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Finding an e-money top-up site for the first time can feel a bit unsettling. You’re not buying from a well-known brand, there’s no physical product, and the whole transaction depends on a digital code showing up and working. That’s usually when the big question comes up: Is this actually safe? Refilled.com falls under the category of marketplaces people tend to double-check before clicking “Buy...
Europe’s Ariane 64 rocket launched 32 satellites for Amazon’s Leo broadband constellation from Kourou, French Guiana, at 16:45 UTC on Wednesday, reaching low-Earth orbit in one hour and 54 minutes as the first commercial customer mission for the Ariane 6 family. The launch occurred at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou and confirmed Europe’s heavy-lift launch capability. The Ariane 64 variant includes...
Russian authorities blocked WhatsApp nationwide, impacting up to 100 million users, by removing the app from an online directory that erased it from Russia’s internet, according to the Financial Times. The move follows government promotion of Max, an unencrypted WeChat clone, as a replacement. This action came after warnings from lawmakers the previous year. The block prevents access to WhatsApp’...
Ubisoft workers in France, represented by the Solidaires Informatique union, conducted a three-day strike from February 10 to 12, 2026, with at least 1,200 participants primarily in France and also at the Milan office, protesting layoffs, cost-cutting measures, a return-to-office mandate, and seeking a 10 percent salary increase and four-day work week. At the end of January 2026, Ubisoft...
Ring canceled its partnership with surveillance company Flock Safety, announced in October 2025, because the integration required more time and resources than anticipated. The mutual decision occurred after backlash from a Super Bowl advertisement, with no integration launched and no customer footage shared. Ring revealed the partnership in October 2025 to enable law enforcement access to...
On Thursday, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a lightweight version of its agentic coding tool Codex, which the company launched earlier this month. Powered by Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine 3 chip, Spark enables faster inference as the first milestone in OpenAI’s multi-year partnership with Cerebras. The original GPT-5.3-Codex model serves longer, heavier tasks requiring deeper reasoning and...
During Spotify’s fourth-quarter earnings call, co-CEO Gustav Söderström stated that the company’s best developers have not written a single line of code since December, attributing this to AI tools that accelerate development processes. Söderström made the remark while discussing Spotify’s integration of artificial intelligence into its engineering workflows. The company reported shipping more...
YouTube has launched a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro two years after the headset’s debut. Initially, the company directed users to access content through Safari via a web-based method, prompting the native app’s development now. Apple Vision Pro launched without a YouTube native application. YouTube instead relied on its website accessible through the Safari browser on visionOS. This web...
Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G fundraising round on Thursday, raising its valuation to $380 billion from $183 billion in its prior Series F round. Singaporean wealth fund GIC and investment firm Coatue co-led the round, with other firms participating amid competition from OpenAI. Bloomberg reported initial details of the fundraising earlier in the week. The Series G round saw co-...
IBM plans to triple entry-level hiring in the United States in 2026, according to Bloomberg reporting. Nickle LaMoreaux, IBM’s chief human resource officer, announced the initiative at Charter’s Leading with AI Summit on Tuesday. The plan addresses jobs that artificial intelligence is said to perform, through revised job descriptions. LaMoreaux confirmed the scope of the hiring during her summit...