Experts detect Pakistan-linked cyber attack targeting Indian government agencies
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 […]
Amazon closes Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores
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 […]
Exquisite 160,000-year-old stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiens
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 […]
Risotto raises $10M seed to leverage AI to make ticketing systems easier to use
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 […]
Phoebe Gates and Sofia Chiani’s Fia raises $35 million to ‘make shopping fun again’
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 […]
Airtable enters the AI agent game with Superagent
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 […]
ClickFix attack spreads using fake CAPTCHAs, Microsoft Scripts, and trusted web services
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 […]
Italian rock climber accidentally discovers evidence of sea turtle colony 80 million years ago
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 […]
An ancient lake full of crop circles lurks in the shadow of Saudi Arabia’s ‘Camel’s Hump’ mountain — Earth seen from space
simple facts Where is it? Juba in the Nahd desert of Saudi Arabia [28.01186939, 40.95907106] What is in the photo? An oasis town full of crop circles along the desert mountains Who took the photo? Unidentified astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) When was the photo taken? November 26, 2020 This interesting astronaut photo […]
Shark attacks in Hawaii spiked in October, and scientists think they know why.
“Sharktober,” the autumn spike in shark bites off the west coast of North America, is a reality, and in Hawaii, new research suggests the phenomenon appears to occur when tiger sharks give birth in the waters around the islands. Carl Meyer, a marine biologist at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of […]