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EU considers bigger levy on large companies to tax Big Tech

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The European Commission is looking to collect more money from Apple, Meta, Google, and other US tech companies, according to the Financial Times, which spoke with six officials who are familiar with the discussions. The Commission plans to do this by introducing a levy on large companies overall. Their goal is to avoid a tax […]

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Spiko raises a $90M Series B led by NEA for its tokenised cash funds

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Spiko, a Paris and London company that issues tokenised cash funds, has taken its total funding to $120 million, it said in a statement on Tuesday. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) led the $90 million Series B. Index Ventures, Bpifrance, Speedinvest, Flourish Ventures, Shapers and White Star Capital took part. So did Blockwall, Frst, EQNX, Mirana […]

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Asos app users get an alert claiming its Snowflake instance was compromised

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Asos app users in the UK got a push notification on Tuesday morning in which the senders claimed to have fully compromised the online fashion retailer’s Snowflake instance. The message, titled “ASOS HACKED”, addressed the company’s data protection officer (DPO) and IT team. “Dear ASOS DPO and IT, we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance. […]

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BT takes over TalkTalk and its 2.5 million customers out of administration

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BT Group has acquired TalkTalk’s consumer and wholesale businesses out of administration. They have 1.5 million retail customers and 1 million wholesale customers. BT announced the deal on Monday. It said a prolonged sale process for those operations had been unsuccessful. BT bought TalkTalk Telecommunications Limited and PlatformX Communications Limited, the wholesale business, on a […]

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Denmark’s CPR breach: 14 million lookups in ten days, found through a bill

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Unknown users have pulled names, addresses and ID numbers on about 8.8 million people from Denmark’s Central Person Register (CPR). They abused a small Danish company’s legal access to the register. Denmark’s digitalisation ministry announced the breach on Monday. The CPR administration has cut off the company, and the police are investigating. Denmark has about […]

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Minerva Humanoids raises $10M for robots that do bomb disposal and rig work

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Minerva Humanoids has raised about $10M in pre-seed funding to build humanoid robots for dangerous jobs. The San Francisco startup works on oil and gas and public safety. General Catalyst led the round, with Long Journey Ventures and Credo Ventures as co-leads, the company said on Tuesday. Hugging Face, Codecademy, RunwayVC and Compound are among […]

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Mistral releases Large 4, a 1 trillion-parameter open-weight AI model

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Mistral has released a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1T model that the Paris-based company says is the most powerful open-weight AI system outside China. Starting today, developers can access it via Mistral’s API. The model weights, which enable anyone to download and run it on their own servers, will be available on October […]

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Google, JPMorgan and two governments fixed the same MCP flaw

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Security teams at Google, JPMorgan Chase, Weaviate, France’s interministerial digital directorate (DINUM) and the city government of Tangerang in Indonesia have each fixed the same type of flaw in their Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Independent researcher Syed Anas Mohiuddin reported all five, he wrote in an update published this month. MCP is the standard […]

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OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU

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OpenAI will add an invisible watermark to text from ChatGPT and Codex in the EU over the coming weeks. The change covers eligible users on all plans, but only in the EU, the company said in a blog post on Monday. OpenAI said it is acting in response to the EU AI Act, which requires […]

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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to the light switch for brain cells

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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize rewards optogenetics, a method that switches nerve cells on and off with light. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm announced it on Monday, according to its press release. Deisseroth works at Stanford University and […]

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