ThreatsDay Bulletin: OpenSSL RCE, Foxit 0-Days, Copilot Leak, AI Password Flaws & 20+ Stories

• OpenSSL RCE vulnerability threatens legacy systems, demanding urgent patching across enterprises. • Foxit PDF zero-days expose document readers to remote code execution, affectin

Cybersecurity · February 19, 2026 (updated February 23, 2026) · 1 min · 167 words
OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

• Last month, Jason Grad issued a late-night warning to the 20 employees at his tech startup. • ‘You’ve likely seen Clawdbot trending on X/LinkedIn. • While cool, it is currently u

Consumer Tech · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 219 words

Turn your Raspberry Pi into an AI agent with OpenClaw #OpenClaw @Raspberry_Pi

• The tech corners of the internet are buzzing with talk of OpenClaw , an open source AI agent. • Toby Roberts has been playing around with it in the Maker Lab at Raspberry Pi Towe

Open Hardware · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 233 words
75% of Marketers Have Adopted AI, Yet Still Use It to Send Generic Campaigns

75% of Marketers Have Adopted AI, Yet Still Use It to Send Generic Campaigns

• Key Takeaways Customers increasingly expect brands to support back-and-forth conversations, according to 83% of marketers Yet just over half of marketers say they’re able to reli

Practical AI skills for everyone

Practical AI skills for everyone

• Practical AI skills for everyone Feb 19, 2026 Master the AI skills employers value most with the new Google AI Professional Certificate. • General summary Google is launching the

Big Tech · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 250 words
Agentic AI systems don't fail suddenly - they drift over time

Agentic AI systems don't fail suddenly - they drift over time

• Agentic AI rarely crashes; it quietly changes its behavior, and if you’re not measuring that drift, you won’t see trouble coming. • Credit: Michael & Diane Weidner Agentic AI sys

Cisco explores the expanding threat landscape of AI security for 2026 with its latest annual report

Cisco explores the expanding threat landscape of AI security for 2026 with its latest annual report

• Cisco Blogs/Artificial Intelligence - AI/Cisco explores the expanding threat landscape of AI security for 2026 with its latest annual report Cisco explores the expanding threat l

China's AI build-out forces a rapid shift to liquid cooling - massive clusters put pressure on domestic suppliers to shift cooling methods

China's AI build-out forces a rapid shift to liquid cooling - massive clusters put pressure on domestic suppliers to shift cooling methods

• Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Get Tom’s Hardware’s best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. • You are now subscribed Your newslett

Malicious AI

• Malicious AI Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reput

Cybersecurity · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 230 words
Crunchbase Data: The AI Boom Has Drastically Changed Who's Funding The Hottest Companies In 2025 Vs. 2021

Crunchbase Data: The AI Boom Has Drastically Changed Who's Funding The Hottest Companies In 2025 Vs. 2021

• Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn As global venture funding in 2025ratcheted up to the third-highest totalon record after the peak years of 2021 and 2022, capital also concentrated

4 AI strategy archetypes every CIO should know

4 AI strategy archetypes every CIO should know

• How CIOs can drive business value between hype and overcaution. • Credit: Tim Hüfner ‘Such an embarrassment of a flag carrier. • I will never fly AC unless I absolutely have to.’

From Exposure to Exploitation: How AI Collapses Your Response Window

From Exposure to Exploitation: How AI Collapses Your Response Window

• From Exposure to Exploitation: How AI Collapses Your Response Window We’ve all seen this before: a developer deploys a new cloud workload and grants overly broad permissions just

Cybersecurity · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 237 words
Meta patents AI that could keep you posting from beyond the grave

Meta patents AI that could keep you posting from beyond the grave

• Meta patents AI that could keep you posting from beyond the grave Tech bros have beenwanting to become immortalfor years. • Until they get there, their fallback might be continui

Threat Intelligence · February 19, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 2 min · 241 words
Rethinking virtualization in the age of AI

Rethinking virtualization in the age of AI

• Rethinking virtualization in the age of AI IT leaders look to revamp their virtualization strategies as AI demands and cost increases lead to concerns about current setups. • Con

Advancing independent research on AI alignment

• OpenAI commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks.

