Alexa+ now has a new “Adults Only” personality option that lets you swear but stays out of NSFW content
Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ has a new personality. The company announced Thursday that it is expanding the lineup of personality styles users can choose from, including adding an adult-only “Sassy” option. Amazon notes that users must undergo an additional security check in the Alexa app before choosing to use the Sassy personality. Personality styles will […]
Alexa+ now has a new “Adults Only” personality option that swears but doesn’t do NSFW content
Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ has a new personality. The company announced Thursday that it is expanding the lineup of personality styles users can choose from, including adding an adult-only “Sassy” option. Amazon notes that users must undergo an additional security check in the Alexa app before choosing to use the Sassy personality. Personality styles will […]
Wonderful raises $150 million in Series B at $2 billion valuation
Israeli AI agent startup Wonderful has raised $150 million in a Series B funding round, valuing it at $2 billion, just four months after the company raised $100 million in Series A funding. The new round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors including Index Ventures, IVP, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Vine […]
Rivian R2 launch: Here’s what you get for $57,990
Two years after revealing what its next-generation affordable EV will look like, Rivian has shared all the pricing, colors, and performance specs for its upcoming R2 SUV. And like many new car releases, it’s complicated. Bottom line: Rivian’s bid to sell a more affordable EV that is accessible to a broader market will cost between […]
How to Scale Phishing Detection in Your SOC: 3 Steps for CISOs
Phishing has quietly turned into one of the hardest enterprise threats to expose early. Instead of crude lures and obvious payloads, modern campaigns rely on trusted infrastructure, legitimate-looking authentication flows, and encrypted traffic that conceals malicious behavior from traditional detection layers. For CISOs, the priority is now clear: scale phishing detection in a way that […]
OAuth Trap, EDR Killer, Signal Phishing, Zombie ZIP, AI Platform Hack & More
Ravie LakshmananMar 12, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking News Another Thursday, another pile of weird security stuff that somehow happened in just seven days. Some of it is clever. Some of it is lazy. A few bits fall into that uncomfortable category of “yeah… this is probably going to show up in real incidents sooner than we’d […]
Bonobos are just as aggressive as chimpanzees, but with a crucial difference – female bonobos
A new study says “hippie” bonobos are just as aggressive as “warrior” chimpanzees. But the findings also reveal some important details about which gender provokes aggression. Female bonobos tended to attack males, and male chimpanzees were more aggressive towards females. They found significantly lower female-to-female aggression in both species. The study focused on animals kept […]
Google uses old news reports and AI to predict flash floods
Flash floods are one of the world’s deadliest weather phenomena, killing more than 5,000 people each year. They are also some of the most difficult to predict. But Google thinks it has solved that problem in an unexpected way: by reading the news. Humans collect a lot of weather data, but flash floods are too […]
Study finds hidden early warning indicators in the Gulf Stream could signal AMOC collapse
The Gulf Stream holds tantalizing clues about when other major Atlantic currents may disrupt due to climate change, a new study finds. The Gulf Stream, which originates in the Gulf of Mexico and exits the U.S. East Coast near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, is a tributary of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a large […]
Attackers Don’t Just Send Phishing Emails. They Weaponize Your SOC’s Workload
The most dangerous phishing campaigns aren’t just designed to fool employees. Many are designed to exhaust the analysts investigating them. When a phishing investigation takes 12 hours instead of five minutes, the outcome can shift from a contained incident to a breach. For years, the cybersecurity industry has focused on the front door of phishing […]