News•Feb 19, 2026
How AI Is Forcing Storage Back Into the Enterprise Conversation
Early enterprise AI projects allocated most budgets to compute, treating storage as a leftover expense. As AI moves from experimentation to production, organizations discover that data readiness and storage performance, especially for retrieval‑augmented generation and inference, are the real constraints. Modern workloads demand object storage that can serve high‑bandwidth, shared access without costly duplication. Vendors like HPE are building composable storage platforms to meet these needs.
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 19, 2026
Accenture Wins Competition-Free £54m From Post Office
The UK Post Office has awarded Accenture a £54 million, competition‑free contract to manage its back‑office IT services from April 2026 through June 2029. The deal covers finance, ERP, HR, process automation and application modernisation across more than 11,500 branches, but excludes the...
By The Stack (TheStack.technology)
News•Feb 19, 2026
WaveMaker Fuses Design and Development with Architecture-First Agentic Application Generation System for Enterprise Dev Teams
WaveMaker unveiled an agentic application generation system that blends AI‑driven code creation with a design‑first, architecture‑first methodology for enterprise developers. The hybrid IDE accepts Figma files and natural‑language prompts, producing tech‑stack‑agnostic markup that is validated before deterministic code generation. By...
By SD Times
News•Feb 19, 2026
IAB Tech Lab Opens Public Comment on Live Event Ad Playbook
IAB Tech Lab has opened a public comment period for the Live Event Ad Playbook (LEAP) Forecasting API, a new standard designed to make live streaming inventory visible and actionable for programmatic buying. The API lets broadcasters share structured metadata—schedules,...
By TVTechnology
News•Feb 19, 2026
India Extends UPI One World Pilot for International Visitors at AI Impact Summit 2026: Does It Signal Global Rollout?
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has extended its UPI One World wallet service to international visitors attending the India AI Impact Summit 2026. The extension is a temporary, invitation‑only pilot that allows foreign delegates to make real‑time payments...
By PaySpace Magazine
News•Feb 19, 2026
Heart Failure Company BioVentrix Files for IPO
BioVentrix, a Massachusetts medtech firm developing the Revivent heart‑failure system, filed an IPO prospectus on Feb. 12, targeting a Nasdaq listing under BVXX. The company estimates a $10 billion valuation in the U.S. and $16 billion globally. Revivent, a minimally invasive LV reconstruction...
By Cardiovascular Business
News•Feb 19, 2026
HHS Burrows Into Identifying Risks to Health Sector From Third-Party Vendors
HHS is intensifying its focus on third‑party vendor security after the 2024 Change Healthcare ransomware attack, which exploited a remote‑access portal lacking multifactor authentication and exposed the data of about 190 million individuals. The breach threatened the liquidity of the entire...
By CyberScoop
News•Feb 19, 2026
Cold Email Statistics You Need to Know in 2026
Cold email continues to deliver the highest ROI among outbound channels, but success hinges on meeting 2026 benchmarks. Average reply rates sit between 3% and 5%, while top performers achieve 10% or higher. Personalization can lift replies by up to...
By SalesHandy
News•Feb 19, 2026
ONCD Official Says Trump Administration Aims to Bolster AI Use for Defense without Increasing Risk
The Office of the National Cyber Director announced that the Trump administration will accelerate the deployment of AI-driven cyber defensive tools while safeguarding against expanded attack surfaces. Principal Deputy Assistant Cyber Director Alexandra Seymour said the effort will be coordinated...
By CyberScoop
News•Feb 19, 2026
Meta Reportedly Releasing More Display Glasses, Health and AI-Focused Smartwatch Later This Year
Meta is set to revive its smartwatch project with a 2026 launch under the codename “Malibu 2.” The new device will prioritize health tracking and deep integration with Meta’s AI services, diverging from earlier Android‑based concepts. In parallel, Meta plans to...
