Italian rehabilitation robotics startup Wearable Robotics raises €5M to expand its arm exoskeleton

The Pisa-based Sant’Anna spin-off has deployed its ALEX RS bilateral upper-limb exoskeleton across 20 countries since founding in 2014. CDP Venture Capital led the Series A, with SIMEST providing in [...]

GitHub freezes new Copilot sign-ups as agentic AI breaks the economics of flat-rate developer subscriptions

Agentic coding workflows are now routinely generating costs that exceed what users pay per month. GitHub’s response, pausing new sign-ups for Pro, Pro+, and Student plans and tightening usage caps, [...]

Generative AI turns identity theft into an industrial-scale operation

A Bloomberg investigation shows how generative AI and autonomous agents are supercharging identity theft in the US, from social security number lookups on the darknet to deepfake driver's license [...]

OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound

Sora social app launches with deepfake-style "cameos" and feed controls. [...]

SaaStock is dead: founder kills Europe’s biggest SaaS conference and launches Shift AI

SaaStock founder Alexander Theuma is retiring Europe’s biggest B2B SaaS conference after a decade and replacing it with Shift AI. The Austin event on 15-16 April is the last SaaStock; the first Shif [...]

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.

At 8pm Tehran time on Tuesday, a new kind of front line was drawn, not through desert terrain or along a disputed border, but through the server farms, cloud regions, and corporate campuses of America [...]

EFF sues Elon Musk and DOGE to block their access to federal employee data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with multiple federal employee unions, have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team to block their access to [...]

Trump wants to stop states from regulating AI. States and Congress keep saying no.

In short: The Trump administration is waging a multi-front campaign to prevent states from regulating AI, using a DOJ litigation task force, Commerce Department evaluations of “burdensome” state l [...]

Substack CEO informs users of a data breach

The digital publishing platform Substack has told some of its users that their data was stolen in a security breach. The affected account holders had their email addresses and phone numbers scraped in [...]