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Canal Letter is Silicon Canals' weekly briefing on the global innovation ecosystems we cover, with particular attention to European startup activity. Articles under this column are produced by our editorial team under the direction of the Chief Publisher.

Technology

Oxford Quantum Circuits just raised Europe’s largest-ever quantum round at £260M — and the customer list reveals who is really underwriting the entire sector

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a superconducting quantum hardware spinout from Oxford University, has closed a £260 million Series C. It is the largest private quantum computing round ever raised in Europe, according to Tech.eu.

Jun 8, 2026

Technology

A Google engineer allegedly turned the company’s confidential search data into $1.2M on Polymarket — and the case quietly exposes the attack surface every prediction market is pretending not to see

A Google software engineer has been charged with insider trading for allegedly turning confidential search data into profits on Polymarket — and the case exposes a structural problem prediction markets have been quietly ignoring: every new contract listed creates a new attack surface, and every institution holding non-public information becomes a potential leak point.

Jun 2, 2026

News

A fake UK visa site has been leaking 100,000 passports and selfies for weeks, and the part nobody is talking about is why the operator has zero incentive to fix it

An unofficial website calling itself UK Visa Portal has exposed the passports and selfie photos of visa applicants, and the security flaw remains unpatched, according to TechCrunch , which reported the breach on 26 May.

Jun 1, 2026