A suicide bombing at a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, claimed the lives of 31 people and injured over 170 others on February 6, 2026, according to NPR. This attack marks the deadliest in Islamabad in over a decade, following a November blast outside a courthouse that resulted in 12 fatalities.
Meanwhile, the State Department announced it would remove all posts on its public X accounts made before President Trump returned to office on January 20, 2025, NPR reported. These posts will be internally archived, and those seeking access to them will need to file a Freedom of Information Act request, according to a State Department employee.
In other news, the British government faced a political storm following the release of files connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, as reported by Time. Disclosures from the investigation have already impacted the monarchy, with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, stripped of his royal title. The fallout has also spread to 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Britain's Prime Minister Keir S.
On the technology front, open-source packages published on the npm and PyPI repositories were found to be laced with malicious code that stole wallet credentials from dYdX developers and backend systems, and in some cases, backdoored devices, Ars Technica reported. Researchers from security firm Socket said that every application using the compromised npm versions is at risk, with direct impact including complete wallet compromise and irreversible cryptocurrency theft. Packages that were infected included npm (dydxprotocolv4-client-js): 3.4.1 and 1.22.1.
Finally, oil- and gas-producing regions in the continental United States are emitting up to five times more methane than companies are reporting to government regulators, according to Nature News.
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