
Identity Under Siege: What the Salt Typhoon Campaign Reveals About Trusted Access Risks
The Salt Typhoon espionage campaign compromised email accounts of U.S. congressional staff by exploiting stolen credentials rather than deploying malware. Attackers blended into normal email and cloud traffic, maintaining persistent, low‑noise access to sensitive communications. The breach underscores that identity systems have become a primary attack surface, allowing threat actors to operate inside trusted environments without triggering conventional defenses. Vendors like Seceon argue that unified, behavior‑based platforms are essential to detect and remediate such credential‑based intrusions.
Harnessing the Medicinal Benefits of Thyme Extract via Nanodosing
Russian researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic and Surgut State Universities have demonstrated a microfluidic technique that encapsulates thyme extract in gelatin‑alginate nanodroplets within an oil carrier. The process creates self‑regulating nanodoses, preventing rapid evaporation and skin irritation associated with raw thyme...

'Backward and Upward and Tilted': Spaceflight Causes Astronauts' Brains to Shift Inside Their Skulls
A MIT study using MRI scans of 26 astronauts and 24 controls found that prolonged exposure to microgravity causes the brain to move backward, upward, and rotate within the skull. The positional shifts, measured up to 2.5 mm, were observed across...
DeepSeek’s Conditional Memory Fixes Silent LLM Waste: GPU Cycles Lost to Static Lookups
DeepSeek introduced Engram, a conditional memory module that separates static pattern retrieval from dynamic reasoning in large language models. By allocating roughly 25% of sparse capacity to memory and 75% to computation, the system achieves O(1) lookups via hash tables...

GitGuardian Closes 2025 with Strong Enterprise Momentum, Protecting Millions of Developers Worldwide
GitGuardian reported record ARR growth in 2025, fueled by rapid enterprise adoption across North America and Europe. The platform now safeguards over 115,000 developers, monitors more than 610,000 repositories and 210,000 collaboration‑tool sources, a seven‑fold increase from the prior year....

Onsetto Closes $2.2m Seed Funding Led by EJF Ventures
Onsetto, a fintech platform that automates business account switching, closed a $2.2 million seed round led by EJF Ventures, with participation from Idea Fund, The Perch Fund and regional angels. The financing will accelerate AI‑driven product enhancements and expand sales and...

Morphological Anomalies Found in Japanese Haemaphysalis Ticks
Japanese researchers have documented the first morphological anomalies in the tick species Haemaphysalis megaspinosa, publishing detailed findings in Acta Parasitologica. The study reports malformed legs, irregular scutum patterns, and atypical mouthpart development, challenging the long‑held view of the species' morphological...

The Perfume Shop Reports Strong Festive Performance
The Perfume Shop posted a robust festive season, with perfume bottle sales climbing 6% year‑on‑year. Between 30 November and 24 December customers purchased over 1.58 million bottles, averaging more than 63 000 per day. December sales rose 1.6%, led by Dior Sauvage, Carolina Herrera Good Girl and Chanel Coco Mademoiselle,...

Molten Ventures Leads £4m Series A in MAIA Technology
London‑based MAIA Technology announced a £4 million Series A round led by Molten Ventures, with Mountside Ventures advising. The fintech startup offers a unified portfolio‑management platform that combines analysis, compliance and trading workflows, replacing legacy, manual processes. The new capital will accelerate...

The RAM Shortage Driving up Tech Prices Won’t End Any Time Soon, Micron Says
Micron warns that a RAM shortage driven by AI data‑center demand will persist until at least 2028, as its existing fabs are fully allocated to AI‑optimized modules. The company’s new Idaho ID1 facility is slated to come online in mid‑2027,...

Convincing LinkedIn Comment-Reply Tactic Used in New Phishing
Scammers are posting fake LinkedIn reply comments that mimic official policy‑violation notices and direct users to malicious links. The fraudsters leverage LinkedIn’s own lnkd.in URL shortener, making the phishing URLs appear legitimate. Impersonated company pages also use the LinkedIn logo...

