Escalated.io Releases Next Generation Software Update for Its Invalid Traffic Filtration Service
Escalated.io announced a next‑generation update to its invalid traffic filtration service, extending its JavaScript pixel and pre‑bid solutions. The upgrade accelerates detection, allowing many fraud types to be identified on the first impression rather than after accumulating data. Real‑time blocking capabilities aim to prevent wasted ad spend, weak campaign performance, and revenue loss for advertisers and intermediaries. CEO Kyle Smith emphasized that the company is moving beyond industry standards to deliver faster, more precise fraud mitigation.
New Study Reveals the Blueprint for European Digital Sovereignty: Computing Power, Cloud, Open Source and Capital
A new whitepaper from GITEX AI EUROPE and research firm LUE maps Europe’s blueprint for digital sovereignty, focusing on compute capacity, sovereign cloud, open‑source standards, and deep‑tech financing. It projects a 70 % increase in data‑centre capacity by 2030 and estimates...
Russia-Linked Espionage Campaign Targeting Ukraine Using Starlink and Charity Lures
A Russia‑linked hacker group known as Laundry Bear launched a new espionage campaign against Ukrainian entities in February, distributing a backdoor called DrillApp hidden in documents about Starlink terminals and the Come Back Alive charity. The malware activates through Microsoft...
Ethermed, VisiQuate Partner to Transform Revenue Cycle Automation
Ethermed and VisiQuate announced a strategic partnership that merges Ethermed’s embedded prior‑authorization automation with VisiQuate’s AI‑driven predictive models, data engine, and robotic process automation. The combined platform predicts authorization requirements, executes submissions directly within clinical workflows, and continuously refines its...
Losonnante Overcomes Challenges of Outdoor Sound Systems
Losonnante helps public‑space managers navigate complex outdoor audio challenges by combining regulatory insight with innovative technology. In the UK, strict noise‑control laws and event licences dictate permissible sound levels, forcing organisers to balance coverage with compliance. The company outlines traditional...
Reeves to Pledge £1bn for British Quantum Computers
British entrepreneur Sir Jim Reeves announced a £1 billion commitment to accelerate quantum computing in the United Kingdom. The pledge will fund new quantum hardware facilities, software platforms, and a talent pipeline across leading research universities. The initiative aligns with the...
The New Must-Haves in B2B Ecommerce Tech Stacks Go Beyond CRM and CMS
B2B ecommerce leaders are expanding beyond traditional CRM, analytics and CMS to meet rising buyer expectations for real‑time, self‑service experiences. Five emerging applications—product information management (PIM), digital experience platforms (DXP), configure‑price‑quote (CPQ) tools, B2B‑specific ecommerce platforms, and customer data platforms...
The Meeting of CAS and AI
CohnReznick’s advisory arm is piloting generative AI tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT to automate routine CAS tasks, including documentation, email handling, and journal‑entry processing. The firm, now over 100 CAS professionals across 30 U.S. offices and offshore centers, is...
Why the EU Commission’s Plan for an AI Data-Centres Boom Is Short-Sighted
European Commission's AI Continent Action Plan proposes tripling data‑centre capacity in five to seven years via the draft CAIDA regulation. The draft fast‑tracks permits for land, water and energy, sidelining local communities and environmental safeguards. Critics cite ongoing conflicts in...
Elisa Praises Placing Cybersecurity at Heart of Operations
Elisa, Finland's incumbent telco, consolidated its cybersecurity and service operations into a hybrid cSOC in 2011, merging monitoring and response functions. The integrated centre now watches services from the customer perspective, automatically rectifying deviations and involving engineers only when needed....
Australia Plans for ‘Dubai-Style’ Air Taxi Service
Australia’s civil aviation regulator, CASA, announced that it is close to launching a Dubai‑style electric vertical take‑off and landing (eVTOL) air‑taxi service. The agency is drafting licensing rules for piloted passenger‑carrying advanced air mobility (AAM) flights and a safety framework...
NESC Develops Method for Estimating Risk When Reducing NDE
The NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) created a probabilistic method to estimate the risk of reducing nondestructive evaluation (NDE) inspections on spaceflight hardware. Using a historic database of 33,630 bolt‑hole inspections that yielded six crack‑like findings, the team derived...
