Niantic announced the introduction of a Fast Track support program to be used in the event of major spoofing incidents.

To access the Fast Track, follow the instructions on the Forum Thread linked below.

⚠ Providing false information to fast track a ticket may impact your access to the fast track program.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/12852/update-to-the-fast-track-program-for-spoofing-incidents

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Agent @Tenkterra shared with us this screenshot showing the Subscription (plus Recursion) icon next to Brian Rose's in-game account.

Subscriptions may be coming really soon. Stay tuned for more updates!

Ph. @MinusFive

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Niantic provided the answer we were waiting for, regarding volatile portals briefly appearing in the Intel Map!

Starting now, the Scanner and Intel Map will now display Volatile Scout Controller Portals using a yellow Portal marker. These Portals will earn 3 Scout Controller Points towards the Scout Controller medal when Agents claim its Scout Controller status.

Niantic revealed that this new mechanic will allow them to "experiment with scaling Portal markers globally across the Portal Network that can provide Agents with additional information about each Portal in the future."

FAQ is available in the source Forum Thread: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/12903/volatile-scout-controller-portals

Ph. @Ishira

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The release notes for the new Ingress Prime update, v2.61.2, were released!

In addition to the Volatile Scout Controller Portals being introduced to the game (see our previous post), the following bugs were fixed:

Portal photos should now display correctly instead of failing to load on the Portal Details screen. In the COMM News Feed, fonts and colors were adapted to the rest of COMM and, finally, Agents can now create only 1 Ingress account per email address across Google, Facebook, or Apple login methods.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/12945/ingress-2-61-2-release-notes

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💙💚 Agents of both Factions joined in the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, to create this massive XF linkstar in memory of Enlightened Agent Halbi, who recently passed away at a young age.

We join them in thanking the Agents on the ground and in expressing our condolences to Halbi's family.

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Agents around the world are reporting Ingress to have difficulties in handling login.

The issue seem to be originating at Google, since several services are not responding such as YouTube, Meet and the Assistant network.

Hang in there, Ingress will be back soon!

EDIT: Facebook and Apple login are unaffected

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Update: Ingress' Google Login is now working. Thank you for your patience!

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Niantic unveiled the New Year Medal, created to celebrate the end of this awful 2020 and the start of a hopefully better 2021! The Badge is available in the Store for 2500 CMU together with a 2x1 sale on Fireworks!

Additionally, starting Thursday, December 24th and up to Friday, January 1st, at 9AM local time, P.A. Chapeau will reward agents with item passcodes, which can be found in the News tab inside COMM!

For more info on how to redeem them: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/13058/p-a-chapeau-s-countdown-passcodes

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The first countdown passcode is WithinTheBrackets

Content;
• 2020 XM
• 10 L8 Power Cubes

Niantic also changed the time for the next posts to 8 AM UTC.

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Christmas is finally here and the @IUENG team wishes you all the best and happy holidays.

From @GigaThunder, @carlobolla and @GloomyQueen

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Today's passcode is here!
XMInOurNode

contains:
5x L8 powercube
10x L8 XMP
10x L8 resonetor
1x ITO EN (+)
1x ITO EN (-)
1x SoftBank Ultra Link

See you tomorrow for the next one!

@IUENG

Today's passcode is:
TheActionsOfNemesis

contains:
5x Portal Shield
5x L8 Powercube
20x L8 XMP
15x L8 Resonetor
+ 2020 XM

See you tomorrow with the next passcode!

@IUENG

For many years, Ingress Agents could count on an invaluable help in planning OPs, monitoring ground teams, checking portal status and much more. Now, the team behind Ingress Intel Total Conversion - Community Edition (IITC-CE) needs your help to make the next big update happen!

The effort made by the developers was massive and confirmed by the great improvement the app saw in time, but to make the new features available for Agents worldwide, some translation work is needed with the help of the Ingress Community.

If you would like to help, head over to https://weblate.iitc.app/projects/iitc-ce/, register and choose your language to start translating. Alternatively, share this with your communities, all help received is precious!

More info on the project here. More IITC-CE news at their Telegram channel
If you have any questions, you may contact @modos189, the creator of the project.

@IUENG

New day new passcode!
HelpingTheResearchers

Contains:
5x L8 US
20x L8 Powercube
25x L'8 XMP
15x Resonators
5x HeatSink
+ 2020 xm

See you tomorrow for the next passcode!

@IUENG

Here is today's passcode!
SupportingEachOther

Contains:
10x L8 US
20x L8 Powercube
25x L8 XMP
20x L8 Resonetor
2x MultiHack
+2020 XM

See you tomorrow!

@IUENG

Another day another passcode!
SolvingTheTessellation

Contains:
10x L8 US
25x L8 Powercube
25x L8 XMP
25x L8 Resonator
5x Portal Shield
5x HeatSink
5x Hypercube
+2020 XM

See you tomorrow agents!

@IUENG

A new passcode has been shared!
TechnologiesFromTheNIA

Contains:
10x L8 Powercube
35x L8 XMP
25x L8 Resonetor
5x HeatSink
5x Hypercube
5x MultiHack
1x JARVIS
+2020 XM

See you tomorrow with the next one!

@IUENG

🇺🇸 USA Agents, we have a surprise for you!

The dearest Andrew Krug, former Global Community Manager for Ingress (and best beard in our discussion group!), was cleaning out his closet of Ingress swag and has prepared some small gifts for 10 lucky Enlightened and 10 lucky Resistance Agents to celebrate 2021 coming and 2020 leaving!
Enter your details in this form by January 4th @ 23:59 UTC to try and win one!

N.B. The giveaway is USA only, as per Andrew's request. We will verify the shipping address in private with the winning Agents and, if not eligible, we will extract a new name.

EDIT: The shipping address needs to be in the USA, this means that if you have a friend living there that can send the package to you anywhere else in the world, you can enter the giveaway. Of course, Andrew or IUENG cannot be held responsible for the package from then on.

Good luck!

@IUENG

This is the passcode for the last day of the year!
StayingVigilantBeSafe

• 5x Portal Shield
• 4x Multi Hack
• 4x Heat Sink
• 1x ADA Refactor
• 25x XMP
• 35x Resonator
• 10x Power Cube
• 5x Hypercube
• 2020 XM

2021 is coming!

@IUENG

🎆 It's finally midnight in our headquarters too! The staff of IUENG would like to wish every one of our followers a happy New Year!

Here's to an awesome 2021 which we sincerely hope will be filled with joys: the joys of getting back to meet each other in person, hug our dear ones which we could only talk to remotely, travel and see our world with new eyes, create new friendships, and spreading smiles without a facemask covering our faces.

Blue or green, tonight we unite in waving a relieving goodbye to the awful 2020 and in wishing the world for 2021 to be the best year yet!

@GigaThunder, @GloomyQueen and @carlobolla - The @IUENG staff

P.s. there exists an international chat created by Agents where you can share your New Year's wishes!

Happy New Year Agents!
Here is the passcode for the first day of this new year!
ExploreTogether2021

Contains:
5x L8 US
30x L8 Powercube
50x L8 XMP
50x L8 Resonetor
10x Hypercube
1x ITO EN (-)
1x ITO EN (+)
1x SoftBank Ultra Link
5x Portal Shield
10x MultiHack
10x HeatSink
+2021 XM

Make room in your Inventories!
@IUENG