A critical zero-day vulnerability in Dell’s PowerScale OneFS storage system has reportedly remained unpatched for close to two years, providing a window of opportunity that Chinese state-sponsored hackers have actively exploited to infiltrate organizations across the technology, telecommunications, and healthcare sectors. The revelation has sent shockwaves through enterprise IT departments that depend on Dell infrastructure and raised pointed questions about the company’s vulnerability response protocols.
OpenAI is making its most ambitious move yet into the global education sector, announcing a sweeping partnership with India’s higher education system that aims to bring artificial intelligence tools and training to tens of millions of university students across the country. The initiative, disclosed in February 2026, represents a significant strategic expansion for the Sam Altman-led company — one that positions it at the center of India’s national push to build a workforce fluent in AI technologies.
For decades, the publishing industry operated on a familiar set of gatekeepers: literary agents, acquisitions editors, and marketing committees that decided which manuscripts deserved to see the light of day. Self-publishing platforms like Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing cracked that gate open over the past fifteen years. Now, a new wave of AI-powered tools is threatening to blow it off its hinges entirely — and one company is offering lifetime access to its book-creation platform for less than the price of a dinner for two.
For decades, email has remained stubbornly tethered to the keyboard. Despite advances in voice recognition, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing, the average professional still spends hours each day hammering out replies, drafting follow-ups, and sorting through overflowing inboxes with their fingers. A small but ambitious company called Chorde is betting that the era of typed email is finally ready to end — and it’s offering a lifetime subscription to its voice-first email platform for a one-time payment of $39.97.
The largest technology companies in the world have spent the past two years making increasingly ambitious claims that generative artificial intelligence will help solve the climate crisis. Microsoft says AI will accelerate decarbonization. Google touts AI’s potential to reduce emissions across industries. Amazon highlights AI-driven energy efficiency. Yet when pressed for hard data to support these assertions, the evidence is remarkably thin — and the environmental costs of AI itself are growing at an alarming rate.
The graphics card market has entered a period of sustained price inflation that is punishing consumers and reshaping purchasing decisions across the PC hardware industry. A new report tracking GPU pricing trends reveals that the cost of graphics cards — particularly those from Nvidia — has climbed significantly in recent months, driven by a combination of tariff pressures, supply chain constraints, and strategic pricing decisions by manufacturers.
The artificial intelligence boom has been one of the most consequential technology shifts in a generation, but according to Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, the corporate world is still figuring out how to get on board. While consumers have embraced AI tools at a breathtaking pace — from ChatGPT to AI-powered search and image generation — enterprises remain cautious, deliberate, and in many cases, stuck in the planning phase.
Perplexity AI, the fast-growing artificial intelligence search engine that has positioned itself as a direct competitor to Google, has abruptly stopped testing advertisements on its platform. The move, first reported by Search Engine Land, raises significant questions about how AI-driven search companies plan to generate sustainable revenue — and whether advertising and AI-powered answers can coexist without eroding user trust.
For more than two decades, search engine optimization professionals have lived and died by a familiar set of performance indicators: organic click-through rates, keyword rankings, impressions, and the holy grail of Position One on Google. But as AI-powered search engines like Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot increasingly answer user queries directly — often without sending a single click to the source — the old measurement playbook is becoming dangerously obsolete.
Stephen Colbert, the sharp-tongued host who transformed The Late Show into a nightly forum for political satire and cultural commentary, is leaving CBS. The network confirmed the departure in a statement released on February 18, 2026, marking the end of a tenure that began in September 2015 when Colbert succeeded David Letterman in the storied time slot.