E-Power Inc. And Raytel Electronics Announce Strategic Alliance to Launch Next-Generation 800G and 1.6T High-Speed Optical Modules for U.S. AI...
E-Power Inc. and Raytel Electronics have formed a strategic alliance to co‑launch 800‑gigabit and 1.6‑terabit optical modules for U.S. AI data centers. The partnership blends Raytel’s high‑speed optical technology with E‑Power’s microgrid and anode‑based storage solutions, creating a combined data‑flow and power‑flow offering. The new OSFP/QSFP‑DD and DR8/LPO modules target ultra‑low power consumption and high‑density GPU clusters. Both firms aim to capture a share of the high‑speed transceiver market, projected to exceed $35 billion by 2030.
A Robot Dog, a Cloud-Native AI Platform and the Journey From POC to Production
ITQ Consultancy showcased its cloud‑native AI platform by powering a robot dog, Q9, on Red Hat OpenShift. The demo proved that a full training pipeline and inference can be deployed quickly, turning a proof‑of‑concept into a production‑ready workload. ITQ pairs...
Save $450 on This Sublime 32-Inch 4K 240Hz Samsung QD-OLED Monitor in the Amazon Spring Sale
Samsung’s Odyssey OLED G8 32‑inch 4K 240 Hz monitor is now $849 on Amazon, a $450 discount from its recent $1,300 price. The QD‑OLED panel offers deep blacks, DCI‑P3 colour coverage and HDR10+ support, while a 240 Hz refresh rate targets competitive...
Please Test Your AI Agents — Like, At All
Enterprises deploying AI agents must rigorously test every feature before launch, using both manual checks and structured testing programs. Red‑team exercises—covering security exploits and behavioral misuse—are recommended to surface hidden failure modes. Synthetic prompt‑answer suites and continuous, automated evaluation platforms...
This iPhone Charger From Anker Comes with a Nifty Smart Display - and It's on Sale
Anker’s Nano 45W Smart Display charger is on sale for $28, a 30% discount on the black and white models, with blue and orange versions at $30. The compact charger features a tiny touchscreen that shows real‑time power delivery and battery...
Using AI-Powered Recruitment Platforms Can Compound Your Liability for Discrimination
AI‑driven recruitment platforms are increasingly screening out disabled applicants, as illustrated by a software engineer with multiple sclerosis who was automatically rejected after requesting accommodation. Ontario’s new law, effective Jan. 1 2026, forces employers with 25+ staff to disclose AI use but...
Panel Warns Black and Latino Communities Risk Falling Behind in AI Era
At the 2026 Tech & Telecom Policy Outlook, a panel warned that Black and Latino communities risk falling further behind as artificial intelligence becomes woven into daily life, largely because of persistent broadband access and digital‑literacy gaps. Speakers linked affordable,...
Supermicro Servers With Nvidia GPUs Sold To China Military-Linked Universities: Report
Supermicro sold AI‑focused servers equipped with Nvidia A100 GPUs to four Chinese universities, including two with direct military ties. Reuters documents show two additional universities attempted similar purchases, citing ties to the People’s Liberation Army and missile‑technology programs. The sales...
Gemini Redesigning Glow on Android, Rolls Out Free Personal Intelligence & Memory
Google has rolled out its Gemini Personal Intelligence feature for free to all U.S. users, allowing the AI to draw on data from Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Photos, YouTube, Search, Maps and other Google services. The Gemini app also received a...
This Company Is Doubling Its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Spending in 2026. Here's Why It's a Long-Term Winner.
Tencent Holdings announced it will double its artificial intelligence spending in 2026, targeting generative‑AI capabilities across its advertising, cloud and gaming divisions. The market reacted negatively, pushing the stock down 0.9% despite the company reporting strong earnings and a $567 billion...
Secure Tomorrow’s Data Centers with Platform Firmware Resiliency
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released SP800‑193, a framework for platform firmware resiliency (PFR) that guides data‑center operators in protecting, detecting, and recovering from firmware attacks. The standard distinguishes secured boot, which blocks untrusted code, from measured boot,...
