Hackers says they attacked Mailchimp and stole user data – and the community laughed it off
Ransomware operators Everest adds Mailchimp to their data leak site They claimed to have stolen…
Shaping the Future of Cyber Risk Management: QSC Evolves to ROCon
Over the last year, I’ve had the privilege of meeting with thousands of CIOs, CISOs, and security leaders across the globe. What I hear repeatedly is clear: managing cyber risk is more complex than ever, driven by the evolving digital, threat, and regulatory landscape. The number of vulnerabilities is exploding—last year alone, over 40,000 CVEs…
Five Key Facts About People Experiencing Homelessness
President Trump recently signed an executive order on homelessness, mental health, and substance use that leverages federal funding priorities and other administrative tools to encourage states to ban public drug use, remove unhoused people from public spaces, and broaden civil commitment laws to permit involuntary psychiatric civil commitments in more circumstances. The Trump administration also invoked the Home Rule…
How Simplify in the Google app uses AI to make complex text easier to understand
Its helpfulness lies in what it doesn’t do. Summaries cut details out, and explanations might add new context. Simplify does neither. It focuses exclusively on rephrasing for clarity, ensuring the original meaning, details and nuance remain intact. “Summarization tools aim to condense an article to its main topics, often sacrificing details for brevity,” says Sho…
6 NotebookLM features to help students learn
Turning information into knowledge is challenging, whether you are preparing for an exam, starting a new project or exploring a new interest. That’s why we built NotebookLM as your personalized AI partner for research and thinking. It helps you make connections and understand complex material faster. This summer, we introduced learning features like Video Overviews,…
The power of AI in driving personalized product discovery at Snoonu
This post was written with Felipe Monroy, Ana Jaime, and Nikita Gordeev from Snoonu. Managing a massive product catalog in the ecommerce space has introduced new hurdles for retailers who are trying to efficiently connect customers with the items they truly want. Traditional one-size-fits-all approaches often result in lost opportunities and reduced customer engagement. For…
AI Mode in Google Search expands to more languages
Starting today, we’re bringing AI Mode, our most powerful AI search experience, to five new languages for users around the globe: Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. Building a truly global Search goes far beyond translation — it requires a nuanced understanding of local information. With the advanced multimodal and reasoning capabilities of our…
Exoplanet 40 light years from Earth may have right conditions for life
Artist’s impression of the planet TRAPPIST-1e NASA/JPL-Caltech There are promising signs that one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 star system, which lies about 40 light years from Earth, has an atmosphere capable of supporting life. But scientists will need to image it 15 times more to make sure. TRAPPIST-1 is a small red dwarf…
How Yichao “Peak” Ji became a global AI app hitmaker
In 2012, Ji launched his own company, Peak Labs, and later led the development of Magi, a search engine. The tool extracted information from across the web to answer queries—conceptually similar to today’s AI-powered search, but powered by a custom language model. Magi was briefly popular, drawing millions of users in its first month, but…
HTTP Request Signatures – SANS Internet Storm Center
This weekend, I noticed three related headers being used in requests to some of our honeypots for the first time [1]: Signature-Input Signature-Agent Signature These headers are related to a relatively new feature, HTTP Message Signatures, which was standardized in RFC 9421 in February last year [2]. First, what is the problem…
Dinosaur teeth reveal secrets of Jurassic life 150 million years ago
What did long-necked dinosaurs eat – and where did they roam to satisfy their hunger? A team of researchers has reconstructed the feeding behavior of sauropods using cutting-edge dental wear analysis. Their findings, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, show that microscopic enamel wear marks provide surprising insights into migration, environmental conditions, and niche distribution…
