News•Jan 7, 2026
Optimism for AI-Powered Productivity: Deloitte
Deloitte’s UK CFO Survey shows 96% of finance chiefs plan to boost technology spending over the next five years, with AI at the forefront of productivity strategies. Optimism for AI has jumped to 59% of CFOs, up from 39% a year earlier, indicating a shift from pilot projects to core initiatives. Despite this confidence, risk appetite remains modest at 15%, suggesting tighter governance and demand for measurable returns. The survey underscores CFOs as active stewards of digital transformation, not merely budget sign‑off parties.
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Jan 7, 2026
Registration Is Open for the March 2026 MarTech Conference
Registration is now open for the free, virtual MarTech Conference on March 4, 2026. The day‑long event will feature six live panel discussions covering data silos, cookieless identity, funnel collapse, context‑aware experiences, workflow redesign, and AI‑driven online visibility. A new...
By MarTech
News•Jan 7, 2026
Fragmentation and Consolidation (Part 2) – Getting Ahead of the Curve
The space sector is transitioning from a fragmented, novelty‑driven phase to a consolidation era where reliability and risk mitigation dominate. Customers no longer ask which component performs best; they demand proven delivery, stable interfaces, and support. Suppliers must shift their...
By SpaceQ
News•Jan 7, 2026
The Loudest Voices in Security Often Have the Least to Lose
The article argues that the most vocal cybersecurity commentators often lack accountability, leading to hype over substance. It illustrates five harmful personas—panic inducer, hype rider, Chicken Little, pessimist, and dismisser—who prioritize fear, trends, or dismissal instead of evidence‑based solutions. By...
By SecurityWeek
News•Jan 7, 2026
Terran Orbital Appoints Michael Vishion as Vice President of Program Management
Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin company, announced Michael Vishion as vice president of program management. Vishion brings more than 25 years of aerospace and defense experience, including leadership of multi‑site portfolios worth $200‑$350 million. He will report to CEO Peter...
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 7, 2026
How Agentic AI Will Lure Shoppers
Nick Campbell, chief product officer at Xplor Pay, discussed the rise of agentic commerce – AI‑driven buying agents that can search, select and pay for goods. The market is forecast to reach $1.7 trillion in sales by 2030, with major players...
By Payments Dive
News•Jan 7, 2026
Microsoft Scraps Exchange Online Spam Clamp After Customers Cry Foul
Microsoft has abandoned its planned 2,000‑per‑day external recipient limit for Exchange Online after strong customer pushback. The original 2024 policy aimed to curb spam and compromised accounts by capping outbound emails for new tenants, with a phased rollout to existing...
By The Register
News•Jan 7, 2026
A Red Moon, a Blue Moon, a Supermoon and More: Your Guide to the Southern Sky in 2026
The 2026 southern‑hemisphere sky will feature a total lunar eclipse on 3 March, a rare blue moon on 31 May, and a supermoon on 24 December. Planetary highlights include a tight Mercury‑Mars‑Saturn grouping in April, a Venus‑Jupiter close approach in June, and a...
By Phys.org - Space News
News•Jan 7, 2026
Fiserv’s Clover Adopts Biometrics
Fiserv announced that its Clover point‑of‑sale platform will soon support biometric payments, allowing customers to authorize purchases with facial or palm scans. The feature, built in partnership with fintech firm Wink, will debut at the National Retail Federation conference and...
By Payments Dive
News•Jan 7, 2026
Restricting Industrial Loan Charters Would Be Bad for the Economy
Industrial banks, regulated and FDIC‑insured, provide crucial credit to small businesses, gig workers, and underserved Main Street enterprises. Since their creation in 1987, only one has failed, and capital ratios are roughly 50 % above industry averages, indicating strong safety. Proponents...
By American Banker Technology
News•Jan 7, 2026
'It's a Good Idea': Jensen Huang Hints that Nvidia Could Consider Bringing Back Older Graphics Cards to Solve GPU Pricing...
At CES 2026 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hinted that the company could resurrect older GeForce GPUs or retrofit them with the latest AI‑driven DLSS technology to alleviate current supply constraints and soaring prices. He described the idea as "good" but warned...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 7, 2026
Space Force Moves to Standardize Satellites with ‘Handle 2.0’ Contract
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Falcon ExoDynamics a $3.3 million contract to develop Handle 2.0, an upgraded modular interface that links satellite buses and payloads. The effort builds on the original Handle prototype demonstrated on the 2022 Slingshot 1 mission and aims...
