58% of Organizations Spend Over 10 Hours a Month Securing AI-Generated Code
A Cloudsmith report reveals that 58% of organizations devote more than ten hours each month to validating and securing AI‑generated code, with 8% spending over forty hours. The study also shows 44% of respondents have suffered security incidents linked to third‑party dependencies, and only 17% feel confident AI isn’t introducing new vulnerabilities. Regulatory pressure is mounting, as the EU Cyber Resilience Act mandates detailed breach assessments within 48 hours. Companies plan to boost spending on security scanning, AI/ML Ops infrastructure, and internal developer portals to address these gaps.
How the Visa-Mastercard Card Fee Case May End
A proposed settlement to end the long‑running Visa‑Mastercard interchange‑fee litigation would cut rates by ten basis points for five years and set a 1.25% fee for standard consumer cards for eight years, while giving merchants the right to decline certain...
ACI Outlines Role of Renewable Diesel in Reducing Airport Emissions
The ACI Asia‑Pacific & Middle East webinar highlighted renewable diesel as a near‑term solution for cutting airport emissions. Speakers noted that the fuel can slash lifecycle emissions by up to 95% without engine changes. Case studies from Changi Airport and...
PenFed Partners with InvestiFi for Embedded Investing
PenFed Credit Union, serving roughly 2.8 million members, has partnered with fintech firm InvestiFi to embed investing services into its mobile and online banking platforms. The integration offers self‑directed securities, a robo‑advisory called Guided Investing, and educational tools without leaving PenFed’s...
ECI Software Solutions Expands AI Capabilities to Automate Manufacturing Workflows and Drive Efficiency Gains
ECI Software Solutions announced new Practical AI features—AI Assistant and AI Invoicing—integrated into its Deacom and JobBOSS² ERP platforms. The AI Assistant delivers real‑time answers within the application, while AI Invoicing captures vendor invoices, matches them to purchase orders and...
Scientists Identify Main Cause of Extreme Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy
Scientists have pinpointed the growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) gene as the leading cause of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), the most severe form of pregnancy nausea and vomiting. The genome‑wide study of nearly 11,000 HG cases and 420,000 controls also highlighted...
How CISOs Can Thrive Amidst Geopolitical And Economic Uncertainty
Forrester’s 2026 report warns that CISOs now operate amid heightened geopolitical conflict, economic volatility and AI‑driven attack surfaces. It urges security leaders to embed AI protection in core budgets, streamline overlapping controls, and adopt visible change‑leadership practices. The report also...
Quantum Computing and Storage
OVHcloud has added Quantum Computing‑as‑a‑Service (QaaS) by offering Quandela’s 12‑qubit Belanos photonic quantum computer on a pay‑as‑you‑go basis. The quantum processor works alongside OVH’s traditional object storage, with data encoded into photonic states before each run and results post‑processed on...
Cyberattack at French Identity Document Agency May Have Exposed Personal Data
France’s National Agency for Secure Documents (ANTS) suffered a cyberattack on its portal that manages passports, ID cards, residence permits and driver’s licences. The breach, detected on April 15, may have exposed login credentials, names, email addresses, dates of birth and...
Digital Finance in Focus: Identity and Payments at Identity Week America 2026
Identity Week America 2026 placed digital identity and payments at the forefront of the finance agenda, as industry leaders addressed escalating fraud risks and tightening regulatory demands. Sessions chaired by Brian Russell examined how digital ID is evolving beyond onboarding...
$60 Billion Project Matador Stalls After CEO Exits the Trump-Branded AI Data Center Megaproject
Project Matador, a Trump‑branded AI data‑center campus in the Texas Panhandle, has stalled after CEO Toby Neugebauer resigned on April 17, 2026. The $60‑90 billion megaproject, envisioned to deliver up to 17 GW of AI compute and on‑site power generation, lacks a...
Agenus Cancer Cocktail Records 0% Response Rate, Missing Midstage Goal
Agenus and its spin‑out MiNK Therapeutics reported a zero percent overall response rate in a Phase 2 trial of a three‑drug cocktail for advanced gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma. The regimen combined two experimental immunotherapies, botensilimab and balstilimab, with MiNK’s allogeneic iNKT cell therapy...
