Microsoft Is Killing SMS Sign-In Codes. ERP Teams Should Pay Attention
Microsoft is phasing out SMS one‑time codes for personal Microsoft accounts, steering users toward passkeys, Microsoft Authenticator, and verified email. The deprecation does not affect Microsoft Entra ID work accounts, but it does impact ERP teams that rely on personal accounts for Visual Studio subscriptions, learning portals, sandbox tenants, and contractor or shared‑mailbox logins. Organizations must inventory these shadow accounts, test fallback mechanisms, and transition affected users to password‑less authentication. The move signals Microsoft’s broader push for phishing‑resistant, enterprise‑wide identity security.
Robinhood Allows Users to Use AI Agents to Trade Stocks
Robinhood announced AI‑driven agents that can execute stock trades on behalf of retail customers. The service currently supports equities, with plans to add options, futures and cryptocurrency later, and also includes agents for credit‑card purchases. Users set spending limits and...
SecureFlag Launches AI-Assisted Development Labs to Tackle Security Risks in AI-Generated Code
SecureFlag, a developer security enablement platform, has introduced AI‑Assisted Development Labs to train developers on safely using AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT. The hands‑on program teaches prompting techniques, code review, and integration with security tools...
FDA Accepts BridgeBio’s Application for Potential First Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Drug
BridgeBio’s oral therapy BBP‑418 has received FDA priority review, with a target action date of Nov. 27, 2025, positioning it for a potential launch in late 2026 or early 2027. The Phase 3 FORTIFY trial met all primary and secondary endpoints, showing...
Alibaba Integrates PicCopilot with Google Ads, Eyeing Conversion for Ecommerce
Alibaba has launched a new integration that connects its AI‑powered PicCopilot platform with Google Ads, enabling merchants to generate display ads and video creatives in seconds. The feature, dubbed Good Ads, is aimed at small‑ and medium‑size ecommerce operators, many...
“There Is No Accountability”: AI Coding Agents Are Installing Packages No One Owns
AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Cursor are increasingly installing packages and dependencies without clear ownership, creating a security accountability gap across enterprises. Aikido Security’s new Endpoint product monitors and blocks unknown installations for a configurable...
“Not a Blip”: AI Was Canada’s Venture Market Mover in 2025
Canada’s venture capital market saw AI become the dominant sector in 2025, accounting for 54 cents of every dollar invested and 23 percent of all financing rounds. Osler’s Deal Points Report, based on 140 deals worth $6.3 billion CAD (≈$4.66 billion USD), shows AI deal sizes grew...
'Claude Is My BFF': How One CPO Is Reinventing HR with AI
Avalara’s chief people officer, Ee Lyn Khoo, is rebuilding the company’s HR function around generative AI, embedding the technology in goal‑setting, employee support and hiring. By prompting Claude and other models, her team lifted well‑written goal rates from 50% to 95% and...
FAA Grounds SpaceX's Starship V3 Megarocket After Flight 12 'Mishap'
The FAA has grounded SpaceX’s Starship V3 after the vehicle’s 12th test flight on May 22 was deemed a mishap. While the upper stage successfully deployed 20 dummy and two camera‑equipped Starlink satellites and splashed down safely, the Super Heavy booster...
LendingClub CEO Expects ‘Skinned Knees’ Amid Fintech Charter Rush
LendingClub is rebranding to Happen Bank to signal its evolution from a peer‑to‑peer lender into a fully chartered digital bank after the 2021 acquisition of Radius Bank. CEO Scott Sanborn notes a wave of fintechs—such as Affirm, PayPal, Revolut and...
Tomorrow’s Medical Sensors Might Come Served with Dinner
Researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands have unveiled a fully edible ingestible device that combines a wireless transmitter, microchips, a bio‑battery and multiple chemical sensors. The platform is designed to survive the harsh stomach environment while safely breaking down after...
AI Tool Helps Remote Monitoring Clinics Explore Patient Data
Octagos introduced Ask Atlas, an AI-powered natural‑language interface for its electrophysiology remote‑monitoring platform. The tool lets clinicians pose simple questions and retrieve answers from device transmissions, electronic health records, workflow status, and billing data within seconds. By replacing manual chart...
