Policy at the Edge: PCF’s AAA+ Vouchers Deliver Predictable Data Spend
MSB Micro Systems’ Policy Control Function (PCF) introduces voucher‑based wallets that enforce authentication, authorization and accounting at the network edge, delivering near‑real‑time usage caps. The SaaS solution automatically suspends service when a voucher is exhausted and reinstates it upon new voucher activation, keeping data overruns under 0.5 % and processing about 400 transactions per second. Resellers can launch the service within six weeks, gain transparent billing, and lower churn through hard‑cap enforcement and real‑time notifications. Overall, PCF turns usage‑based pricing into a predictable, trust‑building model.
Golden Goose ‘More Excited than Ever’ After Positive Earnings
Golden Goose reported FY25 revenue of €734 million, a 15% year‑on‑year rise, driven by a 21% surge in direct‑to‑consumer sales that now represent 81% of total revenue. The brand added 17 new stores, bringing its global footprint to 232 locations, with...
GM Is Facing A Lawsuit Over Selling Drivers' Onstar Data
Iowa Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against General Motors alleging the automaker sold driver location and personal data collected through its OnStar telematics service without consent. The complaint expands on earlier actions, accusing GM of selling the information to...
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Appoints David Tse as Global Creative Director
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group has created a global creative director role and appointed David Tse to fill it, signaling a strategic push to elevate the brand on the world stage. Tse, who previously led Hermès’ Shanghai creative team and...
Florida’s Fields Are Hurting – What That Means for Reefer Freight Right Now
Florida experienced an unprecedented freeze from late December 2025 through early February 2026, inflicting over $3 billion in agricultural losses. Key commodities such as tomatoes, squash, and bell peppers saw up to 50% crop loss, while strawberries, blueberries, and citrus also...
60% Of Older Adults Prefer At-Home Care If Their Needs Increase
A Pew Research survey of 2,582 U.S. adults aged 65 and older finds that 60% would rather stay at home with a caregiver if they can no longer live independently, while only 18% prefer moving to an assisted‑living community. Preference...
Pioneer Charges Towards Skull Creek Uranium Drilling After Standout Surface Results
Australian explorer Pioneer Minerals announced that its Skull Creek uranium project in Colorado is ready for drilling after rock‑chip sampling returned grades up to 4,257 ppm U3O8. The second‑phase geochemistry identified multiple high‑grade targets across three non‑contiguous blocks, with extensive soil...
Children’s & Family Emmys: ‘The Tiny Chef Show,’ ‘Sesame Street’ & ‘Heartstopper’ Among Winners – Full List
The fourth Children’s & Family Emmy Awards honored a slate of winners across preschool, teen and animated categories, with Sesame Street taking Outstanding Preschool Series and Disney+ sweeping multiple teen and animated honors. Heartstopper’s Joe Locke captured Lead Performer, while...
Tomb Raider Redeem Codes and How to Use Them (March 2026)
Feral Interactive released the premium mobile action game Tomb Raider in March 2026, revisiting Lara Croft’s origin on the island of Yamatai. As of the latest check on March 3, 2026, no active redeem codes are available, and the game lacks an in‑game redemption...
Repeal Of Motorcycle Helmet Laws Are Dangerous And Expensive
A University of Michigan study examined the impact of Michigan’s 2022 repeal of its universal motorcycle‑helmet law. Researchers found hospital costs rose by $5,785 per injured rider—a 26% increase—adding more than $4.5 million in annual expenses, or $6.4 million when adjusted to...
VLCC Rates Hit New Sky-High Record: $424,000 Per Day
VLCC charter rates surged to a record $424,000 per day after the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran, as the Strait of Hormuz was officially closed to traffic. Spot rates for Middle‑East‑to‑China voyages jumped well above $400,000, dwarfing the recent $100,000‑plus benchmarks....
Windy February Sets New Generation Records, Big Batteries Put the Squeeze on Gas
Australian NEM closed the summer of 2025‑26 with February 2026 wind generation records across all states except Tasmania and Victoria. Queensland posted a record 508,780 MWh, while Western Australia’s Warradarge farm led with a 60.5% capacity factor. Big utility‑scale batteries discharged 245 GWh,...
