AWS Wants to Make Your AI Agents More Intelligent and More Human
At AWS re:Invent 2025 Amazon announced a suite of upgrades to Amazon Connect aimed at making AI agents sound and act more like humans. The enhancements leverage Nova Sonic speech models to deliver natural, multi‑language conversations with appropriate tone and pacing. Integrated clickstream analytics and customer history enable agents to anticipate needs, suggest personalized products, and automate routine tasks such as documentation. A new observability layer provides full transparency into AI decision‑making, helping firms ensure compliance and fine‑tune performance.
AWS Wants to Take the Strain Out of Modernizing All Your Old Code - and Ending Tech Debt Quicker than...
AWS announced new agentic AI features for its AWS Transform service at re:Invent 2025, promising to automate legacy code modernization across full‑stack Windows environments. The upgrade claims to cut manual effort by up to 70%, accelerate transformation speeds up to...
Google's AI-Powered Antigravity IDE Already Has some Worrying Security Issues - Here's What Was Found
Google’s Antigravity IDE, an AI‑first development environment, has been found to allow its coding agent to execute terminal commands automatically under default settings. Researchers at PromptArmor demonstrated prompt‑injection attacks that let untrusted input trigger unintended code execution and file access....
Why a Minimal UX Philosophy Outperforms During Peak Season
During the peak "Golden Quarter," retailers who strip away excess banners, pop‑ups and complex checkout steps are seeing conversion lifts of up to 35 %. Research cited in the article shows 61 % of visitors leave if they can’t find what they...
“I Promise You, You Will Have Work to Do” - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Urges Everyone to Use AI as...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told employees to automate every feasible task with AI, branding any effort to curb usage as "insane." His directive came after the company posted another record quarter, yet the stock fell amid investor doubts about sustained...
Careful! That Calendar Notification Could Be Loaded with Malware - Here's How to Stay Safe
Researchers at Bitsight have uncovered a new attack vector that exploits calendar subscription features in popular apps. When a calendar provider’s domain expires or is compromised, cyber‑criminals can hijack the .ics feed and inject malicious links into users’ schedules. The...
AWS Re:Invent 2025 - All the News and Updates as It Happens
AWS re:Invent 2025 kicked off in Las Vegas with live coverage highlighting three marquee keynotes. CEO Matt Garman opened the event outlining Amazon’s multi‑year cloud strategy, followed by AI and Data VP Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian unveiling the next generation of...
Shopify Is Down– Here's What We Know About Its Cyber Monday Outage
Shopify experienced a widespread login outage on Cyber Monday, beginning around 9:08 am ET, affecting the admin dashboard for thousands of merchants globally. While storefronts continued to process sales, merchants were unable to access their back‑office, prompting numerous reports on Downdetector and...
Why the Most Impactful AI Strategies Still Start and End with People
AI agents are emerging as powerful productivity tools, but PwC argues they are amplifiers rather than replacements for human talent. Executives view AI agents as a near‑term competitive advantage, with 73 % expecting significant gains, yet success hinges on aligning agents...
Security Researcher Uncovers 17,000 Secrets in Public GitLab Repositories
Security researcher Luke Marshall scanned public GitLab Cloud repositories and uncovered more than 17,000 exposed secrets across 2,800 unique domains. The findings dwarf similar scans of Bitbucket (6,200 secrets) and Common Crawl (12,000 valid secrets). Most leaked credentials were recent...
Brace Yourself, ChatGPT Fans –an OpenAI Leak Suggests Ads Could Come to Your Conversations Very Soon
OpenAI is reportedly testing an advertising feature in the ChatGPT Android app, as hidden code references an “ads feature,” “bazaar content,” and a “search ads carousel.” The beta version (1.2025.329) suggests a rollout could be imminent, though timing and integration...
Want to Skip the Line for Gemini for Home Access? This Simple Hack Is Working for some Users
Google is gradually rolling out Gemini for Home, an AI‑powered upgrade to its smart‑home platform, but access is limited to a waiting list and primarily US users. A Reddit‑discovered hack lets Android users trigger the update by opening the googlehome://assistant/voice/setup URL in...
