Cybersecurity
Iran wiped Stryker’s devices, ShinyHunters defaced Canvas during finals, and DOGE…
Halfway through 2026, cybersecurity has stopped functioning as a technology beat and started functioning as a geopolitics beat.
Technology
Nearly a million wallets have lost $3.8 billion on Trump’s memecoin while the president…
Nearly one million retail investors have lost a combined $3.8 billion buying President Donald Trump's $TRUMP memecoin, while the president personally cleared $636 million from the same instrument, according to a blockchain analysis by cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen.
Technology
Quantum Systems signed a $1.2 billion round at a valuation of about $8 billion — and one…
The Munich drone maker calls itself a "neo prime" that says it can upend the defense establishment. The establishment just helped write the check — and says its own role is changing.
Technology
Booking.com still runs on the internal A/B testing framework its engineers wrote in…
Booking.com runs more than 1,000 concurrent experiments on its production booking flow through an in-house framework its Amsterdam engineers built in the late 2000s — a foundational piece of software that has been extended continuously but never rewritten. The case reveals how the most powerful systems in modern e-commerce are often the oldest.
Technology
A 35-year-old founder’s perfect biomarkers missed a fist-sized tumour, and what Claude…
A 35-year-old founder with near-perfect biomarkers, four years of optimised bloodwork, and a Whoop band that tracked his sleep against an Oura ring discovered a tumour the size of a fist behind his sternum — not through any of his tracking, but by accident.
Technology
ASML in Veldhoven ships each EUV lithography machine in roughly 250 crates aboard…
ASML insists it can account for every one of the 314 EUV lithography machines it has ever shipped — and that none of them, nor any component designed for one, has reached China. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says otherwise. The fight reveals just how concentrated the world's chip supply chain has become.
Business
Stripe’s payment infrastructure was built in a Palo Alto apartment by two Irish brothers…
Stripe processed $1.4 trillion in payment volume in 2024 — roughly 2.6 times Ireland's GDP — and the founders built the first version in a Palo Alto apartment before either turned 25.
Business
A Detroit pension fund just sued Uber’s board for running a ‘serial compliance offender’…
A Detroit pension fund has filed a derivative lawsuit against Uber's board and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, accusing the ride-hailing company of operating as a serial compliance offender that knowingly cut corners on safety.
Technology
Mach Industries raised $300M at a $1.8B valuation — and its new in-house rocket-motor…
A three-year-old unmanned-systems maker just raised $300 million. Two weeks earlier it bought a propulsion company, a move aimed at one of the defense industry's most stubborn shortages.
News
One of the five brothers who kept Ubisoft independent for 40 years just died in a plane…
Claude Guillemot, a co-founder of French video game publisher Ubisoft, reportedly died in a plane crash.
Technology
A Nobel laureate just walked out of Google DeepMind for Anthropic, and the part nobody…
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years at the Alphabet-owned lab.
Technology
BlackRock and Wellington just backed a 1977 Japanese taxi operator’s robotaxi pivot…
Japan's largest ride-hailing app, Go, raised ¥88.6 billion ($553 million) in its Tokyo Stock Exchange debut on Tuesday, making it the country's biggest IPO of…