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…
Ravie LakshmananApr 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned on Thursday that a high-severity Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability patched earlier this month is now actively exploited in attacks. Apache ActiveMQ is the most popular open-source Java-based message broker for asynchronous communication between applications. Tracked as CVE-2026-34197, the security flaw has gone undetected for 13 years and was discovered by Horizon3 researcher Naveen Sunkavally using the Claude AI assistant. Sunkavally explained that the vulnerability stems from improper input validation, which allows authenticated threat actors to execute arbitrary code via injection attacks. The Apache maintainers patched the vulnerability on March 30in ActiveMQ Classic…
Google Meet used to be pretty bare bones when it was first released, but it has slowly evolved into something more, thanks to some powerful updates that have arrived over the past year. However, there is one aspect that always stands out during every single Google Meet video call, and that’s the less-than-stellar video quality. Sure, it can look a little better depending on the devices you’re using, but if you’ve got some of the best equipment and a robust connection when using Meet, you’re probably expecting better. Well, that’s now about to change, as Google Meet is set to…
A congressional subcommittee on Thursday held a roundtable discussion on the potential of artificial intelligence, which took a turn toward the existential as each lawmaker aired their anxieties about the rapidly evolving technology. Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., expressed alarm that federal workers may be using AI chatbots to handle sensitive government data. Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., asked whether it should be illegal for AI systems to use someone’s likeness to create pornographic images. Rep. John McGuire, R-Va., expressed concerns that AI systems could deny U.S. military forces from taking lethal actions due to a model’s conclusion for “moral” behavior. And…