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A website called UK Visa Portal is publicly exposing the passports and selfie photos of applicants who signed up and paid the site to obtain a U.K immigration visa, TechCrunch has learned. An anonymous person notified TechCrunch about the security lapse, saying that the website is exposing at least 100,000 documents from people who uploaded their passports and selfies to the website as part of the application process. The website is not affiliated with the U.K. government, and some have complained that they mistakenly paid a fee to this company instead of using the official GOV.UK website. TechCrunch confirmed that…
Nobody was surprised that Pope Leo XIV cited well-known saints and previous pontiffs in his first encyclical, or papal letter of spiritual guidance, “Magnifica humanitas,” released Monday.But the name that immediately jumped out to many readers is one synonymous with high fantasy literature: J.R.R. Tolkien, the Catholic author of The Lord of the Rings.Leo’s letter is concerned with “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,” a major theme of his first year as leader of the Catholic Church. Drawing from his predecessor, Pope Francis, he warns of “the growing dominance of a technocratic paradigm,” one capable of…
Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen Says Selling Your Business Is ‘A Shitty Goal’ The ‘Free Ben & Jerry’s’ campaign will call for a Magnum boycott The future of brands gets decided here. Join the industry’s top marketers at Brandweek for the ideas, insights, and connections shaping what’s next. Get your ticket. Few people have done more to prove that business and activism can coexist than Ben Cohen. As co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, Cohen helped build a brand that is as well known for its stances on racial justice, climate change, and voting rights as for…
Volvo Cars reached an agreement with the Trump administration that exempts the automaker from a U.S. crackdown on Chinese-connected vehicle technology. The Swedish automaker, which is majority owned by China’s Geely Holding, said Tuesday that it received specific authorization from the U.S. Department of Commerce to continue importing and selling vehicles with Chinese connected car technology in the United States. Connected car tech involves the software that covers everything from syncing with phones to some automated driving features. Bloomberg was first to report the special authorization. Volvo was banned under rules finalized by the Biden administration in January 2025 that…
An algorithm decides what we see, another filters what we read, and still others enter into the processes that govern work, information, and collective choices. In the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. the first signed by Pope Leo XIV and published on May 25, artificial intelligence is not viewed as just another technology; it is part of the invisible infrastructure of our contemporary daily lives.But the text is not conceived as an exclusively technological reflection. Pope Leo XIV places the issue of AI within the tradition of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church and directly invokes—while updating it—the Rerum Novarum of…
Creative Leaders Place Their Bets on 19 Campaigns to Win at Cannes Lions 2026 Cannes Lions is where the biggest ideas take center stage. Join ADWEEK for must-see conversations, top industry leaders, and the moments everyone will be talking about. A trophy at Cannes Lions, advertising’s most prestigious awards, can change the course of a career or business. This year, at a time when AI is reshaping how ads get made, the work predicted to win shares a common thread: human feeling and craft are elevated above technological innovation. Many of the most celebrated campaigns, including two…
The Dutch government has blocked American IT giant Kyndryl from acquiring Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider that hosts the Netherlands’ online identity platform. The government in The Hague said the deal poses a possible “risk to the public interest.” Dutch minister for the digital economy Willemijn Aerdts said in a machine-translated letter published Monday that the government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition. The deal would have allowed Kyndryl to buy Solvinity for an undisclosed sum. Solvinity hosts a platform called DigiD, a service managed by the Dutch government that allows the country’s residents to verify their identity…
Summer has arrived, which means its vacation season—and there are plenty of travel tips to be found among the best movies on streaming this May. A bloody ballet battle royale in Budapest in Prime Video’s Pretty Lethal, a visit to the picturesque (and definitely not haunted) Dutch forests in Shudder’s Heresy, or an action-packed trip to Japan courtesy of Netflix’s My Hero Academia: You’re Next, are just some of the locations sure to give you wanderlust this month.If you fancy something a bit more tropical, then look no further than Send Help on Hulu—although director Sam Raimi’s twisty survival horror…
