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• EU bets on quantum tech to boost its cybersecurity needs

  17-01-2024 18:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  The EU has launched the Nostradamus project, aiming to enable high-level cybersecurity with quantum tech. Led by Deutsche Telekom, Nostradamus is an industry consortium, including academia and companies such as Thales and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. Its mission is to help create a network of quantum-safe communications. Specifically, the consortium plans to build testing infrastructure for quantum key distribution (QKD) and evaluate QKD devices of European manufacturers. Quantum k
  
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• TNW Weekly Briefing

  18-01-2026 14:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Legislation and digital policy European Commission opens call for evidence on Open Digital Ecosystems Signal: The EU is preparing a structural shift toward open, interoperable digital infrastructure. This marks a move from regulating dominant platforms to actively shaping alternatives and reducing strategic dependency. DMA and DSA enter an enforcement-heavy phase in 2026 Signal: Europe’s digital laws have moved from principle to execution. Compliance, fines, litigation, and operational co
  
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• ChatGPT’s Ads era is here

  17-01-2026 11:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI’s decision to introduce advertisements inside ChatGPT for free users and its new $8 “Go” tier is already shaping up to be one of the most consequential pivots in generative AI’s short history. It’s not a simple business tweak. It’s a reframing of where digital intent, attention, and commercial influence intersect in an age where conversations increasingly replace search bars. OpenAI has not yet started showing ads in ChatGPT, but it plans to begin test
  
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• BizzyNow opens Mamacrowd equity round to fund “micro-meetings” for business professionals

  16-01-2026 21:02 via thenextweb.com
  
  Italian startup BizzyNow has launched an equity crowdfunding round on Mamacrowd to finance the next phase of its networking app, built around quick, in-person meetups it calls “Bizzy Moments.” The campaign targets €150k–€400k at a €3m pre-money valuation, with a €500 minimum ticket. BizzyNow says proceeds will support go-to-market validation, product upgrades, and the operational groundwork needed to scale. The problem BizzyNow solves Professional networkin
  
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• Guide to Designing Accessible Mobile Apps in 2026

  16-01-2026 10:29 via webdesignernews.com
  In 2026, the report states, mobile accessibility transcends the issues of accessibility and regulation; it is a matter of making mobile experiences better. The need for mobile accessibility has become a fait accompli due to the current mobile app dominance in how people connect with each other or their surroundings. Mobile apps have revolutionized how we communicate, shop, learn, and live, and this transformation is deeply rooted in mobile app design, modern mobile app design, and thoughtful use
  
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• Stop shipping “friendly” AI copy

  16-01-2026 10:28 via webdesignernews.com
  You can ship a lot of “smart” UI this year while quietly making it less trustworthy, less coherent, and harder to operate.
  
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• How Freelance Designers & Developers Can Be Their Own Advocate

  16-01-2026 10:27 via webdesignernews.com
  Working solo is one of the benefits of being a freelance web designer. You don’t have a boss breathing down your neck or tracking every mouse click. That’s one reason why many of us choose this career path.
  
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• All the news that’s fit to WhatsApp

  16-01-2026 10:26 via webdesignernews.com
  Amid Donald Trump’s intensifying immigration raids, Documented NYC uses platforms like WhatsApp, WeChat, and Nextdoor to connect directly with immigrants.
  
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• Cold Storage

  16-01-2026 10:25 via webdesignernews.com
  Good UX is what companies do when they have to. A company that has your stuff locked away doesn’t have to.
  
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• 9 Useful Chrome DevTools Features

  16-01-2026 10:23 via webdesignernews.com
  Developers use Chrome DevTools almost every day, but the toolset is so extensive that many features remain unnoticed. In this short overview, we’ll explore several DevTools capabilities that are genuinely useful in real-world work and often overlooked.
  
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• SaaS UX Trends Shaping the Industry in 2026

  16-01-2026 10:22 via webdesignernews.com
  SaaS UX is moving faster than most product teams realize. What felt modern in 2024 already feels slow, clunky, or confusing today. Users now expect software to understand them, guide them, and get out of the way.
  
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• What AI is actually doing to jobs in Europe

  15-01-2026 13:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  In January 2026, London’s mayor gave a blunt warning that has reverberated far beyond City Hall: artificial intelligence could trigger “mass unemployment” in the capital’s core industries unless policymakers act now. His words came with an unexpected counterweight: an announcement of free AI training and a dedicated task force to help workers adapt. This juxtaposition captures a tension shaping Europe’s labour landscape: fear and opportunity locked in the same stor
  
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• 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google

  14-01-2026 16:10 via webdesignernews.com
  When I joined Google ~14 years ago, I thought the job was about writing great code. I was partly right. But the longer I’ve stayed, the more I’ve realized that the engineers who thrive aren’t necessarily the best programmers – they’re the ones who’ve figured out how to navigate everything around the code: the people, the politics, the alignment, the ambiguity.
  
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• Anthropic’s launches Cowork

  14-01-2026 16:09 via webdesignernews.com
  Built into the Claude Desktop app, the new tool lets users designate a specific folder where Claude can read or modify files, with further instructions given through the standard chat interface. The result is similar to a sandboxed instance of Claude Code, but requires far less technical savvy to set up.
  
