UK Consumer Awareness of ‘Pay by Bank’ Plummets Despite Open Banking Boom
Yaspa’s 2026 Index shows UK open‑banking transactions jumped 53 percent year‑on‑year in 2025, yet consumer familiarity with the term “Pay by Bank” fell to 38 percent, down from 55 percent a year earlier. The survey of 2,157 adults highlights fragmented terminology—merchants use multiple labels for the same service—causing confusion at checkout. Legacy payment names like BACS remain recognized by 77 percent of shoppers, underscoring the power of consistent branding. Industry leaders warn that without a unified consumer‑facing term, the full potential of open‑banking will remain untapped.
Average Number of Daily API Attacks Up 113% Annually
Akamai’s 2025 State of the Internet report shows API attacks more than doubled, rising 113% to an average of 258 incidents per organization. Unauthorized workflows now account for 61% of attacks, indicating a shift toward behavior‑based exploits. The most common...
Hackers Turned a Compromised Npm Package Into Full AWS Admin Access in 72 Hours
Security researchers reported that a maliciously altered npm package was used to obtain full AWS administrative privileges within just 72 hours. The attackers leveraged the compromised library to enumerate S3 buckets, terminate production EC2 and RDS instances, and decrypt application...
3ME Technology Conducts ArcFlash Testing with Rio & Collaborates with Toshiba on LTO Batteries
3ME Technology, in partnership with Rio Tinto, completed the world’s first DC arc‑flash testing on high‑voltage lithium‑ion battery packs, exposing extreme fault energy that can surpass standard PPE protection. The data will inform faster‑acting protection devices, revised DC arc‑flash calculations,...
The Role of Predictive Algorithms in African Gaming Apps
African gaming apps are expanding rapidly, fueled by a mobile‑first population of over 700 million connections. Predictive algorithms analyze user behavior to personalize game recommendations, timing, and in‑app offers, enhancing engagement and retention. The AI models rely on cloud hosting, regional...
How Sustainable Aviation Fuel Is Reshaping the Industry’s Path to Net Zero, One Gallon at a Time
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is moving from niche to mainstream in business aviation, offering a drop‑in replacement that cuts lifecycle carbon emissions by 75‑80%. At NBAA‑BACE 2025, Avfuel and Bombardier highlighted that a 30:70 SAF‑jet fuel blend delivers significant emissions...
UK Cyber Monitoring Centre Sets Its Sights on US Expansion One Year After Launch
The UK Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC), launched in February 2025, quantifies the economic impact of major cyber incidents using a proprietary 0‑to‑5 scale. In its first year it assessed two high‑profile breaches: a Category 2 attack on Marks & Spencer and the Co‑op...
Smart AI Governance Speeds Innovation
The article argues that well‑designed AI governance accelerates, not hinders, innovation. It shows how vague or missing guardrails create hidden friction, eroding trust and slowing decisions. By focusing on clarity, intent, quality, and accountability, organizations can establish lightweight guardrails that...
OPINION: Retail’s $210 Billion Paid Advertising Blind Spot
Global ecommerce retailers—estimated at nine to twelve million—are collectively spending about $210 billion on paid digital advertising each year, yet confidence in the returns from that spend is eroding. The rise of privacy regulations, cookie deprecation and AI‑driven ad platforms has...
Miro’s CEO Is Betting AI Will Change How Teams Work
Miro, the browser‑based whiteboard pioneer, is launching an “AI Innovation Workspace” that embeds generative AI directly into its collaborative canvas. The new Sidekicks feature helps teams turn sketches into clickable prototypes and automates workshop outcomes, reaching over 250,000 organizations, including...
How Software Startup InsightSquared Wrestled with Creating an Optimal Sales and Marketing Strategy
Harvard Business School lecturer Mark Roberge uses the InsightSquared case to illustrate why SaaS startups often stumble when they rush to scale sales after a Series A. He argues that founders rely on superficial Excel forecasts instead of bottom‑up revenue models,...
AI Can Transform MSMEs in Kerala, Says CII at Digi-Tech Seminar
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Kerala hosted a Digi‑Tech seminar emphasizing artificial intelligence as a catalyst for small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the state. Speakers urged entrepreneurs to move beyond incremental AI use and to redesign business models,...
