December 16, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. EST Ilana and Yehuda Shimon pray during Hanukkah celebrations outside their house in the Havat Gilad settlement in the occupied West Bank on Sunday. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave HAVAT GILAD, West Bank — This community was founded on blood and … Read more
Thilina Kaluthotage | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meta said Wednesday evening that the personal calls and chats of every Messenger user will be encrypted by default, representing a major privacy update that makes the service more similar to its sibling WhatsApp. Because of the encryption technology “nobody, including Meta, can see what’s sent or said, … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Israel should expand the scope of hostage negotiations beyond the release of women and children to also include men and military personnel, the families representing several Americans believed to be in Hamas captivity in Gaza said Wednesday. “Just bring anybody out possible,” Ronen Neutra, whose son Omer … Read more
Shein has confidentially filed to go public in the U.S. as the Chinese-founded fast-fashion juggernaut looks to expand its global reach with a long-rumored initial public offering, CNBC has learned. The retailer was last valued at $66 billion and could be ready to start trading on the public markets as soon as 2024, people familiar … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave TEL AVIV — Israel’s top general said that the army was “close to dismantling” Hamas’s military operation in the northern Gaza Strip, suggesting military operations soon would expand to areas in which hundreds of thousands of civilians are sheltering. The air force dropped leaflets near the southern … Read more
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As Netflix’s foray into cloud gaming expands, so, too, will the kinds of games the company offers. “We feel like there is a real big opportunity with cloud to create a certain type of game experience that really is tailored to Netflix on TV,” says Leanne Loombe, Netflix’s head of external games. Netflix’s cloud gaming … Read more
SINGAPORE — SINGAPORE (AP) — Britain’s Prince William said Wednesday that he hopes to expand his Earthshot Prize program into a global movement to bolster environmental innovators and galvanize governments to be more engaged in green sectors so that climate change would be easier to tackle. William said he foresees policy shifts in environmental protection … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Israeli forces advanced deeper into Gaza on Monday, unleashing devastating airstrikes overnight that left the battered enclave struggling to assess the damage under another communications blackout, while a U.S.-backed humanitarian pause remained out of reach. The focus of the airstrikes and ground attacks was on … Read more
Ten years ago, Pear VC, then a tiny new venture firm, operated out of a nondescript office in Palo Alto that was enlivened by bright, computer-themed art. Last week, the outfit — which closed its largest fund to date in May — quietly inked a deal to sublease 30,000 square feet of “Class A” office … Read more
Tesla has the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice — again. Tesla has received requests for information, including subpoenas from the DOJ, the automaker disclosed Monday in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The DOJ issued subpoenas related to perks, the advertised range of its EVs and personnel decisions, according to the filing. … Read more