Research programmes, startups, public digital infrastructure and the people building it.
A legaltech startup founded by Rytis Rudzinskas and Aidis Stukas has raised funding to automate intellectual property enforcement at scale, moving beyond detection to handle the full takedown and monitoring workflow.
Y Combinator-backed TesterArmy has raised €1 million to scale its AI-powered testing platform, which lets engineering teams describe user journeys in plain language rather than writing and maintaining test scripts.
The Mediterranean island is seeking a contractor to upgrade its Digital Citizen 2.0 application and connect it to the EU's common digital identity framework, with bids due in October.
Berlin has unveiled its national digital identity wallet, set to go live on January 2, 2027, allowing residents to store and manage digital versions of official documents across their smartphones.
Sitowise, a Nordic technical consulting company, has adopted Europe's LUMI supercomputer to dramatically speed up computational fire engineering work, cutting simulation times from weeks to days while improving design accuracy for large-scale construction projects.
Florida authorities have confirmed a data breach at the state's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles stemmed from login information compromised on a police officer's personal computer.
South Africa's largest city has made open source software central to its data analytics operations, publishing its own tools and reducing reliance on proprietary vendors.
A Treasury Department study of over 33,000 fraud reports filed between September 2023 and December 2025 reveals nearly $13 billion in losses to elaborate schemes run from Southeast Asian crime hubs, prompting federal authorities to demand stronger vigilance from financial institutions.