Lucis, a French startupfocused on expanding access to preventive health testing, has closed an $8.5million seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from YCombinator, Kima Ventures, Motie... ......

It's still hard to believe that Hollow Knight: Silksong actually came out this year, but now, we all have a new thing to wait for: the game is getting a free expansion in 2026, titled...

As this year comes to a close, many experts have begun to look ahead to next year. Here are several predictions for trends in software development in 2026. Bennie Grant, COO of Percona The open...

My introduction to Sudan Archives was the song "Nont for Sale" from her first EP Sink in 2018. I've been a die-hard fan ever since. With each album, she finds new ways to sculpt the...

It's a small sample size, likely driven by Black Friday discounts and temporary virality, but the Nex Playground has gone from little-known console curiosity to best-seller. It's now on track to quadruple its sales from...

The holidays have a way of sneaking up on us. One minute you're trick-or-treating with your kids, and the next you're panic shopping in a Buc-ee's gift aisle. But it doesn't have to be that...

OpenAI announces GPT-5.2 GPT-5.2 is optimized for professional knowledge work, scoring a 70.9% (using GPT-5.2 Thinking) on knowledge work tasks on the GDPval benchmark, compared to just 38.8% for GPT-5.1 Thinking. The company has started...

As AI coding assistants churn out ever greater amounts of code, the first – and arguably most painful – bottleneck that software teams face is code review. A company called Augment Code, which has developed...

Stack Overflow is following up its recent Developer Survey with a follow-up survey of 800+ developers to find out which development tasks are causing them the most frustration. The original survey found that 84% of...

This week, we tracked more than 70 tech funding deals worth over €1.6 billion and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.In addition to this week's top fi... ......

This week sees the launch out of stealth of CYBRET AI, an autonomous security and development lab building autonomous systems that understand modern attack behaviour, reason across complex environment... ......

British AI company Applied Computing, which develops foundational AI for energy operators, today announces the opening of its new office in Bangalore, marking its official expansion into India and dee... ......

Disney and OpenAI's new $1 billion partnership feels emblematic of the terrible times we're living through. In exchange for access to the generative AI firm's APIs and tools like ChatGPT, the studio plans to let...

The UI company Infragistics has announced that it is open sourcing over 50 of its Ignite UI components, spanning Angular, React, Blazor, and Web Components. According to the company, many of its components were already...

Dutch payments firm Mollie is acquiring UK payments fintech GoCardless in a €1.05bn deal, the two fintechs have confirmed.The two fintechs have billed the combination as creating a “payments powerhous... ......

A new beta feature on Spotify takes the idea behind the Discover Weekly playlist and puts the control in users' hands through AI prompts. Prompted Playlists, which are initially launching in New Zealand on Thursday,...

Progress Software announced the latest releases of its Telerik and Kendo UI products, which both include an Agentic UI Generator that can create multi-component, fully styled, enterprise-grade page layouts. The Agentic UI Generator is currently...

London-based VC firm Hiro Capital has snapped up two high-profile individuals from the European tech scene, as it launches a new fund targeting the European scaleup gap.Nick Clegg, the former deputy P... ......

Holiday shopping on a budget can feel constricting, especially if you've been invited to a white elephant or need a last-minute stocking stuffer. The good news is that, with this guide, you can leave that...

Real-time generative media platform fal today announced a $140 million Series D financing, bringing its funding to over $400 million.Türkiye-founded, fal is an infrastructure layer for real-time AI-ge... ......

The Linux Foundation today announced that it is forming the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to promote transparent and collaborative evolution of agentic AI. Three major projects have been donated to the foundation at launch: Anthropic’s...

Consumers across all 50 states may soon get payments from Google’s $700 million Play Store settlement, covering purchases made between 2016......

We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple’s Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a...

IBM has announced that it will be acquiring the data streaming company Confluent for $11 billion. Confluent is built on Apache Kafka, an open source data and event streaming platform that is used in analytics,...