Cybersecurity firm Intel471 found that Italian organizations account for roughly 7% of all initial-access listings sold on cybercrime forums, second only to the United States at 30%. The company also ranks Italy fourth globally among countries most targeted by ransomware, a disproportionate share given its size and economy. Analyst Gianluca Tiepolo said the investigation began after Italy repeatedly topped the firm's internal monthly threat reports.
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A QR code hides its destination until you have already opened it. susQR is a free web tool that checks the link first, and it is worth keeping one tap away.
The GSMA, which oversees the RCS messaging standard, warns that RCS has a six-to-twelve month window to establish itself as a conversational, AI-capable platform rather than a one-way notification tool. GSMA Intelligence data shows people receive about 3.2 billion RCS messages daily, but businesses sent only around 20 billion RCS messages in all of 2025, versus roughly 15 SMS messages per subscriber monthly. The GSMA says it is developing new conversational features but has not announced specifics or timelines.
An agent is a language model given tools and a loop. That single design choice explains both why agents can finish real work and why they fail in ways a chatbot never could.
Google is rolling out sponsored listings in AI Mode search results to India, Australia, Canada, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Singapore, with Brazil, Mexico and the UK slated to follow later in Q4 2026. The company says ads will carry a 'Sponsored' label to separate them from AI-generated answers, and in the US it is also testing ads that appear during follow-up questions within the same AI Mode conversation.
Quishing works because a QR code gives you nothing to judge before you commit. Here is what the scams look like in practice and the habits that defuse them.
Ole Bielfeldt, a 25-year-old German photographer, won the 2026 Nikon Small World photomicrography competition, beating 1,802 entries from 69 countries. His winning image captured ink droplets suspended mid-air as an inkjet printer deposited them onto paper, achieved by disassembling the printer and using a flash in a dark room to freeze the fast-moving droplets. Bielfeldt, self-taught since discovering an old microscope during COVID-19 lockdown, says he does not use AI and relies on traditional techniques and custom-built tools.
A new router upgrades the link between your devices and the router. Almost nothing people complain about lives on that link, which is why the box rarely delivers the numbers on it.
Samsung has launched "Samsung Wallet Perks" in partnership with Rakuten, letting users earn cash back from thousands of US retailers including LEGO, Sephora, Expedia, PetSmart, Gap, and Lands' End. The rewards are deposited into a user's Samsung Cash Card, which can then be used to pay for purchases or transferred to other users via NFC tap.
Security researcher Orange Tsai of DEVCORE publicly detailed a Microsoft Edge sandbox-escape exploit chain built entirely from five logic bugs and two Windows features, with no memory corruption or AI assistance involved. The chain earned him $175,000 and 17.5 Master of Pwn points at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, and he has since presented the full methodology at HITCON and Hexacon.
A blog post challenges the common assumption that a post-scarcity, superintelligent-AI future means humans will simply 'hang out' in leisure, as depicted in sci-fi like the Culture novels. The author argues the social structures that normally bring people together—work, education, communities of practice like open-source coding—will be dissolved by AI making human collaboration unnecessary, and that AI-generated content offers an ever-improving alternative to real companionship.
OpenAI has enabled its ChatGPT 'Dot' AI agents to communicate directly through Google Messages (RCS) on Android and iMessage on iPhone. Dots can proactively text updates, photos, or voice notes about ongoing tasks and retain context from prior conversations across ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams. The feature is currently a preview limited to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US.
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