Commodore has announced the Callback, a new flip phone for people who want fewer distractions but still need essential apps. The phone blocks social media and web browsers to help users stay focused. > Blocks social media and web browsers, while also discouraging work and email apps for a more focused experience > No data selling, with Commodore and Sailfish OS putting privacy first > Touchscreen disabled to help eliminate doomscrolling >Unique dome LED notifications that avoid waking the screen >Runs 99% of Android apps without Android, including WhatsApp, maps, music streaming, and ride-hailing services > FM radio, Commodore 64 SID chiptune ringtones, and included IEM earphones worth $50 > Worldwide network compatibility, Wi-Fi, and hotspot support >48MP Sony rear camera with autofocus > User-replaceable battery > De-Googled software for better privacy >No built-in AI features Pricing starts at $499.99

SEGA has cancelled its “Super Game” initiative, first announced in 2021. The ambitious plan called for new AAA live-service online titles backed by an $800 million budget and a Microsoft Azure partnership. >The project was officially dropped with no additional costs incurred. >SEGA is shifting away from free-to-play live-service games toward premium full games and revivals of established IPs. >Several previously announced remakes and updates remain on track, including Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Persona 4 Revival, Stranger Than Heaven, and Total War: Medieval III.

Builder Spotlight: @ratspeakorg Private communication still relies on accounts, phone numbers, and centralized servers. Ratspeak allows users to communicate through a peer-to-peer network designed around privacy, resilience, and user control. The network is already expanding beyond standard messaging into a broader private communication layer: > messages can travel through internet, radio, local devices, and mesh routes > offline delivery keeps conversations moving when normal connections fail > private channels support communities without a centralized cloud inbox > open network rails let people, agents, and apps communicate directly Ratspeak is already live across Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS TestFlight, with radio and offline capabilities continuing to expand. The next privacy breakout will need communication that does not depend on surveillance infrastructure. Ratspeak is putting private communication on its own rails.

The "marketing engineer" is the NEW forward deployed engineer, and I think the BEST ones will make $1M a year! A forward deployed engineer embeds with your team and uses AI to build the workflows The marketing engineer does that BUT for growth, they build AI agents that find your customers, write your outbound, test your ads, and get smarter every week. The most valuable marketer changes with EVERY major tech wave: 1. Traditional marketer: make people care with story (print, radio etc) 2. Digital marketer: the marketer who owned new digital channels (SEO, PPC) 3. Growth hacker: the growth marketer who lived in loops, PLG and retention 4. Marketing engineer: the marketer who builds AI agents that run the whole system. The type of agents a marketing engineer would create: 1. The customer language agent. It pulls your Gong call transcripts, your Intercom tickets, and your G2 reviews every week, extracts the exact words customers use to describe the problem, and drops a memo ranked by how often each phrase shows up. 2. The buying trigger agent. It watches for signals that someone's ready, a company posting a job for the role you sell to, a funding announcement, a competitor getting torched in a review, then enriches the contact through Apollo and drafts the outbound tied to that exact trigger the second it fires. 3. The SEO gap agent. It pulls keyword gaps from Ahrefs, checks who's already ranking on page one, reads the top three results, then writes a better post with the founder's actual take baked in, plus the meta title and internal links, and drops it in for approval. 4. The creative testing agent. It takes one offer, generates 100 ad variations across three different angles with Nano Banana and your copy model, pushes them live through the Meta API, and kills anything under a 1% CTR on its own so only the winners keep spending. AND MANY MORE. If you're a marketer, this is how you stop being replaceable. If you're a founder, this is how you grow your company efficiently. AI agents are here and marketers are about to have a field day!! I explain everything (tools, agents, 30d plan) on today's episode of @startupideaspod Watch: --> Marketing engineers are here. Whatever we end up calling them, the top 1% of them are going to make an absurd amount of money.