Steam Deck Price Increased Due to Rising Hardware Costs
Valve announced that the Steam Deck OLED’s price has risen sharply, with the 512 GB model climbing from $549 to $789 and the 1 TB version from $649 to $949. The hikes reflect higher component costs and global logistics pressures, according to...
SAP Sapphire Madrid Customer Keynote: Enterprise AI Value Depends on Business Ownership
SAP’s Sapphire Madrid keynote shifted the AI conversation from pilot announcements to operational adoption, emphasizing that enterprise AI value hinges on governance, observability, and clear business ownership of agents. Executives highlighted "verified agents" built under ISO‑certified controls, clean‑core SAP S/4HANA...
Google Home Can Now Use What Cameras See as Automation Starters, Android Widget Improved
Google Home’s latest update integrates Gemini’s camera scene‑understanding into smart‑home automations, allowing Nest and select Gemini‑built cameras to trigger actions based on visual events. The rollout also brings a more responsive Android Home widget, refined Familiar Faces management, and expanded...
CrowdStrike and Google Take Down Botnet Used by Hackers to Target Open Source Software Developers
CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and nonprofit Shadowserver, dismantled the Glassworm botnet that had been compromising open‑source developers for two years. The operation shut down four command‑and‑control servers that leveraged the Solana blockchain, BitTorrent, Google Calendar and VPNs, halting further...
NASA Moon Base Plans: Artemis, the Lunar South Pole, and the Buildout of a Permanent Human Outpost
NASA’s Moon Base plan pivots to a phased, permanent outpost at the lunar South Pole, integrating robotic precursors, commercial landers, and the Artemis program. The strategy emphasizes extended solar illumination, water‑ice resources, and a distributed network of habitats, power, and...
Litus, UWin Nanotech Enter MOU to Explore Projects Including Critical Mineral Recovery, Battery Recycling
Litus, a Calgary‑based critical‑minerals firm, and Taiwan’s UWin Nanotech have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore joint projects in lithium extraction, cobalt and nickel recovery, and battery recycling. The partnership will test Litus’s nanocomposite‑based LiNC direct lithium extraction platform...
The Impact of AI on Traditional Development Processes
Rob Zuber explains how AI is reshaping the software development life cycle by introducing autonomous reliability—continuous quality feedback that guides AI‑generated code. While AI speeds prototyping, moving to production reveals gaps in security, scaling and trust that require new platform‑engineer...
Paychex Launches WISE AI Platform
Paychex announced the Workforce Intelligence Strengthened by Expertise (WISE), an AI‑powered platform that deploys autonomous agents to execute HR tasks within customer‑defined workflows. The solution moves beyond static chatbots, offering agents that can schedule shifts, approve timesheets, and provide real‑time...
AI Robot Can Spot ‘Invisible’ Signs of Plant Disease
RoboCrops, a robotic phenotyping platform developed by the University of Lincoln and the Lincoln Institute for Agri‑food Technology, won a Silver Gilt medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Its core system, PhenAIx, fuses AI, high‑resolution imaging and robotics to...
Brightcove Adds New Features to Its AI Suite for Video Advertising
Streaming‑tech provider Brightcove unveiled two AI‑driven features—AI Contextual Ads and Smart Ad Breaks—within its AI Suite for video advertising. AI Contextual Ads scans video scenes against the IAB taxonomy, delivering scene‑level contextual signals to ad servers, while Smart Ad Breaks...
Google Moves AI Agents Into the Mainstream
At its I/O conference Google unveiled Gemini‑powered AI agents that move beyond chat, embedding themselves in Search, Gmail, Docs, Chrome, YouTube, shopping and even smart glasses. The new Gemini models are designed to plan tasks, operate across apps, interpret images...
Data Centers Raise Temperatures up to 4 Degrees in Nearby Neighborhoods: Study
A study by Arizona State University found that air‑cooled condenser arrays at four Phoenix‑area data centers raised downwind neighborhood temperatures by 1.3 °F to 4 °F (0.7‑2.2 °C) within a third of a mile. The facilities, ranging from 36 MW to 169 MW, emitted waste‑heat...
