The Petersburg Post

Thursday, Jan 29th, 2026 - "We're now exploring updates to our controls to let sites specifically opt out of Search generative AI features," Google said on Wednesday in a blog post. Yet, the tech giant also warned that strict new controls could threaten its prized Search engine, which generates most of the company's profits. "Any new controls need to avoid breaking Search in a way that leads to a fragmented or confusing experience for ...

Wednesday, Jan 28th, 2026 - Google says that it's bringing a major change to Chrome users today: a mainstream agentic AI that will "autobrowse" the web for you, performing tasks that you assign it. Chrome's also getting a sidebar — and yes, with Gemini AI. Autobrowsing capabilities will arrive today for Chrome users who subscribe to either Google AI Pro ($19.99 per month) or Google AI Ultra ($249.99 per month), while the Chrome sidebar ...

Wednesday, Jan 28th, 2026 - Fortinet customers are confronting another actively exploited zero-day vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass authentication in the single sign-on flow for FortiCloud and gain privileged access to multiple Fortinet firewall products and related services. The vendor issued a security advisory for the vulnerability — CVE-2026-24858 — warning that some instances of exploitation already occurred ...