How Social Media Sparked a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco
A wave of disinformation online contributed to a surge of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta who were trying to reach Europe, resulting in
Category: Tech
Nick Blair seeks $200m for pre-launch defence-tech startup Pyra
Nick Blair, a son of former UK prime minister Tony Blair, is trying to raise around $200m for a defence-tech startup that has not yet
HSBC Asset Management invests in Model ML’s ‘agentic operating system’ for banks
HSBC Asset Management has taken a stake in Model ML, a London startup building what it calls an agentic operating system for financial services, and
AI finds so many Windows flaws, Microsoft can’t keep up. Should you worry?
Be careful what you wish for. That’s what Microsoft found out recently when it discovered that AI — rather than making Windows more secure by
Meta’s local AI model prompts enterprises to rethink hardware-software cost trade-off
Meta rolled out a new 30-billion-parameter AI model optimized to run on a PC or Mac with a single GPU on Monday, offering a way
Bios Life leaves stealth with $25M and a Tempus alliance for cancer surveillance
A team of BioNTech alumni thinks cancer screening has been stuck in the past, and it has raised $25M to do something about it. Bios
AquaNab raises funding to fight salmon’s $4bn sea lice problem with alpaca nanoantibodies
Hamburg biotech is taking an unusual shot at salmon farming’s most expensive pest, and it starts with an alpaca. AquaNab is developing tiny antibodies, derived
Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don’t exist
Tweety McTreason signed an executive order Monday that makes sweeping, unilateral changes to federal vaccine recommendations. The order aims to reduce the number of lifesaving
Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds
Following its announcement in March, game developer Cold Iron Studios has shut down the servers for the cloud version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite on the
Point2 raised $136M to solve AI’s wiring problem. Its RF cables beat copper on reach and optics on latency.
Point2 Technology has raised $136 million in total Series B financing to commercialise a new type of cable that could replace both copper and optics
Hackers talked their way into Levi’s, and three computers were enough
Levi Strauss has disclosed a breach that involved no software vulnerability at all. Attackers used social engineering to reach three employees’ work computers, then took
Meta’s new local model forces enterprises to recalculate AI costs and ROI
Meta on Monday rolled out a new 30-billion-parameter AI model that is optimized to run on a PC or Mac with a single GPU to
The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI, and its revenue just halved
The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI. The publisher of TheStreet, Parade and Men’s Journal expects the change to finish by the end of August.
Google is testing a homepage without a Search button
Google is testing a homepage with no Search button. A small group of signed-out users see three AI shortcuts in its place, and the familiar