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He allegedly had quantities of potassium permanganate, sulphur, black powder, 100 blank cartridges, ball bearings and other component parts of improvised devicesBelfast High Court(Image: Google Streetview)A man accused of storing explosives in his south Belfast home is not ideologically driven or linked to terrorism, the High Court heard on Thursday.Dangerous chemicals and an improvised grenade were discovered during a major security alert at Radoslaw Kuc’s terraced house on Empire Street last year, prosecutors said. But a judge was told psychiatric assessments have confirmed the 51-year-old suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.“There is no evidence that he’s involved with any terrorist-type organisation,” Madam…

“Join xAI if the idea of mass drivers on the Moon appeals to you,” CEO Elon Musk proclaimed yesterday following a restructuring that saw a stream of former executives exit the AI lab. This is an interesting recruitment strategy after the company’s merger with Musk’s rocket maker, SpaceX, and the combined company’s anticipated IPO. You might think that xAI employees ought to be fascinated with achieving AGI, using deep learning models to disrupt traditional software companies, or simply bad wordplay like “Macrohard.” But instead, Elon is going to the moon. After outlining plans to build AI data centers in orbit,…

The incident happened on February 11 at the A29 Shripney Road closure near Bognor Regis. A 55-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault and remains in custody. The A29 has been closed for through traffic since 2 February due to flooding. A council worker was hit by a car at the same location on February 9. The road has been closed since February 2 (Image: Eddie Mitchell) Paul Marshall, leader of West Sussex County Council, said: “Last night, Wednesday 11 February, an officer working on behalf of West Sussex Highways was attacked by a member of the public at…

Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of suppliers, and we were distributing products into dozens of countries around the world,” Spencer (pictured left) told TechCrunch. His staff was overwhelmed by the manual complexity of sourcing suppliers, negotiating pricing, tracking orders, and managing payments. “I found myself running this big team that was not really set up for success,” he said. He sold Markai in 2023, just as it was becoming clear that generative AI could streamline the most time-consuming procurement hurdles for…

Corporate bitcoin accumulation accelerated in January, but according to bitcointreasuries.net, nearly all the momentum came from a single heavyweight. 4.08 Million BTC Held Across Entities, Says Bitcoin Treasuries Report The January 2026 Corporate Adoption Report from bitcointreasuries.net shows that public and private entities added 43,228 BTC during the month, valued at roughly $3.5 billion based […] Source link

Anthropic has just concluded a series G fundraising round for $30 billion, the company announced on Thursday. The company’s new value is $380 billion—a huge jump from the company’s previous series F valuation of $183 billion. Some details of the round were reported earlier this week by Bloomberg. The new round was led by Singaporean wealth fund GIC and investment management firm Coatue, with a number of other prominent firms—including D. E. Shaw Ventures, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, and Abu Dhabi’s MGX—co-leading the round. Other significant investors listed include Accel, General Catalyst, Jane Street, and the Qatar Investment Authority, among…

Vincenzo Iozzo, a renowned hacker linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is no longer listed on the website of Black Hat, one of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world, nor on the Japanese security conference Code Blue. As of Thursday, Iozzo does not appear on the official review board pages of Black Hat or Code Blue. He was still listed on both pages as of last week. Iozzo had been on the Black Hat review board since 2011, according to his LinkedIn profile.  In a statement shared with TechCrunch through a spokesperson, Iozzo said he told Black Hat…

Kent athlete Matt Weston posted a track record to put him in prime position to secure skeleton gold and Team GB’s first medal at the Winter Olympics after topping the leaderboard today.The 28-year-old from Tunbridge Wells leads the standings at the halfway stage of the event at the Milan-Cortina games in Italy.Matt Weston, of Tunbridge Wells, who broke a track record in the Winter Olympics today. Picture: Sam Mellish/Team GBWeston is currently sitting in gold medal position with a 0.3-second lead before the competition reaches its dramatic climax tomorrow.The double-world skeleton champion is dubbed as Britain’s biggest medal contender and…

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With support from private investors, ESA, NATO DIANA, and the Latvian government, the startup will develop its dual-use energy technology powered by radioisotopes, supporting both sustainable power generation for lunar missions and enhanced resilience for strategic satellite infrastructure in Europe.   Latvian startup Deep Space Energy has closed its pre-seed round by raising €350K, led by Outlast Fund and Linas Sargautis, an angel investor and a former co-founder of NanoAvionics. The company also secured additional €580K in public contracts and grants by the European Space Agency (ESA), NATO DIANA, and the Latvian government.     Boosting Moon Surface Exploration   The funding will primarily be used to further…