Why open source is the cheat code for AI

Why open source is the cheat code for AI

• Why open source is the cheat code for AI The frontier of large-language models is shifting daily. • GPT‑5.1, Claude 4.4 and Gemini 3 Pro are now routinely outperforming what seem

Chinese scientists push limits of 300-year-old math problem in sphere packing

Chinese scientists push limits of 300-year-old math problem in sphere packing

• Chinese researchers at Fudan, Peking, and SAIS used AI to solve long‑standing kissing number problem. • AI system Packing Star computed optimal sphere packings in dimensions beyo

Centric updates pricing and inventory platform with AI

Centric updates pricing and inventory platform with AI

• New forecasting engine, simulations and market data tools support lifecycle pricing, allocation and markdown planning. • Centric Software announced updates to Centric Pricing & I

AI is stress-testing processor architectures and RISC-V fits the moment

• Every major computing era has been defined not by technology, but by a dominant workload-and by how well processor architectures adapted to it. • The personal computer era reward

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 191 words
AI breakthrough could replace rare earth magnets in electric vehicles

AI breakthrough could replace rare earth magnets in electric vehicles

• AI breakthrough could replace rare earth magnets in electric vehicles AI has uncovered dozens of high-temperature magnetic materials, paving the way for cheaper, rare-earth-free

Science · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 251 words
A2H: Agent-to-Human Protocol for AI Agent

A2H: Agent-to-Human Protocol for AI Agent

• Computer Science > Human-Computer Interaction [Submitted on 31 Dec 2025] Title:A2H: Agent-to-Human Protocol for AI Agent View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:AI agents are increa

Research & Labs · February 19, 2026 (updated February 20, 2026) · 2 min · 296 words
AI Sessions for Network-Exposed AI-as-a-Service

AI Sessions for Network-Exposed AI-as-a-Service

• Computer Science > Networking and Internet Architecture [Submitted on 17 Feb 2026 (v1), last revised 18 Feb 2026 (this version, v2)] Title:AI Sessions for Network-Exposed AI-as-a

Can LLMs Assess Personality? Validating Conversational AI for Trait Profiling

Can LLMs Assess Personality? Validating Conversational AI for Trait Profiling

• Computer Science > Computation and Language [Submitted on 23 Jan 2026] Title:Can LLMs Assess Personality? • Validating Conversational AI for Trait Profiling View PDF HTML (experi

Research & Labs · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 208 words
Revolutionizing Long-Term Memory in AI: New Horizons with High-Capacity and High-Speed Storage

Revolutionizing Long-Term Memory in AI: New Horizons with High-Capacity and High-Speed Storage

• Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:Revolutionizing Long-Term Memory in AI: New Horizons with High-Capacity and High-Speed Storage View PD

Research & Labs · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 277 words
Revolutionizing Long-Term Memory in AI: New Horizons with High-Capacity and High-Speed Storage

Revolutionizing Long-Term Memory in AI: New Horizons with High-Capacity and High-Speed Storage

• Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:Revolutionizing Long-Term Memory in AI: New Horizons with High-Capacity and High-Speed Storage View PD

Research · February 19, 2026 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 269 words
Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability

Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability

• Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:AI agents are increasin

Research & Labs · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 231 words
Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability

Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability

• Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:AI agents are increasin

Research · February 19, 2026 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 224 words
'No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI'

'No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI'

• ‘No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI’ Feb 19, 2026 Today CEO Sundar Pichai gave remarks at the opening ceremony of the AI Impact Summit. • Read a transcript of his speec

Big Tech · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 390 words
No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI

No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI

• ‘No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI’ Feb 19, 2026 Today CEO Sundar Pichai gave remarks at the opening ceremony of the AI Impact Summit. • Read a transcript of his speec

IBM looks beyond short-term AI gains, tripling entry-level hiring

IBM looks beyond short-term AI gains, tripling entry-level hiring

• IBM looks beyond short-term AI gains, tripling entry-level hiring The tech giant argues that increasing entry-level hiring is the only way to avoid a hollowed-out talent pipeline

Microsoft Rolls Out Next Inference Accelerator to Boost AI in Azure

• The company devised the new Maia 200 inference accelerator to improve cost and performance for AI inference processing in Azure Cloud Services.