Canada's Bell Announces 300MW Data Center Campus in Saskatchewan, Names CoreWeave & Cerebras as Customers
Bell Canada announced a 300 MW data‑center campus near Regina, Saskatchewan, slated to begin construction this spring. The facility, Bell’s largest investment in the province, will be pre‑leased to AI cloud provider CoreWeave and wafer‑scale chip maker Cerebras. The first data...
3 CMS Platforms Control 73% Of The Market & Shape Technical SEO Defaults via @Sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Chris Green’s analysis of 17 million sites shows WordPress, Shopify and Wix now dominate 73 % of the CMS market, eclipsing legacy platforms like Joomla and Drupal. Their combined 2025 revenue exceeds $13.5 billion, funding engineering teams that set default technical‑SEO configurations for...
NinjaOne Launches AI-Driven Vulnerability Management to Speed Detection and Remediation
NinjaOne unveiled an AI‑driven Vulnerability Management module built directly into its unified endpoint platform. The service delivers real‑time vulnerability assessment, patch confidence scoring and autonomous remediation, aiming to slash mean time to remediate. By operating server‑side, it avoids endpoint performance...
Private 5G Seen as Fix for Warehouse Robot Connectivity
Private‑5G specialist Celona and Digi International have teamed up to deliver a plug‑and‑play Robots‑as‑a‑Service (RaaS) platform that replaces unreliable Wi‑Fi in large‑scale warehouses. By integrating Digi’s rugged edge routers and gateways with Celona’s 5G LAN, the solution offers low‑latency, high‑capacity...
AI Is Nearly Exclusively Designed by Men – Here's How to Fix It
The article highlights that artificial‑intelligence systems are overwhelmingly created by men, leading to gender‑bias in products such as transcription tools that misrecognize women’s names. It draws on observations from the Royal Society’s Women and the Future of Science conference, where...
Security Flaw in AWS Bedrock Code Interpreter Raises Alarms
Security researchers at Phantom Labs demonstrated a DNS‑based data exfiltration technique targeting AWS Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter. By embedding malicious instructions in a CSV file, attackers can force the interpreter to issue DNS queries that act as a covert command‑and‑control...
Salesforce Updates Partner Program Consulting Track to Emphasize Verifiable AI Outcomes
Salesforce has revamped the consulting track of its partner program to prioritize verifiable outcomes from agentic AI deployments. The new structure introduces two performance tiers—Summit and Select—replacing legacy scorecards and consolidating 170 specializations into 28 core competencies. Partners will earn...
Google Pledges $1bn Investment in North Carolina Data Centers
Google announced a $1 billion investment to expand its Lenoir, North Carolina data center, which already supports core services such as Maps, Photos, Search, Workspace, and YouTube. The expansion will add roughly 60 acres to the 337,000‑square‑foot campus, though detailed timelines...
CamelClone Uses Public File-Sharing Sites in Government Cyberattacks
Operation CamelClone targets government, defense, diplomatic and energy agencies in Algeria, Mongolia, Ukraine and Kuwait, using spear‑phishing ZIP archives that contain LNK shortcuts to launch PowerShell commands. The shortcuts download a JavaScript loader, HOPPINGANT, from the public file‑sharing site filebulldogs.com,...
Top ICT Tenders: IEC Moves to Increase Stakeholder Interaction
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has issued two high‑profile ICT tenders ahead of the 2026 local elections. The first calls for a complete redevelopment of its public mobile app, citing an obsolete framework, security flaws and the need for better...
SmartKYC QnA: Accelerating Due Diligence at Scale
Founded in 2014, smartKYC automates KYC and due‑diligence for financial institutions using AI, multilingual NLP and federated search. The platform creates unified entity profiles that combine identity, risk, network and opportunity data, enabling faster onboarding, continuous monitoring and reduced manual...
Alibaba CEO to Lead New AI Business Group
Alibaba Group CEO Eddie Wu announced he will personally lead the newly formed Alibaba Token Hub, a business group focused on building AI work platforms for enterprise customers. The hub will bring together existing AI assets such as Tongyi Laboratory,...
Elevara Begins Phase 2b Trial of ELV001 in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Elevara Medicines has dosed the first patient in its phase 2b START‑SYNERGY trial, testing the oral CDK4/6 inhibitor ELV001 in rheumatoid arthritis patients who have failed methotrexate and TNF inhibitors. The randomized, placebo‑controlled study will enroll about 180 participants across nine...
