Vietnam: Cybersecurity Enforcement Plan Enhances Digital Security
Vietnam's Prime Minister issued an action plan to enforce the country's Cybersecurity Law, outlining tasks, deadlines, and responsibilities for ministries and local authorities. The plan mandates a nationwide awareness campaign, specialized training for officials, and the creation of detailed guiding regulations by July 1. It also requires ministries to align existing procedures with the law and to submit compliance reviews by early April, with a consolidated report due June 15. From 2026, the Ministry of Public Security will monitor critical information systems and enforce compliance.
NLC Partnership Aims to Help Local Govt. In Deploying Drones
The National League of Cities (NLC) has partnered with drone‑technology firm BRINC to create a nationwide program that helps municipalities launch drone‑as‑first‑responder (DFR) services linked to 911 calls. BRINC will handle site selection, FAA waivers, installation, training and dashboard reporting,...
Saildrone and Woolpert Deploy Autonomous Surface Vessel for NOAA Seafloor Mapping
Saildrone and Woolpert have teamed up to collect high‑resolution bathymetric data for NOAA around the Mariana Islands using a 20‑meter autonomous surface vessel, the Saildrone Surveyor. The unmanned platform began mapping a 13,000‑square‑nautical‑mile area of the northwestern Pacific this month,...
Salesforce Partners Double Down on ROI as ‘Agentic Enterprise’ Push Accelerates
Salesforce’s Australian‑New Zealand partner network is pivoting toward quantifiable return‑on‑investment as AI‑driven "agentic enterprise" initiatives gain momentum. Executives from OSF Digital and Xenai Digital highlighted enterprise demand for clear business outcomes, while Salesforce reports that 70% of Agentforce AI deployments...
Reddit Partners with Pacvue to Expand Ad Access
Reddit has partnered with ad‑tech firm Pacvue to let advertisers buy and track Reddit campaigns directly within Pacvue’s management platform. The integration adds Reddit to Pacvue’s suite, which already supports over 100 retail media networks and serves more than 70,000...
Space Force Overhauls Buying Structure with New Mission Portfolios
The U.S. Space Force is introducing Portfolio Acquisition Executives (PAEs) to manage groups of systems tied to specific missions rather than individual programs. Four initial portfolios—infrastructure, battle management, satellite communications/positioning, navigation and timing, and missile warning and tracking—will give PAEs...
YouTube Expands Livestream Gifts to Users in Korea
YouTube has rolled out its Jewels livestream gifting system to Korean users, following earlier launches in the United States and Canada. Jewels are an in‑app currency that lets viewers purchase digital stickers, which appear in chat and generate Rubies for...
Report Finds Reddit Ads Drive Strong Performance for Retailers
Fospha’s State of Retail Commerce 2026 report shows Reddit’s influence on retail conversions surged in 2025, delivering an 82% lift in ROAS when Amazon sales are accounted for and a 257% increase in revenue attributed to the platform. The study...
Samples From Asteroid Ryugu Contain All Five Nucleobases
In December 2020 Hayabusa2 returned 20 mg of Ryugu dust to Earth, and a Japanese‑U.S. team has now identified all five DNA/RNA nucleobases in the material. Using a refined extraction protocol and high‑resolution mass spectrometry, the researchers detected adenine, guanine, cytosine,...
Unsloth AI Releases Unsloth Studio: A Local No-Code Interface For High-Performance LLM Fine-Tuning With 70% Less VRAM Usage
Unsloth AI launched Unsloth Studio, an open‑source, no‑code local web UI that simplifies LLM fine‑tuning. Built on hand‑written Triton back‑propagation kernels, the platform delivers up to twice the training speed and cuts VRAM consumption by roughly 70 % without sacrificing accuracy....
Ultrathin BiFeO₃ Breaks the 30 Nm Limit, Delivering Fourfold Stronger Piezoelectricity
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have engineered ultrathin bismuth ferrite (BiFeO₃) films that break the longstanding 30 nm thickness barrier, delivering a piezoelectric coefficient of about 30 pm/V—four times higher than conventional BiFeO₃. The breakthrough relies on stabilizing a metastable...
