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TNW ·
The European Commission has opened an investigation into Booking.com over concerns that the platform is not doing enough to protect users from fake listings and phishing scams. Announced Wednesday, the probe will examine whether the...
Tech.eu ·
Opply , a company developing an AI-powered operating platform for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, has raised $7.5 million in a funding round led by Chalfen Ventures , with participation from Index Ventures, Anthemis, Entrepreneurs...
The Register · · Critical severity
When it comes to cyberattacks that shut down power grids, drinking-water systems, and other critical infrastructure, AI doesn’t – yet – turn script kiddies into sophisticated, nation-state attackers. But “the potential is there,”...
TNW ·
OpenAI president Greg Brockman has joined calls for AI safety rules in the US. At the same time, a political group he helped fund is spending millions to elect candidates who oppose strict rules, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Brockman...
TNW ·
Pigment, a Paris-based AI software maker for business planning, announced on Wednesday that it raised $250M in a Series E round, valuing the company at $2.3B. Nvidia also plans to invest, adding to its recent European bets. The Scaleup...
Silicon Republic ·
Yvonne Coppinger discusses the skills she learned in the early days of her career, the joy of never knowing what skills will be needed next and mentoring the future leaders of the industry. Read more: The engineer who didn’t write a...
TNW ·
Nvidia has released a design for running AI agents inside fixed limits, from enterprise infrastructure to edge machines. Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Google Cloud and AWS are among the companies working with it, Nvidia said....
The Register ·
The European Commission has opened an investigation under the Digital Services Act into whether Booking.com is doing enough to stop fraudsters running scams, phishing and smishing on its platform. Officials told The Register the probe,...
The Register ·
Datacenters are taking too long to bring online to fill the demand of the AI boom. So starting in 2027, Nvidia and its partners will offer its Vera Rubin rack systems fully plumbed, wired, and ready for deployment in modular bit barns....
The Register ·
Nvidia has proposed a new way to keep corporate AI agents in line. Nvidia on Wednesday introduced its OpenShell Reference Architecture . Based on the company's OpenShell secure runtime, It's a recipe for creating, operating, observing,...
TNW ·
Protesters interrupted Jensen Huang’s keynote at Nvidia’s GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday, asking what the company is doing about Nvidia chips reported in Russian drones. Security staff led them out, and Nvidia’s chief executive...
TNW ·
SpaceX made more money from artificial intelligence than from Starlink in the third quarter, as total revenue rose 161% to $14.6bn. The company also swung to a net profit of $4.4bn, from a $1.1bn loss a year earlier, according to its...
The Register ·
Java has elbowed its way onto a Tyne and Wear Metro information display, giving passengers an error message alongside their train times. Eagle-eyed Register reader abend0c4 spotted the sign, whose dialog design suggests a rather elderly...
Tech.eu ·
Dutch photonics company Photon Bridge has raised €10 million to tackle an emerging bottleneck in AI infrastructure: producing the millions of lasers that will be needed to connect increasingly large clusters of AI processors. The round...
IT Pro ·
NetApp partners with emma to to bring sovereign AI to European businesses
Silicon Republic ·
Digital twins will train humanoid robots at scale before they ever enter the world, CEO Daniele Pucci said. Read more: Italy’s Generative Bionics, AMD team up to train European humanoids
IT Pro ·
The Google Cloud outage explained
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 ·
Go Eve , a joint spin-out from University College Dublin (UCD) and Imperial College London, has secured £750,000 in funding from Innovate UK and private investors to further develop its electric vehicle (EV) charging technology. The...
TNW ·
More than 10 million developers are now building on Cloudflare, the company said on Tuesday. That is up from 7.4 million a quarter earlier, a rise of about 35% in three months. Cloudflare announced the figure in a press release and tied...
TNW ·
Organisations that cannot quickly patch two critical flaws in PHP should consider taking their websites offline, the EU’s cybersecurity response team has warned. PHP powers a large share of the web. The PHP project will release fixes at...
