SaaS on the Beach returns to Barcelona with a founder-only format

As the tech conference circuit grows more crowded, one SaaS event is making the opposite pitch: fewer people, fewer sales decks, and a lot less noise. SaaS on the Beach, a curated event for SaaS found [...]

UK startup Altilium bags £18.5m to build Britain’s first commercial EV battery refinery

In short: Altilium, a UK clean technology company, has secured £18.5 million in grant funding from the government’s DRIVE35 Scale-Up Fund to build ACT3, the country’s first commercial refinery f [...]

X's messaging app, XChat, may be available soon

XChat is now on the App Store, where its listing says that it’s expected to be available for download on April 17. This isn’t the same IRC app from the early aughts, which you may remember if you� [...]

Why data quality matters when working with data at scale

Data quality has always been an afterthought. Teams spend months instrumenting a feature, building pipelines, and standing up dashboards, and only when a stakeholder flags a suspicious number does any [...]

Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases

In short: Anthropic has released a beta add-in that places Claude directly inside Microsoft Word, with every AI-generated edit appearing as a native tracked change and legal contract review listed fi [...]

OpenAI’s new $100 ChatGPT Pro plan targets Claude Max with five times the Codex access

In short: OpenAI launched a new $100 per month Pro plan for ChatGPT on 9 April 2026, inserting a new tier between the existing $20 Plus plan and the $200 Pro plan and directly targeting Anthropic’s [...]

The Netherlands becomes the first European country to approve Tesla’s FSD Supervised

In short: The Dutch vehicle authority RDW approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software on 10 April 2026, making the Netherlands the first European country to authorise the system under [...]

Mac mini and Mac Studio go out of stock – is it the RAM crisis or an M5 refresh?

In short: Several high-RAM Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations disappeared from Apple’s online store in the US on 11 April 2026, listed as “currently unavailable” with no delivery estimate a [...]

Basic-Fit hit by hack affecting members across multiple countries, including 200,000 in the Netherlands

The breach exposed names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and bank account details. No passwords or identity documents were accessed. The Dutch Data Protection Authority has [...]