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Bitcoin crossed the US$125,000 barrier – the price on the Bitstamp platform reached US$125,426, although it later stabilised slightly below this level. Behind this record, however, is not just retail speculation, but the increasingly pronounced involvement of institutional capital. In recent days, more than US$3bn of
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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, charts a vision of the future in which the gigawatt data centres powering the development of artificial intelligence leave Earth and move into orbit. In his view, this will happen in the next 10-20 years. The main argument is simple: constant and unlimited access to
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A cybercrime group, describing itself as ‘Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters’, claims to have taken over nearly one billion data records belonging to Salesforce customers. However, the attack did not directly breach the cloud giant’s infrastructure. Instead, the hackers relied on social engineering, targeting the weakest link – employees of companies using
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Record amounts of venture capital funding are flowing into AI startups, but leading global investors are beginning to publicly warn of disconnected valuations. There is growing concern that the early-stage AI sector is becoming overheated, with fear of falling behind (FOMO) replacing rational calculation. According to PitchBook data, AI startups
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The European Central Bank has taken a key step towards the realisation of the digital euro by selecting Portuguese startup Feedzai as the main provider of an AI-based fraud detection system. Under the framework agreement, Feedzai, together with PwC, is to develop a transaction risk model for the digital euro
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Qualcomm has decided to transition its flagship chips to the latest Arm v9 architecture, rather than the previous standard’s versions. This is a move that is both technologically and strategically significant – as it signals a continued partnership with Arm despite previous tensions, and could strengthen Qualcomm’s position in
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Apple is apparently making a course correction in the wearable segment – Bloomberg reports that the company has suspended work on a refreshed, lighter version of the Vision Pro headset (project ‘N100’), redirecting resources to the development of smart glasses. The original Vision Pro, introduced in February 2024 at a price
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Chinese authorities are beginning to limit the role of European telecoms equipment suppliers Nokia and Ericsson in state networks, changing the rules of the game for operators and equipment manufacturers. According to reports, the contracts of these companies must now undergo black box security reviews by the Cyberspace Administration of
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A typical morning. The smart watch wakes you up in a light sleep phase, the navigation on your phone is already analysing traffic to suggest the optimum route to work, and in the background the coffee machine is grinding beans, ready to brew your beverage at the perfect time. Within
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Intuition suggests that the generation raised in the glow of smartphone screens should be best equipped to avoid online pitfalls. However, the latest data casts a long shadow over this belief, revealing a worrying paradox: it is Generation Z, or digital natives, who are the weakest link in a company’
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The arrival of NBA Inside the Game powered by AWS is the next step in the evolution of sports in the AI era – a move that is part of a wider trend of partnerships between sports leagues and technology providers. Amazon Web Services and the NBA have announced that the
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has unveiled a comprehensive plan to modernise the state, involving digitalisation, support for AI and a radical simplification of administrative procedures – the goal: to restore the competitiveness of Europe’s largest economy. Bureaucracy as a brake on growth A report by the Ifo Institute indicates that