EU Sanctions Chinese, Iranian Hacking Groups for Device Breaches and Olympic Cyberattacks
On March 16, the European Union Council imposed new cyber sanctions on three entities and two individuals linked to China and Iran. The measures target Integrity Technology Group for compromising over 65,000 devices across six EU states, Anxun Information Technology...
GEN Secures BEBO Foundation Approval for Phase II PD Trial
GEN Pharmaceuticals received BEBO Foundation ethical approval to launch a Phase II proof‑of‑concept trial of its mitochondrial‑targeting drug SUL‑238 in Parkinson’s disease. The single‑centre, randomised, double‑blind, placebo‑controlled study, named SHEPHERD, will begin patient enrolment in Groningen in April 2026. Over a 28‑day...
Why B2B Mega Events Are Going Extinct – and What’s Replacing Them
B2B mega‑events are losing relevance as sellers shift toward curated, intimate gatherings. Declining ROI, content commoditization, and buyers' heavy pre‑research—81% already favor a vendor—reduce the value of large trade shows. Information overload further erodes attention, making peer‑to‑peer trust and face‑to‑face...
Perion Is So Over The AI Hype Cycle
Perion CEO Tal Jacobson says the AI hype is merely a re‑branding of technologies the company has used for 15 years, and the firm is now building an AI media‑trading agent called Outmax. The platform allocates spend across CTV, DOOH,...
What the Evolving Microbial Nomenclature Means for the Clinical Microbiology Lab
Rapid advances in whole‑genome sequencing are prompting frequent revisions to microbial taxonomy and nomenclature, creating operational challenges for clinical microbiology labs. While some updates—such as recognizing Staphylococcus pseudintermedius—enhance antimicrobial‑resistance insight and enable species‑specific susceptibility breakpoints, other changes driven mainly by...
Unlimited Petrol? Chinese Firm Claims It Can Produce Fuel From Air and Water
Shanghai‑based startup XFuel Technologies announced it can produce synthetic petroleum by converting atmospheric CO₂ and water into liquid fuel at low cost. The firm plans to construct large‑scale plants across China, aiming to reduce the country’s reliance on imported crude....
The Next Phase of Social Strategy: Giving Audiences Ownership of the Story
Social marketers are moving from one‑way authenticity to audience ownership, inviting fans to co‑create brand stories. Panels at Ragan’s Social Media Conference highlighted how gaming, National Geographic, Xbox and U.S. Soccer use two‑way conversation, repeatable formats, and layered content capture...
Broadcast Highlights Dangers Of AI ‘Poisoning’
A CCTV investigation exposed generative‑engine optimisation (GEO) firms “poisoning” AI chatbots by inserting fabricated product data, such as the non‑existent Apollo‑9 fitness tracker, into chatbot recommendations. The broadcast, aired on World Consumer Rights Day, highlighted how automated review farms can...
2026 Will Be a Year of Rapid Technological Advancement
In 2026 small‑business retailers will confront rapid AI‑driven efficiency gains alongside heightened cost pressures from persistent tariffs and a bifurcated K‑shaped economy. While AI promises customized sales content, autonomous logistics and robotics, many firms fear automation could erode core labor...
It’s Time to Get Serious About Post-Quantum Security. Here’s Where to Start.
Quantum computers are nearing practical use, threatening current encryption like RSA and ECC, with a potential "Q‑Day" as early as 2029. The economic fallout of a successful quantum attack could exceed $3 trillion, prompting CISOs and CTOs to prioritize post‑quantum cryptography...
Gecko Robotics Lands the Largest US Navy Robotics Deal Yet
The U.S. Navy has signed a five‑year IDIQ contract with Pittsburgh‑based Gecko Robotics, starting with a $54 million award and a $71 million ceiling. Gecko’s autonomous inspection robots will crawl inside 18 Pacific Fleet vessels to generate detailed digital twins and feed...
GenAI Gains Ground in M&A, but Post-Deal Adoption Lags
Generative AI is rapidly becoming a staple in M&A, with 46 % of firms using it for pre‑deal research and due diligence in 2026, up from 31 % in 2024. The technology shortens deal cycles by 10‑30 % and cuts costs around 20 %,...
