VDE Hail Risk Model Updated to Reflect Increasing Wind Speeds During Hailstorms
VDE Americas has upgraded its proprietary Hail Risk Model by integrating newly analyzed wind‑speed data from hailstorms across the contiguous United States. The research shows wind speeds can more than double previous estimates, increasing hail impact force on solar panels. This refinement improves damage predictions for utility‑scale solar facilities, especially those commissioned before 2025. The update arrives as hail remains the top catastrophic peril for the solar industry, accounting for the majority of loss value.
6 Steps for Creating GEO Friendly Social Posts
Brent Bowen of Sparkcade Marketing outlined six practical steps for making social media posts GEO‑friendly, emphasizing structure that appeals to AI discovery tools. He urged marketers to frontload questions and answers, use list formats, and be precise while retaining brand...
The Boring Infrastructure That Could Make Agentic AI Happen For Ad Tech
MadConnect has made its Intelligent Connectivity Layer (ICL) generally available, offering a plug‑and‑play infrastructure that links CRMs, CDPs, clean rooms, DSPs and other ad‑tech systems. Built to natively support the open‑source Model Context Protocol (MCP), ICL acts as a switchboard...
The Boring Infrastructure That Could Make Agentic AI Happen For Ad Tech
MadConnect has made its Intelligent Connectivity Layer (ICL) generally available, offering a neutral infrastructure that links CRMs, CDPs, clean rooms, DSPs and other ad‑tech systems for AI agents. The ICL natively supports the open‑source Model Context Protocol (MCP), acting as...
A New Paradigm for Identity and Access Management: Why Extended IAM (XIAM) Matters
Enterprises are grappling with a fragmented identity landscape as cloud, hybrid, and API‑driven architectures proliferate. The article introduces Extended Identity and Access Management (XIAM) as a unified control plane that manages all user, machine, device, and application identities across any...
Dumbphone Boss Wants Smartphone Users to See the Light
Light’s co‑founder and CEO Kaiwei Tang told Mobile World Live that the smartphone industry’s attention‑driven model is unsustainable. He promotes the Light Phone III, a $699 minimalist handset that strips away social media, advertising and app stores, offering only essential functions....
Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated
Google’s search ranking volatility remains high, with daily fluctuations despite no officially announced core update. The February 2026 Discover Core Update ran from February 5 to February 27, followed by a series of rank swings throughout March. Earlier, the December 2025 core update spanned...
OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo as Enterprise AI Platform Wars Heat Up
OpenAI announced the acquisition of Promptfoo, a fast‑growing platform that automates testing and validation of large‑language‑model prompts. The deal, terms undisclosed, brings Promptfoo’s open‑source tooling and enterprise‑grade safety features under OpenAI’s product umbrella. By integrating Promptfoo, OpenAI aims to streamline...
Terra Portal Adds Human-Governed AI to Live Production Pentesting
Terra Security unveiled Terra Portal, a desktop app that places human‑governed AI at the core of live‑production penetration testing. The tool combines autonomous agents for routine tasks with a Copilot layer for controlled exploitation, shrinking the discovery‑to‑fix timeline from months to...
Alstom to Deliver Signalling for Lodz High-Speed Rail Tunnel
Alstom has signed a contract with construction firm PORR to design, install and integrate advanced signalling for the new 4.6‑km high‑speed rail tunnel in Łódź, a cornerstone of Poland’s Y‑rail corridor linking Warsaw, the forthcoming national airport and, eventually, Poznań...
The Quarterly Review: Wise’s Scott Viohl Wins Audiences Through Humor and Creator-Led Marketing
Wise’s North American marketing lead, Scott Viohl, has spent the last four months scaling the fintech’s regional footprint through its largest TV campaign to date, reaching over 80% of adults in key U.S. markets and 60% in target Canadian regions....
Outra Targets Agency Sector with First Dedicated Team
Data analytics consultancy Outra announced the creation of its first dedicated agency team, headed by Kimberley Joyce, to help advertisers harness household‑level, privacy‑first data for performance‑driven campaigns. The unit will build strategic partnerships and guide clients in adopting Outra's AI‑powered...
