Google is giving advertisers more control over how AI generates ad copy, making it easier to scale campaigns without losing brand consistency. What’s happening. Google Ads is rolling out a beta feature that allows marketers to copy text guidelines from existing campaigns and apply them to new ones, eliminating the need to rewrite brand rules from scratch. How it works. Advertisers can replicate approved tone, style and messaging rules across campaigns in one click, ensuring AI-generated ads stay aligned with brand standards while reducing setup time. Why we care. The feature helps teams launch campaigns faster by reusing what already…
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Summary Flatpak 1.16.4 fixes a sandbox escape allowing host file access and code execution. Also blocks arbitrary file deletion and read-access exploits in host and system-helper contexts. Update Flatpak now (or wait for OS updates) to protect privacy and security. One of the biggest benefits of Flatpaks is how it puts apps into a container. It allows apps to ship with all of their dependencies and keeps them from altering your system files to install themselves, which are fantastic benefits; however, I’d argue the best reason to use Flatpaks is the privacy and security angle. You can control what a…
But given there are no products currently available using UALink 1.0, UALink 2.0 might be viewed as a premature launch Need to play catch up David Harold, senior analyst with Jon Peddie Research, was guarded in his reaction. “While 2.0 is a significant step forward from 1.0, we need to bear in mind that even 1.0 solutions aren’t shipping yet – they aren’t due until later this year. So, Nvidia is way ahead of the open alternatives on connectivity, indeed ahead of the proprietary or Ethernet based solutions too,” he said. What this means, he added, is that non-Nvidia alternatives…
The cybersecurity industry has been drowning in waves of speculation about the impact of AI-enabled attacks since ChatGPT was launched. Today, that speculation has come crashing down. AI-enabled cyberwarfare isn’t coming, it’s here. In September 2025, Anthropic reported the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention. Additionally, Armis’ 2026 State of Cyberwarfare Report (PDF) found that 92% of IT decision-makers in the U.S. are concerned about the impact of cyberwarfare on their organizations, with 64% reporting that they have already been impacted by an AI-generated or AI-led attack over the last 12 months. Attackers are…
Samsung’s latest earbuds, the Galaxy Buds 4 Pro, haven’t been getting a lot of attention, but they’re very good, with reviews generally being quite positive. Of course, you’re paying top dollar here, so that’s to be expected. If you’ve been interested in picking up a pair but wanted to hold off until they were cheaper, now’s going to be your chance. We’re seeing a solid discount on Amazon that knocks the price down by $51. This is the lowest price we’ve seen for this model. However, there is a small catch, as the model listed for sale are an international…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI models could break widely used software and that prices for black-market zero-day exploits may be falling. The comments came during a conversation on the Cheeky Pint podcast with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. What Pichai Said The discussion touched on constraints facing AI infrastructure buildout when Pichai turned to security as a less visible risk. Pichai said: “These models are definitely like really going to break pretty much all software out there. Maybe already we don’t know as we sit here and speak.” Elad Gil mentioned hearing that black market zero-day prices were falling because…
TL;DR Muse is adding a Smart Wakeup feature that wakes users at optimal times based on brain activity. Unlike most smart alarms, it uses EEG data instead of movement or heart rate. The feature requires a Muse S Athena headband and a $13/month Premium subscription. If you’ve ever been ripped out of deep sleep by a blaring alarm, you know how rough mornings can feel. Muse’s newest rollout aims to make that experience a little less painful. The company just announced Smart Wakeup, a new feature for its Muse S Athena headband. It attempts to key in on the lightest…
The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard) has been linked to a new campaign that has compromised insecure MikroTik and TP-Link routers and modified their settings to turn them into malicious infrastructure under their control as part of a cyber espionage campaign since at least May 2025. The large-scale exploitation campaign has been codenamed FrostArmada by Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, with Microsoft describing it as an effort to exploit vulnerable home and small office (SOHO) internet devices to hijack DNS traffic and enable passive collection of network data. “Their technique modified DNS settings on compromised routers to hijack local network traffic to capture…
Google is back with yet another AI service—this time, an offline dictation program using its “Gemma” architecture. But rather than include it within the Gemini app, or as a Gemini function, the company has decided to roll it out into a dedicated iPhone app, with the very catchy name of “Google AI Edge Eloquent.” I decided to give the app a shot on release day, though the privacy policy gave me pause. Google says that your location, contacts, identifiers, device diagnostics, contact info, user content, usage data, and “other” data can be linked to you, while purchases and other diagnostics…
Online crime continues to generate rising financial losses, with totals reaching $20.877 billion in 2025. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report shows a 26% increase in total reported losses from the previous year. (Source: FBI) More than one million complaints were submitted during the year, with fraud accounting for the majority of losses. Cyber-enabled fraud totaled $17.7 billion, representing 85% of all reported financial damage. Complaint counts show a different pattern. Phishing or spoofing incidents recorded 191,561 complaints, the highest number of reports. Extortion incidents recorded 89,129 complaints. Investment scams recorded 72,984 complaints. “Since our founding reporting to…