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Feb 14, 16:27 UTCMonitoring - We have identified the issue with the Code Execution tool and have rolled out a fix. We're monitoring to confirm resolution.Feb 14, 16:13 UTCInvestigating - We're currently investigating an issue where API requests using the Code Execution Tool are erroring for users.
With more than 37 million combined downloads, the extensions expose users to tracking and personal information theft. The post Over 300 Malicious Chrome Extensions Caught Leaking or Stealing User Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
DeepSeek began testing a new long-context model supporting 1 million tokens in its web and app versions on February 13, fueling speculation about a major Lunar New Year release that could replicate last year's breakout success .
Visionary Intelligence released GigaBrain-0.5M*, a world-model-native VLA model achieving near-100% success rates in complex tasks like laundry folding and coffee preparation, with 30% improvement over RECAP baseline . Tags
Embodied AI startup Qianjue Technology completed a nearly RMB 100 million ($13.9M) Pre-A++ extension round in February 2026, targeting 100,000 connected devices by year-end as it expands into full-size household robots .
Shenzhen-based warehouse robotics leader Hai Robotics filed for a Hong Kong IPO on February 13, reporting 2024 revenue of RMB 1.36 billion ($188.9M) as the world's largest Automated Case-handling Robot solutions provider.
Teeni.AI unveiled Mooni M1, an AI companion device for children co-developed with Alibaba Cloud Tongyi, which has topped major e-commerce sales charts in China following its January 2026 launch .
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Feb 14, 07:31 UTCUpdate - We are continuing to investigate this issue.Feb 14, 07:27 UTCInvestigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Feb 13, 22:58 UTCResolved - This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.Feb 13, 22:30 UTCInvestigating - We are investigating reports of impacted performance for...
Feb 13, 17:56 UTCInvestigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations with malware known as CANFAIL. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) described the hack group as possibly affiliated with Russian intelligence services. The threat actor is assessed to have...
There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet. But this performance is emotional for another reason: It’s Darling’s first time on stage with his bandmates since he lost the...
Feb 13, 17:13 UTCInvestigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base (DIB) sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The tech giant's threat intelligence division...
A previously unknown threat actor tracked as UAT-9921 has been observed leveraging a new modular framework called VoidLink in its campaigns targeting the technology and financial services sectors, according to findings from Cisco Talos. "This threat actor seems to have been active since 2019,...
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: vulnerabilities at 277 water systems, DoD employee acting as money mule, 200 airports exposed by flaw. The post In Other News: Google Looks at AI Abuse, Trump Pauses China Bans, Disney’s $2.7M Fine appeared first on...
Feb 13, 14:30 UTCResolved - Cloudflare has resolved an issue regarding network performance in Delhi, India. The incident occurred between 14:38 and 14:40UTC. Performance has returned to baseline levels, and we are continuing to monitor the region to ensure stability.
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. US deputy health secretary: Vaccine guidelines are still subject to change Over the past year, Jim O’Neill has become one of the most powerful people...
Feb 13, 13:02 UTCInvestigating - Cloudflare is aware of and investigating an issue with AI Search instances which may have stopped indexing new documents, potentially impacting several customers.
Check Point has acquired Israeli cybersecurity companies Cyata, Cyclops, and Rotate. The post Check Point Announces Trio of Acquisitions Amid Solid 2025 Earnings Beat appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hackers stole personal information such as names, addresses, and phone numbers from a customer contact system. The post Dutch Carrier Odido Discloses Data Breach Impacting 6 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Google Chrome extension that's designed to steal data associated with Meta Business Suite and Facebook Business Manager. The extension, named CL Suite by @CLMasters (ID: jkphinfhmfkckkcnifhjiplhfoiefffl), is marketed as a way to scrape Meta...
Exploitation attempts target CVE-2026-1731, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support. The post BeyondTrust Vulnerability Targeted by Hackers Within 24 Hours of PoC Release appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Making a movie is a lot like pulling off a heist. That’s what Steven Soderbergh—director of the Ocean’s franchise, among other heist-y classics—said a few years ago. You come up with a creative angle, put together a team of specialists, figure out how to beat the technological challenges, rehearse,...
In December 2025, in response to the Sha1-Hulud incident, npm completed a major authentication overhaul intended to reduce supply-chain attacks. While the overhaul is a solid step forward, the changes don’t make npm projects immune from supply-chain attacks. npm is still susceptible to malware...
Over the past year, Jim O’Neill has become one of the most powerful people in public health. As the US deputy health secretary, he holds two roles at the top of the country’s federal health and science agencies. He oversees a department with a budget of over a trillion dollars. And he signed the...
Americans have a new set of diet guidelines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken an old-fashioned food pyramid, turned it upside down, and plonked a steak and a stick of butter in prime positions. Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again mates have long been extolling the virtues of meat and...
