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Start with the number, because it is the kind that settles an argument. In the first quarter of 2026, panel makers shipped 298 million displays into the refurbished phone market. They shipped 289 million to the companies that make new phones. The refurbished figure was up 20% year on year, according to Omdia. The two [] This story continues at The Next Web
Here is the problem, and it is easier to state than most people expect. End-to-end encryption scrambles a message so only the recipient can read it. That works perfectly, provided you were handed the recipients real key. The app fetches that key from a server. If the server hands you a different key, the encryption [] This story continues at The Next Web
Start with the Volkswagen, because it is the one that should give Europe pause. SAIC Volkswagen, the joint venture with Chinas state-owned SAIC Motor, opened preorders for the ID. Era 5S saloon this week. The introductory price is 115,900 yuan, which Digital Trends converts to about $17,175. The car goes on sale in China on [] This story continues at The Next Web
Start with what the mark actually is, because it is not a stamp on the page. When a model writes, it picks each word from a set of reasonable options. A watermark quietly splits those options into two groups using a secret key, then nudges the model towards one group. One word proves nothing. Across [] This story continues at The Next Web
High-bandwidth memory is the part of an AI system that nobody photographs. It sits next to the processor and feeds it data, and if it is too slow the expensive chip waits. It is made by stacking ordinary DRAM, the same memory that goes into laptops and phones. That is why an AI buildout drains [] This story continues at The Next Web
Accel is a venture capital firm. It gives money to startups early, usually before anyone else has, and takes a stake in return. It has done this since 1983, and it wrote the first institutional cheque into Atlassian, CrowdStrike, Flipkart and Slack. On Tuesday it said it had raised $3.5bn for four new funds, Bloomberg [] This story continues at The Next Web
Legora, the Swedish legal-AI company that has become one of Europes fastest-rising startups, is reportedly seeking to raise fresh funds at a valuation of more than $10bn. If it lands, the deal would roughly double the figure investors put on the business only months ago, a pace that says as much about the frenzy around [] This story continues at The Next Web
Revolut, the fintech that built a fortune on the promise that you would never again need to set foot in a bank, is about to start putting up buildings. The company said today that it will open its own premium airport lounges across Europe, with the first due to debut in 2027 at Copenhagen Airport, [] This story continues at The Next Web
Oracle is planning another round of job cuts this month, according to Business Insider, with some teams reportedly facing double-digit-percentage reductions. Managers have been told to identify the employees affected, and the goal is to trim payroll before 1 September, the start of the companys fiscal second quarter. Oracle declined to comment. It is the [] This story continues at The Next Web
In June, Love and Deepspace took about $38m across the App Store and Google Play. In July it took just over $10m, mobilegamer.biz reported this week, citing Sensor Tower. The game slid to 16th in the monthly gacha rankings, having never before dropped out of the top five. Put that against its own history and [] This story continues at The Next Web
The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation have sued President Donald Trump over a Trump Media service that sells paid early access to his Truth Social posts, arguing that a sitting president should not be allowed to put a price on his own official words. The service, called Truth API, gives paying subscribers [] This story continues at The Next Web
Taiwan says it spent part of last month fending off a hacking campaign that leaned on artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting. The islands Ministry of Digital Affairs, through its National Institute of Cyber Security, disclosed that government agencies were targeted in July, with alerts going out from around 20 July. What makes the [] This story continues at The Next Web

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