5 Of Reddit's Funniest iOS 26 Roasts (And 5 Fixes For The Issues That Sparked Them)
Apple’s iOS 26 rollout has sparked a wave of Reddit‑driven roasts, highlighting bugs ranging from invisible keyboards to erratic home‑screen icons and the controversial Liquid Glass UI. Users reported missing letters, mis‑registered keystrokes, app‑folder placement glitches, and pervasive system lag that...
Island Launches Australian Operations
Island, the enterprise‑browser firm, has launched its Australian operations from a new Melbourne office, appointing Nick Lennon as managing director for Australia and New Zealand. The move follows growing global momentum and aims to capture the region’s strong enterprise sector. Island’s...
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
Meta announced that Horizon Worlds will be removed from the Quest store on March 31 and fully shut down on June 15, leaving only a mobile‑only version. The decision follows a February round of Reality Labs cuts that slashed 10%...
Robots and AI Are Tackling some of the Biggest Challenges in Construction
The U.S. construction industry generates about $2.1 trillion annually, yet over three‑quarters of projects face delays due to fragmented monitoring and a skilled‑labor shortage. Virginia Tech and Procon Consulting have created “Mario,” a coordinated system of robots, drones, AI sensing, and computer...
Wendy’s Seeks An Influencer for New Chief Tasting Officer Role
Wendy’s announced a contest to appoint its first Chief Tasting Officer, a brand‑ambassador role paid $100,000. The company asks applicants to post a one‑minute video on TikTok or Instagram using #WendysCTOContest, highlighting personal taste and creativity. The posting emphasizes a...
Nano 3D Metallic Parts Turn Out to Be Surprisingly Strong Despite Defects
Caltech researchers have developed a two‑photon lithography process that fabricates nano‑scale metallic lattices with up to 90 % shrinkage, yielding components smaller than 50 µm. Despite containing pores, grain boundaries and other defects, the resulting structures demonstrate strengths up to 50 times...
Top UEBA Use Cases in Enterprise Cybersecurity
User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) leverages machine‑learning to model normal activity across users, devices and applications, then flags deviations that indicate threats. By ingesting logs, configuration files and network telemetry, UEBA can spot lateral movement, compromised credentials, insider abuse,...
Biglaw’s AI Reckoning May Be Coming For Lawyer Headcount
Biglaw firms are reassessing staffing models as artificial intelligence reshapes legal work. Unnamed partners report hiring freezes and deliberate reductions in junior associate and support roles. The shift reflects AI’s ability to automate high‑leverage tasks, prompting firms to consider smaller...
CISA Official Advises Agencies Not to Get Too Hung up on Who Takes Lead in Critical Infrastructure Sectors
Acting CISA director Nick Andersen told an Auburn University event that agencies should stop rigidly adhering to the traditional sector risk‑management agency (SRMA) designations when engaging with critical infrastructure. Instead, the lead should be the entity with the strongest relationship...
Carbon Nanotube 'Black Paint' Absorbs Terahertz Radiation to Cut 6G Interference
Researchers at Skoltech and KTH have developed an ultrathin carbon‑nanotube black paint that absorbs terahertz radiation, addressing interference in emerging 6G photonic circuits. The coating, applied via aerosol chemical vapor deposition, can be tuned from 2 to 53 nm, with the...
Zymeworks to Present Clinical and Preclinical Data on ADC Programs Including Novel RAS ADC Platform at AACR Annual Meeting
Zymeworks will present Phase 1 data on its folate‑receptor‑alpha ADC ZW191 and preclinical results for a novel pan‑RAS inhibitor ADC platform at the AACR Annual Meeting. The oral presentation will detail dose‑escalation safety and efficacy in advanced solid tumours, while...
SAP Launches New AI, Integrated Travel and Expense Enhancements
SAP Concur is embedding its Joule AI assistant into Microsoft 365 Copilot, letting employees create expense reports, book travel and query policies without leaving familiar apps. Two new Joule agents – Expense Automation and Expense Pre‑Submit Audit – automate report...
ORIC® Pharmaceuticals Announces Preclinical Rinzimetostat (ORIC-944) Presentations at the 2026 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting
ORIC Pharmaceuticals announced that two preclinical abstracts on its PRC2‑targeting agent rinzimetostat (ORIC‑944) have been accepted for poster presentation at the 2026 AACR Annual Meeting. The data show rinzimetostat, an allosteric EED inhibitor, maintains potency against EZH1‑overexpressing complexes and key...
