Author: InfoForTech

Today’s NYT Connections puzzle was a stumper for me. I saw “Tube,” “Gram” and “Book” and thought maybe they referred to the second part of various social media programs — YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. It was a typical Times red herring, though, as that was not where they were going with this one. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. Hints for today’s Connections groups Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group hint: Not bottoms. Green group hint: You…

Google appears to be quietly turning Snapseed into something more than just a photo editing app. Over the past few weeks, the company has been steadily adding new capabilities to Snapseed Camera, its standalone camera app for Android. The latest update introduces two practical features that many smartphone users have come to expect from modern camera apps: the ability to save an untouched copy of every image for future editing and support for embedding location data directly into photos. Neither feature is flashy, but together they make Snapseed Camera a more capable photography tool, particularly for users who like experimenting…

Three new ways to protect, carry, and organise the gear that makes up a modern workday. Available 8 July 2026 from orbitkey.com. Melbourne, AU (July 2026) – Orbitkey, the Melbourne-based organisation brand behind the Key Organiser, the Nest, and the 2-in-1 Tech Pouch, today launches three new products into its growing tech range: the Hybrid Laptop Sleeve V2, the Slim Laptop Sleeve, and the Essentials Keyboard Pouch. Work no longer happens in one place. A laptop moves from desk to bag to café table and back again, often alongside a keyboard, a mouse, a charger, and whatever else the day…

“Cards are basically a commodity at the end of the day; how you differentiate them is really what makes the difference,” Riley says. “That’s really the big deal here—how you use your card.” Riley has a card for grocery shopping and one for Amazon transactions; all of these steps help him earn the most points.“One of the big challenges here on rewards is that quite often, you go in well-intentioned and you don’t get the full benefit of the rewards because you start revolving on the product,” Riley says, meaning cardmembers start accumulating interest on the unpaid balance, with interest…

ARP behaviorOne MAC mapped to multiple IPsCheck ARP tables on endpoints and serversarp -a, arp -n, network scansClear sign of ARP cache poisoningGateway integrityUnexpected change in gateway MAC addressContinuously monitor ARP entries for gatewayARP monitoring tools, scriptsHigh-confidence indicator of MITM attackARP traffic patternsHigh volume of unsolicited ARP repliesAnalyze ARP traffic for reply spikes without requestsPacket capture, NDR platformsIndicates active poisoning or ARP floodingPacket consistencyMismatch between ARP payload MAC and Ethernet header MACInspect packet-level ARP detailsWireshark, deep packet inspection toolsDetects forged ARP responsesNetwork behaviorSudden latency or unusual routing patternsCorrelate performance issues with ARP changesNetwork monitoring tools, NDRTraffic is being intercepted or…

Melanie Nakagawa, Microsoft chief sustainability officer, left, speaking with GeekWire reporter Lisa Stiffler at a fireside chat at Seattle City Hall on July 17. (PNW Climate Week / Fer Sagastume Photo) Microsoft Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa faced a barrage of pointed questions from the audience Friday during a session at the annual Pacific Northwest Climate Week in Seattle. Protesters challenged Nakagawa through most of the 30-minute session held in a conference room at Seattle’s City Hall, calling out the company’s use of fossil fuel energy sources to power its AI data centers and challenging Microsoft’s commitment to climate goals…

Artificial intelligence companies are racing to control the infrastructure, data and software layers that will power enterprise intelligence. Nvidia Corp. remains far ahead in accelerated computing, but AMD Inc., Broadcom Inc. and other challengers are positioning themselves for a market in which demand may support multiple winners. At the same time, IBM Corp. is under pressure to prove that its software, data and hybrid cloud assets can secure a place in the emerging AI stack. The next competitive advantage will come from turning proprietary data and domain expertise into an internal system capable of reasoning and executing work, according to…

A newly discovered espionage implant has been using a hijacked Microsoft 365 calendar as its command channel, planting operator instructions and smuggling out stolen files as attachments on calendar events dated to the year 2050. Group-IB, which named the malware HollowGraph, says the approach moves tasking and stolen data through legitimate Microsoft Graph API traffic, so the activity looks like ordinary Microsoft 365 chatter and network controls keyed to attacker-owned destinations have nothing to flag. The implant is a .NET DLL that supports just two commands, get and send, and it never reaches out to an attacker-owned server for payloads.…

Chinese startup Moonshot AI has introduced Kimi K3, a powerful new open-weight large language model already drawing comparisons with the industry’s leading proprietary systems. With 2.8 trillion total parameters, a 1 million-token context window, and a novel attention architecture optimized for long-context efficiency, Kimi K3 stands as one of the most significant open AI releases of 2026. The launch comes amid intensifying competition between Chinese and U.S. AI companies. While OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google continue to dominate the commercial AI landscape, Kimi K3 demonstrates how quickly Chinese developers are narrowing the performance gap – particularly in open-weight models. Kimi K3…

AI was supposed to make our lives better. Instead, it’s made many of us scared and angry. Communities are protesting against the building of new data centers — the warehouses of IT equipment powering the AI buildout — across the country, and increasingly they’re winning. And polling shows most Americans think AI is moving too fast.So how did public opinion on AI curdle so quickly? Jasmine Sun, who reports on the industry from San Francisco, argues that the backlash treats AI less as a technology and more as a political project. “The debate was not about like, is ChatGPT useful…