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Campbell's is getting dragged after a former security guy leaked audio of some VP basically trashing everything the company stands for. Robert Garza recorded his boss, Martin Bally, during a salary chat, and the dude apparently went off about how their soup is garbage made for broke people...

Trump apparently strong-armed Larry Ellison into bringing back Brett Ratner for another Rush Hour movie, and the whole thing has people losing their minds. Ratner got canceled after facing a bunch of sexual misconduct allegations back when MeToo was blowing up, but the former president went to...

Authorities grabbed a 29-year-old Afghan guy named Rahmanullah Lakanwal after two National Guard members got shot near the White House. The dude came to America back when the military pulled out of Afghanistan, and he later got asylum approved under Trump. Both victims are in critical condition...

The Mets brought in Kenneth David from Kasowitz to run their legal department after James Denniston held the spot. David spent over 17 years grinding at the litigation firm and previously worked at Simpson Thacher plus Fried Frank before that. He takes over everything from business operations to...

Gibson Dunn just snagged Robbie Sinclair from A&O Shearman to beef up their London employment litigation game. The dude spent 11 years there and made partner back in 2019, handling messy employment cases, whistleblower stuff, and regulatory headaches for finance clients. He teams up with James...

Littleton Chambers just tapped Adam Solomon KC to run the show after Gavin Mansfield KC bounced to become a High Court judge. Solomon got called to the Bar back in 1998, made silk in 2018, and spent time on the Bar Standards Board, plus worked with a legal-access charity before landing this gig...

Matulji threw another banger food event where Portuguese chef Inês Beja teamed up with local guy Vinko Frlan at Stancija Kovačići restaurant. The six-course collab mixed Kvarner specialties with authentic Portuguese dishes, and sommelier Antonio Ramos paired everything with Portuguese wines...

The EU just greenlit co-financing for Hrvatski Telekom to build private 5G networks at three Croatian airports, and the whole thing costs 5.6 million euros. Brussels is covering 3.09 million euros through its CEF Digital program, beating out 28 other projects across Europe. Zagreb, Zadar, and...

Croatia's about to flood its railways with 70 brand-new trains by the end of next year, and the whole package costs 360 million euros. State Secretary Tomislav Mihotić dropped this info at the Via Vita congress in Rovinj, where 400 transport nerds gathered to talk infrastructure. He hyped up a...

Brits and Germans keep spamming Skyscanner with Croatia searches, hitting 13.4 million and 12.4 million queries respectively over the past year. Poland, Finland, Belgium, Greece, and the Czech Republic showed the biggest jumps in interest, while Split, Dubrovnik, Zagreb, Zadar, and Pula...

Vodacom Tanzania teamed up with VISA, Alipay, Network International, Magnati, and MTN Uganda to let M-Pesa users tap their phones for worldwide payments through a tokenized card system. The setup lets Tanzanian traders pay Chinese merchants via Alipay connections powered by Thunes, hit up Dubai...

EasyWill just dropped in the UAE as the country's first completely online system for writing and registering legally binding wills without ever touching a lawyer's office. The platform runs on AI trained specifically on UAE federal inheritance laws and handles everything from drafting to...

Milestone Systems is dropping a generative AI plugin for its XProtect video software that was built with NVIDIA to help security operators deal with alarm spam. The tech automatically writes incident summaries and validates events to cut down false positives, which could slash operator fatigue...

Kingston Technology is pushing Gen 5 NVMe SSDs into the Middle East as cloud platforms and AI workloads keep hammering infrastructure across the region. The DC3000ME and FURY Renegade G5 drives hit 14,000 megabytes per second with high IOPS, which helps enterprises train models quicker and run...

Dubai Chambers and e& UAE just locked in a partnership to hook up small businesses and startups with custom telecom packages that actually make sense for their operations. The deal focuses on getting smaller companies access to communication infrastructure without the usual corporate pricing...

Safaricom rolled out a cash advance program through its DigiFarm platform that lets tea farmers grab money before factory payments drop. The setup pairs with Access Bank and local tea operations to front smallholders some cash based on what they already delivered, with automatic payback when the...

Chad's telecom minister, Dr. Boukar Michel, sat down with US Business Commissioner William Flens and embassy official Dr. Arthur James Bell to talk about getting American tech companies into the country's digital buildout. The Americans pointed out that basically nobody from the States is doing...

Côte d'Ivoire pitched its digital expansion plans at the Africa Investment Forum in Rabat, with Kalil Ibrahim Konaté laying out targets to push the tech sector's GDP slice from current levels up to 8 percent within a few years and eventually hit double digits after that. The country is dumping...

CAMTEL just onboarded 127 fresh graduates through their youth employment scheme after putting them through a two-week bootcamp covering telecom basics and field work. The recruits came from 270 applicants across Cameroonian universities and got trained on fiber optic splicing, copper...

Thermaltake rolled out the MINECUBE 360 Ultra AIO cooler with four little TFT screens wrapped around the pump block. Each display runs at 720 by 720 resolution and can show separate content or one big wraparound image with system temps and custom graphics visible from basically any angle inside...