Microsoft to acquire 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of 10-year cloud partnership • TechCrunch

Microsoft is to acquire a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), the company that owns the London Stock Exchange as well as a several other businesses including…

UK arrests five for selling dodgy point of sale software • The Register

Tax authorities from Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA have conducted a joint probe into “electronic sales suppression software” – applications that falsify point of sale data to…

C++ overtakes Java in programming popularity index • The Register

Java is no longer among the top three most popular programming languages in the TIOBE Index, one of several not particularly definitive yardsticks by which such things are measured. According…

Astronomers Shocked By Powerful Gamma-Ray Burst From Colliding Neutron Stars

This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The universe doesn’t always cooperate. Science has puzzled over gamma-ray bursts since they were first…

Avarni is building a comprehensive dataset to analyze supply chain emissions  • TechCrunch

For companies aiming toward net zero, tracking scope 3 carbon emissions is a key challenge. Scope 3 are emissions along a supply and value chain, which means they have to…

With Kite’s demise, can generative AI for code succeed? • TechCrunch

Kite, a startup developing an AI-powered coding assistant, abruptly shut down last month. Despite securing tens of millions of dollars in VC backing, Kite struggled to pay the bills, founder…

Apple Plans to Beef Up iCloud Data Encryption

Apple has long promised that what is on your iPhone stays on your iPhone. But that pledge came with the caveat that if law enforcement had a warrant for someone’s…

Sam Bankman-Fried Agrees to Testify Before House Committee

The answer as to whether the embattled FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will appear before two congressional committees next week is being played out on Twitter. In an early-morning post on…

Nigerian startup Taeillo raises funding to scale its online furniture e-commerce platform • TechCrunch

Individuals or businesses buying furniture in Africa can purchase from local furniture stores or global furniture retailers like IKEA. But both options have pros and cons; for the latter, local…

S.Korea discusses control over crypto listings after WEMIX delisting

South Korean financial authorities are discussing possible mandates for companies to pursue direct approval from regulators to list their cryptocurrencies on local digital assets exchanges, news outlet The Herald Business…