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• Best Free and Open-Source JavaScript Photo Galleries

  18-03-2022 21:47 via code.tutsplus.com
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• Munich 2026: A security conference where tech isn’t an afterthought

  14-02-2026 10:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  The 62nd Munich Security Conference opened on 13 February 2026 in Munich, Germany, and this year’s gathering feels different from past editions. For decades, Munich was about jets, troops, and treaties. Today, cyber and AI are no longer peripheral; they are part of the architecture of security itself. Cyber risks, digital infrastructure, and emerging technologies […]
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• Stanhope AI raises $8M to build adaptive AI for robotics and defence

  13-02-2026 15:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  London-based deep tech startup Stanhope AI has closed a €6.7 million ($8 million) Seed funding round to advance what it calls a new class of adaptive artificial intelligence designed to power autonomous systems in the physical world. The round was led by Frontline Ventures, with participation from Paladin Capital Group, Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund, UCL Technology Fund, and MMC Ventures. The company says its approach moves beyond the pattern-matching strengths of large language models, aimin
  
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• Anthropic’s $30B raise is about more than money

  13-02-2026 14:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has just closed a $30 billion Series G funding round, pushing its valuation to $380 billion and catapulting it into the rarefied ranks of the most valuable private tech companies in the world. The financing was led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and investment firm Coatue, with backing from a long list of global institutions, including D.E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX, alongside strategic participation from existing tech investors. That val
  
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• The people we left behind: Tech layoffs, AI hype, and a misplaced future

  13-02-2026 13:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  If you opened a tech newsletter or even the internet in early 2026 and thought you’d stepped into a dystopian screenplay, or you are the main character in one of Isaac Asimov’s writings, you wouldn’t be alone. Headlines trumpet layoffs, companies blame “AI transformation,” and somewhere in the background, billionaires cheer hot-off-the-press artificial intelligence strategies. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: people are still losing their jobs, while AI gets m
  
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• Stop talking to AI, let them talk to each other: The A2A protocol

  12-02-2026 12:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Have you ever asked Alexa to remind you to send a WhatsApp message at a determined hour? And then you just wonder, ‘Why can’t Alexa just send the message herself? Or the incredible frustration when you use an app to plan a trip, only to have to jump to your calendar/booking website/tour/bank account instead of your AI assistant doing it all? Well, exactly this gap between AI automation and human action is what the agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol aims to address. With the introduction
  
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• Swedish pet insurtech Lassie raises $75M Series C after hitting $100M ARR

  12-02-2026 11:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  Imagine the moment you bring a new dog or cat into your life. That mix of excitement and responsibility. Vet visits, vaccines, learning what food suits them, managing check-ups, and always wondering how to keep them healthy as they grow. Most pet insurance only steps in after a costly accident or illness. It doesn’t help you avoid the situation in the first place. Lassie’s product is built around a different insight: giving owners the tools to look after their pets every day, not ju
  
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• Understanding the valuation of intangible assets in tech deals

  12-02-2026 10:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  In a technology M&A deal, whether you are acquiring or selling a tech or software business, valuation rarely hinges on a single dimension. Financial performance, growth efficiency, and cash flow durability remain the backbone of any transaction. In practical terms, this means metrics such as revenue and ARR, retention as a proxy for revenue quality, margin structure, and capital intensity continue to anchor how buyers price risk. However, alongside these tangible indicators sits another lay
  
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• Aerska raises $39M to help RNA medicines reach the brain

  11-02-2026 12:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  For families living with neurodegenerative disease, the hardest part is not always the diagnosis. It is the slow erosion that follows: memory fading, personality shifting, independence shrinking. It unfolds quietly. First, forgotten appointments. Then repeated questions. Then moments when a familiar face no longer feels familiar. The illness does not isolate itself to one body. It rearranges the lives around it. Partners become caregivers. Children become decision-makers. Conversations grow sho
  
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• The next Renaissance: Why creativity is the currency of the AI age