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 7, 2026
How to Eliminate IT Blind Spots in the Modern, AI-Driven Enterprise
Enterprises that rely heavily on AI and multi‑cloud environments are confronting new security blind spots that stem from dynamic agent behavior, data‑poisoning, and mis‑configurations. Experts advise CSOs to shift from reactive defenses to unified visibility that normalizes telemetry across AI...
By CSO Online
News•Jan 7, 2026
Mundial Media Inks Exclusive U.S. Publisher Partnership with Grupo Reforma
Mundial Media has secured an exclusive U.S. digital advertising partnership with Grupo Reforma, bringing the Mexican publisher’s premium titles—Reforma, El Norte and Mural—into its AI‑driven, privacy‑first platform. The deal gives U.S. brands access to high‑engagement Spanish‑language and bicultural audiences through...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 7, 2026
Elon Musk’s 10,000 Starship Annual Production Target: Demand Drivers and Infrastructure Imperatives
Elon Musk has set a target of producing 10,000 Starships per year, a rate that translates to roughly 27 launches each day. The ambition hinges on three primary demand drivers: massive cargo shipments for Mars colonization, ultra‑fast point‑to‑point Earth transport,...
By New Space Economy
News•Jan 7, 2026
HawkSoft and Sonant Announce Voice AI Integration for Independent Insurance Agencies
Insurance agency management platform HawkSoft has partnered with Sonant to embed its voice AI directly into the HawkSoft system. The integration enables 24/7 call logging, automatic task creation, and note transcription without leaving the AMS. Sonant’s insurance‑specific AI understands P&C...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 7, 2026
StackAdapt’s 2026 Programmatic Advertising Report Finds Top Marketers Are 4X More Likely to Consolidate Tech and Use AI to Drive...
StackAdapt’s 2026 State of Programmatic Advertising report shows marketers who consolidate tech and adopt AI outperform peers. Survey of 484 senior marketers and data from over 6,000 advertisers reveals top performers are four times more likely to unify platforms. While...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 7, 2026
5 FDA Decisions to Watch in the First Quarter of 2026
Eli Lilly’s oral GLP‑1 candidate orforglipron received a national‑priority voucher, accelerating its FDA review and threatening Novo Nordisk’s recent oral Wegovy launch. Disc Medicine’s repurposed schizophrenia drug bitopertin is on the brink of approval for the rare disease erythropoietic protoporphyria,...
By BioPharma Dive
News•Jan 7, 2026
Cloudfy Launches Enterprise V5: Modular, API-First, and Ready for the AI-Driven Future of B2B Commerce
Cloudfy has unveiled Enterprise v5, a next‑generation B2B eCommerce platform built on a modular, API‑first architecture. The solution offers pre‑built functional modules and a headless API layer for rapid integration with ERP, CMS and custom front‑ends. It introduces an open...
By AiThority
News•Jan 7, 2026
Universal Robots and Robotiq Showcase Next-Generation Palletizing Solution at CES 2026 in Collaboration with Siemens
Universal Robots, Robotiq and Siemens unveiled a next‑generation palletizing solution at CES 2026, pairing the UR20 collaborative robot with Robotiq's PAL Ready cell and Siemens' new Digital Twin Composer software. The system demonstrates real‑time photorealistic digital‑twin visualization alongside live hardware, using...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Jan 7, 2026
Inside the Agentic Operating System Code and Theory Is Teasing at CES
Marketers are rapidly adopting AI, yet most have not re‑engineered workflows to capture its full value. At CES, Code and Theory unveiled The Machine, an agentic AI operating system that embeds automation and intelligence into existing marketing stacks instead of...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 7, 2026
MagicLab Made Its Debut at CES, Accelerating Global Development
MagicLab made its first appearance at CES, unveiling three flagship robots: the full‑size humanoid Gen1, the high‑dynamic biped Z1, and the head‑tail coordinated quadruped MagicDog. Gen1 demonstrated multi‑unit collaboration in a home‑appliance plant, featuring 42 active degrees of freedom and...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Jan 7, 2026
PI at Photonics West: See the Latest Advancements in Nanopositioning Automation and Precision Motion Control
At Photonics West in San Francisco, PI showcased its latest nanopositioning, automation and precision‑motion‑control technologies aimed at scaling high‑tech manufacturing by 2026. The company highlighted solutions for silicon‑photonic chip production, wafer testing, laser micro‑machining, high‑resolution 3D printing, satellite communications, super‑resolution microscopy...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Jan 7, 2026
Banks Are Banks, Non Banks Are Non Banks, Clarifies the American Fintech Council
The American Fintech Council (AFC) sent a joint letter to the FDIC, CFPB, FTC, OCC and the Federal Reserve asserting that banks and non‑banks must be regulated distinctly. The council emphasized that “banks are banks, and non‑banks are non‑banks” to...