The Witcher 3 No Longer Supports Older PC Hardware Configurations
CD Projekt Red has raised the minimum PC specifications for *The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt* after a series of graphical upgrades, including ray‑tracing and DirectX 12 support. The new baseline targets modern GPUs, SSD storage, and newer quad‑core CPUs, leaving many pre‑2015...
GCHQ Teases “Blueprint” For Agentic AI National Cyber Defense
British signals agency GCHQ announced it has drafted a "blueprint" to embed cutting‑edge agentic AI into a new national cyber‑defence capability. Director Anne Butler‑Keast highlighted the urgency for businesses to bolster security as AI threats accelerate. The initiative ties into...
The FBI Just Dropped Its 2025 Internet Crime Report. Here Are 6 Big Takeaways
The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report shows internet‑crime complaints exceeding 1 million for the first time, with more than 3,000 reports filed each day. Reported losses surged to over $20 billion, a $4 billion increase from 2024 and double the amount recorded four...
Elemeno Health Announces Strategic Partnership with Swisslog Healthcare to Drive Efficiency in Healthcare Automation
Elemeno Health has entered a strategic partnership with Swisslog Healthcare to embed its just‑in‑time microlearning platform into Swisslog’s pharmacy automation suite, covering solutions such as PillPick, BoxPicker and Allegro. The integration will be rolled out across more than 300 North...
Latin American Cybercriminals Hoover Up Government Data
Latin American cybercriminal groups have made public administration the region's most‑breached sector, accounting for 21% of all breaches (543 incidents) in the past year. High‑profile compromises include Uruguay's Antel identity service, data theft from 25 Mexican agencies, and a wave...
Space Force Awards SpaceX $2.29 Billion Contract for Military Data Constellation
The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $2.29 billion contract to expand its Starshield military variant of the Starlink constellation. The deal funds a low‑Earth‑orbit data‑transport constellation that will become the backbone of the Pentagon’s Space Data Network, linking sensors to...
AI-Assisted Exploit Development Outpaces Scanner Detection
Researchers at Cogent Security found that AI‑assisted exploit creation slashed the time needed to weaponize a disclosed vulnerability from 125 days in early 2025 to just 0.5 days by April 2026. The acceleration, driven by publicly available large language models that can read patch...
NASA Unveils New Lunar Base Developments as Artemis Efforts Expand
NASA announced contract awards for the first hardware elements of a lunar base, including two rovers that will give astronauts mobility on the Moon. Administrator Jared Isaacman highlighted that the agency will not slow down its Artemis‑driven return to the...
Signicat Adds Austria ID as Europe Prepares for EUDI Wallet Transition
Signicat has added Austria's electronic ID system to its eID and Wallet Hub, giving its customers access to more than 6.8 million Austrian users—about 60% of the population. The hub already aggregates over 35 national eIDs behind a single API, and...
Fintech Bytes: Envestnet's Bill Crager Wants to Fix Tech's Disconnection Dilemma
Bill Crager, co‑founder of Envestnet, launched Field, a data‑layer platform that consolidates portfolio, planning, CRM, compliance and billing information into a single framework. The venture builds on BridgeFT and Precept acquisitions to provide multi‑custodian connectivity and AI‑enhanced data integration. Meanwhile,...
Embryos Made without Sperm or Eggs Reveal Why Many Pregnancies Fail
Scientists in Vienna have created embryo organoids, called blastoids, entirely from stem cells without sperm or eggs. These models replicate the structure and early gene activity of a natural blastocyst, allowing researchers to observe implantation and other first‑week events in...
The Impact of Nanoplastics on Neurons May Depend on Their Size
Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland found that polystyrene nanoplastics are taken up by primary neurons and that smaller particles trigger more pronounced morphological and gene‑expression changes than larger ones, even at low doses. The study, published in NanoImpact,...
California Judges Are Testing a New AI Clerk, and You Won’t Know if It’s Looking at Your Case
California’s Los Angeles and Riverside superior courts have launched pilots of Learned Hand’s AI clerk, a tool that stitches together Anthropic, OpenAI and Google language models to draft orders, research memos and tentative rulings. The Los Angeles County Superior Court...
Sony’s First RGB TV Is a Statement Piece
Sony has launched its first true RGB LED television, the Bravia 7 II, positioned alongside the premium Bravia 9 II. The 65‑inch model starts at $2,600 and uses individually driven red, green, and blue LEDs to boost brightness and color volume. While the panel...
