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- May- 2026 -6 May
PayPal bets on AI to revive its tech company roots
PayPal is betting on artificial intelligence to modernize its tech platform, shift to cloud-native architecture, and boost developer productivity, aiming…
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Education Tech Giant Instructure Breached, Hackers Steal Student Data
Instructure confirmed a data breach of its Canvas platform, with ShinyHunters hacking group stealing sensitive student data including names, email…
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Google Launches New Data & Experimentation Tools for Better Measurement
Google is upgrading its measurement tools with a focus on data integration, experimentation, and media mix modelling to help advertisers…
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ChatGPT Ads Show Strong Early CTRs, But Scale Remains a Challenge
Early data shows ChatGPT ads achieving higher click-through rates than traditional display and podcast ads, likely due to high-intent user…
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Half of Europe’s youth use AI to discuss intimate topics
Half of Europe's young people now use AI chatbots as confidants for deeply personal topics like relationships and mental health,…
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Inside Ford’s Skunkworks: Designing a $30,000 Electric Pickup
Ford's Electric Vehicle Development Center operates with a lean team of about 480 people, using a simplified drawing and release…
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1990s Search Giant AltaVista Shuts Down
Ask.com shut down its search operations on May 1, 2026, after nearly 30 years, as parent company IAC pivots away…
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Borderlands 4 Boss Sparks Fan Backlash Over AI-Generated Content
Gearbox Entertainment studio head Randy Pitchford faced backlash from Borderlands 4 fans after sharing an AI-generated "selfie" from ChatGPT, leading…
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Trellix confirms data breach after source code theft
Trellix confirmed a data breach where unauthorized actors accessed a portion of its source code repository, with no evidence yet…
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3 best practices for launching human-level agents effectively
Governance must be integrated from the start, with clear policies on data access, decision boundaries, and human escalation, plus regular…
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Debunking 5 Myths of the Agentic Coding Apocalypse
Agentic AI does not eliminate the need for testing, as machine-generated code can introduce novel failure modes, hidden biases, and…
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AI Tailoring Healthcare Solutions for Better Patient Outcomes
AI is shifting from theoretical hype to practical applications, using personalized treatment plans from real-time data to improve patient outcomes…
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. elpy Ransomware Mimics Pay2Key in New Attacks
A new ransomware variant called ".elpy", similar to the "Pay2Key" family, has been detected and has already encrypted a victim's…
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DigiCert Breached After Malicious Screensaver File Used
A social engineering attack on DigiCert's customer support channel, using a malicious ZIP file disguised as a screenshot, allowed an…
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Operant AI Endpoint Protector secures AI agents and MCP tools
Operant AI launched the Operant Endpoint Protector, a new capability within its AI Defense Platform that helps enterprise teams discover,…
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Active Exploitation of cPanel Vulnerability CVE-2026-41940 Underway
Attackers are actively exploiting the cPanel authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940) to deploy "Sorry" ransomware, which encrypts files with a .sorry…
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Blend Autopilot MCP adds AI agent orchestration to lending platforms
Blend Labs launched Autopilot MCP, a server using the Model Context Protocol that allows AI agents secure, programmatic access to…
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Firecrawl Builds the Web Layer Powering AI Agents
Firecrawl has become the largest open source project in its category with over 100,000 GitHub stars and a million registered…
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Google DeepMind Staff Votes to Unionize Over Military AI Contracts
Google DeepMind employees in London have voted to unionize, seeking formal recognition of the Communication Workers Union and Unite the…
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How Third Parties Control Your Brand in AI Search
Generative AI and LLMs are shifting search from link-based results to synthesized answers, making citation on third-party sites more important…
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