Celent Launches AI-Enabled Intelligence
Celent, a GlobalData research firm, unveiled an AI‑enabled intelligence platform for financial institutions on 16 March 2026. The solution merges proprietary research, expert advisory, data tools and a purpose‑built AI assistant called AVA into a single, searchable environment. Designed to accelerate technology...
Photonics and Nanotech Could Spot Cancer Signals 5 to 8 Years Earlier
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign have engineered a photonic‑nanomaterial platform that senses microRNA and DNA signatures linked to cancer up to five to eight years before conventional diagnostics can. The system leverages photonic crystal grating resonance and nano‑assemblies...
Is Switzerland Going Back Contact?
Back‑contact (BC) solar modules from Aiko Solar and Longi captured over 50% of Switzerland's rooftop PV market in 2025, driven by a premium on module efficiency rather than price. The report notes a gradual decline in the AC/DC ratio to...
Pii Energy Unveils Plug-In 1.2 kW Solar, 2 kWh Home System
Pii Energy has introduced the Edge 2000, a plug‑in solar‑plus‑storage kit aimed at renters and apartment dwellers. The system pairs 1.2 kW of photovoltaic panels with a 2 kWh battery, ten smart outlets, and a Raspberry Pi‑driven controller. Priced at roughly $2,400, it...
Iran War Chokepoints Begin to Cast Doubt on Global Chip Supply
The ongoing Middle East war is creating chokepoints that could restrict the flow of chemicals, equipment and other inputs essential for semiconductor manufacturing. Rising power costs in Taiwan, the hub of advanced chip production, add further pressure on fab operations....
China Startup CirCode Gets Clearance for Trial of Circular RNA Therapy
Cir‑Code Bio‑med, a Chinese biotech focused on circular RNA medicines, has secured an Investigational New Drug (IND) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to commence its first human trial. The therapy targets a rare genetic disorder using a...
How Automation Is Solving Operational Inefficiency
Operational bottlenecks—approval delays, duplicated effort, siloed systems—continue to drain productivity and erode customer experience. SS&C Blue Prism argues that pinpointing root causes through process mapping and employee feedback is the first step toward remediation. The firm outlines a three‑stage automation...
Clostridia From Preterm Infants Harness HMOs to Protect Gut
A Nature Microbiology study reveals that specific Clostridia strains isolated from preterm infants can efficiently metabolize human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). The bacterial conversion produces short‑chain fatty acids and other bioactive metabolites that suppress pathogenic bacteria and enhance intestinal barrier gene...
Philips Links Patient Monitoring and Diagnostics at HIMSS26
Royal Philips showcased at HIMSS26 its AI‑enabled, interoperable platform that links continuous patient monitoring with diagnostic imaging and EMR data, creating a unified patient story across care settings. The company highlighted two core capabilities—enterprise patient monitoring for longitudinal care intelligence...
VIDEO: Europe’s First 100GW of Energy Storage and What’s Next, with Energy Storage Europe
Europe achieved its first cumulative 100 GW of energy storage by the end of 2025, split evenly between lithium‑ion battery systems and pumped hydro facilities. Jacopo Tosoni, deputy secretary‑general of Energy Storage Europe, highlighted upcoming EU policy shifts to increase domestic...
Report Urges Congressional Action to Support AI Adoption Across Federal Agencies
A new report by the Partnership for Public Service and Inclusive Abundance urges Congress to act to accelerate AI adoption across federal agencies. It finds that workforce gaps, talent shortages, fragmented communication, and legacy IT systems are slowing progress. The...
Feature Specification for “OVERWATCH”: A Service for Emerging Economies Defense, Security, and Intelligence Organizations
The Overwatch specification describes a defense‑focused service built on a reusable satellite‑imagery change‑detection platform. The platform consists of five modular layers—data acquisition, preprocessing, detection/classification, alert management, and reporting—allowing the same core engine to be re‑configured for multiple markets. The paper...
