News•Jan 8, 2026
Roman Space Telescope on Track for September Launch
NASA announced that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on September 28, 2026 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. The spacecraft is now fully assembled at Goddard, entering vibration and acoustic testing in February before shipping to Florida in June. The mission remains on schedule and under its $4.3 billion lifecycle budget, beating the original May 2027 commitment. Officials highlighted that Roman meets all science requirements without compromise.
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 8, 2026
Science Spotlight: Thwarting Melanoma Immune Evasion
Researchers have uncovered new molecular pathways that melanoma cells use to dodge immune surveillance, focusing on PD‑L1 up‑regulation and downstream signaling. A high‑throughput CRISPR‑Cas9 screen pinpointed several previously unknown evasion genes, enabling a targeted combination‑therapy approach. Early‑phase trials combining checkpoint...
By BioCentury
News•Jan 8, 2026
NASA to Provide Media with International Space Station Update Today
NASA will hold a live news conference at 5 p.m. EST Thursday from its Washington headquarters to update media on the International Space Station. The briefing follows the agency’s Jan 7 announcement postponing a Jan 8 spacewalk while a crew member’s medical condition...
By NASA - News Releases
News•Jan 8, 2026
GenDigital Research Exposes AuraStealer Infostealer Tactics
GenDigital researchers detailed AuraStealer, a modular malware‑as‑a‑service infostealer targeting Windows 7‑11 systems. The threat spreads through “scam‑yourself” TikTok videos and cracked software, then harvests credentials, session tokens, and financial data. AuraStealer employs advanced evasion such as exception‑driven API hashing, Heaven’s...
By eSecurity Planet
News•Jan 8, 2026
FDA Staff Cuts Mostly Didn't Impact New Drug Review Timelines, Analysis Finds
Despite thousands of staff cuts, retirements, and leadership departures at the FDA in 2025, the agency’s drug reviewers largely maintained their review schedules. An internal analysis shows that median approval times for new molecular entities shifted by less than one...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 8, 2026
Microsoft and Stripe Bring Shopping Checkout Directly Into Copilot Chat for US Users
Microsoft and Stripe have announced Copilot Checkout, allowing US users to purchase items directly within Microsoft’s AI‑powered Copilot chat. The feature, built on Stripe’s open Agentic Commerce Protocol, launches with retailers such as Etsy, Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie. By integrating...
By THE DECODER
News•Jan 8, 2026
AI Ambition Meets Data Reality: Why Ungoverned Data Undermines Operational Success
Enterprises are racing to deploy AI, yet 41% still lack data‑classification tools, leaving vast amounts of unstructured data unmanaged. This “ROT” (Redundant, Obsolete, Trivial) data fuels security breaches, compliance failures, and inflated storage costs. Congruity360 highlights the gap between AI...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 8, 2026
Argonne Launches Silicon Quantum Collaboration with Intel
Argonne National Laboratory and Intel have deployed a 12‑qubit silicon quantum‑dot processor, marking the first joint research published in Nature Communications and a key milestone for the DOE’s Q‑NEXT center. Scientists highlighted how decades of transistor manufacturing now enable control...
By InsideHPC (Quantum Computing)
News•Jan 8, 2026
Replication Efforts Suggest 'Smoking Gun' Evidence Isn't Enough to Prove Quantum Computing Claims
A multinational team led by University of Pittsburgh physicist Sergey Frolov conducted multiple replication studies on topological signatures claimed to demonstrate breakthroughs in quantum computing. Each attempt uncovered alternative, non‑topological explanations for the dramatic "smoking‑gun" patterns reported in high‑profile journals....
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Jan 8, 2026
Unexpected Oscillation States in Magnetic Vortices Could Enable Coupling Across Different Physical Systems
Researchers at Helmholtz‑Zentrum Dresden‑Rossendorf have observed self‑induced Floquet states in magnetic vortices using only microwatt‑level magnetic wave excitation. The phenomenon manifests as a magnon frequency comb, a series of evenly spaced spectral lines, arising from a subtle circular motion of...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Jan 8, 2026
New Lilly Data Suggest Zepbound Boosted Effect of Autoimmune Drug
Eli Lilly’s Phase 3b trial shows its weight‑loss blockbuster Zepbound (tirzepatide) can amplify the efficacy of an existing autoimmune therapy in a targeted patient cohort. The combination yielded superior clinical endpoints compared with the autoimmune drug alone, suggesting a synergistic...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 8, 2026
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of Jan 5 - 8, 2026
The SaaS CEO Mastermind for Jan 5‑8 tackled a full spectrum of growth levers, from outbound cold‑email metrics and AI‑enhanced video outreach to long‑cycle enterprise sales and product‑led strategies. Participants received concrete targets—0.5‑1.5% reply rates, one deal per 2,500‑10,000 emails—and tactics...
