February 19, 2026

How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade

On a bright morning last April, a surveillance plane operated by the Colombian military spotted a 40-foot-long shark-like silhouette idling in the ocean just off Tayrona National Park. It was, unmistakably, a “narco sub,” a stealthy fiberglass vessel that sails with its hull almost entirely underwater, used by drug cartels to move cocaine north. The…

US, Norway say hackers have been exploiting Ivanti zero-day since April

August 2, 2023
Hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Ivanti’s mobile endpoint management software undetected for at least three months, U.S. and Norwegian cybersecurity agencies have warned. It was confirmed last week that hackers had compromised multiple Norwegian government agencies by exploiting a previously undiscovered vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM; formerly MobileIron Core), software that is […]

Google pulls its AI Test Kitchen app from Play Store and App Store

August 2, 2023
Google has pulled its AI Test Kitchen app from the Play Store and the App Store to focus solely on the web platform. The company launched the AI Test Kitchen experience last year to let users interact with projects powered by different AI models such as LaMDA 2. The first set of experiments included the […]

Lightup wants to shine a light on data quality with $9M Series A

August 2, 2023
We all know how important data quality is. That’s where the timeless phrase, garbage in/garbage out came from. As the pace of data creation accelerates, and it gets used in a variety of ways across a company to make business decisions, deliver quality customer experiences and drive machine learning models, making sure the data is […]

The Download: counting China’s mpox cases, and Meta has blocked news in Canada

August 2, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Decoding the data of the Chinese mpox outbreak Almost exactly a year after the World Health Organization declared mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) a public health emergency, the hot spot for the outbreak…