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The piece argues that sales teams must move beyond the binary of “on or off” social media to a disciplined, value‑first approach. It contrasts high‑volume, automated outreach—characterized by generic DMs and template pitches—with meaningful social selling that listens, contributes insight, and builds trust over time. Citing research that 78% of social‑selling practitioners outperform peers and that such firms are 51% more likely to hit quota, the article proposes a time‑blocking framework to embed authentic engagement into daily routines. The goal is long‑term pipeline health rather than short‑term noise.
NASA and the Department of Energy have formalized a renewed partnership to develop a fission surface power system for the Moon, aiming to launch a lunar surface reactor by 2030. The memorandum of understanding builds on decades of collaboration and...
Internal developer platforms often collapse under cloud sprawl, compliance pressure, and AI‑driven automation because they lack a first‑class boundary. The article argues that treating a tenant as an explicit logical construct—binding identity, networking, secrets, compute, observability, and compliance—solves these issues....
Cyanobacteria have been shown to import and metabolize guanidine, using it as their sole nitrogen source. The study identified a high‑affinity ABC transporter, a guanidine hydrolase, and a riboswitch that together regulate uptake, degradation, and efflux. These mechanisms are widespread...
SaasRise’s Jan 13 mastermind call tackled five critical growth challenges for SaaS firms. It advised hiring account managers with a $100K base and focusing on retention over hunting, while expanding dev teams by onboarding senior engineers first and creating thorough documentation....
Central Maine Healthcare suffered a cyber intrusion that lasted from March 19 to June 1, 2024, exposing the personal and health information of 145,381 individuals. The breach affected patients, current and former employees, revealing names, dates of birth, treatment details,...
Single-use systems (SUS) are becoming integral to cell and gene therapy (CGT) manufacturing, offering pre‑sterilized, disposable components that eliminate cleaning validation and enable fast changeovers for low‑volume, high‑value products. Automation and modular platforms are now being paired with SUS to...
Old Glory, a lender focused on crypto‑backed financing, announced it will go public through a merger with the special purpose acquisition company XYZ Capital. The transaction values Old Glory at roughly $300 million and is expected to raise about $200 million in...
Pharma leaders say 2026 will be defined by the rise of agentic AI, sustainable manufacturing, and resilient, regionalized supply chains. AI agents are moving from pilot projects to embedded decision‑making in drug discovery, process optimization and digital twins, slashing timelines...
Microsoft announced a "Community‑First AI Infrastructure" initiative, pledging to pay 100% of electricity costs for its AI data centers and to forgo any local property‑tax reductions. The move responds to rising residential power rates and water‑use concerns as AI workloads...
The Pentagon announced on Jan. 13 that it will become an anchor investor in L3Harris Technologies’ Missile Solutions unit, committing $1 billion to expand solid‑rocket‑motor production. The funding will be provided via a convertible preferred security that converts to equity only if...
The 2026 policy outlook warns that the turbulence of 2025 is giving way to a deeper, more systemic shift in U.S. biomedical policy. Political and ideological forces are increasingly dictating drug‑pricing rules and regulatory decisions, eroding the traditional science‑based framework....
Using JWST and ALMA, astronomers determined that the supermassive black hole in galaxy GS‑10578, known as Pablo’s Galaxy, starved it of cold gas, causing rapid quenching. The galaxy, seen as it was three billion years after the Big Bang, formed...
Researchers at NDSS 2025 presented the first systematic memory‑safety study of bootloaders, revealing a growing attack surface as these low‑level programs add features. By surveying prior vulnerabilities and building a dedicated fuzzing framework, the team examined nine popular bootloaders and...
The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) has published the complete American National Standard for Industrial Robots and Robot Systems – Safety Requirements, a 403‑page ANSI/A3 R15.06‑2025 document that unifies three parts into a single framework. Parts 1 and 2 update the legacy ANSI/RIA R15.06‑2012...
Microsoft has begun automatically replacing expiring Secure Boot certificates on eligible Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 devices. The certificates, which protect the pre‑boot environment, are set to expire in June 2026, prompting a phased rollout through Windows quality updates. High‑confidence devices receive the...
