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Icelandic startup Treble Technologies, specializing in sound simulation and sound design software, has announced a $2m seed financing round. Main investors are Börkur Arnviðarsson founder of ChemoMetec, Omega ehf., Sigþór Sigmarsson of Novator Partners LLP and Trausti Kristjánsson. The company, founded in late 2020, has the architecture, engineering and construction industry as its main target ...
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theodp writes: We all mix pictures, emojis, and text freely in our communications. So why not in our code? That's the premise of "Fun With Python and Emoji: What Might Adding Pictures to Text Programming Languages Look Like?" (two-image Bluesky explainer; full slides), which takes a look at what mixing emoji with Python and SQL might look like. A GitHub repo includes a Google Colab-ready Python notebook proof of concept... Read more ›
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The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes finally placed a meaningful limit on Trump’s authority on Tuesday. In Trump v. Illinois, three Republican justices joined all three of the Court’s Democrats in ruling that Trump violated federal law when he […] Read more ›
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The SBU said that it used the drone to strike a Russian Sea Dragon maritime recon aircraft, a key step for its later attack on the submarine. Read more ›
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It's a good thing that we already know a second season of Pluribus is on the way. Because the season finale for the show - a sci-fi drama on Apple TV, helmed by Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan - made it clear that things are just getting started. The episode brought together a number of […] Read more ›
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Stowlog, a SaaS platform developed by Castellón-based Estudio Cactus, has closed a €1 million investment round to accelerate the digitisation of safety and security processes across port logistics operations. The round was led by Draper B1, a venture capital fund affiliated with the Draper Venture Network, with participation from First Drop and the Castellón-based technology ... Read more ›
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Context matters as much as content in determining whether text is machine generated or not Read more ›
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Researchers have created a new kind of 3D computer chip that stacks memory and computing elements vertically, dramatically speeding up how data moves inside the chip. Unlike traditional flat designs, this approach avoids the traffic jams that limit today’s AI hardware. The prototype already beats comparable chips by several times, with future versions expected to go much further. Just as important, it was manufactured entirely in a U.S. foundry, showing... Read more ›
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A judge ruled that Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications is legal and rejected the US Chamber of Commerce's effort to overturn the fee. Read more ›
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Phoronix's Michael Larabel writes: An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck... On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually adapt and work very well on the hyperscaler's large servers. [...] The presentation at LPC 2025 by Meta engineers was in fact titled "How do we... Read more ›
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Jeffrey Epstein's wills named figures like Larry Summers and Jes Staley as possible executors, DOJ files show. Read more ›
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Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake’s history, The Information reported Tuesday. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help developers to ... Read more ›
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Creative financing helps insulate Big Tech while binding Wall Street to a future boom or bust Read more ›
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The chances of winning the Powerball Grand Prize is much smaller than being struck by lightening, killed in a shark attack, or born on a Leap Day. Read more ›
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Kai Murakami and Thomas Jane will play 'Star Trek' legends Hikaru Sulu and Leonard McCoy in the final episode of 'Strange New Worlds'. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, "Inside CECOT," featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving,... Read more ›
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Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of social partners. Some genes promote certain microbes that can spread between individuals living together. When researchers accounted for this social sharing, genetic influence on the microbiome turned out to be much stronger than previously thought. The study suggests genes can affect others indirectly, without DNA ever being exchanged. Read more ›
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Helsinki-based Rundit has been acquired by Greenstep, marking a strategic move to merge modern fund reporting software with full-scale fund administration services. Rundit, whose platform is used by VC and PE investors in more than 40 countries to automate portfolio data collection and LP reporting, will continue operating as a standalone product and team under […] Read more ›
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Copenhagen-based fintech FarPay is entering a new growth phase following its acquisition by Dutch peer POM, in a transaction supported by investment firm Vortex Capital Partners. Known for its end-to-end automation of invoicing and accounts receivable across Scandinavia, FarPay will continue to operate as an independent brand within the POM Group, with its team, management, […] Read more ›
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Copenhagen-based NobodyWho has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding from PSV Tech, The Footprint Firm, and Norrsken Evolve to advance its open-source approach to Small Language Models that run directly on users’ devices. The startup is positioning SLMs as a privacy-first, energy-efficient alternative to cloud-based large language models by enabling AI inference to happen locally […] Read more ›
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Helsinki- and London-based Cloudberry has announced a €30 million initial close for what it describes as Europe’s first venture fund dedicated exclusively to semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials. The fund will invest at pre-seed and seed stages, focusing on technologies linked to compute, connectivity, sensing, and power, at a time when European policymakers are seeking […] Read more ›
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European lenders are unlocking a significant new financing channel for Estonia’s business sector. Under a pact between the EIB Group and local lender Coop Pank, up to €249 million in fresh loans and leases will be made available to Estonian SMEs and mid-sized companies by 2028, with a strong focus on gender equality and climate-related […] Read more ›
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Stockholm-based nuclear startup Blykalla has raised $50 million to advance the industrialization of SEALER, its lead-cooled small modular reactor aimed at delivering stable, low-carbon baseload power. The round was co-led by Oklo Inc, Norrsken Launcher, and ARMADA Investment AG, with participation from KDDI, CoreWeave co-founders Brian Venturo and Peter Salanki, and investors including August One, […] Read more ›
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Lovable has secured $330 million in Series B funding at a $6.6 billion valuation, as investors double down on tools that lower the barrier to building software. The round is led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures’ Anthology fund, with backing from NVentures (NVIDIA), Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, Deutsche Telekom’s T.Capital, as […] Read more ›
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Danish industrial biotech startup EvodiaBio has raised €6 million in a funding round led by US-based RA Capital, with continued backing from EIFO and participation from new international investors Francis Family Funds and Wild Radicals. The company develops fermentation-driven technology that enables the efficient, scalable, and low-carbon production of natural aroma molecules—initially transforming beer production […] Read more ›
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Finnish SAR satellite operator ICEYE and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) have signed a Letter of Intent to explore deeper collaboration across mission development, satellite operations, ground infrastructure, and future launch services, marking a concrete step toward strengthening Nordic and NATO-aligned space-based security capabilities. The partnership brings together ICEYE’s sovereign SAR-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) […] Read more ›
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Estonian logistics startup MyDello has raised €3.1 million in a new funding round led by Icelandic VC Frumtak Ventures, with participation from existing investor Superhero Capital of Finland, as the company expands its automated freight platform into the UK. The round also brings Jevgeni Kabanov, president of Bolt, onto MyDello’s board, alongside Frumtak general partner […] Read more ›
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