Japanese Healthcare Pioneer Opens Sophomore Fund to Global LPs
Japanese healthcare private‑equity pioneer NPMI announced the launch of its second vehicle, NPMI Fund II. The fund is being pitched to global limited partners and could be up to six times larger than the inaugural fund, according to Private Equity...
Green & Gold Minerals Rock Chips Reveal Magmatic Heavy Rare Earths at Nutgrove
Green & Gold Minerals reported a rock chip from spherulitic rhyolite at its Nutgrove project that assayed 2,230 ppm heavy rare earth yttrium oxide (HREYO), the highest magmatic REE result recorded at the site. Heavy rare earths made up 59% of...
Governance Is the Real Differentiator in AI-Led Lending: Markandey Upadhyay, Piramal Finance
AI governance is emerging as the key differentiator for Indian NBFCs, according to Piramal Finance’s Chief Data & Analytics Officer Markandey Upadhyay. Piramal has built an AI‑native operating model that embeds unified data, agentic decision systems, and risk‑specific scorecards across...
This Founder Is Taking a Nigerian Retail Solution to Canada and the US
Nigerian entrepreneur Samuel Oyedemi is launching SKAAP, a scan‑and‑go platform targeting small and medium retailers in Canada and the United States. After a modest pilot in Calgary, Edmonton and Saskatchewan that enrolled about 200 users, the startup plans a U.S....
Portland Protesters, Journalists Seek Ban on Tear Gas at ICE Facility
Protesters and freelance journalists appeared in federal court seeking to extend a temporary restraining order that bars federal officers from using tear gas, pepper balls, and flash‑bangs at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland. The plaintiffs argue...
Automation and Inkjet Reshape Print Manufacturing in 2026 – Jet Technologies
Australian print manufacturers are accelerating automation and digital inkjet adoption to counter chronic labour shortages, tighter turnaround expectations, and rising job complexity. Jet Technologies reports a structural shift toward production lines with fewer human touchpoints, leveraging connected digital platforms beyond...
FDA Clears Ultrasound AI Tool for Accurate Delivery-Date Prediction
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted De Novo clearance to Ultrasound AI’s Delivery Date AI, a cloud‑based software‑as‑a‑medical‑device that predicts a pregnant woman's delivery date using only standard ultrasound images. The model was trained on more than one million...
MPA LatAm Role for Rolo
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has named Raúl Rolo as Vice President and Regional Legal Counsel for Latin America, based in Mexico City. Rolo will report to Carla Sánchez‑Armas and Jesse Martin, overseeing the MPA’s IP protection and government‑relations strategy...
Capcom Spotlight Announced for March 5th, 2026
Capcom announced its next digital Spotlight event for March 5, 2026 at 5 PM ET. The 35‑minute broadcast will showcase updates on five upcoming titles, including Monster Hunter Stories 3, PRAGMATA, Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection, Mega Man: Dual Override, and Street Fighter 6. Subtitles will be provided...
AI-Based Spam Data Must Be Shared in Hours, Trai to Telcos
TRAI has ordered all Indian mobile operators to share AI‑based spam detection data on a blockchain platform within hours, requiring terminating carriers to flag suspected spam CLIs and originating carriers to notify senders and verify KYC. If five or more...
Reasons for WFH Request Were "Understandable", But Not Valid Under FW Act
The Fair Work Commission ruled that a University of New South Wales employee’s request to work exclusively from home while relocating interstate was not valid under the Fair Work Act. Although the employee’s reasons were deemed understandable, the Commission found...
Why Bones' Forgotten Spin-Off Series The Finder Was Canceled
In 2012 Fox launched *The Finder* as a backdoor spin‑off of the hit series *Bones*. Despite a promising premise and a strong lead, the show debuted with a 1.7 rating and only 5.5 million viewers, far below its parent’s numbers. Ratings...