Polygon Labs to Acquire Coinme, Sequence
Polygon Labs announced a $250 million acquisition of Coinme and Sequence. The Coinme deal will close in Q2 2026, while Sequence is expected to finalize this month, pending regulatory approvals. Coinme brings regulated stablecoin and crypto‑payment licenses across 48 U.S. states, and...
Antwerp’s AZ Monica Hospital Hit by Cyber Attack
AZ Monica hospital in Antwerp suffered a cyber attack on Tuesday, forcing a shutdown of computer systems at its Deurne and Harmonie campuses. The breach was detected at 6:30 am, prompting staff to power down servers and initiate an investigation by...

Revolut Adds Call Identification Feature to Combat Impersonation Scams
Revolut has launched a call identification feature that alerts users when they are on a phone call with the app, indicating whether the caller is a legitimate Revolut agent. The tool displays a banner in real time, offering guidance to...
Digital Health Funding Increases in 2025, Spurred by AI: Report
Digital health funding jumped to $14.2 billion in 2025, the highest level since 2022, driven largely by artificial‑intelligence startups. AI‑focused firms secured 54% of total capital and enjoyed a 19% premium in average deal size versus non‑AI peers. Although the total...
Portugal Signs Artemis Accords
Portugal officially joined the Artemis Accords, becoming the 60th nation to endorse the U.S.-led lunar partnership. The signing completes a near‑full European roster, with only a few states yet to ratify. Earlier reports suggested Latvia had already signed, but NASA’s...

Netcapital Announces First Tokenized Offering as Markets Shift to Digital Securities
Netcapital, a FINRA‑regulated funding portal, announced its first tokenized offering, partnering with PureWave Hydrogen Corp. to issue a securities‑based token representing hydrogen‑drilling assets on the Mid‑Continent Kansas shelf. The revenue‑generating security is touted as the first of its kind, highlighting...
Moneyhub Selected by Nationwide to Create AI-Driven Spending Insights for All Customers
Moneyhub has been selected by Nationwide to power AI‑driven spending insights for the lender’s 16 million UK customers. The firm’s Categorisation and Enrichment engine will analyse every transaction, adding merchant identifiers, website links and location data. This granular view enables users...
Quantum-Dot Device Can Generate Multiple Frequency-Entangled Photons
Researchers at Telecom Paris unveiled a shaping frequency entangling gate (FrEnGATE) that uses a quantum‑dot embedded waveguide to generate multiple frequency‑entangled photons. The device operates in the 1550 nm telecom band and can repeatedly entangle photons without post‑generation filtering. Numerical simulations...

British Business Bank Boosts Midlands SMEs with New ART Business Loans Partnership
The British Business Bank has added Midlands‑based ART Business Loans as the fourth accredited delivery partner for its Community ENABLE Funding programme. The partnership unlocks up to £7 million for West Midlands SMEs, contributing to a £150 million lending target over the...
Open-Source Robotic System Cuts Manual Cell Culture Time by 61% While Boosting Seeding Consistency
Researchers unveiled the Automated Cell Culture Splitter, an open‑source system built around the Opentrons OT‑2 robot and a custom cell‑counting imager. In tests with HEK293T cells, the platform cut hands‑on passaging time by 61% and delivered a 92% usable imaging...

AI Browsers Are Creating a New Governance Gap
AI‑enhanced browsers are embedding large‑language‑model capabilities directly into everyday workflows, turning the browser into an invisible assistant. This shift creates a new form of shadow AI that bypasses traditional IT detection because interactions appear as ordinary browsing. Employees increasingly rely...

SoftSnow Becomes Zapier Silver Solution Partner, Expanding AI Automation Services
SoftSnow, an AI consulting firm, announced its new Zapier Silver Solution Partner status, enabling it to embed Zapier’s low‑code automation across 8,000+ apps. The partnership expands SoftSnow’s AI Strategic Transformation methodology with enterprise‑grade security, governance, and scalable workflow design. By...
A Quarter-Century in Orbit: Science Shaping Life on Earth and Beyond
Over 25 years, the International Space Station has become a unique microgravity laboratory, enabling breakthroughs in protein crystallization, disease research, and space agriculture. Experiments such as Angiex Cancer Therapy and NanoRacks‑PCG have produced higher‑quality crystals that inform targeted cancer drugs,...

