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If comments on social media platforms like LinkedIn are any indication, the 2026 Game Developers Conference could be a little less international this year. Many members of the international gaming industry have announced they will be absent from the event, primarily due to concerns about safety, stricter U.S. immigration rules, and the increased presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Developers, past GDC attendees, and other industry experts are using platforms like LinkedIn to publicly voice their concerns. Concerns are further heightened by ICE operations in many U.S. cities and the recent fatal shooting by ICE officers in Minneapolis. Renee Nicole…
Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered a 1,400-year-old tomb of the Zapotec culture that features well-preserved details, including a carving of a wide-eyed owl holding a human in its beak, colorful wall paintings and carvings of a calendar.Authorities discovered the grave after following up on anonymous reports of looting at the site. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced in a Spanish-language press conference on January 23 that their research had revealed “the most important archaeological discovery in Mexico in ten years.”The tomb was discovered in 2025 in San Pablo Huizo, a municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. It dates…
Look no further than Keith Lavoie, a partner at Khosla Ventures, to understand the position of unwavering Trump supporters in the wake of last weekend’s fatal shooting of an American by a federal Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis that shocked the nation. Mr. Lavoie’s public support for the Border Patrol’s actions in the murder of Alex Preti, made through his posts on X, was such that both Khosla Ventures partner Ethan Choi and company founder Vinod Khosla publicly denied it. Mr. Lavoie blamed Mr. Preti and wrote that the protesters were committing a “serious crime.” One of Lavoie’s posts said,…
A group of YouTubers suing the tech giant for scraping their videos without permission to train AI models has now added Snap to its list of defendants. The plaintiffs, Internet content creators who operate three YouTube channels with a total of about 6.2 million subscribers, allege that Snap trained its AI system on video content for use in AI features such as the app’s “Imagine Lenses,” which allow users to edit images using text prompts. Plaintiffs previously filed similar lawsuits against Nvidia, Meta, and ByteDance over similar issues. In a new proposed class action lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S.…
President Donald Trump said he would make countering immigration one of his flagship policies during his second term in the White House, promising an unprecedented number of deportations. A year in, data shows that deportations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection have surpassed at least 350,000 people. ICE has taken center stage in Trump’s mass removal campaign, raiding homes, workplaces, and public parks in search of undocumented people, prompting widespread protests and resistance from communities across the United States. ICE uses several technologies to identify and surveil individuals. Homeland Security has also leveraged the shadow…
The UK has officially lost its measles-free status. This means that this highly contagious disease has been circulating continuously in the region for at least a year.The UK has gained, lost and regained measles-free status over the past decade, according to an update posted by the UK Health and Safety Agency (UKHSA) on 26 January. The disease was eradicated in 2016 but experienced a resurgence in 2018, as well as in other parts of Europe. It then regained eradication status in 2021. At this time, measles rates also decreased due to precautions taken to stop the spread of coronavirus disease…
Not all fats are created equal. Studies using mice suggest that some types of fat in the body raise blood pressure, while other types of fat suppress the rise in blood pressure.Excess body fat in humans has long been linked to high blood pressure and many other cardiovascular problems. However, there are two types of fat in the body. One is “brown” fat, which helps you burn energy and keep your body warm, and the other is “white” fat, which stores excess calories.Lead author Dr. Paul Cohen, a cardiologist and physician-scientist at New York’s Rockefeller University, said brown fat had…
TikTok’s U.S. ownership change last week has some users looking for alternative platforms. One app that has been gaining traction is UpScrolled. This is a social network that promises to be impartial on political agendas. The app is currently ranked 12th overall and 2nd in the social networking category in Apple’s App Store. UpScrolled blends the familiar features of Instagram and X, allowing users to share photos, videos, and text posts, discover new content, and send direct messages. The app was founded last year by Essam Hijazi, a Palestinian-Jordanian-Australian technologist, with the aim of giving users a place to “freely…
Thanks to a new feature announced by Anthropic on Monday, Claude users will be able to invoke interactive apps within the chatbot interface. In keeping with Anthropic’s enterprise focus, most of the launch apps are workplace tools such as Slack, Canva, Figma, Box, and Clay, with Salesforce coming soon. In either case, the app enables a logged-in instance of the service that Claude can access, allowing the user to send Slack messages, generate graphs, or access cloud files, depending on which app is enabled. “Analyzing data, designing content, and managing projects all work more efficiently using a dedicated visual interface,”…
Ravi LakshmananJanuary 26, 2026Cyber espionage/malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing campaign targeting users in India using multi-stage backdoors as part of a suspected cyber espionage campaign. According to the eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU), this activity involves using phishing emails impersonating the Indian Income Tax Department to trick victims into downloading malicious archives, ultimately granting threat actors persistent access to their machines for continuous monitoring and data exfiltration. The ultimate goal of this sophisticated attack is to deploy a variant of a known banking Trojan called Blackmoon (also known as KRBanker) and a legitimate enterprise tool called SyncFuture TSM…