By 9to5Google
News•Feb 19, 2026
AI-Driven Infrastructure Dominates Travel Tech’s Third Start-Up & Investor Connect
The Travel Technology Association’s third Quarterly Start‑Up & Investor Connect webinar highlighted a clear industry shift toward AI‑driven operational infrastructure. Four early‑stage founders—Chirrup, HousMthr, Lake.com and Vibe Adventures—presented solutions targeting payments, communications, and supply‑chain efficiency rather than incremental consumer features....
By Hotel News Resource
News•Feb 19, 2026
Automating Unix Security Across Hybrid Clouds
The article introduces a “Patching as Code” framework that automates Unix security updates across hybrid‑cloud environments by containerizing the patching toolchain and driving it through a CI/CD pipeline. A CSV‑based schedule stored in Git triggers a Python controller that launches...
By DZone – DevOps & CI/CD
News•Feb 19, 2026
Showcase Honors State Projects for ‘Doing Things Differently’
The Apolitical platform, together with the National Academy of Public Administration and Humans of Public Service, launched the inaugural “50 States, 50 Breakthroughs” showcase, honoring innovative projects from every U.S. state, D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico. Recognized initiatives span AI‑driven...
By Route Fifty — Finance (section)
News•Feb 19, 2026
I Played Microsoft Flight Simulator with This Revolutionary Joystick Disguised as a Controller — and I'm in Love with It
The Honeycomb Echo Aviation Controller is a compact, PC‑only flight‑sim peripheral that packs authentic aircraft controls into a travel‑friendly package. Priced at $149.99, it features a Hall‑Effect thumbstick, interchangeable levers, and a rugged carrying case, while allowing deep customization of...
By Windows Central
News•Feb 19, 2026
NHPBS Readies For ATSC 3.0 Service With Assistance Of Heartland Video Systems
New Hampshire PBS (NHPBS) has completed a statewide air‑chain upgrade to support ATSC 3.0, with Heartland Video Systems delivering design, hardware, and remote commissioning. The project replaced legacy ATSC 1.0 encoders with Harmonic XOS units, added HEVC‑DASH capable equipment, and installed a...
By TVTechnology
News•Feb 19, 2026
Yokogawa, ANYbotics Integrate OpreXTM Robot Management Core Software Into ANYmal Inspection Robots
Yokogawa Electric and Swiss robot maker ANYbotics announced that Yokogawa’s OpreX™ Robot Management Core software will be embedded in ANYbotics’ ANYmal inspection robot family, including the upcoming explosion‑proof ANYmal X slated for a 2026 launch. The integration links robot fleets...
By Robotics 24/7
News•Feb 19, 2026
INTERPOL Operation Red Card 2.0 Arrests 651 in African Cybercrime Crackdown
INTERPOL’s Operation Red Card 2.0, conducted from Dec 8 2025 to Jan 30 2026, resulted in 651 arrests across 16 African nations and the seizure of more than $4.3 million. The eight‑week crackdown exposed scams responsible for roughly $45 million in losses and identified 1,247 victims worldwide....
By The Hacker News
News•Feb 19, 2026
GE HealthCare Nabs 3 Notable MRI FDA Clearances
GE HealthCare announced FDA clearance for three next‑generation MRI products: the 1.5‑T Signa Sprint with Freelium, the 3‑T Signa Bolt, and the AI‑driven workflow platform Signa One. The Sprint uses a helium‑free magnet that consumes less than 1 % of traditional coolant, while the...
By Radiology Business
News•Feb 19, 2026
AMD Zen 6 Desktop CPUs Rumored: 6 to 24 Cores and 12-Core CCDs
AMD is rumored to launch Zen 6 desktop CPUs featuring a 12‑core CCD, enabling dual‑CCD configurations that could reach up to 24 cores. This would be the first time the mainstream Ryzen line exceeds the 16‑core ceiling that has persisted since...
