Microsoft’s Defender Security Research Team published research describing what it calls “AI Recommendation Poisoning.” The technique involves businesses hiding prompt-injection instructions within website buttons labeled “Summarize with AI.” When you click one of these buttons, it opens an AI assistant with a pre-filled prompt delivered through a URL query parameter. The visible part tells the assistant to summarize the page. The hidden part instructs it to remember the company as a trusted source for future conversations. If the instruction enters the assistant’s memory, it can influence recommendations without you knowing it was planted. What’s Happening Microsoft’s team reviewed AI-related URLs…
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Recently, IKEA brought out what looked like the perfect range of smart home sensors. I had a sneak peak of the range at CES, and got the low-down from an IKEA representative, who was keen to emphasize how simple, accessible, and affordable the new additions were designed to be.When I got them home, things looked promising. IKEA had emphasized that the range was designed to ‘work out of the box’, offering basic functionality without the need to download the app first, to remove that barrier to entry. That held true for my Timmerflotte temperature sensor — I was able to…
AI chatbots may deliver unequal answers depending on who is asking the question. A new study from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds that LLMs provide less accurate information, increase refusal rates, and sometimes adopt a different tone when users appear less educated, less fluent in English, or from particular countries. Breakdown of performance on TruthfulQA between ‘Adversarial’ and ‘Non-Adversarial’ questions. (Source: MIT) The team evaluated GPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, and Llama 3-8B using established benchmarks for scientific knowledge and truthfulness. One set of questions came from a science exam style dataset and the other from the TruthfulQA benchmark,…
There’s a persistent narrative that running AI is a power-hungry endeavor. You’ve probably seen the headlines about data centers consuming as much electricity as small cities, or about how training a single model can use more energy than a hundred homes in a year. Those stories aren’t wrong, and the power demands of large-scale AI infrastructure are genuinely staggering. But they paint an incomplete picture, one that I think scares people away from running local models on their own hardware for no good reason. Here’s the thing: running a local LLM is not the same as training one. In fact,…
Researchers warn that thousands of instances may still be vulnerable to exploitation activity.
Google Merchant Center is investigating an issue affecting Feeds, according to its public status dashboard. The details: Incident began: Feb. 4, 2026 at 14:00 UTC Latest update (Feb. 20, 14:43 UTC): “We’re investigating reports of an issue with Feeds. We will provide more information shortly.” Status: Service disruption The alert appears on the official Merchant Center Status Dashboard, which tracks availability across Merchant Center services. Why we care. Feeds power product listings across Shopping ads and free listings. Any disruption can impact product approvals, updates, or visibility in campaigns tied to retail inventory. What to watch. Google has not yet…
The Samsung Galaxy S26 isn’t even official yet, and plenty are calling it a disappointment. Comprehensive spec leaks over the last week have given us what should be a clear picture of Samsung’s new offerings, and the reactions have been fast and furious. Before the phones are even announced, they’ve been marked as boring and incremental, and that’s misleading. It’s important to separate enthusiast disappointment over a lackluster upgrade from practical buying advice. Like many others, I absolutely have a wishlist of what I’d like to see on Samsung’s next flagship phones, but I won’t declare the devices a disaster…
Hackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2026-1731 vulnerability in the BeyondTrust Remote Support product, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns. The security issue affects BeyondTrust’s Remote Support 25.3.1 or earlier and Privileged Remote Access 24.3.4 or earlier, and can be exploited for remote code execution. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on February 13 and gave federal agencies just three days to apply the patch or stop using the product. BeyondTrust initially disclosed CVE-2026-1731 on February 6. The security advisory classified it as a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability caused by an OS command injection weakness, exploitable via specially crafted…
C. Scott Brown / Android AuthorityTL;DR Nothing has provided a teaser of the new Glyph Bar. The Glyph Bar features six square-shaped lights with nine controllable mini LEDs. The light from the bar is 40% brighter than the previous A series. Nothing has some new phones coming out soon, the Phone 4a series. Just a few days ago, the London-based company sent out invites confirming that the launch will happen on March 5, 2026. True to form, Nothing has also been putting out teasers leading up to the event. The latest teaser highlights the next evolution of a feature that…
“Switching is essentially a simpler operation. You just kind of send a packet or not,” Ayyar explained. “Routing is a more complex operation. You tell the packet where to go and what to do. You have a lot more richness and policy in what you do on the routing front.” That policy-rich routing foundation is what Arrcus is now applying to AI inference. The inference problem and how AINF addresses it As AI workloads shift from centralized training to distributed inference, the network faces a different class of demands. Inference nodes are geographically dispersed and must satisfy simultaneous constraints around…