Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s rolling out a new tool, Scam Alert, to thwart con artists on WhatsApp. The optional feature, currently in beta testing, will run an on-device machine learning model to flag scam messages without giving WhatsApp, Meta or any other entity access to your private conversations. To take part in the feature, you must turn on the Scam Alert tool in WhatsApp’s settings menu. From there, the AI tool will be automatically downloaded to your phone. You can disable the feature at any time. Scam Alert operates in the background by classifying incoming text messages from…

Published on 14/08/2026 – 8:11 GMT+2 Fighter jets operating under NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission shot down a “foreign drone” in Latvian airspace on Friday, according to the country’s military. In a statement, the Latvian armed forces said the drone had entered Latvia “as a result of Russian electromagnetic warfare”…

The summer transfer market is entering its most frantic phase, with astronomical moves among Europe’s football giants. From the imminent agreement between FC Barcelona and PSG for Ferran Torres to Cristian ‘Cuti’ Romero’s triumphant arrival in the Spanish capital, the sports headlines this August 13 are packed with plot twists,…

Harare, Zimbabwe – More than two decades after Zimbabwe seized thousands of mainly white-owned commercial farms, some of those properties are set to change hands again.But President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government insisted the move is not a reversal of the land redistribution programme that reshaped Zimbabwe’s countryside after 2000.Instead, officials said…

Rescue efforts in Colombia following Monday’s devastating earthquake have entered what officials called the “final phase” as the death toll rose to 265, with more than 3,500 others wounded.Rescue crews on Wednesday were fast approaching the 72-hour mark since the quake, the period during which survivors are considered most likely…

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