The breach exposed names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and bank account details. No passwords or identity documents were accessed. The Dutch Data Protection Authority has been notified. Basic-Fit…
Month: April 2026
Round raises $6M to automate the finance workflows that still require a human to press a button
The London fintech, used by Cleo and PostHog, has closed a seed round led by Alstin Capital, with Backed VC and Love Ventures participating. The co-founder of Indeed also joined as an…
Europe is dismantling its own rulebook to compete with America
On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published its Digital Omnibus package, a legislative proposal to amend the AI Act, the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, the Data Act, and several cybersecurity frameworks…
UK impact VC Eka Ventures closes second fund at $107M
When Eka Ventures held the final close of its first fund at £68 million in 2021, the London-based firm staked a claim that few UK VCs were willing to make at the…
Mac mini and Mac Studio go out of stock – is it the RAM crisis or an M5 refresh?
In short: Several high-RAM Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations disappeared from Apple’s online store in the US on 11 April 2026, listed as “currently unavailable” with no delivery estimate and no option…
OpenAI’s new $100 ChatGPT Pro plan targets Claude Max with five times the Codex access
In short: OpenAI launched a new $100 per month Pro plan for ChatGPT on 9 April 2026, inserting a new tier between the existing $20 Plus plan and the $200 Pro plan and…
The Netherlands becomes the first European country to approve Tesla’s FSD Supervised
In short: The Dutch vehicle authority RDW approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software on 10 April 2026, making the Netherlands the first European country to authorise the system under UN Regulation 171, the…
Anthropic brings Claude into Microsoft Word, and legal contract review leads its use cases
In short: Anthropic has released a beta add-in that places Claude directly inside Microsoft Word, with every AI-generated edit appearing as a native tracked change and legal contract review listed first among the…
Why data quality matters when working with data at scale
Data quality has always been an afterthought. Teams spend months instrumenting a feature, building pipelines, and standing up dashboards, and only when a stakeholder flags a suspicious number does anyone ask whether…
SaaS on the Beach returns to Barcelona with a founder-only format
As the tech conference circuit grows more crowded, one SaaS event is making the opposite pitch: fewer people, fewer sales decks, and a lot less noise. SaaS on the Beach, a curated…