Last year, Meta changed the WhatsApp Business Solution Terms in a way that severely limited what third-party AI chatbots are allowed to do (essentially, they were relegated to customer support). The European Commission decided to take a closer look as it sensed potential issues. The investigation is still ongoing, but the Commission feels that it can’t wait for the full investigation to conclude because the delay can cause irreparable harm to competition in the market. “AI markets are developing at rapid pace, so we also need to be swift in our action,” said Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just…
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Eighty million people use Reddit search every week, Reddit said on its Q4 2025 earnings call last week. The increase followed a major change: Reddit merged its core search with its AI-powered Reddit Answers and began positioning the platform as a place where users can start — and finish — their searches. Executives framed the move as a response to changing behavior. People are increasingly researching products and making decisions by asking questions within communities rather than relying solely on traditional search engines. Reddit is betting it can keep more of that intent on-platform, rather than acting mainly as a…
What you need to knowYouTube TV Plans are officially rolling out to consumers this week, though it will extend over “several weeks” before everyone has it.Plans include a Sports plan for $64.99/month and an Entertainment plan for $54.99/month; however, there are combo plans that combine even more content.YouTube TV states these plans are provided at prices lower than what you’d get from its main $82.99/month package.We had it teased in December, and teased again in January by YouTube’s CEO; now the service’s new TV Plans are here.This morning (Feb 9), YouTube TV announced that its “TV Plans” are finally here,…
Thank you to our sponsor:Meter: Visit meter.com/cleartosend to book a demo!Let me walk through what a day in the life of a WLAN Engineer looks like in Higher Education and in a consulting role.Both are different but they share similar characteristics.In Higher Education, the day can start with tickets or with a new Wi-Fi design. We have the flexibility here to design our day. But there’s no doubt it can be filled with unnecessary meetings.For a WLAN Engineer in a consulting role, those meetings can be absolutely necessary in order to have a positive outcome in an engagement.I’ve been fortunate to hold…
However, don’t expect anything anytime soon. Intel’s Director of Global Strategic Partnerships Sanam Masroor outlined the plans in a blog post. Operations are expected to begin in Q1 2026, with prototypes due in 2027 and commercial products by 2030. While Intel has not come out and said it, that memory design is almost identical to HBM used in GPU accelerators and AI data centers. HBM sits right on the GPU die for immediate access to the GPU, unlike standard DRAM which resides on memory sticks plugged into the motherboard. HBM is much faster than DDR memory but is also much…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 09, 2026Cyber Espionage / Virtualization The Cyber Security Agency (CSA) of Singapore on Monday revealed that the China-nexus cyber espionage group known as UNC3886 targeted its telecommunications sector. “UNC3886 had launched a deliberate, targeted, and well-planned campaign against Singapore’s telecommunications sector,” CSA said. “All four of Singapore’s major telecommunications operators (‘telcos’) – M1, SIMBA Telecom, Singtel, and StarHub – have been the target of attacks.” The development comes more than six months after Singapore’s Coordinating Minister for National Security, K. Shanmugam, accused UNC3886 of striking high-value strategic threat targets. UNC3886 is assessed to be active since at least…
For thirty years, internet users have benefited from a key federal law that allows everyone to express themselves, find community, organize politically, and participate in society. Section 230, which protects internet users’ speech by protecting the online intermediaries we rely on, is the legal support that sustains the internet as we know it. Yet as Section 230 turns 30 this week, there are bipartisan proposals in Congress to either repeal or sunset the law. These proposals seize upon legitimate concerns with the harmful and anti-competitive practices of the largest tech companies, but then misdirect that anger toward Section 230. But…
In paid media, many advertisers default to budgeting by ad platform, with a percentage to Google Ads, a percentage to LinkedIn Ads, etc., largely based on habit. Now, AI technology presents new opportunities to marketing leaders to decide where to spend their paid media dollars. Instead of allocating spend based on impression volume or historical channel averages, marketers can explore PPC budget rebalancing around buyer intent signals and conversion probability (likelihood that a specific ad interaction, like a click, will result in a valuable action like a conversion). There are many ways to approach budget strategy in paid media. The…
I’ll be honest with you. I’ve been using Lucidchart for all my flow charting, mapping, or diagram-related needs for quite some time now. It’s a simple, straightforward tool that has all the polish you’d expect, and it makes collaboration easy enough. But lately, I haven’t really needed the collaborative features, and with my move towards shifting all my most used productivity services to my server, I wanted something that would run on my own hardware. That’s what started my search for an alternative and led me to draw.io. The popular tool is now called diagrams.net, but if you’re in self-hosted…
SmarterTools, the company behind the popular Microsoft Exchange alternative SmarterMail, has been breached by a ransomware-wielding group that leveraged a recently fixed vulnerability in that solution. How did the SmarterTools breach happen? Derek Curtis, the firm’s Chief Operating Officer, said that the breach happened on January 29, 2026. “Prior to the breach, we had approximately 30 servers/VMs with SmarterMail installed throughout our network. Unfortunately, we were unaware of one VM, set up by an employee, that was not being updated. As a result, that mail server was compromised, which led to the breach,” he shared last week. The attack ended…