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Deepfakes and malware: AI menu grows longer for threat actors, causing headaches for defenders
12+ hour, 21+ min ago (999+ words) UPDATED 18:36 EDT / APRIL 03 2026 Artificial intelligence has dramatically improved a number of technologies in a short period of time. Unfortunately, these technologies are also being weaponized by an assortment of malicious actors. One example of how this is becoming a significant…...
Context memory explosion hits storage wall
16+ hour, 32+ min ago (333+ words) UPDATED 14:26 EDT / APRIL 03 2026 Artificial intelligence inference is entering a new era defined not by compute alone, but by an escalating demand for context memory that traditional storage architectures were never designed to handle. "It feels like storage kind of got…...
ZeroEyes expands AI-based threat detection into the physical realm to secure public spaces
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (336+ words) UPDATED 20:26 EDT / APRIL 02 2026 ZeroEyes Inc., a startup that's best known for its computer vision-based gun detection technology, is expanding its platform to spot people carrying knives and track suspects as it pushes to become a more comprehensive system for public…...
Cursor refreshes its vibe coding platform with focus on AI agents
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (431+ words) UPDATED 20:26 EDT / APRIL 02 2026 Startup Cursor today debuted a new version of its popular artificial intelligence coding platform. The release includes features that will make it easier for developers to automate programming tasks using AI agents. It also introduces improvements in…...
Alcatraz raises $50M to bring Apple Face ID-style security to physical buildings
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (492+ words) UPDATED 19:49 EDT / APRIL 02 2026 Cupertino-based facial recognition security startup Alcatraz said today it has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by BlackPeak Capital, Cogito Capital and Taiwania Capital. Previous investors Almaz Capital, EBRD and Ray Stata also participated,…...
New Quanscient and Haiqu algorithm targets scalable fluid simulations on quantum computers
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (500+ words) UPDATED 19:15 EDT / APRIL 02 2026 Researchers from quantum computing companies Quanscient Oy and Haiqu Inc. today announced that they have developed a new quantum computing algorithm designed to make computational fluid dynamics simulations more practical on quantum hardware. Developed and tested on…...
Cloudflare debuts EmDash to challenge aging WordPress with AI-native CMS
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (583+ words) UPDATED 18:45 EDT / APRIL 02 2026 Twenty-four years ago, two young coders launched a fork of the b2/cafelog log code called WordPress, a content management system for the then-emerging blogging world that over two decades later has grown into the most used CMS…...
Microsoft launches new high-speed voice and image models
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (527+ words) UPDATED 16:17 EDT / APRIL 02 2026 Microsoft Corp. today introduced a trio of artificial intelligence models optimized to process images and audio. The algorithms are available through Microsoft Foundry, an Azure service that developers can use to build AI applications. The tech giant…...
theCUBE Research expands cyber resilience practice
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (309+ words) UPDATED 11:26 EDT / APRIL 02 2026 TheCUBE Research is continuing to grow its cybersecurity practice with the addition of Krista Case (pictured) as principal analyst and practice lead for cyber resilience and security. Case will collaborate with Jon Oltsik, analyst in residence for…...
Google's new Gemma 4 models bring complex reasoning skills to low-power devices
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (330+ words) UPDATED 12:00 EDT / APRIL 02 2026 Google LLC is upping the stakes for open-weights artificial intelligence models with the release of Gemma 4, its most advanced "open" model family so far. Built on the same architectural foundation as Gemini 3, the models are designed to…...