Viruses in the Gut May Help Prevent Blood Sugar Spikes, Mouse Study Hints
A mouse study published in Cell Host & Microbe shows that the gut virome—primarily bacteriophages—modulates carbohydrate metabolism by activating immune pathways. Disrupting the virome with an antiviral cocktail caused sharp blood‑glucose spikes in mice fed a high‑carbohydrate diet, while enriching viral loads improved glucose tolerance without changing bacterial communities. The effect is mediated by T‑cell uptake of viral particles, which triggers proteins that limit glucose entry into the bloodstream. Human intestinal organoids reproduced the same virome‑immune‑metabolism interaction, suggesting relevance beyond rodents.
Google Folds Gemini Deeper Into DV360 to Automate Media Planning and Buying
Google is embedding its Gemini AI model as the core operating layer of Display & Video 360, turning the DSP into an automated media buyer. Marketers can now upload a media plan and have Gemini generate a complete campaign setup, streamlining...
Kusari and CNCF: Advancing Software Supply Chain Security for Cloud Native Projects
Kusari announced a partnership with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to give CNCF projects free access to its AI‑powered security tool, Kusari Inspector. The platform embeds code‑review and dependency‑management checks directly into pull‑request workflows, offering visualized dependency graphs, risk...
Microsoft Warns IRS Phishing Hits 29,000 Users, Deploys RMM Malware
Microsoft’s threat intel team warned that a tax‑season phishing campaign compromised 29,000 users in 10,000 organizations, primarily in the United States. The attacks impersonated the IRS and used QR‑code, CPA, and cryptocurrency lures to deliver malicious links and attachments. Many...
US-Made Naval Drone with Active Warhead Washes up in Northern Turkey, Gets Blown Up
A U.S.-manufactured AEGIR‑W unmanned surface vessel washed ashore on Turkey's Black Sea coast on March 20, 2026, and was found fully operational with an active warhead. Turkish Navy explosive ordnance disposal teams towed the 10‑meter drone offshore and detonated it...
'Zombie' Cells Created by Transplanting Genomes Into Dead Bacteria
Researchers have revived a dead bacterial cell by transplanting the complete genome of Mycoplasma capricolum into a chemically inactivated host, creating the first living synthetic bacterium assembled from non‑living parts. The experiment builds on the 2010 landmark where a synthetic...
Commission Approves French State Aid Scheme for Production of Renewable and Low-Carbon Hydrogen
The European Commission has cleared a French state‑aid programme that will fund up to 1 GW of renewable and low‑carbon hydrogen electrolysers, starting with a €797 million, 200 MW tender. The scheme offers 15‑year fixed premiums to offset the higher electricity cost of...
Commission Approves €5 Billion Danish State Aid Scheme to Support Offshore Wind Energy
The European Commission has cleared a €5 billion Danish state‑aid scheme to back offshore wind development. The 20‑year program funds two projects—Hesselø (≥0.8 GW) and North Sea I Mid (≥1 GW)—which together could generate about 7.8 TWh annually, roughly a quarter of Denmark’s electricity output....
STAT+: Pfizer’s Lyme Vaccine Shows Efficacy, but Misses Key Statistical Hurdle
Pfizer and Valneva’s experimental Lyme vaccine cut the risk of infection by more than 70% in a late‑stage trial, offering a promising preventive tool for a disease that affects roughly 476,000 Americans annually. The study, however, missed its primary statistical...
Open Source Maintainers Are Drowning in AI-Generated Security Noise - $12.5 Million Is Being Deployed to Throw Them a Lifeline
The Linux Foundation announced a $12.5 million grant from Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI to bolster open‑source security through Alpha‑Omega and the OpenSSF. The funding targets the flood of AI‑generated vulnerability reports that are overwhelming project maintainers with low‑context...
Nepal Plans to Boost Hydropower Exports to India Amid Rising Energy Demand
Nepal's state‑run Nepal Electricity Authority announced plans to nearly double its hydropower exports to India to about 1.1 GW this summer. The target could rise to roughly 2.5 GW within two years as new transmission lines come online. The move responds to...