Ericsson, Future Technologies Scale Wireless Infrastructure for Industrial AI
Ericsson and Future Technologies Venture have deepened their 13‑year collaboration to accelerate enterprise wireless and private 5G rollouts for AI‑driven industrial operations across North America. The partnership will combine Ericsson’s cellular technology with Future Technologies’ systems‑integration services, targeting sectors such...
INTERTRAFFIC: Tönnjes Unveils Hybrid Chip for Secure Vehicle Identification
Tönnjes introduced a hybrid Rain RFID/NFC chip at Intertraffic 2026, developed with EM Microelectronic. The dual‑frequency tag combines long‑range UHF identification with smartphone‑based NFC verification and features AES‑128 authentication plus expanded memory. Designed for seamless integration, it works with existing...
Large Language Models and Medical Misinformation
Large language models are increasingly embedded in clinical documentation, patient chatbots, and medical education, but a new Lancet Digital Health study reveals they can still repeat or partially accept false medical claims. Researchers tested leading models with misinformation‑laden prompts and...
Certis Partners with FieldAI to Deploy Autonomous Robots for Security Operations
Singapore security services firm Certis has struck a strategic partnership with U.S. robotics specialist FieldAI to field autonomous robots across multi‑site security operations. The collaboration blends FieldAI’s foundation‑model autonomy software with Certis’ Mozart orchestration platform, enabling robots to patrol, monitor...
Nigeria’s Prembly Launches Open-Source Database to Fight African Fraud
Prembly, a Nigerian digital‑security firm, has unveiled FraudLens, an open‑source fraud‑intelligence bank built on millions of identity‑verification checks. The platform aggregates fraud events from banks, fintechs and other partners, offering a publicly accessible repository that starts with Nigeria and aims...
CISA: Recently Patched Ivanti EPM Flaw Now Actively Exploited
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has classified the high‑severity Ivanti Endpoint Manager vulnerability CVE‑2026‑1603 as actively exploited and placed it in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The flaw, which allows unauthenticated cross‑site scripting to bypass authentication and steal...
Enterprise AI Needs Trusted, Proprietary Data Foundations
In a recent interview, Oracle’s Vice President of Development Siva Ravada argues that enterprise AI must rest on trusted, proprietary data foundations. Oracle is weaving geospatial intelligence into its AI‑optimized database, data lakehouse, and core enterprise applications, allowing spatial, graph...
Landspace Tests 220-Ton Methane Engine for Future Heavy-Lift Launchers
Chinese launch startup Landspace announced a successful long‑duration hot‑fire test of its BF methane‑liquid oxygen engine, which generates roughly 220 metric tons of thrust. The full‑flow staged combustion (FFSC) cycle engine is intended as the core propulsion unit for the company’s...
Beyond the Green Checkmark: Using Formal Verification to Stop ArgoCD Drift
GitOps and Argo CD provide a “green checkmark” that a cluster matches the Git repo, but that sync alone cannot guarantee the safety of the configuration. Traditional diff and lint tools only catch syntax or schema errors, leaving temporal and dependency...
Divest Expands Into Remittances with Money Xchange, Unifying Crypto Conversion and Cross-Border Transfers in a Single App
Divest, the Nigerian fintech known for crypto‑to‑cash conversion, has introduced Money Xchange, a cross‑border remittance service embedded within its existing app. The product currently supports transfers from Nigeria to Kenya, Ghana and South Africa with upfront rate locking and no...
Corelink Hire Introduces New Hiring Manager Dashboard to Improve Recruitment Visibility and Efficiency
Corelink Hire unveiled a hiring manager dashboard that consolidates candidate video responses, application activity, and key performance metrics into a single interface. The tool lets managers review submissions, monitor engagement rates, and compare applicants using structured interview data. By centralising...
Samsung Biologics, Eli Lilly to Establish Biotech Incubator in Incheon
Samsung Biologics and U.S. pharma leader Eli Lilly have signed an agreement to launch a biotech incubator in Incheon’s Songdo district. The facility will host Lilly’s Gateway Labs platform, offering lab space, equipment, funding and R&D collaboration to emerging biotech firms....
