Author: Carter

Top officials across the federal government increasingly acknowledge that yesterday’s security models are no longer sufficient to counter today’s and tomorrow’s threats. The White House’s recently issued National Cyber Strategy embodies this understanding. It represents a serious and essential move toward a more comprehensive approach to safeguarding the nation and its people, and it should be seen as more than just a policy paper—it must be put into practice. The strategy’s focus on critical infrastructure and integrated technologies directly mirrors what the industry has observed across federal agencies: a growing disconnect between the threats they encounter and the tools and…

Pharmaceutical manufacturing is moving into a phase where digitalization is expected to do far more than just streamline documentation and reporting. Regulatory authorities and industry organizations are increasingly linking advanced manufacturing to tighter process control, greater efficiency, improved product quality, and more reliable supply chains. The FDA characterizes this as the adoption of new or innovatively applied technologies that can boost quality, increase efficiency, address drug shortages, and accelerate time-to-market. Similarly, ISPE’s Pharma 4.0 framework views digitalization as a means to foster transparency, adaptability, faster decision-making, and real-time in-line control across operations, quality, and compliance. Within this landscape, connected equipment,…

The VerifiedX Foundation has rolled out vBTC.b on Base, with backing from Fireblocks. The goal is to bring Bitcoin’s reputation as “digital gold” and its globally recognized brand into the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) and institutional self-custody solutions. As outlined in a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine, VerifiedX is the first “Non-Synthetic Bitcoin Asset” that comes with built-in native Bitcoin redemption. It works seamlessly with Base, Coinbase’s rapidly growing EVM blockchain and DeFi platform. “vBTC is now live as a canonical asset on Base under the ticker vBTC.b and is officially listed inside the Fireblocks platform with self-custody…

GitHub announced on Tuesday that it is looking into unauthorized access to its internal code repositories. This follows claims by a well-known hacking group, TeamPCP, that they are selling GitHub’s source code and internal organizational data on a cybercrime forum. “At this time, we have found no evidence that customer data stored outside of GitHub’s internal systems—such as data belonging to our enterprise clients, organizations, or their repositories—has been affected. However, we are actively monitoring our systems for any further suspicious activity,” stated the Microsoft-owned company. GitHub also mentioned that it will inform customers through its standard incident response and…

Nexera’s NeuraGrasp can handle items that were once tough to pick, like porous polybags. Source: Locus Robotics Locus Robotics, which introduced the Locus Array mobile manipulator last month, announced today that it has acquired Nexera Robotics to expand the range of products its robot can manage. Nexera’s patented NeuraGrasp will take the place of the suction cup gripper on Array, significantly boosting its fulfillment capabilities, according to the companies. “The cutting edge of warehouse robotics today is AI-powered mobile manipulation at enterprise scale,” said Rick Faulk, CEO of Locus Robotics. “Efficiently grasping millions of different SKUs with both speed and…

What happens when you prompt a large language model to stand in for 6,000 American households answering inflation questions? Recent research shows that LLMs can match the average responses of major household surveys with remarkable precision—within a percentage point (Zarifhonarvar, 2026). For instance, the 2020 Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) recorded a median one-year-ahead inflation expectation of roughly 3%. When given realistic personas and a knowledge-cutoff instruction, a prompted LLM produced a median estimate of about 3%. This level of accuracy has led some to propose LLMs as a low-cost, high-frequency supplement to established surveys like the SCE, Michigan Survey,…

Animals Male Uchl1-eGFP and Cd68-eGFP mice (8 weeks old) on the C57BL/6J background, along with wild-type C57BL/6J mice, were given either a standard chow diet or a high-fat diet (60% fat, D12492i from Research Diets) for 16–18 weeks, with food available at all times. The animals were kept on a 12-hour light–12-hour dark cycle. The animal facility was maintained at 20–24 °C with 45–65% humidity. Body composition was assessed using an EchoMRI-100H system (EchoMRI). For insulin-tolerance tests, mice were fasted for 6 hours and then injected intraperitoneally (i.p.) with 0.75 U kg−1 insulin. Blood glucose levels were measured from the tail vein at…

Posted on May 20, 2026 by Leonardo Grasso, Falco Maintainer CNCF projects highlighted in this post AI-powered coding assistants have become a genuine part of how developers work today. Tools like Claude Code operate right inside your terminal — reading files, executing shell commands, making network requests, and writing code, all on your behalf. They’re quick, powerful, and increasingly relied upon for real work on real machines.But that trust raises an important question: what is your coding agent actually doing on your system?On May 12th, the Falco team unveiled Prempti, a new experimental addition to the Falco ecosystem. Falco —…

Every UHF RFID tag on the planet holds a small piece of internal state that rarely gets any attention. It lacks a battery, has a minimal processor, and contains just enough silicon to store an EPC number. Yet hidden within its memory are four single-bit indicators known as session flags, and grasping how they function is what separates a system that smoothly reads 500 tags from one that struggles with just 50. If you have ever seen a reader count the same tag repeatedly, or questioned why two readers aimed at the same group of tags seem to clash with…

Rovex has launched its inaugural hospital transport system pilot in Florida. Source: Rovex Last month, I attended eMerge Americas, hosted by Melissa Medina in Miami. The event highlighted South Florida’s rapidly growing innovation ecosystem, featuring startups presenting cutting-edge technology in healthcare, defense, AI, and hardware. The speaker lineup was equally remarkable, including well-known CEOs, military generals, prominent influencers, and even the president’s son. It’s clear that the center of innovation is gradually moving away from the Northern coasts toward the (tax-free) Sun Belt. While exploring the exhibition floor, I searched for robotics companies in the eMerge “alligator alley.” Among the…