Stem Cell Editing Programs the Immune System to Make Own Therapeutic Proteins
Researchers at Rockefeller University used CRISPR to edit hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), programming them to produce therapeutic antibodies or other proteins after vaccination. In mice, as few as 7,000 edited HSPCs generated durable, high‑titer antibody responses that protected against lethal influenza infection. The platform also enabled secretion of non‑antibody proteins and simultaneous production of multiple antibodies by mixing differently edited HSPCs. Human HSPCs edited with the same method formed functional B cells in immunodeficient mice, suggesting translational potential.
Jury Revealed For AWARD Lab GenAI Sprint
The inaugural AWARD Lab GenAI Sprint, a joint effort by AWARD, Leonardo.AI and the Outdoor Media Association, invites AWARD Crash and AWARD Uni alumni to craft AI‑enhanced campaign concepts for a live non‑profit brief. A distinguished jury, chaired by R/GA’s...
Fast-Tracked Waitaha Hydro Project Aims to Strengthen West Coast Energy Resilience
The Waitaha Hydro scheme, a 23 MW run‑of‑river project on New Zealand’s West Coast, has secured fast‑track approval after two decades of planning. Developed by Westpower Limited with Poutini Ngāi Tahu, the plant will generate enough renewable electricity to power roughly 12,000...
Biotech Insights - Spring 2026
The FDA’s post‑approval change framework now spotlights GLP‑1 products, exemplified by Wegovy’s tablet approval, and mandates reporting based on the change’s impact—major and moderate changes require supplemental NDAs, while minor changes go in the annual report. In parallel, the Federal...
Space Force, NATO Commanders Share Threat Perspectives
At the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, senior leaders from the U.S. Space Force and NATO outlined a widening threat landscape that spans from low‑Earth orbit to deep space. Lt. Gen. Dennis Bythewood described the Space Force’s new S4S component,...
I Found the Apps Slowing Down My PC - How to Kill the Biggest Memory Hogs
ZDNet outlines a step‑by‑step approach to reclaiming RAM on Windows PCs by targeting the biggest memory hogs. It advises users to inspect the Task Manager, close high‑usage browser tabs, disable the SysMain (Superfetch) service, and prune unnecessary startup programs. The...
China’s AI Firms Scaled up on Open-Source Models. The Next Phase May Be Different
Chinese AI firms have built their market around open‑source models, with Alibaba’s Qwen family topping the world at nearly one billion cumulative downloads. While the models themselves generate no direct revenue, companies monetize the inference layer by renting GPUs and offering...
Agentic Advertising Needs Interoperability, Standardisation, and Adoption to Thrive
The IAB Tech Lab has introduced the Agentic Advertising Management Protocols (AAMP), a standards‑driven suite designed to make advertising agents interoperable, transparent, and production‑ready. AAMP adds new protocols—Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent‑to‑Agent (A2A)—and an open Agent Registry that mirrors...
Northumbria University Wins £4m to Crack the Code on Earth’s Deadliest Space Radiation
Northumbria University has secured a £4 million (≈$5.1 million) grant from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council to study the erratic behavior of Earth’s radiation belts. Led by Professor Clare Watt, the five‑year project will merge spacecraft data from global missions...
NSW Govt Seeks Aboriginal Community Organisations to Bridge Digital Gap
The New South Wales government has launched a targeted funding program offering up to AUD 250,000 (≈US$165,000) to Aboriginal community‑controlled organisations to create place‑based digital inclusion hubs. The grants fall under the Closing the Gap Socio‑Economic outcome 17, which aims for equal...
Military Space Warfare Commercial Market Analysis 2026
U.S. defense agencies have reshaped military‑space procurement by opening the $151 billion SHIELD contract vehicle to 2,440 commercial vendors, integrating them into the Golden Dome missile‑defense architecture. The Space Development Agency awarded $3.5 billion for 72 Tranche 3 tracking‑layer satellites, while SpaceX’s MILNET...
Everybody's Business: The AI Hate Is Existential (Podcast)
The latest episode of *Everybody’s Business* tackles the growing AI backlash, illustrated by a Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman's home and bullets fired at a councilman who approved a data center. Bloomberg tech reporter Sarah Frier joins hosts Max...
