Anker Day 2026 brings two new pairs of earbuds, as well as a smartphone tie-in app and news of new components. [...]
Lithuanian food marketplace Saltz pulls in a €20M Series A backed by the EBRD, Inovo, Lifeline, and a roster of Baltic tech founders, to digitalise how restaurants across Europe source their ingredients. When Andrius and Tomas Šlimas sold their dropshipping platform Oberlo to Shopify in 2017, they could have sat out the next decade comfortably. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
Mistral AI released Shieldstral on August 4, 2026, a 3B-parameter open-weights safety classifier that judges text and images against moderation policies written in plain language at inference time, rather than a fixed set of harm categories baked in during training. The model is available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, covers 12 languages, and runs on a single 16GB GPU. Mistral says [...]
An independent review of the newly implemented National Security Act suggests that developers of encrypted messaging apps may be considered hostile actors. This, as lawmakers' pressure against encryption keeps growing. [...]