French-Swiss software merger to mint Europe’s latest unicorn

French software firm LumApps is set to merge with Swiss counterpart Beekeeper in a deal that will create a new business valued at over $1bn. LumApps, which calls itself an “intranet super app,” of [...]

No-code platform Lovable eyes $150M raise and double unicorn status

Swedish startup Lovable is in talks to raise $150mn at a valuation just shy of $2bn, the Financial Times reports.  The Stockholm-based business has built a generative AI platform that allows non-tech [...]

First legal e-scooter launches in the Netherlands — for €1,900

The Dutch government has approved the first electric scooter for public roads and bike lanes, marking a cautious yet significant shift in the country’s tough stance on micromobility. Dubbed Selana A [...]

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, [...]

IBM Cloud, Nutanix, SUSE, and OVHcloud have all independently chosen Traefik as their Ingress NGINX replacement

The Kubernetes community retired Ingress NGINX this month after years of under-resourcing. The migration scramble it triggered is now consolidating around one open source beneficiary, and Traefik Labs [...]

Google classifies back button hijacking as spam, enforcement starts June 2026

In short: Google is classifying “back button hijacking” as spam, targeting sites that abuse the browser History API to trap users when they try to navigate away. Enforcement begins 15 June 2026, w [...]

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 [...]

Joby and Air Space Intelligence team up to manage US electric air taxi skies

In short: Joby Aviation and Air Space Intelligence have announced a partnership to integrate AI-driven airspace management into U.S. electric air taxi operations, using ASI’s Flyways AI platform to [...]

Instagram public accounts with less than 1,000 followers can no longer go live

Instagram is no longer allowing public accounts to go live if they have less than 1,000 followers. Users have been reporting over the past few days that their accounts aren't eligible for Live br [...]