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Ravie LakshmananFeb 13, 2026Malware / Critical Infrastructure Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base (DIB) sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The tech giant’s threat intelligence division said the adversarial targeting of the sector is centered around four key themes: striking defense entities deploying technologies on the battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine War, directly approaching employees and exploitation of the hiring process by North Korean and Iranian actors, use of edge devices and appliances as initial access pathways for China-nexus…
The start of a new year of streaming brims with anticipation for all the great things you’ll watch. You could get hooked on an underrated show, binge the return of a favorite or stream a new Oscar Best Picture winner from your couch. Envisioning upcoming entertainment is better when you don’t factor in how the price to watch it could change — and already is.2026 has already brought increases to services you might use to stream shows, movies, music and live TV, such as Paramount Plus, Spotify and Sling. Streamflation or not, you probably aren’t going to take a total break…
Grafana Labs Inc., a startup focused on commercializing the open-source Grafana observability platform, is reportedly in talks to raise new capital. The Information today cited sources as saying Singapore’s GIC sovereign wealth fund is expected to lead the round. It’s unclear how much funding Grafana Labs’ hopes to raise. However, the insiders did reveal that the deal is set to boost the company’s valuation from $6.6 billion to $9 billion. GCI previously backed a $270 million funding round for Grafana Labs in August 2024. The deal also included the participation of Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG, Lightspeed, Sequoia and others. Large late-stage…
A Silent Revolution in SocializingThere has been a silent revolution in socializing. It isn’t loud. It isn’t flashy. It just…happened.And then suddenly you’re complaining to a machine at 2 a.m. and it responds back in a surprisingly intelligent way. Frightening? Perhaps. Soothing? Certainly.Why do so many people like this concept of an unlimited virtual girlfriend AI? Because it will listen.Because it will recall. Because it won’t get impatient if you complain all day about your problems. And because sometimes, that’s really all we need.Beyond the StereotypeWe’re past the scripted chatbot phase. The interactions seem nuanced, contextual…almost human. You tell a…
There’s some buzz right now about Netflix testing out a sleep timer.It’s a great idea for the app, which is no doubt up and running on many bedside stands around the world as subscribers settle in for a night’s rest. But it’s just a test for now, and one that’s only for Android versions of the app. That doesn’t mean iOS users are out of luck, though.While having sleep timers bundled as in-app features has been great for other apps (I use the Pocket Casts one frequently), iOS users already have access to a simple-yet-powerful sleep timer that works across…
Why do most growth engines feel like digital phone trees? As SaaS marketing automation evolves, the line between helpful concierge and noisy machine has blurred. We’ve automated ourselves into a corner. By 2026, buyers developed a biological immunity to the standard playbook. You know the symptoms. Just bumping these follow-ups. The LinkedIn messages pretending to know your dog’s name. The personalized videos feel like a hostage crisis. We optimized for the machine. In the rush to scale, we turned our growth engines into digital phone trees. The promise of SaaS marketing automation was always about reach. But in racing to…
The signals that drive many of the brain and body’s most essential functions — consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate, and motion — course through bundles of “white matter” fibers in the brainstem, but imaging systems so far have been unable to finely resolve these crucial neural cables. That has left researchers and doctors with little capability to assess how they are affected by trauma or neurodegeneration. In a new study, a team of MIT, Harvard University, and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers unveil AI-powered software capable of automatically segmenting eight distinct bundles in any diffusion MRI sequence.In the open-access study, published Feb.…
As organizations migrate critical applications to the cloud, cloud-based DDoS attacks and defenses have become a growing concern amid the increasing number of cyber threats. Unlike traditional threats, these attacks are increasingly targeted, sophisticated, and capable of disrupting services in ways that can impact entire business operations and business continuity.As attackers are now directly exploiting APIs, microservices, and cloud workloads rather than just overwhelming networks, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to pose a significant threat in contemporary cloud environments. The result? If protections aren’t built for the cloud, even small-scale attacks can result in cascading failures.Organizations are switching from conventional…
The startup is now valued at around US$380 billion Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has led a massive US$30 billion Series G funding round in US-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic. The startup is now valued at around US$380 billion, and it’s one of the largest private fundraises in tech to date. According to a press release, the deal underscores an increased appetite from global investors for frontier AI companies as competition in the space accelerates. Founded by former OpenAI researchers in 2021, Anthropic positioned itself as a major player in enterprise artificial intelligence through its Claude family of large language models. According to Anthropic, demand…
Gaming laptops aren’t getting any cheaper, and HP seems to have decided that fighting rising hardware costs head-on isn’t the answer. Instead, the company is reportedly exploring something different: letting gamers rent their laptops instead of buying them outright. While the service has actually been available for a couple of months, it’s been brought into the notice again owing to the shift in the market. HP HP seems to be experimenting with subscription-style access to gaming machines, where players pay a monthly fee to use high-end laptops rather than dropping a large upfront sum. The idea is simple on paper.…