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The Pentagon published 162 UFO files on war.gov/ufo. Two-thirds are redacted. The government says it is being transparent.

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The Department of War launched a website on Friday called war.gov/ufo. It contains 162 files, including photographs from the Apollo 17 mission that NASA cannot explain, infrared videos of objects the military cannot identify, and internal memos desc…

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Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants. The attack vector was default passwords. Seventy per cent of American water utilities fail the same test.

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Hackers breached five Polish water treatment plants in 2025, gaining access to the industrial control systems that regulate pumps, filters, and chemical dosing. In some facilities, the attackers could have altered the operational parameters of equip…

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Trump’s H-1B proposal would push entry-level tech salary floor near $162,000

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

An entry-level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid at least $162,000 a year to qualify for an H-1B visa under a Trump-administration proposal published in March, The same role in Dallas would jump to about $113,000; in New York,…

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Intel’s stock tripled under Lip-Bu Tan. He still has not told most employees the plan.

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Intel’s stock has tripled in twelve months. Its chief executive still has not told most of his employees what the plan is. Lip-Bu Tan, who became CEO in March 2025, has spent the first fourteen months of his tenure building relationships outside t…

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The AI industry’s model and agent skill repositories are full of malware. The infrastructure built to accelerate development is now the vector for compromising it.

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  The two most important software supply chains in artificial intelligence have been systematically compromised. Hugging Face, the repository that hosts more than a million machine learning models used by virtually every AI company on the planet, ha…

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PR & Media lessons from EU-Startups Summit 2026: what works, what does not

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A panel in Valletta laid out a working playbook for startup PR, from the friends-and-family headline test to the case for hiring an agency. Founders looking for media coverage at this year’s EU-Startups Summit in Valletta got a fairly direct briefin…

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Spotify’s AI DJ now speaks French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Spotify has just released an expansion of its premium AI DJ feature that promises to enhance the experience for users in Europe and Brazil, adding the DJ function to new markets and four additional languages: French, German, Italian, and Brazilian P…

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AWS was hit by overheating in northern Virginia, knocking Coinbase offline and rattling CME

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A single data centre’s cooling system fell behind. AWS shifted traffic away from the affected zone and warned that fully restoring the remaining services would take longer than expected. Amazon Web Services said on Thursday that one of its data cent…

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NVIDIA takes $2.1bn warrant in IREN as part of 5GW AI data-centre deal

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

NVIDIA will invest up to $2.1bn in IREN as part of a deal that pairs the chipmaker’s reference architecture with the data-centre operator’s 5-gigawatt infrastructure pipeline. The two companies announced the partnership on Thursday. The structure is…

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SoftBank cuts OpenAI-backed margin loan target by 40% to $6bn

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Lenders pushed back on valuing OpenAI shares as collateral. The downsize lands a fortnight after the $10bn ask first surfaced and is the clearest signal yet that even an $852bn primary round has not closed the gap between sticker and what banks will…

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Sony forecasts 11% profit lift and $3.2bn buyback as music and sensors offset PS5 memory shock

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

FY26 guidance puts operating profit at ¥1.6 trillion. The PS5 install base, royalty income from streaming, and a smartphone-camera business with no obvious challenger are doing the work while the gaming hardware unit absorbs a memory-cost shock. Son…

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The Thai end of the Supermicro chip-smuggling case has a name, and it sits inside Bangkok’s national AI plan

vrijdag 8 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

US prosecutors believe a company at the centre of Thailand’s national AI strategy helped move billions of dollars in Nvidia-equipped Supermicro servers into China, with Alibaba among the eventual customers, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The company …

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Jeff Bezos’s representative just left the board of a startup that raised $1.4 billion on his name. The first truck has not been built.

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  The person who connected Jeff Bezos to one of the most ambitious electric vehicle startups in America has left its board. Melinda Lewison, who manages the Bezos family office and was listed as a director on Slate Auto’s corporate filings, has depa…

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Tesla trademarked a supercar badge for a car it promised nine years ago. The logo is the most tangible thing about the Roadster.

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  Tesla has filed a trademark for a bespoke Roadster badge that looks like it belongs on a Lamborghini. The car it will adorn was first promised nine years ago. A prototype debuted in November 2017 with a 200 kilowatt-hour battery, a claimed 620-mil…

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A data centre fire in Almere disabled a university, a transport emergency system, and the assumption that physical infrastructure is someone else’s problem

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

A fire at a data centre in Almere on Thursday morning knocked a university offline, disabled the emergency communication system for public transport across an entire province, triggered an NL-Alert to residents across Flevoland, and required a crash…

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The largest education data breach in history was not an attack on a school. It was an attack on a vendor.

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

  The largest education data breach in history was not an attack on a school. It was an attack on a vendor. On 30 April, hackers exploited a vulnerability in the systems of Instructure, the company that makes Canvas, the learning management system u…

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Silicon Valley spent $25 million on a California governor candidate. He is polling at 4 per cent

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

Silicon Valley has spent more than 25 million dollars trying to make one of its own the next governor of California. The candidate is polling at four per cent. The June 2 primary is less than four weeks away. And the most instructive thing about the…

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The rise of AI Orchestration Layers: BadCo.AI on guiding a more connected car buying experience

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The future of automotive retail may depend less on isolated AI tools and more on orchestration systems that connect every part of the buyer journey. BadCo.AI views the future of car buying as a rapidly evolving ecosystem shaped by connected technolo…

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Tata and JSW to spend $1bn building India’s way out of Chinese battery dependence

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The two conglomerates are funding separate R&D centres focused on next-generation battery chemistries and advanced EV systems. The investment is a hedge: both groups currently buy critical battery components from Chinese suppliers and want options w…

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Quantum Motion lands $160m in EU’s first major late-stage commitment

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

The London company building silicon-CMOS spin qubits has been one of the cleaner technical credentials in European quantum hardware. The choice of investee for the EU’s first major late-stage venture commitment, announced post-Brexit, is itself the …

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Brussels strikes deal to thin out AI Act and outlaw nudification apps

donderdag 7 mei 2026 inThe Next Web (Mac algemeen)

After two failed trilogues, Parliament and Council finally landed a compromise that pushes the high-risk compliance deadline to December 2027, lightens paperwork for smaller firms, and writes a long-promised ban on non-consensual intimate imagery in…

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