Author: InfoForTech
Every time users belatedly discover that an artificial intelligence feature has been drawing on their data in ways they did not fully grasp, the reaction is often an instinctive sense of violation – of trust, consent and privacy. Accusations and outrage have always followed potentially invasive AI integrations, with examples ranging from email content used to inform model training and large on-device models embedded in everyday software to voice assistants retaining snippets beyond explicit commands and default settings that enable cross-product activity to inform AI responses. Even when such changes are technically disclosed, awareness doesn’t necessarily follow. Updates arrive one…
Save $76: Amazon’s Prime Day kicks off on June 23, but the deals are already in bloom. The retailer just slashed the price of Nothing’s wireless earbuds by $76, dropping them to an all-time low. This is a limited-time deal available only to Prime members, so we suggest acting fast.Finding a premium pair of earbuds with long battery life, active noise cancellation and fast charging can normally be quite steep. However, brands like Nothing offer an incredible, budget-friendly alternative without sacrificing great sound. This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and…
Platform engineering is about what happens when your “you built it, you run it” breaks down at scale. And someone must fix the infrastructure before it fixes the engineers. Key Takeaways Platform engineering is a dedicated function that absorbs infrastructure complexity so product teams don’t have to, and it only creates value if it’s treated as a product rather than a support function. An Internal Developer Platform is the full workflow from idea to production, with self-service provisioning, standardized pipelines, and security controls embedded by default. Zero Trust principles belong inside the platform architecture from day one- retrofitting least privilege…
Ravie LakshmananJun 20, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that’s installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw that can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, such as configuration data, API keys, secrets, and OAuth tokens configured for the plugin’s email integrations. “This is due to a REST API endpoint registered at /wp-json/gravitysmtp/v1/tests/mock-data with a permission_callback that unconditionally returns true, allowing any unauthenticated visitor to access it,” Wordfence said. “When the ?page=gravitysmtp-settings query parameter is…
With three hawker concepts under its belt, JOFA is looking to operate its own coffee shop next Most hawkers spend years perfecting a single stall. But for Joel Tan (30), Fabian Lim (30), and Liang Jun Hao (31), one concept was never the end goal. From one mee pok stall in Tampines, the trio has built a business with multiple concepts, including Western food, Japanese rice bowls, and soon, their own coffee shop. Along the way, they’ve had their fair share of wins and setbacks, from expanding to new outlets to losing over S$70,000 on a poorly chosen location. Vulcan…
Sony has filed a PSN login patent, first spotted by RespawnFirst, that would pull the DualSense controller into the sign-in process. A PlayStation console would start the request, then the controller would help confirm that the account holder is close enough to approve access. For players, the appeal is easy to see. PSN account abuse can lead to unauthorized purchases, lost access, and attempts to resell established accounts. Sony already offers 2-step verification and passkeys, but this idea adds a hardware check to the login chain. How would the controller approve access WIPO The patent describes a handoff that begins…
The era of hacking corporate databases may be giving way to something far more direct. Have I Been Pwned has added a massive collection of infostealer malware records containing 124 million passwords and 56 million email accounts. The credentials came from stealer logs created by malware that harvests sensitive information from infected devices. The dataset offers a snapshot of how cybercriminal tactics are evolving. As infostealer malware becomes more widespread, attackers are increasingly bypassing organizations altogether and collecting credentials directly from users, creating fresh and simpler opportunities for account takeovers and broader cyberattacks. What happened and why it matters The…
Protesters outside the Spheres on Amazon’s Seattle campus Thursday evening. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Carrying bullhorns and signs depicting Amazon executives as war criminals, about two dozen people protested outside the Amazon Spheres in Seattle on Thursday evening, calling on the company to stop providing technology to Israel for what they described as genocide in Gaza. The protesters said they were trying to disrupt what they believed to be a gathering of Amazon executives, state and local leaders, U.S. State Department officials and Australian government representatives on an upper floor of the Spheres, on the eve of the World…
“We thought that’s probably the one that’s least likely to pop up,” Geisbert says. “We guessed wrong.”Concerned by that knowledge gap, in 2011 he decided to modify a vaccine, which led to the crab-eating macaque study. In the same study, he also finally tested a blend of existing ebola vaccines on the Bundibugyo strain, but they didn’t provide 100-percent protection.If the 2012 outbreak had occurred after the major Zaire outbreak, Geisbert says, it’s possible pharmaceutical companies might’ve been more keen to commercialize a vaccine that protects against the Bundibugyo strain.But with the present outbreak rivaling the 2013 to 2016 one…
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