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Ravie LakshmananMar 20, 2026Botnet / Network Security The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the disruption of command-and-control (C2) infrastructure used by several Internet of Things (IoT) botnets like AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad as part of a court-authorized law enforcement operation. The effort also saw authorities from Canada and Germany targeting the operators behind these botnets, with a number of private sector firms, including Akamai, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Google, Lumen, Nokia, Okta, Oracle, PayPal, SpyCloud, Synthient, Team Cymru, Unit 221B, and QiAnXin XLab assisting in the investigation efforts. “The four botnets launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…
Jeff Bezos has reportedly been traveling around the Middle East and Southeast Asia trying to raise in the region of $100 billion to transform major industries with artificial intelligence. As first reported today by the Wall Street Journal, Bezos has met with some of the region’s largest asset managers and presented prospective investors with a plan to transform various manufacturing industries, including chipmaking, defense and aerospace, in what documents stated would become a “manufacturing transformation vehicle.” It’s reported he recently met with sovereign wealth representatives in the Middle East, later heading to Singapore. The fund could rank among the largest in…
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? I had to jump between the ACROSS and DOWN clues in order to solve them all, because some answers came to me easily and others … not so much. Read on for all the answers. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips.If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports…
Comet is now on iOS. Perplexity’s AI browser, which debuted on desktop last summer at a price that made most people do a double-take, is now free on mobile, with optional paid tiers starting at $20 a month. It was supposed to launch on March 11. The team pushed it back a week. It went live yesterday. Here is what it actually is. Comet blends a traditional browser with an AI assistant that can summarize pages, answer questions, and carry out tasks on a user’s behalf. The agentic approach, where the AI does not just respond but actively navigates, clicks,…
MIT researchers have spent more than a decade studying techniques that enable robots to find and manipulate hidden objects by “seeing” through obstacles. Their methods utilize surface-penetrating wireless signals that reflect off concealed items.Now, the researchers are leveraging generative artificial intelligence models to overcome a longstanding bottleneck that limited the precision of prior approaches. The result is a new method that produces more accurate shape reconstructions, which could improve a robot’s ability to reliably grasp and manipulate objects that are blocked from view.This new technique builds a partial reconstruction of a hidden object from reflected wireless signals and fills in…
Poopee’s indoor grass patches are even drawing franchise enquiries from across Southeast Asia What do you do when your dog refuses to use a pee pad, your schedule won’t allow constant trips downstairs, and your carpet is slowly turning into a wreck day after day? For 32-year-old Royce Tan, the answer was simple: start a company called Poopee—and bring a patch of real grass straight into the living room as an indoor potty solution. It all started with his own struggles at home. Royce’s dogs were grass-trained, but as they aged, daily trips downstairs became increasingly difficult. Plastic pee pads…
Hello Cyber Builders 🖖Every February, Mike Privette drops his State of the Cybersecurity Market report on Return on Security. Four years running. Text-first. Data-driven. No logo slides, no vendor spin.This year, I asked Mike to walk me through it.Mike spent nearly two decades building security programs at banks, insurers, and enterprises before turning his practitioner lens on the market itself. Today, he studies how money moves through cybersecurity — who’s funding what, who’s acquiring whom, and what it signals about where security is actually heading. That background is why investors, startups, and governments trust his read. He publishes the data…
Google is stepping up its AI game on desktop, with a dedicated Gemini app for Mac now in testing, and it could bring a major new capability called Desktop Intelligence. According to a report by Bloomberg, Google has started privately testing an early version of the Gemini Mac app with select users. The move is part of a broader push to compete more directly with desktop AI apps like ChatGPT and Claude, both of which already offer native Mac experiences. Google Blog The current version is still early and doesn’t include all planned features, but testing suggests Google is aiming…
San Francisco startup Nooks hosted a panel in Seattle last month focused on vertical AI agents. From left: Chinmay Barve, vice president of engineering at Nooks; Nikhil Cheerla, CTO at Nooks; Sharbani Roy, VP of AI Services at Arm; and Joe Duffy, CEO and founder at Pulumi. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the people, companies, and ideas behind AI agents. Join us Tuesday, March 24, for our Agents of Transformation event in Seattle.] Just a year ago, AI-powered sales platform Nooks wasn’t using many AI agents, instead relying…