MAG Opts for Airport Hive AODB Upgrade
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has chosen Azinq’s Airport Hive suite to replace its legacy operational systems at all three UK airports. The new platform will create a real‑time digital backbone, integrating flight data, boarding, A‑CDM, billing and reporting, and is...
TikTok Shop Launches Fine Art Category
TikTok Shop has introduced a Fine Art category, enabling original artwork to be sold directly on the platform. The launch includes a live sale on March 11 featuring independent artist Sophie Tea, who will showcase a 20‑piece oil collection priced at...
Google AI Voice Models Coming To Google Ads PMax Videos
Google is adding AI‑generated voice‑overs to Performance Max video ads, automatically turning silent creatives into narrated assets. The system pulls text from existing headlines and descriptions, synthesizes natural‑sounding speech, and layers it onto the original video. Advertisers can opt out...
Dyne Plans Post-Prasad FDA Run as Duchenne Exon Skipper Sustains Benefit in Long Term Data
Dyne Therapeutics reported that its exon‑skipping candidate z‑rostudirsen sustained respiratory and cardiac benefits through 24 months in the Phase 1/2 DELIVER study for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The therapy maintained forced vital capacity, circumferential strain and left‑ventricular ejection fraction improvements compared with...
Jollof Boss Launches WhatsApp-Paystack Pilot Testing Chat Commerce for African SMEs
Adlore Business Enterprise launched a live pilot of Jollof Boss, a conversational commerce platform that merges the WhatsApp Cloud API with Paystack payments to let Nigerian SMEs browse products, place orders and pay within chat. The test processed ten real orders,...
AI Pulse Exclusive: How Spacely AI Is Bringing Generative AI Into Spatial Design Workflows
Spacely AI delivers a generative AI platform that converts floor plans and rough concepts into realistic 3D visualizations within minutes, targeting architects, interior designers, and real‑estate professionals in the US and Europe. The company embeds AI across its product and...
Armadin Secures $189.9 Million to Counter AI-Driven Cyber Threats
Armadin announced a $189.9 million seed and Series A round, the largest combined funding ever in cybersecurity, led by Accel with participation from Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures, In‑Q‑Tel, 8VC and Ballistic Ventures. The capital will accelerate its AI‑driven platform that...
EBay and Liberis Launch Flexible Growth Financing for UK Small Businesses
eBay UK has teamed with finance provider Liberis to launch Flexible Growth Financing, a new product under the Seller Capital programme that will be available to eligible UK sellers from 6 April 2026. The offering provides data‑driven, on‑demand working capital with limits...
Tunisia Issues Call for 300MW/150MW Solar-Plus-Storage Project
Tunisia’s Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy has opened a tender for a 300 MW solar plant paired with a 150 MW/540 MWh battery storage system near Bazma, covering 440 ha in the south. The bid deadline is 14 October 2026. This follows earlier initiatives, including...
Sumo Digital Partners with Arm to Explore AI-Powered "PC-Class" Graphics for Mobile Games
Sumo Digital has partnered with chip designer Arm to evaluate Arm’s new neural technology, which embeds AI‑powered accelerators within its GPUs. The collaboration aims to deliver "PC‑class" graphics on mobile devices by leveraging AI‑driven rendering techniques. Sumo is testing the...
Proshort Wins Enterprise Adoption with RateGain for Its AI-Native Revenue Platform
Proshort announced that RateGain Travel Technologies has selected its AI‑native revenue intelligence platform for global rollout. The deployment targets higher forecasting accuracy, clearer pipeline visibility, and consistent execution across RateGain’s worldwide sales teams. Proshort’s architecture relies on a proprietary Context...
How Drones Are Transforming Railway Incident Response
Network Rail has deployed drones across its East Midlands routes, enabling mobile operations managers to launch aerial inspections within minutes. Over a 90‑day trial the pilots logged more than 500 minutes of flight time, cutting incident assessment times and reducing...
Teen Crew Caught Selling DDoS Attack Tools
Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime identified seven minors, aged 12 to 16, who sold software that enables distributed denial‑of‑service (DDoS) attacks. The teenagers targeted high‑traffic sites such as auction platforms, hosting services and booking portals, generating profit from the...
