News that Sean Plankey has left his post at DHS comes amid rising risks to U.S. critical infrastructure from Iran-linked hackers and worries over a weakened CISA.
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Has OpenAI’s increasing independence from Microsoft and, by extension, Bing, become an overly dependent relationship with Google? Our study comparing shopping query fan-outs (QFOs) in ChatGPT from both Google and Bing carousels appears to have provided at least a partial answer to that question. Let’s take a look at how this study was conceived and what we found. In November 2025, a few researchers in the AI research space, including myself, detected a mysterious field in ChatGPT’s source code: id_to_token_map. But what that field revealed when decoded was even more intriguing. This field is what’s called base64 encoded, but when…
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. SFollowing in the footsteps of Stalker: Heart of Chornobyl and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Avowed is another former Xbox-exclusive that has made its way to PlayStation platforms a year after its initial release.Review infoPlatform reviewed: PS5 ProAvailable on: PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PCRelease date: February 17, 2026Similar to those titles, Obsidian Entertainment’s fantasy action role-playing game isn’t just sloppy seconds on the PS5 and PS5 Pro, but…
A China-linked advanced persistent threat actor tracked as UAT-9244 has been targeting telecommunication service providers in South America since 2024, compromising Windows, Linux, and network-edge devices. According to Cisco Talos researchers, the adversary is closely associated with the FamousSparrow and Tropic Trooper hacker groups, but is tracked as a separate activity cluster. This assessment has high confidence and is based on similar tooling, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and victimology observed in attacks attributed to the threat actors. The researchers note that while UAT-9244 shares the same target profile as Salt Typhoon, they could not establish a solid connection between the two activity clusters. New malware…
Fintech in AI search plays by much stricter rules. Because it’s a Your Money or Your Life category, products must clear higher verification thresholds before AI mentions you: Is your product legitimate? Are your fees and protections explicit? Do other trusted sources back up your claims? To find these answers, AI draws from your website and the wider web — including sources you don’t control. That risks misrepresentation of your brand. What matters, then, is whether those sources tell an accurate story. In this article, I’ll explain how to influence that narrative. Because the real goal is for your fintech…
Published Mar 5, 2026, 7:14 PM EST Timi has been writing about technology for over a decade, focusing on smartphones, computers, and anything that he finds interesting in the space. He started writing for XDA, covering all things mobile, but has transitioned to covering deals, with a mission to shed light on some of the best discounts around the internet on the greatest tech products. If you’re looking for a large gaming monitor that isn’t going to hurt your wallet that badly, then this one from Acer might be a good fit. You get a massive 49-inch screen with a 1000R…
A 43-year-old Russian national has pleaded guilty in a US court to charges stemming from his role in the Phobos ransomware operation. The man, Evgenii Ptitsyn, was arrested in South Korea in June 2024 and extradited to the United States in November of the same year. The US Justice Department announced on Wednesday that Ptitsyn has now pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy, for which he faces up to 20 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for July 15. According to authorities, Ptitsyn was involved in the Phobos scheme since at least November 2020, helping with the sale, distribution, and…
Despite Google apps and services being in a relatively complete state after years of iteration, the brand is never truly done, making small tweaks here and there as it sees fit. For the most part, this is a good thing, because you never know how a small change can make a huge improvement. With that said, Google is now rolling out a new update to its Pixel Weather app, which gives the weather icons a small pop of color. The change was spotted by Android Authority, and makes them easier to read. There’s even an explanation for the change, with…
However, the report said, development in more remote regions “will remain challenging” due to a shortage of skilled labor such as mechanics, electricians, plumbers, laborers and construction workers. Market shift from abundance to constrained Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research, said Wednesday that enterprises must assume, as the report suggests, that there will be elevated pricing for North American data center capacity through at least 2029, and possibly longer. “Vacancy at or near 1%- 2% is not a temporary imbalance,” he said. It is a “signal that supply elasticity has broken. When over 90% of capacity under construction…
Cisco has disclosed 48 vulnerabilities in its firewall ecosystem, two of which are as critical as vulnerabilities get.They affect the following Cisco technologies:Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), a traditional, stateful firewallSecure FTD (Firewall Threat Defense), a firewall that combines ASA with other, more advanced featuresSecure Firewall Management Center (FMC), the centralized management system for the firewall and firewall threat defense productsAll 48 issues come with fixes, and Cisco strongly recommends that customers update to the latest version software. That sentiment was echoed by The Netherlands Cyber Security Center (NCSC-NL) in its own security advisory on March 4. It predicted that public…