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TNW ·
Barclays expects to have cut around 5,000 jobs by the end of 2026, roughly 5% of its staff. The bank said artificial intelligence and other technology now let it do the same work with fewer people. The British lender gave the figure on...
Silicon Republic ·
The latest Talent Trends report explores the key trends shaping HR practices in Ireland’s workplaces. Read more: Ibec report suggests AI won’t negatively impact headcount in 2027
TNW ·
Finance professionals used to learn their jobs by doing the work themselves. They processed invoices, reconciled accounts, investigated exceptions, chased approvals, and gradually developed the judgment needed to handle more complex...
TNW ·
Europe’s biggest news publishers are asking regulators in the EU and UK to stop Meta from introducing new business terms that they fear could allow the company to copy content from their websites for use in AI products. The changes are...
IT Pro ·
Ross Kelly is ITPro's News & Analysis Editor, with a keen interest in cyber security, business leadership and emerging technologies. He graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in Journalism, and joined ITPro...
Tech.eu ·
Swiss robotics startup Enact Intelligence has today emerged out of stealth, with a $30m pre-seed round and backing from two heavyweights from the French AI ecosystem, Mistral boss Arthur Mensch and Meta's former AI chief scientist Yann...
The Register ·
During a flight on Marc Benioff’s private jet last year, the Salesforce CEO apparently subjected his company’s senior execs to a four-hour montage of Palantir CEO Alex Karp holding forth on the value of forward-deployed engineers...
Silicon Republic ·
The investigation will explore whether Booking.com’s efforts to identify and manage phishing scams is sufficient. Read more: EU regulators open investigation into Booking.com’s fraud response
Silicon Republic ·
The company said it has a current annual recurring revenue of more than $200m. Read more: AI legal-tech Legora valued at $8.8bn after $550m Series E
Silicon Republic ·
These flaws rank among the 'most severe vulnerabilities' arguably discovered in software history, Wiz said. Read more: AI helps uncover critical PHP flaw threatening 70pc of internet
Tech.eu ·
French-American AI startup Reduck has raised $3 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Daphni , with participation from Drysdale Ventures and Galion.exe . The company is developing technology that enables AI agents to interact with...
The Register ·
From training massive language models to powering nonstop inference , AI is fundamentally rewriting the rules of data center thermal management. AI workloads are characteristically less predictable and significantly more power-dense...
TNW ·
Palantir says neither it nor the US government can remotely shut down Maven, its AI-powered battlefield system used by NATO’s top military command. The assurance comes as European countries question how much control they have over...
IT Pro ·
Jane is managing editor at ITPro and ChannelPro. She started out with the brands as a staff writer specializing in cloud computing before going on to become senior writer and reports editor, managing the content and creation of ITPro’s...
IT Pro ·
Why AI security is rapidly becoming one of the biggest commercial opportunities for the channel
IT Pro ·
Mark Samuels is a freelance writer specializing in business and technology. For the past two decades, he has produced extensive work on subjects such as the adoption of technology by C-suite executives. At ITPro, Mark has provided...
Tech.eu ·
Quantum computing startup RhymeQ has emerged from stealth with a $2.2 million pre-seed funding round led by Ground State Ventures , with participation from Vanagon Ventures, Plug and Play, and Freiraum Ventures. The company is...
Tech.eu ·
The FSE Group has launched the Future London Growth Fund , a new debt fund designed to support the growth of ambitious scale-up businesses across London’s 32 boroughs and the City of London. The Fund is backed by cornerstone commitments...
Electronics Weekly ·
Private Wireless Radio Access Network (RAN) revenue growth slowed to the mid-single digits in H1, reports Dell’Oro. Wide-area private wireless networks are increasingly supporting market growth, driven by opportunities in […] The post...
Electronics Weekly ·
The global smartphone market shrank 22.0% YoY to 255.3 million, according to IDC., Shipments marking the highest YoY decline to date of any quarter.. “The sharp downturn the industry has […] The post Q3 phone market sinks 22% YoY...
Electronics Weekly ·
Photon Bridge, the Dutch photonics specialist, has raised €10 million to tackle an emerging bottleneck in AI infrastructure: producing the millions of lasers that will be needed to connect increasingly […] The post Photon Bridge raises...