Memory Chip Stocks Shed $100bn as AI-Driven Shortage Trade Unwinds
Memory‑chip equities lost roughly $100 billion in market value as the AI‑driven supply shortage trade reversed. After a surge in demand for GPUs and generative‑AI workloads, inventory levels rose and pricing pressure returned, prompting investors to unwind long positions in DRAM...
Equinix Launches AI Platform to Simplify Control of Distributed AI Resources
Equinix unveiled the Distributed AI Hub, powered by its Fabric Intelligence software layer, to give enterprises a unified framework for connecting data centers, edge sites, and multiple clouds. The platform adds an AI‑ready backbone, real‑time telemetry, and automated routing to...
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[Comment] New Hope for Neurotrophin Targeting in Osteoarthritis Pain?
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[Editorial] Politicisation of the US FDA: Eroding Integrity and Trust
The editorial warns that increasing political interference is eroding the US Food and Drug Administration’s integrity and public trust. With a 2026 budget of $6.8 billion, the FDA remains the world’s most influential drug regulator, tasked with safeguarding safety while accelerating...
Iran War Spikes Energy Prices – UK Homes Ditch Fossil Fuels Fast
UK homeowners are accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels as energy price spikes tied to the US‑Israel‑Iran conflict drive demand for solar panels, heat pumps, and electric‑vehicle chargers. Octopus Energy reported record March enquiries, with solar sales up 54%...
28 New Fast EV Charging Stalls Launched In San Diego
EVgo has opened a new hub in San Diego featuring 28 fast‑charging stalls, adding to its more than 5,000 fast chargers nationwide and the 1,200 it installed last year. The addition raises San Diego’s fast‑charger count to roughly 290 out...
Meta Acquisition of Moltbook Signals Shift to Agentic Commerce Infrastructure
Meta has acquired Moltbook and folded its agent‑to‑agent directory into Meta Superintelligence Labs, signaling a pivot from experimental autonomous buying to a core commerce infrastructure. The integration eliminates traditional human‑behavior signals at checkout, replacing them with "agentic telemetry" that validates...
Portugal Positions Itself as a Strategic Hub for Data Center
Portugal’s Council of Ministers approved a new data‑center strategy that streamlines licensing, creates pre‑approved development zones, and designates AICEP as a single investor contact. The plan leverages the country’s abundant renewable energy and extensive submarine‑cable network to position Lisbon as...
BSidesSLC 2025 – LLM-Assisted Risk Management For Small Teams & Budgets
At BSidesSLC 2025, cloud architect Connor Turpin presented a framework for leveraging large‑language models (LLMs) to streamline risk management in security‑constrained environments. He demonstrated how open‑source LLMs can automate vulnerability triage, threat‑intel summarization, and ticket generation for teams with limited...
IndexCache, a New Sparse Attention Optimizer, Delivers 1.82x Faster Inference on Long-Context AI Models
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Z.ai introduced IndexCache, a sparse‑attention optimizer that cuts up to 75% of redundant indexer computation in DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) models. The technique delivers a 1.82× speedup in time‑to‑first‑token and a 1.48× boost in generation...
Commercial Space Federation (CSF) Welcomes Two New Associate Members
The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) announced the addition of Astrolab and Zeno Power as associate members. Astrolab builds multi‑purpose rovers for lunar and Martian surface operations, while Zeno Power develops radioisotope batteries for extreme‑environment power. Both companies aim to strengthen...
Improving Remote Dermatology Care, Diagnosis, and Clinical Trial Diversity: James Song, MD
Teledermatology is emerging as a core component of skin‑care delivery, especially for patients requiring frequent monitoring such as those on isotretinoin. Virtual visits excel at follow‑up appointments, safety checks, and prescription renewals, but current imaging technology cannot reliably diagnose pigmented...
Combat Drones Are Pivoting Into Green Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Combat drones and emerging ground robots are increasingly being powered by green hydrogen fuel cells, a shift driven by Ukraine’s rapid adoption and U.S. defense interest. Startups such as Sesame Solar have created mobile nanogrid refueling stations that can be...
