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 [...]

Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb

Verne, the autonomous mobility company spun out of Croatian hypercar maker Rimac, launched commercial robotaxi rides in Zagreb on 8 April alongside Pony.ai and Uber. The vehicles operate with safety o [...]

Finnish startup Elea & Lili raises €2.5M to replace the plastic

Polyacrylate is the synthetic crystal at the heart of every modern disposable nappy, is derived from petroleum, and it does not break down. It persists for centuries, leaching microplastics into soil [...]

Swiss startup miros raises €1.1M for bookable workpods

The Lausanne startup, spun out of EPFL’s robotics lab, has deployed 15 pods across Switzerland and made its first international move with a unit in Toulouse. Its founder’s longer-term ambition: ma [...]

Moz Pro free trial: professional AI SEO tools from $39/month

TL;DR Moz Pro now includes AI-powered keyword suggestions, an AI Visibility feature in open beta, and the industry-standard Domain Authority metric, all starting at $39/month on annual billing. A 7-da [...]

AIRMO raises €5M to put methane-sniffing satellites in orbit by 2027

The Berlin-based climate-tech startup has developed a micro-LiDAR and SWIR imager small enough to fly on a nanosatellite, and claims it can detect a methane leak the size of a leaking car from orbit. [...]

Perplexity turns your Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent

At its first developer conference, held in a former North Beach church, Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, expanded its cloud agent to enterprise, opened up finance data tools, and staked its iden [...]

Elaia closes its third deep-tech seed fund at €134M

The Paris-based VC backed by Bpifrance and Université PSL has exceeded the €120M goal it set at first close in March 2024. When Elaia first raised its third deep-tech seed fund in March 2024, the t [...]

Endform raises €1.5M as faster AI-generated code puts new pressure

The Swedish testing startup has secured seed funding to take on the CI pipeline bottleneck in the age of AI-generated code. The code review has always had a bottleneck, not the code itself, but the wa [...]