Google Research’s new paper reveals that simply repeating a user query—placing the prompt twice in the input—significantly lifts accuracy on non‑reasoning tasks, with gains as high as 76% across models such as Gemini, GPT‑4o, Claude and DeepSeek. The technique exploits...
Databricks has open‑sourced Dicer, its proprietary auto‑sharding system that dynamically assigns key ranges to service pods. The platform replaces static sharding and pure‑stateless designs, eliminating downtime during restarts, autoscaling, and hot‑key spikes. In production, Dicer drives over 90% cache‑hit rates...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked manufacturers of six seasonal influenza vaccines to revise their product labels to explicitly mention the risk of febrile seizures. The directive follows emerging safety data linking certain flu shots, especially those administered...
Amazon announced on Jan. 13 that its next‑generation Just Walk Out RFID lanes are now ready for pop‑up shops, festivals and other temporary venues. The upgraded lanes add in‑lane screens, motorized gates and dynamic pre‑authorization to speed the checkout experience....
The University of Manchester, together with the UK National Physical Laboratory and 15 international research institutes, has created a robust transmission electron microscopy (TEM) protocol to verify graphene’s single‑atom thickness. Published in *2D Materials*, the method forms the technical basis of...
Kraus Hamdani Aerospace (KHA) successfully completed an 18‑km cross‑country electric UAS flight at the Pendleton UAS Range, launching from one site and recovering at another while using a relay‑extended mesh network for continuous control. The mission validated point‑to‑point endurance operations...
Several vervet monkeys escaped in St. Louis, prompting a citywide search. Social media is flooded with AI‑generated images falsely claiming the animals have been captured, confusing the public and officials. The health department warns residents to keep distance as the...
U.S. Bank’s innovation team, led by chief innovation officer Don Relyea and head of R&D Todder Moning, scouted the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show for technologies that could be integrated into the bank’s services. The bank recently launched AI and blockchain...
Virtual Surveyor’s 10.2 release introduces Local Coordinate System functionality, letting users project GPS‑based drone imagery and LiDAR directly into custom site‑specific reference frames without third‑party tools. The update also expands supported world coordinate systems (EPSG, MRWA, Landgate, ESRI) and adds...
The Department of Homeland Security announced a new Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Counter‑Unmanned Aircraft Systems to accelerate acquisition of drone and counter‑drone technologies. The office is earmarking $115 million for immediate counter‑drone deployments ahead of the United...
Recent research underscores that obesity not only raises breast cancer incidence but also worsens prognosis across tumor subtypes. Excess adipose tissue fuels estrogen production, chronic inflammation, and insulin resistance, creating a microenvironment that promotes tumor growth and metastasis. Clinical data...
Battle Creek Unlimited has chosen ResilienX to build a ground‑based sense‑and‑avoid system that will enable routine beyond‑visual‑line‑of‑sight (BVLOS) operations for the MICH‑AIR advanced air mobility hub at Battle Creek Executive Airport. The integrated physical‑digital environment will support public safety, infrastructure...
Scientists have identified scarp‑fronted deposits in southeast Coprates Chasma that function as ancient river deltas emptying into a standing body of water. High‑resolution images from CTX, HiRISE, and CaSSIS, combined with new DEMs, reveal a uniform high‑water mark across Valles Marineris. The...
Fortinet disclosed a heap‑based buffer overflow in the cw_acd daemon of FortiOS and FortiSwitchManager that allows unauthenticated remote code execution. The flaw can be triggered via crafted network requests, especially on exposed fabric interfaces, and affects versions from 6.4.17 up...
Hirth Engines and ePropelled have announced a strategic partnership to create hybrid propulsion systems that blend Hirth’s two‑stroke engines with ePropelled’s intelligent electric power‑management technology. The collaboration targets UAVs, advanced air‑mobility, defence, and specialized mobility markets, promising higher fuel efficiency,...
After 21 years of volunteer computing, SETI@home has completed analysis of its 12 billion detections, narrowing them to roughly one million candidates and ultimately 100 promising signals. These 100 targets are now being observed with China’s Five‑hundred‑meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)...