By SaasRise
News•Jan 8, 2026
US Private Payroll Growth Report : 41,000 Jobs Added in Dec 2025
US private‑sector employers added 41,000 jobs in December 2025, according to the ADP National Employment Report, falling short of the 48,000 forecast. Growth was concentrated in service‑oriented industries, with education and health services adding 39,000 positions and leisure and hospitality...
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Jan 8, 2026
What Is a Liquidity Provider and Why Does It Matter to Traders?
Liquidity providers act as the invisible engine that keeps markets moving by continuously posting bid‑ask prices, ensuring orders are filled quickly and spreads stay tight. They range from tier‑one banks and prime brokers in forex and equities to crypto‑focused aggregators...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 8, 2026
California Law Allows State to Claim Crypto From Inactive Accounts
California Governor Newsom signed SB 822, an amendment to the state’s Unclaimed Property Law, that explicitly includes cryptocurrency among assets the state can claim after three years of inactivity. The law requires the state to attempt to locate rightful owners, but...
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Jan 8, 2026
PayPal Teams With Microsoft to Power Checkout in Copilot
PayPal is teaming with Microsoft to embed its payments infrastructure into the new Copilot Checkout, letting shoppers browse and complete purchases without leaving the Copilot interface. The service will surface merchant inventory, support branded and guest checkout, and process credit‑card...
By PYMNTS
News•Jan 8, 2026
Petition Filed with Securities and Exchange Commission to Raise Reg CF Funding Cap to $20 Million
A petition filed by Crowdfund Capital Advisors requests the SEC raise the Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) funding cap from $5 million to $20 million. The filing argues the existing limit fragments capital raises and hampers mature, post‑revenue companies seeking Series A financing. CCA cites...
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Jan 8, 2026
135% Surge: Inside the Holiday Bot Attacks of December 2025
In December 2025, malicious bot traffic surged 135% year‑over‑year, turning the holiday season into a cyber‑fraud hotspot. AI‑enhanced bots mimicked human browsing, generated high‑fidelity synthetic identities, and performed adaptive reconnaissance, making detection harder. The spike spanned vulnerability scanning, credential stuffing,...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 8, 2026
European Space Agency DG Aschbacher Highlights 2026 Milestones in Annual Address
European Space Agency announced a record €22.3 billion budget for 2026‑2028, a 31% rise over the previous cycle, with the 2026 allocation at €8.26 billion. Canada increased its contribution to €407.7 million, four times its prior level. Ariane 6 achieved five successful flights in...
By SpaceQ
News•Jan 8, 2026
EU Antitrust Regulators to Decide on Google's Wiz Acquisition
European antitrust regulators will issue a decision on Google’s $32 billion acquisition of cloud‑security firm Wiz by February 10, 2026. The deal would be Alphabet’s biggest ever purchase and is also under review by the U.S. Department of Justice. Google has pledged...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 8, 2026
Online Growth Expected in Bulgaria
Bulgaria joined the eurozone on January 1, becoming the 21st member and eliminating currency conversion for cross‑border transactions. The move grants local financial institutions access to Europe’s central payment systems, streamlining payments for online retailers. Despite this, e‑commerce adoption remains modest,...
By Ecommerce News Europe
News•Jan 8, 2026
Software Tackling Deepfakes to Be Piloted for Scottish and Welsh Elections
The UK Electoral Commission and Home Office are piloting AI‑driven software to detect deep‑fake videos and images ahead of the Scottish and Welsh elections scheduled for March 2026. The system will flag suspect content, alert police and candidates, and request...
By The Guardian AI
News•Jan 8, 2026
BlockDAG’s 16.6x ROI Stands Out as the Best Opportunity While XRP and ZCash Test Old Resistance
BlockDAG’s presale, now at $0.003, has raised $442 million and is set to close on Jan 26, with market makers projecting an opening range of $0.38‑$0.43. Meanwhile, ZCash posted a 24% weekly gain, eyeing the historic $616 resistance, and XRP remains steady...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 8, 2026
Secretive Rampart Bioscience Closes After Pursuing Non-Viral Gene Therapy
Rampart Bioscience, a stealth biotech founded less than 15 months ago with a $125 million Series A, announced its closure after failing to advance its non‑viral gene‑therapy platform. The company had aimed to address delivery challenges that have limited viral vectors, but...
