Google has released an emergency patch for a high‑severity zero‑day in Chrome after confirming active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE‑2026‑2441, the vulnerability is a use‑after‑free bug in Chrome’s CSS handling that can enable remote code execution when a user visits crafted web content. How the flaw works CVE‑2026‑2441 arises from improper lifecycle management of objects in the rendering
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There is a specific kind of silence that only exists in a server room late at night. It isn’t actually quiet—the fans are screaming, the air conditioning is humming like a jet engine, and the hard drives are clicking in a chaotic rhythm. But for those of us who have spent the last two decades in IT, it feels silent
When Money Talks and Machines Mimic: Ransomware, Extortion, and the AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity
The landscape of cyber threats has shifted decisively toward financially motivated crime. Extortion and ransomware now drive more than half of attacks with known motivations, as opportunistic criminal groups scale operations with automated tooling and AI. Speed, automation, and deception combine to inflict outsized damage on vulnerable organizations and public services. Why extortion and ransomware dominate Ransomware and extortion target
Sarvam AI Emerges as a Global Contender, Outperforming Gemini and ChatGPT
India’s Sarvam AI has rapidly gained global attention by delivering top-tier performance on key India-specific AI tasks, demonstrating that focused, localized engineering can outmatch broader, general-purpose models. Sarvam Vision: OCR breakthroughs Sarvam Vision, the company’s optical character recognition model, has achieved standout results on established benchmarks. It posted an accuracy score on olmOCR-Bench that surpasses several high-profile models, and it