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Mr. McNamara brings over four decades of leadership experience across diplomacy, defense and international affairs. He will advise Intermap Federal Services on strategic growth, government partnerships and international programs, helping customers apply geospatial intelligence to strengthen national security, infrastructure resilience and economic development.

The appointment supports Intermap’s continued expansion of its U.S. federal and international business as the Company broadens its geospatial intelligence platform and deepens relationships with government, defense and allied nation customers.

“John has spent his career helping governments build partnerships, strengthen institutions and address complex national security challenges,” said Patrick A. Blott, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Intermap Technologies. “His experience excelling in U.S. government service at home and abroad, in high-level international negotiations, and in working in difficult and dangerous environments will help Intermap deepen relationships with customers around the world and expand the application of our geospatial intelligence solutions. As we continue building the industry’s leading geospatial intelligence platform, John’s perspective and leadership will be invaluable.”

“Governments are looking for trusted partners that can turn complex geospatial data into actionable intelligence and effective policies,” said John McNamara. “Intermap has built a differentiated platform combining proprietary 3D terrain data, advanced image processing, AI-powered analytics and mission-focused applications. I look forward to working with the team to help government customers and allied nations apply these capabilities to build data sovereignty and assurance, strengthen decision-making, advance operational readiness and fortify long-term resilience.”

Mr. McNamara was a career member of the United States Senior Foreign Service. Most recently, he served as Chargé d'Affaires (Acting Ambassador), ad interim, at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, with concurrent responsibility for leading the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela until his retirement in February 2026.

Previously, he served as Chief of Mission to the Dutch Caribbean in Curaçao and as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru. He also served as Political Counselor during the final two years of the Colombian government’s peace negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as well as Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim, at the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, The Bahamas.

His overseas assignments also include senior leadership roles supporting U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, including Deputy Director of the Transition Team at Iraq’s Ministry of Interior, Deputy Director of the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team and Director of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs section at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

In Washington, he served as Senior Venezuela Desk Officer, Political Officer and Deputy Director of the Office of Mexican Affairs, and as a faculty member at the National Defense University. During these assignments, he regularly interfaced with U.S. interagency partners, National Security staff and foreign governments.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Mr. McNamara served a full career as an officer in the United States Army, including commanding a Special Forces “A” Team in combat, two Special Forces Companies, a Special Forces Battalion, as Executive Officer to the Commander of U.S. Army Special Operations Command, and on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon.

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Even if you aren't cursed by cringey English middle class politeness, you can't just keep gawping at the sarcophagus, because you're steadily running out of oxygen. So in between bursts of eyeballing the imprisoned god, you'll need to search the surrounding corridors for a lasting solution and presumably, an escape route. I'm somehow not expecting the lasting solution to be a thick roll of duct tape, but that would be very funny. Here's a trailer.

It seems the sarcophagus will open slowly enough that you have time to explore. But every time you return to it, the Steam page warns, the entity's behaviour will change. "It will adapt, forcing you to abandon familiar routines and find new routes. Understanding its behavior may be the only way to survive it."

There will, at least, be no jumpscares. Just the steady grinding of that coffin lid, in the back of your mind. "Sarco builds its horror around a persistent, visible threat rather than sudden scripted shocks," the devs continue. "You know where the danger is. You know how to delay it temporarily. The tension comes from knowing that you cannot keep watching forever. Both your time and resources are severely limited while your enemy grows stronger." Helpfully, Sarco doesn't let you save the game. It's designed to be finished in one sitting.

Influences given by the studio include Paratopic, Alien: Isolation, and Blackshard. I hadn't heard of Blackshard before. It's a megastructure exploration game that came out last year and still has a demo, as of writing. Looks cool!

Hello Andromeda are them wot are also making eerie open worlder Fog'n'Silence, which I've literally just written about. "About a month ago, we finished working on the Fog’n’Silence prototype and decided to take a short break to rest and recharge," Hello Andromeda comment in a Steam post from yesterday. "However, being chronic workaholics, we ended up developing a new project instead of actually taking that break."

Speaking as somebody who also tends to burn himself out (and who isn't based in Kyiv, a city under active bombardment) please do take an actual break, Hello Andromeda! Maybe rig up a livestream so that your followers can collectively monitor the hellcasket, while you catch up on your sleep? Sarco is due out later this year. %!s()

There are two main takeaways from the official 1Password warning:

Do not respond to these; they are bogus and not from 1Password itself, no matter how realistic they might appear.

