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Revolut’s rumoured $60 billion valuation in a potential secondary share sale reveals both the extraordinary scale the UK venture capital industry has achieved and the profound liquidity challenge facing investors. While the fintech giant represents a British success story of global proportions, the speculation around this secondary offering exposes a fundamental tension in the ecosystem: ...
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A group of activists has scraped Spotify's entire library, accessing 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files totaling roughly 300TB of data. The metadata has been released via Anna's Archive, a search engine for "shadow libraries" that previously focused on books. Spotify described the activists as "anti-copyright extremists who've previously pirated content from YouTube and other platforms" and confirmed it is actively investigating the incident. The... Read more ›
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In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free. Read more ›
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YouTube TV cancellations spiked to the highest level in a year during the Disney blackout. Its rivals also saw surges, however. Read more ›
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Nick Woolsey spent his 20s living in Japan. He figured it would be easier to raise his children back in the States, but now he's returning to Japan. Read more ›
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Along with his genre roles in films like 'It: Chapter Two,' James Ransone was best remembered as Ziggy from 'The Wire.' Read more ›
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Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said the US needs to shift away from "power-hungry" chips, but Nvidia has a "death grip" on the sector. Read more ›
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Paramount and Netflix's bidding war for WBD heats up as Paramount revises its offer with a $40.4 billion guarantee from Larry Ellison. Read more ›
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Beverly Hills High School has deployed an AI-powered surveillance apparatus that includes facial recognition cameras, behavioral analysis software, smoke detector-shaped bathroom listening devices from Motorola, drones, and license plate readers from Flock Safety -- a setup the district spent $4.8 million on in the 2024-2025 fiscal year and considers necessary given the school's high-profile location in Los Angeles. Similar systems are spreading to campuses nationwide as schools try to stop... Read more ›
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These days when you want to engage with some media, you can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances - or books, one of the oldest and most popular ways to learn something new or escape (at least temporarily) from today's troubled world. We polled the staff of The Verge to find out what books […] Read more ›
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Taiwan has big plans for making more drones, but there are industry and economic hurdles to overcome, including getting more big businesses involved. Read more ›
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Yoshua Bengio, known as one of the "AI godfathers," said that while more jobs will be automated by AI, human qualities like love will always be valuable. Read more ›
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Paramount Skydance isn't giving up on obtaining Warner Bros. Discovery just yet. The company has amended its $108 billion offer to include Larry Ellison's "irrevocable personal guarantee" equaling $40.4 billion. Ellison is the founder or Oracle and a backer of Skydance, created by his son David Ellison, Paramount Skydance's CEO. On December 17, WBD formally recommended shareholders reject Paramount's offer. WBD had already accepted an $82.7 billion offer from Netflix,... Read more ›
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A Dell sales leader has told teams in three key offices to be in the office eight hours a day. Read more ›
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Apple is significantly increasing its reliance on Samsung for iPhone memory as component prices surge, according to The Korea Economic Daily. Apple is said to be expanding the share of iPhone memory it sources from Samsung due to rapidly rising memory prices. The shift is expected to result in Samsung supplying roughly 60% to 70% of the low-power DRAM used in the iPhone 17, compared with a more even split... Read more ›
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Trump is touting tariff revenues and a shrinking trade deficit as his economic accomplishments ahead or midterms, but economists say it's complicated. Read more ›
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2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over at the subreddit r/decadeology, you can check out a long, long thread of redditors submitting reasons why 2025 was, in the words of the first post, “a long, disappointing year.” War in Gaza, vibecessions, chaos in the White House, growing […] Read more ›
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New research suggests that using a touchscreen when behind the wheel makes you a pretty terrible driver. Read more ›
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Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone is set to arrive next year, and already faces some preemptive competition from Samsung. Korea's ET News reports that Samsung's upcoming "Wide Fold" is also set to launch in 2026, and will closely mirror the display size and 4:3 aspect ratio of Apple's first foldable. The machine-translated report says the Wide […] Read more ›
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You know that unsettling feeling when someone seems perfect on paper but something in your gut whispers "run"—there's a reason for that, and it might just save you from years of manipulation disguised as friendship. Read more ›
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Instacart has announced it will be ending price testing on its platform. This comes after a study published earlier this month revealed pricing experiments that led to some customers seeing higher prices than others and the FTC saying last week it would be investigating the grocery delivery app. "Effective immediately, Instacart is ending all item price tests on our platform. Retailers will no longer be able to use Eversight technology... Read more ›
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Monzo has secured a full banking licence to operate in the European Union, with plans to bring its fintech product to new markets in the continent. The digital bank has become on of the most successful in the UK since its launch in 2015, having amassed more than 12 million customers in its home market. ... Read more ›
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Safeguards to ensure appropriate use of AI tools have “improved” but vulnerabilities remain, according to a comprehensive test from a government-appointed body. The AI Security Institute (AISI) tested the safeguarding features of the most advanced AI systems as part of its landmark Frontier AI Trends Report. The organisation found that while strides have been made ... Read more ›
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UK scale-ups are gearing up for a sharp rise in artificial intelligence investment, with new research showing UK businesses plan to increase AI spending by an average of 40% over the next two years. What was once enterprise-only technology, is becoming a central part of how scaling companies operate, compete and plan for the future. ... Read more ›
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Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has announced the launch of the Women in Tech Taskforce to champion diversity in the UK tech sector and boost economic growth. With research showing women leaving tech leads to estimated loss of up to £3.5B every year, the taskforce will aim to ‘break down barriers’ that hold women back from ... Read more ›
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Sheffield-based startup Future Greens, which builds bioreactors to convert unavoidable food and brewery waste into heat and power, has secured £500,000 in investment. The combination of £340,000 equity and a £160,000 government grant will be used to develop the company’s proprietary tenfold improvement to anaerobic digestion technology for its brewery customers. The funding will also ... Read more ›
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Bournemouth-based Ace High Sports has secured £600,000 to support its creation of video games for sports and playing card fans. The round is made up of £300,000 in equity funding from the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund via appointed fund manager The FSE Group, plus participation from private investors and grant funding from ... Read more ›
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Starling Group’s SaaS business Engine by Starling has opened its new London headquarters, which will be home to more than 300 engineering, delivery and client services experts following its latest hiring spree. Engine previously shared the Starling Group’s HQ at the Fruit and Wool Exchange in Spitalfields, where the company acquired more space in November ... Read more ›
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GreenScale, a London-based developer of hyperscale data centre campuses, has announced a strategic collaboration with critical digital infrastructure solution provider Vertiv to deliver factory-integrated data centre platforms in Europe that are engineered for AI workloads. As part of the strategic partnership, GreenScale will manage construction and site-wide infrastructure, while Vertiv will provide AI-ready data centre ... Read more ›
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Ankar, an AI startup developing technology to support patent protections, has secured a $20m (£15m) Series A investment. The company claims to have developed a unified platform to replace the fragmented process of securing patents. According to Ankar, its platform works across the entire lifecycle of a patent, from novelty and prior art analysis to ... Read more ›
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Earlier this year, it was reported that up to 51,000 faces were scanned in a single day by live facial recognition cameras near London Underground stations. The Metropolitan Police described the initiative as an important step in public safety. Many Londoners, however, saw it differently – it shone a light on the concerns that some ... Read more ›
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