ESA to Decide by June on Europe’s Gateway Contributions
NASA has halted work on the lunar Gateway, forcing the European Space Agency to rethink its Artemis contributions. ESA’s portfolio includes the European Service Module, the I‑Hab habitation module, the Lunar View refueling unit and the Lunar Link communications system,...
Skullcandy Taps Riskified for Fraud Prevention
Skullcandy partnered with Riskified via the Shopify app to overhaul its fraud‑prevention workflow. By adding a secondary review layer and recalibrating AI‑driven thresholds, the retailer cut its fraud‑decline rate to about 0.1% and kept chargebacks around 0.06% over 12 months....
GPT Can’t Trace an Attack Chain. A Purpose-Built Cybersecurity LLM Can.
Cybersecurity teams face a chronic talent gap, with 4.8 million positions unfilled and 71% of SOC analysts reporting burnout. General‑purpose LLMs like GPT‑4 can summarize alerts but fail to trace attack chains or correlate data across dozens of tools. Purpose‑built cybersecurity...
USPTO Launches AI Examination Tools – What This Means for Trademark Applicants
On March 19, 2026 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office unveiled Class ACT, an AI‑driven tool that instantly assigns international classes, design‑search codes, and pseudo‑marks to trademark filings. The automation compresses a process that once took up to five months...
Makita Fans Can Save Nearly $50 On This Tool During Amazon's Spring Sale
Amazon's Big Spring Sale is offering the Makita 12V max Cordless Multi‑Cutter kit at a 30% discount, bringing the price down to roughly $106 – about $50 off its regular list price. The handheld cutter handles single‑wall cardboard, thin leather,...
Foyer, Nayya Bring Homeownership to Employee Benefits
Foyer and Nayya announced a partnership that embeds Foyer's 401(k)-style homeownership savings account into Nayya's AI‑driven employee benefits platform. The new benefit lets workers set down‑payment goals, access credit‑building tools and receive advisor support alongside health and retirement options. It...
RSAC 2026: Sonar Shares Why Code Security Must Shift Before CI
At RSAC 2026, Sonar’s VP of Code Security Jeremy Katz warned that traditional CI/CD checkpoints are no longer sufficient as AI‑assisted, agent‑driven development accelerates code creation. He highlighted a critical gap: security must be applied before code reaches CI, with...
Cohere Releases Open Source Model that Tops Speech Recognition Benchmarks
Cohere has launched Transcribe, an open‑source automatic speech recognition model that now leads the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with a 5.42% word error rate. The 2 billion‑parameter system also records the highest throughput, processing audio 525 times faster than real...
Understanding LLM Inference Metrics in Rafay's Token Factory
Rafay’s Token Factory turns GPU clusters into managed LLM inference APIs with built‑in multi‑tenancy, token‑metered billing and auto‑scaling. The platform ships a metrics dashboard that surfaces latency (TTFT, ITL, E2E), throughput and KV‑cache utilization at multiple percentiles, letting operators gauge...
Biometrics Adoption, Inclusion Gains Depend on Bridging the Understanding Gap
Researchers from Hong Kong and Germany examined 22 older Chinese adults’ experiences with biometric payments, finding that convenience and perceived security drive adoption while fears of loss of control and data misuse hinder it. The study, slated for the 2026...
Revamp Your Sales Process in Under 10 Hours With This Simple Framework
The article presents a seven‑step, ten‑hour framework that lets founders overhaul their sales fundamentals without hiring new staff or buying expensive tools. By tightening positioning, auditing recent deals, scripting calls, systematizing follow‑up, creating lightweight collateral, defining an ideal client filter,...
After Next Week, The PS5 Pro Might Never Be Worth Buying Again
Sony will raise the PlayStation 5 Pro price to $900 next week, marking a $150 hike across all PS5 models. The increase follows a two‑year climb from the console’s launch price of $700, driven by component shortages, AI‑related costs, and tariffs. For...
Why Your AI Media Stack Is Leaking Revenue — And What Fixes It
Many B2B marketers have invested in AI-driven bidding, dashboards, and attribution tools, yet revenue gaps persist. Jonathan Prantner of OneMagnify explains that the root cause is fragmented data foundations rather than the AI tools themselves. He introduces an AI‑native media...