Alstef Group Unveils AI-Powered Autonomous Industrial Vehicle Ahead of LogiMAT
Alstef Group announced an AI‑powered autonomous industrial vehicle (AIV) ahead of LogiMAT 2026, featuring a real‑time "perception bubble" that continuously maps its surroundings. The system uses onboard cameras and AI models to classify objects, adjust speed, routing, and docking, and...
AbbaDox AI Helps Imaging Centers Save Thousands of Staff Hours
AbbaDox introduced operational AI across its CareFlow platform, automating order intake, patient scheduling, and follow‑up coordination for outpatient imaging centers. Its FaxAI module classifies and extracts data from faxed physician orders, processing them 6.6 times faster than manual methods while...
Artificial Intelligence | Can AI Really Coach Like a Human? This Live Experiment Put It to the Test
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman predicts most white‑collar tasks will be automated within 12‑18 months, sparking debate over AI’s ability to replace human coaches. HR Grapevine witnessed a live experiment where myAgentsAI’s AI avatar "Maya" coached an actor‑played manager alongside...
STAT+: Apogee Therapeutics Data Show Long-Acting Eczema Drug Induced Relief with Less Frequent Injections
Apogee Therapeutics reported that its experimental long‑acting eczema biologic, zumilokibart, achieved sustained skin‑clearance in a mid‑stage trial. Seventy‑five percent of patients receiving the drug every three months and 85 % of those dosed every six months maintained an EASI‑75 response after...
IntraBio Reports the US FDA’s sNDA Submission of Aqneursa for Ataxia-Telangiectasia
IntraBio has filed a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) with the U.S. FDA seeking approval of Aqneursa (levacetylleucine) for Ataxia‑Telangiectasia (A‑T). The filing is supported by a Phase III trial that met its primary and key secondary endpoints and demonstrated a...
This Serial Entrepreneur Wants The FDA To Approve His AI Doctor
Serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky is launching Certuma, a startup aiming to create the first FDA‑approved AI doctor. The company raised $10 million in seed funding at a $60 million valuation and is targeting 25 low‑risk conditions such as UTIs and sore throats....
Tycoon 2FA Fully Operational Despite Law Enforcement Takedown
Tycoon 2FA, a subscription‑based phishing‑as‑a‑service platform, continued operating at full capacity despite an international takedown effort. The service was responsible for 62 % of Microsoft‑blocked phishing attempts in 2025 and generated over 30 million malicious emails each month, affecting roughly half a million...
Türkiye’s Solar Capacity Surpasses 25 GW
Turkey’s solar capacity hit 25.8 GW by the end of January 2026, marking a record start to the year. The nation added roughly 4.7 GW of solar in 2025, pushing the share of solar in total generation from 0.1% in 2014 to...
Gautam Solar Breaks Into Global Top 30, Earns Prestigious ‘Grade A’ Classification by Wood Mackenzie
Gautam Solar has entered Wood Mackenzie’s 2025 Global Top 30 solar module manufacturers and earned the elite Grade A classification, marking it as one of the world’s most reliable and bankable producers. The ranking places the Indian firm alongside dominant Chinese manufacturers,...
GoWit & Futura DDB Form Exclusive Retail Media Partnership in the Adriatic
GoWit and Futura DDB have announced an exclusive retail‑media partnership covering Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Macedonia. The deal combines GoWit’s AI‑first omnichannel commerce platform with Futura DDB’s regional creative and market expertise, delivering a unified dashboard for multi‑market campaign...
Why AI Is Becoming Essential for Financial Services Call Centres
Financial institutions are deploying AI‑powered tools to augment call‑center agents, delivering real‑time information, response suggestions, and automation of routine tasks. This technology addresses the sector’s regulatory complexity and product personalization demands, enabling faster, more accurate, and tailored customer interactions. While...
Training Room Partners UBU to Launch AI-Powered Training Platform
Training Room Online (TTRO) has teamed with AI‑driven metaverse firm UBU to launch Red Horizon, an immersive 3‑D simulation platform for corporate leaders, university students and early‑career programs. The system combines TTRO’s simulation pedigree with UBU’s virtual environment, featuring an...