By Endpoints News
News•Jan 8, 2026
Securing MCP Servers at Scale: How to Govern AI Agents with an Enterprise Identity Fabric
Enterprises are witnessing a rapid, uncontrolled rollout of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, with research showing 15.28% of a 10,000‑person workforce running an average of two servers each. Most deployments use full‑privilege personal access tokens, store credentials in plaintext, and...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 8, 2026
When the Vendor Becomes the Customer: Building Internal Tools on an Agentic IAM Platform
Aembit’s test automation team built an internal dashboard to aggregate nightly test results from Qase.io and Slack, using the Aembit Workload IAM platform for runtime credential injection. By centralizing access policies, the Flask‑Vue service never handled static API keys, eliminating...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 8, 2026
Billionaire to Fund Construction of an Orbiting Optical Telescope Larger than Hubble
Schmidt Sciences, the foundation of Google co‑founder Eric and Wendy Schmidt, announced a multi‑billion‑dollar private program to build four research observatories, including Lazuli, a 3.1‑meter optical space telescope that outstrips Hubble’s 2.4‑meter mirror. The telescope will operate from a lunar‑resonant...
By Behind the Black
News•Jan 8, 2026
US Man Jailed After FBI Traced 1,100 IP Addresses in Cyberstalking Case
A 25‑year‑old Montana man, Jeremiah Daniel Starr, received a 46‑month federal prison sentence for a three‑year cyberstalking campaign that escalated into a fake shooting inside the victim's apartment. Investigators uncovered his use of more than 50 phone numbers and NordVPN...
By HackRead
News•Jan 8, 2026
Why Colos Are City Slickers and Hyperscalers Are Country Bumpkins
Datacenter location strategies diverge: colocation providers cluster in urban centers to serve latency‑sensitive customers, while hyperscale giants such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft concentrate massive facilities in low‑density regions with cheaper power and land. A Rice University and Harvard Business...
By The Register
News•Jan 8, 2026
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Protests erupted after a federal officer killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, sparking nationwide unrest against the Trump administration's immigration policies. Activists warn that modern surveillance tools—from IMSI catchers to facial‑recognition cameras—are being deployed to monitor and suppress dissent. The...
By WIRED (Security)
News•Jan 8, 2026
Best of 2025: Artemis II Countdown Demonstration Test
NASA conducted the Artemis II Countdown Demonstration Test on Dec. 20, 2025, rehearsing the full launch day sequence for the crew of Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen and Reid Wiseman. The simulation covered suit‑up, walkout, and ingress/egress of the Orion capsule atop the Space Launch System....
By NASA - News Releases
News•Jan 8, 2026
Entanglement Enhances the Speed of Quantum Simulations, Transforming Long-Standing Obstacles Into a Powerful Advantage
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have demonstrated that quantum entanglement, long seen as a barrier for classical simulations, actually accelerates quantum simulations. Published in Nature Physics, the study shows that higher entanglement improves algorithmic efficiency on quantum hardware....
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Jan 8, 2026
Jefferies Takes $30M Loss over First Brands Investment
Jefferies disclosed a $30 million pretax loss tied to the collapse of auto‑parts supplier First Brands, reflecting roughly $45 million of direct exposure through its Point Bonita fund. The loss appears in the bank’s fiscal fourth‑quarter report, the first after First Brands filed for Chapter 11...
By Banking Dive
News•Jan 8, 2026
Humanoid Robots Go for Knockout in High-Tech Vegas Fight Night
Humanoid robots stepped into a ring at the Ultimate Fighting Bots showcase on the fringe of CES in Las Vegas, delivering a mixed‑martial‑arts style spectacle. Piloted by humans using motion‑sensing game controllers and real‑time camera tracking, the bots mirrored their...
By Tech Xplore Robotics
News•Jan 8, 2026
Earliest Known Barred Spiral Galaxy Spotted Just 2 Billion Years After Big Bang
Astronomers using spectroscopy have identified galaxy COSMOS‑74706 as the earliest confirmed barred spiral, existing roughly 2 billion years after the Big Bang (about 11.5 billion years ago). The detection, presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting, sets a new high‑redshift record for...
By Phys.org - Space News
News•Jan 8, 2026
Second Escapade Mars Orbiter Completes a Delayed Engine Burn
NASA announced that the second Escapade Mars orbiter successfully completed a delayed engine burn, correcting its trajectory after an earlier mid‑course correction showed unexpectedly low thrust. The telemetry anomaly, which indicated the engine was under‑performing, was addressed, though NASA provided...
