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Mozilla is about to do something that seems counterintuitive, even anti-business, in the tech industry of 2020: it’s going to just give users a straightforward way to say “no” to generative algorithms on their computer.With Firefox 148, launching on February 24th, the browser will adopt a new “AI controls” section in settings.The headline feature is effectively an AI kill switch – a toggle that immediately disables all existing generative AI features as well as any new ones, and it will even prevent the browser from pestering you about using such tools in the future via pop-ups.That’s the kernel of what Mozilla announced and…

If you operate containers on AWS you’re likely familiar with how vulnerabilities can accumulate. The majority of container images currently include least one critical security flaw. Frequently hidden within a base image or an overlooked dependency. This makes enhancing your AWS container security essential. It’s the method to prevent problems such, as data leaks, privilege abuse and supply-chain threats.AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) assists you in achieving this. Featuring image scanning. Driven by Amazon Inspector. It enables automatic detection of vulnerabilities before your images are deployed to production. When integrated with your CI/CD workflow and wider AWS security solutions ECR scanning serves as an initial defense, throughout your full container lifecycle. Understanding AWS ECR Scanning…

Mozilla Firefox is adding new AI features this month, but you’ll have the option to turn them off, according to a Tuesday blog post from Firefox head Ajit Varma.”AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it,” Varma wrote in the post. “Listening to our community, alongside our ongoing commitment to offer choice, led us to build AI controls.” Varma said in a November blog post that Mozilla planned to expand AI features for Firefox. This includes an AI chatbot sidebar and AI-powered summaries. But in this new post, Varma said many people want nothing to do with AI,…

There is a new kind of work platform on the internet, and it flips the usual script in an unsettling way. Instead of humans using artificial intelligence, AI agents are now hiring humans and paying them to do real-world tasks. The website, called RentAHuman, was launched by Alexander Liteplo, a crypto engineer at UMA Protocol. “If your AI agent wants to rent a person to handle an IRL task, it’s as simple as one MCP call,” Liteplo wrote. He also said the site was built by vibe coding through a Ralph loop, where multiple Claude-based AI agents repeatedly run until…

In the quest to stay ahead, maximizing revenue and effectively targeting high-value guests are crucial, and AI has rapidly become the secret weapon for forward-thinking hotel marketers and revenue managers. The days of static prices and broad-brush marketing are over. Today, AI algorithms can analyze vast datasets in seconds, revealing patterns and opportunities that humans would miss, and even act on them in real time. This means hotels can adapt to market changes instantly and tailor their sales approach to each guest like never before. Let’s look at how AI is elevating marketing and revenue strategies for competitive hotels:Dynamic Pricing…

Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Software Security Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said can detect backdoors in open-weight large language models (LLMs) and improve the overall trust in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The tech giant’s AI Security team said the scanner leverages three observable signals that can be used to reliably flag the presence of backdoors while maintaining a low false positive rate. “These signatures are grounded in how trigger inputs measurably affect a model’s internal behavior, providing a technically robust and operationally meaningful basis for detection,” Blake Bullwinkel and Giorgio Severi said…

If you’ve experienced relentless, torturous insomnia in the wake of a COVID infection, I’m here to tell you that it’s not all in your mind. An emerging body of research suggests that insomnia, along with other sleep disturbances, can be an unexpected part of COVID infection and recovery. I know this misery firsthand. When struck by a very “mild” case of COVID in June, I slept deeply, in almost a stupor — until I didn’t. Then, I experienced the strangest, most painful months-long stretch of insomnia of my life. Nearly every night, I would awake sometime around 2 a.m., my…

If the words “sleeper sofa” still conjure images of a musty, squeaky, lumpy pull-out mattress with the thickness and support of a peanut butter sandwich, you may want to take a look at what’s been going on in the world of convertible furniture lately.Modern-day sleeper sofas now come with luxe, real mattresses, like the Tempur-Pedic in Joybird’s Eliot, or offer multiple sitting and sleeping configurations, like the Koala Wanda. The Neptune, from Montreal-based, direct-to-consumer home goods brand Cozey, aims for something entirely different: a couch with modular components that can be moved or added to, along with seats that pull out to…

MIT senior Katie Spivakovsky has been selected as a 2026-27 Churchill Scholar and will undertake an MPhil in biological sciences at the Wellcome Sanger Institute at Cambridge University in the U.K. this fall.Spivakovsky, who is double-majoring in biological engineering and artificial intelligence, with minors in mathematics and biology, aims to integrate computation and bioengineering in an academic research career focused on developing robust, scalable solutions that promote equitable health outcomes.At MIT’s Bathe BioNanoLab, Spivakovsky investigates therapeutic applications of DNA origami, DNA-scaffolded nanoparticles for gene and mRNA delivery, and co-authored a manuscript in press at Science. She leads the development of an…

Trucking intelligence startup GenLogs Corp. says it’s going to inject artificial intelligence smarts into the freight industry after raising $60 million in a new round of funding today. The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures and saw participation from the likes of IVP, Cathay Innovation, 9Yards, Venrock, Steel Atlas, HOF Capital, TitletownTech and Autotech Ventures. It brings the startup’s total amount raised to date to $81 million. GenLogs was founded in 2023 by a trio of former U.S. intelligence community professionals who hit upon the idea of applying analytical rigor to what used to be one of the…