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Electric scooters have become a popular mode of modern urban mobility, offering a convenient and eco-friendly way to commute through city streets. In the Netherlands, the market is flooded with numerous low-quality knock-offs and unsafe E-steps sold as legitimate e-scooters. While e-scooters offer convenience, the influx of cheap, low-quality models, particularly from unregulated sources, has ... Read more
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Gorilla Botnet launches over 300,000 DDoS attacks. Organisations must strengthen security with firewalls, DDoS protection, and traffic filtering. A new botnet named Gorilla (also known as GorillaBot) is creating headlines in the cybersecurity industry, and its origins can be traced back to the infamous Mirai botnet. For those unfamiliar, a botnet is a network of... Read more » Read more ›
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Taylor Swift's upcoming self-published challenges business norm. But her tour's return raises concerns about mega-events' impact on economic recovery. Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are worth a combined $324 billion, more than Coca-Cola or Netflix's market value. Read more ›
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My family has been through six major hurricanes in Florida. They feel like a blip among sunny days in the Sunshine State. Read more ›
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature in relation to four crashes. The collisions took place in reduced-visibility conditions with either the beta or supervised versions of FSD enabled. In a November 2023 incident in Arizona, a Model Y fatally hit a pedestrian, as TechCrunch notes. An injury was sustained in one of the other three collisions, which occurred between March and May... Read more ›
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Salesforce founder and chief executive Marc Benioff has doubled down on his criticism of Microsoft's Copilot, the AI-powered tool that can write Word documents, create PowerPoint presentations, analyze Excel spreadsheets and even reply to emails through Outlook. In a post on X, he writes: When you look at how Copilot has been delivered to customers, it's disappointing. It just doesn't work, and it doesn't deliver any level of accuracy. Gartner... Read more ›
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Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Amazon launched four new Kindles this week, maybe the biggest single launch day in the 17-year history of the company’s wildly successful e-reader. One of them even comes in color! It is very much not a coincidence that the launch happened roughly a year after Panos Panay joined the company. Panay, a longtime Microsoft executive who was for years in charge of all things... Read more ›
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Star Wars Outlaws will get a Steam release next month, having previously only been available on Ubisoft and Epic's PC storefronts. Read more Read more ›
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Metaphor: ReFantazio and Persona director Katsura Hashino has said he avoids reading fan feedback to protect his mental health. Read more Read more ›
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I lost a part of my identity when I became a mom, but going on solo trips without my family helped me remember who I was and be a better parent. Read more ›
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Here is a short and incomplete list of things that former President Donald Trump has done this week: Throughout these events, Trump has come off as (alternately) a buffoon and a would-be dictator. One minute, you’re laughing at his campy dance moves and Hindenburg car rants, the next you’re worrying that he really might try […] Read more ›
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Matt Garman said nine out of 10 Amazon employees are "excited" about its RTO policy, a leaked transcript of an all-hands obtained by BI shows. Read more ›
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Netflix said Asia Pacific had the largest revenue growth rate of all regions, at 19%, compared to the same period last year. Read more ›
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Google Flights added a "Cheapest" tab to help you make the most of your travel budget. Read more ›
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It wasn’t long ago that Democrats embraced an unequivocally pro-immigrant stance. The party once defined its immigration platform in opposition to the policies of former President Donald Trump’s first term: separating families detained at the border, a travel ban on Muslim-majority countries, and efforts to gut the asylum system among them. In 2020, President Joe […] Read more ›
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Tom Holland said he read a draft of "Spider-Man 4" with Zendaya, and explained that it "needs work." Read more ›
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Sony has released its new customisable Welcome Hub for PlayStation 5 in the UK. Read more Read more ›
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Sony has lost its fight to prevent third party add-ons being sold for PlayStation games. Read more Read more ›
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Migrating didn’t hurt as much as I thought it would—and dynamic DNS still works! Read more ›
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Stockholm-based Node.vc, a Nordic early-stage venture capital firm, has closed a €71M fund. The firm aims to strengthen its ecosystem for entrepreneurs, focusing on supporting early-stage startups across the region. Key investors include Saminvest, a Stockholm-based venture capital firm established by the Swedish government, and several leading Nordic institutional investors such as Nordea Liv & ... Read more Read more ›
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London-based Diesta, a B2B SaaS company focused on transforming payment operations for the insurance industry, has secured $3.8M (approximately €3.49M) in a Seed funding round led by New York-based FinTech Collective (FTC). FTC is a global VC firm founded in 2012. It focuses on backing founders in transforming financial processes and offers deep expertise in ... Read more Read more ›
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In today’s fast-paced digital age, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant flow of information. With so many changes happening daily and quickly, it’s easy for some stories to slip through the cracks. But worry not, we have gathered them all in this roundup to make sure that you stay updated in the ocean ... Read more Read more ›
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DataSnipper, an Amsterdam-based automation platform focused on audit and finance, has announced two key developments: the acquisition of UpLink, a secure cloud-based document request platform, and the launch of DocuMine, an AI-driven document validation tool. These initiatives aim to strengthen the Dutch company’s efforts to build an AI-powered audit ecosystem. The announcement follows the company’s ... Read more Read more ›
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Stockholm-based Aira, a company that offers clean energy-based heating solutions, has secured €63M in equity funding. The investment came from Aira’s existing investors, including Temasek, Statkraft Ventures, Kinnevik, and Altor. This extension is part of an upsized and oversubscribed €145M Series B round that was co-led by the same investors and closed in January 2024. ... Read more Read more ›
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Prague-based Eyeball.Club, a B2B SaaS sports tech company, announced on Wednesday that it has secured €5M in a Seed funding round led by Vendep Capital with participation from Sportlogiq, Heartland, and Founderment. The Czech company will use the funds to fuel its expansion into key U.S. and Latin American markets, as well as further improve ... Read more Read more ›
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Naarden, the Netherlands-based Forbion, a global life sciences VC firm, announced on Tuesday, that it has raised over €2B across its two newest funds — Forbion Growth Opportunities III and Forbion Ventures VII, bringing assets under management at Forbion to €5B. Both funds exceeded their original target sizes and reached €1.2B and €890M), respectively. Sander ... Read more Read more ›
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Europe’s on-demand food ordering and grocery delivery space has taken massive hits after the pandemic. Many of the on-demand companies—especially the flash delivery companies—are now struggling, and the ones that remain are seeking new avenues of revenue or profit. Glovo, the 2015-launched “multicategory app” as they like to call it, is taking a whole new ... Read more Read more ›
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Baar, Switzerland-based Albatross, an AI personalisation startup, announced on Wednesday that it has secured €3M in a fresh funding round led by redalpine, with participation from Daphni. The Swiss company will use the funds to transform user engagement across e-commerce, media, and online marketplaces with AI-driven personalisation, enabling conversions and revenue growth for businesses. “Users ... Read more Read more ›
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London-based Hometree, a residential energy services company, announced on Thursday that it has raised a £50M (approximately €60M) mezzanine facility backed by CPPIB Credit Investments., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The announcement comes four months after raising £250M (approximately €300M) asset-backed debt facility from Barclays. The UK company will use the ... Read more Read more ›
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