Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week confirmed that even when current events cloud the outlook, some startups still manage to raise significant amounts of funding, with those tied to security and sovereignty finding tailwinds. Most interesting...

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Apple is announcing the oft-rumored iPhone SE 4 on February 19, as revealed yesterday by CEO Tim Cook. The much-anticipated refresh of the company's cheapest smartphone is expected to start at $499, which is $70 more than its predecessor. And yet, for that amount of cash, you might be getting a measly 64GB of storage, if a new leak that...

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – pleasant but forgettable About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews...

To A Land Unknown review – a brilliantly acted tale of moral complexity About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.”...

Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth has choice words for Meta employees frustrated with the tech giant’s latest policies: They are free to quit, Business Insider reported. The report cites an internal chat where an employee criticized Meta for cutting DEI programs and allegedly silencing internal dissent, among other issues. Bosworth responded that any staffer who thinks it’s OK to leak to...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said that, over this year, Reddit plans to launch an upgraded search experience that’ll help users navigate the social network, but also answer “subjective, hard, interesting questions.” The company plans to achieve this by integrating Reddit Answers, its feature that allows visitors to ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads from across...

Founders Fund is on track to conclude fundraising of its third growth fund at the end of March, according to people close to the firm. The Peter Thiel-founded outfit is raising $3 billion, a source told TechCrunch and  Axios also reported. The fund, which is intended primarily for additional investments in its successful late-stage portfolio companies, is expected to be...

The Norwegian government wants to ensure that English does not replace Norwegian as the main language used in higher education.Credit: GettyResearchers in Norway have mounted a major legal challenge to the introduction of mandatory Norwegian language classes for foreign PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, arguing that the requirement violates labour laws and threatens to harm the country’s ability to compete...

Israel's prime minister has warned Hamas it will end the ceasefire in Gaza and resume intense fighting if the Palestinian group "does not return our hostages by Saturday noon".Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered Israeli forces to amass inside and around Gaza in response to Hamas's announcement that it was postponing freeing more hostages until further notice.Netanyahu did not specify...