The authoritarian, surveillance-loving UK Labour government remains deeply committed to magical thinking, slamming yet another encryption-busting “Technical Capability Notice” (TCN) on Apple, according to the Financial Times.  The difference is that this time it says it only wants to damage the privacy and security of the UK’s subject population. “The UK government has issued a new order to Apple to

Copenhagen-based 55 North has announced the first close of its €300 million quantum technology fund, raising €134 million from anchor investors Novo Holdings and EIFO. The fund positions itself as the world’s largest dedicated quantum technology venture capital vehicle, focusing exclusively on the sector’s emerging opportunities. The fund was co-founded by three general partners—Owen Lozman,

Feedzai, an AI-native platform focused on financial crime prevention, has raised approximately $75 million in new funding, pushing its valuation past $2 billion. The investment round brings in several institutional investors including Lince Capital, Iberis Capital, and Explorer Investments, with continued support from existing backers Oxy Capital and Buenavista Equity Partners. The funding comes as

FreeGF AI is pitched as a free AI companion and girlfriend simulator. It’s designed for folks who want to explore conversations, roleplay, and even intimacy with an AI partner without hitting the frustrating “content blocked” walls common in other apps. At its core, it’s about giving you a digital sidekick who feels available, personal, and—most

Curiosity got the better of me, as it usually does, and I decided to dive into the wild world of uncensored AI prompt generators. These aren’t the buttoned-up, corporate AI tools you see on LinkedIn ads. No, these are the tools that cut loose—the ones built for personalization, intimacy, and sometimes downright eccentric creativity. What

Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 9.5, an update of the company’s framework for building distributed apps that previews support for .NET 10 file-based apps. An AI-based visualizer also is featured. Introduced September 25, Aspire 9.5 previews file-based AppHost support, which introduces backing for .NET 10’s new file-based applications. Developers can create an Aspire AppHost with a

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.5, an update of the company’s coding model that features extended autonomous operation, greater context awareness, and enhanced tool usage. Claude Sonnet 4.5 shows significant improvements on real-world computer tasks, agentic coding, agentic terminal coding, and agentic tools use, as well as reasoning and math, according to Anthropic. Claude Sonnet

Apache Iceberg is a mature open table format that’s been battle-tested in the broader analytics world for years. Now it’s time to apply the benefits of an open and scalable standard to an observability field that badly needs to break out of its siloed heritage. It isn’t that observability has entirely resisted standards. OpenTelemetry is

Azure is now so big it’s hard to keep on top of all its features, let alone drill down into its ever-growing line of developer tools. That’s not surprising; in the past two decades or so, it’s become the place where Microsoft builds its own and its customer-facing products. That internal developer focus eventually brings

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and machine learning, organizations continue to seek cost-effective solutions to reduce reliance on expensive third-party tools—not only for development but also for deployment. Recently I was tasked with deploying a predictive machine learning (ML) model at my organization. Our original goal was to bring the ML model