If you've been hacking every day since Epoch came out, today is the day you will unlock the bronze tier. If you're still a little uncertain about the differences between Epoch and Sojourner, here's an infographic.

Move your drone every 10 minutes this weekend with a special event.

New event - Operation Sentinel. 11 days to capture neutral portals to unlock a new kinetic capsule program. Also earn double AP for deploying resonators and move your drone every 15 minutes. Full details at https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/15123/your-next-challenge-operation-sentinel

Here's one mostly for those of you in or near Los Angeles, CA. Niantic is preparing to test some new battle beacon functionality during the June 5 IFS. Watch from afar on intel or join in person and see other agents and perhaps even some Niantic employees.

If you are planning on being on the ground in LA, please be sure to sign up at https://fevgames.net/ifs/event/?e=20751 and also join the SoCal xfac telegram chat at https://news.1rj.ru/str/joinchat/ur2hyls0qI41NGNh). UCLA policy requires everyone to wear a mask, even if you are fully vaccinated.

For those watching on Intel, note that 1:30PM in Los Angeles is 2030 UTC.

Agents hit the target of 4 million portals captured in Operation Sentinel, so now it's time to vote on the new Kinetic Capsule program. Which will you choose? https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/15234/poll-vote-for-the-next-kinetic-capsule-program

New event just announced - this weekend, deploy 4 mods per portal and for the first time ever get AP for destroying mods.

Also move your drone every 15 minutes. Work on your Engineer and Maverick badges.

New week-long event starts Friday. Earn double AP for glyphing, deploy 2 L8 resonators per portal, and enjoy half distance kinetic capsules.

Niantic has updated the start time for the Glyph the Planet event, infographic updated accordingly.

Details on the new Second Sunday Mission Day event are out. Get credit for your Mission Day badge by completing six missions during this event. In July any six missions count, in August and September look for past official Mission Day missions.

Edited to fix typos thanks to some astute observers.

The Second Sunday Mission Day event is live and the badge credit is immediate.