The most breathtaking places to visit in South America right

From Machu Picchu's cloud-draped ruins to Iguazu's nearly 300 waterfalls spanning two miles of the Argentina-Brazil border [...]

Finland’s Quanscient raises €10M to build a quantum- and AI-native simulation platform

The Tampere startup wants to rebuild physics simulation as the data engine for AI-driven hardware design. Tampere-based Quanscient has closed a €10 million Series A to scale its cloud-based multip [...]

Microsoft’s Azure just crossed $100bn a year, and the AI bet mostly paid off

Microsoft went into its earnings facing one question: is the vast AI spending working? The numbers said yes, mostly. Revenue rose 18% to $90bn for the quarter to 30 June, and net income climbed 31% to [...]

Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions

The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require. The European Commission is preparing to publish i [...]

UK Visa Portal website leaks thousands of user passport data and photos online

Passports, verification selfies and other supporting documents were stored in an unsecured cloud storage repository. [...]

A Google engineer used internal search data to bet $2.7m on Polymarket. The DOJ has charged him.

Michele Spagnuolo allegedly traded under the handle ‘AlphaRaccoon’, netting $1.2m on Google’s Year-in-Search outcomes. It is the second federal criminal case tied to Polymarket. Federal prosecut [...]

Four key questions insurers must answer to embrace AI effectively

Insurers need to run, not walk, to AI in the Cloud, but should ask these four questions first. [...]

Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Just Solved

The tech giant says a breakthrough in data-center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure. [...]

Salesforce posted a record quarter and beat earnings estimates — but soft guidance tempered the rally

The cloud software company reported $11.1 billion in first-quarter revenue, but its full-year outlook landed just below Wall Street expectations [...]