IKO Media Group Launches iKOSYSTEM
iKO Media Group has unveiled iKOSYSTEM, a unified broadcast operations platform that consolidates satellite, cloud, OTT, FAST and monitoring services into a single, secure environment. The solution offers single‑sign‑on access, role‑based permissions and a real‑time dashboard that provides engineers and...
San Diego District Attorney Urges Jurors to Convict Mother of Murdering Her Baby by Starvation
The San Diego trial of Elizabeth Ucman and Brandon Copeland focuses on the death of their four‑month‑old daughter, Delilah, who was found emaciated after losing more than half her birth weight. Deputy District Attorney Franciesca Balerio framed the case as a...
Deadliest Catch Deckhand Todd Meadows Dies During Filming At Age 25
Todd Meadows, a 25‑year‑old deckhand on Discovery’s *Deadliest Catch*, died on February 25 while the series was filming Season 22 aboard the Aleutian Lady. The cause of death has not been disclosed, and production wrapped shortly after the tragedy. The incident adds...
Australian Renewables Pipeline “Running Laps” Around Net Zero Targets. It’s the Pace that Is Lacking
Australia’s renewable pipeline now totals roughly 670 GW – more than three times the 200 GW extra capacity required for its 2050 net‑zero target – but the speed of project delivery is lagging. The bulk of the pipeline consists of onshore wind,...
March 2026 Animal Crossing Icons Now Available for Switch Online Users
Nintendo announced that March 2026 Animal Crossing icons are now available for Switch Online members. Each character icon costs 10 Platinum Points, while borders and backgrounds are priced at 5 points each. The icons are a limited‑time offering, disappearing after the...
White News Anchor Fired for Quoting Snoop Dogg Claims Racial Discrimination
White news anchor Barbie Bassett was terminated after quoting Snoop Dogg’s phrase “fo shizzle, my nizzle” on air. Bassett, a 20‑year veteran at WLBT in Jackson, Mississippi, sued the station under Title VII, alleging racial discrimination. A district judge granted...
Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Advance Icons Available for Switch Online Members
Nintendo Switch Online has rolled out a new set of user icons inspired by the classic titles Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Advance. The icons are exclusive to paid members, with the character images priced at 10 Platinum Points...
Dismissal Ruled Fair After Employee "Took Leave on His Own Initiative"
The Fair Work Commission ruled that the dismissal of the Crispy Bakehouse Co head baker was fair after he travelled to Nepal without approved leave. Although the employer’s record‑keeping had shortcomings, the commissioner emphasized the employee’s poor attendance record and...
Channel 4 Sales’ B Corp Competition Returns
Channel 4 Sales is relaunching its B Corp competition, offering £600,000 of free TV advertising to five certified UK B Corporations. Partnering with B Lab UK, the initiative follows a successful first year that boosted brand perception and sales for winners like Seep and Ticket Tailor....
Monday Battle: Epstein v Epstein Docos
Australian broadcasters ABC and Nine launched competing true‑crime documentaries on Jeffrey Epstein, drawing 780,000 and 766,000 viewers respectively. The strong ratings demonstrate significant audience appetite for investigative content, even as they trailed flagship reality shows like Married at First Sight....
JRI Hospitality Acquires HCI, Adds 43 Freddy’s Locations
JRI Hospitality announced the acquisition of HCI Hospitality’s restaurant operations, adding 43 Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers locations to its portfolio. The purchase brings JRI’s total Freddy’s count to over 130 units across 18 states and expands its overall restaurant...
ATA Calls for Reduction of Red Tape Holding Back Digital Infrastructure
The Australian Telecommunications Alliance (ATA) is urging the federal government to slash regulatory red tape that it says is stifling digital infrastructure investment. A Business Council of Australia report placed Australia near the bottom of the Global Investment Competitiveness Index...
European Airlines and the Middle East: Strategic Exposure Amid Escalating Geopolitical Risk
The US‑Israeli air strikes on Iran on 28 Feb 2026 and Iran’s retaliatory attacks have reignited geopolitical risk for European carriers operating to and over the Middle East. While Europe’s overall exposure to the region remains modest, airlines are confronting immediate airspace...
