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UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband signed a historic clean energy security agreement known as the Hamburg Declaration. The Hamburg Declaration was signed with European allies to strengthen energy security for homes and businesses in the UK and across Europe amid global instability. The agreement will harness the energy wealth of Europe’s shared North Sea to facilitate unprecedented joint offshore wind projects between European countries including Germany, Norway, France and Denmark. Mr Miliband said: “We are protecting our national interests by promoting clean energy, which will take Britain off the fossil fuel rollercoaster and deliver energy sovereignty and prosperity.” Commitment to…
Patients suspected of having lung cancer may soon be able to receive a rapid diagnosis thanks to a pioneering NHS pilot who is combining AI and robotics to reach a cancer that is notoriously difficult to detect. For thousands of patients each year, a suspected lung cancer diagnosis can involve weeks of scans, follow-up visits, and invasive tests, all of which are lived with anxiety. A new NHS pilot aims to dramatically change that timeline. The program, led by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, uses advanced AI software and robotic bronchoscopy to identify and biopsy small lung nodules…
Ravi LakshmananJanuary 27, 2026Web security/malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a JScript-based command and control (C2) framework called PeckBirdy. This framework has been used by Chinese-aligned APT actors to target multiple environments since 2023. According to Trend Micro, this flexible framework is being used against malicious activity targeting China’s gambling industry as well as government and private organizations in Asia. “PeckBirdy is a script-based framework that has advanced functionality but is implemented using JScript, an older scripting language,” said researchers Ted Lee and Joseph C Chen. “This is to allow the framework to be launched across different execution environments via LOLBins…
Sonic booms are no longer only associated with supersonic jet and rocket launches, as scientists now use them to help solve the rapidly escalating problem of tracking space debris as it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere. Over the past decade, the number of malfunctioning satellites, spent rocket stages, and fragmented spacecraft orbiting Earth has skyrocketed. This boom in orbital activity has led to a surge in uncontrolled re-entries, where objects plummet to Earth without precise guidance or prediction. These events pose increasing risks to people, infrastructure, and the environment, especially as more complex spacecraft carrying hazardous materials are sent into orbit. Predicting…
Ravi LakshmananJanuary 27, 2026Zero-day/vulnerabilities Microsoft on Monday issued an out-of-band security patch for a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office that was exploited in the attack. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-21509 and has a CVSS score of 7.8 out of 10.0. This is described as a bypass of Microsoft Office security features. “Microsoft Office’s reliance on untrusted input in security decisions may allow an unauthorized attacker to locally bypass security features,” the tech giant said in an advisory. “This update addresses a vulnerability that bypasses OLE mitigations in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office that protect users from vulnerable COM/OLE…
Meta plans to test a new subscription that gives people access to exclusive features in IT apps, the company told TechCrunch on Monday. The tech giant said the new subscription will further boost productivity and creativity, along with expanded AI capabilities. In the coming months, Meta said it will offer a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, while the core experience will remain free, giving users access to special features and more control over how they share and connect. Meta doesn’t appear to be locked into one strategy, and says it plans to test different subscription features and bundles,…
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.…