
The Next Web - 21 hours 39 min ago
In 2026, one of Europe's most ambitious scientific ventures, Horizon Europe, a seven-year, roughly 93 billion framework dedicated to research and innovation, underwent a quiet but significant transformation. What had once been an open invitation to researchers across the globe now carries a more guarded tenor. In critical areas such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum […] This story continues at The Next Web...

NBC News - 21 hours 59 min ago
Watch a live storm tracker of the major blizzard expected to blanket millions in the Northeast with heavy snow.

IEEE Spectrum - 23 hours 22 min ago
Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: societies are deciding it's no longer kids' stuff. Lawmakers point to compulsive use , exposure to harmful content , and mounting concerns about adolescent mental health . So, many propose to set a minimum age, usually 13 or 16. In cases when regulators demand real enforcement rather than symbolic rules, platforms run into a basic technical problem. The only way to prove that someone is old enough to use a site is...

The Next Web - 23 hours 51 min ago
Brussels-based investor Syndicate One has hit a funding milestone with the 22 million first close of its second early-stage tech fund, underscoring a growing confidence in Belgium's startup ecosystem. The new capital builds on the firm's first fund, which closed at 6.5 million in late 2024, and will be deployed to support early-stage Belgian tech […] This story continues at The Next Web...

GeekSpin - 1 day 7 hours ago
A massive government data breach that could rank among the largest in United States history is rapidly unfolding, and the fallout may touch millions of Americans you know or even you. What began as what officials thought was a limited ransomware hack on government tech contractor Conduent has ballooned into an enormous incident affecting […] Read the original article here: Massive government data breach could be biggest in US history...

Robb Report - 1 day 12 hours ago
Clearaudio's Celebrity Al Di Meola turntable comes with one of the artist's milestone records.

The Guardian - 1 day 18 hours ago
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions asks whether we could cope with a world where computer gave up saying no Readers reply: what would be the most socially useful way to spend a billion dollars? After years of computer saying no, and giving us all migraines and premature grey hair, I'm starting to worry that computer or rather AI large language models like ChatGPT and Gemini are taking too much of a fancy to playing nice and saying yes. I confess to using...