Tech

European video game age ratings body PEGI plans to add four new categories in June to tackle elements of addictive design in games, including loot boxes (www.eurogamer.net)
2026-3-13 Europe

Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only “Sassy” option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-13 Amazon

Microsoft says EVP of Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, plans to retire on July 1 after 35+ years at Microsoft and promotes four of his direct reports to EVP (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-13 Microsoft

Google paid $17.1 million for vulnerability reports in 2025 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-13 Google

BMBL jumps 30%+ after Bumble reported Q4 revenue above estimates and unveiled an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-13 IPO AI 4Q

BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures (www.axios.com)
2026-3-13

Ukraine's defense minister says Ukraine is opening up access to its battlefield data for its allies to train AI models (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-13 AI Ukraine

Reducing Europe's Nuclear Energy Sector Was 'Strategic Mistake', EU Chief Says (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-3-13 Europe Energy

Strait of Hormuz Closure Triggers Work From Home, 4-Day Weeks In Asia (news.slashdot.org)
2026-3-13 Asia

Telus Digital confirms breach after hacker claims 1 petabyte data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-13 Hacker

Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-13 Mobile

Qdrant, which develops an open-source vector search engine for production AI systems, raised a $50M Series B led by AVP (tech.eu)
2026-3-13 AI

Tel Aviv-based Bold, which uses AI agents to secure enterprise devices like laptops from cyberattacks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-3-13 AI

Going the Extra Mile: Travel Rewards Turn into Underground Currency. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-13

Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raised a $100M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital (fortune.com)
2026-3-13 AI Goldman Equity

Learn in-demand IT skills with this $25 CompTIA prep bundle (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-13

Apple patches older iPhones and iPads against Coruna exploits (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-13 Apple

Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable reaches $400M in ARR, up from $300M in January; rival Cursor hit $2B in annualized revenue in February, per a source (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-13 Startup AI

Microsoft launches Copilot Health, which integrates medical records, biometric data from wearables, and lab results to give personalized advice, in the US (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-13 Microsoft

Crypto accounting startup Cryptio raised a $45M Series B led by BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global and reports having 450+ clients, including Circle (fortune.com)
2026-3-13 Startup

Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for iOS and Android in the US and India that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions” (www.theverge.com)
2026-3-12 Android IOS India Google

Microsoft and Meta each committed nearly $50B in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters, taking major cloud companies' total to $700B+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-12 Microsoft

Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-3-12 Israel Startup AI

US charges another ransomware negotiator linked to BlackCat attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-3-12

Sources: after Google's $32B deal, each of Wiz's four co-founders is set to get $2B in post-tax cash; Index is set to net $4B, Insight $2.7B, and Sequoia $3B (www.forbes.com)
2026-3-12 Google Tax

Only Half of Americans Went To a Movie Theater In 2025, Study Finds (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-3-12 U.S.

Israeli-Dutch startup Wonderful AI, which offers AI agents that can handle customer conversations across voice, chat, and more, raised $150M at a $2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-12 Israel Startup AI Netherlands

IDS and ADRN study: 11 African governments spent $2B+ on Chinese-built surveillance tech that recognizes faces and monitors movements; Nigeria spent $470M (www.theguardian.com)
2026-3-12 China Africa Nigeria

Sources: India plans to unveil a ~$10.8B fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking, including subsidizing chip design projects and manufacturing equipment (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-12 India Manufacturing

Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-12 Google

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