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Adobe has acquired India-based marketing intelligence startup Rilo in a deal involving licensing and team acquisition, TechCrunch learned and the company confirmed. This is Adobe’s second acquisition from India after it bought video platform Rephrase.ai in 2023. The companies didn’t disclose the deal’s terms. Beyond confirming the deal, Adobe declined to comment. The acquisition gives Adobe a small team and technology focused on automating marketing workflows, which have been changing as companies use AI to build tools to automate the creation, deployment, and tracking of campaigns, get action items from meetings or calls to complete tasks, and increase brand visibility…

Microsoft is investigating an issue causing the Defender for Office 365 security software to mistakenly flag legitimate Google search links as malicious. The company first acknowledged the incident (tracked under MO1465962) at 10:30 AM UTC and says affected users are seeing “Opening this website might not be safe” warnings when trying to open the blocked hyperlinks. According to a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, the issue is caused by an inaccurate security classification, and copying the links and pasting them directly into a browser will not bypass the warning. Microsoft also warned IT administrators that they may see alerts in…

Full Sail, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol on the Sui blockchain, plans to shut down after a security incident involving oracle provider Switchboard resulted in user losses.Full Sail took to X on Tuesday to announce that the protocol is winding down, immediately disabling new deposits and liquidity provider (LP) reward claims. Regular pools will move to withdrawal-only mode after final security checks, with compensating users the protocol’s top priority, Full Sail said.The decision follows a security incident last week that affected Full Sail’s automated vaults following a suspected compromise of Switchboard’s oracle infrastructure.Full Sail first disclosed the incident on Saturday,…

In July, following relentless bursts of rainfall, flash floods covered pockets of Lagos, disrupting commerce and traffic in Nigeria’s commercial capital. Experts have found that the city now faces increased flood risk due to human-induced climate change. Other recent studies have identified another common factor exacerbating flooding risk in Lagos: rapid urbanization. In a study published in June, for example, a team of researchers examined satellite images of Lekki, a densely populated Lagos district, from 2015 to 2025. Their analysis showed that vegetation cover in the neighborhood had decreased by 13% in the last 10 years, while water…

Titan Clean Fuels, part of the Molgas Group, has struck a long-term deal with shipowner Sogestran Group for the construction, charter, and operation of a new co-designed liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker vessel (LNGBV), adding ship-to-ship bunkering capabilities in the Western Mediterranean to complement Molgas Energy Group’s truck-to-ship operations and infrastructure. Left to right: Grégoire Hartig, Niels den Nijs, Pascal Girardet, Benoist Grosjean, and David Patron; Courtesy of Titan The 6,000-cubic-meter (cbm) LNGBV has been jointly developed and designed by the duo’s teams to cater to the navigational, operational and commercial characteristics of Western Mediterranean ports, LNG reloading terminals, and…

KATHMANDU—The rains had briefly quelled, and beneath a bright mid-morning sky, 43-year-old Subash Tamang was working along the banks of the monsoon-swollen Trishuli River with his family. They were extracting sand, as they had done before, when the river suddenly rose to consume them. Some 45 miles north, high in the Himalayas along the Nepal-Tibet border, a large section of a glacier had collapsed, sending a torrent of water, sediments, and boulders and swallowing downstream settlements. It took the flood barely 30 minutes to reach Tamang’s village in Nuwakot district, hitting with the terrible speed of a tsunami. Tamang survived…

Claim: A video authentically shows a kindergarten teacher saying she was fired for helping students discover their gender identity. Rating: In late August 2026, people shared a video allegedly showing a kindergarten teacher saying she was fired for helping students discover their gender identity. The video trended (archived) on X with the caption “Kindergarten Teacher’s Gender Lesson Video Prompts Firing Debate.” Under the trend, a popular post (archived) from Aug. 28 featured an earlier clip as well as the video in question. The earlier clip (archived), captioned “Helping My Students Discover Their Genders,” shows the alleged teacher saying she asked…

German authorities on Wednesday were investigating two attacks on electricity substations in different parts of the country, the latest suspected sabotage targeting critical infrastructure. Police launched a terrorism probe over the first incident, which saw improvised explosives fired early Tuesday at a site in eastern Brandenburg state, damaging power cables.  In the second sabotage attack, unknown perpetrators allegedly caused a deliberate short-circuit by targeting overhead power lines at a substation in Bergheim in North Rhine-Westphalia state. North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Herbert Reul said officials were probing whether the attack was directed by a “foreign state” or left-wing extremism. Neither attack…

The biggest factor pushing up rates is the credibility of the borrowing plans set out by major countries. The increase is not based on fears about countries “going bankrupt”. But it is based on the brutal market equation that if a country wants to borrow more, and to do so without a credible plan, especially if there are doubts over the stability of a given government, it should expect to pay a higher rate.Influential economists lean on different factors. Mohamed el-Erian told me the AI competition in bond markets was the biggest new factor. Lord Jim O’Neill, says the recent…

Nigel Farage has said the UK is a “complainants’ society”, as he faces ongoing questions about both his and his party’s funding.Speaking to the BBC ahead of the party’s annual conference this week, the Reform UK leader said a “whole ecosystem” didn’t want “new kids on the block succeeding”.It comes after a summer dominated by headlines about the party’s finances and £5m he received from a party supporter before the last election.Farage said he expects it “won’t be too long” before he is interviewed as part of the ongoing parliamentary investigation into whether he should have publicly declared the sum…