Google’s VP of Ads and Commerce, Vidhya Srinivasan, published her third annual letter to the industry, outlining how the company plans to connect advertising, commerce, and AI across Search, YouTube, and Gemini in 2026. The letter covers agentic commerce, AI-powered ad formats, creator partnerships, and creative tools. Several of the announcements build on features Google previewed at NRF 2026 in January and detailed during its Q4 2025 earnings call earlier this month. What’s New UCP Adoption The letter confirms that the Universal Commerce Protocol now powers purchases from Etsy and Wayfair for U.S. shoppers inside AI Mode in Search and…
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Summary The Steam Deck OLED (and the discontinued LCD) is sold out in the US and parts of Asia. Valve hasn’t explained shortages; likely tied to RAM price hikes and rising component costs. We hope Valve avoids raising prices, but current shortages make a price hike feel inevitable. It has been a rough few months for people interested in grabbing a Steam Deck. A few months ago, Valve announced that it was scrapping the Steam Deck LCD version, which meant that people who wanted to give portable PC gaming a try had to shell out a little more to do…
Truck, bus and industrial equipment maker Volvo Group North America is one of the several major companies impacted by a recent data breach at business services provider Conduent. Conduent detected an intrusion on its network on January 13, 2025, and an investigation revealed that the hackers had access to its network since October 21, 2024. The attackers obtained personal information such as names, addresses, SSNs, dates of birth, health insurance data, and medical information. The Safepay ransomware group took credit for the attack on Conduent in February 2025. In recent notifications sent to impacted individuals on behalf of Volvo Group,…
Google introduced plenty of major changes to NotebookLM last year, making the productivity tool a lot more useful. And it looks like the Mountain View tech giant has some exciting NotebookLM features in the pipeline for this year, too. We have already seen a glimpse of some of what it has been working on when it rolled out new customization features for the NotebookLM mobile app. A few days ago, we also learned how Google is currently working on a Personal Intelligence option in NotebookLM to allow the tool to learn from users’ chats and give responses that are more…
Google today announced an early preview of WebMCP, a new protocol that defines how AI agents interact with websites. “WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and precision,” wrote André Cipriani Bandarra from Google. WebMCP lets developers tell large language models exactly what each button or link on a website does. WebMCP allows websites to explicitly publish a clear “Tool Contract” that defines available actions. It runs on a new browser API, navigator.modelContext. Through that API, the website shares a structured list of…
Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityThese offers are available from Amazon, which owns the Ring brand. The Ring Outdoor Cam is only available in White. The Plus and Pro versions are also available in Black. In any case, the discount is the same, regardless of which hue you pick. Ring Outdoor Cam The Ring Outdoor Cam may be the cheapest battery-powered Ring camera, but it is by no means a lackluster. I still use a couple of these, and they work great. Be sure to keep your expectations in check, but you can be sure it will meet most people’s needs.The…
At the Cisco Live EMEA event going on in Amsterdam this week, Cisco unveiled a range of updates across its networking and security portfolio that are aimed at helping customers tap agentic AI technologies to more effectively run their enterprise infrastructure. “Agentic AI orchestrates workflows, moves data, communicates with other agents, and makes decisions autonomously. This represents a fundamental shift in how technology operates within organizations,” wrote Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s president and chief product officer, in a blog post about the news. Agentic AI also changes what infrastructure must deliver, Patel stated. “When agents act independently and communicate machine-to-machine at scale,…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 11, 2026Patch Tuesday / Vulnerability It’s Patch Tuesday, which means a number of software vendors have released patches for various security vulnerabilities impacting their products and services. Microsoft issued fixes for 59 flaws, including six actively exploited zero-days in various Windows components that could be abused to bypass security features, escalate privileges, and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Elsewhere, Adobe released updates for Audition, After Effects, InDesign Desktop, Substance 3D, Bridge, Lightroom Classic, and DNG SDK. The company said it’s not aware of in-the-wild exploitation of any of the shortcomings. SAP shipped fixes for two critical-severity vulnerabilities, including…
AI tools are only as useful as the data they can access. Most marketing teams still copy-paste from dashboards, export CSVs, and manually feed context into ChatGPT or Claude before getting anything useful back. That bottleneck isn’t insight. It’s access. SEO data lives in one platform, competitive intelligence in another, and leadership questions trigger a new round of manual pulls every time. Semrush MCP eliminates that friction. It gives AI tools a direct, secure connection to live Semrush data, so teams across SEO, marketing, and product can query the same source without rebuilding workflows for every question. In this guide, you’ll learn what…
If your chat app of choice is Telegram, you have some changes to look forward to. The company announced a number of updates this week, chief among them a new look for its Android and iOS apps—the former is getting a total overhaul, but iPhone users will still note some new UI elements when chatting with friends on Telegram. There are also some new features, including one I find a little odd. There’s a new look for Telegram on mobile Credit: Telegram Per the announcement, the biggest changes come via UI updates, particularly on Android. Telegram says that its Android…