TECH NEWS
Why You Can Trust CNET Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Reviews ethics statement Can the British wildcard pull off another historic shock and reach the final? 4
TECH NEWS
For years, the artificial intelligence industry operated under a philosophy of rapid innovation. Whilst this benefits sectors like healthcare, the initial wave of optimism surrounding generative models is giving way to a challenging reality. Numerous national security agencies and research bodies are issuing warnings regarding the potential for these models
TECH NEWS
L&T Technology Services, a global leader in Engineering Intelligence Solutions & ER&D Consulting Services successfully concluded Engineering Intelligence (EI) OpenHack 2026, a first-of-its-kind global innovation challenge conducted simultaneously across nine locations spanning India, the U.S. and Europe. The hackathon brought together nearly 4,000 engineers
TECH NEWS
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Technion, and Intuit have detailed a new attack technique dubbed ‘HalluSquatting’ that turns AI assistants’ tendency to hallucinate into a scalable infection vector. The cybersecurity community has identified several ways to hack or hijack AI tools through prompt injection delivered via channels such as emails,
TECH NEWS
A threat actor has built a network of over 200 GitHub repositories that have been delivering Windows malware, supply chain protection provider Socket reports. Dubbed Operation Muck and Load, the campaign involves 222 lure repositories across 190 accounts that contain a Go module designed to trigger the infection chain. The
TECH NEWS
AI can generate code faster than most software organizations can absorb it. This should be a productivity breakthrough, but it also exposes a larger problem: many of the processes surrounding software delivery still happen at human speed. A new white paper from code4thought looks at what happens when AI changes
TECH NEWS
Security researchers at Sysdig have documented what they believe is the first documented case of an AI agent running a ransomware operation from end to end. Dubbed JADEPUFFER, the operation used a large language model (LLM) to automate an attack that began with the exploitation of an internet-facing Langflow instance
TECH NEWS
Eventus Security, a global cybersecurity services provider and AI-powered Integrated Security Operations Centre (SOC) platform company, today announced the release of its Security Operations Market Outlook 2026, a new research report examining the technology, operational and architectural shifts reshaping enterprise cyber defence. Drawing on three consecutive years of security operations
TECH NEWS
Fragmented tools and manual processes are widening the gap between threat awareness and effective CTEM. Only 41% of organisations have a fully consolidated view of cyber risk exposure, and security teams spend 42% of their time investigating risks that turn out to be low priority or non-exploitable At the same
TECH NEWS
As banking steadily shifts from physical to digital, the real differentiator is no longer who adopts technology fastest—but who extracts the most meaningful business value from it. At IndusInd Bank, this philosophy is shaping a technology strategy that goes beyond deployment metrics, focusing instead on tangible outcomes across customer
TECH NEWS
A US county reportedly paid $1 million to Kairos, an extortion gang that claimed to have stolen more than 2 TB of data, but the county never received independently verifiable proof that the stolen files had been deleted - just the criminals' promise. This means the county’s stolen
TECH NEWS
OpenAI unveiled its newest family of models on Thursday, introducing a new set of heavyweight programs into an increasingly crowded field of AI offerings. GPT-5.6 comes in three variants: Sol (considered its workhorse), Terra (a more intermediate option), and Luna (its budget friendly option). These models expand what users
