Z-Communications Announces New High Performance 24 GHz Phase Locked Oscillator
Z‑Communications introduced the FSG24000LX, a high‑performance 24 GHz phase‑locked oscillator housed in a rugged all‑metal enclosure. The unit delivers -104 dBc/Hz phase‑noise at a 10 kHz offset, 11.5 dBm output power from a 15 VDC supply, and features PSYNC and lock‑detect interfaces. It powers up in 15 ms and operates across -40 °C to +70 °C, targeting radar, satellite communications, and defense applications. The device aims to provide RF engineers with a compact, reliable frequency source for both lab and field deployments.
What Deloitte’s 2026 Trends Report Says Leaders Want Tech to Fix
Deloitte’s 2026 Global Human Capital Trends report reveals that executives are expanding the list of business challenges they expect technology to solve, from talent shortages to employee wellbeing. The survey of thousands of leaders worldwide shows a growing demand for...
How I Coped with 40 Rejections – Farzana Rahman, CEO, Hexarad
Former NHS doctor Farzana Rahman pivoted to entrepreneurship, founding Hexarad, an AI‑powered end‑to‑end radiology platform that delivers diagnoses from CT and MRI scans. After enduring 40 rejections, she secured funding and partnership support from HSBC Innovation Banking, enabling rapid scale‑up....
Exclusive: Candex Extends Series C To $40M+ To Help Enterprises Easily Onboard Global Vendors
Candex has extended its Series C round to $40 million, bringing total funding above $120 million, with HSBC joining as an investor. The New York fintech acts as a master vendor, allowing large enterprises to pay one‑off or irregular suppliers without separate onboarding,...
GitGuardian Reports an 81% Surge of AI-Service Leaks as 29M Secrets Hit Public GitHub
GitGuardian’s 2026 State of Secrets Sprawl report reveals an 81% year‑over‑year surge in AI‑service credential leaks, pushing total exposed secrets on public GitHub to roughly 29 million. AI‑assisted coding, exemplified by Claude Code, shows a 3.2% leak rate—about twice the platform...
Future Is Training Its AI On Publisher First-Party Data
Future Media unveiled Helix, an AI‑powered audience platform that builds on its first‑party data assets. Helix replaces the legacy Aperture system in the U.S., adding predictive modeling and real‑time audience segmentation for outcome‑based campaigns. Early tests across 20 fashion, retail...
Agentic AI Is Forcing Analytics and Operations to Converge
Investments in data platforms have shifted from siloed warehouses to unified, sovereign foundations as agentic AI collapses analytics, operations, and AI into single workflows. Enterprises now need platforms that govern operational execution, high‑concurrency analytics, and AI reasoning together, rather than...
New Polymer Blend Could Help Store Energy for the Grid and EVs
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have created a polymer blend of polyetherimide (PEI) and PBPDA that yields a dielectric constant of 13.5, roughly four times the energy density of conventional polymer capacitors. The material remains functional up to 250 °C, far...
Phishing Emails Target AI Defenses with Unique Obfuscation
Cybercriminals are deploying a new email obfuscation method to bypass NLP‑based phishing filters. The tactic inserts hundreds of line breaks and large blocks of benign graymail or random text after the malicious payload, diluting the malicious signal and inflating email...
How AI Tutors Improved Learning in Nigeria
A randomized controlled trial in nine public secondary schools in Edo State, Nigeria tested a six‑week after‑school program where students used GPT‑4 under teacher supervision. Participants achieved learning gains of about 0.3 standard deviations in English, equivalent to roughly 1.5...
Better Cotton Funds On-Farm Data-Collecting Project
The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) is launching a $200,000 on‑farm data‑collection effort in partnership with the Soil Health Institute and ag‑tech provider Growers Guide. The program will analyze soil, plant tissue and sap samples across the Southeast and other Cotton Belt...
Summit Holdings Launches MSP-As-A-Service Platform To Help MSPs Scale Faster
Summit Holdings announced the launch of MSP‑as‑a‑Service (MSPaaS), a platform built on its recent acquisition of NOCDOC, a 24×7 NOC/SOC provider. The service delivers a U.S.–based operational backbone—monitoring, security, and support—while allowing partner MSPs to retain branding and sales control....