By Guru3D
News•Feb 19, 2026
A New Method to Decode How DNA 'Switches' Control Gene Activity
Researchers unveiled e2MPRA, a massively parallel reporter assay that simultaneously measures regulatory activity, chromatin accessibility, and H3K27ac modifications across thousands of cis‑regulatory elements. Validated on ~10,000 synthetic and native sequences, the method links single‑base mutations to multi‑layered gene‑regulatory outcomes. The...
By Phys.org – Biotechnology
News•Feb 19, 2026
Metropolitan Commercial Bank Forges Partnership with Finzly
Metropolitan Commercial Bank (MCB) has partnered with Finzly to replace its legacy ACH mainframe with a cloud‑native, API‑first payment platform that consolidates ACH, wires and real‑time payments on a single system. The bank is the first to adopt Finzly’s unified...
By Finovate
News•Feb 19, 2026
Hasbro CEO: ‘We’re Beyond Experimentation’ with AI
Hasbro is scaling artificial‑intelligence tools across finance, supply‑chain, order management and product design, moving beyond pilot projects. The company has formalized responsible‑use guidelines and teamed with Google Gemini, OpenAI and ElevenLabs to embed AI into daily workflows. Executives estimate the...
By Retail Dive
News•Feb 19, 2026
MIT Researchers Develop Miniaturized Breast Ultrasound Wearable
MIT researchers have created a miniature ultrasound system roughly the size of a smartphone and costing about $300, capable of capturing real‑time three‑dimensional breast images. The device uses a square‑array probe with CODA geometry, reducing transducer elements from 1,024 to...
By Medical Design & Outsourcing
News•Feb 19, 2026
Triplet Superconductivity—Physicists May Have Found the Missing Link for Quantum Computers
Physicists led by Jacob Linder at Norway’s NTNU claim to have observed intrinsic triplet superconductivity in a niobium‑rhenium (NbRe) alloy. The discovery, published in Physical Review Letters, suggests NbRe can carry spin‑polarized Cooper pairs without resistance, a property absent in...
By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Google Chrome Adds Split View and PDF Annotation with Drive Upload
Google Chrome 145 introduces three desktop productivity upgrades: Split View for side‑by‑side tabs, PDF annotation tools for highlighting and note‑taking, and a Save to Google Drive button that uploads PDFs directly to a designated Drive folder. Split View is accessed via...
By 9to5Google
News•Feb 19, 2026
Amazfit Debuts T-Rex Ultra 2 Watch with Biotracking, 30-Day Battery
Amazfit, Zepp Health’s flagship wearable brand, launched the T‑Rex Ultra 2, a rugged GPS smartwatch aimed at extreme‑environment users. The device combines comprehensive biotracking—heart rate, SpO₂, sleep, breathing, and stress metrics—with 30‑day battery life, 100‑metre water resistance, and a Low Temperature...
By MobiHealthNews (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Better-Auth Flaw Allows Unauthenticated API Key Creation
A critical flaw (CVE‑2025‑61928) in the better‑auth npm library’s API‑key plugin lets unauthenticated actors mint privileged API keys for arbitrary users. The vulnerability stems from improper authorization checks in the createApiKey and updateApiKey handlers, which accept a userId without a...
By eSecurity Planet
News•Feb 19, 2026
When Air Gaps Are Not Enough—Managing File and Media Risk in Nuclear Facilities
Urenco, a global uranium enrichment firm, faced fragmented, manual controls for removable media and file transfers across its air‑gapped nuclear facilities. To achieve consistent security, it deployed OPSWAT’s MetaDefender platform, routing all devices through centralized, zero‑trust inspection checkpoints. The solution...
By POWER Magazine
News•Feb 19, 2026
AVX Networks Awarded $37.5M Catalina Broadband Grant
California’s Public Utilities Commission awarded AVX Networks a $37.5 million grant to deploy submarine fiber‑optic cable linking Catalina Island to Huntington Beach. The funding will enable high‑speed broadband for more than 3,500 island residents, bolstering telehealth, remote education, and local businesses....