Tasq AI and BLEND Announce Merger to Launch the “Trust Layer” For Global Enterprise AI
Tasq AI and BLEND have merged to form a unified platform that delivers a “trust layer” for enterprise AI, combining Tasq’s proprietary data‑refinery technology with BLEND’s global crowd of millions and 25,000 domain experts. The new entity, operating under the...

The Essential Reading Series: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Essential Reading Series curates a diverse collection of books that explore the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) from scientific, cultural, and philosophical angles. Titles range from Carl Sagan’s fictional dramatization in *Contact* to Paul Davies’ analytical works on the...

When the Marketing Graph Becomes the Target Map
A Wired investigation uncovered that Google’s ad service hosted audience segments tied to highly sensitive groups, allowing marketers and potential adversaries to target mobile devices linked to government employees and executives. The article warns that modern ad‑tech pipelines collect granular...
The Path to Solar Weather Forecasts Is Paved with Drops in Cosmic Rays
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and partner agencies have demonstrated a new way to monitor coronal mass ejections by tracking drops in cosmic‑ray intensity, known as Forbush decreases, using instruments not originally designed for science on multiple spacecraft. In...

Blast From the Past: A Rocket History Quiz
Space.com released a rocket‑history quiz that walks readers from ancient gunpowder experiments to today’s reusable launchers. The interactive format highlights milestones such as Tsiolkovsky’s liquid‑propellant theory, Goddard’s 1926 flight, the V‑2 missile, and the Saturn V moon rocket. It also spotlights...

Payments Association Calls for Bank of England to Stop Stifling Stablecoin Progress
The Payments Association released its 2026 manifesto, urging the Bank of England to remove holding limits, improve backing‑asset ratios, and lift the wholesale ban on systemic stablecoins. The 77‑policy blueprint, drafted by over 150 payments experts, targets regulatory bottlenecks that...
The Role of Identity in the PSD3 Era
PSD3, set to enforce in 2026, upgrades the European payments regime from PSD2’s data‑sharing focus to an identity‑centric security model. The directive mandates phishing‑resistant, biometric and behavioral authentication, and shifts authorized push‑payment fraud liability onto payment service providers. Real‑time, risk‑adaptive...

DXC Strengthens Alliance with SAP as a RISE with SAP Validated Partner
DXC Technology has been confirmed as a RISE with SAP Validated Partner, joining a select group recognized for deep SAP expertise and proven cloud migration experience. The firm boasts the industry’s largest SAP Business AI consulting team—2,200 specialists across 37...

The Essential Reading Series: Elon Musk
The Essential Reading Series compiles ten recent books that chronicle Elon Musk’s rise from a South African youth to the architect of Tesla, SpaceX, and multiple disruptive ventures. The titles range from Walter Isaacson’s comprehensive biography to niche studies of...

Avalon GloboCare Regains Compliance with Nasdaq Stockholders’ Equity Requirement, Launches Marketing for Automated Generative AI Video Platform
Avalon GloboCare Corp. announced it has regained compliance with Nasdaq’s minimum stockholders’ equity requirement, cancelling a pending hearing and keeping its shares listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market. The company highlighted its strengthened financial position and renewed focus on long‑term...

F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud Protects Cloud-Native Applications
F5 has introduced F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud, a managed, cloud‑native application delivery‑as‑a‑service that unifies load balancing, security and observability. Developed with Google Cloud, the service is available through the Marketplace and targets containerized, AI‑enabled workloads. It offers programmable traffic...
OneDrive Backup Just Got a Massive Change for the Better - How It Works Now
Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2 update automatically enables OneDrive Backup on fresh installations, moving Documents, Pictures and Desktop folders into the OneDrive directory while keeping local copies. The change is silent during the out‑of‑box experience, offering cloud sync without explicit user consent....