ArriVent to Present Two Preclinical Posters on the EGFR Inhibitor Firmonertinib and on the Novel Dual-Target MUC16/NaPi2b Tetravalent ADC ARR-002...
ArriVent BioPharma will showcase two preclinical posters at the 2026 AACR Annual Meeting, highlighting its EGFR inhibitor firmonertinib and the dual‑target tetravalent ADC ARR-002. Firmonertinib demonstrates high‑potency inhibition of both classical EGFR mutations and exon‑20 insertion variants, with strong brain...
Telecom Act Aides Say Partisanship Is Behind Lack of Universal Service, Broadband Access
John Windhausen, a staff architect of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, warned that partisan politics have stalled universal broadband, leaving up to 15% of Americans offline. He cited delays in the BEAD program and insufficient, poorly overseen Universal Service Fund financing...
Graphene Sensors Stay Stable in Liquids, Boosting Sensitivity up to 20 Times
Researchers at Penn State have unveiled a dual‑gate graphene field‑effect transistor that remains stable in liquid environments, eliminating the signal drift that hampers conventional sensors. By pairing a high‑capacitance top gate with a low‑capacitance bottom gate and adding a feedback...
A Single TV Setting Made My Picture Look Better with Almost No Effort
The article highlights Adaptive (or Auto) Brightness, a sensor‑driven TV setting that automatically tweaks screen luminance based on ambient light. Enabling it requires a few taps in the picture menu and can be labeled differently across brands. Users notice immediate...
Mistral AI Launches Forge to Help Companies Build Proprietary AI Models, Challenging Cloud Giants
Mistral AI unveiled Forge, an enterprise‑grade model training platform that lets organizations build, fine‑tune, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data. The service covers the full training lifecycle—from pre‑training on large internal datasets to reinforcement‑learning alignment—running on...
Mistral Bets on ‘Build-Your-Own AI’ as It Takes on OpenAI, Anthropic in the Enterprise
Mistral unveiled Forge, a platform that lets enterprises build and train custom AI models from scratch using their own data. Announced at Nvidia GTC, Forge differentiates itself by offering full model training rather than simple fine‑tuning or retrieval‑augmented generation. The...
Meet Your Next AI Analyst
GlobalData unveiled an upgraded AI analyst named Ava, now equipped with agentic capabilities that let it reason, plan, and execute end‑to‑end research tasks. The system can ingest and synthesize thousands of filings, patents, news items, and research papers in minutes,...
When Aflac Integrates AI Into Customer Service — And When It Doesn’t
Aflac has launched a six‑month generative‑AI pilot in its 450‑person call centers, where the system listens to calls and supplies agents with instant information, even updating addresses automatically. The initiative, involving about 300 employees from marketing, claims, finance and legal,...
New Digital ID for NSW
The New South Wales government has launched a digital birth certificate, accessible through the Service NSW app for residents aged 16 to 21 who hold a NSW photo ID. After a 2024 trial, the scheme is now statewide, offering a...
House Committee to Vote on NOAA Weather Radio Legislation
The U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee will markup the NOAA Weather Radio Modernization Act, introduced by Rep. Brian Babin. The bill authorizes $100 million for FY 2026 and an additional $20 million annually through 2031 to upgrade the 1,030‑station VHF network....
'Cybersecurity Vulnerability' Spurs FDA Recall of GE HealthCare Image Viewers
GE HealthCare has initiated a Class 2 FDA recall of its Centricity Universal Viewer after discovering a cybersecurity flaw that could expose user login credentials on local workstations. The vulnerability threatens system availability and data integrity, prompting an Urgent Medical Device...
From Journeys to Systems
Channel99 launched Paid Search Optimization, an AI‑driven feature that shifts B2B paid‑search measurement from clicks and CPC to cost‑per‑target‑account engaged. The capability surfaces waste, scores keywords and ad groups, and recommends budget reallocations, giving marketers and finance leaders clearer ROI....
What Federal IT Leaders Should Know About the Emerging National AI Policy Framework
At the end of 2025 the White House issued an executive order directing the Commerce Department, FCC and other agencies to develop a national AI policy framework, aiming to pre‑empt a fragmented landscape created by roughly 1,200 state AI bills...