Electronics & EE · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 25 words
GLM-5 is live on AI Gateway

GLM-5 is live on AI Gateway

• 1 min read You can now access GLM-5 via AI Gateway with no other provider accounts required. • GLM-5 from Z.AI is now available on AI Gateway. • Compared to GLM-4.7, GLM-5 adds m

Web Development · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 156 words
Use MiniMax M2.5 on AI Gateway

Use MiniMax M2.5 on AI Gateway

• MiniMax M2.5 now available on AI Gateway, enabling full-stack project planning and coding. • It pre-builds functions, structure, UI design before writing code, streamlining devel

Web Development · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 79 words
OpenAI pits AI agents against each other to red team smart contracts

OpenAI pits AI agents against each other to red team smart contracts

• OpenAI has launched a new benchmark that evaluates how well different AI models detect, patch, and even exploit security vulnerabilities found in crypto smart contracts. • OpenAI

FinTech · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 234 words
Apple May Be Adding Support for Conversational AI in CarPlay

Apple May Be Adding Support for Conversational AI in CarPlay

• ai atlas Tech Services & Software AI Apple May Be Adding Support for Conversational AI in CarPlay Hidden in the latest developer guide for iOS 26.4 is support for ‘voice-based co

Consumer Tech · February 19, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 269 words

Checkmarx Extends Vulnerability Detection to AI Coding Tool from AWS

• Checkmarx this week revealed it has added support for the Kiro artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its Checkmarx Developer Assist th

Benchmark of 1.4 million checked protein structures could sharpen AI predictions

• University of Missouri researchers have released the world’s largest collection of protein models with quality assessment-a groundbreaking new resource that could accelerate drug

Science · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 84 words
SiFive's AI's Next Chapter: RISC-V and Custom Silicon

SiFive's AI's Next Chapter: RISC-V and Custom Silicon

• In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence and semiconductor design, open-standard processor architectures are gaining unprecedented traction. • At the center of th

Introducing OpenAI for India

• OpenAI for India expands AI access across the country-building local infrastructure, powering enterprises, and advancing workforce skills.

Ottonomy builds Ottumn.AI platform to orchestrate robots, drones, and smart infrastructure

Ottonomy builds Ottumn.AI platform to orchestrate robots, drones, and smart infrastructure

• Ottobot completes an autonomous curbside parcel delivery orchestrated by Ottumn.AI. • Source: Ottonomy At the India AI Summit today, Ottonomy.IO launched its new Ottumn.AI orches

Digital forestry team combines AI with satellite data to monitor urban trees

• A Purdue University digital forestry team has created a computational tool to obtain and analyze urban tree inventories on public and private lands with record-breaking speed at

Science · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 154 words
Beyond vibe coding: the case for spec-driven AI development

Beyond vibe coding: the case for spec-driven AI development

• We’re so glad you’re here. • You can expect all the best TNS content to arrive Monday through Friday to keep you on top of the news and at the top of your game. • Check

DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Now Integrates with LlamaIndex

DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Now Integrates with LlamaIndex

• DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Now Integrates with LlamaIndex ByNarasimha Badrinath Updated:February 18, 2026 2 min read We’re excited to announce that DigitalOcean Gradient™

AI platforms can be abused for stealthy malware communication

AI platforms can be abused for stealthy malware communication

• AI platforms can be abused for stealthy malware communication February 18, 2026 03:18 PM 0 AI assistants like Grok and Microsoft Copilot with web browsing and URL-fetching capabi

Cybersecurity · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 359 words

OpenAI and Paradigm partner on AI agent tool for smart contract security

• DeFi lending protocol Moonwell and CrossCurve have both recently suffered exploits connected to smart contracts.

