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European policymakers want to ease AI and privacy laws

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Matt Tate @ Engadget 1 place · today 12:11 EDT

European policymakers have proposed sweeping changes to the way the EU regulates the tech industry. In just the last few months, the likes of Meta and Google have questioned strict EU policies relating to privacy and AI expansion, but if the European Commission’s new package of proposals are passed, a number of big tech roadblocks will be removed. Or at least lifted up a bit.  Changes to rules around AI,... Read more ›

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Sydney Sweeney’s Transformation Into a Right-Wing Meme Was Not a ‘Total Aesthetic Victory’

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Matt Novak @ Gizmodo 1 place · today 11:35 EDT

X users have made her the face of bigotry on the platform. Read more ›

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Warner settles lawsuit and agrees licensing deal with AI music platform

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Financial Times 1 place · today 11:38 EDT

Agreement with Udio could allow fans to create their own songs using licensed tracks if artists opt in Read more ›

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This big AI bubble argument is wrong

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Alistair Barr @ Business Insider 1 place · today 12:09 EDT

Investors shouldn't worry about rapid GPU depreciation. These AI chips can remain useful and valuable for up to eight years. Read more ›

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US stocks rebound sharply ahead of Nvidia results

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Financial Times 2 place · today 10:48 EDT

Wall Street shares have seen big swings this week as investors brace for all-important earnings from AI bellwether Read more ›

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Tesla is battling with Waymo and Uber to shape California's new robotaxi rules

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Tom Carter @ Business Insider 2 place · today 11:09 EDT

Tesla pushed back against a proposal backed by Waymo that could force Elon Musk's company to reveal more data about its ride-hailing service. Read more ›

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Cloudflare Explains Its Worst Outage Since 2019

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msmash @ Slashdot 1 place · today 09:47 EDT

Cloudflare suffered its worst network outage in six years on Tuesday, beginning at 11:20 UTC. The disruption prevented the content delivery network from routing traffic for roughly three hours. The failure, writes Cloudflare in a blog post, originated from a database permissions change deployed at 11:05 UTC. The modification altered how a database query returned information about bot detection features. The query began returning duplicate entries. A configuration file used... Read more ›

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This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself

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Will Knight @ Wired 1 place · today 12:00 EDT

Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year. Read more ›

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Microsoft's new agentic AI features introduce new security risks introduced by AI, like prompt injection — firm acknowledges new and unexpected risks are possible

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · today 09:25 EDT

Microsoft just released agentic AI features to Windows 11 Insiders, but also warned them of the risks of using them on their PC. Read more ›

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AOC warns we may be in a 'massive' AI bubble with '2008-style threats to economic stability'

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Bryan Metzger @ Business Insider 3 place · today 10:26 EDT

Ocasio-Cortez said we may be in a "massive" AI bubble and "we should not entertain a bailout of these corporations" if it pops. Read more ›

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US Approves $1B Loan to Restart Three Mile Island, as Microsoft Data Centers Drive Demand

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Passant Rabie @ Gizmodo 2 place · today 11:55 EDT

The tech giant aims to offset its carbon emissions by bringing back a nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania. Read more ›

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Gemini’s getting maybe its most useful upgrade yet: spotting AI-made content

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Stephen Schenck @ Android Authority 1 place · today 11:58 EDT

Can't tell if that's an AI-made image? Just ask Gemini. Read more ›

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Samsung user loses life after Galaxy phone fails to reach emergency hotline

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Tushar Mehta @ Android Authority 2 place · today 09:44 EDT

Carrier blames outdated software on Samsung phone for its inability to connect to emergency services. Read more ›

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You're about to see even fewer BSODs in public with Windows 11's new 'Digital Signage Mode' — every public blue screen will wither away within 15 seconds of the crash

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · today 11:21 EDT

Microsoft is preventing hilarity from ensuing by adding a new Digital Signage Mode in Windows 11. This recovery feature will force a BSOD or any error pop-up to disappear within 15 seconds so that the public can't enjoy the mundanity of life. Digital Signage Mode is different from the existing Kiosk mode for interactive screens. Read more ›

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I got a senior AI job at Microsoft to help future-proof my career. 3 key steps made up my playbook to get here.