Sandra Bullock Hasn’t Seen Those AI Trailers for ‘Practical Magic 2,’ but Says It’s Time to ‘Lean Into’ New Tech
Sandra Bullock and Warner Bros. co‑chair Pam Abdy discussed the surge of fan‑made AI trailers for the upcoming "Practical Magic 2," which is slated for a September 11 theatrical release. While neither has seen the AI clips, they view the...
Best Free Antivirus 2026: Keep Your Devices Safe With These Free Tools
Most modern PCs and Macs already include solid real‑time protection through Microsoft Defender and XProtect, but many users still seek extra layers of security. Independent testing shows AVG Free Antivirus delivering the best overall free suite, with real‑time scanning, scheduled...
How Zscaler and OpenAI Turn Zero-Trust Security Into an AI Accelerator
Zscaler has partnered with OpenAI through the Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, gaining early access to the security‑tuned GPT‑5.4‑Cyber model. The firm is embedding these models into its Zero Trust Exchange, AI Red Teaming, and managed detection and response...
Will Retatrutide Help Me Lose Weight or Look ‘Shredded’?
Retatrutide, an experimental triple‑hormone peptide, has shown more than 20% body‑weight loss in a 48‑week clinical trial, outperforming existing GLP‑1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Researchers say it works by modulating GLP‑1, GIP and glucagon pathways to suppress appetite and...
PNT Satellite Operators: Current, Under Development, and Planned as of 2026
By April 2026 the only fully global sovereign PNT satellite operators are the United States (GPS), the European Union (Galileo), Russia (GLONASS) and China (BeiDou). Regional constellations such as Japan’s QZSS and India’s NavIC are expanding to improve local performance and...
Agrovoltaic Systems Can Save Water, Generating Energy and Making Tomato Cultivation More Sustainable at the Same Time
Researchers from the University of Seville and the Polytechnic University of Madrid demonstrated that tomatoes can be cultivated under photovoltaic panels while generating solar power, creating a dual‑use agrovoltaic system. By pairing regulated deficit irrigation with the shade of solar...
Trading Technologies’ Green Sees TT Shifting Into Multiasset ‘Economic User’ Platform
Coinbase is accelerating its transformation into an "everything exchange" by integrating Deribit and expanding its product suite. The platform now offers spot crypto, futures, perpetuals, options, and newly added prediction markets. Within the next month, Coinbase will launch equity perpetual...
AARON Awards Crown Inaugural Winners Spotlighting Rise of AI-Native Creative
The inaugural AARON Awards announced their first global winners, drawing entries from 45 countries and positioning AI as a standalone creative discipline in advertising. Judges praised projects that treated AI as a medium requiring direction and restraint, rather than a...
OpenAI Ratchets up Codex’s Agentic Capabilities to Rival Claude Code
OpenAI unveiled a major upgrade to its Codex coding assistant, adding agentic capabilities that let the AI run background processes on a Mac, click, type, and operate multiple agents in parallel. The update also introduces an in‑app browser, a memory...
From Audit to Execution: Your First 7 Days of a Clean Social Strategy
The article presents a step‑by‑step, seven‑day social‑media strategy reset that begins with a 60‑90‑minute audit and ends with a week‑two content plan. It stresses platform‑specific audits, profile optimization, a single‑session content batch, and early engagement before scaling volume. The workflow...
White House Pushes ‘Action-Oriented’ Cyber Strategy to Deter Threats
The White House unveiled an action‑oriented National Cyber Strategy aimed at deterring cyber adversaries and protecting American victims. Senior ONCD official Seth McKinnis highlighted six strategic pillars, with deterrence as the first, and emphasized the need for swift, aggressive responses. President...
Learn How to Protect Your Phone From Viruses and Other Threats
Smartphones now serve as personal, professional, and financial hubs, making them prime targets for cyber threats. A recent CNET survey found that 54% of laptop owners encountered malware in the past year, underscoring the broader risk landscape. The article outlines...
Bluesky Blames DDoS Attack for Server Outages
Bluesky reported intermittent service disruptions on April 16 after a Distributed Denial‑of‑Service (DDoS) attack began at 1:42 AM ET. The attack intensified throughout the day, affecting feeds, notifications, threads and search, and caused rolling blackouts on the platform and its status...
