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Researchers studying what people miss most after retiring have found that it is rarely the work, the money, or the status — it is the small daily proof that somebody was ...

On the first Monday after retirement, the alarm does not ring. Nobody asks whether the train was delayed. No colleague looks ...
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Meet the Dutch companies that raised the 10 biggest funding rounds in Q3 2025; 7 are hiring right now

Dutch startups entered the third quarter of 2025 with tremendous resilience even amid global market challenges. The country’s combination of strong talent, quality universities, and collaboration ...
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Atomico announces its largest ever fundraise; raises €1.12B to back Europe’s most ambitious founders

London-based Atomico, a venture capital firm, announced on Monday that it has secured $1.24B (approximately €1.12B), marking its largest-ever fundraising to date. London-based Atomico, a venture ...
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Fox Crypto acquisition raises Dutch concerns over sovereignty and cryptographic control: Govt asks Invest-NL to acquire priority share

NCC Group, the global cybersecurity specialist and parent company of Fox-IT, has officially completed the sale of Fox Crypto to CR Group Nordic AB. NCC Group, the global cybersecurity specialist and ...
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Eye Security, founded by former Dutch intelligence-service employees, raised €60 million to build a “sovereign” European cyber defense — and two of its backers are …

A cybersecurity firm built by former employees of the Dutch intelligence services raised €60 million to sell “sovereign” ...
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Wall Street is treating Nvidia GPUs like aircraft collateral — and a $35B syndication is quietly testing whether the credit markets agree

When banks start using AI chips as loan collateral, the credit markets face an unprecedented test of what artificial ...
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In April 1967, a Palo Alto history teacher named Ron Jones ran a five-day classroom experiment called 'The Third Wave' — and by day four, 200 students had joined a m…

In five days in April 1967, a 25-year-old history teacher in Palo Alto turned a classroom question about Nazi Germany into a ...
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The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while its tougher rules on hiring, biometrics and migration are pushed back to December 2027

The transparency obligations are the cheap ones to meet. The expensive, rights-protective rules are the ones that just got ...
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The quiet reason some adults keep a drawer of pens, notepads, and unopened stationery they never use may have less to do with clutter and more to do with the s…

The unused notebooks and unopened pens in a household drawer are rarely about disorganisation. They are the archaeological ...
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We picture loneliness as an old person's burden, yet a global 2023 survey found this may not be the case: across 142 countries, adults aged 19 to 29 reported the most ...

The loneliest generation isn't the one we think it is—it's young adults, and the reasons why challenge everything we assumed ...
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South Korea approved single-stock leveraged ETFs, then banned new ones two months later — inside the margin unwind that pushed forced selling to seven times …

Regulators tripled minimum deposits and halted new leveraged ETF listings after the Kospi's slide from a June record. The ...
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The habit of buying slightly too much food whenever family visits isn't overpreparation, for many people it's a quiet inheritance from a household where a…

For many adults, buying too much food when family visits isn't anxious hosting — it's inherited grammar from a household ...