GOING ONLINE IN 2026 means subjecting yourself to a relentless bombardment of generative AI tools. How about a few AI agents to get you started? Do you want to use this chatbot sidebar? Would you like every search query to be answered with an AI summary? While there’s no off switch to avoid this smorgasbord of AI tools entirely, there is one keyboard trick you can use to dodge Google’s AI Overviews for a brief respite.
Källa: Wired
Despite having just 3 billion parameters, Ferret-UI Lite matches or surpasses the benchmark performance of models up to 24 times larger. Here are the details.
A bit of background on Ferret
In December 2023, a team of 9 researchers published a study called “FERRET: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity”. In it, they presented a multimodal large language model (MLLM) that was capable of understanding natural language references to specific parts of an image
Källa: 9to5mac
Michael Lynton, the former CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, is looking back on the 2014 film The Interview with deep regret.
In a recent excerpt from Lynton’s upcoming memoir From Mistakes to Meaning: Owning Your Past So It Doesn’t Own You, published recently in the Wall Street Journal, he opens up about how greenlighting The Interview, a dark comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco about a plan to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was the “biggest mistake of my career,” because it led to the infamous Sony hack.
Källa: Hollywoodreporter
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest in Norfolk, England on Thursday marked the first time in more than 350 years that a senior member of the royal family has been arrested.
“This is uncharted territory for the royal family and who knows where it’s going to end,” Duncan Larcombe tells Rolling Stone. Larcombe has been reporting on the British royal family since 2004 and is the author of Prince Harry: The Inside Story. “This is something that is potentially hugely damaging, and for King Charles, it’s the stuff of nightmares.”
Källa: Rollingstone
The rapid spread of OpenClaw wasn’t going fast enough for someone.
Cybersecurity vendors this week noticed an odd trend when the npm package for version 2.3.0 of Cline, a widely used open source AI coding tool, began installing an apparent stowaway program: OpenClaw. For approximately eight hours, users who downloaded Cline received a poisoned version of the tool that, while not carrying traditional malware, still made unauthorized installations on their systems.
It’s unclear who perpetrated this odd supply chain attack, and what the ultimate motivation is beyond forced installations of OpenClaw. But the attack marks the latest red flag for the fast-growing AI framework, which security researchers have expressed concerns about since its explosion onto the technology landscape last month.
Källa: Darkreading
Amazon is warning that a Russian-speaking hacker used multiple generative AI services as part of a campaign that breached more than 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks.
A new report by CJ Moses, CISO of Amazon Integrated Security, says that the hacking campaign occurred between January 11 and February 18, 2026, and did not rely on any exploits to breach Fortinet firewalls.
Instead, the threat actor targeted exposed management interfaces and weak credentials that lacked MFA protection, then used AI to help automate access to other devices on the breached network.
Källa: Bleepingcomputer