The Register ·
Software developers will need to get their kicks from becoming code coaches of AI, professors of prompt engineering, and masters of their domain. So says Pratik Wadher, chief technology officer at Kaseya, who oversaw a team of...
Tech.eu ·
In Q3 2026, the European tech market continued to gain momentum, with total funding reaching €27.8 billion across 732 deals. Investment value increased by 32.4 per cent from €21 billion in Q3 2025 and was more than two and a half times...
TNW ·
Netflix expects lower fourth-quarter profit than Wall Street forecast and has cut its annual advertising revenue target. The streaming company reported its third-quarter results on Tuesday, October 20, and its shares fell almost 6% in...
TNW ·
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that companies building data centres should pay a dividend to the surrounding communities. He said the money could go to the town as a whole or to local residents and would help win support for...
IT Pro ·
Nicole Kobie first started writing for ITPro in 2007. As a freelance journalist covering technology and business, Nicole's work includes bylines in New Scientist, Wired, PC Pro and many more. Nicole the author of a book about the...
Tech.eu ·
French enterprise software startup Pigment has raised $250m at a $2.3bn valuation, it said today, in a funding round led by the EU's new €5bn ($5.6bn) investment fund aimed at scaling up future European tech giants. Paris-based Pigment...
The Register ·
Britain is funding the next generation of tech companies without making sure taxpayers get a slice of the action, MPs have warned. In a new report shared with The Register ahead of publication, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has...
Silicon Republic ·
The round was led by Scaleup Europe Fund and the money raised will go towards accelerating Pigment’s autonomous planning capabilities. Read more: AI platform Pigment raises $250m in Series E funding round
TNW ·
Nvidia has simulated a 104-qubit quantum computer that can correct its own errors, using JUPITER, the supercomputer at Germany’s Jülich Supercomputing Centre. The company said it is the largest full simulation of such a machine so far....
Silicon Republic ·
Content chief Bela Bajaria and film division head Dan Lin announced their departures shortly before the latest earnings report. Read more: Netflix posts lukewarm earnings after 1,000 job cuts and key exits
Tech.eu ·
Italian AI startup Rulen (formerly LexSA) has raised €1.8 million in its first funding round to further develop its AI-powered platform for the tax and accounting sector and support its commercial expansion. The round was led by VC...
IT Pro ·
Does Your AI Need a Psychologist? (part 3)
Tech.eu ·
YGO , a company developing an AI-powered platform connecting travel companies with airlines, hotels and tour operators, has raised €8 million in a Series A funding round led by Ventech , with participation from Sake Bosch, Caesar...
Silicon Republic ·
WP Engine’s chairwoman and CEO talks about the company’s growth in Ireland, why websites still matter in an AI age, and what it takes to earn trust. Read more: WP Engine CEO on 10 years in Limerick and the website in the age of AI
Electronics Weekly ·
Synaptics and Google have introduced the xMCU – an MCU that combines heterogeneous, AI-native compute and acceleration with integrated high-bandwidth custom DRAM scalable to hundreds of megabytes, enabling larger AI […] The post Google...
Electronics Weekly ·
Qualcomm is to lay off staff worldwide according to a memo from CEO Cristiano Amon to employees seen by Reuters. Notifications are to start next month. The number involved is […] The post Qualcomm to start worldwide layoffs appeared...
Electronics Weekly ·
Idealab.ai kicked off on Monday with 1.2 ideas for starting up a new tech business. The site was set up by serial entrepreneur Bill Gross (pictured ) the billionaire founder […] The post 1,208,577 ideas for tech startups for free...
The Register ·
Google has fixed the flaws in the Chromium browser engine that saw it poll DNS root servers, but ISPs who seem to have odd views about resilience now emerged as a new source of probably-well-meaning overconsumption of internet...
Silicon Republic ·
The New York-based start-up plans to use the funding to accelerate customer acquisition in the US, grow its go-to-market operation and continue expanding its engineering and product teams. Read more: Irish-founded legal-tech EstateMin...
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