The campaign itself is speculative by nature and does not result from any breach of 1Password’s systems or servers.

The 1Password Attack Warning In Full

The attack campaign warning, posted to X by the official 1Password account on August 18, said:

“Our Security team has identified an active phishing campaign targeting 1Password users. The phishing emails claim your account's payment method needs to be updated and include a link to a fake ‘update payment method’ page.”

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The use of payment update notifications is not a new social engineering tactic, but it has been deployed at a time when 1Password has not long ago changed its subscription rates, which could add fuel to the phishing fire by bringing urgency and believability to the table.

Unlike recent attacks against users of the LastPass password manager that employed lookalike domains in order to trick people into thinking that the phishing emails in question were genuine company communications, the criminals behind the 1Password campaign don’t appear to have bothered with such a deception. I have seen a few of the emails that have been sent to users, and the domains are entirely unconnected to either 1Password or its creators, AgileBits. 1Password has confirmed in its warning that it is “actively working with partners to take down the fraudulent domains.”

1Password also made it clear that “These emails are not from 1Password,” and the campaign itself “is not the result of any breach of 1Password's systems.” The latter is important to note, as there is often speculation surrounding any security issue when a password manager is concerned. 1Password advises recipients of fraudulent emails not to click any links and to forward the email itself to [email protected], where security teams can add the information to their investigations. %!s()

State Senator Aisha Wahab and local transit official Melissa Hernandez are facing off in a race that has become increasingly expensive and combative.

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Wahab and Hernandez both advanced to Tuesday’s special election after they garnered roughly 38 and 17 percent support, respectively, during a nonpartisan primary held in June. Under California’s unique “jungle primary” system, the two candidates with the most votes advance if neither receives more than 50 percent of the vote.

Swalwell, who spent more than a decade in Congress before mounting a run for California governor earlier this year, resigned in April following multiple allegations of sexual assault, which he has denied.

When do the polls open and close?

Polls are open for voters from 7am to 8pm local time  (14:00 Tuesday – 02:00 Wednesday GMT).

Why has this become a tense race?

Once considered the inevitable successor, Wahab has contended against a flood of outside money. Super PACs, including some affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), have spent millions of dollars on advertisements to sink Wahab’s candidacy and boost Hernandez in the final weeks of the race. One such AIPAC-affiliated group, the United Democracy Project, spent $1.2m on the race in August in support of Hernandez and in opposition to Wahab, according to Federal Election Commission records. Another group spent $1.7m on the race.

Collectively, outside groups have spent about $4.1m on the race since mid-July. About $3.7m was spent to benefit Hernandez’s campaign, compared with just shy of $400,000 to benefit Wahab’s.

Wahab, an Afghan American who is the first Muslim woman elected to California’s state Senate, has called out Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and pushed legislation condemning alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians and captives held by Hamas.

Hernandez’s campaign is attacking Wahab for her legislative record on criminal penalties.

Wahab last week said she plans to file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) over claims of “unprecedented” election interference on social media by outside groups like AIPAC.

“What we are seeing is a surge of suspicious accounts, bot-like activity, and very much coordinated to say the same vile, misleading narratives,” Wahab said at a news conference.

Semafor reported that a supporter of Hernandez’s campaign has filed a separate FEC complaint against Wahab, alleging the lawmaker received an “illegal and unreported in-kind contribution” from a local Democratic Party. Wahab, who has received the California Democratic Party’s endorsement, told the outlet the complaint was “deliberately misrepresenting” the party’s support for her.

Has redistricting affected the race?

The boundaries of the 14th Congressional District were redrawn as part of a new congressional map approved by voters in a 2025 statewide ballot measure known as Proposition 50. The map goes into effect for the full-term seat in January, while the winner of the special election will serve under the current boundaries for the remainder of the year.

Proposition 50 was placed on the ballot in response to mid-decade redistricting efforts led by US President Donald Trump in several Republican-controlled states. While the plan created a congressional map more favourable to Democrats, no dramatic changes were made to the 14th District.

What implications could this election have on November’s midterms?

AIPAC’s spending in the race also indicates the group, despite a mixed record of success in this year’s primaries, intends to spend big in the lead-up to November’s pivotal midterms.

The candidate who wins will serve out the remainder of Swalwell’s term, which ends in January. Wahab and Hernandez will also face off again in November for the congressional seat’s full two-year term. %!s()

“I have this very good memory when I was head of the jury here,” Farhadi, director of A Separation (2011), The Salesman (2016) and more recently, the Cannes-premiering Parallel Tales (2026), tells THR. “I went to screenings and the audience — most of them are people in the street and ordinary people. And I got feedback from them, which is a little different than other festivals. To me, it was very interesting. When they said, ‘We want to invite you again,’ I said, ‘Of course,’ because the audience is very special. When they want to give [me] this award, I appreciate it.”

