Oulu – October 23, 2026 -- Aspocomp assigns every printed circuit board (PCB) customer a dedicated contact person, handled by a customer service team based at the company's Oulu factory.

Single contact handles each order from quotation to shipment

The team receives requests for quotation (RFQs), prepares offers, processes orders and tracks them until the boards ship. "From the customer's perspective, we are often the main contact point," said Maria Pasanen of the customer service team.

The team coordinates with sales, production and technical experts. It also monitors schedules and checks that documentation and specifications are handled correctly. Once the finished PCBs are ready, it notifies the customer that the delivery is on its way.

Oulu – October 23, 2026 -- Aspocomp has appointed Dominic Büch, a PCB industry professional with 14 years of experience, as Sales Manager for Central Europe, with a focus on defence and semiconductor customers.

Büch moves from product management to key account sales

Büch previously worked as Product Manager for HDI and wire bonding. He later became Key Account Manager for global electronics manufacturers. At Aspocomp he is responsible for technical sales and customer relationships across Central Europe.

Defence and semiconductor sectors drive demand for technical PCB support

Büch says customers in both sectors are actively seeking reliable, high-performance PCB partners. Early involvement is central to his approach: Aspocomp flags manufacturability issues and material risks during the layout phase to help customers avoid costly iterations.

Finland – October 23, 2026 -- Aspocomp has invested in two new 6-spindle drilling machines to expand its drilling capacity and technology capabilities for high-reliability printed circuit boards (PCBs). The company describes the units as best-in-class equipment currently available on the market.

Drilling creates the electrical interconnections between PCB layers. Aspocomp says the accuracy, stability and consistency of this step directly affect signal integrity, reliability and overall product performance.

Backdrilling and high aspect ratio drilling are the headline capabilities

Aspocomp lists the following focus capabilities for the new platform:

Global – October 23, 2026 -- MIND is marketing a cloud-native platform that connects to existing systems in minutes and classifies sensitive data across SaaS applications, on-premise file shares, endpoints and email, with the stated aim of sharply reducing false positive alerts.

MIND says legacy RegEx and tagging leave gaps in data security

The company argues that sensitive data is scattered across four environments: SaaS apps, on-premise file shares, endpoints and email systems. Many data security tools cover only narrow areas, creating silos and gaps where risk can build. Pattern matching, RegEx and user tagging, it says, produce incomplete views and excessive false positives.

MIND also points out that each business holds unique sensitive data beyond common identifiers such as credit card or social security numbers.

Online – October 23, 2026 -- Small PR agency Approach has built more than 80 custom AI agents for clients, and says the real figure is probably higher now, according to its leader Megan in a podcast interview with host Doug.

Every client gets a five-agent stack built by account leads

Each client receives a standard stack of five agents, including one that tracks what reporters are discussing in real time and feeds custom weekly content into client team inboxes. Client experience directors, who are not coders, must build and customize the agents for their accounts. A hired consultancy then helps them work through bugs.

Tysons, Virginia – October 23, 2026 -- Permuta Technologies has published the third whitepaper in its series on AI and government, arguing that permissioning and audit logging can monitor single-vendor concentration of citizen data but cannot reverse it once it exists.

The paper, titled "You Can't Permission Your Way Out of Surveillance at Scale," examines the structural risks of AI-enabled, government-facing data fusion at national scale. It responds directly to Palantir's "Institutional Sovereignty in the Age of AI" framing.

Permuta says model-provider safeguards miss the concentration risk

The whitepaper accepts that zero data retention, model-agnostic architecture, granular permissions and continuous audit logging matter for third-party model providers. It argues they do not address a separate, higher-stakes risk: a single vendor ontology concentrating deeply sensitive citizen data across immigration, tax, health and defense agencies.

Kennedy Space Center -- SpaceX is scheduled to launch its CRS-25 mission on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 8:44 p.m. EDT, marking the 25th commercial resupply services launch for NASA.

Cargo Dragon and Falcon 9 roll out to Launch Complex 39A on July 12

SpaceX's Cargo Dragon spacecraft, mounted atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket, was rolled out to the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 12, 2022, two days before the planned liftoff.

The launch is planned from Space Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.

United States – October 23, 2026 -- Procter & Gamble's Febreze Unstopables Touch Fabric Spray is the first P&G product to incorporate materials based on the company's space-based research, sponsored by the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory. P&G household products are used every day by more than 4 billion people worldwide, more than half the Earth's population.

Touch-activated scent release is the first commercial output of P&G's ISS work

The latest Febreze formulation features touch-activated scent release technology. It contains microscopic capsules of perfume suspended in a liquid that, according to P&G researcher Matt Lynch, looks and feels like water. The capsules release a small burst of fragrance when a hand is rubbed on a sprayed surface or someone walks over it, countering unpleasant odors.

BERTHOUD, Colo. – October 23, 2026 -- Ursa Major has promoted Jason Meredith to President, giving him responsibility for the company's full profit and loss as it scales production and prepares to become publicly traded.

Meredith moves from Solid Missile Systems to lead business execution company-wide

Meredith most recently served as President of Solid Missile Systems, where he led program execution and engineering across Ursa Major's growing solid rocket motor portfolio. He joined the company in 2026 to run that unit and expand its solid rocket motor capabilities. In the new role, he will lead business execution across all of Ursa Major.

Global – October 23, 2026 -- Pitcher is repositioning its sales enablement software as an AI-native platform, adding a no-code enterprise app builder called Pitcher Catalyst and an intelligent agent named PIA to its content tools.

Pitcher Catalyst lets teams build data-connected apps in natural language

Catalyst allows teams to create fully functional, data-connected applications inside the Pitcher platform using natural language rather than code. Pitcher markets it as an Enterprise AI App Builder.

Pitcher Pathways converts company data into live presentations

Pitcher Pathways turns a company's data and content into dynamic, live presentations. Advisors and reps use them in client conversations, with the stated aim of increasing revenue.