Burberry’s Trench Coat Campaign Shows Luxury Marketing’s Shift to Social Platforms
Burberry’s latest trench‑coat campaign marks a decisive shift from traditional, season‑driven luxury advertising to a digital‑first approach. By tailoring assets for Instagram and TikTok, the brand can launch content in real time, reacting to viral moments and algorithmic boosts. The...
US Navy to Use Wall-Climbing Robots to Inspect Ships
The U.S. Navy and the General Services Administration awarded Gecko Robotics a $71 million contract to deploy wall‑climbing robots and AI‑driven drones for inspecting ships, aircraft and other equipment. Gecko claims its systems can locate structural defects up to 50 times...
The Ultimate Guide to GPU Scaling With Karpenter
Karpenter replaces the legacy Cluster Autoscaler for GPU workloads on Amazon EKS by provisioning nodes dynamically through the EC2 Fleet API. It eliminates reliance on pre‑defined Auto Scaling Groups, allowing exact instance types like P4D to be launched on demand....
New 6-Month Programme From WAN-IFRA and OpenAI Supports AI-Native Product Development
WAN-IFRA and OpenAI have launched the AI Futures Lab, a six‑month accelerator for 24 news organizations across Asia‑Pacific and Latin America. Building on the earlier Newsroom AI Catalyst, the programme moves publishers from AI experimentation to fully‑scaled, AI‑native editorial and...
Pod Requests Are the Input to Every Kubernetes Cost Control Loop
In Kubernetes clusters, pod resource requests are the primary input for multiple control loops, including scheduling, cluster autoscaling, and pod autoscaling. When requests are inflated, stale, or omitted, the platform over‑provisions capacity, leading to wasted spend and performance degradation. The...
Lulus Becomes Victoria’s Secret’s Latest Brand Partner
Lulus, the 30‑year‑old occasion‑wear label, is expanding its wholesale footprint by adding Amazon and Victoria’s Secret to its distribution roster. The brand already entered all 350 Nordstrom stores and broadened its assortment at Urban Outfitters, aiming to capture customers where...
Big Changes in Latest GigaOm Unstructured Data Management Radar Report
GigaOm released version 6 of its Unstructured Data Management Radar, expanding the vendor set to 23 and appointing James Brown as the new analyst. The report reclassifies 11 suppliers as leaders and 12 as challengers, with notable moves such as Panzura shifting...
Shoppers Stop and Scan: How a Simple QR Code Will Help Fight Overcharging at Retail Outlets
The Indian government will mandate QR‑code‑based digital certification for every retail shop, linking each outlet to a central compliance database. Shoppers can scan the code with a smartphone to see real‑time status on pricing, weights, and past violations. The scheme,...
Limelight Inc Report Calls for “Efficiency Reset” In Ad Tech to Tackle Environmental Costs & Waste
Limelight Inc. released a whitepaper urging an “efficiency reset” across programmatic advertising, highlighting that operational waste now threatens economic performance, brand reputation, and the environment. The report details how practices such as circular trading, over‑intermediation, and bid duplication inflate costs...
Bank Reconciliation Software vs Excel: What Works in 2026
Finance teams face rising transaction volumes and tighter reporting standards, prompting a reassessment of Excel‑based reconciliations. While spreadsheets remain flexible for small, low‑volume operations, they struggle with version control, manual matching, and error risk as data scales. Dedicated bank reconciliation...
The Value of Search Visibility
Despite headlines proclaiming the death of search, Google’s query volume grew more than 20% in 2024, handling billions of searches daily. While zero‑click rates now hover around 60% overall and up to 77% on mobile, the total number of clicks...
Upvest’s Remarkable Journey To Become Europe's Investment Infrastructure Leader
Upvest has evolved from a 2019 Notion Capital-backed startup into Europe’s leading API‑first investment infrastructure, processing over 100 million orders a year for more than 30 financial institutions including Revolut and Santander’s Openbank. The company announced a $125 million financing round led...
Reaching for Workflow Efficiencies in Urinalysis
A CAP TODAY roundtable examined how artificial intelligence can streamline urinalysis workflow, particularly through AI‑driven reflex testing that merges urine chemistry and microscopy results with electronic health‑record data. Participants from Sysmex America and Beckman Coulter noted that adoption has been gradual...