IRGC Blocks Omani Route in Hormuz – Oman is a Liability, Time for Iran to Take Sole Control The IRGC Navy has taken decisive action in the Strait of Hormuz. Using speedboats and special forces patrol boats, Iranian forces have completely halted the U.S.-backed Omani corridor. For more than half a day, no vessels have passed through that route. Radio warnings were issued to all ships this morning, firmly enforcing Iranian control. Oman is no longer reliable and should be taken out of the equation entirely. Partnership in managing the strait has become a clear liability for Iran. Any illusion of neutrality from Muscat is gone. Iran should move forward and become the sole country managing the Strait of Hormuz. This shift is a major game changer for Iran. Full, independent control over this vital waterway dramatically boosts Iran’s strategic power, economic leverage, and national security. No more diluted partnerships or external interference. The IRGC’s strong move shows Iran has both the capability and the resolve to secure the strait alone. Safe passage will now follow Iran’s rules only. This is the end of fragmented control and the start of unchallenged Iranian sovereignty in its own waters >>> a clear and necessary win for Iran’s future.

He spent his early years feeling completely invisible, deeply insecure about his looks. Long before he was George Michael, he was just Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou—a chubby, incredibly shy boy growing up in London with thick glasses and unruly hair. He felt completely disconnected from the cool kids at school. Yet, inside this quiet boy was a massive heart and a beautiful, hidden world made entirely of melodies. The warmth of George Michael’s childhood stems from a deep, quiet bond he shared with his mother, Lesley. While his father, a hardworking Greek-immigrant restaurateur, believed life was only about strict discipline and manual labor, his mother saw the gentle soul in her son. When George was about seven years old, he was gifted a secondhand tape recorder. It became his most prized possession. He would sit in his room for hours, recording his voice over radio tracks. One afternoon, after hearing his father complain that music would never pay the bills, Lesley walked into George's room, kissed the top of his head, and whispered, "Don't listen to him, darling. You keep singing. Your voice is going to make people happy one day." That small, maternal shield gave George the emotional safety net he needed to keep dreaming. Living in a traditional immigrant household meant that expectations were heavy. His father wanted him to pursue a stable, conventional career and viewed any artistic hobby with deep suspicion. To please his family while secretly funding his true passion, George took on odd jobs as a teenager. He worked long hours as a janitor sweeping floors at a local cinema, and later found a job as a DJ in local pubs, collecting vinyl records with every spare penny he earned. He would stare at the album covers of Motown legends and Elton John, studying their expressions and wondering if someone so painfully introverted could ever belong in that world. His internal world was completely transformed when he was about eight years old by a freak accident. He fell down a flight of stairs and suffered a severe concussion. In later years, George often spoke about this moment as a bizarre, mystical turning point. He claimed that after the head injury, his brain chemistry seemed to shift, and he suddenly became completely obsessed with music. Melodies started playing constantly in his head, and he began to possess an absolute, intuitive understanding of vocal harmonies that he never had before. Despite this new internal gift, his outward confidence remained incredibly low. He absolutely hated his natural, tightly curled hair and spent frustrating hours in front of the bathroom mirror trying to blow-dry it straight, usually ending up with a frizzy mess due to the damp London weather. He began writing lyrics on the backs of bus tickets and school notebooks, using music as a private sanctuary where his appearance didn't matter. By the time George was seventeen, that shy boy had developed a musical genius so fierce that he wrote the entire melody and saxophone hook for "Careless Whisper" while riding a regular city bus to his part-time job at the cinema. He had transformed years of childhood loneliness, family pressure, and teenage insecurity into a universal language of love and vulnerability. Because he knew exactly what it felt like to be vulnerable and rejected, that little boy grew up to possess an incredibly big heart. When he achieved unfathomable wealth and fame, he never forgot the struggle of ordinary people. He spent his entire adult life secretly helping thousands of individuals without ever asking for recognition. He would quietly call into television shows to pay off the medical debts of strangers, tip struggling waitresses tens of thousands of dollars to cover their college fees, and fund homeless shelters anonymously. He gave away millions in total silence, strictly demanding that his generosity never be leaked to the press while he was alive. We love to remember George Michael as the flawless, confident god of pop, but his greatness didn't come from a place of vanity. It came from that soft-hearted, clumsy boy who was loved by his mother, found his escape in the notes playing inside his head, and quietly healed the world with his kindness. >We Are Human Angels< Authors Awakening the Human Spirit We are the authors of 'We Are Human Angels,' the book that has spread a new vision of the human experience and has been spontaneously translated into 14 languages by readers.

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