Google’s John Mueller offered a simple solution to a Redditor who blamed Google’s “AI” for a note in the SERPs saying that the website was down since early 2026. The Redditor didn’t create a post on Reddit, they just linked to their blog post that blamed Google and AI. This enabled Mueller to go straight to the site, identify the cause as having to do with JavaScript implementation, and then set them straight that it wasn’t Google’s fault. Redditor Blames Google’s AI The blog post by the Redditor blames Google, headlining the article with a computer science buzzword salad that…
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In late January, Apple officially acquired the rights to makes movies and TV shows based on the works of author Brandon Sanderson, a hugely successful fantasy writer whose books have been begging to be adapted for many years. As Sanderson himself explains in the video message below, he’s talked with people in Hollywood before about bringing his novels to the screen, but for one reason or another it never worked out. “This feels really different this time. I think this one is really going to happen,” he says. It’s no coincidence that it finally feels different with Apple, which over…
Dutch mobile phone carrier Odido has disclosed a data breach impacting the personal information of over 6 million customers. The incident, the company said in a notice, occurred on February 7-8 and involved unauthorized access to a customer contact system. Customers of both Odido and its subsidiary Ben were affected. During the attack, the hackers stole customer information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, customer numbers, bank account numbers, and passport or driver’s license numbers and validity. The mobile phone carrier said its services have not been impacted by the incident and that no passwords,…
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The New York Times reported that Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses. According to an internal Meta document, the company may launch the product “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” This is a bad idea that Meta should abandon. If adopted and released to the public, it would violate the privacy rights of millions of people and cost the company billions of dollars in legal battles. Your biometric data, such as your faceprint, are some of…
Cloudflare yesterday announced its new Markdown for Agents feature, which serves machine-friendly versions of web content alongside traditional human-facing pages. Cloudflare described the update as a response to the rise of AI crawlers and agentic browsing. When a client requests text/markdown, Cloudflare fetches the HTML from the origin server, converts it at the edge, and returns a Markdown version. The response also includes a token estimate header intended to help developers manage context windows. Early reactions focused on the efficiency gains, as well as the broader implications of serving alternate representations of web content. What’s happening. Cloudflare, which powers roughly…
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 I was in middle school, I was enamored with the idea of making my own video game. Through the rudimentary nature of the AOL-era internet, I learned Visual Basic and proceeded to make very basic games. That was enough of a spark to get me to try my hand at harder coding languages, but I quickly realized I was in over my…
Nvidia noted that cost per token went from 20 cents on the older Hopper platform to 10 cents on Blackwell. Moving to Blackwell’s native low-precision NVFP4 format further reduced the cost to just 5 cents, so a basic upgrade gave a 4x improvement in cost per token while maintaining the accuracy that customers expect. Nvidia outlined four industry deployments in a blog post showing how this combination of Blackwell infrastructure, NVFP4, optimized software stacks and open-source models delivers significant cost reductions. They break down like this: Healthcare — In healthcare, tedious, time-consuming tasks like medical coding, documentation and managing insurance…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 13, 2026Malware / Critical Infrastructure Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base (DIB) sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The tech giant’s threat intelligence division said the adversarial targeting of the sector is centered around four key themes: striking defense entities deploying technologies on the battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine War, directly approaching employees and exploitation of the hiring process by North Korean and Iranian actors, use of edge devices and appliances as initial access pathways for China-nexus…
Proofpoint has acquired Acuvity, strengthening its platform with AI-native visibility, governance, and runtime protection for AI and agent-driven workflows. As generative AI reshapes how work gets done, organisations are deploying AI copilots, autonomous agents, and model-connected applications across every function, from software development and customer support to finance and legal. While these technologies unlock unprecedented productivity and innovation, they also introduce new classes of risk, including shadow AI, sensitive data exposure, intellectual property loss, regulatory violations, and emerging AI-specific attacks such as prompt injection and model manipulation. Securing AI in the agentic workspace With this acquisition, Proofpoint expands its human…