (RAISE) Act would require employers to give written notice and obtain consent before deploying AI‑driven monitoring tools such as keystroke trackers, screen recorders, and facial‑recognition systems. The bill bans the use of automated decisions...
‘AI Can Reindustrialise Areas Where Deindustrialisation Hurt Most’
Labour MP Kenneth Stevenson says the AI Growth Zone in Lanarkshire can reindustrialise Scotland’s former manufacturing heartland. The zone, launched three months ago, aims to attract data centres that power AI workloads while using renewable energy and waste‑heat for local...
Cooling Becomes Strategic: Calyos Brings Passive Thermal Tech to Europe’s Defence Stack
Belgian startup Calyos, a spin‑off from space‑heat‑pipe technology, offers fully passive two‑phase cooling systems that can be manufactured entirely in Europe. The solution, selected by NATO’s DIANA programme, promises higher energy efficiency and resilience for data‑centres, e‑mobility and defence platforms...
Why Your Search Data Doesn’t Agree (And What To Do About It) via @Sejournal, @Coreydmorris
Marketing teams routinely compare quarterly reports from GA4, Google Ads, Search Console and CRM, only to find the numbers diverge. The article explains that each platform tracks different user actions, uses distinct attribution models, and is affected by privacy‑driven data...
Navigating the Future of AI Search: The DGR Interview with Branch’s Adam Landis
Branch’s AI Search and Discovery Enterprise Benchmark Report, based on 300 enterprise leaders, shows AI‑driven search delivers fewer visits but markedly higher‑intent users for B2B platforms. Marketers are urged to pivot from sheer traffic volume to funnel quality, emphasizing personalization...
I Sold My Startup A Year After Founding It. Here’s Why That Was The Fastest Way To Build Real-World Healthcare...
Louis Blankemeier co‑founded Cognita to turn Stanford‑level radiology AI into a clinical product. Within a year, the team sold the startup to Radiology Partners, the world’s largest radiology practice, to gain scale, data access, and regulatory pathways. The acquisition enables...
ShopMy’s New Personal Shopping Service Is Powered by Actual Humans
ShopMy launched Noir, a human‑curated personal shopping service, on Wednesday. The free perk is currently limited to gold and black tier members, who can text prompts and receive hand‑picked selections within about 30 minutes. Noir taps ShopMy’s network of over...
AI Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy
A preprint study by Imperial College London, Stanford University and the Internet Archive reveals that roughly 35% of new websites launched between 2022 and 2025 are AI‑generated or AI‑assisted. The analysis, using Pangram Labs detection tools and Wayback Machine snapshots,...
STAT+: New Bain Biotech Startup, Building on BMS Drugs, Gets a Name and a CEO
Bain Capital Life Sciences has launched a new biotech venture, Beeline Medicines, backed by a $300 million investment and five drug assets licensed from Bristol Myers Squibb. The startup will focus on inflammatory and immune‑mediated diseases, beginning with an oral candidate for...
The Reddit Detour Distorting PPC Signals
A recent study shows Reddit outranks paid ads for high‑cost keywords—often $50 CPC or more—across 8,566 terms in B2B SaaS, and similar patterns appear in legal, finance, home services, and insurance. When users click a Reddit thread instead of a brand’s...
