Every time I pull out my phone to pay at a store, the cashiers assume I’ll pay via UPI. While the payments infrastructure has plenty going for it, I prefer credit cards, so I use Google Pay’s Tap to Pay feature. Google rolled out the feature in India all the way back in 2020, but it was limited to just two banks, and it predictably didn’t gain much traction.But Google built out the feature over the last five years, and Tap to Pay works with most major debit and credit cards issued in India. I used it with my HDFC…
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In the Volt Typhoon and Flax Typhoon attacks, the routers themselves weren’t compromised because they were foreign-made routers. Far from it! They were compromised because they were unpatched, Internet-exposed, and end-of-life. The router manufacturers were no more guilty of opening the doors to these attacks than Microsoft is for your company’s Windows 7 PCs being hacked in 2026. Only the Salt Typhoon assault on Cisco IOS XE software, which was running on enterprise-grade routers—specifically, ASR 1000 Series, ISR 4000 Series, and Catalyst 8000 Series edge platforms—can be linked directly to Chinese-made routers. Guess what, though? You can still buy, use,…
APERION launched SmartFlow SDK, providing a secure, on-premises path for enterprises migrating away from compromised cloud-based AI gateways. The launch coincides with a 200% increase in web traffic since the March 24 LiteLLM supply chain attack that compromised an estimated 36% of all cloud environments. LiteLLM was the victim of a supply chain attack in which the threat actor group TeamPCP compromised the most widely used open-source LLM proxy in the Python ecosystem through a cascading breach of Aqua Security’s Trivy vulnerability scanner. The compromise has forced enterprises across financial services, healthcare, and defense to urgently reassess their AI infrastructure…
Tracking your brand’s visibility in AI-powered search is the new frontier of SEO. The tools built to do this are expensive, often starting at $300 to $500 per month and quickly rising from there. For many, that price is a nonstarter, especially when custom testing needs go beyond what off-the-shelf software can handle. I faced this exact problem. I needed a specific tool, and it didn’t exist at a price I could afford, so I decided to build it myself. I’m not a developer. I spent a weekend talking to an AI agent in plain English, and the result was…
After years of hype, 2026 is shaping up to be the year AI agents finally move from being experimental AI tools to trusted digital coworkers embedded across everyday business workflows.Industry forecasts now project that nearly half of enterprise applications will include task-specific AI agents within the next year, driven by breakthroughs in contextual memory, workflow automation, and local, on-device AI.What’s changing is not just the intelligence, but the ability of software to move seamlessly from understanding context to taking real, accountable action within the tools where work already happens.Article continues below You may like Yacob BerhaneSocial Links NavigationHowever, trust and…
A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey. According to court documents, 57-year-old Daniel Rhyne from Kansas City, Missouri, remotely accessed the company’s network without authorization using an administrator account between November 9 and November 25. Throughout this time, he allegedly scheduled tasks on the company’s Windows domain controller to delete network admin accounts and to change the passwords for 13 domain admin accounts and 301 domain user accounts to “TheFr0zenCrew!”. The prosecutors…
This is the first post in a series on 3D print blocking, for the next entry check out Print Blocking Won’t Work – Permission to Print Part 2 When legislators give companies an excuse to write untouchable code, it’s a disaster for everyone. This time, 3D printers are being targeted across a growing number of states. Even if you’ve never used one, you’ve benefited from the open commons these devices have created—which is now under threat. This isn’t the first time we’ve gone to bat for 3D printing. These devices come in many forms and can construct nearly any shape with…
Summary The New Outlook app is buggy and unpopular; NASA astronauts hit similar issues during Artemis II’s launch. Mission Control remotely fixed Outlook on the crew’s PC during the launch. The email hiccup didn’t endanger Artemis II, but it made Microsoft look foolish on live comms. Ever since Microsoft released its new Outlook client, people haven’t been too pleased with it. From missing features to lacklustre performance, Microsoft has had a real problem with getting people to gel with the revamped version of the app. Well, if you’re not a fan of the new Outlook, you may feel vindicated that…
Cisco on Wednesday announced fixes for two critical and six high-severity vulnerabilities that could be exploited for authentication bypass, remote code execution, privilege escalation, and information disclosure. One of the critical bugs, tracked as CVE-2026-20160, impacts Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (SSM On-Prem) and could allow attackers to abuse an erroneously exposed internal service to execute arbitrary commands. “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to the API of the exposed service. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands on the underlying operating system with root-level privileges,” Cisco says. The second critical flaw…
Android is already miles ahead of iOS in how it handles notifications. You can take quick actions directly from alerts and even mute specific notification types from individual apps. Plus, Google continues to refine this experience, and it now appears to be working on a new Notification rules feature. As the name suggests, the feature will let you create rules for notifications from apps and contacts. The Android Authority team spotted strings related to Notification rules in the latest Android 17 beta. After creating a rule, you can set the relevant action, which includes Silence, Block, Silence & Bundle, Highlight,…