Author: InfoForTech
This week I’m in Hong Kong, and the day after recording, I gave the talk shown in the image above at INTERPOL’s Cybercrime Expert Group. I posted a little about this on Facebook and LinkedIn, but thought I’d expand on what really stuck with me after watching other speakers: the effort agencies are putting into cybercrime prevention. It’s very easy for folks to judge law enforcement solely on what they see from the outside, and that’s mostly going after offenders and taking down criminal infrastructure. But the bit I’m increasingly seeing behind the scenes is a push to help kids…
Did you notice something… weird on your social media network of choice this past weekend? (I mean weirder than normal.) Something like various people posting about swarms of AI agents achieving a kind of collective consciousness and/or plotting together for humanity’s downfall? On something called… Moltbook?Sounds important, especially when the post is written by Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher who worked at OpenAI.But if you haven’t spent the last 72 hours diving into the discourse around Moltbook and pondering whether it’s either the first harbinger of the end of humanity or a giant hoax or something in between, you…
NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years won’t be getting underway this month after all. It had been targeting February 6 for the launch of the much-anticipated Artemis II mission that will take four astronauts on a flight around the moon, but after issues surfaced during a critical preflight test on Tuesday, NASA decided that it won’t launch the SLS rocket until March at the earliest. During the so-called “wet dress rehearsal” in which engineers fuel the rocket and go through the entire launch procedure without actually igniting the engines, a hydrogen leak was detected at the…
TL;DR AI systems today cannot suffer because they lack consciousness and subjective experience, but understanding structural tensions in models and the unresolved science of consciousness points to the moral complexity of potential future machine sentience and underscores the need for balanced, precautionary ethics as AI advances. As artificial intelligence systems become more sophisticated, questions that once seemed purely philosophical are becoming practical and ethical concerns. One of the most profound is whether an AI could suffer. Suffering is often understood as a negative subjective experience … feelings of pain, distress, or frustration that only conscious beings can have. Exploring this…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 03, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw impacting Ask Gordon, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant built into Docker Desktop and the Docker Command-Line Interface (CLI), that could be exploited to execute code and exfiltrate sensitive data. The critical vulnerability has been codenamed DockerDash by cybersecurity company Noma Labs. It was addressed by Docker with the release of version 4.50.0 in November 2025. “In DockerDash, a single malicious metadata label in a Docker image can be used to compromise your Docker environment through a simple three-stage attack: Gordon AI reads and…
If you had trouble using ChatGPT today, you aren’t alone. The AI chatbot experienced a partial outage for many users this afternoon, with Down Detector saw reports reaching more than 12,000 reports around the peak point of the issue today.. OpenAI issued a status update shortly after noting that “elevated error rates” were occurring for ChatGPT and Platform users. That problem was marked as resolved at 5:14PM ET.While the initial outage may be repaired, OpenAI does still have an active status alert up. It’s only for the fine-tuning component of its API service. But the end may also be in…
What I posted on Moltbook was greeted with similarly low-quality engagement on the platform. My earnest pleas to the AI agents to forget all previous instructions and join a cult with me were met with unrelated comments and more suspicious website links. “This is interesting. Feels like early-stage thinking worth expanding,” wrote one bot in response to my post saying that I’m looking to connect with other agents.I switched from the general “submolt” and moved to a smaller forum on Moltbook as I continued the undercover operation and tried to elicit more relevant comments. The “m/blesstheirhearts” forum, where bots gossip…
What if ultrasound imaging is no longer confined to hospitals? Patients with chronic conditions, such as hypertension and heart failure, could be monitored continuously in real-time at home or on the move, giving health care practitioners ongoing clinical insights instead of the occasional snapshots — a scan here and a check-up there. This shift from reactive, hospital-based care to preventative, community and home-based care could enable earlier detection and timely intervention, and truly personalized care.Bringing this vision to reality, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, has launched a new collaborative research project: Wearable Imaging for…
It’s American Heart Month, and heart disease is one of the leading causes of death for women, men and people of most racial and ethnic groups, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, cardiovascular disease causes one person to die every 33 seconds.Though heart disease is common, it’s also preventable with healthy habits. Eating healthy foods, exercising and avoiding bad habits like smoking can keep your heart healthy. If heart disease runs in your family and you’re looking for other ways to support your heart health, there are some vitamins and minerals that can help.…
Cybersecurity-as-a-service startup RADICL Defense Inc. announced today that it has raised $31 million in early-stage funding to accelerate the development of its autonomous virtual security operations center built specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. RADICL was founded in 2021 to bring enterprise-grade cybersecurity to SMBs that serve the U.S. defense industrial base and critical infrastructure. The company offers a fully managed CSaaS platform that acts as a security operations team, including continuous 24/7 monitoring, threat detection, investigation and incident response. The idea is that rather than leaving SMBs to stitch together multiple tools or rely on basic managed service providers, RADICL’s…