Shoppers are on pace to break Black Friday online spending records and use AI more than ever as sales hit $8.6 billion – Business Insider

Two weeks into a corporate tug-of-war that has millions of consumers caught in the middle, a top executive with one of the two companies has made it clear that there are no immediate plans to release the rope. “We’re ready to go as long as they want to,” Disney CFO Hugh Johnston said Thursday in…

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund-backed artificial intelligence company, Humain, is set to announce a slew of new deals with US firms tomorrow as the country looks to pour billions of dollars into a plan to become the world’s third-largest country for AI. Humain is planning to announce multi-gigawatt data center buildouts in collaboration with companies…

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products to conduct a wide range of malicious actions, including deploying VShell and  The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score: 9.9), allows attackers to execute operating system commands in the context of the…

As America’s labor market slows, AI-led interviews and auto-generated cover letters are dramatically changing the process of getting a job. And maybe not for the better. More than half of the organizations surveyed by the Society for Human Resource Management used AI to recruit workers in 2025. And an estimated third of ChatGPT users reportedly…

More than 100 people have been sickened in a norovirus outbreak on board a Caribbean Princess cruise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the agency, 102 passengers and 13 crew members were reported sick so far, with symptoms including diarrhea and vomiting. The outbreak was reported to the CDC on…

The Supreme Court yesterday overturned a 5th Circuit ruling that could have forced Internet service provider Grande Communications to terminate broadband subscribers accused of piracy. Yesterday’s ruling follows a precedent-setting decision last month in which the Supreme Court threw out a 4th Circuit ruling against Cox Communications, another ISP accused by record labels of not doing…