US X-Venture & India’s SbInfowaves Announce Global Alliance To Launch ‘Agentic AI’ Marketing Infrastructure For USA-SMEs
X‑Venture.US and India’s SB Infowaves have formed a strategic alliance to deliver an Agentic AI‑driven marketing and operational platform for U.S. small‑and‑medium enterprises. The partnership pairs X‑Venture’s private‑capital placement expertise with SB Infowaves’ autonomous AI “digital colleagues,” aiming to modernize legacy firms...
66degrees Announced the Launch of Paradigm
66degrees unveiled Paradigm, an AI‑driven platform that pairs its global engineering talent with automated Delivery Agents to accelerate enterprise modernization onto Google Cloud. The solution claims 50‑70% faster migration and automates 50‑80% of legacy code and data tasks across data,...
Finlight, Atrato Merge, Target 2GW of Operational Distributed Solar PV Capacity in Europe by 2030
Finlight and Atrato Onsite Energy have merged under the Finlight brand, creating one of Europe’s largest distributed‑generation operators. The combined entity now manages 700 MW of commercial‑industrial solar and 23,000 residential projects across the UK, Spain and Portugal. Finlight will invest...
Abracon Releases New Low Pass LTCC Filters with Up to 53 dB Rejection in Sub-GHz & 2.4 GHz Bands
Abracon has launched the AFII‑LC series of low‑pass LTCC ceramic filters targeting sub‑GHz and 2.4 GHz wireless applications. The four models deliver insertion loss as low as 0.27 dB and harmonic rejection up to 53 dB, while fitting into ultra‑compact 6‑ or 8‑SMD...
Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got “Trendslop” In Return.
Researchers evaluated leading large language models on classic strategic trade‑offs and discovered a systematic bias toward trendy, buzzword‑heavy recommendations—a phenomenon they label “strategy trendslop.” Across thousands of simulations, the models consistently favored differentiation over cost leadership, augmentation over automation, and...
India May Soften New Grid-Supply Rules for Renewable Power Producers
India’s power regulator, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, drafted stricter grid‑supply rules for wind and solar producers, including hefty penalties for missing commitments. After developers warned the measures could erode revenues and deter clean‑energy investment, the government asked CERC to...
Oxford Medical Simulation Secures €5.78 Million to Tackle Healthcare Training Gap with Virtual Reality
Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS) has secured €5.78 million in growth funding from Salica Investments. The capital will fund OMS’s expansion into U.S. health systems and universities, and accelerate product innovation such as AI‑driven scenarios, learning analytics, and workflow tools. The round...
How AI Agents Decide Which Brands To Recommend: Trust Is The New Ranking Factor via @Sejournal, @Purnavirji
Autonomous AI agents are turning trust into a ranking factor, shifting marketers from chasing visibility to proving eligibility. Brands must supply clear, verifiable data that agents can parse and use to justify recommendations. The Wharton paper outlines three trust pillars—goal...
Biotech Building ‘Molecular Glues’ AI Platform Raises £3.6m
London‑based Ternary Therapeutics announced a £3.6 million seed round to fund its AI‑driven platform for designing molecular glues, a class of drugs that can bind previously "undruggable" proteins. The startup, founded in 2024, merges machine learning, physics‑based molecular modelling and rapid...
AIAA Celebrates 100 Years of Rocketry on Anniversary of First Rocket Launch
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) unveiled a free, curated collection of 100 technical papers on rocket propulsion to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Robert H. Goddard’s first liquid‑fuel rocket test in 1926. The anthology pulls from AIAA’s...
Graphene-Info Launches a New Version of Its CVD Graphene Market Report
Graphene-Info has launched the latest edition of its CVD Graphene Market Report, providing comprehensive data on chemical vapor deposition (CVD) graphene. The report details how CVD graphene differs from other forms, its properties, applications, and lists all active developers and...
From Cloud-First to Nation-First: A 3-Part Blueprint for AI Geopatriation
Enterprises are abandoning the pure "cloud‑first" model as AI regulations like the EU AI Act and India’s DPDP Act force a "nation‑first" approach. The emerging "geopatriation" trend sees 93% of firms moving or evaluating AI workloads to sovereign‑certified data centers...
Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin on Turning AI Into a Competitive Advantage
Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin outlined a three‑part artificial‑intelligence strategy aimed at turning AI into a core competitive advantage. The plan focuses on enhancing travel products, streamlining operations, and equipping employees with AI‑driven “superpowers.” Gorin highlighted how generative models can personalize...