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Repetitive tasks are exhausting — I struggle to stay consistent with them, especially those that require my attention every day. Things like posting a reel at a fixed time or sending the same reminder message repeatedly. They’re simple, but also the easiest to forget and the hardest to stay motivated for. After missing one too many of these, I started wondering why I was still doing them manually. If an AI can take work off my plate, this felt like the most obvious place to start. So I handed it over to Claude Cowork, and honestly, I’ve been really impressed…

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Threat actors have migrated to other phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platforms after Tycoon 2FA’s disruption and are reusing its tools, cybersecurity firm Barracuda Networks says. Active since at least 2023, Tycoon 2FA allows threat actors to launch phishing attacks, bypass two-factor authentication, and compromise user accounts. It has been used in attacks against half a million organizations. Last year, Tycoon 2FA accounted for 62% of the phishing attempts seen by Microsoft, and was the most used PhaaS platform, with 89% market share, Barracuda says. In early March, a coordinated effort resulted in the seizure of 330 active Tycoon 2FA domains, but the…

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Traffic from AI sources increased 393% year-over-year in Q1 and 269% in March. But the real surprise? AI traffic is converting better than last year. AI-driven visits converted 42% better than non-AI traffic in March. A year ago, AI traffic was 38% less likely to result in a purchase. By the numbers. Traffic from AI sources increased engagement by 12%, time on site by 48%, and pages per visit by 13%. Adobe also surveyed consumers and found that: 39% have used AI for shopping. Of those, 85% said it improved the experience. 66% believe AI tools provide accurate results. What…

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Android Central Labs (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)Android Central Labs is a weekly column devoted to deep dives, experiments, and a focused look into the tech you use. It covers phones, tablets, and everything in between.When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 series at the end of February, one of the biggest wow moments of the show was Horizontal Lock, a new video recording feature that keeps your videos steady and straight, no matter how much you bounce or turn the phone.While this caught the attention of many people, tech enthusiasts were quick to point out that Motorola had…

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Ravie LakshmananApr 18, 2026Money Laundering / Regulatory Compliance Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-incorporated cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.K. and the U.S. last year, said it’s suspending operations after it blamed Western intelligence agencies for a $13.74 million hack. The exchange said it fell victim to what it described as a large-scale cyber attack that bore hallmarks of foreign intelligence agency involvement. This attack led to the theft of over 1 billion rubles in user funds. “Digital forensic evidence and the nature of the attack point to an unprecedented level of resources and technological sophistication – capabilities typically available exclusively to the…

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Hidden FeaturesWe love a good hidden feature, that functionality on your device that may not necessarily be active at default but which elevates your experience (or even your life). This series explores our pick of them – and you can read them all here.If you’ve invested in the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, the Galaxy S26+, or the standard model, then you’ve got access to a very useful tool for improving your video viewing experience in any app — though the feature is quite well hidden away.I’m talking about the Audio Eraser, and it uses the magic of AI to identify…

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Another component, Fabric Application Connect, functions as a private, dedicated connectivity marketplace for AI services. It lets enterprises access inference, training, storage, and security providers over private connections, bypassing the public Internet and limiting data exposure during AI development and deployment. Operational visibility is provided through Fabric Insights, an AI-powered monitoring layer that analyzes real-time network telemetry to detect anomalies and predict potential issues before they impact workloads. Fabric Insights integrates with security information and event management (SIEM) platforms such as Splunk and Datadog and feeds data directly into Fabric Super-Agent to support automated remediation. Fabric Intelligence operates on top…

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The security researcher who earlier this month published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Defender is back with two more. The first, dubbed “RedSun,” is another privilege escalation flaw in the same platform. The second, “UnDefend,” allows a standard user to block Microsoft Defender from receiving signature updates or disable it entirely (if Microsoft pushes a major Defender update). And, according to Huntress researchers, all three exploitation techniques have been leveraged in the wild by at least one threat actor. The new exploits The researcher, who goes by Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare Eclipse, released…

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I work with documents all day. Drafts, research dumps, client briefs, and messy meeting notes that someone insists count as a deliverable. At some point, I got tired of assuming which AI tool actually handles that kind of work well, so I tested it properly by pasting real, ugly, long-form content into Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity’s free tiers and seeing what came back. The results weren’t close in every category. For people whose productivity lives inside walls of text, Claude’s free tier does five specific things better than the competition, and they’re not small things. Pulling the real point…

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