Venture Dispatch

Data and Security

  1. Suspected Chinese spies are raiding university mailboxes via a Roundcube flaw
  2. US lifts export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5, clearing the model’s return
  3. The FBI built a fake town to train agents for cyberattacks. It has a hospital, a power company, and 200 servers.
  4. The passwordless future is years away. Here is what businesses should do now
  5. Why 2026 will be the year of governed cybersecurity AI
  6. LearnWorlds lets you build a full online course business with AI
  7. Opinion: Space startups are pivoting to defence. That’s great for innovation
  8. How NATO is turning to startups to outpace its rivals
  9. ‘Little evidence’ that EU laws aided criminals in crypto kidnappings
  10. Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot banned by a quarter of European firms
  11. UK’s digital defences need ‘colossal’ overhaul for quantum era
  12. New TNW Backstage podcast explores privacy tensions and Meta’s model
  13. Tinder Swindler survivor launches identity verifier to fight scams
  14. Lawtech startup Noxtua upgrades ‘sovereign legal AI’ amid ‘volatile’ geopolitics
  15. Trump tariffs reignite Europe’s push for cloud sovereignty
  16. Defence tech startup ARX Robotics targets 1,800 autonomous land drones a year at new UK plant
  17. 23andMe bankruptcy: Can EU and UK laws protect DNA data? Here’s what you need to know