Ransomware attacks jumped more than 50% in 2025, report finds
Ransomware attacks kept rising through 2025 despite high-profile police takedowns, undermining hopes that the threat was finally on the decline, according to a new report from Emsisoft. In its 2025 State of Ransomware in the US report, Emsisoft reveals that trackers monitoring ransomware leak sites logged more than 8,000 claimed victims worldwide in 2025, an […]
Google hires engineers to fact-check its AI search answers
Google is conceding that its AI-generated search answers still aren’t reliable enough even as it pushes them more aggressively onto users. A newly posted job listing shows the company is hiring engineers specifically to verify AI responses and improve their accuracy, an implicit admission that hallucinations and contradictions remain a serious problem. In the job […]