Omnicom Launches Frequency Probe, Finds 'Negative Reach'
Omnicom’s OM Intelligence unit released the first report in its “Why Frequency Matters” series, revealing that excessive ad repetitions can trigger a phenomenon called “negative reach,” where consumers develop adverse brand perceptions. The study shows that as few as two...
Interview: Freshwave CTO Offers AI-RAN Walkthrough
Freshwave Group’s CTO Tom Bennett says AI‑enabled radio access networks are feasible, but only if the underlying data infrastructure is ready. He argues that massive GPU deployments at cell sites are unnecessary; instead, high‑capacity fibre links should funnel RAN data...
I Reviewed 10 Best Social Media Listening Tools for 2026
The article reviews the ten leading social media listening platforms for 2026, including Sprout Social, Hootsuite, Meltwater, Vista Social, Brandwatch, BrandMentions, Reputation, Agorapulse, YouScan, and Brand24. It evaluates each tool against G2 user feedback, core feature sets, usability, and real‑world...
Leonardo DRS Integrates Counter-Drone M-MEP Kit on Naval Drone
Leonardo DRS has fitted its Maritime Mission Equipment Package (M‑MEP) onto Sea Machines’ STORMRUNNER autonomous unmanned surface vessel, delivering a ready‑to‑use counter‑drone system for naval fleets. The kit bundles maritime radar, electro‑optical/infrared sensors and AI‑driven SAGEcore software to detect, track...
France, Poland Combine on Telco Satellite Defence Project
France’s Thales Alenia Space, Poland’s Radmor and Airbus Defence and Space have signed an agreement to build a geostationary telecommunications defence satellite for the Polish Ministry of Defence. The satellite will deliver secure, cyber‑hardened communications and anti‑jamming capabilities, enhancing Poland’s...
Marketplaces Account for 61% of European Ecommerce
Marketplaces now account for 61% of European ecommerce gross merchandise value (GMV) in 2025, up from 56.2% in 2023. Globally, they captured 83.4% of ecommerce GMV last year, dwarfing the 16.6% share of first‑party stores. Amazon remains the dominant platform,...
Infor and AWS Bring Agentic AI to Manufacturing at Enterprise Scale
Infor and Amazon Web Services have launched a suite of industry‑specific AI agents built natively on AWS, aimed at manufacturing and distribution firms. The agents combine AWS’s enterprise‑grade infrastructure with Infor’s deep manufacturing intelligence to automate planning, execution, and financial...
72 Sticks of Server RAM Were Headed for the Trash. They're Now Worth $20,000
A server upgrade in 2024 left 72 registered DDR4 ECC memory sticks slated for disposal, but an employee rescued them and they now command over $20,000 on the secondary market. When pulled from service the modules were worth about $35...
Local vs Remote MCP Servers – Which Should You Choose?
Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers let AI applications pull live data, tools, and prompts, bridging the gap between static LLM knowledge and up‑to‑date enterprise information. Architects must decide whether to host MCP servers locally or remotely, a choice that influences...
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team unveiled Qwen3.6‑Max‑Preview, an early‑stage upgrade to its Qwen3.6‑Plus large language model. The preview delivers notable gains in agentic coding, world knowledge, and instruction‑following, with benchmark lifts such as +9.9 on SkillsBench and +5.3 on QwenChineseBench. It...
Monitor Databricks with Grafana Cloud for Instant Visibility Into Your Workloads
Grafana Cloud launched a native Databricks integration that streams billing, job, pipeline, and SQL warehouse metrics directly into Grafana dashboards. The offering includes three prebuilt dashboards and 14 default alert rules tailored for FinOps, SRE, and analytics teams, eliminating the...
Knak Makes Enterprise Marketing Production Callable by AI Agents
Knak announced support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling AI agents and orchestration layers to call its production platform directly. The integration lets AI assistants generate on‑brand emails, landing pages and other assets using Knak’s template library without manual...
US Army Tests TEWS-I System on GM-Built Squad Vehicle
The U.S. Army field‑tested the Tactical Electronic Warfare System‑Infantry (TEWS‑I) mounted on a GM‑built Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) during the 101st Airborne Division’s Joint Readiness Training Center rotation from April 7‑17, 2026. The integration creates a mobile “middleweight” electronic‑warfare capability that sits...
