A German national suspect on a legal visa allegedly killed a United States Border Agent during a traffic stop in Vermont near the Northern border, Fox News Digital has confirmed. "Our partners at the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the deceased subject is a German national in the U.S. on a current Visa," a spokesperson with FBI Albany said. Officials said on Monday, Jan. 20, 44-year-old U.S. Border Patrol Agent David "Chris" Maland was struck by gunfire during a traffic stop on Interstate 91 between Newport and Orleans, Vermont. In a statement, FBI Albany said that Maland was a U.S. Air Force veteran, saying: "We are heartbroken for our partners and share in their grief as they mourn the loss of their colleague." A Border Patrol Agent moves a robotic device next to Border Patrol vehicle on southbound Route 91 near Newport Vermont, where a U.S. Border Patrol Agent was shot dead, on Monday, January 20, 2025.

Donald Trump has unveiled what he called "the largest AI infrastructure project in history" – a 500bn joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank that aims to build a network of data centres across the US. The new partnership, dubbed Stargate, aims to construct essential data centers and computing infrastructure needed to power artificial intelligence development and, according to Trump, create over 100,000 American jobs "almost immediately". The launch marks one of Trump's first major business initiatives since returning to office and comes as the US looks for new ways to maintain an edge against China in AI capabilities. "China is a competitor and others are competitors. We want it to be in this country," Trump said during the White House announcement, flanked by Oracle's Larry Ellison, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and OpenAI's Sam Altman.

An interactive map of UFO sightings has revealed shockingly new reports of drones in New Jersey and other states, suggesting this bizarre mystery is still unfolding. The map, created by the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) tracking website Enigma Labs, shows hundreds of sightings logged as recently as January 7 in multiple Northeastern states. The mysterious drones along the East Coast appeared in November, with 22 people issuing reports to Enigma starting on the 20th. But that number dramatically increased to 347 by December 31. A drone ban was issued from December 18 to January 17, during which Enigma labs said the average number of reported sightings dropped by 43 percent.

The world needs whistleblowers, perhaps now more than ever. But whistleblowing has never been more dangerous. Jennifer Gibson has seen this problem develop up close. As a whistleblower lawyer based in the U.K., she has represented concerned insiders in the national security and tech worlds for more than a decade. She's represented family members of civilians killed by Pentagon drone strikes, and executives from top tech companies who've turned against their billionaire bosses.

But now it appears that access to large quantities of advanced compute resources is no longer the defining or sustainable advantage many had thought it would be. In fact, the capability gap between leading US and Chinese models has essentially disappeared, and in one important way the Chinese models may now have an advantage: They are able to achieve near equivalent results while using only a small fraction of the compute resources available to the leading Western labs. The AI competition is increasingly being framed within narrow national security terms, as a zero-sum game, and influenced by assumptions that a future war between the US and China, centered on Taiwan, is inevitable. The US has employed "chokepoint" tactics to limit China's access to key technologies like advanced semiconductors, and China has responded by accelerating its efforts toward self-sufficiency and indigenous innovation, which is causing US efforts to backfire. Recently even outgoing US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, a staunch advocate for strict export controls, finally admitted that using such controls to hold back China's progress on AI and advanced semiconductors is a "fool's errand."

Using a technology called facial age estimation, John Lewis' online store can now check whether shoppers are over 18 without needing to see their ID.

The U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in a shootout with armed suspects Monday has been identified as 44-year-old David Maland, a Customs and Border Protection source told Fox News. The veteran agent died Monday after a traffic stop on Interstate 91 between Newport and Orleans, Vermont, around 3:15 p.m. Monday, about 20 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border, according to the Department of Homeland Security. "A Border Patrol agent assigned to the US Border Patrol's Swanton Sector was fatally shot in the line of duty," acting DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman said in a statement. "Every single day, our Border Patrol agents put themselves in harm's way so that Americans and our homeland are safe and secure." Wide shot of the scene on southbound Route 91 near Newport, Vermont, where a U.S. Border Patrol Agent was shot dead, Monday, January 20, 2025.

The days of getting your driving licence out to prove your age could soon be a thing of the past. The UK government has confirmed that a digital version is being launched this year. A new app will be unveiled this summer, which will include a'wallet' to store digital versions of official documents. This will begin with a veteran's card, followed by a pilot of driving licences. The wallet will make use of security features already built into modern smartphones – such as facial recognition – for protection.

The paper provides a game-theoretic analysis of additive attacks in the "No-Box" setting. Its most significant result is the proof that the FGM attack and randomized smoothing form a Nash equilibrium under the assumption of a local linearity of the decision boundary. The paper's main contribution is theoretical, its empirical evaluation is performed on the MNIST dataset for a limited number of classes. Also, the validity of some theoretical assumptions is not convincingly presented in the paper. The authors should also clarify the relationship of their work to prior game-theoretic approaches to adversarial learning, e.g., Brückner, M., Kanzow, C. and Scheffer, T., 2012.

Russia and Ukraine have continued to exchange barrages of air attacks, despite Donald Trump having said he would end the war within 24 hours of becoming US president. While Trump was inaugurated on Monday afternoon, neither Kyiv nor Moscow have shown signs of de-escalating the drone and missile strikes they have been launching against one another in recent months. Both launched barrages overnight on Tuesday. Russia said it downed 55 Ukrainian drones, more than half of which were intercepted over regions on the border. Kyiv said it struck an oil depot near the town of Liski in the Voronezh region, sparking a blaze at the facility for the second time in less than a week.