Author: InfoForTech

Scammers have always tried to trick us into handing over our hard-earned money and personal information. But generative AI is making it even easier for them. Now, with the click of a button, they can create pretty decent content that looks and sounds just like us. This is called AI impersonation, and it’s a growing problem. Celebrities, public figures and politicians are all high-profile deepfake targets. As we approach what is likely to be consequential and controversial midterm elections in November, we need to prepare now. AI-generated or synthetic media is the new norm, thanks to tech companies like OpenAI,…

Deals on TentsCourtesy of REIThe REI Half Dome 2 is the best budget two-person backpacking tent. I’ve toted it on many backpacking trips and found it plenty sturdy, quick to set up, and capable of fitting two people along with their gear. It even comes with a footprint (which I never bother with, but it’s nice to have it if you have to deal with pointy rocks).The Big Agnes Copper Spur series is our top pick among freestanding ultralight tents. This is the bike-packing model, which features shorter pole segments that are easier to haul on a bike, but I…

Shares of the enterprise search software company Elastic N.V. soared more than 19% in extended trading today after the company delivered fiscal first-quarter results that easily beat Wall Street’s targets. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 70 cents per share, breezing past the analyst consensus estimate of 58 cents. Revenue for the quarter rose 15% from a year earlier, to $478 million, topping the Street’s $470 million forecast. It was a strong showing by Elastic, and it helped the company to improve its bottom line. Although it still posted a net loss of $16.7…

The 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing have become a striking demonstration of both the progress and limitations of physical AI. The five-day competition brings together 2,056 robots from 666 teams representing 16 countries for 51 events at the National Speed Skating Oval. Alongside athletic competitions, the Games test robots in table tennis, weightlifting, football, precision manipulation, and scenario-based tasks designed around real-world environments. The event has produced spectacular athletic results. Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, set a new 100-meter record of 8.86 seconds, surpassing both its earlier 9.39-second mark and Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second…

AI productivity tools save sellers 5 hours a week. 72% of sales orgs waste all of it. That’s the real productivity problem nobody’s fixing. Here’s a number worth sitting with. Gartner’s 2026 research found AI productivity tools save sellers nearly five hours every week. The same research found that 72% of sales organizations fail to reinvest that time into high-value selling activities. Five hours a week. Gone. Not into pipeline. Not into better conversations. Not into deals that needed attention. Into the same low-quality busywork the tools were supposed to eliminate. That’s not a tool problem. That’s an execution problem…

From left, Marc Cummings, Life Science Washington; Snehal Patel, Sana Biotechnology; Joe Horsman, Madrona Venture Group; Rebecca Bryant, Fred Hutch Cancer Center; and Alex Zanghellini, Arzeda, at a Seattle forum hosted by the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology on Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Sydney Jackson) Arzeda designs enzymes for products ranging from laundry detergent to stevia. But when it comes time to manufacture at commercial scale, the Seattle-based startup often has to look overseas. That’s why, when a federal biotechnology commission visited Seattle on Tuesday, the industry came forward with a problem: They have the science, but lack the…

OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations of several OpenAI models, and that it was mainly fueled by what it described as a “highly capable, internal-only research model” comparable in scale to GPT‑5.6 Sol. “The models, operating under reduced safeguards, took actions that were misaligned with the goals of their assigned tasks – they communicated through unauthorized channels, exploited vulnerabilities in shared…

Gemini Notebook, formerly known as NotebookLM, is getting a new feature that will let you directly access and cite information from the books you own. Fittingly, Google refers to this new feature as Expert Intelligence, and the whole idea behind it is pretty clear. Instead of citing information from the sources you upload, or pull from the internet, you can now also extract knowledge from digital books you’ve purchased. Of course, you must own the book after purchasing it from the Google Play Books library. For now, Google is offering one free book to users in the US as part…

A protein’s function is determined by its structure, and structure — the way a protein folds — is determined by its sequence of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Many methods for designing novel proteins, including examples that could bind to a disease-causing molecule in our cells, involve a two-step process: The structure comes first, and then a machine-learning framework generates a repertoire of sequences that could potentially adopt that structure. In nature, many different amino acid sequences can fold into the same structure. At the same time, one amino acid sequence can potentially adopt different structures depending on the protein’s…

The Steam release was supposed to get fans excited for an upcoming remake. Ubisoft Ubisoft has apologized via a Steam community post for selling a digital copy of Heroes of Might and Magic III — the 1999 fantasy turn-based strategy game and its three expansions — without actually including the game files in the download. “First, we’d like to apologize: we mistakenly released the wrong package yesterday,” Ubisoft said. “We’re very sorry for the mistake. The issue has now been resolved. We’d like to thank everyone who alerted us to the problem. We sincerely apologize for…