Cybercrime cops still celebrating the takedown of LockBit should put the champagne back on ice because the Russia-linked hackers have re-emerged â and declared support for Donald Trump. Often described as the âworldâs most active ransomware group,â LockBit was disrupted last Tuesday by an international coalition of law enforcement agencies. According to Europol, the task force infiltrated the gangâs âprimary platform and critical infrastructure.â Members of LockBit were also arrested... Read more âș
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One thing you can say for PHP is that itâs persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, itâs often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also maintains many supporters and practitioners, serving as a reminder of C++ inventor Bjarne Stroustrupâs wise words: There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. First created in... Read more âș
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Less than a year since its founding, Paris-based Mistral is launching a new AI flagship model for developers, Mistral Large â just a few months after the release of its first model, Mistral 7B. Much like its predecessor, Mistral Large is an open-source generative AI model. According to the startup, it boasts âtop-tierâ reasoning capabilities and is proficient in code and mathematics. Itâs also multilingual and fluent in five languages... Read more âș
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European scientists have developed a solar module that can produce electricity and heat at the same time â in a potential breakthrough for low-cost clean energy generation. The device is made up of a concave mirror and a thin, glass tube filled with photovoltaic cells. When the sunâs rays strike the module, the mirror reflects them at the tube, generating electricity.  The heat produced in the tube then warms up... Read more âș
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Meta is launching a special task force dedicated to tackling disinformation and abusive AI-generated content in the lead-up to the EU elections in June. The power of social media to influence voting is well documented. But the rapid rise of AI â which can generate âdeepfakeâ images, text, and videos at the push of a button â has triggered new fears that the technology will be used to disrupt major... Read more âș
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In new research, Google DeepMind has demonstrated that its AI can help accelerate the development of quantum computers â taking one step further in combining two of the most disruptive technologies. DeepMind worked together with UK-based Quantinuum to solve a key challenge in fault-tolerant quantum computers: reducing the number of T gates. T gates are essential in implementing a quantum circuit â a network of gates that manipulates qubits to... Read more âș
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Norwegian startup ClexBio is bioengineering human veins to implant inside a patientâs body. Together with CSEM, a Swiss R&D centre, the company has built a prototype bioreactor to grow the veins. Pre-clinical tests in animal models are already underway. Based on the early results, the team is confident that the implants donât trigger an immune response in patients. Instead, they turn into functional tissue that integrates with the body. If... Read more âș
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While there are many innovative companies heading to TNW Conference 2024 this year, weâve created a short list of 7 of the hottest scaleups to check out. Though they cover a range of different industries, they all have one thing in common: unicorn potential. Through our Shining Stars competition, expert judges analysed and assessed each nominee to see which of the bunch is on track to becoming the next revolutionary... Read more âș
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The parent company of Amsterdam-based Booking.com faces a record fine from Spainâs antitrust watchdog, as Europe steps up its efforts to crack down on tech giants and create breathing room for smaller companies. Following a probe launched in 2022, Spainâs National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has found Booking Holdings guilty of anti-competitive practices, the online travel giant said in a statement on Thursday. The alleged infringements include preventing local... Read more âș
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When it comes to cyberattacks, celebrities have a huge target on their backs. Just consider the news at the end of 2023 where Rhysida, the infamous hacking group, announced it had attacked King Edward VIIâs Hospital, a private health institution in London. This is bad enough by itself, but what really elevated this news from âanother day, another attack,â was the fact the hackers claimed to have obtained sensitive medical... Read more âș
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Researchers have discovered a Russia-aligned PSYOPs campaign with a curious mix of espionage, disinformation, and Canadian pharmacy spam. It also has links to Alexi Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died last week in an Arctic penal colony. The PSYOPs â a military term for âpsychological operationsâ â were unearthed by analysts at ESET, a cybersecurity firm headquartered in Slovakia. They named the campaign âOperation Texonto.â The operation disseminated war-related disinformation... Read more âș
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After watching its share price almost double in a week, Arm has further tapped into the demand for AI compute. The chip designer today announced a deal with Nuro, a US startup in the autonomous vehicle (AV) sector â a growing market for Arm. The partnership aims to accelerate the commercialisation of self-driving cars. Arm will bring its famed semiconductor IP to Nuroâs vehicles, starting with the startupâs delivery robots.... Read more âș
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Last week, NASAâs Perseverance rover spotted its companion, the downed Ingenuity helicopter, in its final resting place amongst a sea of sand ripples on Mars. The aircraft had suffered irreparable damage in a rough landing, but before that, it had snapped a breathtaking view of the Martian landscape with wind-strewn dunes reaching out towards a field of rocky hilltops. Although the craft will never take flight again, it was a... Read more âș
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Amsterdam-based Fastned has raised more than âŹ24mn in new bonds to grow its fast charging network across Europe. Investors have also extended âŹ3.5mn from earlier bonds, bringing the total funding to over âŹ27.5mn. Founded in 2012, the startup provides over 280 fast charging stations across several European countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and France. In January last year, it announced an expansion to Spain as well. Drivers can add... Read more âș
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Just months after Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini â its most capable AI model ever â the London-based lab has released its precocious offspring: Gemma. Named after the Latin word for âprecious stone,â Gemma is a new family of open models for developers and researchers. âDemonstrating strong performance across benchmarks for language understanding and reasoning, Gemma is available worldwide starting today,â Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, said on Twitter. Gemma... Read more âș
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Helsinki-based Silo AI has completed the training of the Poro model â a new milestone in its mission to create large language models (LLMs) for low-resource languages. Named after the Finnish word for âreindeer,â Poro is the first of a family of open-source multilingual LLMs. The startup is building the models alongside the University of Turku and the EUâs High Performance Language Technologies (HPLT) project. Poro is a 34.2 billion... Read more âș
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ï»ż Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast â the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In todayâs episode, Andrii and Linnea talk about AI safety, Europe regulating Big Tech (but not quite), snowmobile emissions, and the cost of chatbot hallucinations. The guest of the show is Gerard Grech,... Read more âș
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Cyberattacks hit Europe more than any other region in 2023, according to new research from IBM. The continent accounted for a whopping 32% of incidents analysed by the tech giant. That pushes it past last yearâs biggest target, Asia-Pacific, which drops from first to third with 23%. North America jumps into second place with 26% of all cases. Across the globe, the biggest technical shift was the growing abuse of... Read more âș
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LockBit, one of the worldâs most infamous cybercrime gangs, has been disrupted by the UKâs National Crime Agency (NCA) and international law enforcement agencies including Europol and the FBI. The gang is known for holding victimsâ data to ransom and its ransomware-as-a-service operation, whereby it licenses malware to other hackers who then launch attacks. LockBit has seen rapid growth since its emergence in 2019. According to Europol, in 2022, it... Read more âș
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The UK Space Agency has opened two funding calls for tech and science projects to fly onboard a prospective, commercially-sponsored mission. The calls are in preparation of an agreement between the UK and Axiom Space, a US company that organises visits to the International Space Station (ISS). The partnership aims to launch a British astronaut mission, potentially to the ISS. The ÂŁ15mn (âŹ17.5mn) funding will depend on whether the mission... Read more âș
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