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Status: MonitoringWe have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.Affected components Images (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance)
arXiv:2602.11159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing use of Machine Learning (ML) in sensitive domains such as healthcare, finance, and public policy has raised concerns about the transparency of automated decisions. Explainable AI (XAI) addresses this by clarifying how models generate...
arXiv:2602.11229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study long-horizon surrogate simulation across heterogeneous PDE systems. We introduce Latent Generative Solvers (LGS), a two-stage framework that (i) maps diverse PDE states into a shared latent physics space with a pretrained VAE, and (ii) learns...
arXiv:2602.11295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A computational engine applied to different representations of the same data can produce different discrete outcomes, with some representations preserving the result and others changing it entirely. A decision-valued map records which representations...
arXiv:2602.11298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Voxtral Realtime, a natively streaming automatic speech recognition model that matches offline transcription quality at sub-second latency. Unlike approaches that adapt offline models through chunking or sliding windows, Voxtral Realtime...
arXiv:2602.11301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprises are rapidly deploying large language models, retrieval augmented generation pipelines, and tool using agents into production, often on shared high performance computing clusters and cloud accelerator platforms that also support defensive...
arXiv:2602.11164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated optimization modeling via Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising approach to assist complex human decision-making. While post-training has become a pivotal technique to enhance LLMs' capabilities in this domain, its...
arXiv:2602.11184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture of Experts (MoE) models have achieved great success by significantly improving performance while maintaining computational efficiency through sparse expert activation. However, their enormous parameter sizes and memory demands pose major...
arXiv:2602.11185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient signals in LLM training are highly anisotropic: recurrent linguistic structure concentrates energy into a small set of dominant spectral directions, while context specific information resides in a long tail. We show that this spike tail...
arXiv:2602.11186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Generative AI (GenAI) into Consumer Electronics (CE)--from AI-powered assistants in wearables to generative planning in autonomous Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)--has revolutionized user experiences. However, these GenAI...
arXiv:2602.11187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of electronics has accelerated the adoption of 2.5D integrated circuits, where effective automated chiplet placement is essential as systems scale to larger and more heterogeneous chiplet assemblies. Existing placement methods...
arXiv:2602.11156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful approach for grounding Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbot responses on external knowledge. However, existing RAG studies typically assume well-structured textual sources (e.g....
arXiv:2602.11157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed worldwide, yet their safety alignment remains predominantly English-centric. This allows for vulnerabilities in non-English contexts, especially with low-resource languages. We introduce a novel...
arXiv:2602.11162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies have identified "retrieval heads" in Large Language Models (LLMs) responsible for extracting information from input contexts. However, prior works largely rely on static statistics aggregated across datasets, identifying heads that...
arXiv:2602.11163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important task in natural language processing that aims to identify and extract key entities from unstructured text. We present a novel application of NER in plasma physics research articles and address the...
arXiv:2602.11165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for open-domain question answering, yet their alignment with human perspectives on temporally recent information remains underexplored. We introduce RECOM (Reddit Evaluation for Correspondence of...
From rewriting Google’s search stack in the early 2000s to reviving sparse trillion-parameter models and co-designing TPUs with frontier ML research, Jeff Dean has quietly shaped nearly every layer of the modern AI stack.
Status: ResolvedAll impacted services have now fully recovered.Affected components Conversations (Operational)
Feb 12, 20:34 UTCResolved - This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.Feb 12, 19:59 UTCUpdate - Next Edit Suggestions availability is recovering. We are...
Test-time scaling has become a standard way to improve performance and boost reliability of neural network models. However, its behavior on agentic, multi-step tasks remains less well-understood: small per-step errors can compound over long horizons; and we find that naive policies that uniformly...
Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a powerful paradigm for learning from unlabeled time-series data. However, popular methods such as masked autoencoders (MAEs) rely on reconstructing inputs from a fixed, predetermined masking ratio. Instead of this static design, we propose treating the corruption...
Explaining observed phenomena through symbolic, interpretable formulas is a fundamental goal of science. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have emerged as promising tools for symbolic equation discovery, owing to their broad domain knowledge and strong reasoning capabilities. However, most...
Determining whether neural models internalize physical laws as world models, rather than exploiting statistical shortcuts, remains challenging, especially under out-of-distribution (OOD) shifts. Standard evaluations often test latent capability via downstream adaptation (e.g., fine-tuning or...
Biomedical signal classification presents unique challenges due to long sequences, complex temporal dynamics, and multi-scale frequency patterns that are poorly captured by standard transformer architectures. We propose WaveFormer, a transformer architecture that integrates wavelet decomposition at...
Feb 12, 16:50 UTCResolved - This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.Feb 12, 15:33 UTCUpdate - We are experiencing degraded availability in Western Europe for...
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Status: MonitoringWe have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. You may still be experiencing high latency.Affected components Embeddings (Operational)
Feb 12, 15:17 UTCResolved - This incident has been resolved.Feb 12, 14:45 UTCMonitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.Feb 12, 14:18 UTCInvestigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Feb 12, 11:12 UTCResolved - This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available.Feb 12, 11:01 UTCUpdate - We have resolved the issue and are seeing full recovery.Feb 12,...
Feb 12, 08:32 UTCUpdate - We now understand the source of the VM create/resume failures and are working with our partners to mitigate the impact.Feb 12, 08:02 UTCUpdate - We are seeing an increase in Codespaces creation and resuming failures across multiple regions, primarily in EMEA. Our team are...
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Status: InvestigatingWe are investigating the issue for the listed services.Affected components Conversations (Degraded performance)
For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed to anonymize and secure online communications. I2P users started reporting disruptions in the...
Status: ResolvedAll impacted services have now fully recovered.Affected components Login (Operational)
Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six "zero-day" vulnerabilities that attackers are already exploiting in the wild.