By SubTel Forum
News•Feb 19, 2026
KPMG Launches Tax AI Accelerator Program to Advance Generative AI in Corporate Tax
KPMG has introduced a Tax AI Accelerator Program that equips corporate tax departments with generative‑AI skills and a custom Digital Gateway deployment on Microsoft Azure OpenAI. The initiative blends technical training, prompt‑engineering workshops, and a secure sandbox where participants test...
By ERP Today
News•Feb 19, 2026
What’s Behind a Big Jump in January Property Tech Funding
Property‑tech companies secured roughly $1.7 billion in January 2026, a 176 % jump from the same month a year earlier. The average deal size more than doubled to about $34 million, reflecting a shift toward larger, later‑stage rounds. Generative AI is identified as...
By CNBC – Markets
News•Feb 19, 2026
Energy Ministers Fail to Agree on Climate Goals as US Drives Wedge
Energy ministers at the International Energy Agency meeting failed to produce a joint climate‑change communiqué, as U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright aggressively challenged the agency’s net‑zero agenda. European ministers, led by the UK, France and Spain, reaffirmed the importance of...
By Financial Times – Climate Capital
News•Feb 19, 2026
Grotto AI Secures $10M to Improve Leasing With AI
Grotto AI announced a $10 million seed round led by ICONIQ to tackle multifamily housing vacancy, a problem estimated to cost $500 billion in lost value. The startup’s AI platform provides real‑time coaching to leasing agents, analyzing conversations to improve rapport and...
By Just AI News
News•Feb 19, 2026
Magdrive’s Plasma Thruster Proves Its Mettle in First Orbital Test
Magdrive’s Rogue plasma thruster completed its first orbital firing test, demonstrating that a sliver of copper or aluminum can serve as propellant. The 3‑kg unit stores up to 10 kJ in commercial supercapacitors and discharges up to 200 W to create plasma...
By Aerospace America (AIAA)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Vetting AI Vendors: 6 Areas Every Legal Team Should Assess
The Above the Law guide outlines six critical areas legal teams must evaluate when selecting AI vendors, emphasizing risks around confidentiality, privilege, and reliability. It provides practical questions for each assessment category and highlights Filevine’s LOIS platform as an integrated...
By Above the Law
News•Feb 19, 2026
Flaw in Grandstream VoIP Phones Allows Stealthy Eavesdropping
A critical stack‑buffer overflow (CVE‑2026‑2329) was discovered in six Grandstream GXP1600 series VoIP phones, receiving a CVSS score of 9.3. The flaw resides in an unauthenticated web API endpoint that lets attackers overflow a 64‑byte buffer, gain root privileges, and...
By BleepingComputer
News•Feb 19, 2026
5 Powerful Command Line Tricks Every Raspberry Pi Owner Should Know
Raspberry Pi owners can boost reliability and efficiency by mastering five essential command‑line tools. Monitoring temperature with vcgencmd prevents throttling, while cron automates routine scripts. htop offers real‑time insight into CPU and memory usage, and SSH enables headless remote control. Finally, nmap...
By How-To Geek
News•Feb 19, 2026
How Health Systems Reduce the Strain of Documentation Burden
Health systems are turning to cloud‑based generative AI to slash documentation overload. City of Hope deployed HopeLLM, an agentic large‑language‑model platform that creates concise medical‑history summaries in minutes, freeing clinicians from nightly “pajama time.” Providence built Provaria on Azure, using...
By HealthTech Magazine
News•Feb 19, 2026
Moderne Expands Agent Tools Platform with Python Support
Moderne announced Python language support on its Agent Tools platform, integrating the language into the OpenRewrite Lossless Semantic Tree. The addition extends deterministic, recipe‑driven automation—previously limited to Java and JavaScript/TypeScript—to Python codebases. Enterprises can now coordinate large‑scale runtime upgrades, API...