Cleared for Takeoff - Virgin Atlantic's AI Concierge Lands with Observability Built In
Virgin Atlantic has launched a beta AI Concierge chatbot built on OpenAI models and integrated with Datadog’s LLM observability to extend cabin‑crew service into the digital realm. The airline limited the bot’s scope, enforced English‑only responses, and blocked code or...
PointClickCare Launches Next-Gen EHR for Practice Groups
PointClickCare unveiled a next‑generation electronic health record tailored for practice groups, tightly integrated with its flagship post‑acute care platform used by over 30,000 organizations. The solution embeds AI‑driven Ambient Scribe and clinical risk insights directly into physician workflows, promising measurable...
Vanta Introduces Automation Tools to Streamline Enterprise Compliance
Vanta unveiled a new suite of automation tools aimed at streamlining enterprise compliance and privacy management. The offering introduces three context‑aware agents—Compliance, Third‑party Risk Management, and Customer Trust—that continuously monitor evidence, assess vendor risk, and automate security query responses. New...
Zoom Rejuvenates Its Platform and the Company with New Agentic AI Capabilities
Zoom unveiled a suite of agentic AI tools that embed workflow automation into meetings, calls, chat, and contact‑center interactions. The rollout adds no‑code AI agents that act across third‑party platforms such as Salesforce, Slack and ServiceNow, plus AI‑powered Docs, Sheets...
Bazaarvoice Research Finds Consumers Are Using AI to Help Edit Reviews, Not Ghostwrite
New Bazaarvoice research shows 23% of consumer product reviewers use AI tools, primarily as grammar and tone assistants rather than ghostwriters. While 64% consider AI‑assisted reviews less authentic, only 16% feel confident distinguishing AI‑generated content from human writing. The study...
Executive Roundtable: The AI Infrastructure Credibility Test
The Data Center Frontier roundtable examined how AI‑driven data‑center expansion must earn a social license amid rising public scrutiny over energy, water, and land use. Panelists from construction, climate advocacy, transformer manufacturing, and networking highlighted transparency, sustainable resource management, and...
Rail Vision’s MainLine System Delivers Strong Performance in India
Rail Vision Ltd. completed a two‑month proof‑of‑concept of its MainLine AI‑integrated sensing system with a major Indian rail operator and partner Sujan Industries. The trial demonstrated real‑time object detection and classification up to 2,000 meters, confirming operational stability across varied conditions....
T-Mobile US Tees up Private 5G for MLB In-Game Calls
Major League Baseball will use T‑Mobile’s private 5G networks to power its Automated Ball‑Strike (ABS) challenge system for the 2024 season. The operator has deployed the network across all 30 stadiums, enabling high‑speed transmission of Hawk‑Eye camera data to verify...
AI Agent Traffic Jumps 1,300% as ChannelEngine Introduces AI Attribute Builder
AI‑driven traffic to retail sites surged 1,300% in the past year, signaling a shift toward agentic commerce. Morgan Stanley forecasts autonomous agents could shape up to $385 billion of U.S. ecommerce spend by 2030. At Shoptalk Spring 2026, ChannelEngine announced its...
Watch Live: First Celeste Launch
On 25 March 2026, ESA’s Celeste low‑Earth‑orbit positioning, navigation and timing (LEO‑PNT) mission will lift off aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron from New Zealand, deploying its first two demonstration satellites. The launch marks the inaugural step of an 11‑satellite constellation designed to test...
Global Crackdown Dismantles 4 Botnets Behind Major DDoS Attacks
International law enforcement agencies, led by the US DOJ and FBI, dismantled four major botnets—Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid and Mossad—that had compromised over three million IoT devices. At their peak, the networks could generate 30 terabits per second of traffic, powering some...
Through a Partnership with Ban Mao Green Coating, Swancor Launches Its CleaVER Solution in the Construction Sector
Swancor Regener has teamed with Ban Mao Green Coating to launch the Eco‑Stone Circular Economy Series, using CleaVER® technology to chemically degrade wind‑turbine thermoset waste into high‑purity oligomers. The recovered oligomers are blended at 11 % into Ban Mao’s construction coatings,...
10 Things Keeping IT Leaders up at Night
CIOs are juggling long‑standing uptime worries with a surge of AI‑related challenges. Cybersecurity, especially third‑party risk, remains the top nightmare, while data security and privacy grow more complex as AI deployments accelerate. Leaders must embed AI responsibly at scale, align...