China’s ENGINEAI Opens Humanoid Robot Factory, Aims to Build One Every 15 Minutes
Chinese robotics firm ENGINEAI has launched a 129,000‑square‑foot smart factory in Shenzhen that can produce a T800 humanoid robot every 15 minutes. The plant integrates assembly, component testing, logistics and after‑sales services, with each unit undergoing 79 inspections and 46...
Jeroboams: ‘A Modern Fine Wine Merchant… Can’t Just Sell People Wine’
Jeroboams' fine‑wine Exchange platform, launched six months ago, has doubled its active customer base and maintains a steady flow of listings and sales. The marketplace is dominated by Bordeaux, Champagne and Super Tuscan bottles, many of which are still early...
Vision Marine Files Patent Application for Electronically Controlled Reverse Thrust in Electric Outboards
Vision Marine Technologies filed its 16th U.S. patent covering an electronically controlled reverse‑thrust system for its E‑Motion electric outboard platform. The design reverses motor rotation electronically, removing the mechanical gearboxes that conventional outboards use for forward and reverse. By retaining...
Nexperia Will Manufacture Next-Gen Power MOSFETs at Polar Semiconductor’s Minnesota Foundry
Nexperia and Polar Semiconductor have struck a manufacturing deal to produce Nexperia’s next‑generation power MOSFETs at Polar’s high‑volume fab in Bloomington, Minnesota. The partnership is designed to lock in a stable, U.S.-based supply chain for MOSFETs used in automotive, AI...
A Call to My Readers: Find the Location of NASA’s Lunar Base!
During a recent NASA press conference, program executive Carlos García‑Galán displayed a graphic of the agency’s planned unmanned lunar base near the Moon’s south pole. The map, however, omitted crater names, latitude‑longitude coordinates, and a scale, leaving its exact location...
Handle with Care: Soft Robot Gripper Picks Ripe Fruit without Bruising
Researchers at Cornell’s Organic Robotics Lab have created a soft robot gripper equipped with stretchable fiber‑optic sensors that can assess strawberry ripeness by touch and harvest the fruit without bruising. The gripper combines curvature and pressure sensors with a planetary‑gear...
Malicious Npm Package Stole Files From Claude AI User Directory via GitHub
Security researchers at OX Security have identified a malicious npm package, mouse5212‑super‑formatter, that steals files from the Claude AI user directory. The package uploads data to a threat‑actor‑controlled GitHub repository by leveraging a GitHub token found on the victim’s machine...
Students Build Moon Robots for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge
NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge drew 47 university teams to design remote‑controlled robots that can navigate rough lunar terrain and build regolith‑based berms. The competition culminated in a finals showcase at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on May 19. Participants...
SK Hynix Tops $1 Trillion Valuation as AI Memory Boom Reshapes Chip Market
SK Hynix broke the $1 trillion market‑value barrier as AI‑driven data‑center demand lifted memory‑chip prices and sent its shares 9.3% higher. The surge reflects a broader AI memory boom that has doubled advanced‑memory prices in Q1 and is reshaping the semiconductor...
Jade Biosciences Initiates First-in-Human Phase 1 Trial of BAFF-R Antibody JADE201
Jade Biosciences has dosed the first participant in a first‑in‑human Phase 1 trial of JADE201, an investigational half‑life‑extended afucosylated anti‑BAFF‑R monoclonal antibody. The randomized, placebo‑controlled study evaluates single ascending doses in rheumatoid arthritis patients, focusing on safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics....
Time-to-Value: Why Onboarding Is the New SaaS Retention Battleground in 2026
In 2026 the SaaS industry is shifting its retention focus from product features to the onboarding experience, with fast, value‑driven implementations now linked to a 30% lift in twelve‑month retention rates. At the same time, vertical SaaS is booming, projected...
Inside Optum Health's Push to Make AI Practical for Clinicians
Optum Health piloted an AI‑driven chart summarization tool to cut clinicians' after‑hours record‑review time. The feature automatically condenses patient histories into a concise view, letting providers prepare faster before appointments. Early results showed smoother visit flow, reduced documentation workload, and...