Cobots Handle Furniture-Making Drudgery, People Focus on Company Growth
Furniture maker Foliot equipped its Quebec and Las Vegas plants with Fanuc CRX‑30 collaborative robots after a successful pilot, expanding to 31 cobots in 2026. The automation shifted operators from repetitive panel‑feeding tasks to supervisory roles, boosting line throughput by 15%...
Noémi Ványi: We Skipped the OLAP Stack and Built Our Data Warehouse in Vanilla Postgres
Xata built a product analytics warehouse using vanilla Postgres, consolidating identity, usage, billing, and event data from four separate systems. They employed materialized views, pg_cron schedules, and database branches to flatten JSONB events, refresh data daily, and iterate safely on...
Take Teaching To The Next Level: Live From The Kira Event
Kira unveiled its AI operating system for education at a New York launch, spotlighting the Student Atlas—a longitudinal data tool that delivers real‑time skill mapping, gap identification, and automated intervention plans. The platform also includes Course Studio, which can generate...
NetApp Targets E-Series at AI and Neoclouds with EF50 and EF80
NetApp has refreshed its E‑Series portfolio with two all‑flash models, the EF50 and EF80, aimed at AI training, inferencing and high‑performance computing workloads. The new arrays claim a 2.5× performance increase, delivering over 100 GB/s read and 57 GB/s write throughput while...
“Demand Doesn’t Disappear. It Relocates”: Jessica Saunders, Eyeota
Jessica Saunders of Eyeota warns that AI‑driven search is compressing the traditional click economy, with daily AI search usage more than doubling and click‑through rates softening. Marketers are shifting spend from intent‑heavy search to discovery‑focused channels such as CTV and...
The Evolution of Chaos Engineering: From Chaos Monkey at Netflix to Reliability Management in the AI Era
Chaos engineering began with fault‑injection tools at Amazon and Netflix’s open‑source Chaos Monkey, evolving into hypothesis‑driven experiments. Gremlin, launched in 2016, packaged safety controls, methodology, and CI/CD integrations to make the practice scalable across organizations. The approach now includes automated...
More Students Use AI for Homework, and More Believe It Harms Critical Thinking
In 2025, AI‑assisted homework usage among U.S. students surged to 62%, driven mainly by middle and high schoolers. At the same time, 67% of respondents now think AI harms critical‑thinking skills, a rise of over ten points in ten months....
Visualizing the World with Planetary Computer
Microsoft’s Planetary Computer offers a free, standards‑based geospatial data platform that aggregates curated datasets from government, academic and commercial sources. It provides STAC‑compatible APIs, Python and R SDKs, and an Explorer UI for rapid prototyping of environmental applications such as...
Hyperscaler Capex Snowballs Toward $700B as Firms Stage AI Builds
Moody’s forecasts that the six largest U.S. hyperscalers will spend about $700 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, roughly six times the 2022 level. The spending surge is driven by exploding demand for AI compute capacity to train models and support...
'New Territory' | 7 in 10 Workers Lack Proper AI Training - and Admit They're 'Experimenting'
A YouGov survey commissioned by The Access Group shows that 44% of British employees are using AI tools at work, yet 70% of those users are merely experimenting. Only 19% have taken formal AI training, while 30% rely on informal...
How Ann Arbor, Michigan, Is Creating Its Own Clean Energy Utility
Ann Arbor is piloting a city‑run Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) in the Bryant neighborhood, offering residents solar panels, battery storage and other clean‑energy assets while remaining connected to the existing grid. The program, approved by 80% of voters, will be...
Google AI Releases WAXAL: A Multilingual African Speech Dataset for Training Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Models
Google AI has released WAXAL, an open multilingual speech dataset targeting 24 African languages. The dataset is split into an ASR component built from image‑prompted, natural‑environment recordings and a TTS component consisting of studio‑quality, single‑speaker audio. Only about 10% of...
Microcredentials Get First-Ever Endorsement From Accreditor
The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has formally endorsed four third‑party providers of microcredentials, marking the first accreditor‑backed quality seal for short‑term certificates and digital badges. With over a million microcredential offerings nationwide, the market has grown faster than regulatory oversight,...