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Jan 7, 2026
DexRobot Shines at CES 2026, Showcasing Its Flagship DexHand021 Pro and Closed-Loop Dexterous Solution
DexRobot debuted its DexHand021 Pro at CES 2026, presenting a 22‑DOF, 50 N payload robotic hand with millisecond tactile feedback and edge‑AI compute. The system includes the DexCap exoskeleton, capturing 65 DOF motion at 1000 Hz for closed‑loop skill learning. Priced between $14,000 and $28,000,...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Jan 7, 2026
New Solution Gives Real-Time Insight Into Bot Traffic
Hydrolix has launched Bot Insights, a real‑time platform that detects, classifies, and alerts on every bot, crawler, and AI agent accessing a website. The solution ingests massive bot traffic data in seconds, offering full‑fidelity analytics without sampling and supporting long‑term...
By BetaNews
News•Jan 7, 2026
Why Legitimate Bot Traffic Is a Growing Security Blind Spot
Security teams have long focused on blocking malicious bots, but legitimate bots now account for a sizable portion of web traffic, exceeding 50%. Search‑engine crawlers, AI scrapers, and emerging agentic AI interact with applications at scale, creating hidden security, performance,...
By HackRead
News•Jan 7, 2026
Cyberattacks Likely Part of Military Operation in Venezuela
The United States’ Jan. 3 raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was accompanied by a sudden power and internet outage in Caracas, prompting speculation that U.S. Cyber Command and other agencies deployed offensive cyber capabilities. President Trump hinted at "a...
By Dark Reading
News•Jan 7, 2026
Is There a Future for Unattended Retail?
The episode explores the promise and pitfalls of unattended retail, tracing its evolution from vending machines to modern cashierless concepts like Amazon Go and German smart stores. Guest Don Apgar highlights three core challenges—safety, security, and customer service—that have limited...
By Payments Journal
News•Jan 7, 2026
Jan. 7, 1610: Galileo Sees Four Moons of Jupiter
On January 7, 1610 Galileo Galilei turned his refined telescope toward Jupiter and recorded three luminous points that would soon be recognized as moons. Within a week he identified a fourth body, and by January 15 he concluded all four orbited the planet,...
By Astronomy Magazine
News•Jan 7, 2026
SpaceX’s IPO Will Make Space Investment Far Less Niche
The article argues that space investment is shedding its niche status as the sector becomes essential infrastructure for broader economic activity. A potential SpaceX IPO, whether in 2026 or later, is highlighted as a catalyst that could shift capital toward...
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 7, 2026
DDoSia Powers Affiliate-Driven Hacktivist Attacks
Pro‑Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) has been leveraging a volunteer‑distributed DDoS platform called DDoSia to launch coordinated attacks against government, media and institutional websites linked to Ukraine and Western interests. The tool, now modular and cross‑platform, enables participants with minimal technical...
By Dark Reading
News•Jan 7, 2026
Hackers Using Malicious QR Codes for Phishing via HTML Table
Hackers have begun delivering phishing QR codes without images, rendering them as dense HTML tables of colored cells. This “imageless” approach evades traditional image‑analysis scanners that look for bitmap QR patterns. Recipients who scan the codes are directed to credential‑harvesting...
By GBHackers On Security
News•Jan 7, 2026
GSK, Ionis Achieve Functional Cure in Hepatitis B Studies, Clearing Path for FDA Run
GSK and Ionis reported that their antisense oligonucleotide bepirovirsen achieved a functional cure in the Phase III B‑Well 1 and B‑Well 2 chronic hepatitis B trials. The drug met its primary efficacy endpoint and all ranked secondary endpoints, showing statistically significant cure rates without...
By BioSpace
News•Jan 7, 2026
Critical N8n Vulnerability (CVSS 10.0) Allows Unauthenticated Attackers to Take Full Control
Researchers disclosed CVE‑2026‑21858, a CVSS 10.0 flaw in n8n that lets unauthenticated attackers hijack any instance via a Content‑Type confusion in webhook handling. The vulnerability affects all versions up to 1.65.0 and was patched in version 1.121.0 released November 18, 2025. It joins three...