Engineers for the Future: Championing Innovation Through People, Purpose and Progress
Canon UK’s Steve Cooper argues that engineering innovation now hinges on an "innovation mindset" that blends AI, data, and sustainability with people‑centric purpose. He highlights how predictive maintenance and connected devices are cutting downtime, travel emissions, and costs for service...
OpenAI Reveals ChatGPT’s Most Popular Features – and the Top One Might Surprise You
OpenAI marked ChatGPT’s third birthday by releasing usage data that shows the chatbot now handles roughly 29,000 messages per second and serves 800 million weekly active users. Across the globe, three‑quarters of interactions revolve around practical guidance, information retrieval, and text...
FBI Says Hackers Have Stolen $262 Million in Account Takeover Scams in 2025 so Far - Here's How You Can...
The FBI reports that cybercriminals have stolen over $262 million through account‑takeover scams in 2025, based on more than 5,100 complaints. Attackers use AI‑enhanced phishing, holiday‑themed domains, and mobile scams to hijack financial, payroll, and health‑savings accounts. Victims often lose money...
Meta and Google Could Be About to Sign a Mega AI Chip Deal - and It Could Change Everything in...
Meta is in advanced talks to rent Google Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) in 2026 and move to direct purchases in 2027, marking a shift from its traditional mix of CPUs and GPUs. The potential multibillion‑dollar agreement has lifted Alphabet’s...
Talk About a Triple Threat - IBM Says It Can Now Support up to 47PB on a Full Rack, so...
IBM announced that its Storage Scale System 6000 can now deliver up to 47 petabytes of storage in a single rack, a three‑fold increase over the previous 2.2 PB limit. The expansion relies on new All‑Flash Expansion Enclosures that pack 26 × 122 TB QLC SSDs...
The Best Robot Vacuum 2025: Top Robovacs to Keep Every Home Dust-Free
TechRadar’s 2025 robot‑vacuum guide ranks the Roborock Qrevo Curv as the top model, highlighting its 18,500 Pa suction, dual‑spinning mop, and self‑emptying dock. The guide evaluated 94 units, including 17 new releases, to compare performance, price, and features across the market....
The Project Management Imperative for a Greener Future
The Project Management Institute’s latest report shows that organizations embedding AI across the enterprise achieve a 31% success rate on energy‑efficiency projects, far outpacing the 8% rate of firms still experimenting. Success hinges on three pillars: data readiness, leadership preparedness,...
“There's No Such as 100% - We Just Try and Raise the Bar” - We Hear What It Takes to...
Lenovo’s AI and security chief emphasizes a company‑wide security culture, noting that data protection is a shared responsibility rather than a siloed function. He cites strong backing from CEO Yuanqing Yang and highlights the challenges posed by hybrid work and...
ICYMI: The 7 Biggest Tech Stories of the Week, From ChatGPT's Voice Mode Upgrade to the Black Friday Sales
TechRadar’s weekly roundup spotlights seven diverse tech stories, from OpenAI’s upgraded ChatGPT voice mode to Kodak’s $99 Snapic A1 35mm film camera. Garmin teased a potential screenless wearable, while Insta360 announced a Dec 4 launch for its Antigravity A1 360° drone....
Tackling Cybersecurity Burnout, Once and for All
Cybersecurity burnout is reaching crisis levels, with 76% of professionals reporting fatigue in the past year and 69% seeing it worsen between 2023 and 2024. The chronic stress threatens productivity, job satisfaction, and can lead to costly security incidents. Experts...
That's Not Very Trendy of Them - AI Browsers Can Be Hacked with a Simple Hashtag, Experts Warn
Researchers at Cato Networks have uncovered a new attack vector called “HashJack,” which embeds malicious instructions in URL fragments after a hashtag. AI‑assisted browsers process these hidden fragments locally, allowing attackers to steer the assistant without the server ever seeing...
Cloudways vs InMotion Hosting: Which Is Better for WordPress Sites?
The comparison pits Cloudways against InMotion Hosting for WordPress sites, highlighting that Cloudways starts at $14 per month while InMotion begins at $6. Cloudways bundles a managed‑service layer with a polished dashboard, AI‑driven Copilot monitoring, and automated backups, whereas InMotion...
Another Major Survey Warns AI Could Lead to Major Job Cuts at Your Business
A new BearingPoint survey finds half of global executives say their workforce is already 10‑19% over capacity, and 45% anticipate a 30‑50% surplus within three years. The study highlights back‑office, customer service, and entry‑level finance and HR roles as most...