In the age of AI, Etsy wants to celebrate the moments that make us human.The brand’s latest campaign, “Celebrate Being Human,” by Orchard Creative, features a heartfelt spot that puts context around the beauty—and brevity—of the average human lifespan. Opening on a montage of calendars, the earnest narration reminds us that “We get about 26,823 days. 76 summers.”The cinematography is warm and realistic, as the spot highlights small but meaningful moments: catching a butterfly in your hands, eating ice cream with a friend, celebrating a birthday with family. The narrator goes on to cite the 12 jobs, six best friends, four…
SpaceX’s recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company’s boosters and its critics. Hidden behind the fantastic expectations for AI enterprise profits and plans for a Moon base is a more grounded reality: an expendable Starship could keep SpaceX in business, but doesn’t achieve the cost reductions — or frontier business models — Elon Musk is betting on. SpaceX is many businesses, but right now only one is producing significant revenue. Starlink, its satellite communications network, is the…
When Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical on artificial intelligence at the Vatican on Monday, he invited Christopher Olah, cofounder of Anthropic, to speak. The move signaled an unprecedented alliance between the Catholic church and Silicon Valley. But to understand how this partnership came about, we need to go back to Anthropic’s founding.Why Anthropic?Anthropic launched in 2021 after a group of OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei, left to form a rival lab. They did so with a clear conviction: Artificial intelligence models were becoming too powerful to be developed exclusively according to the logic of competition and…
Irish retail giant Primark marked its arrival in Manhattan by painting the town blue. Now, it’s taking that momentum global.On Tuesday, the retailer is launching its first global campaign across the U.S., U.K., and Spain, signaling a shift in ambition to grow awareness and draw in new consumers on both sides of the Atlantic. It follows the high-profile opening earlier this month of Primark’s flagship store in Herald Square, where the brand promoted itself with blue-dyed bagels, branded cabs, tote bags, and even an appearance from New York icon Sarah Jessica Parker.Primark’s summer campaign, “The Get Away,” created by VCCP, borrows…
Popular AI gateway maker OpenRouter, founded in 2023, has raised a hefty $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Google parent company Alphabet. While the startup didn’t disclose its new valuation, The New York Times reports that it landed at about $1.3 billion post-money. This is a hefty increase from the estimated $547 million post-money valuation it hit a year ago, per PitchBook, after raising $40 million in Series A funding in June 2025. That round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures, with participation from Sequoia. What a difference a year makes. Since…
What could they do that they’re not doing?I mean, look, I think the silly idea is to activate and drop a lot of Starlink terminals on Iran. Well, that’d be fun. I would support a contract, you know, a US government contract to do that, because it would cost less than a couple of these missiles. And we own the airspace at this point. You know, they don’t have air defenses. I think every cell phone, every smartphone produced after 2020 or 2021 has the ability to connect to satellite internet.It requires flipping switches. To do that, we require an…
OpenAI Hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming to Lead Business Marketing Push The future of brands gets decided here. Join the industry’s top marketers at Brandweek for the ideas, insights, and connections shaping what’s next. Get your ticket. OpenAI has hired ServiceNow chief marketing officer Colin Fleming as CMO for its business unit, a move that signals the AI company is deepening its enterprise marketing as it looks to expand beyond its core AI products.Fleming announced his departure in a LinkedIn post Tuesday, calling the decision a “gut-wrenching” one and saying he would have “regretted not taking…
American Airlines said Tuesday it plans to install Starlink on more than 500 narrow-body Airbus aircraft beginning early next year, the latest carrier to pick the SpaceX unit for inflight Wi-Fi service. The deal provides more than just financial lift for Starlink, the satellite communications network and the only SpaceX business unit that generates meaningful revenue. It also hands SpaceX a win over the competition — such as Amazon Leo and other legacy providers like Viasat. Starlink satellites use a low Earth orbit to provide broadband internet for consumers as well as enterprise customers like American Airlines. The company has…