Author: InfoForTech

With the exploding popularity of generative artificial intelligence, many open-source models are now available online for anyone to adapt for their task, such as generating product renderings in a certain artistic style. But these models also find their way into the hands of nefarious actors who may optimize them to produce illegal content, like hate speech or child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This is a growing problem — the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received more than 1.5 million reports of AI-generated CSAM in 2025, an increase from 67,000 in 2024.Engineers usually test AI for harmful capabilities by prompting the…

Hello Cyber Builders 🖖I don’t usually react to news, but this one needs a Cyber Builders post.On July 7, the European Commission published its Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. For once, Brussels moved fast. Mythos stormed the public conversation a few months ago, and here is an official EU response with named actions and dates.I read all 15 pages so you don’t have to. Here’s what the plan says, where I agree, and where Europe needs to push further. I’m tracking Europe 2031 and Opération Promethée, but if the reaction stays limited, nothing changes.One reminder before we start: your security program cannot wait for…

A decade ago, then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said he saw autonomous vehicles as an existential threat to the ride-hail company’s business model.“What would happen if we weren’t a part of that future? If we weren’t part of the autonomy thing? Then the future passes us by,” Kalanick told Business Insider.In the years since, Uber has settled on a strategy that, rather than see it build and operate its own self-driving cars, puts it on track to become the place where riders can get connected with any ride, driven by a human or robot. “We think there are going to be…

There’s a new kind of influencer making the rounds on TikTok and Instagram: the loneliness influencer. Most of these influencers are young women, and “loneliness” might be a slight misnomer. They claim they aren’t lonely, simply alone — no friends, no family, no kids. And they prefer it that way.“I really wanted to convey a normal life of somebody that doesn’t have this big, great, fun social life,” one influencer, Lana Isa, told Vox. “Like, what does a life look like as someone that doesn’t really have this great big social life, is not really interested in dating and generally…

After eight years as the chief executive of VMware Inc. and nearly four more leading Intel Corp., Pat Gelsinger suddenly found himself retired. Then the phone rang. “Less than two seconds after the Intel departure was announced, Scott called,” Gelsinger (pictured) recalled. “Whether it was opportunistic on his part or God ordained on his part we may not fully know.” The caller was Scott Beck, co-founder and CEO of the faith-based technology company Gloo Inc. Gelsinger had been an investor in Gloo over the years and, as he told SiliconANGLE in an exclusive interview, he wanted time to reflect on…

The annual speedrunning marathon event ran from July 5-11. Games Done Quick/Count Gooby Summer Games Done Quick is officially over after a marathon week of speedrunning games for a good cause, and the organizers say it raised a total of $2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders in that time (again!). The annual event in Minneapolis kicked off on July 5 and wrapped up early Sunday morning. Roughly 2,500 people showed up in person, in addition to the thousands of viewers who watched from home. This year’s Summer Games Done Quick brought a new speedrunning world record: streamer…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of sustained cyber espionage activity against several Pakistani law enforcement organizations undertaken by suspected China- and India-aligned threat actors between February 2024 and April 2026. “At Balochistan Police, the compromised assets included servers hosting web applications that manage police and citizen data, such as criminal and biometric records,” Aleksandar Milenkoski, principal threat researcher at SentinelOne SentinelLABS, said in a report published this week. The activity targeted network appliances and servers hosting web applications that manage biometric records, hotel and tenant registrations linked to national identity records, criminal case files, and personnel records. The China-nexus threat…

Patreon is slamming the door on AI scrapers. Here’s why their new partnership with Cloudflare is a massive win for creator consent and compensation. The internet has been feeling like a giant, open-air buffet where AI companies have been gorging themselves on creators’ work without paying the bill. They scrape, they train, and they profit- all while the people who actually wrote the words or painted the art get a big, fat zero for their trouble. The tide is finally starting to turn. Patreon just made a massive, unapologetic statement: they are partnering with Cloudflare to block AI training crawlers…

Old electronics have a talent for making themselves invisible. The laptop that got replaced two years ago is still in the office, the printer that stopped cooperating is in the garage and the desktop tower is somewhere in a closet behind things you haven’t touched since you moved in. None of it is being used, none of it is going away on its own, and the vague intention to deal with it keeps getting deferred because dealing with it feels complicated. It isn’t. Most major retailers and manufacturers run free take-back programs that handle old tech responsibly, and using them…

We’re only a month away from Google’s next big hardware event, with the Pixel 11 series officially arriving on August 12.  After living with the Pixel 10 Pro and the Pixel 10a over the past year, I’ve come to appreciate what Google’s phones do well — and, more importantly, where they still fall short. With the smartphone landscape evolving faster than ever, there are three upgrades I’m hoping Google finally delivers this year. If you’re a fellow Pixel user, chances are these are on your wishlist too. Google, it’s time to stop my Pixel from cooking itself More than anything else,…