AI Policy in Developing Countries
Umar Saif argues that data availability and political economy, not technology, are the primary bottlenecks for AI adoption in developing countries. Pakistan exemplifies a "data desert" where bureaucratic silos impede useful AI applications such as crop‑yield forecasting, education, and health...
Rapid7 Boosts Profitability, Simplification In Refreshed Partner Program
Rapid7 unveiled a refreshed partner program that lifts margins on deal registration and co‑sell, introduces an invitation‑only Platinum tier, and streamlines co‑sell structures. The new tier delivers higher rebates, custom demand‑generation, and early product road‑map access for top partners. Simplification...
‘We Finally Have the Tools to Harness and Scale Law Firm Knowledge’
A Global Legal Post webinar highlighted how generative AI is unlocking firm‑wide knowledge for legal drafting, allowing even small practices to create sophisticated templates without large knowledge‑management teams. Panelists from Gleiss Lutz, Hengeler Mueller and Pérez‑Llorca explained that AI now drafts complex...
Best Influencer Database Software in 2026
Influencer database software has become essential as brands scale creator programs, with 59.4% of marketers planning to raise influencer budgets in 2026. These platforms turn manual scouting into searchable, filterable datasets that include demographics, engagement, and cross‑platform reach. The article...
An AI Image Generator for Non-English Speakers
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have unveiled NeoBabel, an open‑source text‑to‑image model that generates pictures directly from prompts in six languages—English, French, Dutch, Chinese, Hindi and Persian. By training on a newly expanded 124 million image‑label dataset and using multilingual...
Advanced Generative AI Course for Engineers – Interview Kickstart Launches New Program Focused on LLM Applications, Prompt Engineering, and Real-World...
Interview Kickstart has unveiled an Advanced Generative AI Course aimed at engineers, data scientists, and AI practitioners. The program dives deep into large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval‑augmented generation, and model evaluation, emphasizing hands‑on project work over theory. Instruction is...
Alibaba Wants to Be a Global Ticketing Player — Starting with Malaysia Tour Stop for Chinese Rap Superstar GAI
Alibaba’s live‑entertainment arm, through its ticketing platform MAISEAT, landed its first primary ticketing contract outside China for Chinese rap star GAI’s concert in Kuala Lumpur. The presale tickets sold out within days, underscoring strong demand for cross‑border events. MAISEAT, part...
If You Miss GPU-Z on Linux Check Out the New GPU-T
GPU‑T is a new Linux utility that mirrors the simplicity of Windows‑only GPU‑Z, offering detailed graphics card information through a modern .NET‑based interface. It currently supports AMD Radeon GPUs, reading data from sysfs, graphics APIs, and a custom JSON hardware...
OpenAI Reportedly Ditches Its "Side Quests" Strategy to Focus on Coding Tools and Business Customers
OpenAI is abandoning its "side quests" approach, consolidating resources around two core pillars: coding tools and business‑focused AI solutions. The shift follows internal criticism that a flood of products—Sora, Atlas, hardware devices, and more—stretched compute and talent thin, leading to...
Trump Officials Weigh New Plan to Stop Offshore Wind Farms
The Trump administration is drafting settlement agreements that would pay TotalEnergies nearly $928 million to cancel two offshore wind leases off New York and North Carolina. In exchange, the French firm would abandon the Attentive Energy and Carolina Long Bay projects and shift...
Amazon Adds 1-Hour and 3-Hour Delivery Options in the US
Amazon announced nationwide one‑hour and three‑hour delivery options, initially covering more than 90,000 SKUs. Prime members pay $9.99 for a one‑hour slot and $4.99 for three‑hour delivery, while non‑Prime customers face $19.99 and $14.99 respectively. The service launches in hundreds...
AI Standardisation Speeds Up
Since SMPTE launched its AI Taskforce in 2020, AI adoption in broadcast has accelerated dramatically, prompting an updated Engineering Report in 2024 that highlights emerging standards. The report recommends standardising on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) frameworks,...