First Phosphate Lands Conditional $12.2M Grant to Advance LFP Processing Plans
First Phosphate secured a conditional non‑repayable contribution of up to C$16.7 million ($12.2 million) from the Canadian government to fund a feasibility study for lithium‑iron‑phosphate (LFP) battery material processing. The grant will finance technical and engineering work through 2028 to validate production...
Vietnam Implements Sweeping AI Law
Vietnam’s new Law on Artificial Intelligence took effect on March 3, becoming Southeast Asia’s first comprehensive AI regulatory framework. The legislation mirrors the EU’s AI Act with a tiered risk system, banning high‑risk applications such as non‑consensual facial recognition and...
In A First, BXP Sells Digital Property Rights
Boston Properties (BXP) completed a landmark December sale of its 409,000‑square‑foot Needham, Massachusetts campus, incorporating the first recorded transfer of digital property rights via a blockchain transaction on the Digital Rights Network. The $132 million deal, finalized with Lincoln Property Co....
Conservation Groups Sue Feds to Save Fish From California Water Flows
Conservation groups including San Francisco Baykeeper filed a federal lawsuit accusing the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation of violating the Endangered Species Act by over‑pumping water from the Sacramento‑San Joaquin Delta. The suit alleges the Central Valley Project’s operations raise water...
Australian Retail Council Launches New Identity
The Australian Retail Council (ARC) has been launched as a new national peak body, merging the Australian Retailers Association and the National Retail Association. Developed with branding agency FABRIC, ARC’s new visual identity aims to give retailers a single, unified...
High-Grade Niobium Drives WA1’s Luni Development
WA1 Resources reported several high‑grade niobium intersections at its Luni project, including a 6.5‑metre interval grading 6.6% Nb₂O₅. The infill drilling, conducted alongside 25 diamond and seven air‑core holes, expands mineralisation beyond the current western indicated envelope. An updated mineral...
Astron Builds Case for Donald Heavy Rare Earths Production with Resource and Reserve Update
Astron released revised mineral resource and ore reserve estimates for the first phase of its Donald rare earths and mineral sands project in Victoria. The new ICP‑MS data increase projected annual output of heavy rare earths, boosting dysprosium production by...
Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen to Begin Construction of Terminal 3 as Passenger Numbers Close in on 50mppa
Turkey’s Sabiha Gökçen International Airport is set to break ground on a new Terminal 3 this year as its annual passenger traffic approaches the 50 million mark. After a 17 % increase in 2025, the airport handled 36 % more passengers than in 2019,...
Citymapper Points the Way with TfWM
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has partnered with Citymapper, the Via‑owned travel app, to launch an upgraded journey planner that aggregates buses, trains, trams and cycling routes across the region. The integration adds nBus mobile ticket purchasing directly within the...
Millbray Appoints Bullet and Wonderful for Brand Refresh and New Digital Platform
Integrated land‑lease developer Millbray has hired brand studio Bullet and digital product studio Wonderful to revamp its master brand and launch a new digital platform ahead of the Ashcroft over‑50s community debut in Queensland. Bullet delivered the brand strategy, naming,...
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after a story he co‑authored was retracted for containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool. The February 13 article misattributed quotes to engineer Scott Shambaugh, prompting an editor’s note that labeled...
South Park Was Rejected By Fox Because Of One Vulgar Character
Matt Stone and Trey Parker first pitched an animated series centered on the crude character Mr. Hankey, but Fox executive Brian Graden rejected it, saying he wouldn’t put "poo" on his network. The creators re‑engineered the concept into a town‑based...
Where Are the Doctors? Patients Leading the Conversation on TikTok About Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Skin of Color
A new JMIR Dermatology study finds TikTok is the primary education source for patients with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) in skin of color. Researchers analyzed 50 videos and discovered that nearly half were patient‑generated, while only about 20% featured dermatologists. Physician‑authored...