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TNW ·
Meta said that a tool linked to Anthropic’s Claude AI triggered the suspension of the No Kings Coalition’s Instagram account on Saturday, October 17. Andy Stone, Meta’s vice president of communications, gave the new explanation in a...
Silicon Republic ·
In a statement, China’s Ministry of Commerce, explained that far greater oversight is needed for technologies with the potential to impact sensitive sectors. Read more: China proposes export controls for solar tech, amid safety concerns
Silicon Republic ·
PwC’s 2027 Digital Trust Insights survey finds Irish organisations lag their global counterparts on risk integration, incident testing, AI agents and quantum security. Read more: PwC says Irish organisations ‘under-prepared’ as AI...
The Register ·
As it was written, so it has come to pass. A while back, we suggested that given how good AI was at code analysis, it would become possible to clone large applications. An industrious individual has released source code and binaries for...
Silicon Republic ·
‘It is common practice for tech companies to offer escalating compensation awards to their executives. We are instead directing that equity to the public benefit,’ the company said. Read more: Anthropic Public Benefit Fund to target...
Tech.eu ·
One of the co-founders of a Ghent-based AI startup which is being acquired by sofware giant SAP in a deal valued at hundreds of millions of dolllars has stressed the importance of the city’s flywheel effect. Jeroen Van Hautte, CTO and...
Tech.eu ·
Barcelona-based Enzo Ventures has closed its second fund, a €20m fund which is backing Southern European founders at the pre-seed stage. Fund II follows Enzo’s strategy it began in 2023, when it invested in its first fund, which backed...
TNW ·
Restaurants are no longer just places where people go to enjoy a meal. They have become full businesses and ecosystems, with cooking as only one part of what they do. As our habits and the way we make choices have changed, including...
Tech.eu · · Unconfirmed
Last week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.8 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. 📊 The top three industries that raised the most were fintech (€621...
The Register ·
As organizations move from straightforward AI interactions towards longer conversations, complex reasoning and autonomous agents, the demands on their infrastructure are changing. Processing increasingly large amounts of context places...
TNW ·
Anthropic plans to place 5% of its shares in a new entity called the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. The AI company announced the plan on Sunday, but it still needs approval from Anthropic’s stockholders. The fund’s stake is designed to...
IT Pro ·
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Tech.eu ·
Stockholm-based AI startup Vessla has emerged from stealth with a $3.3 million pre-seed funding round led by Seedcamp . Other participants included Inception Fund, Tiny VC, operators from Lovable and OpenAI, founders Lukas Saari (Tandem...
Electronics Weekly ·
Elektrobit, the automotive software specialist, and Microchip are to simplify and accelerate AUTOSAR-based software development for automotive manufacturers and suppliers. By combining Microchip’s automotive hardware platforms with...
Electronics Weekly ·
Power Integrations and Ideal Power, developer of the B-TRAN bidirectional power switch (pictured), are getting together to deliver a solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) which scales with the 800 VDC transition. […] The post SSCB to scale...
Electronics Weekly ·
Hynix and Micron to use base dies made on TSMC’s 3nm node for its custom HBM called NVHBM (pictured), reports the Seoul Economic Daily. The base dies […] The post Samsung, Micron, Hynix to use TSMC base dies for NVHBM appeared first on...
Electronics Weekly ·
Nscale, the London neocloud startup, has had another setback to its IPO plans with Microsoft pulling out of a deal to be the anchor tenant on Nscale’s Loughton, Essex datacentre […] The post MS pulls out of Nscale UK datacentre project...
The Register ·
SaaS-for-managed services providers ConnectWise has initiated a “service interruption” for its some of its offerings after detecting unauthorized access. ConnectWise offers ERP tailored to the needs of managed services providers (MSPs),...
The Register ·
Monday mornings are no joke, so The Register always tries to lighten them up with a new installment of "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace japes, mistakes, and escapes. This week, meet a...
TNW ·
As deepfakes grow convincing enough to pass for real people on live video, World is pitching banks a new line of defense. It offers cryptographic proof that the person, or the agent, on the other end of an interaction is genuine. The...