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Charissa Cheong @ Business Insider · today 08:29 EDT

Sophia Sun landed a senior AI product manager job at Microsoft in July 2024. She helped built an AI product for her previous employer. Read more ›

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Yesterday's global internet outage caused by single file on Cloudflare servers — unexpected file size caused catastrophic error, knocking out several major websites

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · today 07:03 EDT

Cloudflare reports that a feature file had unexpectedly doubled in size due to an error, leading its Bot Management system to fail. Read more ›

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How Donald Trump Lost Control of the Epstein Spin Cycle

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David Gilbert @ Wired 2 place · today 11:00 EDT

Donald Trump has spent years benefiting from the QAnon's Jeffrey Epstein obsession. That’s all changing. Read more ›

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Nvidia's fabled PCIe finger sells for under $25 in China, should you happen to break it — resuscitate your $10,000 GPU for less than a pair of fuzzy socks

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Tom's Hardware · today 11:56 EDT

Nvidia's modular PCIe connector, used in some of its Blackwell-based graphics cards, is available individually. Read more ›

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Best Gifts for Hikers, Backpackers, Outdoorsy People (2025)

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Scott Gilbertson @ Wired 3 place · today 10:00 EDT

Let them pick out their own hiking boots. Instead, try gifting a useful blade or a nature journal to delight your outdoorsy friend. Read more ›

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The 6 big thinkers reshaping foreign aid, masculinity, and development

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Izzie Ramirez @ Vox 1 place · today 06:00 EDT

The roots of the world’s most stubborn global health problems don’t yield to vibes-based solutions. They surrender to data, rigor, and the surprisingly radical idea of actually trying to figure out what works.  Governments and nonprofit organizations depend on the economists, activists, policymakers, and writers who are reshaping how we understand poverty, health, and progress. They’re […] Read more ›

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Denmark doubles down on startup ambitions with €800k to TechBBQ

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Cate Lawrence @ Tech.eu 1 place · 11/14/2025 11:48 EDT

TechBBQ has just received a 6 million Danish kroner (approx €800,000) grant from the Danish Board of Business Development. It follows an earlier grant in May this year.The TechBBQ Summit serves as a c... Read more ›

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CHAOS attracts €2M to scale AI platform and reinvent real estate

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Tamara Djurickovic @ Tech.eu 2 place · 11/13/2025 01:00 EDT

Helsinki-based CHAOS, a data-intelligencecompany focused on reinventing the global real estate industry, has raised €2million in a new funding round with participation from Swedish investmentcompany N... Read more ›

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Zilch nets $175M, Backed VC closes $100M Fund III, and nd Ukraine’s LIFT99 emerges even stronger after a missile attack

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Cate Lawrence @ Tech.eu 1 place · 11/14/2025 12:36 EDT

This week, we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €736 million and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. In addition to this week's top f... Read more ›

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Flatpay anointed as the latest Danish unicorn

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John Reynolds @ Tech.eu 1 place · 11/17/2025 05:17 EDT

Danish fintech Flatpay has become the country’s latest unicorn, after securing $170 million in funding. Flatpay co-founder Rasmus Hellmund Carlsen said Flatpay has become the fastest firm in Denmark t... Read more ›

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Vendep Capital raises €80M to back the next wave of AI-era SaaS founders

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Tamara Djurickovic @ Tech.eu · 11/13/2025 01:01 EDT

Finnish venture capitalfirm Vendep Capital has closed €80 million for its fourth fund to supportearly-stage SaaS founders in the Nordics and Baltics during the AI era. Thefund is backed by Nordic and ... Read more ›

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CommerceClarity completes €2.7M funding to power the agentic era of e-commerce

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Tamara Djurickovic @ Tech.eu · 11/13/2025 01:30 EDT

Italy-basedCommerceClarity, a composable AI operating system for e-commerce, has closed a€2.7 million pre-seed round led by IFF (Koinos Capital) and Entourage, withparticipation from Redstone and Eure... Read more ›

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Skycore Semiconductors secures €5M to drive next-generation AI data centre innovation

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Tamara Djurickovic @ Tech.eu · 11/13/2025 03:00 EDT

Skycore Semiconductors, a startup specialisingin Power Integrated Circuit (IC) technology for AI data centers, has raised €5million in seed funding. The round was led by the Amadeus APEX Technology Fu... Read more ›

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Backed VC closes $100M Fund III and marks 100th investment milestone

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Cate Lawrence @ Tech.eu · 11/13/2025 03:00 EDT

European venture firm Backed VC has closed its third fund, Backed 3, at its $100 million cap, alongside making its 100th investment. Backed partners with outlier founders building generational fronti... Read more ›

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Adclear raises €2.4M to apply AI in financial promotions compliance

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Tamara Djurickovic @ Tech.eu · 11/13/2025 03:05 EDT

London-based Adclear, an AI compliance platform, has raised an oversubscribed £2.1 millionseed round led by Outward VC, with participation from AFG Partners and Tenity.Angel investors include Clearsco... Read more ›

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Cronvall secures €3.9M to scale smarter industrial procurement across Europe

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Tamara Djurickovic @ Tech.eu · 11/13/2025 05:00 EDT

Cronvall, a Finnish technology companydigitalising industrial procurement, has raised €3.9 million from GreencodeVentures, Stephen Industries, Innovestor, and leading industrial familyoffices.Cronvall... Read more ›

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