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🔐 Cybersecurity
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55m ago
Basic-Fit hit by hack affecting members across multiple countries, including 200,000 in the Netherlands
The breach exposed names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and bank account details. No passwords or identity documents were accessed.

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Round raises $6M to automate the finance workflows that still require a human to press a button
The London fintech, used by Cleo and PostHog, has closed a seed round led by Alstin Capital, with Backed VC and Love Ventures participating. The co-founder of I

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📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
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1h ago
Europe is dismantling its own rulebook to compete with America
On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published its Digital Omnibus package, a legislative proposal to amend the AI Act, the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive

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🚀 Entrepreneurship & Startups
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1h ago
UK impact VC Eka Ventures closes second fund at $107M
When Eka Ventures held the final close of its first fund at £68 million in 2021, the London-based firm staked a claim that few UK VCs were willing to make at th

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📣 Digital Marketing & Growth
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14h ago
Mac mini and Mac Studio go out of stock – is it the RAM crisis or an M5 refresh?
In short: Several high-RAM Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations disappeared from Apple’s online store in the US on 11 April 2026, listed as “currently unavail

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🧠 Large Language Models
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14h ago
OpenAI’s new $100 ChatGPT Pro plan targets Claude Max with five times the Codex access
In short: OpenAI launched a new $100 per month Pro plan for ChatGPT on 9 April 2026, inserting a new tier between the existing $20 Plus plan and the $200 Pro pl

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15h ago
The Netherlands becomes the first European country to approve Tesla’s FSD Supervised
In short: The Dutch vehicle authority RDW approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software on 10 April 2026, making the Netherlands the first European c

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17h ago
Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases
In short: Anthropic has released a beta add-in that places Claude directly inside Microsoft Word, with every AI-generated edit appearing as a native tracked cha

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18h ago
Why data quality matters when working with data at scale
Data quality has always been an afterthought. Teams spend months instrumenting a feature, building pipelines, and standing up dashboards, and only when a stakeh

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2d ago
SaaS on the Beach returns to Barcelona with a founder-only format
As the tech conference circuit grows more crowded, one SaaS event is making the opposite pitch: fewer people, fewer sales decks, and a lot less noise. SaaS on t

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2d ago
UK startup Altilium bags £18.5m to build Britain’s first commercial EV battery refinery
In short: Altilium, a UK clean technology company, has secured £18.5 million in grant funding from the government’s DRIVE35 Scale-Up Fund to build ACT3, the cou

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2d ago
Estonia is the rare EU country opposing bans on children’s social media use
In short: Estonia and Belgium are the only two EU member states to have declined the Jutland Declaration, an October 2025 pan-European commitment to restrict ch

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2d ago
AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking
AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026

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2d ago
AI can screen 15 million molecules in a day. It still can’t cure Alzheimer’s.
The drug discovery revolution is real but radically overstated, the health chatbots are a documented hazard, and the diseases that matter most remain stubbornly

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2d ago
France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push
In short: France’s Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) announced on 8 April 2026 that it is migrating its own workstations from Windows to Linux and ha

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2d ago
Police arrest 20-year-old after Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman’s San Francisco home
In short: A 20-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Friday, 10 April 2026, after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI chie

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2d ago
Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banking platform for AI agents
In short: Meow Technologies has launched what it describes as the world’s first agentic banking platform, enabling AI agents to open business bank accounts, iss

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2d ago
Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign
In short: Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetIQ’s PetArmor brand, and Best Friends Animal Society have launched “Protect Playtime,” a campaign combining an AI-po

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2d ago
CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform
In short: CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic on April 10, 2026, giving the Claude maker access to Nvidia GPU capacity across US data cent

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🤖 AI Agents & Automation
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4d ago
Canva acquires Simtheory and Ortto in a twin deal aimed at turning a design tool into an end-to-end work platform
Both companies were built by brothers Chris and Mike Sharkey, who previously co-founded Australian holiday rental site Stayz. Financial terms were not disclosed

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🤖 AI Agents & Automation
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4d ago
Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles
In short: Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary MOIA America and Uber have begun on-road testing in Los Angeles with roughly 10 autonomous ID. Buzz vehicl

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🧠 Large Language Models
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4d ago
Meta’s Muse Spark is here – and it’s closed source
In short: Meta has released Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit it assembled under Alexandr Wang after spending $14.3 billion

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🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
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4d ago
Atlassian brings AI visual tools and partner agents to Confluence, 1 month after cutting 1,600 jobs
In short: Atlassian is rolling out Remix, a visual AI tool in open beta that transforms Confluence pages into charts, infographics, and scorecards without requi

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🤖 AI Agents & Automation
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4d ago
Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb
Verne, the autonomous mobility company spun out of Croatian hypercar maker Rimac, launched commercial robotaxi rides in Zagreb on 8 April alongside Pony.ai and
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