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Finding the right e-commerce platform is the first step offline commerce businesses take when they decide to go digital. While small and medium-sized businesses have little difficulty in choosing an e-commerce platform, for large companies, it may become a real challenge. Large-scale businesses require enterprise-level systems that can handle their heavy workload, provide enough functionality to support most of the business activities, and integrate with other systems. Therefore, many enterprises opt for developing custom enterprise commerce solutions. In this article, we’ll look into what enterprise commerce is in general, which business solutions companies can expect from ready-made enterprise commerce platforms,…

The Department of War (DoW) has defined an approach for implementing zero trust in weapon systems, which generally have different requirements than enterprise information technology (EIT) systems. Because of these differences, DoW stakeholders need guidance on how to tailor and adapt zero trust concepts to weapon system platforms. To help address this need, we conducted a study that analyzed the applicability of nine foundational security and zero trust principles to weapon system environments. These principles define a framework for making security decisions, implementing security controls, and enabling mission assurance through effective risk management. This blog summarizes the study and its…

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNAEnjoy today’s videos!Suzumori Endo Lab, Science Tokyo has developed a dog musculoskeletal robot using thin McKibben muscles. This robot mimics the flexible “hammock-like” shoulder structure to investigate the biomechanical functions of dog musculoskeletal systems.[ Suzimori Endo Robotics Laboratory ]HOLEY SNAILBOT!!![ Freeform Robotics ]We present a system that transforms speech into physical objects using 3D generative AI…

Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) isn’t just another ESG checkbox to tick off in an annual report. In this blog, Everest Group’s Peter Bendor-Samuel and Richard Sear bring together their perspectives from years of experience advising global enterprises and shaping advanced science and technology strategy. They argue that the urgency of climate change doesn’t leave us room for optimism dressed up as strategy. Instead of lofty promises or headline-grabbing announcements that fail to materialize, they call for a clear, business-driven approach, one grounded in innovation, scale, and economic reality. CCU isn’t fiction, but it’s not turnkey, either Carbon capture and…

The Transformer architecture revolutionized sequence modeling with its introduction of attention, a mechanism by which models look back at earlier inputs to prioritize relevant input data. However, computational cost increases drastically with sequence length, which limits the ability to scale Transformer-based models to extremely long contexts, such as those required for full-document understanding or genomic analysis.The research community explored various approaches for solutions, such as efficient linear recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and state space models (SSMs) like Mamba-2. These models offer fast, linear scaling by compressing context into a fixed-size. However, this fixed-size compression cannot adequately capture the rich information…

As the world relies on technology and data more and more, countless businesses have embraced new predictive tools. That includes predictive analytics software, which utilizes data to forecast everything from sales figures to supply chain issues. This invaluable tool uses machine learning to go through large volumes of data, saving businesses lots of time and money.  Not only can you access data faster than you previously could, but it’s also more in-depth and useful. This has led to the rise of real-time, in-depth predictive analytics, which have become crucial in risk management. Predictive analytics is inarguably the most useful way…

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models are increasingly shared across organizations, fine-tuned, and deployed in production systems. Cisco’s AI Defense offering includes a model file scanning tool designed to help organizations detect and mitigate risks in AI supply chains by verifying their integrity, scanning for malicious payloads, and ensuring compliance before deployment. Strengthening our ability to detect and neutralize these threats is critical for safeguarding both AI model integrity and operational security. Python pickle files comprise a large share of ML model files, but they introduce significant security risk because pickles can execute arbitrary code when loaded, even a…

Microsoft today pushed updates to fix at least 56 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This final Patch Tuesday of 2025 tackles one zero-day bug that is already being exploited, as well as two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities. Despite releasing a lower-than-normal number of security updates these past few months, Microsoft patched a whopping 1,129 vulnerabilities in 2025, an 11.9% increase from 2024. According to Satnam Narang at Tenable, this year marks the second consecutive year that Microsoft patched over one thousand vulnerabilities, and the third time it has done so since its inception. The zero-day flaw…

VANCOUVER — A new Clean Energy Canada report finds that while B.C. faces a triple threat—more extreme heat days, energy bills contributing to affordability concerns, and worsening climate impacts—there is one simple solution that has the potential to ease all three: the humble heat pump. The report, More for Less, draws on independent modelling from McDiarmid Climate Consulting and finds that a provincewide switch to heat pumps for space heating and cooling—paired with a mix of electrified water heating technologies—would slash British Columbians’ collective electricity bills by $675 million a year. For individual households, this translates to savings of about…