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Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run by an independent company named Open Standard, is a direct swipe at the economics that have made Circle and Tether the
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Bending Spoons, the Milan software group that owns Vimeo, WeTransfer and Evernote, has priced its US initial public offering above the marketed range to raise $1.68bn. The company and existing shareholders, including Baillie Gifford, sold 57.97 million shares at $29 each, according to a statement reported by Bloomberg.
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CBC plans to raise its annual technology spending to more than $771mn, according to Bloomberg, as Singapore’s second-largest lender leans harder into AI and digital banking. The increase marks one of the first strategic signals from Tan Teck Long, who took over as group chief executive on 1 January
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook and the European Union’s technology chief spoke by video call on Monday, and both sides came away describing the exchange as “constructive”. That word is doing a lot of work. Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, who oversees the bloc’s digital rulebook, held the meeting
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One of the stronger no-code platforms, Replit has plenty of useful features (including its own IDE) and will generate a web app relatively quickly. However, the free option is limited and publishing a project requires some patience. Pros * +Efficient no-code generation * +Offers useful feedback and suggestions for revision * +Built-in IDE
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Cloud computing should make businesses more focused on their business, not more focused on their cloud. That distinction has gotten lost. A company that has moved its operations to the public cloud and then deployed significant engineering capacity to manage that environment has not simplified anything. It has traded one
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Check Point Research recently uncovered something that changes how we think about AI-assisted threats: a malware sample in which an AI model independently connected a theoretical browser risk to a working ransomware technique, with no exploit, no app installation, and no technical expertise required from the attacker. A Noisy Sample
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Washington, DC, looks a little different these days. Since his return to office, President Donald Trump has pushed to physically remake the city in his image, adorning buildings with his name and banners with his face, repainting entire monuments, and even changing the White House itself. As the United States
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Emergent gets points for its additional features and conversational AI, as well as choice of LLMs. But it is far slower than competing no-code platforms. Pros * +More conversational, asks questions, offers choices * +Offers a choice of LLM, including GPT 4.5 and Claude 4.5 * +Supports roll-back to earlier project
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Apple announced security updates this week for iOS, iPadOS, macOS Tahoe, and Safari that resolve dozens of vulnerabilities, including 26 security defects in WebKit. iOS 26.5.2, iPadOS 26.5.2, and macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 were rolled out with 37 security fixes across IOGPUFamily, kernel, libxslt, Web
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Agentic AI is set to disrupt enterprise software revenue models, with up to $234 billion of enterprise application spending exposed to agentic arbitrage between now and 2030, according to Gartner, Inc, a business and technology insights company. By 2030, this will account for roughly 20% of enterprise application software-as-a-service (SaaS)