Why Adland's Women Are the AI Explorers We Need Right Now
The advertising industry is witnessing a rapid surge in generative AI tools, yet women’s adoption lags sharply behind that of men. Charlotte Bunyan highlights this gender gap, noting that fewer women are experimenting with AI-driven creative workflows. The article argues...
Who’s Whispering in Your Chatbot’s Ear?
Liberal democracies are increasingly ceding control of AI infrastructure to a handful of private firms, creating a centralized, unaccountable power base. The article argues that algorithmic systems are inherently value‑laden, yet regulators have failed to demand transparency or oversight. This...
Sign up to Sell on eBay Live – New Categories
eBay has reopened its eBay Live seller program, adding new categories such as fashion, electronics, toys, and more. Existing interested sellers must re‑register even if they previously signed up. The platform targets creators with streaming or social‑media experience who can...
TrafficGuard Appoints Head of AI to Battle Rising Fraud
TrafficGuard has appointed Scott Thomson, a former Google, Adobe and Telstra AI leader, as Head of AI to strengthen its fight against sophisticated agentic bots. The move comes as autonomous bots that mimic human behavior are reshaping the digital ad...
Emerging Battery Storage Market in Poland: Goldbeck Solar Constructs 8-MW BESS in Przeworsk
Goldbeck Solar Polska has secured financing for an 8‑MW/16‑MWh battery energy storage system in Przeworsk, Poland, marking one of the country's first standalone BESS projects. Construction is slated to begin in Q2 2026 with grid connection and commissioning targeted for early...
Retail Media X Europe 2026: Why Retailers Need to Be in the Room This May
Retail Media X Europe will convene over 750 senior executives, brands, agencies, and tech innovators in London on 14 May 2026 to discuss the fast‑growing European retail media market, projected to reach £25 billion by 2026. The conference features three tracks—scaling networks,...
Xbox PC App Update Lets You Add Any Game or App to Your Library
Microsoft’s March 2026 Xbox PC app update introduces a new Library feature that lets users add any installed game or application to the My Games or My Apps tabs for quick launching. The functionality is currently available to Xbox Insiders participating...
THG Fulfil Launches on Shopify App Store
THG Fulfil has launched a native, zero‑code app on the Shopify App Store, enabling fast‑scaling and medium‑enterprise brands to connect directly to its global logistics network. The integration offers end‑to‑end fulfillment, inventory management, and courier coordination across 195 countries without...
R1: China-to-U.S. NewCo Planning Global Testing of New CKD Mechanism
The article outlines BioCentury’s cookie policy, detailing categories of cookies used on its website. Strictly necessary cookies are always active and enable authentication, registration, and core navigation. Functional, marketing, advertising, and analytics cookies provide personalization, targeted promotions, ad tracking, and...
Gartner: 67% of B2B Buyers Prefer a Rep-Free Experience
Gartner’s survey of 650 B2B buyers shows 67 % now prefer a rep‑free buying experience, while 45 % used AI tools during a recent purchase. The findings highlight a shift toward self‑directed, digitally mediated buyer journeys. As early interactions drop, static sales...
Cooper University Health Care’s Curran Says Cross-Functional Collaboration Was the Key to Securing More Than 10,000 Edge Devices
Cooper University Health Care completed an 18‑month program that lifted device visibility from 25 percent to 100 percent across more than 10,000 IoT and medical devices. The effort relied on passive network‑monitoring tools, rigorous network segmentation, and a new security‑by‑procurement framework. A...
NYU Langone Health’s O’Brien & Major Explain Keys to Effective Nursing/AI Partnership
NYU Langone Health has built a structured partnership between nursing informatics and data science that fuels AI tool development and adoption. Since 2019, the collaboration has produced decision‑support models, a pressure‑injury prevention system, and a fall‑prediction tool, all vetted through...
Balancing the Risks and Rewards of Drug Development in China: A Small Biotech CEO Perspective
The blog by HotSpot Therapeutics CEO Jonathan Montagu argues that China is no longer just a manufacturing hub but a burgeoning source of innovative drug candidates, evidenced by its 17% lead over the U.S. in Nature’s Index and nearly half...