By The Hacker News
News•Jan 7, 2026
What Ads in LLMs Could Look Like by 2027
Panelists at ADWEEK’s CES 2026 forum warned that ads embedded in large language model (LLM) responses will appear by 2027. They envision paid placements, commerce links, and conversational prompts replacing traditional banner and link ads. Auction‑style pricing is expected to carry...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 7, 2026
DAISCH Participation at CES 2026 - Advanced IMU Motion Sensor Technology Showcase
Daisch, a leading IMU motion‑sensor maker, announced its participation in CES 2026, showcasing its latest full‑temperature‑range calibrated sensors. The company will exhibit at Booth #10248 in the Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility hall from Jan 6‑9, targeting autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots, and consumer...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Jan 7, 2026
United Semiconductors, Aegis Aerospace Partner on In-Space Manufacturing Platform
United Semiconductors and Aegis Aerospace announced a joint effort to launch an in‑space manufacturing platform for semiconductor materials. The partnership will move United's ISS‑tested processes onto Aegis' Advanced Materials Manufacturing Platform, with a demonstration slated for the ISS by late...
By Payload
News•Jan 7, 2026
SponsorBase Launches Operating System for Content Creators
SponsorBase has unveiled an operating system built specifically for professional content creators to run their sponsorship businesses. The all‑in‑one platform replaces spreadsheets and disparate tools with a drag‑and‑drop Kanban tracker, AI‑powered contract analysis, automated deliverable reminders, and real‑time earnings analytics....
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 7, 2026
The Next Great Space Race: Building Data Centers in Orbit
Tech giants Google, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are racing to develop orbital AI data centers powered by solar‑panel‑equipped satellites. Prototypes are slated for testing by 2027, while experts warn that operational facilities are still years away due to power, radiation,...
By Phys.org - Space News
News•Jan 7, 2026
Liferay Earns ISO 42001 Certification for AI Management System, Demonstrating Its Commitment to Responsible AI
Liferay announced that its AI Management System (AIMS) has earned ISO/IEC 42001 certification, positioning the firm among the first global companies to meet the emerging standard for responsible AI. The certification confirms that AIMS satisfies rigorous criteria for risk management,...
By AiThority
News•Jan 7, 2026
Aevi and Verifone Team to Scale In-Person Payments
Aevi and Verifone announced a strategic partnership that unifies in‑person payment orchestration with Verifone’s global device portfolio. The joint solution offers a single, acquirer‑agnostic integration for all Verifone terminals across EMEA and North America. It provides multi‑acquire capabilities, local European...
By Finextra
News•Jan 7, 2026
Jazz’s Ziihera Shows ‘Practice-Changing’ Efficacy in Stomach Cancer
Jazz Pharmaceuticals reported Phase III HERIZON‑GEA‑01 data showing its bispecific HER2 antibody Ziihera dramatically improves outcomes in first‑line HER2‑positive gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma. In a trial of more than 900 patients, Ziihera combined with chemotherapy cut the risk of progression or death by...
By BioSpace
News•Jan 7, 2026
Cross-Chain Liquidity Solutions: The Next Stage of DeFi Evolution
DeFi’s biggest hurdle—liquidity fragmentation across Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, and other chains—is prompting the rise of cross‑chain liquidity solutions. These systems coordinate pools via messaging, smart contracts, and relayers, allowing traders to access deep, unified liquidity without moving assets through risky...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 7, 2026
NASA Seeks to Accelerate Development of Habitable Worlds Observatory
NASA awarded three‑year, fixed‑price contracts to seven companies to study critical technologies for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), a flagship space telescope slated for a 2040s launch. The studies cover mirror coatings, micro‑thruster propulsion, and on‑orbit servicing, while evaluating six‑meter...
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 7, 2026
FAST J0139+4328 Is a Low-Surface-Brightness Galaxy, Deep Imaging Reveals
Deep optical imaging by Serbian and Russian astronomers has revealed that the neutral hydrogen cloud FAST J0139+4328 is actually a low‑surface‑brightness dwarf galaxy. Using the 1.4 m Milanković and 0.6 m Nedeljković telescopes, the team detected a faint stellar counterpart offset by...
By Phys.org - Space News
News•Jan 7, 2026
New Veeam Vulnerabilities Expose Backup Servers to RCE Attacks
Veeam announced security updates for its Backup & Replication suite, addressing a critical remote code execution flaw (CVE‑2025‑59470) that impacts version 13.0.1.180 and earlier builds. The patch, delivered in version 13.0.1.1071 on January 6, also resolves two additional high‑ and medium‑severity...
By BleepingComputer
News•Jan 7, 2026
Pfizer Searches for Novel Tumor-Selective Antigens With $865M+ Cartography Pact
Pfizer has signed a multi‑year agreement with Cartography Biosciences to discover novel tumor‑selective antigens. The deal provides up to $65 million in upfront and near‑term milestones, with potential total payments exceeding $800 million if all options are exercised. Cartography will employ its...
By BioSpace