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Two days after Snapchat settled a lawsuit accusing it of contributing to social media addiction and mental health issues, the company announced it would introduce new parental controls. Parents and guardians can now use Snapchat’s Family Center tool to see how much time their teens are spending on the platform and see details about new friends they’ve added. With these new features, Snap is likely trying to appease regulators and parents concerned about safety and screen time concerns on the platform. Parents can now see the average amount of time their teens spent on Snapchat each day over the past…
The latest amendments to EuroHPC JU extend the objective of accelerating the creation of an AI gigafactory in Europe by adding a dedicated quantum technology pillar. The revised regulation will enable the development and operation in Europe of the AI Gigafactory, a world-class AI computing infrastructure that will strengthen European industry and competitiveness, while fostering cooperation through public-private partnerships involving Member States and industry players. It also sets rules for financing and procurement, protecting the interests of start-ups and scale-ups. This provides partners with flexibility and enables them to optimize their results while increasing Europe’s leadership in AI and quantum…
hacker newsJanuary 22, 2026Email security/SaaS security Security teams at agile, fast-growing companies are often tasked with the same mission: ensuring security without slowing down the business. Most teams inherit a technology stack that is optimized for exponential growth, not resilience. In these environments, the security team is a help desk, compliance expert, and incident response team all rolled into one. To protect your cloud office in this scenario, it’s important to find ways to leverage it. This means identifying strategic control points that maximize resiliency without adding operational overhead. While Google Workspace provides a good security foundation, native tools have…
California used less water than officials estimated between 2000 and 2020, according to a new report.While the findings call into question the accuracy of long-term water demand forecasts and could have a knock-on effect on costs borne by consumers, the news that overall water demand is lower than predicted is positive for the state and its regular fight against drought, experts told Live Science.”Overall, I think this is good news,” Heather Cooley, research director at the Pacific Institute, a water think tank in California, told Live Science. “This shows us what we can do to ensure there is enough water…
Two of the most mysterious particles in the universe may be colliding invisibly throughout the universe. This discovery could solve one of the biggest remaining problems with the Standard Model of cosmology.These two elusive building blocks, dark matter and neutrinos (or “ghost particles”), are ubiquitous in the universe but remain poorly understood. In a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy on January 2, an international team of researchers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos can collide, transferring momentum between them in the process.This surprising interaction may help explain why there are fewer dense regions such as galaxies in…
Big tech companies and emerging startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. Many of these experiences are limited to text or audio, which children may not find appealing. Three former Google employees hope to overcome that hurdle with Sparkli, an interactive app powered by generative AI. Sparkli was founded last year by Lax Poojary, Lucie Marchand, and Myn Kang. As parents, Poojary and Kang were unable to satisfy their children’s curiosity or provide engaging answers to their questions. “Understandably, kids are very curious, and my son asked me questions about how cars work and…
East Tennessee is emerging as the epicenter of fusion energy innovation in the United States following the announcement of a powerful new research facility designed to bring fusion materials closer to commercial reality. A partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Utah) will establish a state-of-the-art high heat flux (HHF) facility that addresses one of the most important challenges in fusion energy: how materials perform under extreme conditions. Located within the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Bull Run Energy Complex in Clinton, the facility is expected to…
European leaders will meet in London for Sustainable Food 2026 to work on transitioning to systems that protect the environment, improve public health and strengthen supply chain resilience while maintaining profitability. The 5th Sustainable Food Event, to be held at the Business Design Center on January 28-29, 2026, will focus on four key pillars: health and nutrition, food security, net zero, and regenerative agriculture. The event is positioned as a solutions-driven platform across both animal-based and plant-based value chains, reflecting the reality that food transformation requires action across all categories, from meat and dairy to fruit, vegetables, grains and pulses.…
Rabi LakshmananJanuary 22, 2026Cryptojacking/Malware A new malicious package discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) was found to impersonate a popular symbolic mathematics library and deploy a malicious payload, including a cryptocurrency miner, to Linux hosts. The package, named sympy-dev, mimics SymPy and copies SymPy’s project description exactly in an attempt to trick unsuspecting users into thinking they are downloading a “development version” of the library. It was first published on January 17, 2026 and has since been downloaded over 1,100 times. While download numbers are not a reliable metric for measuring infection numbers, this number may suggest that some…
Rabi LakshmananJanuary 22, 2026Vulnerabilities / Email Security A new security flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail email software is now being exploited in the wild two days after a patch was released. This vulnerability currently does not have a CVE identifier and is tracked by watchTowr Labs as WT-2026-0001. Patched by SmarterTools with build 9511 on January 15, 2026 after responsible disclosure by exposure management platform on January 8, 2026. This is described as an authentication bypass flaw that could allow arbitrary users to reset the password of a SmarterMail system administrator using a specially crafted HTTP request to the “/api/v1/auth/force-reset-password” endpoint.…