Northwestern Medicine’s Sama Says AI Optimization Requires a New Data Foundation
During HIMSS 2026, Northwestern Medicine’s VP Danny Sama warned that health‑system AI initiatives are outpacing investment in core data infrastructure. He noted that roughly 80 percent of effort is spent on AI while the underlying data plumbing remains underfunded, exposing technical debt....
New York-Presbyterian’s Linsangan Says Live Simulations Expose What Tabletop Exercises Miss
New York‑Presbyterian launched live downtime simulations across its ten hospitals after a cyberattack at a peer institution highlighted systemic vulnerabilities. The exercises, run during peak daytime hours on real patient scenarios, revealed that many clinicians lacked paper‑charting experience, struggled with medication...
Wanted: Europe’s Missing Cloud Provider
European policymakers have launched the EURO-3C project, a pan‑European sovereign cloud backed by Telefónica, other firms and the European Commission. The initiative seeks to reduce the EU’s reliance on U.S. hyperscalers, which currently deliver about 70 % of cloud services in...
What CIOs Should Know About Agent Protocols
AI agents are rapidly entering enterprise workflows, but divergent protocols such as Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, Google’s Agent‑to‑Agent, and the open‑source Agent Network Protocol hinder seamless collaboration. These protocols were built on incompatible trust assumptions, forcing CIOs to write custom...
"Can We Meaningfully Predict How Things Go?" How AI Could Shape How Publishers Invest
Joost van Dreunen, co‑founder of Aldora, explains how small language models (SLMs) can replace slow, multi‑week market‑intelligence processes in the games industry. By fine‑tuning a 7‑billion‑parameter model on a decade of structured and unstructured data, Aldora aims to deliver on‑demand, secure...
Beyond Integration Theatre: Building Stronger Cyber Platforms
Chief information security officers are confronting a threat landscape where the integration layer—APIs, OAuth tokens, and automation workflows—has become the new enterprise perimeter. While unified platforms promise simplicity, attackers exploit weakly governed connections, turning integrations into single points of failure....
New Vidar 2.0 Infostealer Spreads via Fake Game Cheats on GitHub, Reddit
Cybersecurity firm Acronis TRU uncovered a large‑scale campaign distributing the Vidar 2.0 infostealer through fake game‑cheat files hosted on GitHub and promoted on Reddit and Discord. The malware, rewritten in C for greater speed and stealth, is sold as Malware‑as‑a‑Service for $130‑$750...
NSW Tweaks Underwriting Deals for Solar-Battery Hybrids as It Prepares Massive New Tenders to Replace Coal
New South Wales has adopted a preferred underwriting framework for solar‑battery hybrid projects as it readies two massive tenders totalling 5 GW of new capacity later this year. The AEMO subsidiary ASL favoured an export‑based long‑term energy supply agreement (LTESA) that...
Google Knowledge Panel: What It Is & How to Get One
Google’s Knowledge Panel is an information box that appears in search results when Google identifies a recognized entity such as a brand, person, or place. The panel can occupy up to half of the visible SERP, offering facts, images, and...
AI Will Make Planning Uncomfortable Before It Makes It Better
Organizations often miss business plans because planning is siloed, not market volatility. Departments chase separate KPIs—MQLs, meetings, revenue—creating “local truths” that don’t align. Applying AI to the planning process surfaces contradictory assumptions, highlights incentive mis‑matches, and forces cross‑functional reconciliation. While...
Should Job Promotions Be Linked to AI Use?
Accenture has announced that employee promotions will be directly linked to their adoption and effective use of artificial intelligence tools. The policy requires staff to meet defined AI competency metrics to qualify for career advancement. This move has sparked debate...
Barclays, Sage Partner to Simplify Business Admin
Barclays and accounting software firm Sage announced a strategic partnership aimed at streamlining administrative tasks for small and mid‑sized enterprises. The collaboration combines Barclays' business‑banking expertise with Sage's digital accounting, payroll and HR platforms to cut the time owners spend...
European Client First to Use Exail’s 9-Meter USV for Civil Offshore Operations
Exail has completed its first civil offshore sale of the 9‑meter DriX H‑9 uncrewed surface vessel to an undisclosed European client. The USV is fitted with a multibeam echosounder, side‑scan sonar, sub‑bottom profiler and magnetometer for comprehensive offshore infrastructure surveys. With...