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The dummy server and the chip war


The indictment of Super Micro’s co-founder exposes not just a $2.5 billion scheme, it exposes a system that was never built to stop one. Somewhere in a rented warehouse in Southeast Asia, a man was using a hair dryer on a server box. Not to dry it. To loosen the adhesive on a serial-number sticker, […]



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WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site


Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all through natural conversation, with human approval at every step. For most of the past six months, connecting an AI agent to your WordPress.com site has meant […]



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Starling launches an AI banking assistant that actually does things


The UK challenger bank is rolling out Starling Assistant to personal account holders today, billing it as the UK’s first agentic AI financial assistant. It can set up savings goals, organise bill payments, and even quiz you on your own spending, all from a voice or text prompt. Starling Bank has been building methodically towards […]



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DORA is reshaping how Europe’s financial sector thinks about compliance, and most firms still aren’t ready


Fourteen months after the Digital Operational Resilience Act became enforceable, Europe’s financial institutions are running out of room to improvise. The regulation, which took effect on January 17, 2025, was supposed to mark the beginning of a new era in digital risk management across the EU. Instead, it has exposed just how far most firms […]



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BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally


The Rijen-based startup, which retrofits existing sprayers with nozzle-by-nozzle PWM control, will use the capital to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and scale LeapBox internationally from Europe to Canada. The idea behind BBLeap is disarmingly simple: most agricultural sprayers treat an entire field as a single unit, applying the same dose of pesticide, herbicide, or […]



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