Author: Eva Benerjee

Vishnu Sai Theja, the best student from Karnataka scored 99.99, in JEE Main Session 1. The National Testing Agency made the findings public, making the state proud. Out of the lakhs of students who took the national level engineering entrance test, he had one of the best scores in the whole country. While living in Bengaluru, the student did very well in all three subjects: physics, chemistry, and math. He got an excellent grade in Physics and really great grades in the other two areas as well. He got to the top of the rankings in Karnataka thanks to his…

In a high-suspense act for the technology industry, Google has decided to cut off advertising companies from tracking users across the web on its Chrome browser. This recent find, towards the middle of February 2026, has ensured an urgent security update will take place. Unlike typical bugs, a “zero-day” indicates that attackers were already putting this flaw to use before the developer had a fix — basically catching the world’s most popular browser off guard. The bug is being tracked as a “Use-After-Free” (UAF) issue in the browser’s CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) parser. Although typically used to visually design a website, this particular vulnerability…

As New Delhi becomes the focal point of global technology this week, the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport has released an important travel advisory for fliers. Celebrated India AI Impact Summit 2026 is all set to open its distinguished doors at Bharat Mandapam, the city awaits tourists across the globe along with international dignitaries and tech magnates for this event with a planned footfall of over 2.5 lakh people from various parts of the world. So regular travelers don’t get stuck in the “algorithmic” region of Delhi’s street traffic, Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) has an obvious recommendation: Ride the Metro. The rearrangement…

The Indian IT industry is currently weathering a storm of unprecedented volatility. Only in the eight sessions up to mid-February 2026, ₹6 lakh crore (about $72 billion) of market-capitalisation has been eroded from this sector. The catalyst? A “perfect storm” of rapid advances in agentic AI — namely tools like Anthropic’s Claude Cowork — and a global software sell-off that has investors questioning the fundamentals underpinning the outsourcing model. But behind the sea of red on trading screens, a very different story is playing out within the glass-walled campuses of Bengaluru, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Industry leaders firms such as TCS, Infosys and HCL Tech are…

Indian capital markets were greeted by a “regulatory hangover” on Monday, February 16, 2026. Stocks in big broking firms, exchange platforms and wealth management shops experienced a precipitous fall with some losing as much as a tenth of their market value in one session. The trigger? A comprehensive new guidelines from the apex bank on ‘Commercial Banks – Credit Facilities Amendment Directions, 2026.’ Why It’s Not the End of The World (Yet): 6 New Normal Breaking Points The RBI’s main focus to remove “speculative froth” from the system and make sure a market sell-off doesn’t turn into a banking crisis. But for the intermediaries that…

Peter Steinberger, an Austrian software developer known for creating the viral open-source Artificial Intelligence agent OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI to assist in shaping future generations of personal AIs, as announced by OpenAI on Sunday. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, posted on X (formerly Twitter) that Steinberger will be helping to lead the development of the “next generation of personal agents,” intelligent systems that can both interact conversationally with users as well as perform tasks for them in the physical world. From Viral Side Project to AI Leader OpenClaw was launched in November of 2025 and was formerly known as Clawdbot…

On February 15th, Denver experienced unprecedented warmth, as temperatures rose to an all-time high of 68°F, breaking last year’s record of only 67°F, and continuing the trend of excessively warm winter weather. It is typical for this time of year to see average daytime temperatures of approximately 45°F, which means Sunday’s temperatures were more than 20° above normal; this warm spell this winter is also part of the overall warm trend that has been present in other states in the Western Half of The United States. Unusually Warm Conditions and Climate Context The current warm spell in the area can…

According to a report by the Defense Department, it is searching for a way to end its relationship with AI company Anthropic because of ongoing differences over how Anthropic can provide the military with AI solutions for various military applications. The military believes that Anthropic has placed unreasonable restrictions on its use of AI solutions for intelligence collection, as well as command and control functions and conducting military strike operations with AI. The key point of contention in the dispute centers on what “all lawful purposes” means to Anthropic as far as allowing military usage of AI for intelligence collection,…

The Indian men’s hockey team has now gone two consecutive seasons without victory in the FIH Men’s Pro League having lost 4-2 to Belgium in a game that saw the opposition dominate from start to finish at Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela on Saturday afternoon. India Falls 4–2 to Belgium in FIH Pro League Clash Their performance in the match was characterised by a series of early set-piece goals, which put India on the back foot before they had a chance to establish an attacking rhythm. India did well defensively and began to create good goal-scoring opportunities after halftime,…

For millennia, the story of agriculture has been one of human intuition — a farmer’s eye for soil, a weathered hand for the grain, and an ancestral knowledge of seasons. But as climate change rewrites the rules of the harvest, and the global population marches toward almost 10 billion, intuition alone is no longer enough. Enter AI-ENGAGE, a groundbreaking new effort by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) aimed to transform the furrow into a hotbed of digital innovation. AI-ENGAGE (Advancing Innovations for EMPowering Next GEneration of AGriculture Ecosystems) awards, announced this week, are more than a financial one; they’re a high-tech pact between…