The fight against disinformation: the German-Austrian Digital Media Observatory (GADMO) launches its website

The widest alliance between German-speaking digital investigators and researchers, known as GADMO, has launched its website in a further step in the battle against online falsehoods.


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Ukraine - a year of unprecedented coverage by AFP

Exactly one year ago, AFP reported live from Kyiv’s central Maidan Square that the Russian offensive had begun against Ukraine. Since then, the agency has deployed unprecedented resources to cover this war in the heart of Europe and its consequences for the daily lives of Ukrainians, Russians and people in the rest of the world.


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AFP's fact-checks cited as benchmark by German study

Germany’s respected Grimme institute has just published a comparative analysis of fact-checking organisations in the country, which highlights the quality of Agence France-Presse’s digital verification production.

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02/03/2026 21:14
The Global Photonics Community Converges in San Francisco as More Than 23,000 Register for Photonics West 2026

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, brought the global optics and photonics community to San Francisco, California, for another successful and enlivening Photonics West. With more than 23,000 registrants, the annual conference and exhibition connected attendees from 40 countries, showcasing the transnational and collaborative spirit of the interdisciplinary industry. The dynamic event ran from 17 to 22 January, with 4,200 technical presentations across 100 conferences, 4 s...

03/18/2026 19:29
Vercel Appoints Mitchell Hashimoto, Co-Founder of HashiCorp and Creator of Terraform, to Board of Directors

Vercel, the agentic infrastructure company, today announced the appointment of Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of industry-defining open source tools including Terraform and Vagrant, to its board of directors. Hashimoto brings a rare combination of developer community credibility, open source leadership, and company-building experience at scale. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260318957008/en/G...

03/23/2026 10:29
Singapore‑Based WPH Digital Among the First AI‑Focused Digital Companies in Asia to Achieve ISO/IEC 42001:2023, Setting a Global First for Oil & Gas AI Governance

WPH Digital PTE. LTD., a Singapore-based AI and Digital Service Provider, announced today that it has become one of the first AI and Digital Service Providers in Singapore to achieve ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Artificial Intelligence Management Systems certification on 26th February 2026. The company is also the First in the World to achieve ISO 42001 certification for AI Systems in the oil and gas industry. The certification was issued by BSI, a globally recognised standards and certification body, th...

Gaza journalists for AFP win video award for 'powerful' war coverage

 

Gaza video correspondents Belal Alsabbagh and Youssef Hassouna on Thursday won a Rory Peck award for their "powerful" coverage of the brutal war in the Palestinian territory for Agence France-Presse.

 

The prize has been awarded since 1995 in memory of video journalist Rory Peck, who was killed in Moscow in 1993, to highlight the work of freelance video journalists.