Amber Electric raises €49m to take home battery automation to Europe
THE SO WHAT
€49m into Amber Electric’s home battery automation is a bet that software orchestration—not just hardware—will decide who captures value in residential storage. If you touch energy or smart home, think in terms of control-plane integrations and tariffs, not just device compatibility.
READ THE SOURCE
MORE FROM THE WIRE
Deep & Emerging TechDragos closes its NetRise and runZero deals as Accenture takes control
Industrial cyber is consolidating into full-stack visibility—Dragos pulling in NetRise and runZero under Accenture’s umbrella is about owning firmware-to-asset discovery for OT where “lights stay on and water stays safe” is the bar. If you operate critical infrastructure, treat asset inventory and firmware risk as board-level metrics, not IT hygiene.
Deep & Emerging TechOld Dominion announces 4.9% general rate increase
A 4.9% general rate increase at a major LTL carrier is another data point that freight costs are structurally drifting up, not reverting to 2010s norms. If shipping is a material COGS line, revisit your 2026–2027 pricing and network design assumptions now, not at renewal time.
Deep & Emerging TechMicrosoft Defender is causing slow VLC startups. Here’s the fix
Defender dragging VLC startup times into the 30-second range is a small but telling example of endpoint security quietly taxing user experience. If you run managed desktops, you should be testing AV configurations against real app launch profiles, not just malware benchmarks.
Deep & Emerging Tech‘The US is now better positioned to compete’: How new drone tech tariffs are bolstering domestic production and securing supply chains
New US tariffs on drone tech are less about price and more about forcing supply-chain realignment toward domestic and allied production. If your operations depend on UAVs or related components, map your vendor country-of-origin exposure now—policy, not technology, may drive your next procurement cycle.