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Korea's Coupang says data breach exposed nearly 34M customers' personal information | TechCrunch
South Korean e-commerce platform Coupang over the weekend said nearly 34 million Korean customers’ personal information had been leaked in a data breach that had been ongoing for more than five months. The company said it first detected the unauthorized exposure of 4,500 user accounts on November 18, but a subsequent investigation revealed that the read more
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Bug in jury systems used by several US states exposed sensitive personal data | TechCrunch
Several public websites designed to allow courts across the United States and Canada to manage the personal information of potential jurors had a simple security flaw that easily exposed their sensitive data, including names and home addresses, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. A security researcher, who asked not to be named for this story, contacted TechCrunch read more
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Data center energy demand forecasted to soar nearly 300% through 2035 | TechCrunch
Planned data center construction shows no signs of fading, with new additions to require 2.7x — nearly triple — the sector’s current demand for electricity over the next decade, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. By 2035, data centers will draw 106 gigawatts, up sharply from the 40 gigawatts they use today. Much of read more
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Breast cancer: Keep CALM – and coordinate your screenings
Kim Sandler, MD, professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, director of the Vanderbilt Lung Screening Program, and the study’s corresponding author and co-principal investigator. Image credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center “For years, we have recognized that many women screened for breast cancer are in fact dying from lung cancer. This read more
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Diabetes linked to higher risk of sudden cardiac death – especially for younger people
Sudden cardiac death is challenging to predict and prevent, but these findings reinforce the importance for people with diabetes to work with their clinicians to reduce cardiovascular risk Tobias Skjelbred Dr Skjelbred said: “We found that sudden cardiac death occurs more frequently in people with diabetes across all age groups, and that sudden cardiac death read more
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AWS re:Invent 2025: How to watch and follow along live | TechCrunch
Amazon Web Services’ big annual event, re:Invent 2025, is getting into full swing in Las Vegas today. Last year’s event was largely focused on their AI efforts, including new foundation models, services tackling AI hallucinations, and new security measures. And this year is likely to follow suit, based on what Amazon has announced so far read more
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Superbo secures strategic investment from Deep Capital to build the future of enterprise automation
UK agentic AI startupSuperbohas secured a strategic investment from Deep Capital Group. Superbo’s platform enables organisations to streamline operations and unlock efficiency through AI agents and cognitive flows. Through its Opero Suite, Nova, Solo and Aeon, the company turns enterprise knowledge into intelligent dialogue, connects APIs and systems into seamless cognitive workflows and deploys autonomous read more
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FORMEL SKIN joins MANUAL to expand from skin health to whole-body care
UK healthtech platform MANUAL has acquired FORMEL SKIN, Germany’s largest digital dermatology provider. Together, the companies will form one of Europe’s fastest-growing healthtech groups, united by a bold vision: to build the world’s leading unified health platform. Since its founding in 2019, FORMEL SKIN has offered patients expert guidance, personalised treatments, and long-term support through read more
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Entrepreneurs launch European “venture studio”
Two experienced entrepreneurs are launching an early-stage European “venture studio”, which will invest in startups it co-founds as it looks to unearth the hot industrial AI companies of tomorrow. Founded by Kostas Fetfatsidis,a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur, andDimitrios Kourtesis,a founder, investor, and engineer, the new entity is called The Flywheel and is billing itself as read more
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Track Titan raises $5M for AI-powered motorsport tracking platform
Track Titan, an AI-powered motorsport tracking platform, has raised a $5 million seed round co-led by Partech and Game Changers Ventures, the fund led by Alpine F1 co-owner Roger Ehrenberg. The round also includes participation from investors such as Colton Parayko, Trevoh Chalobah, Sequel, Martin Hoffmann, and Emmanuel Tahar. Existing investor APX, a joint venture read more
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French CRM outfit Brevo hits unicorn status
French customer relationship management (CRM) company Brevo has become a unicorn following a €500m funding round. The funding round sees General Atlantic and Oakley Capital joining Brevo’s roster of investors while Bpifrance and Bridgepoint remain minority investors, with the latter reinvesting via Bridgepoint Development Capital V. The round sees Partech fully exiting its stake while read more
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Curvestone AI closes a $4M round to enhance AI reliability for regulated industries
London-based Curvestone AI has raised $4 million in seed funding led by MTech Capital, with participation from Boost Capital Partners, D2 Fund, and Portfolio Ventures. The company addresses a key challenge that most AI tools fail to solve in financial and professional services: making automation reliably accurate at scale. While individual AI tasks may achieve read more
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Spark Cleantech closes €30M for heavy industry decarbonisation
Paris-based Spark Cleantech has closed a €30 million Series A funding round (including €17 million in equity). The round was led by 360 Capital and Taranis, with participation from the Île-de-France Reindustrialisation Fund (initiated by the Île-de-France Region and operated by Innovacom), alongside Asterion Ventures, the company’s long-standing investor. Founded in 2022 in the laboratories read more
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Hypercritical raises £2M to modernise software engineering for heavy industry
London-based Hypercritical has raised £2 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate development of its foundation model and expand its engineering team. The round was led by Join Capital, with participation from Octopus Ventures, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company (tiny.vc), and Plug and Play. Hypercritical is a deeptech company that develops machine learning models to generate fully read more
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Telling women that they have dense breasts may do more harm than good
Details such as age, language/s spoken, and personal and family history of cancer were collected and women were randomised to either standard “control” care (no notification of breast density in their results letter), notification of breast density plus written information about breast density and its implications (intervention 1), or notification of density plus a link read more
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The art of healing with words
The courage to see When asked whether he missed practicing medicine, Rufin paused, then smiled: ‘I never left it. I just changed instruments. A pen can reveal as much as a scalpel.’ The audience laughed softly, but the truth of his words lingered. For Rufin, writing remains a form of care – one that dissects read more
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Fronted lands $1M to modernise global hiring using AI
Fronted, the Nordic startup building an AI-powered platform to simplify international hiring, has closed a $1 million pre-seed funding round led by Antler and Sondo Capital. Fronted is a global talent operating system that provides a unified platform for companies to manage their international teams. It addresses two key challenges for scaling businesses in a read more
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Stephen Witt wins FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Stephen Witt’s The Thinking Machine, about the rise of Nvidia and its hard-driving leader Jensen Huang, has won the 2025 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. It is the second year read more
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MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee
In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through tight spaces larger robots can’t reach, while simultaneously dodging stationary obstacles and pieces of falling rubble. So far, aerial microrobots have only been read more
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Shop Circle secures $100M credit facility as it positions itself as Europe’s alternative to VC funding
Shop Circle today announced an expanded partnership with i80 Group, increasing its credit facility to $100 million. Shop Circle is a global AI-powered software platform that acquires and scales B2B software products. It operates a growing ecosystem of mission-critical tools used by over 165,000 companies worldwide. The acquisitive model is exploding, especially in Europe, with read more
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