We may earn a commission from links on this page. Amazon announced Alexa+, its overhauled digital assistant with generative AI capabilities, about a year ago. Shortly thereafter, it kicked off an early access program allowing interested users to try it out free of charge. Unfortunately, that honeymoon period has come to an end: Alexa+ has now officially launched, and now you’ll need to pay to access its most useful features.While certain features will still be free to use, the majority of the Alexa+ experience is now locked behind a paywall. True, you might already pay for that paywall—but if you…
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Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Malware / Endpoint Security Threat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of “disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features” to bypass traditional detection mechanisms and deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) known as AsyncRAT. “The attack leverages IPFS-hosted VHD files, extreme script obfuscation, runtime decryption, and in-memory shellcode injection into trusted Windows processes, never dropping a decrypted binary to disk,” Securonix researchers Akshay Gaikwad, Shikha Sangwan, and Aaron Beardslee said in a report shared with The Hacker News. AsyncRAT is an open-source malware that provides…
Luxury and frugality don’t usually go hand in hand. Most people assume a luxury vehicle comes with indulgence, not savings—but some SUVs are proving you can have both. Thanks to stricter emissions rules and fuel economy standards, automakers have found clever ways to make luxury more efficient. The result is an indulgent ride that won’t drain your wallet at the pump. In the luxury world, Germany still leads the pack. If you’re after the most fuel-efficient German luxury SUV, this model hits the sweet spot with style, charm, and plenty of character. In order to give you the most up-to-date…
Researchers at Tenable have disclosed two vulnerabilities, collectively referred to as “LookOut,” affecting Google Looker. Because the business intelligence platform is deployed by more than 60,000 organizations in 195 countries, the flaws could give attackers a path to system takeover or access to sensitive corporate data. The uncovered vulnerabilities The most critical discovery, a RCE chain, allows an attacker to take full control of a Looker server by running their own malicious commands remotely. This action essentially provides attackers with the “keys to the kingdom”, allowing them to steal sensitive secrets, manipulate data, or pivot further into the internal network.…
Federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. The violence is shocking. So are the intrusions on digital rights. For example, we have a First Amendment right to record on-duty police, including ICE and CBP, but federal agents are violating this right. Indeed, Alex Pretti was exercising this right shortly before federal agents shot and killed him. So were the many people who filmed agents shooting and killing Pretti and Renee Good – thereby creating valuable evidence that contradicts false claims by government leaders. To…
Alphabet reported Q4 2025 revenue of $113.8 billion, beating Wall Street estimates and marking the company’s first year above $400 billion in annual revenue. Google Search grew 17% to $63.07 billion. On the earnings call, the company revealed how it plans to monetize AI Mode and shared new data on how AI is changing search behavior. What’s Happening Google Search and other advertising revenue hit $63.07 billion, up 17% from $54.03 billion in Q4 2024. Search growth accelerated through 2025, rising from 10% in Q1 to 12% in Q2 to 15% in Q3 and 17% in Q4. CEO Sundar Pichai…
Some of the first films ever made were Westerns, going all the way back to when the medium was being invented and pioneered in the 1890s and 1900s. The exploration and conquest of the American frontier has had a death grip on the imagination for well over a hundred years, and there are plenty of modern Westerns that are just as good or better than the classics. For a while, Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone — a modern Western about the powerful Dutton ranching family — was the most popular show on TV. The death grip continues. But Yellowstone has a point…
A threat actor is compromising NGINX servers in a campaign that hijacks user traffic and reroutes it through the attacker’s backend infrastructure. NGINX is open-source software for web traffic management. It intermediates connections between users and servers and is employed for web serving, load balancing, caching, and reverse proxying. The malicious campaign, discovered by researchers at DataDog Security Labs, targets NGINX installations and Baota hosting management panels used by sites with Asian top-level domains (.in, .id, .pe, .bd, and .th) and government and educational sites (.edu and .gov). Attackers modify existing NGINX configuration files by injecting malicious ‘location’ blocks that capture…
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Software development is in an absolute frenzy right now, Scott said. “You have very, very senior people, the best coders you’ve ever met in your life, who are just completely overwhelmed trying to keep up with the rate of progress that’s happening right now.” Optimizing AI development for agents or humans? Sam Altman, co-founder & CEO of OpenAI, suggested the future of software development will be directed more at agent use, rather than human use. “How are we going to rewrite all software to be equally usable by humans and AI? There’s like, a bunch of weird quirks right now about…