FirstComm Launches AscendOne, A Unified UC + CC + AI Platform Transforming Business Communications
FirstComm unveiled AscendOne, a unified communications platform that combines voice, messaging, video meetings, contact‑center functions and AI‑driven productivity tools into a single cloud solution. The platform runs on Intermedia Intelligent Communications’ AI‑enhanced infrastructure, offering 99.999% uptime and 24/7 U.S. support....
Bright Supernova Offers New View of Black Hole Birth
Astronomers observed supernova SN 2022esa, a type Ic‑CSM event, capturing the collapse of a massive Wolf‑Rayet star that formed a black hole. The team combined rapid Seimei and deep Subaru data to track its evolution, revealing a one‑month stable brightness plateau...

PH-1 Test Flight Advances Chinese Reusable Suborbital Spacecraft Plans
Chinese commercial aerospace firm CAS Space successfully flew its PH-1 suborbital vehicle, marking the first reusable test flight in the nation’s push toward low‑cost microgravity research and space tourism. The flight demonstrated autonomous navigation, thermal protection and a controlled splash‑down,...
Ancient Impact May Explain Moons Contrasting Sides
Scientists have long debated why the Moon’s near side is covered by dark volcanic maria while the far side remains a rugged highland. New research using Chang’e 6 far‑side samples reveals an enrichment of heavy potassium isotopes, a fingerprint of a...
12 Important Considerations When Deciding on Your Company’s Fiscal Year
Choosing a fiscal year is a strategic decision that shapes budgeting, tax planning, and investor communication. Companies can align the period with industry standards, revenue cycles, or seasonal peaks to improve reporting relevance. Legal and regulatory requirements, especially for multinational...
Google Takes Agentic Retail Into Chat
Google unveiled a universal commerce protocol (UCP) to streamline AI‑driven shopping, partnering with retailers like Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Lowe’s. The open‑source standard, backed by about 20 major payment firms including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Stripe, creates a common language...

BNP Paribas Launches Unified Asset Management Platform for European Markets
BNP Paribas has launched a unified asset‑management platform that merges AXA Investment Managers, BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management and BNP Paribas Asset Management. The combined entity now oversees more than €1.6 trillion in assets, including a €1 trillion liquid‑assets franchise and a €300 billion alternatives...

Understanding the Layers of AI Observability in the Age of LLMs
AI observability extends classic logging, metrics, and tracing into the probabilistic world of large language models. By breaking an LLM‑driven workflow into traces and nested spans, teams can monitor each step—from input handling to final decision—just like traditional production software....

Sofa Club Hires Paul Brennan as Managing Director
Sofa Club has appointed former Marc Jacobs executive Paul Brennan as its managing director. Brennan, who previously held senior roles at Yoox Net‑A‑Porter, Browns, John Lewis and most recently JW Anderson, will lead the brand’s UK expansion. The hire aligns...

Boostr and Passendo Announce Strategic Partnership to Unify Ad Management for Publishers’ High-Value Email Inventory
Boostr, a unified ad‑management platform, has partnered with Passendo, an email‑ad serving specialist, to bring newsletter inventory into a single workflow. The integration links Boostr’s OMS and CRM tools with Passendo’s dedicated email server, creating a consolidated view of display,...
What Sanofi’s Multiple Sclerosis Troubles Could Mean for the Space
Sanofi’s BTK inhibitor tolebrutinib failed pivotal late‑stage trials in both relapsing and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, prompting the FDA to reject its approval over liver toxicity concerns. The setback highlights the challenges of BTK‑targeted therapies, even as competitors like Roche’s...
Altcoin Season: Understanding the Cycles, Signals, Opportunities, and Risks Behind Crypto’s Most Profitable Phase
Altcoin season describes a market phase where alternative cryptocurrencies outpace Bitcoin in price growth, volume, and attention. It typically follows a strong Bitcoin rally, prompting investors to rotate capital into higher‑risk tokens as Bitcoin dominance falls. The cycle unfolds in...
Widespread Magecart Campaign Targets Users of All Major Credit Cards
Silent Push researchers have uncovered a global Magecart campaign that has been skimming credit‑card data from all major networks since 2022. The attackers host malicious JavaScript on innocuous domains such as cdn‑cookie.com and erase the code when a WordPress admin bar...