An attacker bought 30+ WordPress plugins (Essential Plugin portfolio) on Flippa for six figures, planted a PHP deserialization backdoor in August 2025, then activated it eight months later to serve cloaked SEO spam exclusively to Googlebot. WordPres…
Lees meerAnnounced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and digital chief Virkkunen, the open-source app uses zero-knowledge proof technology to let users confirm their age without exposing personal data to platforms. It enters a pilot phase with mem…
Lees meerSaaStock founder Alexander Theuma is retiring Europe’s biggest B2B SaaS conference after a decade and replacing it with Shift AI. The Austin event on 15-16 April is the last SaaStock; the first Shift Europe runs in Barcelona on 13-14 October 2026. T…
Lees meerA report analysing capital spending plans from 51 investor-owned utilities finds the $1.4 trillion figure is double what was invested in the prior decade. More than 30 utilities cited data centres as a top growth driver. Average residential electric…
Lees meerThe extension to Wayve’s $1.2B Series D gives the London startup coverage across virtually every compute architecture in automotive use today, from chips already in millions of vehicles to the platforms powering the next generation. Robotaxi pilots …
Lees meerJane Street and Situational Awareness are in discussions to co-lead the round, Bloomberg reports. The Oxford-founded neocloud, which relocated from the UK to the US after landing a $50 billion data centre partnership with Anthropic, has grown its re…
Lees meerOn the afternoon of 27 February 2026, Pete Hegseth picked up his phone and posted to X. The US Secretary of Defense had just designated Anthropic, a San Francisco AI company, a “supply chain risk to national security.” The label, under 10 USC 3252, …
Lees meerScience Corporation, the BCI company founded by ex-Neuralink president Max Hodak, is preparing to place a pea-sized, 520-electrode sensor on a human brain’s surface during already-scheduled surgery. Yale neurosurgery chair Murat Günel will lead the …
Lees meerYouTube will now automatically hold back advertisements during livestreams when its systems detect that chat engagement has peaked, a change that prioritises collective viewer experience over ad impressions in real time. The platform announced the f…
Lees meerHexagon AB, the Swedish industrial technology group ($29B market cap, €5.4B revenue), is acquiring Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes for $1.45 billion in cash. Waygate is the world’s leading non-destructive testing (NDT) company, with ~$630M in…
Lees meerThe Bremen startup’s platform deploys teams of AI agents that autonomously execute engineering tasks across more than 75 existing tools, without replacing any of them. Revaia led the Series B; Capgemini joined through its ISAI Cap Venture vehicle. A…
Lees meerWaygate generates approximately $630 million in annual revenue with around 1,500 employees across 25 locations. The deal gives Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division computed tomography, radiography, and remote visual inspection technology wi…
Lees meerEurope has spent a decade watching American and Chinese companies capture every major technology wave, cloud, mobile, social, AI. Quantum computing may be the exception. A cluster of French startups, backed by €500 million in government funding and …
Lees meerThe 2026 AI Index from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI documents a deepening disconnect between expert optimism and public anxiety. Gen Z anger about AI is rising fast. Employment in AI-exposed fields among younger workers is already decl…
Lees meerDehydration is unfortunately a pretty common issue for people of all ages. Some studies suggest that as many as 75% of Americans could be chronically dehydrated at any given moment. It’s easy to fall short of your body’s daily water intake needs if …
Lees meerStegra, formerly H2 Green Steel, has agreed in principle on new financing led by a Wallenberg Investments consortium including Temasek and IMAS. Construction at its Boden plant had slowed during months of fundraising. The Wallenbergs will become t…
Lees meerSome backers say OpenAI has revised its product roadmap twice in six months and risks losing focus ahead of an IPO expected as early as Q4 2026. OpenAI’s new CRO has accused Anthropic of overstating its $30B run rate by $8B through gross accounting …
Lees meerHiro is shutting down on 20 April and deleting all user data by 13 May. Founder Ethan Bloch previously sold Digit to Oportun for more than $200M. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. OpenAI, the San Francisco AI lab behind ChatGPT, has acquired Hir…
Lees meerThe Lucid Gravity SUV runs Nuro’s autonomous driving system, powered by Nvidia Drive AGX Thor. A human safety operator sits behind the wheel. Uber has committed to buying at least 20,000 of these vehicles over the next six years. Uber and Nuro have …
Lees meerThe Finnish deep tech company, which operates the world’s largest autonomous airship fleet, has closed a Series A led by the NATO Innovation Fund, the Fund’s first investment in a Finnish company. Its airships can cover 30,000 square kilometres from…
Lees meerIn short: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are urging Wall Street’s biggest banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos AI model for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, even as the Pentagon fights Anthropic in court after branding it a s…
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