EC-Council Expands AI Certification Portfolio to Strengthen the Responsiveness and Security of U.S. AI Talent
With $5.5 trillion in global AI risks exposed and 700,000 U.S. workers in need of reskilling, four new AI certifications and the CISO v4 certification will help bridge the gap between AI adoption and workforce readiness. EC-Council, creator of the world-renowned Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) credential and a global leader in applied cybersecurity education, today […]
As competition intensifies, India’s Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app
Sarvam, an Indian AI startup focused on building models for local languages and users, on Friday launched its Indus chat app for web and mobile users, entering a fast-growing market dominated by global players such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The announcement comes as India becomes a key battleground for generative AI adoption. Recently, OpenAI […]
Remember HQ? “Quiz Daddy” Scott Rogowski returns to the daily mobile game show TextSavvy
Scott Rogowski is a comedian and knows how to make fun of himself. So he ended up printing his photo like a “Wanted” poster and walking around New York City Comic-Con, filming himself asking strangers, “Have you seen this guy?” These passersby looked at the tall bearded man, like someone they had known in a […]
Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate
Different AI labs have different priorities. For example, OpenAI has traditionally focused on consumer users, while rival Anthropic tends to target enterprises. Elon Musk’s xAI, which we recently discovered, has a particular focus on video game walkthroughs. On Friday, Business Insider’s Grace Kay published a detailed and extensive report on xAI, the AI startup recently […]
Ukrainian man jailed for identity theft for helping North Korean get job at US company
A U.S. federal court has sentenced a Ukrainian man to five years in prison for his role in a long-running identity theft operation that helped overseas North Korean workers gain fraudulent employment at dozens of U.S. companies. In 2024, U.S. prosecutors indicted Oleksandr Didenko, a 29-year-old resident of Kyiv, on charges of stealing the identity […]
Tesla loses $243 million bid to overturn Autopilot verdict
A judge has denied Tesla’s request to overturn a $243 million jury verdict that held Tesla partly responsible for a fatal crash involving its autonomous driving assistance system, Autopilot. “The basis for relief relied upon by Tesla is substantially the same as the claims Tesla has asserted previously during the trial and at the summary […]
Meta’s Metaverse leaves virtual reality
Meta on Thursday announced a major update to its immersive virtual world Horizon Worlds that will leave the Metaverse behind. The tech giant said it is shifting Horizon Worlds’ focus to be “nearly mobile-only” and has “explicitly separated” the Quest VR platform from the virtual world. Meta’s VR and smart glasses development division, Reality Labs, […]
“Proof by blackmail”: AI confidently solves “impossible” math problems. But will that convince the world’s top mathematicians?
The 2025 Secret Conference brought together the world’s leading mathematicians to test OpenAI’s latest large-scale language model, o4-mini. Experts at the conference were surprised at how the model’s responses sounded like real mathematicians when performing complex proofs. Ken Ono, a professor of number theory at the University of Virginia, said at the time: “I’ve never […]
Lucid Motors cuts 12% of its workforce in pursuit of profits
Lucid Motors will lay off 12% of its workforce to “improve operational efficiency and optimize resources as we continue on our path to profitability,” according to an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch. Hourly workers in manufacturing, logistics and quality teams will not be affected by the layoffs, according to a memo sent to employees who […]
BeyondTrust vulnerabilities used for web shells, backdoors, and data leaks
Ravi LakshmananFebruary 20, 2026Vulnerability/Cyber attack Threat actors are exploiting recently disclosed critical security flaws affecting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products to This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score: 9.9) and allows an attacker to execute operating system commands in the context of a site user. In a report released […]