Italian authorities confirmed that a journalist who was alerted by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack on his phone was indeed hacked.  In a press release sent to journalists on Thursday, the public prosecutors’ offices in Rome and Naples, which are investigating the spyware scandal in the country, said that a technical report concluded that the phones of …

Bridget Perry. (LinkedIn Photo) — Amperity, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies collect and manage customer data, named Bridget Perry as chief marketing officer. Earlier in her career, Perry was a marketing director for Microsoft for nearly nine years and worked for more than eight years at Adobe, leaving the role of CMO of Europe, Middle East and Africa. She …

The Department of Defense (DOD) has officially notified Anthropic leadership that the company and its products have been designated a supply-chain risk, Bloomberg reports, citing a senior department official.  The designation comes after weeks of conflict between the AI lab and the DOD. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has refused to allow the military to use its AI systems for mass …

It feels like we could all use a little (or a large) boost of joy and optimism right now, so it’s a perfect coincidence that a Games Done Quick event is on the horizon. Frost Fatales 2026 is running from March 8 through March 14. This week-long livestream will be raising money for the National Women’s Law Center, a nonprofit …

Elon Musk-owned X announced on Thursday that it’s revamping the social network’s Creator Subscriptions offering with a number of new features, including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a new dashboard, and a shareable subscriptions card, among other changes. The company believes these updates will allow creators to attract more fans and provide better experiences, as it pushes to become …

If your Playdate wishlist is anything like mine (endless), here’s a good excuse to actually go ahead and free some of those games from limbo: Panic is running a two-week-long sale on the Playdate Catalog to celebrate its three-year anniversary. Sure, the majority of Playdate games are pretty cheap as is, but they can still add up when you’re on …

UAE President receives phone call from Prime Minister of Libya's Government of National Unity affirming solidarity with the UAE Source link

The Sub Pop location on 7th Avenue in Seattle, with Amazon’s Spheres visible across the street. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Longtime Seattle independent record label Sub Pop Records is leaving Amazonia. The company announced via social media on Thursday that its retail store at 2130 7th Ave., at the base of Amazon’s re:Invent headquarters tower, is closing this Sunday …

Who needs Half-Life 3 or Beyond Good & Evil 2? Roku, in an attempt to gamify content discovery on its platform, has cooked up a gaming announcement for the ages. Behold: Roklue. Yes, that’s a real name that someone with a job title and (likely high) salary came up with. Roklue (shudder) will quiz players on “the movies and TV …

Nominal on Thursday announced a fresh $80M Series B extension round at a $1 billion valuation, led by Founders Fund. This followed the company’s $75M Series B round led by Sequoia in September. Nominal offers software that helps hardware engineers test their designs and began as a picks-and-shovels type of startup for the defense industry. The three-and-a-half-year-old, L.A.-based company says …

US President Donald Trump has said he should personally be involved in selecting Iran’s next leader after Ali Khamenei, warning that Tehran would be “wasting its time” if it attempts to appoint a successor without US involvement. In an interview with an American website, Trump said that discussions are underway in Iran regarding the country’s next supreme leader. He claimed …

Netflix has acquired an AI filmmaking , according to a report by Variety. This is a company that was founded by actor Ben Affleck back in 2022. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of it. Affleck has been operating the company in stealth mode for the past few years, so this is pretty much it’s big coming-out party. The terms …

UAE Team Emirates-XRG tops UCI World Ranking Source link

Ajman Department of Tourism signs cooperation agreement with Germany’s Vtours to strengthen emirate’s presence in German market Source link

Roblox is introducing a real-time, AI-powered chat rephrasing feature that automatically replaces banned words with more respectful language, the company announced on Thursday. The new feature goes beyond Roblox’s current text filter, which simply replaces banned words and phrases with the “#” symbol. But Roblox says that when users encounter strings of “####,” conversations can be disrupted and hard to …