Rod Stewart has hit out at US President Donald Trump over his false claims about British troops in Afghanistan.

The rock star has urged UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage to force Trump to apologise for his recent remarks on British troops who served in Afghanistan.

It comes after the President questioned whether Nato allies would come to America’s aid, and claimed some nations avoided serving on the front line in Afghanistan, during a Fox News interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday.

Many modern Windows computers rely on full-disk encryption, called BitLocker, which is enabled by default. This type of technology should prevent anyone except the device owner from accessing the data if the computer is locked and powered off.

But, by default, BitLocker recovery keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s cloud, allowing the tech giant — and by extension law enforcement — to access them and use them to decrypt drives encrypted with BitLocker, as with the case reported by Forbes.

For the 19th year in a row, Apple has claimed the top spot on Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies list. Here are the details.

19 years on the top and counting

According to Fortune, its yearly World’s Most Admired Companies ranking is “based on a poll of some 3,000 executives, directors, and analysts,” who rate companies within their own industries across criteria such as management quality, products, social responsibility, and ability to attract talent.

Google Deepmind made multiple moves in the AI startup market this week, closing deals with three companies at once.

Google is acquiring Common Sense Machines, a Massachusetts-based startup with around twelve employees that builds AI models for converting 2D images into 3D objects. Co-founder Tejas Kulkarni previously worked at Google Deepmind. The company was last valued at $15 million, though the purchase price wasn’t disclosed. The team is joining Deepmind, according to The Information.