  11-02-2026 11:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  We stand at one of history’s most exhilarating crossroads. Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of work, business, and human potential at breathtaking speed. The very capabilities that make us most human, our creativity, our imagination, our ability to dream up what doesn’t yet exist, are becoming our most valuable assets. This is not a story about humans versus machines. It’s a story about human potential unleashed. It’s about a future where technology handles
  
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• Naboo raises $70M to turn AI event planning into corporate procurement platform

  10-02-2026 21:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  Paris-headquartered Naboo has raised a $70m in Series B as it accelerates its ambition to become the operating layer for how large companies plan, book, and control corporate events. The round is led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, the same investor that backed Mistral AI in 2023, and lands just a year after Naboo closed a €20m Series A. Naboo positions itself as an AI-powered procurement platform for corporate events, covering everything from venue booking and travel to supplier coordinat
  
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• Databricks hits $5.4B revenue run rate and banks a $134B valuation in a rare software surge

  10-02-2026 20:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Databricks is having one of those years that most enterprise software companies would quietly envy. The data and AI platform says it has reached a $5.4bn annual revenue run rate, growing 65% year over year, at a time when growth across the sector has cooled noticeably. For a private company, that pace is rare. And it helps explain why investors have continued to pour money into Databricks, even as funding has become more selective. The company says it has now raised more than $7bn in total capi
  
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• Allonic is rebuilding robotics from the inside out

  10-02-2026 12:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Budapest-based robotics company Allonic has raised $7.2 million in a pre-seed round, marking what investors are calling the largest pre-seed funding round in Hungarian startup history. The raise was led by Visionaries Club with participation from Day One Capital, Prototype, SDAC Ventures, TinyVC, and more than a dozen angels from organisations including OpenAI and Hugging Face. Allonic’s $7.2m pre-seed matters because it breaks a quiet rule in Europe: that truly hard hardware problems are
  
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• How to shoot a screen using a board of keys

  10-02-2026 12:05 via webdesignernews.com
  Everybody who routinely takes screenshots on a Mac knows very well the motor memory heaven and hell that are the screenshotting shortcuts: ⌘⇧3 to grab the whole screen, ⌘⇧4 to grab part of it, hold ⌃ ahead of time to put the result in the clipboard, press space at the right moment to select a window, hold ⌥ at a different time to remove a shadow, and so on. (Yes, there’s more.)
  
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• 12 Best Tools & Resources for Designers

  10-02-2026 12:05 via webdesignernews.com
  If you want to continually refine your website-building skills and deliver better end products, performance, UX/UI quality, and workflow efficiency all matter deeply. As with many aspects of our digital lives, web design requirements, tools, and techniques are constantly evolving.
  
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• How Designers Are Really Using AI

  10-02-2026 12:04 via webdesignernews.com
  Learn how UX and product designers are adopting AI—from tools and workflows to challenges, impact, and predictions for the future of design.
  
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• How Generative AI Is Redefining Brand Identity Systems

  10-02-2026 12:03 via webdesignernews.com
  Logos stayed fixed, color palettes were locked down, and typography rules were carefully controlled to avoid variation.
  
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• Best Open Source AI Coding Agents 2026: Tested & Reviewed

  10-02-2026 12:02 via webdesignernews.com
  The “Productivity Paradox” is officially here. In early 2026, we’ve seen that high-velocity code generation without architectural oversight leads to massive technical debt. As senior developers, we’re moving away from simple autocompletion toward local-first AI coding agents that offer transparency and data sovereignty.
  
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• An Alternative To Naming Conventions

  10-02-2026 11:00 via webdesignernews.com
  Prescriptive class name conventions are no longer enough to keep CSS maintainable in a world of increasingly complex interfaces. Can the new @scope rule finally give developers the confidence to write CSS that can keep up with modern front ends?
  
