I pushed eight free AI chatbots to their limits to find the best AI chatbots of 2026. To explore our top picks, check out ZDNET's chatbot-by-chatbot guide.

Malwarebytes now has a ChatGPT plugin that can give you instant advice on suspicious links, emails, and texts. I tried it out, and I was impressed with its accuracy.

Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server.

CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.

The GitHub Copilot SDK turns the Copilot CLI into a cross-platform agent host with Model Context Protocol support.

AWS Managed Kafka and Apache Kafka, a distributed event streaming platform, has become the de facto standard for building real-time data pipelines. However, ingesting and storing large amounts of ...