MCP Security: Containerization and Red Hat OpenShift Integration
Red Hat OpenShift’s container platform now serves as the recommended foundation for securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments. By running MCP servers in non‑root containers with read‑only filesystems, minimal UBI base images, and dropped Linux capabilities, organizations can harden the runtime...
Friday Five — April 17, 2026
Red Hat’s latest Friday Five highlights a strategic push toward AI sovereignty, emphasizing the need for comprehensive inventories of data, infrastructure, and architecture to meet security and compliance demands. A Red Hat blog warns that advanced models like Claude Mythos can both uncover...
The Zero Touch Future: Enabling Telstra’s Path to a Fully Autonomous, Self-Healing Network
At MWC 2026, Telstra showcased a proof‑of‑concept that automatically detected and healed an unplanned infrastructure outage within minutes, leveraging Red Hat’s OpenShift AI and Ansible Automation Platform. The AI agent unified multivendor data, reasoned about the fault, and executed remediation through policy‑as‑code...
AI Must Not Think for Us, to Work for Us-
Artificial intelligence has evolved from a novelty chatbot to a powerful productivity tool that can locate data, run statistical analyses, and generate polished reports in minutes. The author illustrates how AI accelerates research, lowers costs for entrepreneurs, and empowers lower‑skill...
Ocean Radar Network Plans Outlined
Taiwan is constructing a national ocean‑radar network to boost monitoring in strategic waters such as the Taiwan Shoal, Luzon Strait and Pengjia Islet. The plan calls for integrating 57 disparate radar systems across four government agencies, expanding coverage to 210,000 km²...
Global Directory of Earth Observation Satellite Operators and Their Products and Services
In April 2026 the earth‑observation market is organized around four operator groups—optical, radar, specialist sensing, and public‑mission providers—and increasingly sells services rather than raw images. Commercial firms such as Maxar, Planet, Airbus, BlackSky, ICEYE and GHGSat bundle tasking, analytics, alerts and...
Yahoo DSP Taps Guardian in Push for Cleaner Programmatic Supply
Yahoo DSP has partnered with The Guardian to create a direct‑to‑publisher pathway that lets advertisers buy the newspaper’s premium digital inventory through Yahoo Backstage. The integration simplifies campaign discovery, activation and optimisation, reducing the complexity of programmatic buying. The Guardian...
Nexxen Launches Enhancements to ‘nexAI DSP Assistant’ to Amplify ‘Full-Funnel’ Campaign Outcomes
Advertising technology firm Nexxen unveiled major upgrades to its AI‑driven demand‑side platform, the nexAI DSP Assistant. The enhancements expand the assistant’s role to pre‑campaign quality assurance, real‑time mid‑flight optimization, and post‑campaign analytics, while a new user interface simplifies workflow and...
How to Build a Signature Content Series that Grows Your Audience
The article provides a step‑by‑step guide to creating a signature content series that accelerates audience growth, highlighting a five‑step framework that starts with planning six episodes before launch. It distinguishes episodic, serialized, and hybrid formats, stressing the importance of a...
Dear Google, Fix Google Home, Now
Google’s push to embed its Gemini AI into the Google Home ecosystem has unintentionally degraded the platform’s reliability. Users now encounter slower response times, voice‑recognition glitches, and frequent disconnections. The problems stem from an aggressive software overhaul that prioritized AI...
Obesity Treatment Firm Kailera Upsizes IPO to Raise $625 Million
Kailera Therapeutics Inc., a clinical‑stage biotech specializing in obesity treatments, announced an upsized initial public offering. The company sold roughly 39 million shares at $16 each, raising $625 million, the largest U.S. biotech listing since 2021. The offering was priced at the...
Coachella 2026 Wasn’t Just a Music Festival; It Was a Brand Universe
Coachella 2026 transcended a music event, becoming a sprawling brand universe where beauty, spirits, AI and hospitality brands built immersive experiences. Hailey Bieber’s Rhode launch, Kendall Jenner’s 818 Tequila outpost, and Red Bull’s 20,000‑sq‑ft Mirage turned product drops into cultural...