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• Belgian cybersecurity startup becomes unicorn

  14-01-2026 15:54 via thenextweb.com
  
  Belgian cybersecurity startup Aikido Security has closed a $60 million Series B funding round at a $1 billion valuation, marking a rare unicorn milestone for a European security company and highlighting the accelerating interest in developer-centric security platforms. The round was led by DST Global, a tech-oriented investment firm with a track record of backing major technology companies, and included participation from PSG Equity, Notion Capital, and Singular. Founded in 2022, Aikido has rea
  
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• Introducing TNW Council

  14-01-2026 10:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  A private network for founders and executives, limited to 1,000 members The Next Web today announces the launch of TNW Council, a private membership community created for founders and executives leading technology companies. The Council is limited to 1,000 members globally. Each member is selected through an application and review process. The Council is designed to bring together experienced leaders who want peer conversations, meaningful connections, and visibility through editorial and event
  
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• When shopping stops being a place

  13-01-2026 12:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  For years, online shopping followed a fixed path. Search bar, product grid, filters, checkout. The interface barely changed, even as everything else on the internet did. That path is now breaking. Monday 12 January, 2026, JD Sports Fashion plc (JD Group) became one of the first large retailers to let US customers search and buy sneakers directly inside AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini. No website visit. No app. Just a conversation that ends with a paymen
  
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• AI Skills

  12-01-2026 20:55 via thenextweb.com
  
  For the past few years, artificial intelligence has been discussed almost exclusively in terms of models. Bigger models, faster models, smarter models. More recently, the focus shifted to agents, systems capable of planning, reasoning, and acting autonomously. Yet the real leap in usefulness does not happen at the model level, nor at the agent level. It happens one layer above, at the level of Skills. If models represent intelligence and agents represent coordination, Skills are where AI become
  
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• AI is old news. Generative AI is the future.

  10-01-2026 12:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is well known, often evoking futuristic movies like Robocop, Terminator and The Matrix. Yet what many don’t realize is that AI has been part of our lives for decades. When you finish watching a movie on a streaming platform and instantly see recommendations for similar content, that’s AI. When you’re shopping online and an entire page of suggested products appears, that’s AI. Even the digital ads yo
  
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• Another milestone: Flowbite at 30M npm downloads

  10-01-2026 10:23 via webdesignernews.com
  Flowbite can be included as a plugin into an existing Tailwind CSS project and it is supposed to help you build websites faster by having a set of web components to work with built with the utility classes from Tailwind CSS.
  
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• Software is culture

  10-01-2026 10:18 via webdesignernews.com
  From ordering delivery in a pinch, to finding genuine connection and meaning, software touches nearly every part of our lives.
  
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• The Enshittifinancial Crisis

  10-01-2026 10:17 via webdesignernews.com
  This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. 
  
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• Turn Your Design Dreams into Reality in 10x

  10-01-2026 10:14 via webdesignernews.com
  You know that feeling when you have this amazing app idea in your head, but the journey from “cool concept” to “actual working thing” feels like climbing Mount Everest in flip-flops? Yeah, I’ve been there. Multiple times.
  
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• Inside Dribbble’s strategy: From portfolio platform to lead-generating marketplace

  10-01-2026 10:12 via webdesignernews.com
  We’re nearing the end of a transformative year for Dribbble, during which we reinvented ourselves as a revenue-sharing marketplace and delivered hundreds of thousands of leads – billions of dollars in opportunity – and millions of dollars in payouts to the service providers on our platform.
  
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• I built an app in every frontend framework

  10-01-2026 10:10 via webdesignernews.com
  Why am I writing this? Well I see a lot of articles bigging up specific frameworks, or putting down other frameworks. But rarely does the author cut through the hype and provide an unbiased comparison between all* the options.
  
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• Are Tech giants killing cold outreach?

  09-01-2026 17:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  This is one of the most concerning questions for sales teams at the beginning of 2026: are tech giants killing cold outreach? The answer is that we do not know yet, but here is a perspective from someone working in sales. Apple and Google have recently introduced two features that show a clear tendency toward the decline of cold outreach. Apple’s new feature, “Ask Reason for Calling,” is a game changer. It effectively turns cold calling into another form of messaging. No more
  
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• ChatGPT Health has arrived

  08-01-2026 13:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  I’ve said this many times: the products we see on the market are rarely visionary leaps. Most of the time, they are mirrors. They reflect people’s habits, shortcuts, fears, and small daily behaviours. Design follows behaviour. Always has. Think about it. You probably know at least one person who already uses ChatGPT for health-related questions. Not occasionally. Regularly. As a second opinion. As a place to test concerns before saying them out loud. Sometimes even as a therapist, a
  
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• Who decides the best AI?

  07-01-2026 13:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI industry has become adept at measuring itself. Benchmarks improve, model scores rise, and every new release arrives with a list of metrics meant to signal progress. And yet, somewhere between the lab and real life, something keeps slipping. Which model actually feels better to use? Which answers would a human trust? Which system would you put in front of customers, employees, or citizens and feel comfortable standing behind it? That gap is where LMArena has quietly built its business, an
  
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• How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy

  07-01-2026 11:56 via webdesignernews.com
  Your senior management is excited about AI. They’ve read the articles, attended the webinars, and seen the demos. They’re convinced that AI will transform your organization, boost productivity, and give you a competitive edge.
  
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• UI Design is Changing Forever! – Designers Becoming Builders

  07-01-2026 11:55 via webdesignernews.com
  The UI design industry has completely changed. In 2026 we will be seeing more vibe-coding platforms venture into the UI design and visual design space – a space dominated by tools like Figma.
  
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