Tech Giants Cough up as ASA Seeks Funding Overhaul
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is overhauling its funding model after decades of reliance on legacy media agencies. A new taskforce, backed by Google and Meta, will design a sustainable financing framework to match the digital‑first ad market that...
The 10-Second Hack to Make Your Geriatric Roku Feel Brand New Again
CNET outlines a quick, ten‑second remote shortcut and other easy steps to revive lagging Roku TVs. Users can perform a system restart via the Settings menu, use a hidden remote sequence, uninstall problematic channels, or execute a full factory reset....
“Mid-Life Health Crisis” Hits Millennials and Gen-Xers as Private Scans Soar
Britain’s mid‑life adults (30‑59) now account for 56% of all private diagnostic scans, a six‑fold increase since 2022, driven largely by chronic pain and preventive health concerns. With NHS waiting lists exceeding two million and delays over six weeks, private...
UIDAI Launches Bug Bounty Programme to Enhance Aadhaar Security
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has launched a structured bug bounty program to harden the public‑facing components of the Aadhaar ecosystem. Twenty vetted ethical hackers will probe the UIDAI website, the myAadhaar portal and the Secure QR Code...
The ‘Nail Test’: Why This $54 Billion Innovation Is Terrifying Western Auto Executives
BYD demonstrated its second‑generation Blade battery surviving a six‑inch nail puncture without entering thermal runaway, contrasting sharply with a conventional NCM cell that erupted into a 500 °C fire. The dramatic nail test, staged for European industrial executives, highlighted the Blade’s...
The AI ‘Hivemind’: Why so Many Student Essays Sound Alike
Professor Bruce Maxwell noticed that student essays in his online computer‑vision class sounded eerily similar, prompting a deeper investigation. A research team led by former student Liwei Jiang tested over 70 large language models—including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen and...
Phakamo Tech Champions Integrated GRC Approach at ITWeb Security Summit 2026
Phakamo Tech announced its sponsorship of the ITWeb Security Summit in Johannesburg, scheduled for 2‑3 June 2026, where it will present an integrated cyber security, governance and risk management (GRC) framework. The company argues that African organisations must align security controls...
Japanese City Taps Fujitsu for Public Transport Planning
Maebashi city selected Fujitsu's new traffic simulation system to design a regional public transport plan, aiming to optimise bus routes amid demographic shifts and driver shortages. The system, built for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, can model...
Hive Launches AI Cloud Platform in Asunción, Paraguay
Hive Digital Technologies has launched an AI‑focused cloud platform from its new Tier III data center in Asunción, Paraguay. The service already powers large‑language‑model research for Columbia University, showcasing low‑latency connectivity between North and South America. Leveraging the country’s abundant hydroelectric...
Nintendo Reportedly Planning Revised Switch 2 Model with Replaceable Battery in EU
Jest, the first marketplace for SMS and RCS messaging apps, has launched the Jest Games Fund to back studios creating games for the RCS messaging ecosystem. The program offers three funding tiers—$40,000 Explore, up to $200,000 Scale, and up to...
Open Banking Is Growing in South Africa – but Not for Everyone
South Africa’s open‑banking ecosystem is expanding, driven by a market‑led approach that has enabled fintechs such as Yoco, Lulalend and MTN MoMo to reach new customers. A Reserve Bank working paper warns that this model favours middle‑aged, educated users and leaves...
Discovery Bank Drives Super App Ambition with AI, Integration
Discovery Bank is transforming its mobile platform into a "super app" that merges banking with health, insurance, investment and lifestyle services across the Discovery Group. AI underpins the experience, delivering a virtual financial assistant, real‑time fraud alerts and personalised nudges...
Datagrid Signs Power Supply Deal with Mercury for Planned 280MW Data Center Campus in Invercargill, New Zealand
Datagrid New Zealand has secured a 15‑year, 140 MW power purchase agreement with Mercury to fuel the first phase of its 280 MW AI‑focused data‑center campus in Invercargill. The deal guarantees roughly 1.2 TWh of renewable electricity annually, providing price certainty and a low‑carbon...