By DEVOPSdigest
News•Feb 19, 2026
NASA to Provide Starliner Crew Flight Test Review Findings Today
NASA will hold a live news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb 19, 2026, to release the investigation findings from Boeing’s 2024 Starliner crewed test flight to the International Space Station. The briefing, streamed on NASA’s YouTube channel, will feature Administrator...
By NASA News (Breaking)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Contact Centre Strategies Summit Toronto 2026
The Contact Centre Strategies Summit Toronto 2026 will take place February 24‑25 at the Old Mill Toronto Hotel, offering both in‑person and virtual attendance. Organized by Strategy Institute, the two‑day event targets leaders from financial services, retail, telecom, healthcare, public...
By CMSWire » CRM/Customer Experience
News•Feb 19, 2026
'Moon‑mentous' Moments Await at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center
Visitors to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center in February and March 2026 can see NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Launch Complex 39B, the vehicle slated for Artemis II. Artemis II will be the first crewed flight of the SLS and Orion,...
By TTG Media
News•Feb 19, 2026
MSP Next Dimension Consolidates Security Stack on Todyl Platform
Next Dimension has entered a strategic partnership with Todyl to migrate its managed security services onto Todyl’s cloud‑native platform, unifying SIEM, EDR and MXDR under a single console. The integration replaces fragmented toolsets with AI‑driven, contextual case management, cutting investigation...
By ChannelE2E
News•Feb 19, 2026
Windows 7 and Windows 8 Are Losing Their Last Web Browser
Mozilla announced that Firefox 115 will be the final version supporting Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, with security patches ending in March 2026. Microsoft stopped security updates for those OSes in January 2023, and other major browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Vivaldi have...
By How-To Geek
News•Feb 19, 2026
Integrated Safety Vs. Standalone Safety Controllers
Integrated safety controllers using industrial Ethernet dominate complex automation, offering reduced wiring, scalable diagnostics, and deterministic communication. However, standalone safety controllers remain preferable for simple machines, multi‑vendor environments, and retrofit projects due to their independence and ease of validation. Dedicated...
By Control Design
News•Feb 19, 2026
More Americans Want Brands To Get Political
Ipsos’ February 2026 Consumer Tracker of 1,085 U.S. adults shows a nuanced shift in attitudes toward corporate political engagement. While a solid majority—57% on social issues and 56% on political issues—still prefer brands to stay neutral, the share that endorses...
By O’Dwyer’s PR
News•Feb 19, 2026
Britain’s Labour Government Feels the Heat over Palantir Contracts
Britain’s Labour government is under growing pressure over its contracts with U.S. data‑analytics firm Palantir, which include a £330 million NHS platform and a £240 million defence deal awarded without competition. Critics cite the company’s founder Peter Thiel, its work with ICE, and...
By Politico Europe – Technology
News•Feb 19, 2026
Cendyn Honored With Three Adrian Awards at HSMAI Celebration
Cendyn was honored with three Adrian Awards at the 69th HSMAI ceremony, winning a silver for its multi‑channel campaign with The Watergate Hotel and bronze awards for a paid‑media campaign for Royalton Resorts and a website redesign for The Maven....
By Hotel News Resource
News•Feb 19, 2026
Google Blocked over 1.75 Million Play Store App Submissions in 2025
Google reported that in 2025 it blocked more than 1.75 million app submissions and denied 255,000 apps access to sensitive user data on the Play Store. The company also banned over 80,000 developer accounts and added 10,000 new safety checks powered...
By BleepingComputer
News•Feb 19, 2026
Saving Banks From Technical Debt: How Atruvia Built Secure, Self-Service Infrastructure
Atruvia, the backbone of over 900 German cooperative banks, tackled massive technical debt by adopting HashiCorp Terraform and Vault. The shift to infrastructure‑as‑code slashed cluster provisioning from three months to two hours and cut network setup from weeks to minutes....
By HashiCorp Blog