Microsoft Teams Guest Access Could Let Hackers Bypass some Critical Security Protections
Microsoft Teams recently enabled a guest chat feature that lets any user start a conversation with an external email address, even if the recipient does not use Teams. The feature is turned on by default for many small‑business licenses and...
Zendesk Users Targeted by Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters Hackers and Fake Support Sites
The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters gang has expanded its phishing campaign to target Zendesk users, registering more than 40 typosquatted domains that mimic legitimate Zendesk URLs. Researchers at ReliaQuest identified these domains, all registered through NiceNic and protected by Cloudflare‑masked nameservers....
This Cheap, Compact Projector Can Turn Your Wall Into a Giant Whiteboard – and It Has Gesture Controls Too
Honor introduced the Choice Bee AI Projector Air, a compact 1080p projector that supports stylus input and gesture controls, effectively turning any wall into an interactive whiteboard. Priced at roughly CNY 599 (about $85), it offers 280 lumens, Wi‑Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, HDMI 2.0...
Perplexity AI’s New Clothes Try-On Tool Takes on Google – I Tested It and I'm Starting to Get Addicted to...
Perplexity AI has added a virtual‑try‑on feature to its shopping suite, rolling it out to all Pro and Max subscribers. Users upload a selfie or full‑body photo, and the system generates a digital avatar that can model individual clothing items...
These Worrying Security Flaws Could Put Every Major Cloud Provider at Risk - Here's What We Know so Far
Researchers at Oligo Security disclosed five critical vulnerabilities (CVE‑2025‑12969 to CVE‑2025‑12978) in the open‑source log processor Fluent Bit. The flaws permit log manipulation, authentication bypass, and remote code execution across major cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Fluent Bit’s...
OpenAI Apologizes for Big Mixpanel Data Breach that Exposed Emails and More – Here's What We Know
OpenAI disclosed that a data breach at its analytics vendor Mixpanel leaked limited developer information, including names, email addresses, and coarse location data. The breach did not affect ChatGPT users, API keys, passwords, or payment details, and OpenAI terminated Mixpanel’s...
Opera Neon’s AI Researcher Does in One Minute What Used to Take a Dozen Tabs
Opera Neon introduced a one‑minute Deep Research mode powered by its Opera Deep Research Agent (ODRA), delivering citation‑backed mini‑reports in roughly 60 seconds. The update also adds a model selector that lets users toggle between AI engines such as Gemini 3 Pro...
Get Business-Grade Cloud Storage for Just $1 per Month This Black Friday
Ionos is slashing its HiDrive Business plan to $1 per month for the first year, a 90% Black Friday discount, then rising to $7 per month—a 30% reduction from the regular rate. The plan provides 1 TB of storage, support for...
Google Hints at Google Assistant Shutdown Date for Android Auto – Here's What that Means for You
Google’s support page reveals that the current Google Assistant will be retired from Android Auto as early as March 2026, with the Gemini AI model taking its place. The transition is positioned as a move toward more natural, conversational interactions that...
More Job Cuts on the Way? MIT Study Claims AI Could Currently Replace 12% of Total US Jobs Market
An MIT and Oak Ridge study using the Iceberg Index finds that 11.7% of the U.S. labor force—about 151 million workers—could already be replaced by artificial intelligence, translating into roughly $1.2 trillion in annual wages at risk. The analysis covers 923 occupations...
Amazon Blocks ChatGPT's New Shopping Agent – What the Fallout Could Mean for You
OpenAI’s Shopping Research and Perplexity’s new shopping assistant launched this week, offering AI‑driven price comparison, review analysis, and product recommendation. In response, Amazon updated its robots.txt to block ChatGPT from scraping its site, cutting off access to Amazon product pages,...
AWS Is Building a New DNS Backstop to Prevent Further Outages
Amazon Web Services announced Accelerated Recovery for Route 53, a feature that guarantees a 60‑minute recovery time objective for DNS changes in the US East (N. Virginia) region. The enhancement lets customers modify public hosted zones and provision infrastructure during regional...
