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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 LakshmananJanuary 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…

More than 450 technologists from companies including Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter demanding their CEOs call the White House and remove U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from U.S. cities. “In recent months, Trump has sent federal agents into our cities to criminalize us, our neighbors, friends, colleagues, and families,” IceOut.Tech’s open letter reads. “From Minneapolis to Los Angeles to Chicago, we have seen armed and masked thugs unleash endless acts of reckless violence, kidnapping, terror, and brutality.” Minneapolis has become the center of a large-scale federal immigration operation, employing tactics so violent that many…

Microsoft has announced a new Maia 200 accelerator chip for artificial intelligence (AI) that is three times more powerful than hardware from rivals such as Google and Amazon, company representatives said.This modern chip is used for AI inference rather than training, powering systems and agents used to make predictions, provide answers to queries, and generate outputs based on new data fed to them.The Maia 200 is already deployed in Microsoft’s central U.S. data center region, where the company plans to use the chip to generate synthetic data and enrichment training to improve next-generation large-scale language models (LLMs). The AI ​​accelerator…

Microsoft has announced the launch of its latest chip, the Maia 200. The company describes it as a silicon flagship product designed to scale AI inference. The 200 follows the company’s Maia 100, released in 2023, and is technologically equipped to run powerful AI models faster and more efficiently, the company said. Maia has over 100 billion transistors and delivers performance of over 10 petaflops with 4-bit accuracy and approximately 5 petaflops with 8-bit precision. This is a significant improvement over the previous model. Inference refers to the computational process that runs a model, as opposed to the computations required…

Ravi LakshmananJanuary 26, 2026AI security/vulnerabilities Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also have secret capabilities that siphon developer data to servers based in China. These extensions have been installed a total of 1.5 million times and are still available for download from the official Visual Studio Marketplace. Listed below. ChatGPT – Chinese version (ID: whensunset.chatgpt-china) – 1,340,869 installations ChatGPT – ChatMoss (CodeMoss) (ID: zhukunpeng.chat-moss) – 151,751 installations Koi Security says these extensions are functional and work as expected, but they also capture every…

The delayed first test of SpaceX’s improved Starship rocket is scheduled for mid-March, according to a post on social media site X from CEO Elon Musk. This third version of Starship, or V3, is bigger and more powerful. Importantly, the company plans to use Starship V3 to launch its next generation Starlink satellites. This allows for faster data speeds, but is heavier and larger. This is also the first version of the rocket intended to dock with other spacecraft while in Earth orbit, a feature the company needs to reach the Moon and Mars. This all comes as SpaceX races…

Apple announced the next version of AirTag on Monday. It has longer Bluetooth range, a larger speaker, and improved and more accurate search capabilities. The latter is powered by Apple’s second-generation Ultra Wideband chip, which is also found in iPhone 17 devices, iPhone Air, Apple Watch Series 11, and Apple Watch Ultra 3. With Precision Finding, the new AirTag provides tactile, visual, and audio feedback to guide users to lost items. These search capabilities now extend up to 50% farther than the previous generation, Apple claims. Meanwhile, the upgraded Bluetooth chip also helps increase the range at which items can…

In the run-up to the winter storm currently hitting much of the United States, weather forecasts in some areas have changed across the board, and snowfall forecasts have fluctuated wildly. Nvidia couldn’t have released a new Earth-2 weather forecast model at a better time. Or perhaps the company knew something we didn’t, given how accurate the company claims its new model is? New AI models promise to make weather forecasts faster and more accurate. Nvidia claims that one model in particular, Earth-2 Medium Range, outperforms GenCast, Google DeepMind’s AI weather model, on more than 70 variables. GenCast itself, which Google…