HostPapa outage disrupts websites and services amid “emergency maintenance”
Web hosting provider HostPapa experienced a service outage early Tuesday morning that left customer websites and dashboards inaccessible for several hours. The outage disrupted publishing schedules and online operations across North America. HostPapa’s public status page showed an “Emergency Maintenance – Multiple Servers” notice, stating that emergency work began at approximately 7:30 a.m. EST on […]
Software shares drop as AI agents rattle investors
Global markets were jolted on Feb. 3 as fears that artificial intelligence could upend the software industry triggered a sweeping selloff, erasing roughly US$300 billion in market value from software and data companies in a single session. The rout was sparked by two developments that rattled investor confidence. The first was the rapid spread of […]
OpenAI looks beyond Nvidia for chip alternatives
OpenAI has been looking beyond Nvidia for parts of its artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter. The ChatGPT maker has grown dissatisfied with the performance of some of Nvidia’s latest chips for certain tasks, particularly those tied to AI inference, the stage where trained models generate responses for users. While Nvidia […]
Millions of Fortinet devices exposed in active authentication-bypass attacks
More than three million Fortinet devices have been exposed to a critical authentication-bypass vulnerability that is being actively exploited, prompting urgent warnings from U.S. and industry security agencies. Researchers estimate at least 3.28 million internet-facing devices were vulnerable at the peak of exposure. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-24858 and rated 9.4 out of 10 in […]
Docker patches critical AI flaw that allowed code execution via container metadata
A now-patched security flaw in Docker’s built-in AI assistant exposed users to the risk of remote code execution and sensitive data theft, cybersecurity researchers disclosed this week. The vulnerability, dubbed DockerDash by Noma Labs, affected Ask Gordon, an AI assistant integrated into Docker Desktop and the Docker command-line interface. Docker fixed the issue with the […]