Riot Platform's AI/HPC push could net up to $21B, says activist holder

Riot Platform's AI/HPC push could net up to $21B, says activist holder

• Riot Platform’s AI/HPC push could net up to $21B, says activist holder Starboard Value said that ’time is of the essence,’ stressing urgency in Riot getting ‘more material deals

FinTech · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 213 words
A CISO's Playbook for Defending Data Assets Against AI Scraping

A CISO's Playbook for Defending Data Assets Against AI Scraping

• Cyber Risk Commentary Cybersecurity In-Depth: Getting answers to questions about IT security threats and best practices from trusted cybersecurity professionals and industry expe

Cybersecurity · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 259 words
Sam Altman's OpenAI unveils 'EVMbench' to test whether AI can keep crypto's smart contracts safe

Sam Altman's OpenAI unveils 'EVMbench' to test whether AI can keep crypto's smart contracts safe

• Sam Altman’s OpenAI unveils ‘EVMbench’ to test whether AI can keep crypto’s smart contracts safe Developed with Paradigm, the tool is OpenAI’s attempt to determine whether modern

AI Unlocked Decoding Prompt Injection Interactive Challenge

AI Unlocked Decoding Prompt Injection Interactive Challenge

• AI Unlocked challenge focuses on detecting and mitigating prompt injection attacks. • Participants learn to craft prompts that resist malicious manipulation by LLMs. • Interactiv

Cybersecurity · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 3 min · 547 words

GitHub Tests AI Agents to Handle Repository Upkeep

• GitHub is introducing a new approach to streamline developer workflow, offering AI agents that can shoulder the repetitive tasks that accumulate inside code repositories. • Known

Crusoe Launches 'Command Center' Platform for AI Workloads

Crusoe Launches 'Command Center' Platform for AI Workloads

• NewsAI NewsBusiness of HPCNew Installations AI News Business of HPC New Installations HPC-AI HardwareComputeCPUs, GPUs, FPGAsExascaleFuture TechnologyGreen HPCHPC/AI Chips and Sy

Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things - but so can forklifts'

Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things - but so can forklifts'

• BBC/Curious Films/Rory Langdon BBC/Curious Films/Rory Langdon The chances are that you think about artificial intelligence far more today than you did five years ago. • Since Cha

Science · February 18, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 287 words
This local AI quickly replaced Ollama on my Mac - here's why

This local AI quickly replaced Ollama on my Mac - here's why

• This local AI quickly replaced Ollama on my Mac - here’s why Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways Using local AI is responsible and private

Firetiger Enhances Observability for AI-Driven Code

Firetiger Enhances Observability for AI-Driven Code

Firetiger introduces 24/7 agent monitoring to detect anomalies in AI-generated code. Traditional dashboards replaced by automated incident handling, reducing engineering overhead.

Cloud CISO Perspectives: New AI threats report: Distillation, experimentation, and integration

Cloud CISO Perspectives: New AI threats report: Distillation, experimentation, and integration

• CloudCISO Perspectives: New AI threats report: Distillation, experimentation, and integration chief analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Group The latest on security from Google C

Mind the gap: Closing the AI trust gap for developers

Mind the gap: Closing the AI trust gap for developers

• Stack Overflow’s 2025 developer survey revealed a puzzle: Developers’ use of AI rose, with more than 84% of respondents using or planning to use AI tools in 2025. • But their tru

Developer Ecosystem · February 18, 2026 (updated February 25, 2026) · 1 min · 212 words
Unlocking enterprise data to accelerate agentic AI: How Ab Initio does it

Unlocking enterprise data to accelerate agentic AI: How Ab Initio does it

• Unlocking enterprise data to accelerate agentic AI: How Ab Initio does it Head of Development, Ab Initio Data Governance, Sharing & Integration Product Lead, Google Cloud Our mos

Your guide to Provisioned Throughput (PT) on Vertex AI

Your guide to Provisioned Throughput (PT) on Vertex AI

• Your guide to Provisioned Throughput (PT) on Vertex AI Senior Product Manager, Vertex AI Our most intelligent model available yet for complex tasks on Gemini Enterprise and Verte

New AI repos catalog at Cisco DevNet Code Exchange

New AI repos catalog at Cisco DevNet Code Exchange

• Cisco Blogs/Developer/New AI repos catalog at Cisco DevNet Code Exchange New AI repos catalog at Cisco DevNet Code Exchange 1 min read Oleksii Borysenko Now you can discover MCP

Bitcoin volatile, but flat, while crypto stocks bounce amid cooling AI fears

Bitcoin volatile, but flat, while crypto stocks bounce amid cooling AI fears

• Bitcoin volatile, but flat, while crypto stocks bounce amid cooling AI fears Coinbase, Circle, Galaxy, IREN and Riot led the early morning rebound among crypto-related stocks as