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• Tem raises $75 M to automate energy markets with AI-first platform

  10-02-2026 10:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  London-based energy software company Tem has closed a $75 million Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with additional funding from AlbionVC, Atomico, Hitachi Ventures, Schroders Capital, Voyager Ventures, Allianz, and others. The round reportedly values the company at more than $300 million and will fund its expansion into the United States and Australia. Tem builds an AI-native energy platform designed to automate the pricing, matching, and execution of electricity transactions,
  
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• Managing your brand’s narrative in the AI age

  10-02-2026 09:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  Earned media has always been hailed as the holy grail of PR due to its unparalleled ability to build trust. Most recent surveys state that 40%–60% of the population still trusts organic content the most, depending on the country. However, I see significant business risks in relying on organic PR only, especially now that various AI systems are on the rise. Robots don’t distinguish between earned and paid content when using it to generate answers. And that’s a wake-up call
  
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• The European Union has put €700 million into NanoIC

  09-02-2026 12:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Union has formally inaugurated NanoIC, a semiconductor pilot line backed by a €700 million investment under the European Chips Act. The facility aims to accelerate the development of advanced chip technologies and strengthen Europe’s position in the global semiconductor landscape. Situated at the research hub imec in Leuven, NanoIC is designed as an open pilot line where companies, research institutes, and startups can prototype and test cutting-edge components before co
  
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• Anthropic spent millions on Super Bowl ads to roast OpenAI

  07-02-2026 16:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  Everyone knows Super Bowl commercials are expensive, bombastic, and designed to be talked about. What we didn’texpect was an AI startup using the biggest ad stage of the year to throw shade at a rival’s advertising strategy. That’s exactly what Anthropic has done. The company bought Super Bowl airtime to broadcast a simple message: “Ads are coming to AI, but not to Claude.” Its ads depict a chatbot spitting product pitches mid-conversation, ending with a clear cont
  
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• UiPath pushes deeper into financial services with WorkFusion acquisition

  06-02-2026 16:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  UiPath, the Romanian unicorn, has agreed to buy WorkFusion, bringing a specialist in AI agents for financial-crime compliance into its fold as part of a broader push into agentic automation for the banking sector. The deal closed in UiPath’s first quarter of fiscal 2027; financial terms were not disclosed. WorkFusion’s software focuses on repetitive and resource-intensive parts of compliance work, from customer screening and anti-money-laundering (AML) checks to know-your-customer (
  
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• MCP UI – Build MCP apps with Flowbite

  06-02-2026 14:03 via webdesignernews.com
  Flowbite is an open-source UI framework that you can also use to build applications for ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude using the Skybridge framework for building MCP applications
  
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• Europe’s social media age shift: Will tougher rules change how teens use the internet?

  06-02-2026 11:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  It is just the beginning of 2026, and things are happening even faster than last year. Not only in technology, but also in regulations, laws, and in how we deal with all the information around us. As a person born in the 90s, social media was once an unknown land for me, a place that felt genuine in the beginning. It still had dangers, but it seemed less risky, or maybe our parents’ rules were stricter. I don’t want to go down the psychological path here, but I want to look at where
  
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• TechEx Global returns to London with enterprise technology and AI execution

  06-02-2026 09:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  London, TechEx Global 2026, one of Europe’s biggest enterprise technology conferences, brought thousands of technology professionals together at Olympia London on 4 and 5 February. The event went beyond buzzwords, focusing on how emerging technologies, especially AI, are being applied in real business contexts.  TechEx Global combines several co-located expos, including AI & Big Data, Cyber Security & Cloud, IoT Tech, Intelligent Automation, and Digital Transformation. Over 2
  
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• Generate Without Limits in Adobe Firefly

  05-02-2026 12:38 via webdesignernews.com
  Creative ideas don’t always arrive fully formed — often, they take shape through exploration, trial and error, and refinement. That’s why we designed Adobe Firefly as an all-in-one creative AI studio where creators can work with the industry’s leading AI models and powerful creative tools, all in one place, to move from idea to finished work.
  
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• Vectorize images in Figma

  05-02-2026 12:36 via webdesignernews.com
  With our new AI image editing tool, Vectorize, you can turn raster images into editable vectors, allowing you to tweak, refine, and scale designs directly in Figma.
  
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• The creator of Clawd: “I ship code I don’t read”

  05-02-2026 12:35 via webdesignernews.com
  Peter Steinberger ships more code than I’ve seen a single person ship: in January, he made more than 6,600 commits alone (!!). As he puts it:
  
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