Of course, Farhadi is no stranger to cinema’s capacity to bring communities together. As his native Iran, currently at war with the U.S. and Israel — and at a time when fellow filmmaker Jafar Panahi faces prison on charges of “propaganda against the regime” — Farhadi has never been so certain that the people of Iran deserve more. “When I finished [shooting Parallel Tales] in France, I moved back — by ground,” he says about returning, “[I went] by car over the border of Iran to be there. Because I love the people, that culture. I grew up there, and I love them.”

Farhadi continues: “I’m against war. Not just in Europe [and the Middle East], but everywhere.” He is quick to respond when probed on whether it is more important than ever that the industry embraces the intersection of film and politics. “Everything that happens in society affects cinema. But it takes time to see the result of this joining [of] cinema and politics,” he says. “It’s not something that happens today, and then you see the effects of tomorrow. In cinema, it takes time.”

He does, however, feel well supported by his colleagues in Hollywood and across the international film industry. “It’s solidarity about everything in general, because we are human,” says Farhadi from Sarajevo’s grand National Theatre. “When you feel pain somewhere, and you give a reaction to that pain, it gives some solidarity and it has value.”

Farhadi has spoken out previously against what’s happening in Iran, and in April issued a rallying cry when U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to destroy a “whole civilization” in the region. “I call on artists and filmmakers everywhere in the world to be a voice in these critical days and hours, in any way possible, to stop the destructive aggression that has increasingly destroyed civilian infrastructure,” he said at the time. He reminds THR of that statement, as well as his comments in Cannes on the subject.

Isabelle Huppert and Virginie Efira led Farhadi’s French-language Parallel Tales, a film about Sylvie (Huppert), a fading novelist in search of inspiration for her next book, who starts spying on her neighbors across the street. She hires young Adam (Adam Bessa) to help her with her daily routine. Little does she know that he will turn her life and work upside down.

It earned a polite ovation in Cannes this year. Upon its premiere there, the feature comfortably sold worldwide, including in Canada (Mongrel Media), Latin America (Imovision), Germany and Austria (Studiocanal), Spain (Avalon) and Bulgaria and the Adriatics (MCF).

But its director is already getting back to business and declines to reveal too much about his next feature. “I’m thinking, I’m writing,” he laughs, “but it takes time, and it’s too early [to put] some details out there. I’m working on it.”

For now, Farhadi is content enjoying his time in Bosnia and Herzegovina, preparing to pick up yet another award. “It is difficult to overstate Asghar Farhadi’s significance to world cinema,” said Jovan Marjanović, director of the Sarajevo Film Festival. “His remarkable body of work reminds us that the most profound dramas are often concealed within everyday life. His films do not offer easy answers; instead, they invite us to look more closely, listen more carefully and engage with life’s complexities.”

The filmmaker adds that mid-tier festivals like Sarajevo, Locarno, Karlovy Vary and San Sebastian are vital in a rapidly changing industry, especially with streaming services vying for the spotlight. “These days, based on [the] competition between cinema and platforms, festivals like this can help cinema,” Farhadi says. “People watch films, but on their cell phone, and this kind of festival keeps this ceremony [going] — I mean, when a family goes to the theater and they sit together, they watch a film together and they talk together. This is a holy ceremony to me. Festivals can help encourage people to do that.”

He makes a point of noting that he always likes to highlight the work of emerging filmmakers in his interviews. “[Festivals] are trying to give this new generation of filmmakers [a chance],” says Farhadi. They make their film based on their art, in their personality. Their source should come from the inside, not something [external].”

Are there any particular up-and-coming directors who have caught the attention of Asghar Farhadi? “There is a lot everywhere,” he says. “I go to some festivals and watch a new generation of filmmakers, and I’m very hopeful about their cinematic language and artistic language.”

He adds: “It’s a little bit different than before. Their rhythm is different, their style is different, the way that they look [at] real life is different. But I’m very hopeful when I see films from South America, from Iran, from countries like this. I’m very hopeful about cinema. I don’t believe cinema is dying. Some people say cinema is dying, but no. I think cinema is still going, is still alive. But it’s gradually changing. It is finding a new language.”

The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival runs Aug. 14-21. %!s()