By Behind the Black
News•Jan 8, 2026
Forget Fitness Trackers — External Brains Are the Hot New Wearables at CES This Year
At CES 2024, AI‑powered wearables marketed as "second brains" stole the spotlight from traditional fitness trackers. Devices like Pebble's Index O1 smart ring, SwitchBot's AI MindClip lapel pin, and Lenovo's Qira pendant let users capture voice notes, transcribe conversations, and...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 8, 2026
MDA Space Added as a ‘Golden Dome’ Contractor by the Missile Defense Agency
MDA Space has been added as a contractor to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, part of the broader Golden Dome strategy. The SHIELD initiative carries a $151 billion ceiling over ten years and...
By SpaceQ
News•Jan 8, 2026
GameStop Closing up to 200 Stores This Month as Board Approves $35B Performance-Based Pay Package for CEO
GameStop announced it will shutter up to 200 U.S. stores this month, adding to the 590 closures completed in FY2024. The retailer also unveiled a performance‑based compensation plan for Chairman and CEO Ryan Cohen that could be worth as much...
By Retail TouchPoints
News•Jan 8, 2026
SwitchBot's New Gadget Clips to Your Collar and Records Your Conversations, so You'll Never Have to Pay Attention Ever Again
SwitchBot unveiled the AI MindClip at CES 2026, a lightweight collar‑mounted gadget that continuously records conversations and stores them in an encrypted, searchable database. The device offers a cloud‑based subscription that uses AI to generate summaries, to‑do lists, and multilingual transcription in...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 8, 2026
AI Steps Out of the Screen at CES. These 5 Things Stopped Me in My Tracks
CES 2026 showcased a dramatic shift as artificial intelligence moved from screen‑based software to tangible hardware. The four‑day show spanned 2.6 million square feet, hosted 3,500+ exhibitors, and attracted roughly 142,000 attendees. Among the highlights were AI‑powered robots, smart wearables, and...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 8, 2026
5 Things the Ad Industry Can’t Stop Talking About at CES 2026
At CES 2026, ad‑tech leaders focused on five hot topics: the infrastructure needed for agentic advertising, the persistent draw of live‑sports inventory, accelerating agency consolidation, AI‑driven search eroding publisher revenue, and the evolving role of AI in creative production and media...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 8, 2026
Texas Court Blocks Samsung From Collecting Smart TV Viewing Data
Texas a district court issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Samsung from collecting, selling, or transferring audio‑visual data from smart TVs owned by Texas residents. The order targets Samsung’s Automated Content Recognition (ACR) system, which captures screenshots every 500 milliseconds...
By BleepingComputer
News•Jan 8, 2026
Texas Court Blocks Samsung From Tracking TV Viewing, Then Vacates Order
A Texas district court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Jan. 5 prohibiting Samsung from collecting audio and visual data from smart‑TVs using Automated Content Recognition (ACR). The order cited deceptive enrollment practices and alleged Chinese Communist Party access to...
By BleepingComputer
News•Jan 8, 2026
New Zero-Click Attack Lets ChatGPT User Steal Data
Researchers at Radware disclosed a new prompt‑injection method called ZombieAgent that lets ChatGPT exfiltrate data from integrated services such as Gmail, Outlook, Google Drive, and GitHub. The technique sidesteps OpenAI’s recent URL‑modification guardrails by using pre‑built static URLs, leaking information...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 8, 2026
People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good
Online users rapidly circulated AI‑manipulated images claiming to reveal the face of the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis. The Department of Homeland Security later identified the shooter as an ICE agent but did not release...
By WIRED AI
News•Jan 8, 2026
Cyberette Is Building Forensic-Grade AI for a Post-Truth Internet
Cyberette, a Dutch AI startup founded in 2024, offers forensic‑grade detection of deepfakes and manipulated media aimed at fraud and investigation teams. The platform delivers 99.7% accuracy with sub‑two‑second latency, supports real‑time on‑premise or cloud deployment, and provides provenance, watermarking,...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 8, 2026
Fiserv Teams With Microsoft to Expand AI Use
Fiserv announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to embed artificial intelligence across its development platforms and workforce. The collaboration gives employees access to Microsoft 365 Copilot and expands use of the Foundry AI platform, which has already processed more than...
By PYMNTS
News•Jan 8, 2026
Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Will Face a Jury in March
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI has been cleared for a jury trial in March after a federal judge found evidence that the company’s leaders may have promised to keep its original nonprofit structure. Musk, an early backer who invested roughly...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Jan 8, 2026
Toast, Clover Battle for Small Eateries
Payments giant Fiserv’s Clover unit commands roughly 20% of the U.S. small‑restaurant point‑of‑sale market, covering about 175,000 locations, while fintech Toast follows with an estimated 17% share at 145,000 sites. Square and Global Payments round out the top four, holding...
By Payments Dive