FIS, Barclays Extend Core Banking Tie
Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) has secured a multi‑year extension of its core‑banking technology contract with Barclays, adding the company’s Profile service for real‑time, multi‑currency deposit processing. The upgrade is designed to help Barclays accelerate retail deposit growth, cut costs...
The Backup Myth that Is Putting Businesses at Risk
Businesses often equate backup with protection, but backup only restores data after an outage, leaving operations stalled. Research shows downtime costs average $9,000 per minute, or $540,000 per hour, making rapid recovery essential. While 60% of firms believe they can...
Democrats Urged to Link Clean Energy to Affordability as Iran War Hikes up Prices
The Iran‑Israel conflict has closed the Strait of Hormuz, pushing global oil prices higher and lifting U.S. gasoline to over $4.10 per gallon. Democrats, led by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Ro Khanna, are being urged to frame clean‑energy policies as a...
EDA AI Agents: Intelligent Automation in Semiconductor & PCB Design
Siemens has launched the Fuse™ EDA AI System and Fuse™ EDA AI Agent, a purpose‑built platform that merges generative and agentic AI across its entire semiconductor and PCB design suite. The solution tackles five core industry challenges—proprietary expertise, rigid on‑premise...
Metadata Driven Data Engineering: Declarative Pipeline Orchestration in Lakeflow
Databricks Lakeflow introduces a metadata‑driven, declarative model for streaming pipelines, letting engineers define tables and flows with simple Python decorators instead of hand‑coded Spark jobs. The platform automatically infers dependencies, builds an execution DAG, and orchestrates jobs with built‑in retry,...
Two Fixes, One Lifeline: What Congress Must Do to Strengthen 911 in Every Community
America’s 911 system, a critical public‑safety lifeline, is strained by outdated technology and workforce misclassification. Most call centers still run landline‑era systems that cannot handle texts, photos, video, or medical data, and they lack cyber‑resilience. A $15 billion nationwide upgrade to...
Can You Determine Your Personalised Stress Score?
Wearable devices are increasingly offering personalized stress scores by analysing heart‑rate and heart‑rate variability (HRV). A higher resting heart rate and reduced HRV typically signal elevated cortisol and adrenaline, indicating stress. While these metrics can flag patterns linked to specific...
TDK Expands EMI Filter Portfolio with 1250 V DC Chokes
TDK Corporation has launched the B82722V6*B040 series of high‑voltage common‑mode chokes, rated for up to 1250 V DC (630 V AC). The compact 23 × 15.5 × 24 mm devices offer inductance values from 3.3 mH to 22 mH and currents up to 3 A, targeting power converters, motor drives...
The Great Data Center Delay: Why Your AI Chips Are Stuck in 2026
The semiconductor sector’s $1 trillion growth path is being throttled by severe physical and geopolitical constraints rather than a lack of innovation. AI‑focused data centers now demand 100–500 MW each, outpacing grid capacity, while LNG disruptions have cut 20% of global supply,...
How Prime And A Smarter Alexa Are Giving Amazon An AI Shopping Edge
Amazon launched Alexa+, an AI‑powered upgrade to its voice assistant, to all users in March 2025. The new assistant can handle complex conversations, place orders, manage smart‑home devices, and suggest recipes, all while leveraging Amazon’s 30‑year e‑commerce expertise. Early data show...
NIST Is Cataloging so Many Vulnerabilities It Can only Assign Severity Scores to the Highest Priority Threats
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a major overhaul of its National Vulnerability Database (NVD) enrichment process after CVE submissions surged 263% between 2020 and 2025. Starting April 15, NIST will assign full severity scores only to...
US ROUNDUP: BESS Developers Highlight ‘Bring Your Own Capacity’ Model in Data Centre Announcements
U.S. data‑centre developers are increasingly adopting a “bring your own capacity” (BYOC) approach, highlighted by three recent announcements. Eos Energy and Turbine‑X signed a joint development agreement to deploy up to 2 GWh of zinc‑hybrid battery storage paired with natural‑gas turbines...