Crunchyroll Is Now Available as a Channel in the Apple TV App
Crunchyroll is now available as a channel within Apple’s TV app, letting users subscribe and watch anime without a separate app or login. The service is billed through the Apple ID at a starting price of $10 per month, reflecting...
Data Science in the Age of AI: From Experimentation to Scalable, Governed Systems
AI-powered tools such as large language models and coding assistants are accelerating data‑science workflows, turning code generation and data exploration into near‑instant tasks. While 88% of organizations now use AI in at least one process, most projects remain in pilot...
Tech Bills of the Week: Child Social Media Safety, Data Center Moratorium, and More
Congress introduced a suite of bipartisan bills tackling digital safety and emerging‑technology oversight. Sammy’s Law would compel major social‑media platforms—those with 100 million users or $1 billion in revenue—to provide real‑time safety APIs for FTC‑registered third‑party tools that alert parents to risky...
Google Shipped More AI in One Day Than Most Companies Ship in a Quarter
Google unveiled Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a multilingual voice model now live in over 200 countries and already integrated by Verizon and Home Depot. The company also introduced memory‑import tools that let users migrate chat histories across AI platforms, and...
Storage News Ticker - 27 March
Aerospike introduced a LangGraph integration that adds a persistent memory layer, giving agentic AI workflows millisecond latency and fault‑tolerant context storage. Commvault expanded its tie‑up with Microsoft Security, streaming backup alerts to Sentinel and enabling AI‑driven incident investigation. IDC data...
If You Live in Georgia, There's a New Exhibit You Can Visit Celebrating Apple's 50th Anniversary
The Mimms Museum of Technology and Art in Roswell, Georgia is launching *iNSPIRE: 50 Years of Innovation from Apple* on April 1, marking Apple’s founding anniversary. The exhibit spans 20,000 square feet and showcases more than 2,000 artifacts, including every...
Sentinels Announces Collaboration with Sandisk
North American esports franchise Sentinels has entered a strategic marketing partnership with flash‑storage leader SanDisk, making the SANDISK Optimus GX and GX PRO product lines official gear for its teams, creators, and events. The collaboration places SanDisk branding on Sentinels’ jerseys in...
Entering the Era of the Headless Merchant
A new marketplace powered by the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) launched with over 60 services designed for AI agents, not human users. Offerings range from full‑text SEC filing searches and CAPTCHA solving to physical letter mailing and AI‑generated images. In...
FCC Warns Pittsburgh Amateur Radio Operator for 911 Interference
The FCC issued a notice of harmful interference to Pittsburgh amateur radio operator David Kundston after his handheld transceiver disrupted Allegheny County’s west EMS dispatch channel at 470.4375 MHz, a critical 911 frequency. Investigation on July 30, 2025 traced the signal to Kundston’s...
The Real Reason Absa Wrote Off R2.4-billion in Software
Absa Group booked a R2.4 billion (≈$126 million) software impairment for 2025, far exceeding the R179 million (≈$9 million) written off a year earlier. The write‑down reflects accelerated obsolescence as AI, cloud adoption and faster technology cycles render legacy platforms uneconomic. Absa’s IT spend...
Meta Aims to Position WhatsApp as the New Frontier in Customer Relations
Meta is positioning WhatsApp as a core channel for B2C customer relations, citing that 80% of users interact with brands weekly and a billion daily business‑consumer conversations occur. The platform now supports promotions, live‑shopping, abandoned‑cart recovery (15‑20% recovered), payments and...
UK Tightens National Security Rules for Telecom Infrastructure
On 12 March 2026 the UK government issued its response to a July 2025 consultation, tightening the National Security and Investment Act (NSIA) rules through revised Notifiable Acquisition Regulations (NARs). The revisions break down the advanced‑materials schedule, add water to the scope, and...
McLaren Reveals That A Software Glitch Bricked Lando Norris' Battery
McLaren disclosed that a software glitch irreparably damaged Lando Norris' Mercedes energy store, forcing a withdrawal from the Chinese Grand Prix. The failure consumes one of the three batteries allocated per driver for the season, and a replacement would incur...