Electronics Weekly ·
Flapping Airplanes, a one year-old San Francisco AI neolab, has raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation before it has put a product on the market. ‘Neolab’ denotes an […] The post Flapping Airplanes raises $1bn appeared first on...
Electronics Weekly ·
Toyota is to enter a hydrogen-powered truck (pictured with driver Dania Akeel) in the January 2027 Dakar Rally. The truck is a hydrogen fuel cell version of the ICE Hilux […] The post Hydrogen truck for Dakar Rally appeared first on...
The Register ·
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has told investors that open weight models now make brilliant sense for on-prem enterprise use. Speaking on the company’s Q3 earnings call, Krishna said that in 2024 closed frontier models were plainly superior to...
The Register ·
Nvidia has decided that its future prospects rest on an improved silicon substrate and packing supply chain, so has dipped into its giant pile of cash to ensure it can get the parts it needs by ensuring its suppliers have the resources...
Electronics Weekly ·
According to the Global Status of CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) report, there are currently 132 commercial CCS projects in operation around the world. Together, these facilities are capable of […] The post Carbon Capture Scratching...
The Register ·
PHP developers have accused software supply chain security shop Chainguard of effectively revealing critical bugs in the open-source scripting language ahead of a planned official disclosure. On Wednesday, just hours after releasing...
TNW ·
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay a $25B civil penalty for misleading Facebook users about privacy and hate speech, Bloomberg reported. A jury found more than 43 million violations of state law in September. The state wanted up...
The Register ·
Why use your smartphone when AI can do it for you? We’ve reached a new level of AI inanity with the launch of Opposable , a tool that taps, swipes, and types on Android phones and controls iPhones through a companion computer, sparing...
The Register ·
Peter Steinberger, member of technical staff at OpenAI and the creator of OpenClaw, estimates that he spent around $10 million in tokens running AI workloads last month. But don't feel bad for him, because it's all coming out of...
The Register ·
Nvidia hopes to capitalize on European sovereign AI demand by unloading a slew of new open weights models spanning chatbots, healthcare, and robotics. The major model devs have the resources to build highly capable models from scratch....
The Register · · Critical severity
Unknown crims compromised LiteLLM's release process on Wednesday, distributing a malicious version (1.107.0) containing malware designed to steal cloud and AI credentials and a remote access trojan (RAT) capable of executing arbitrary...
TNW ·
Flapping Airplanes, a San Francisco AI research lab founded in late 2025, has raised $1B at a $6B valuation, led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital, Bloomberg reported. Its valuation has quadrupled since January. It is working on ways to...
The Register · · Medium severity
Make sure you don’t say anything mean or secret after hanging up a call on Signal, as a bug in the encrypted messaging app’s calling library could prevent a call from ending properly, potentially leaving audio and possibly video active....
The Register ·
More than half of CIOs are likely to miss their AI-related ROI targets next year, according to Forrester. The analyst's State Of AI Survey 2026 found that 45 percent of AI decision-makers need positive ROI within a year to consider...
TNW ·
Eindhoven-based Photon Bridge has raised €10M, co-led by the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital, to build laser light sources for the optical links inside AI data centres. It plans first samples in 2027 and volume production...
TNW ·
Sydney-based Mary Technology has connected its litigation tool to Harvey, the $15.6B legal AI company. Lawyers drafting in Harvey can now draw on the facts, evidence and reviews their team has built up in Mary, including conflicting...
TNW ·
A German court has told Google it cannot keep showing people’s homes from above without their permission. The Frankfurt Regional Court ruled on Tuesday that the aerial and satellite views on Google Earth and Google Maps break Germany’s...
TNW ·
eBay will cut about 9% of its workforce, around 1,000 jobs, according to an internal memo from CEO Jamie Iannone first reported by Reuters. It follows 800 job cuts in February. eBay says it wants to focus on its fastest-growing areas.
TNW ·
The PHP Foundation has given an unusually frank account of the emergency behind this week’s patches. It said it had found one of the two critical flaws two years ago, in 2024. Then it spent months unable to agree on how to repair it.
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