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The piece recounts how financial information delivery evolved from carrier pigeons and ticker tape to telegraph and early electronic quote screens like Quotron in 1960. It situates the eventual creation of the Bloomberg Terminal within this long history of firms racing to supply faster, more proprietary market data to traders.
Ridge Security disclosed CVE-2026-42542, a high-severity flaw in the open-source TDengine time-series database used across manufacturing, energy, automotive and IoT sectors. The bug lets an unauthenticated attacker crash a vulnerable server with a single crafted network packet; TDengine has released version 3.4.1.6 to fix versions 3.4.0.0 through 3.4.1.5.
A commentary argues that despite widespread AI use across tech, industrial, and professional services companies, many organizations fail to surface the human stories behind their work to customers. The author contends that AI tools cannot determine what a brand should mean to the people who buy from it.
Rockwell Automation surveyed 1,500 industrial and manufacturing decision-makers across 17 countries for its new report on operational resilience and cybersecurity. The study found that while 46% of organizations suffered a cyber incident in the past year, 90% remain confident in their ability to prevent or recover from one, and 62% have already invested in cybersecurity platforms. More than a third of respondents still identify cybersecurity risk as a top external obstacle to growth, with IT/OT convergence flagged as a major vulnerability point.
OpenAI published an analysis arguing that as AI systems approach or exceed human-level cognitive performance, policymakers need to prepare economic tools now rather than waiting for disruption to occur, as happened during past technological shifts like the Industrial Revolution. The piece frames AGI as fundamentally different from past automation waves because it could automate intelligence itself rather than just routine tasks, potentially affecting a much broader swath of jobs and industries simultaneously.
Government records show Atlantic Industrial Coatings acknowledged that its own bonding materials blistered and detached, causing the damage to the National Mall's Reflecting Pool. This contradicts earlier claims blaming vandalism, including suggestions the damage was caused by antifa activists.
Christie's is preparing a selling exhibition in Beverly Hills that will gather 50 unconventional chairs created by designers including Rick Owens, Kelly Wearstler and Playlab. The pieces use materials ranging from antlers and steel to balloons, cardboard and resin, highlighting Los Angeles as a hub for experimental furniture design.
Fast Company has released its Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026 rankings, selecting six companies in the industrial and manufacturing category. Three of the six winners are headquartered in the Bay Area, reflecting the region's continued pull in hardware and manufacturing innovation alongside its traditional software dominance.
Belgian federal prosecutors arrested a 52-year-old Beijing-born Belgian resident, identified as H.L., on May 10 at a Brussels airport as he attempted to board a China-bound flight. He is accused of transferring gallium nitride semiconductor trade secrets from BelGaN, where he worked, to GanKool, a Chinese firm developing identical chip technology and founded shortly after he joined BelGaN. He now faces charges including industrial espionage and unlawful disclosure of business secrets.
Tsubaki KabelSchlepp has introduced the Robotrax System, a three-dimensional cable carrier built for six-axis industrial robots that undergo rapid, multidirectional motion. The system uses a central steel cable running through each plastic link to absorb tensile forces during accelerations up to 10 g, while spherical snap-on connections allow flexible movement across three axes with radial rotation up to ±450 degrees per meter.
Researchers have developed a plasma technology approach aimed at reducing the heavy carbon footprint associated with cement production, one of the most emissions-intensive industrial sectors globally. The method targets the chemical and energy-intensive steps in making cement, offering a potential pathway to lower greenhouse gas output from an industry long considered difficult to decarbonize.
Salem Robotics, founded by veterans of UT Austin robotics research and Los Alamos National Laboratory, is building software that lets existing mobile robots perform hazardous industrial inspections such as radioactive contamination smears and leak detection checks. The system focuses on precise, constrained manipulation—keeping a probe normal to a surface or within a tight offset from a pipe—while accounting for kinematics, joint limits, and collisions. The company demonstrated its software running on real robot hardware in a launch video.