The Wild West of web scraping is changing, due in large part to OpenAI’s deal with Disney. The deal allows OpenAI to train on high-fidelity, human-verified cinematic content – intended to combat AI slop fatigue. This is how most of us feel when dealing with AI slop. Video production by Impolite. This deal opens up new opportunities to reinforce your brand’s visibility and recall. AI models are hungry for high-quality data, and this shift turns video into an essential asset for your brand. Here’s a breakdown of why video is the new source of truth for AI and how you…
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Ravie LakshmananFeb 11, 2026Cyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Indian defense sector and government-aligned organizations have been targeted by multiple campaigns that are designed to compromise Windows and Linux environments with remote access trojans capable of stealing sensitive data and ensuring continued access to infected machines. The campaigns are characterized by the use of malware families like Geta RAT, Ares RAT, and DeskRAT, which are often attributed to Pakistan-aligned threat clusters tracked as SideCopy and APT36 (aka Transparent Tribe). SideCopy, active since at least 2019, is assessed to operate as a subdivision of Transparent Tribe. “Taken together, these campaigns reinforce a…
A social media calendar gives you a structured way to plan and publish across platforms.When you have a social media calendar, you ensure a consistent posting cadence and remove the stress of having to come up with ideas on the fly.In this guide, we’ll explain in greater detail what a social media calendar is and how to create one.What Is a Social Media Calendar?A social media calendar is a detailed overview of your upcoming social media posts that lays out what you’ll post, where you’ll post it, and when it will go live. A simple social media calendar might just include…
Have you ever installed a new drive or bought a new phone, only to find that you’re missing a few gigabytes from your storage. Granted, it’s only a few gigabytes—you’ll get 476GB out of the 512GB you’re supposed to have. But it’s an important enough difference to just ignore it. So, what’s up with that? Decimal vs. Binary Credit: Radu Bercan / Shutterstock The difference is actually not because whoever made your SSD or hard drive is evil and wants to scam you, but rather, a technicality in how storage is actually calculated vs. how it’s marketed. Humans naturally count in…
A massive wave of exploitation attempts has followed the disclosure of CVE-2026-1281, a critical pre-authentication Ivanti EPMM vulnerability, the Shadowserver Foundation has warned. Some of it is automated scanning for vulnerable systems, but according to Greynoise and Defused, a suspected initial access broker has been prepping unpatched instances with a “sleeper” webshell for follow-on exploitation by other threat actors. “On February 9, Defused Cyber reported a campaign deploying dormant in-memory Java class loaders to compromised EPMM instances at the path /mifs/403.jsp. The implants require a specific trigger parameter to activate, and no follow-on exploitation was observed at the time of…
ChatGPT processed 2.5 billion prompts per day as of July 2025.¹ That’s 18% of Google’s 13.7 billion daily searches, based on the 5 trillion searches per day they announced in January 2025.²While ChatGPT has nearly a fifth of Google’s query volume, people use the platforms in different ways.I wanted to see how ChatGPT compared to Google, not just on the total number of searches, but also searches where they compete with Google, how much traffic they send to websites, and the CTR differences in the systems.Let’s dig in.65% of ChatGPT usage qualifies as search, but this can be lower depending on…
Windows has come a long way from the XP days. With the latest iteration, it’s more modern, feels more fluid, and works better. However, even with every upgrade since—from Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and now 11—one tool that’s been constant in my app stack is a little graphic viewer called IrfanView. It’s not the only forgotten Windows XP feature that still works in Windows 11, but it’s definitely the one I use the most. IrfanView, for the most part, still looks the same as it did in its XP days, but that doesn’t take away from its usability. I…
Consumer, which includes both mobile access and fixed access, including fixed wireless access. Enterprise and industrial, which covers wide-area connectivity that supports knowledge work, automation, machine vision, robotics coordination, field support, and industrial IoT. AI, including applications that people directly invoke, such as assistants, copilots, and media generation, as well as autonomous use cases in which AI systems trigger other AI systems to perform functions and move data across networks. The report outlines three scenarios: conservative, moderate, and aggressive. “Our goal is to present scenarios that fall within a realistic range of possible outcomes, encouraging stakeholders to plan across the…
A surge in LummaStealer infections has been observed, driven by social engineering campaigns leveraging the ClickFix technique to deliver the CastleLoader malware. LummaStealer, also known as LummaC2, is an infostealer operation running as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform that was disrupted in May 2025 when multiple tech firms and law enforcement authorities seized 2,300 domains and the central command structure supporting the malicious service. Infostealing malware targets various sensitive data that can range from credentials and cookies stored in web browsers, cryptocurrency wallet details, and documents to session cookies, authentication tokens, VPN configurations, and account data. Although the law enforcement operation severely disrupted the LummaStealer activity, the MaaS operation started…