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PHILADELPHIA--Eight Aggies, highlighted by one in each of the first five rounds, heard their name called in this year's MLB Draft. Click the names below for more detailed information on each: Player Team Round Pick Chris Hacopian Washington Nationals 1 11 Caden Sorrell Chicago Cubs 2 62 Gavin Grahovac Los Angeles Angels 3 81 Shane Sdao New York Mets 4 120  Bear Harrison New York Yankees 5 160 Weston Moss Washington Nationals 11 316 Jake Duer Arizona Diamondbacks 18 536 Clayton Freshcorn St. Louis Cardinals 19 564 Some notables on the Aggies' highly-successful 2026 draft class: Eight or more players were selected in consecutive drafts for the first time since 2002-03. Five players were selected in the top five rounds of the MLB Draft for the first time in program history. Chris Hacopian became the highest-drafted position player in school history at No. 11 overall. Texas A&M stands as the only program in the nation with three or more players selected in every MLB Draft since 2001. Second-year head coach Michael Earley has seen 16 players drafted in his two seasons in Aggieland. This year's group joins the 2025 draft class of Jace LaViolette, Justin Lamkin, Kaeden Kent, Myles Patton

SINGAPORE: WhatsApp has started reserving high-profile usernames before rolling out its new username feature, with the names of several Singapore political leaders already blocked from public registration. Usernames matching Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam, Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung, and Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan couldn’t be registered. Similar versions of those names have also been reserved. WhatsApp’s plan is to let users connect through usernames instead of sharing their phone numbers. The reservations are meant to stop impersonation before the feature reaches users, Channel NewsAsia (CNA) reported (July 11). Reserved usernames are to stop fake accounts Meta-owned WhatsApp said usernames linked to public figures, government bodies and similar well-known identities have been set aside so only their legitimate owners can claim them. The company also reserved lookalike versions of those usernames to make it harder for scammers or impersonators to create convincing fake accounts. Users can already reserve their preferred username before the feature reaches their country. WhatsApp will notify them when the option becomes available. Privacy feature adds extra checks for new contacts The username system is designed to give users another way to communicate without revealing their phone numbers. When

SJ Steptoe LLP More In more than 100 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and professional staff across the US, Europe and Asia. The European Commission has imposed interim measures requiring Meta to restore third-party AI assistant access to WhatsApp's Business API, marking a significant enforcement action under Article 102 TFEU. This decision addresses Meta's alleged abuse of dominant position by excluding competing AI assistants while maintaining access only for its own Meta AI. The case raises critical questions about competition enforcement in emerging digital markets and whether early foreclosure effects can irreversibly streng Belgium Antitrust/Competition Law To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Article Insights Robert Klotz’s articles from Steptoe LLP are most popular: in European Union in European Union Steptoe LLP are most popular: with readers working within the Technology industries By a decision of June 9, the Commission obliged Meta to provisionally restore access to WhatsApp for competing AI assistants. While such interim measures are imposed in a

Business Insider’s Post AI startup Rilla has what many people would call an insanely hardcore culture. The company's employees typically work 12-hour days and come into the office six days a week, Sebastian Jimenez, the CEO and cofounder of Rilla, said. "We don't clock people in or out, and we don't force anyone to work here," Jimenez said. "We select people who want this kind of environment." He said that every benefit they offer has one purpose: helping people stay healthy and spend more time doing meaningful work. It's why the company pays for three meals a day. It's why they're building a gym with a sauna and cold plunge. And it's why they offer employees an $18,000 annual housing stipend if they choose to live within about a 10-minute bike ride of the office. Read more about why Jimenez thinks the investment in perks is worth it on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/eBnX5SQ2 (Credit: Rilla AI) #aistartup #techculture #startuplife #corporateperks See more comments More from this author Explore content categories

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On 20 October 2025, part of the internet ground to a halt. Slack, Snapchat and Atlassian were unreachable for hours, online shops lost orders, and logistics services couldn’t process shipments. The trigger sat in a single AWS region on the US east coast. The outage exposes an uncomfortable truth: cloud concentration isn’t just an IT issue-it’s a supply-chain risk. Key Takeaways A single region is enough. The October 2025 AWS outage began with an empty DNS record in us-east-1 and took down Slack, Snapchat and thousands of online shops for more than 15 hours. Concentration is a supply-chain risk. Inventory management, shipment tracking and payment processing all run through the cloud. When the cloud stalls, so does the physical supply chain. Multi-cloud is rarely the answer. A second provider doubles complexity and cost, not resilience. For most mid-sized firms, a tested multi-region setup is the better first step. Related: Separating NIS2 and DORA: Compliance clusters in Kubernetes  /  Cloud backup with IaC: resilience instead of restore risk What happened in us-east-1 The outage started with a tiny error in the DNS management of the DynamoDB database service. A race condition produced an empty DNS record for the regional endpoint. Automation didn’t fix

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Love Island USA's Charlie Georgio Defends Brother Zach Not Asking Kayda to Be His Girlfriend What happens outside the villa stays outside the villa.  After  Alannah Keyser —who joined  Love Island USA  June 21 during Casa Amor—was abruptly booted from the reality dating show following resurfaced videos and screenshots of her using the N-word, fellow castmate Parmida Keshani revealed producers told the Islanders she left the show to tend to a personal matter.  As Keshani recalled to  People  in an interview published July 11, “We were told that she left for personal reasons.” “I just was praying that she was okay,” she continued. “We were friends, so I was just like, well, ‘I hope it’s nothing family-related. I hope she’s okay.’” And after Keyser was dumped from Casa Amor, Keshani noted it was business as usual, adding, “We kind of just had to move on.” The 27-year-old—who was eliminated from the Island with partner Corbin Mims on the July 5 episode of the Peacock show—also shared she thought it was “pretty crazy” that Islander Kayda Bosse didn’t find out about her partner Zach Georgiou’s untimely uncoupling with Keyser until the show’s explosive two-part Movie Night.  Keyser was removed from the dating show after a video of

With San Diego Comic-Con fast approaching, this is the time when your con prep really starts to matter. And while people may have mixed feelings about Twitter (we’ll call it the other thing over our dead bodies), the truth is: it remains the single most effective tool for real-time updates throughout the show. When panel swag drops, exclusives go live, or lines shift unexpectedly, Twitter is often where you’ll hear about it first. We revisit this topic every year, and every year it proves just as vital — especially when cell reception inside the convention center gets spotty and your time is limited. While there are plenty of Twitter lists floating around, not all are helpful when you’re trying to stay efficient. That’s why we’re breaking ours into two parts. First up: the essential accounts to follow for what’s happening inside the convention center. We’ll tackle everything happening offsite in Part Two. You can also find the list of who to follow outside the convention center here. Here are some of our favorite exhibitors and properties to help give the edge on giveaways and SDCC news: Apparel  Fat Rabbit (Twitter, Instagram) — The creators of the adorable original creations Babee the