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Google has cleared a major regulatory hurdle in its biggest acquisition to date with the securing of an unconditional antitrust approval from the European Union for its proposed $32 billion takeover of cloud cybersecurity company Wiz. The green light from Brussels removes one of the most closely watched obstacles to a deal that aims to both enhance Google’s security portfolio and raise its position in the cloud computing sector, especially against other competitors like Amazon and Microsoft. What the EU Approved The European Commission examined whether Google could use Wiz’s cloud security tools to disadvantage rival cloud providers or restrict…

Google DeepMind has released D4RT (Dynamic 4D Reconstruction and Tracking), a unified AI model that reconstructs dynamic scenes from video at speeds 18 to 300 times faster than previous methods. The model processes a one-minute video in roughly five seconds on a single TPU chip, while earlier approaches required up to ten minutes for the same task. The model addresses a fundamental challenge in computer vision which is taking flat 2D video sequences and recovering the full 3D world in motion. Unlike traditional systems that rely on multiple specialized models for different tasks like depth estimation, motion tracking, and camera…

South Korea’s technology sector is pushing back against the country’s AI Basic Act, which took effect on January 22, 2026, making it the first nation to enforce a comprehensive legal framework guiding the development and usage of artificial intelligence (AI). The legislation establishes safety and transparency requirements for AI systems, particularly those classified as “high-impact” AI used in healthcare, finance, hiring, and public services. However, the law has triggered widespread concern among startups, industry groups, and civil society organizations who argue that unclear guidelines and rushed implementation threaten to stifle innovation in one of Asia’s most dynamic tech ecosystems. While…

The Aisuru botnet has established a new benchmark in distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), reaching 31.4 terabits per second in a campaign that Cloudflare detected and stopped in December 2025. The attack exceeded the botnet’s previous record of 29.7 Terabits per second (Tbps) from just three months earlier, making it the largest publicly disclosed DDoS attack to date.

The European Commission launched a formal investigation into X on January 26, 2026, with the aim of examining whether the platform properly managed risks when it deployed its Grok’s generative artificial intelligence (gen-AI) features across the European Union. The probe follows incidents in late December 2025 when Grok’s image-editing tool generated sexually explicit deepfakes of women and minors, which immediately prompted regulatory scrutiny and public outrage across multiple countries. The Commission is investigating whether X violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to assess and mitigate systemic risks tied to illegal content distribution, including manipulated sexual images and potential…

UK-based Synthesia has raised $200 million in a Series E funding round, reaching a valuation of $4 billion and nearly doubling the $2.1 billion mark the AI video platform achieved just a year ago. The round was led by existing investor Google Ventures, with participation from Evantic, the venture fund founded by former Sequoia partner Matt Miller, and Hedosophia. Additional backing came from existing investors including NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Accel, Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, PSP Growth, Air Street Capital, FirstMark, and MMC Ventures. The funding represents continued investor confidence in enterprise-focused AI companies that have moved beyond…

Google has rolled out a major redesign of Gemini in Chrome, moving its AI assistant from a floating window into a side panel that stays visible across all browser tabs. The update, announced in late January 2026, represents one of the most substantial integrations of artificial intelligence into mainstream web browsing to date. The redesigned interface positions Gemini on the right side of the browser window, where it remains accessible regardless of which tab users have opened. According to Google, the side panel allows users to multitask more effectively by keeping their main work visible while the AI handles separate…

Hackers have turned unsecured AI systems into their own profit machine through an Operation Bizarre Bazaar campaign. Between December 2025 and January 2026, security researchers at Pillar Security tracked more than 35,000 attacks targeting companies running AI chatbots and language models, stealing computing power, building an entire underground business, and selling cheap access to hijacked AI systems. The campaign, called Operation Bizarre Bazaar, saw criminals scan the internet for AI systems left open to the public, test them to make sure they work, then resell access to other hackers at a discount. Termed “LLMjacking,” it is the first documented case…

A sophisticated cyberattack on Poland’s energy infrastructure in late December 2025 exposed critical vulnerabilities that most organizations assume they’ve already addressed. Russian state-sponsored hackers gained access to approximately 30 distributed energy facilities, including combined heat and power plants, wind farms, and solar installations, by exploiting systems still configured with factory-default usernames and passwords. Polish CERT investigators found that attackers accessed exposed web interfaces using default credentials, then reset the systems to factory settings, changed login passwords, and assigned IP addresses that prevented legitimate users from accessing them. The intrusion, attributed to Russian intelligence-linked groups like the Static Tundra (also called…

Meta Neural Wristband is now in the hands of everyday consumers, a wrist-worn device that reads users muscle signals and turns them into commands for their glasses, with no screen tapping or voice shouting required. The Meta Neural Band uses a technology called surface electromyography, or sEMG, to detect the electrical signals muscles produce movement in fingers. Subtle movements like a thumb swipe, a pinch, or a twist of the wrist, get translated into commands that control the paired Ray-Ban Display glasses. The band doesn’t require any camera to track the hand, and it works even when the hands are…