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Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has named US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former UK prime minister Sir Tony Blair as two of the founding members of its “Board of Peace” for Gaza.Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will also sit on the “founding executive board”, the White House said in a statement on Friday.Trump will act as chairman of the board, which forms part of his 20-point plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas.It is expected to temporarily oversee the running of Gaza and manage its reconstruction.Also on the founding executive…
X seems to be working again after struggling with an outage that took the service offline and made it slow to load for much of the morning. According to X’s developer platform page, there is an ongoing incident related to streaming endpoints that’s caused increased errors. The incident started at 7:39AM PT, according to the page.That roughly coincides with a spike in reports at Down Detector. The issues seemed to be somewhat intermittent. At some points, X’s website loaded partially and only showed older posts. At other times, the app and website failed to load at all.As of 9:30AM PT,…
Happy Friday, Game Informer audience! You made it to the end of the week, and I hope some of the stories we published this week made doing so just a little bit easier. It was a slow week for reviews, previews, and the like – a very quiet January so far before the storm of releases that is February, which includes some big games – but a big one for news. We also completed a ton of magazine proofing and editing this week, and we’re putting the final touches on the next issue, featuring [REDACTED] on the cover, as we…
For over two weeks, demonstrations rocked Iran and, according to a human rights group, more than 2,600 protesters have been killed. Protesters have been met with deadly force by authorities, masked by a near total shutdown of the internet and communication services. Reporting from the Iranian-Armenian border, the BBC’s Middle East correspondent, Hugo Bachega, described the “anger and frustration” of Iranians and their concerns over the future. “People are simply terrified to join the demonstrations,” he added. The Iranian government has called the protests “riots” backed by Iran’s enemies. The demonstrations started over the economy on 28 December and turned…
Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana If you tracked the headlines this week, you noticed a pattern: Daily Tech Insider started reading like a help-wanted board for mechanized minions. Google flung open Gemini’s vault so it can comb your Gmail; Anthropic let Claude sweep desktop clutter and double as a HIPAA clerk; Salesforce nixed context-switching with its new Agentforce Slackbot; and LG rolled its CLOiD droid onto the CES stage to fold towels (slowly, but with feeling). What ties these stories together isn’t just clever code. It’s the sense that AI helpers, long hyped as tomorrow’s promise, have finally lodged…
As frustrating as it is that governments and businesses are running roughshod over our online freedoms, at least we have plenty of good VPNs to choose from to keep us protected online. There are so many fast, intelligently designed, full-featured and affordable services on the market that the biggest problem is picking one. For any use case, you can bet at least two providers will be neck-and-neck for first place.On the other hand, the VPN world is still the Wild West in some ways. It’s easy enough to slap a cheap VPN together that the market is flooded with low-quality…
I beat Death Stranding 2: On The Beach at the top of the month and while I thoroughly enjoyed it, I’m not here to gush about why. Instead, I’m here to encourage you to jump back into the game today if you enjoyed it because it’s likely Australia is looking a lot more different than the last time you played it. The Strand element of this series, in which players can interact and build within not just their world but the worlds of various others, means this game world is constantly changing. It’s fascinating!I put about 15 hours into the…
What are you up to this weekend? To be honest, I’m sad because Freddie and I made a hard decision (Big Salad gift link). So, I’m going to visit my cousin and his wife in Pittsburgh, where they promised to make roast chicken and roast potatoes. Their kids are very adorable and will also be pick-me-ups! Hope you have a good one — take gentle care — and here are a few links from around the web… Photos of people during their lunch breaks. The secret to being happy in 2026. “This should be the year you stop trying so hard…
If you’re looking to up your privacy game on the internet in the new year, you can do so for a little less than usual thanks to ExpressVPN’s latest deal. Its two-year plans are up to 78 percent off right now: the Advanced tier is on sale for $101 for two years, plus four additional free months. That works out to $3.59 per month during the promotional period.We’ve consistently liked ExpressVPN because it’s fast, easy to use and widely available across a large global server network. In fact, it’s our current pick for best premium VPN. One of the biggest…
Australia’s Great Ocean Road, famous for its scenic coastal views, was forced to close on Thursday after flash floods triggered by a storm hit the state of Victoria. Aerial footage showed vehicles swept out to sea by floodwaters and caravan parks inundated. The Victoria State Emergency Service issued an emergency flash flood warning for Wye River, Kennett River, Cumberland River, Lorne and surrounding areas, and urged people to take shelter.