The Register · · Medium severity
Paulos Yibelo, the researcher who in early October claimed to have found a guest-host escape flaw in Linux KVM, the hypervisor used by most hyperscale clouds, has named the flaw PwnEscape and warned it might represent a new way to...
The Register ·
The Time Lords at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (GCPM)* have decided to stop introducing leap seconds, citing the likelihood they could cause problems with internet of things devices – and therefore a Y2K scale...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Microsoft has pulled out of a deal to anchor Nscale’s first British data centre, the Telegraph reported. The move comes as the AI cloud startup prepares to go public. The site in Loughton, Essex, has faced a string of delays, Bloomberg...
TNW ·
Pet owners who cannot face losing an animal now have a growing menu of biotech options. They range from longevity drugs to cloning and cryonics. MIT Technology Review laid out the options this week, and questioned whether some of them...
TNW ·
The US Supreme Court appeared ready to side with a man who says a Paramount website shared his video history with Facebook. The case could expose many websites to privacy lawsuits.The justices heard arguments in Salazar v. Paramount...
The Register ·
The Windows command line is a marvelous thing, beloved by administrators, but not quite so welcome when you're trying to get a parcel out of a locker. Today's example of Windows behaving badly comes from Ireland and one of the nation's...
TNW ·
Apple chief executive John Ternus told TIME that “all options should be on the table” on memory chips, after reports that Apple tested Chinese-made memory. Ternus took over as CEO on 1 September. He is on the cover of TIME’s 2026 Best...
TNW ·
Apple and Meta worked together so that Meta’s new open-weight model, Muse Spark Open, runs on Apple’s Mac Studio desktops. The companies revealed the work on Thursday. The two rivals had not struck a public partnership since 2017, CNBC...
TNW ·
Microsoft and Health-ISAC have seized and redirected domains behind three Chinese-language cybercrime services, YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, Microsoft said on Wednesday. Since January 2026, the three services enabled more than 1bn...
TNW ·
Meta asked the High Court in London this week to limit how Ofcom calculates online safety fees and maximum fines, Courthouse News reported. The hearing ended late on Wednesday after a day and a half of arguments. It is about Ofcom’s use...
TNW ·
Bill Gates plans to widen his push on AI safety, Axios reported, citing unnamed sources. He is personally leaning on business leaders and considering a major deployment of his resources, according to the report. “I can reach CEOs on...
TNW ·
More than 400 publications worldwide now take part in Google’s News AI pilot, the company said on Thursday. The programme pays publishers to license content for experimental AI features in Google News. Its newest partners include Axios,...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Google is “starting to get onto that RSI treadmill”, cofounder Sergey Brin said in a roundtable on Gemini 4 Argon, Business Insider reported. Google shared the video on Wednesday. Brin pointed to the Flash models Google released before...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported. She spoke in a prerecorded interview with Arianna Huffington, founder and chief executive of Thrive...
TNW ·
Meta has rewritten new terms that would have let it crawl and train its AI on the websites of businesses that use its ads and tools. Critics say the change does not go far enough. The company changed the terms late on Friday after...
TNW ·
Flock has not dropped any customer over abuse of its licence plate cameras, chief executive Garrett Langley said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, in an interview with TechCrunch editor-in-chief...
TNW · · Unconfirmed
Robots and AI models together could take on about 80% of the work Americans do, Anthropic says. But robots are cheaper than people for just 0.3% of tasks today. The findings come from Anthropic’s new robotics study, which Business...
TNW ·
Elon Musk says his time running DOGE showed the US government cannot fix its deficit from the inside. Only AI and robots can, he told biographer Walter Isaacson. Musk made the comments on Isaacson’s new podcast, The Builders, Axios...
TNW ·
TSMC made a record net profit of NT$763.1bn ($23.59bn) in the third quarter, up 69% on a year earlier. That beat the NT$746.3bn LSEG SmartEstimate, Reuters reported. Revenue rose 51% to NT$1.49tn, or 41.2% to $46.72bn in US dollar...
TNW ·
The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about the safety incidents involving their AI models. The demands went out on Wednesday, Axios first reported, citing a...
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