The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd in a 71–29 vote to lead the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM), filling a critical national security role that had remained vacant for nearly a year after the firing of the previous director, General Timothy Haugh, in April 2025. The leadership structure, commonly referred to as the “dual-hat” arrangement, assigns a single individual to oversee both organizations. President Donald Trump nominated Rudd to the position in December, when he was serving as deputy commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Rudd’s confirmation followed reviews by both the Senate…
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Yahoo today introduced MyScout, a customizable homepage inside Yahoo Scout, its beta AI answer engine. How MyScout works. Logged-in users can customize the homepage with tiles that pull information from Yahoo properties (e.g., Mail, News, Sports, Finance, Games). Examples include: Inbox previews from Yahoo Mail. Stock updates from Yahoo Finance watchlists. News topics and trending stories. Scores and schedules for favorite teams. Weather, shopping comparisons, and games. Users can add, remove, reorder, or create tiles based on topics or queries they want to follow. Some tiles update in real time, such as stock prices. Other tiles refresh throughout the day…
Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox isn’t an Xbox. Or it isn’t just an Xbox, anyway: While the rumored console will undoubtedly play Xbox games, “Project Helix,” as it’s codenamed, will reportedly also play PC titles. That’s huge news for gamers who usually have to decide whether to buy a console for the convenience, or a PC for the potential. ‘Xbox mode’ lets you access games on your PC with a controllerBut while Project Helix is still a ways off (we won’t see it until 2027, at least), Microsoft is already doubling down on merging its two major gaming platforms. As reported by…
“We are engineering the data center with a new lens bringing pre-engineered system designs that are flexible and adaptable that enables a tailored solution for clients,” said John Lever, director of modular solutions at Datalec. The systems are flexible enough that these solutions cater for all types of data center, from standard server technology to AI and high-density compute. Datalec also provides “bolt-on” solutions, including a ‘digital wrapper’ including digital twinning and lifecycle and global support, Lever says. Another way Datalec says it differentiates from competing modular designs is a larger share of work is done offsite in a controlled…
Landing pages are often used in marketing campaigns to generate leads, increase sales, and more.But simply sending users to a landing page doesn’t guarantee results. The page itself needs to clearly communicate the offer and make it easy for visitors to convert.This guide explains what landing page optimization is, why it matters, and how to do it. You’ll also learn how run effective tests that can increase conversions.What Is Landing Page Optimization?Landing page optimization is the process of improving a landing page to increase conversions—like purchases, sign-ups, or form submissions. Ways to optimize a landing page often focus on improving elements…
Ravie LakshmananMar 11, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Browser Security Agentic web browsers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to autonomously execute actions across multiple websites on behalf of a user could be trained and tricked into falling prey to phishing and scam traps. The attack, at its core, takes advantage of AI browsers’ tendency to reason their actions and use it against the model itself to lower their security guardrails, Guardio said in a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication. “The AI now operates in real time, inside messy and dynamic pages, while continuously requesting information, making decisions,…
Google Play Store differs depending on where you live, from varied release dates to limitations on what apps are available. In fact, China blocks most Google services with its Great Firewall, making them inaccessible by default. Fortunately, it is possible to change the location of your device with a virtual private network (VPN), granting you access to every app on day one. Things you need to know before changing country on Google Play Sadly, changing your Google Play region is not quite as simple as connecting to a VPN server in a foreign country. Google Play makes a record of where…
The version of Android that comes pre-installed on your smartphone isn’t very secure or private. Unless you comb through the system settings and change a handful of privacy and security settings, you’re in store for data collection, targeted ads, and more. That said, the beauty of Android is that you can make it your own. There are a surprising number of privacy-focused Android ROMs you can install to protect your privacy and remove Google services from your devices. These include /e/OS, LineageOS, and GrapheneOS. The problem is that these rarely come pre-installed on new Android phones right out of the…
Salesforce customers have, once again, been targeted by the ShinyHunters group – or, at least, it’s what the group claims. Attackers modified and abused benign tool On Saturday, Saleforce confirmed that its security team has identified an attack campaign by unnamed malicious actors looking to access customers’ data. The attackers are not leveraging a vulnerability in the Salesforce platform, the company said, but are using a modified version of the open-source tool Aura Inspector – a tool originally developed by Mandiant – to: Mass scan public-facing Experience Cloud sites Probe their /s/sfsites/aura API endpoint If the guest user profile has…
WordPress published a troubled security release version 6.9.2 to patch ten vulnerabilities that also caused some sites to crash (display a white screen), so WordPress quickly followed up with a bugfix release version 6.9.3. Today, WordPress announced another update, version 6.9.4 because not all of the vulnerabilities were adequately addressed. WordPress security firm Wordfence published details of four of the vulnerabilities, which were rated as medium severity, while WordPress.org published the full list of ten, including one that’s due to an external PHP library. WordPress published the following advisory about why they needed to release an additional update: “WordPress 6.9.2…