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Key Takeaways 96% of organizations are already investing in location intelligence and third-party data enrichment, but near-universal adoption does not equal maturity AI amplifies the consequences of incomplete or ungoverned context data – confidently wrong outputs are far more dangerous than mediocre ones. The question for data leaders has moved past “are we using enrichment?” to “is it governed, fresh, integrated, and truly AI-ready?” Here’s one thing I’ve learned after three decades in location data: nearly every organization has had a version of the same blind spot. They invest heavily in understanding their own operations – transactions, interactions, customer records…
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two men were the focus of a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity story about how their hosting companies had assumed control over the technical infrastructure of Stark Industries Solutions, an Internet service provider sanctioned last year by the EU as a frequent staging ground for cyber mischief from Russia’s intelligence agencies. An investigator with the Tax Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD), the Dutch financial crimes agency, during the…
The dearth of corporate action on methane has been highlighted by a survey of 23 leading coffee and dairy companies. The report finds that while nine out of 10 companies recognize the link between livestock and climate change, just three of those surveyed — Danone, FrieslandCampina and General Mills — have set a target to reduce emissions of the gas by 2030. The findings come amid a period of heightened interest in methane and other superpollutants. The gases are collectively responsible for around one-half of global warming to date and are heating the planet more rapidly than carbon dioxide. The…
Oppo has announced the rollout of the ColorOS 16 May 2026 update for the Find and Reno series smartphones. The update is headlined by Live Space, which is now smooth and smart to interact with, offering an immersive, responsive, and refined lock-screen experience with fluid animations, while the capsule-style notifications display real-time updates through a clean, distraction-free interface. The ColorOS 16 update also brings updated O+ Connect, which now allows seamless cross-platform file sharing and connectivity between Oppo and Apple devices. Additionally, the ColorOS 16 update comes with a bunch of AI-powered organization and creativity features, including AI Mind Pilot,…
Imagine the following scenario: you and a team of cyber experts have been tasked with protecting your organization from cyberattacks. You’ve developed a machine learning (ML) model to screen incoming and outgoing traffic. You feel you can rest easy, as your model achieves near-perfect performance during test and evaluation. One day, you are awakened by a frantic call from your CEO—your customers’ private data have been leaked. How could this happen? you think to yourself, as you begin investigating why your model failed to stop this attack.This situation is not merely hypothetical. Studies have found that models that were once…
A hybrid model spanning hours to decades shows that a fully renewable energy system is achievable, with flexibility key to lowering costs Earth timer (Courtesy: iStock/Peepo) A successful clean‑energy transition depends on understanding how to balance variable renewable power with the growing electricity demands of transport, heating, and industry. A key challenge is capturing how renewable energy sources like wind and solar fluctuate hour by hour, but this variability also creates new opportunities to align supply with increasingly flexible forms of demand, such as electric vehicles, heat pumps, and other electrified services. Alongside these short‑term dynamics, it is equally important…
Euro-Office consists of four browser-based applications: a document editor, spreadsheet program, presentation tool, and a PDF editor, with each application enabling collaborative document editing. It supports Microsoft Office file formats DOCX, PPTX and XLSX, as well as Open Document Format (ODF) files such as ODS, ODT and ODP. The software is intended to be integrated into collaboration solutions such as file-sharing platforms, online wikis or project management tools, according to Nextcloud, one of several European organizations involved in the Euro-Office project. Nextcloud will add Euro-Office to its Nextcloud Office next month, where it will be available as an “equal option”…
The following article originally appeared on the Asimov’s Addendum Substack and is being reposted here with the author’s permission.Bill Gurley has an excellent article on what he calls open source strategy, which we recommend reading. There is a lot to debate about his concluding argument in particular: that open-weight models are central to keeping the AI market rent-free. The limits of open-weight AI as the primary open source strategy are surely considerable though, if it still requires expensive hardware to run on, and if the architecture ultimately remains monolithic—rather than composable and protocol-centric.A related consideration comes from Anthropic’s recent acquisition of Stainless—a startup that generates…
Taara may have literal vaporware in its corporate heritage, but prospects for this offshoot of a Google Moonshot project now look much more solid.Over the last year, Taara has followed successful tests of its free-space optics links in a dozen-plus countries by moving to scale up its efforts – both in its core market of middle-mile broadband and in a recent expansion into video distribution.”We go where fiber can’t go, or where it’s very difficult to reach,” Taara Founder and CEO Mahesh Krishnaswamy said in an interview at Web Summit Vancouver hours before a panel he participated in at that conference. “We also go where wireless is…
This story is from The Spark, our weekly newsletter giving you the inside track on all things biotech. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Thursday. How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment ——Father Séamus Finn, a leader in faith-based and socially responsible investing with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and Sister Susan Francois, assistant congregation leader and treasurer of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” …