Nicholas Moore, a 24‑year‑old from Springfield, Tennessee, is set to plead guilty to unauthorized access of the U.S. Supreme Court’s electronic filing system on 25 separate days between August and October 2023. Prosecutors allege he obtained information from a protected...
The FDA has asked Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to remove suicide‑related warnings from the labels of their GLP‑1 weight‑loss drugs. The warning, added in 2022 after isolated case reports, is being reconsidered following a thorough review of post‑marketing data. The agency...
Cross River Bank has been chosen as the inaugural banking partner for Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot, which will settle Visa card transactions using Circle’s USDC on the Solana blockchain. Partnering with technology provider Highnote, the program moves stablecoin settlement from...
Roblox launched an AI‑powered age verification system to restrict chat, but the technology misclassifies children as adults and vice versa, sparking chaos among users. Age‑verified accounts are already being sold on eBay for as little as $4, exposing a new...
Microsoft released the Windows 11 KB5074109 and KB5073455 cumulative updates for 25H2/24H2 and 23H2, delivering the January 2026 Patch Tuesday security patches. The updates raise build numbers to 26200.7623 (or 26100.7462) and 226x1.6050, and they address a range of vulnerabilities, driver compatibility,...
Massachusetts is poised to overturn its ban on credit‑card surcharges, allowing merchants to add fees up to their actual processing cost while requiring clear disclosure and receipt printing. The change aims to benefit both merchants and consumers by increasing price...
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) unveiled Trade Surveillance, a new analytics platform designed to detect market abuse and financial crime. The service leverages LSEG’s proprietary technology to process billions of trade and order messages across its venues each day. It...
Analysts at Omdia warn that global PC shipments could contract in 2026 despite a 9.2% year‑over‑year rise in 2025, as memory component costs surge. Mainstream DDR memory prices jumped about 70% in 2025 and are expected to climb another 50%...
Microsoft released its January 2026 Patch Tuesday update, addressing 114 security flaws across Windows and related services. The bundle includes eight critical vulnerabilities—six remote code execution and two elevation‑of‑privilege bugs—plus one actively exploited information‑disclosure flaw in Desktop Window Manager. Two publicly...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services removed several members from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program’s advisory committee, signaling a significant reshaping of the panel. The ousted members were appointed during the previous administration and faced criticism for their...
Charles River Laboratories exercised its option to buy the remaining 79% of PathoQuest for roughly $60 million, completing its 2018 investment. The Paris‑based firm brings next‑generation sequencing (NGS) capabilities that accelerate in‑vitro GMP and non‑GMP biologics testing while supporting alternative methods...
AMD predicts 2026 will be the breakout year for AI‑enabled PCs, expecting them to sell more units than traditional PCs. At CES, Jason Banta highlighted the accelerating adoption of mini PCs as a practical entry point for AI workloads, noting...
President Donald Trump publicly urged Congress to pass the Credit Card Competition Act, a bipartisan bill championed by Sens. Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall that would curb swipe‑fee monopolies. The legislation would require large banks to give merchants a choice...
NASA announced three launch windows for Artemis 2, the first crewed deep‑space flight since Apollo, with the earliest opportunity on Feb 6, 2026. The mission will carry four astronauts on a ten‑day lunar flyby, testing Orion, the Space Launch System, and critical...
The U.S. Department of Commerce has reportedly concluded its Section 232 investigation into pharmaceutical imports, effectively ending the Trump administration’s trade probe. The decision means no new tariffs will be levied on foreign‑made medicines, averting a potential price shock for...
Researchers at Keio University have introduced an adaptive motion reproduction system that uses Gaussian process regression to translate human grasping motions to robots with minimal training data. The model learns the relationship between object stiffness and required force/position commands, achieving...
Enterprises are rapidly expanding API portfolios from dozens to thousands, exposing gaps in traditional, ad‑hoc development practices. The New Stack outlines four core principles—treat every artifact as code, maintain a single source of truth, automate all repeatable tasks, and delegate...
NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission has been cancelled, leaving ten sealed sample tubes on the Martian surface. Under Article VIII of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the United States retains jurisdiction and control over those objects, even without a retrieval...
