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Ravi LakshmananJanuary 27, 2026Threat Intelligence/Cyber Espionage Indian government agencies have been targeted in two campaigns conducted by threat actors operating in Pakistan using previously undocumented trade channels. These campaigns were codenamed Gopher Strike and Sheet Attack by Zscaler ThreatLabz, identified in September 2025. “While these campaigns share some similarities with APT36, a Pakistan-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group, we assess with medium confidence that the activity identified in this analysis may originate from a new subgroup or another Pakistan-linked group operating in parallel,” researchers Sudeep Singh and Yin Hong Chan said. The name Sheet Attack comes from the use of…
Rest in peace, Amazon’s convenience store is gone and will probably soon be forgotten. Amazon announced Tuesday that it will close its brick-and-mortar Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores and instead expand its same-day grocery delivery capabilities and Whole Foods Market locations. These stores were used to grow Amazon’s cashierless Just Walk Out technology, which tracks which items customers pick up and allows them to pay for groceries without a more formal checkout process. The company is instead focused on providing its technology to third parties, such as concession stands at sports stadiums. “While we have seen some bright spots…
Archaeologists have discovered that early humans in what is now China dated back 160,000 years and used sophisticated stone tools.”This discovery challenges the perception that stone tool technology in Asia was lagging behind that of Europe and Africa during this period,” the research team said in a statement about the discovery.At the Xigou site, discovered in central China’s Henan province in 2017, an archaeological team found more than 2,600 stone tool remains and determined that some of them were “handled,” or attached to pieces of wood or other shaped sticks. you may like “The identification of a handled tool provides,…
Help desk automation is a billion-dollar industry and one of the industries most likely to be disrupted by technology built on AI. Big players like Zendesk, ServiceNow, and Freshworks currently dominate the space, but a number of smaller startups are betting that reorganizing workflows will give them a chance to break in. Risotto is one such startup and will have plenty of runway to test its theory after today. The company announced Tuesday that it has raised $10 million in a seed round led by Bonfire Ventures with participation from 645 Ventures, Y Combinator, Ritual Capital, and SurgePoint Capital. Risotto…
Fear’s team is literally trapped. The startup is focused on building an AI shopping agent, but Phia founders Phoebe Gates and Sofia Chianni are unable to leave their apartments after a snowstorm hits New York City. So when I chat with my former Stanford roommate and best friend, it’s unusual for them not to be with me or in Fear’s office. “We were like, ‘Okay, let’s stay home.’ It’s dangerous. No one needs to go to the office,” Kiani told TechCrunch with a laugh. But while she and Gates hunkered down at home, many employees still headed to the office.…
It may sound crazy to launch an entirely new product line when your core business is reducing the value of paper by two-thirds. But Airtable founder and CEO Howie Liu suggests it’s the smartest move he can make. The company, valued by investors at $11.7 billion during the zero interest rate frenzy of 2021, is now trading at about $4 billion on the secondary market. But Airtable has raised a total of $1.4 billion, half of which is still in the bank, Liu said, even though the company is “burning cash.” The collapse in valuations affected investor returns and employee…
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new campaign that combines ClickFix-style fake CAPTCHAs with signed Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) scripts to distribute an information stealer called Amatera. “Rather than directly invoking PowerShell, attackers use this script to control how execution begins, avoiding more common and easily recognized execution paths,” Blackpoint researchers Jack Patrick and Sam Decker said in a report released last week. The idea is to convert App-V scripts into living-off-the-land (LotL) binaries that proxy PowerShell execution through trusted Microsoft components, hiding malicious activity. The starting point for the attack is to trick users into installing Windows[ファイル名を指定して実行]A fake CAPTCHA verification…
A combination of blood tests and ultrathin materials derived from graphite could significantly advance efforts to detect Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms appear. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. For millions of Europeans and the health services that care for them, this is a ticking time bomb for which there is still no cure. But EU-funded researchers are developing a simple tool that could enable much earlier detection, decades before symptoms appear. Early detection is important because treatment is most effective when started as soon as possible. This gives people a good chance to slow the progression of…
Rock climbers in Italy have stumbled upon evidence of what appears to be a sea turtle colony that occurred some 80 million years ago. Now, new research suggests that these ancient marine reptiles were fleeing earthquakes.Climbers recognized the significance of their discovery because the grooves in Monte Conero’s rock face overlooking the Adriatic reminded them of other climbers who made headlines earlier that year. These grooves, found elsewhere in the same regional park, were thought to have been created by Cretaceous marine reptiles pressing their paddles into the ocean floor. They consulted geologist Paolo Sandroni, a fellow climber, and contacted…
The Nitride Technology Center (NTC), a microelectronics consortium led by the Braunschweig University of Technology, is pioneering a new era in computing. Funded by the state of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation with funding of 15 million euros, the initiative entitled “Bringing Light to Microelectronics” (BRIGHT) aims to create neuromorphic computers using tiny LEDs. The project will start on April 1, 2026 and will run for five years until 2031. Reduce AI energy consumption Researchers from the Braunschweig University of Technology, Leibniz University of Hannover, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences and the Physical University of Technology (PTB) are working…