New Igus Modular Autonomous Mobile Robot Platform Is Easy to Configure and Deploy
igus unveiled the ReBelMove Pro, a modular autonomous mobile robot designed for rapid, code‑free deployment across industrial settings. The compact AMR reaches 6.5 mph, lifts 550 lb, and can tow nearly 2,000 lb while mapping 2,150 sq ft in under three minutes using LIDAR, 3D...
Office of Space Commerce Weighing Options for TraCSS User Fees
The Office of Space Commerce is weighing user‑fee options for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) after a December executive order stripped the “free of direct user fees” language from Space Policy Directive 3. Officials say no decision has been...
Linux Phones Could Get Even Better with postmarketOS ‘Duranium’
postmarketOS announced Duranium, an immutable variant that stores the core system on read‑only partitions and rolls back failed updates automatically. The new model swaps the traditional apk package manager for Flatpak as the primary app installer, while also supporting coldbrew,...
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CYBERSECURITY: Gauteng Was Lucky with Latest 3.8TB Data Breach, but the Luck Will Run Out
A ransomware‑as‑a‑service group called XP95 exfiltrated roughly 3.8 TB of data from the Gauteng Provincial Government, exposing over 3.6 million files of IDs, passports and résumés. The breach originated from an unsecured, internet‑facing scanner server rather than a phishing error. More than...
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PATIENT CARE: National Health Laboratory Service System Out of Action, Causing ‘Massive Disruptions’ to Health Facilities
On 17 March the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) in South Africa lost access to its TrakCare information system after a power outage at its Johannesburg head office, revealing the absence of backup power. NHLS provides diagnostic pathology for over 80 %...
Get More on MasterClass: Here’s What You Need to Know to Save on a Subscription
MasterClass is promoting a tiered subscription model that starts at $10 per month for single‑user access and goes up to $20 per month for a Premium plan that supports up to six users. The platform offers more than 200 on‑demand...
China Ramps Up Scrutiny of Meta’s Acquisition of Manus
China’s National Development and Reform Commission has summoned Meta and Manus executives to question the $2 billion acquisition of the Singapore‑based AI startup. The move appears aimed at penalising individuals linked to the deal and may include exit bans preventing Manus...
Nvidia Updates Data Center Roadmap with Rosa CPU and Stacked Feynman GPUs — Optical NVLink, Groq LPUs with NVFP4, and...
Nvidia unveiled an updated data‑center roadmap at GTC, introducing the Rosa CPU and the die‑stacked Feynman GPU architecture slated for 2028. The plan layers new Groq LPUs—LP30, LP35, and LP40—with NVFP4 support, while NVLink switches will debut co‑packaged optics for...
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Spotify Now Rolling Out Redesigned Wear OS App with New Gestures, More [Video]
Spotify has begun rolling out a redesigned Wear OS app that refreshes the Now Playing screen with larger album art and new gesture controls. A swipe‑down opens an immersive view that spotlights creator artwork, while taps and double‑taps handle play/pause and...
CBA Builds Two AI Agents to Boost Cyber Defences
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has deployed two custom AI agents to augment its cyber‑defence operations. The threat‑hunt agent automates up to 70% of routine investigations, shrinking a multi‑day analysis to roughly 30 minutes and even launching hunts overnight. A second...
The Beats Studio Pro Are Nearly $200 Off Ahead of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
Apple’s Beats Studio Pro headphones have been slashed to $169.95, roughly $180 off the regular $349.99 price, as Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy promote the deal ahead of the retailer’s Big Spring Sale. The over‑ear model retains its long‑standing design but...
Nvidia Is Expanding Its Empire
At Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a suite of new AI‑focused chips, models, and systems ranging from space‑based data centres to autonomous‑vehicle platforms. The rollout featured the Hopper‑X GPU and next‑generation accelerators aimed at both...
OpenAI Preps for IPO by End of Year, Tells Employees ChatGPT Must Be 'Productivity Tool'
OpenAI is preparing for an initial public offering as early as the fourth quarter of 2026, signaling a shift from pure research to a market‑focused enterprise strategy. CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told staff the company will reframe ChatGPT as...