2026-08-11

Preparing for post-quantum cryptography: Building a practical roadmap

Organizations must become quantum-ready before today's cryptography becomes tomorrow's liability. [...]

2026-08-11

NordVPN outpaces competitors in independent tests, with top marks for speed and malware protection

NordVPN just passed two major independent tests with flying colors, scoring a rare Platinum award for speed and an AAA certification for its malware-busting antivirus tool. Here is why that matters for your online security. [...]

2026-08-11

Seedless Blackberries and Cherries That Grow on Bushes Vie to Be the Future of Food

Startups and Big Ag are using Crispr gene editing to create crops that taste better and grow on a hotter planet. But will they find a market? [...]

2026-08-11

AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks. [...]

2026-08-11

Germany’s Uniper pivots to data centres with a €5bn plan to power the AI boom

Uniper, the German energy giant that Berlin rescued from collapse three years ago, is betting its next chapter on the server racks now reshaping Europe’s power market. The utility plans to invest around €5bn ($5.7bn) by 2030 in a strategy that pivots hard toward data centres, and toward the electricity they consume in ever greater […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-11

Anthropic signs a $9.1bn, 20-year cloud deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms

Anthropic has struck another enormous deal to feed its appetite for computing power, and this time the counterparty is a company that until recently made its money digging up bitcoin. The twenty-year arrangement is worth $9.1 billion and gives the Claude maker a large slab of capacity at a Texas campus that Riot Platforms is […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-11

UK businesses don't have a CX innovation problem. They have an operational readiness problem.

Without operational maturity, AI risks creating fragmented customer experiences instead of improving them. [...]

2026-08-11

Worried about data centres near you? The UK map shows most facilities are in London, but things are changing fast

Reports on the state of data centres in the UK show that the majority are within the M25, but as more are built, locations outside of London are increasingly being developed. [...]

2026-08-11

'It's only 4x the price it should be' — Amazon's latest DDR5 RAM deal isn't convincing buyers, but it could get worse

Amazon has listed a limited-time deal on a set of 32GB DDR5 RAM, but wannabe buyers aren't excited, given it's still astronomically more expensive than it has been in the past due to the current component crisis. [...]