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Jan 15, 2026Ravie LakshmananWeb Security /Vulnerability A maximum-severity security flaw in a WordPress plugin called Modular DS has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23550 (CVSS score: 10.0), has been described as a case of unauthenticated privilege escalation impacting all versions of the plugin prior to and including 2.5.1. It has been patched in version 2.5.2. The plugin has more than 40,000 active installs. “In versions 2.5.1 and below, the plugin is vulnerable to privilege escalation, due to a combination of factors including direct route selection, bypassing of authentication mechanisms, and auto-login…
Something interesting just happened in China’s AI scene, and it didn’t come with fireworks or chest-thumping press conferences.Instead, it arrived almost casually – which somehow makes it more impressive. Zhipu AI, a well-known Chinese artificial intelligence company, says it has trained a cutting-edge image generation model entirely on Huawei’s homegrown chips. No Nvidia GPUs.No Western hardware safety net. Just local silicon doing the heavy lifting. That alone makes people stop scrolling and ask: wait, how did that happen?You can dig into the technical details through reporting that surfaced earlier this week on InfoWorld.The model, called GLM-Image, was trained using Huawei’s…
The Contrarian View: AI Is Overhyped and Incremental at BestA common contrarian argument is that AI, while impressive, does not fundamentally change how businesses compete. From this perspective, AI is simply another productivity tool, similar to spreadsheets, ERP systems, or cloud computing. Useful, yes, but not transformative.Supporters of this view argue that most AI gains will be competed away quickly. If every company can access similar models, similar agents, and similar tooling, then AI becomes table stakes rather than a source of durable advantage. Margins normalize, differentiation evaporates, and the fundamental drivers of success remain brand strength, execution quality, and…
The MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence (SQI), a research unit in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, brings together researchers from across MIT who combine their diverse expertise to understand intelligence through tightly coupled scientific inquiry and rigorous engineering. These researchers engage in collaborative efforts spanning science, engineering, the humanities, and more. SQI seeks to comprehend how brains produce intelligence and how it can be replicated in artificial systems to address real-world problems that exceed the capabilities of current artificial intelligence technologies.“In SQI, we are studying intelligence scientifically and generically, in the hope that by studying neuroscience and behavior in…
Enterprise content management provider Box Inc. is expanding its armory of artificial intelligence tools with the launch of Box Extract in general availability. The new tool uses third-party AI models from companies including OpenAI Group PBC, Google LLC and Anthropic PBC to extract valuable insights embedded in documents such as invoices and contracts to enhance enterprise decision-making. Box believes that the new tool is going to become vital for enterprise customers. It’s well=known that there’s vast amounts of organizational knowledge locked inside documents such as spreadsheets, product listings, product specifications, policy documents, videos, charts, social media and other types of…
When AI floods the open web, ad space loses value fast. What remains is audience trust- and publications that protect it. Selling ad space previously meant presenting an Excel sheet of monthly visitors, followed by the price list. But beginning conversations with your potential advertisers in 2026 with this will clearly get you laughed at. Your advertisers don’t care about renting space in corners of your website in this age. They are reaching out to you for audience and outcomes. Because they want trust- an element that was lacking in the third-party cookies era, and they want credibility. So much…
When recently testing the OnePlus Pad Go 2, it struck me that the tablet has aimed its crosshairs at a familiar target: the iPad. Apple’s entry-level slate doesn’t just dominate the market, but it’s arguably the ubiquitous tablet; how many people say “iPad” to refer to any tab? Having reviewed plenty of Android tablets in my day, I’ve come across loads of slates aiming to topple Apple’s heavyweight. Many have fallen flat at worst, or at best simply offered an iPad-alike, but with Google’s operating system instead of Apple’s. But there are some options out there, that really are tempting…
Emoji fans, rejoice! In October, the Unicode Consortium proposed nine new emoji as part of the upcoming Unicode 18.0. One of the proposed emoji is a pickle, which I think could replace the eggplant as the go-to emoji for male anatomy.Am I being childish or prophetic? We’ll have to wait a while to find out. The Unicode Consortium still needs to approve these proposed emoji, and the organization usually approves emoji in September. These are mockups of the proposed emoji you might see on your device soon. EmojipediaHere are the nine new emoji you could see on your device in…
{ container.appendChild(contentItem); });”> Read our full review of the Oura Ring 4.{ container.appendChild(contentItem); });”> If you’d prefer a more inconspicuous sleep tracker, smart rings are the answer. Taking on the shape and design of a classic ring band, they disguise the tech inside. Among all the smart rings we’ve tested, the Oura Ring 4 is the best. It doesn’t feel too clunky because while it is slim for a smart ring, it’s still thicker than your average ring.Oura’s holistic sleep data approach focuses on long-term patterns and how they affect overall health. If you’re interested in understanding your health beyond…
Year-end analysis of over 20,000 transactions shows institutional influence and stablecoin dominance reshaping instant exchange patterns.Instant cryptocurrency exchange platform ChangeHero has released its 2025 year-end transaction analysis, revealing significant shifts in user behavior that mirror broader institutional adoption and the continued dominance of cost-efficient blockchain networks.Out of all processed transactions in 2025, 10 most reoccurring pairs accounted for 21,530 completed instant swaps throughout 2025, with an average transaction value in the sample equal to 0.023 BTC, reflecting activity patterns that align with the year’s major market developments including Bitcoin’s volatile journey to new all-time highs above $126,000 in October before…