SumUp Expands Into the Accounting Market With a Free Making Tax Digital Tool
SumUp has launched a free, in‑platform accounting solution for UK merchants, powered by Sage, to help them meet the Making Tax Digital (MTD) income‑tax requirements that take effect in April 2026. The tool automates income‑tax calculations and filing, embedding compliance...
FinScan Teams with Nexus AML for Data-First AML Compliance
FinScan has partnered with Nexus AML to deliver a data‑first AML solution that blends real‑time data cleansing with AI‑driven operational services. The alliance targets the chronic data‑quality problem that 59% of compliance professionals say consumes most of their time. By...
KB Asset Management Launches RISE China AI Semiconductor Top 4 Plus ETF
KB Asset Management and Solactive have launched the RISE China AI Semiconductor Top 4 Plus ETF, which tracks the Solactive China AI Semiconductor Top 4 Plus Index. The index selects 15 Chinese companies listed in Hong Kong or via Stock...
An Industry Benchmark for Data Fairness: Sony’s Alice Xiang
Sony’s AI governance lead Alice Xiang announced FHIBE, a publicly available Fair Human‑centric Image Benchmark that combines ethically sourced, consent‑based data with extensive demographic annotations. The benchmark targets bias measurement in computer‑vision models, addressing the scarcity of responsibly collected datasets....
This Spy Tool Has Been Quietly Stealing Data for Years
ESET researchers have uncovered a renewed Sednit campaign that relies on a dual‑implant architecture—BeardShell and the open‑source framework Covenant—each hosted on separate cloud providers for redundancy. The toolkit has been used to conduct long‑term surveillance of Ukrainian military personnel since...
Will Features Even Exist? How AI Is Forcing SaaS To Rethink The Product Itself
A mid‑size SaaS vendor’s top customer is now considering using AI coding tools to build a needed workflow rather than waiting for a traditional feature release. This reflects a broader industry shift where AI‑generated code can deliver narrow, customized functionality...
Solar on New Builds More Attractive to House Buyers
A new E.ON UK survey of 2,500 adults reveals that 75% of potential homebuyers are more likely to choose a newly built house equipped with solar panels, making solar the most desired low‑carbon feature at 72% preference. Support for mandatory...
Sustaining Open Source in the Age of Generative AI
Open source projects are grappling with a surge of AI‑generated pull requests that overwhelm maintainers, prompting Kyverno to publish a concrete AI Usage Policy. The policy acknowledges that while generative AI accelerates code creation, human review capacity remains limited and...
How Automation Prepares You for Agentic NetOps
Enterprises embracing cloud and AI still perform most NetOps tasks manually, creating scalability and error‑prone challenges. Network automation promises to cut human error, improve security, and lower operating costs, serving as the foundation for the emerging agentic NetOps model. By...
How Brits Are Redefining Shopping Habits
Britons are reshaping retail, blending physical stores, online marketplaces, social commerce, and second‑hand platforms. Adobe Express’s survey of 2,000 consumers shows digital purchases grew 29% while visits to independent stores fell 23%, and second‑hand clothing trips rose to 29%. Social...
SS Innovations Raises $18.6M as Surgical Robot Nears US Market
SS Innovations announced an $18.6 million private placement to accelerate its global rollout, including a U.S. launch of the SSi Mantra surgical robot. The company filed for FDA 510(k) clearance in December, with a decision expected by mid‑2026, and aims to compete...
X1 Wind Gets DNV Certification for Floating Wind Platform Design
X1 Wind has secured a DNV Statement of Compliance for the basic design of its X100 floating offshore wind platform. The certification confirms the platform meets international standards for structural integrity, stability and hydrodynamic performance over a 25‑year service life....
The AI Tariff We Are All Going to Pay (And It’s Not Energy Prices)
The article warns that AI’s explosive compute needs are creating an "AI tariff" by monopolizing memory, storage and wafer capacity. DRAM prices have jumped up to 300% and SSD costs have doubled, pushing laptop prices 20‑30% higher. Hyperscalers have locked...