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One year after an initial €5 million Seed round, French eSIM startup Kolet announced a €8.6 million Series A to continue their mission to offer all travellers seamless, affordable, and universal mobile connectivity in over 190 countries. The funding was led by Daphni, with the participation of Peter Kern, former CEO of Expedia Group, and ...
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"Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel," reports Phoronix: Only on Friday were the RISC-V code updates submitted for the Linux 6.17 merge window. The Linux 6.17 merge window is expected to wrap up on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1 release... [T]his pull request has been rejected by Linus Torvalds for Linux 6.17 on the basis of being late in... Read more ›
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The world’s richest man is using his new AI art tool to pump out sexualized images of women, leaning hard into the fantasies of his most devoted male followers. Read more ›
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If success could be measured by numbers, Battlefield 6 would invent new math. The game, which is in its open beta right now, has just crossed the 500,000 player count on Steam, beating not only every other Battlefield before it, but also every COD title ever. Read more ›
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Disney's largest cruise ship yet, Disney Adventure, will sail from Singapore this December. CEO Bob Iger described the ship as a floating ambassador. Read more ›
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Another victim has been scammed out of an RTX 5090 from Amazon's French location. Despite buying an RTX 5090 from an Amazon-hosted listing, the buyer received a card with a missing GPU core and missing memory modules. Read more ›
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Once hyped as the indestructible truck of the future, the sci-fi pickup is now leading a massive plunge in used Tesla values as the company grapples with the fallout from its CEO's politics. Read more ›
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The fifth tvOS 26 beta changed several "HomeKit" references to "Apple Home" in the Settings app on all Apple TV models compatible with the update. For example, Israeli website The Verifier reported that the "AirPlay and HomeKit" menu on the Apple TV is now labeled "AirPlay and Apple Home." MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris spotted other examples, such as the one below. Before:Your Apple TV won't connect with iCloud and HomeKit... Read more ›
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With GPT-5, OpenAI addresses the question: What's the point of a model being so intelligent if humans don't understand how to use it? Read more ›
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macOS Tahoe includes 15 new aerial screen savers for the Mac, each panning over natural landscapes around the world. The new screen saver options were highlighted by Dylan McDonald, and we have provided still previews of all of them below. The new screen savers can also be set as wallpapers. To browse through all screen savers on macOS Tahoe, open the System Settings app, click Wallpaper, and click the "Screen... Read more ›
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Gold leads bitcoin year to date, but BTC’s cumulative return since 2011 dwarfs all major asset classes, including gold, stocks and real estate. Read more ›
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Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 by October 2025, but someone is suing the company to stop it from doing so. Read more ›
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The National Museum of the US Air Force hosts the world's only permanent public exhibition of a B-2 stealth bomber. Read more ›
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Sandisk’s 256TB SSD prioritizes density and power safety over speed, with no SLC cache and unverified performance claims creating uncertainty about its real-world effectiveness. Read more ›
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Newegg is offering Seagate's legendary BarraCuda hard drive in its 24TB variant for only $250 right now, that amounts to a cent per gigabyte. These are great savings for a NAS-ready, 7200 RPM hard drive that use the fat better CMR tech instead of the archaic SMR method. Read more ›
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I didn't know how to change a flat tire and it was getting dark. A stranger stopped to help me and left before I could thank me. It changed my life. Read more ›
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A professional trapper had one question about the wild pig he'd found in California. Why was its flesh blue? The Los Angeles Tiems explains: [California's Department of Fish and Wildlife] is now warning trappers and hunters to keep an eye out for possibly contaminated wildlife in the area, and not to consume the tainted meat, over concerns the blue meat is a sign that the animal may have consumed poison....... Read more ›
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The PC, which was rescued from a dumpster, has an Intel Core i5-6600 CPU and an AMD Radeon R9 380 GPU. Read more ›
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Battlefield 6 has been receiving critical and fan acclaim over the past few days, and Mike Ybarro, Blizzard's former president, has shared a similar sentiment. He says Call of Duty has "gone downhill" and that Battlefield 6 will "boot stomp" COD this year for several reasons. Read more ›
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WindBorne Systems is one of several companies launching balloons, drones, buoys, and other devices to provide critical data to the beleaguered agency’s National Weather Service, but they can’t fill all the gaps. Read more ›
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French MedTech developer Sanofi announces the completion of its acquisition of Vigil Neuroscience, Inc. to add new investigational medicine to treat Alzheimer’s disease to the neurology pipeline. In June 2024, Sanofi made a €34.5 million strategic investment in Vigil that included the exclusive right of first negotiation for an exclusive license, grant, or transfer of ... Read more ›
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Tallinn-based Sunly, a renewable electricity provider, announced they received almost €85 million in international financing to build four solar parks in Latvia with a total capacity of 329 megawatts (MW) – reportedly enough to meet the annual electricity consumption of up to 180k homes. The financing package includes loans of €35.2 million from the European ... Read more ›
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WiseBee, a US-Bulgarian cybersecurity startup building an on-demand, autonomous security team that monitors, detects, and neutralises threats, has raised €2.1 million in pre-Seed funding to accelerate development and deployment of its Agentic cyber risk mitigation platform. The round was led by Frontline Ventures and BrightCap Ventures, with participation from a U.S.-based investment firm and angel ... Read more ›
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Applications from 39 countries, 34 mentors, 21 startups selected, 2 investments closed. These are the numbers from the last batch of AceON Accelerator. Now, they are opening a new fully online cohort, “Autumn Accelerator 2025” for idea and pre-seed startups across Europe. Founders, how well do you understand venture capital and fundraising? The Autumn Accelerator ... Read more ›
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AlterEco Pulp, a Rome-based startup active in the ecological transition and specialised in the production of eco-sustainable packaging, announced the closing of a €3.5 million Seed round. The round was led by Eureka! Fund I – Technology Transfer, managed by Eureka! Venture SGR, with the participation of AZIMUT ELTIF – Venture Capital ALIcrowd III and IV ... Read more ›
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Riga-based Cellbox Labs, developing miniature human organ replicas outside the body, has secured €3.3 million in non-dilutive funding to accelerate the development of its dynamic organ-on-a-chip technology. Part of this funding comes from state aid under the Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) in the healthcare sector, known as “Tech4Cure”, which strengthens EU industrial ... Read more ›
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In the heart of Germany, a unique programme is once again opening its doors to global entrepreneurs, this time with a sharper focus on IT hardware. The Stuttgart Region’s Startup Welcome Package continues to offer an unparalleled entry point for startups and young tech companies aiming to explore one of Europe’s most innovation-driven ecosystems. For ... Read more ›
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U.S.-based AIxBlock, a decentralised AI infrastructure startup, has secured a €1.5 million innovation grant from the European Union, with an additional €61.5 million in pre-approved funding, to support the next phase of its open and distributed compute platform. The non-dilutive grant – which does not require equity in return – marks a significant milestone for ... Read more ›
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Munich-based environmental management and compliance platform Tanso has closed a Series A round of €12 million to expand its team and into additional countries, and to develop further product modules for supply chain, compliance, and risk management. The round was led by international VC firms henQ and Fortino Capital, with participation from existing investors Capnamic and ... Read more ›
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Following the success of its first fund, Leipzig-based VC fund Smart Infrastructure Ventures has announced the launch of its €30 million fund, SIVentures II to further invest in early-stage startups focused on innovative technologies in AI, IT infrastructure and energy. The current investment strategy plans to invest in a total of around 30 startup teams, ... Read more ›
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