Jellyfish Wants You to Use Large Language Models to Plan Your Ad Buys
Jellyfish is marketing its “Share of Model” service, which uses large language models to gauge how often AI assistants mention a brand versus competitors and turns those insights into targeting cues for Google Performance Max campaigns. The agency applied the...
Pervaziv AI Ushers Multicloud Environments Into Agentic AI Era Across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud with Cortex 3.5
Pervaziv AI unveiled Cortex 3.5, expanding its secure AI orchestration platform to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud alongside its existing AWS support. The upgrade introduces over 40 AI agents, 12 enterprise connectors and more than 300 operational capabilities, creating a unified...
Identiv Broadens ID-Safe NFC Tags with Tamper Evidence and Encrypted Authentication for Connected Packaging
Identiv has expanded its ID‑Safe line of high‑frequency NFC tags to include tamper‑evident labels and tamper‑proof tags with destructible antennas. Select configurations also feature encrypted authentication, enabling secure product verification and lifecycle traceability via standard smartphones or readers. The new...
The Best Robot Vacuums for Pet Hair for 2026: Expert and Lab Tested
ZDNET’s latest roundup identifies the Mova P50 Pro Ultra as the top robot vacuum for pet hair, thanks to its 19,000 Pa suction, anti‑tangle brush and hands‑free self‑emptying system. The guide also highlights the budget‑friendly 3i G10+, the bag‑less Eureka E20...
ASUS Introduces ProArt PA32USD 4K 240Hz QD-OLED Professional Monitor
ASUS unveiled the ProArt PA32USD, a 31.5‑inch QD‑OLED monitor that blends 4K resolution with a 240 Hz refresh rate for professional creators. The panel delivers VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400 certification, up to 1,000 nits peak brightness, 10‑bit color depth, full sRGB coverage...
Physical AI Edges Closer to Real-World Deployments
Capgemini’s new report shows physical AI is moving from hype to practical deployment, with 80% of 1,678 executives across 16 countries already experimenting and only 4% operating at full scale. The gap reflects historic integration challenges, but falling hardware costs,...
Eigen Secures $15M Seed for ‘Mutual Friend’ AI Tool
San Francisco‑based Eigen emerged from stealth with a $15 million seed round led by Benchmark, backed by notable angels such as Pinterest co‑founder Ben Silbermann and Spotify’s co‑president Gustavo Söderström. The startup is building what it calls the world’s first “mutual...
TSC Publishes Regulator Responses to Its Report on AI in Financial Services
On 16 April 2026 the Treasury Select Committee published regulator responses to its AI in financial services report, featuring input from HM Treasury, the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority. HM Treasury reiterated that existing technology‑risk rules already...
How RFID and AI Are Improving Delivery Reliability Across Logistics
Zebra Technologies highlights how logistics firms are layering RFID onto barcode systems and deploying on‑device AI to improve package visibility and proof of delivery. RFID tags broadcast location data, creating billions of real‑time points that cut manual scanning and boost...
Novo’s Late-Stage Sickle Cell Win Piles Pressure on Competitors
Novo Nordisk reported that its oral pyruvate kinase‑R activator etavopivat reduced vaso‑occlusive crises by 27% in the Phase 3 HIBISCUS trial and more than doubled hemoglobin response rates versus placebo. The data support a regulatory filing slated for the second half...
IWIL Ignite Expands in Canada, Targets 100,000 Future Skill Leaders by 2030 to Strengthen Canada’s AI Workforce
IWIL Ignite, the Centre for Global Digital Literacy and AI Incubation, announced its expansion into Canada, aiming to develop 100,000 AI‑ready skill leaders by 2030. The rollout coincides with a national virtual summit on AI and the future of work,...
The AI Trust Advantage: How Smarter Security Wins Customer Confidence
Security leaders are recognizing that AI‑powered experience platforms now touch critical business functions such as HR, CRM and compensation systems, expanding the data exposure surface. The rise of “shadow AI,” where only 20% of employees use approved tools, creates hidden...
Dronamics Enters Japan and Welcomes Asia Air Survey as Strategic Investor
Dronamics announced a strategic partnership with Japan’s Asia Air Survey, which is investing through its corporate venture arm and becoming the first Japanese shareholder. The deal includes the creation of Dronamics Japan Holdings to commercialize the Black Swan drone in Japan and...