New Open-Source Python-Based Software Boosts Space-Weather Modeling
University of Birmingham researchers, together with Los Alamos, Exeter and Northumbria, have released PIRAN, a free open‑source Python package that computes relativistic diffusion coefficients for wave‑particle interactions in Earth’s radiation belts. The tool reproduces results from legacy proprietary codes while...
Google Details AI Push Against Harmful Ads
Google announced that its Gemini‑powered AI models are now filtering harmful ads more effectively, removing 438.6 million ads and suspending 594,000 advertiser accounts in Australia during 2025. The same technology blocked over 8.3 billion ads worldwide and shut down 24.9 million accounts, including...
The Best iPhone 17 Cases for 2026
CNET’s roundup of the best iPhone 17 cases highlights a crowded market where protection, style, and MagSafe compatibility compete for consumer attention. Drop‑test ratings range from modest 6‑foot protection on budget silicone shells to rugged 25‑foot claims from premium brands like...
ICYMI This Week at the Smart Buildings Center & Building Potential
The Smart Buildings Center hosted the third SBX Plus webinar, “How to Utilize Diagnostic Tools to Identify Energy Savings.” The session, led by Southern California Edison’s Jorge Melendez, ATS Automation’s Robby Martin, and SBC’s Britton Rife, demonstrated how modern diagnostic...
K1x Secures $175 Million for Private Markets AI Tax Tech
K1x, an AI‑native private‑markets tax data platform, secured a $175 million growth investment led by Sumeru Equity Partners, with Edison Partners also participating. The transaction makes Sumeru the majority shareholder and provides capital to deepen K1x’s AI‑driven platform, accelerate product development,...
BCM Group Launches Search Works, to Unify Owned, Earned and Paid in an AI Era
Queensland‑based BCM Group has launched Search Works, a data‑driven brand visibility platform that replaces traditional SEO with an adaptive SEO/GEO model tailored for AI‑powered search. The service, led by Managing Director Lukas Temple, already secured new clients Youi Insurance and...
A Reckoning for SaaS Investors?
Investors are growing cautious about traditional SaaS models as the market pivots from seat‑license, record‑keeping products toward platforms that deliver automation, outcomes, and integrated action. The shift is driven by AI‑enabled features that promise measurable business results rather than static...
CoSN 2026: AI Strategy Should Start With Goals for Student Skills
At the CoSN 2026 conference, experts urged K‑12 leaders to reverse the common tools‑first mindset and start AI planning with clear student skill goals. Chris Agnew of Stanford’s AI Hub for Education emphasized that districts should define desired graduate competencies,...
From Lockdown to the Lab: Researcher Develops 'Decoy Molecule' To Slow Down Coronavirus
During the COVID‑19 lockdown, Ph.D. candidate Koen Rijpkema engineered decoy molecules that bind tightly to the coronavirus Mac1 enzyme, which normally dampens immune signaling. By mimicking the enzyme’s natural substrate, the decoys keep Mac1 occupied, allowing the immune system to detect...
Singapore: Advancing Design AI to Drive Human-Centric Innovation
Singapore is transitioning AI from experimental pilots to purposeful, design‑led integration across both large enterprises and SMEs. Minister of State Rahayu Mahzam emphasized that organisations now focus on how AI can drive productivity, transformation and new value streams. Government programmes...
The Philippines: Five Mindoro Barangays Receive Digital Boost
The Department of Information and Communications Technology launched the “Balik Loob: Reintegrasyong Digital” programme in five Mindoro barangays, delivering ten laptops and ten prepaid Wi‑Fi units to each community. The initiative focuses on former rebel returnees and local residents, providing...
Air Force Awarded Development Contract for Space-Based AMTI; Meink Says Risk Low
The U.S. Department of the Air Force has awarded a multi‑vendor contract to develop a space‑based air moving target indication (AMTI) system, with the first operational increment expected soon. Secretary Troy Meink emphasized that the technology’s risk is low, citing...
Australia: UNSW Develops AI Companions to Support Student Well-Being
UNSW researchers have created prototype AI companions, Tom and Mia, to support student well‑being through on‑demand, screen‑based conversations. The digital characters are bilingual in English and Mandarin, targeting isolation among domestic and international students. Designed as a “skilled friend” rather...