Refrigerators and freezers at several Swedish supermarkets heated up overnight into Monday, leaving stores with spoiled food and raising suspicions of a cyberattack. Grocery chains ICA and Coop confirmed that some of their locations were affected, Reuters reported. One of the affected stores, ICA…
Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provide a look at how third-quarter funding continued the year's dollars-up-but-deals-down trend.
Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you’ll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine.
The website-building platform Squarespace is laying off 19 percent of its employees as it works to "simplify" its operations, Squarespace spokesperson Jeff Seedman says in a statement to The Verge. The job cuts will affect around 300 of Squarespace's 1,800 employees. "The changes are intended to…
SpaceX is in talks to buy Boost Mobile or secure access to its network, as Elon Musk looks to turn Starlink into a direct competitor to the major US mobile carriers, The Washington Post reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the discussions. The potential deal would give SpaceX a way to…
Saudi Aramco is buying into Humain, the company meant to turn Saudi Arabia into a global AI hub. The article Saudi Aramco takes 49 percent stake in AI firm Humain with $2.6 billion deal appeared first on The Decoder.
Roleo, an Estonian personal AI career agent, has raised €2.9 million to expand across Europe and help tech professionals discover career opportunities – without the hassle of searching and applying. The round was led by the Baltic venture capital firm Practica Capital and included participation from…
North Korean hackers may be using AI to plan and carry out cryptocurrency thefts, according to security experts cited in a Bloomberg report published on Monday. They point to the growing complexity and precision of recent attacks, including last week’s record theft from Binance. The use of AI has…
I’ve gotten nearly 2,000 campaign fundraising texts that were meant for someone else. I tried to find out why—and uncovered a labyrinth of politicians, data brokers, and shady tactics.
Today, I’m talking with Matt Strauss, who is now chairman of the NBCUniversal Media Group. This is Matt’s second time joining me on the show, and there’s been a whole lot of organizational and structural change at NBCU since the last time he and I spoke just two years ago — pure Decoder bait. First,…
OpenAI is gearing up for a political lobbying and PR push after the US midterms. The article OpenAI prepares lobbying blitz for a post-midterm Washington appeared first on The Decoder.
Deutsche Bank has turned positive on US technology stocks again, upgrading the sector to overweight, Reuters reported on Monday. An overweight rating means the bank advises clients to hold more of the sector than usual, and it reverses a downgrade made about three weeks earlier. That earlier move,…
Stockholm-based venture capital firm Creandum has closed a €668 million ($750 million) fund, Creandum VIII, to back early-stage technology startups from pre-Seed to Series A. The fund, its largest to date, will support approximately 30 investments over the next two years, with a particular…
When I declared this spring that Vivo's X300 Ultra had the best cameras in any phone, two things made it stand out in my mind: its excellent main camera with a narrow 35mm focal length and what remains the most capable ultrawide in any phone worldwide. You won't find either in the new X500 Pro […]
Patti Zirhut, a lifelong Republican, has been studying her ballot for weeks. Zirhut eagerly voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024, but she isn't toeing the party line this year. "My ballot is all mixed up," she says. She's voting for some Republicans, some independents, and even a…