Popular JavaScript Library Can Be Hacked to Allow Attackers Into User Accounts
A critical vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑12816) was discovered in the widely used Node‑forge JavaScript cryptography library, allowing attackers to craft malicious ASN.1 structures that bypass signature and certificate validation. The flaw carries an 8.6/10 severity rating and affects an ecosystem with roughly...
This Devious Botnet Tried a Trial Run During the Recent AWS Outage - so when Will It Be Back?
A new Mirai‑based botnet called ShadowV2 briefly emerged during the recent AWS outage, operating for roughly 15 hours. The cloud‑native malware infected IoT devices such as routers, NAS boxes and DVRs across more than two dozen countries, targeting vulnerabilities in...
UBTech Strikes Deal with China to Assist at Border Crossings, and This Isn't a Dystopian Nightmare at All
UBTech announced a $37 million contract with a Chinese province to deploy its Walker S2 humanoid robots at the China‑Vietnam border. The robots will handle patrols, traveler guidance, and logistics, leveraging rapid battery swapping and an onboard large‑language model for communication. UBTech...
Sam Altman Wants His AI Device to Feel Like 'Sitting in the Most Beautiful Cabin by a Lake,' But It...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an AI‑first device that promises a serene, cabin‑by‑the‑lake experience while delivering context‑aware assistance. The hardware is designed to monitor users continuously, gathering location, speech, mood and habit data to personalize interactions. Critics argue the device...
Please Don't Date Your AI because It Will Never Love You or Pick up the Check
EVA AI, a virtual‑dating startup, announced a pop‑up AI Date Café in New York slated for December, where patrons will sit opposite a smartphone displaying an AI companion. The concept blends physical ambience with a digital “girlfriend” experience, using phone...
DeleteMe Has Discounted All Plans by 30% - Scrub Your Data From the Internet for Less This Black Friday
DeleteMe, a data‑removal service that scrubs personal information from online data brokers, announced a 30% discount on all subscription plans for Black Friday. The promotion applies to its basic, advanced and premium tiers, which already cover removal from hundreds of...
AWS Might Now Have Around 900 Data Centers - That's Twice as Many as Previously Thought
Leaked data indicates Amazon Web Services operated roughly 914‑924 data centers in 2023, more than double earlier estimates of 100‑475. The count spans over 50 countries and is expected to rise as AWS adds new availability zones, regions, and a...
Stop Paying Full Price: Get 5 Years of Genuine Microsoft 365 with up to 54% Discount for Black Friday
Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions are slashed for Black Friday on Newegg, with the Family plan at $86.99 (33 % off) and the Personal plan at $45.99 (54 % off). Both are 12‑month licences that can be bought in multiples to lock...
HP Set to Cut Thousands of Staff as It Announces Major AI Adoption Project
HP announced a plan to eliminate between 4,000 and 6,000 positions worldwide by 2028, framing the cuts as part of its fiscal‑2026 cost‑reduction agenda driven by AI‑enabled productivity gains. The company has already realized more than $1.4 billion in savings and...
The Next Frontier for AI-Ready Connectivity: Efficiency in Deployment
The UK now has FTTH coverage in 74% of homes, but the next growth hurdle is deployment efficiency rather than technology. Operators are adopting pre‑terminated cables, bend‑insensitive pull‑friendly designs, and smarter packaging to slash installation time and waste. AI‑driven installation...
The New Holiday Shopping Concierge Is AI: Why Conversational Search Will Shape Black Friday & Cyber Monday
The article outlines how AI‑driven conversational search is replacing traditional keyword‑based product discovery for holiday shopping. Shoppers can articulate detailed intents—such as budget, use case, and constraints—and receive curated SKU recommendations with rationale. Brands and publishers stand to benefit from...
Emergency Alert Systems Across US Disrupted Following OnSolve CodeRED Cyberattack
OnSolve, a cloud‑based mass‑notification platform, suffered a targeted cyber‑attack that forced the shutdown of its legacy CodeRED system. The breach, claimed by ransomware group INC Ransom, resulted in the removal of user contact data and passwords, with a leak possible....
Our Favorite AI Voice Recorders Got a Big Black Friday Price Cut - and Every Business Professional Should Try Them
Plaud’s AI‑powered voice recorders, the Note and NotePin, are now discounted to $128 in the US and £119 in the UK for Black Friday. Both devices capture audio and deliver real‑time transcriptions and summaries in 112 languages, positioning them as...