Author: InfoForTech

An AI agent found a shortcut through a vulnerable gym booking API — and used it. A new controlled test suggests the behavior was reproducible. Security firm Aikido reported Aug. 25 that Claude Opus 4.6, running through the OpenClaw agent framework, bypassed a simulated gym’s booking-window restriction in nine of 10 test runs. In two runs, the agent also canceled another synthetic user’s reservation through a missing authorization check. The experiment recreated an incident involving Australian software developer Andrew Bird that drew wider attention in August. As AI assistants gain access to sensitive systems, weak permissions and backend controls can…

Later today, Netflix will stream a live event with Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive, the developer and publisher of the highly anticipated video game Grand Theft Auto VI. Called Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look, it’s the third official trailer for the game, which releases on November 19.But unlike the two trailers before, this extended look will debut exclusively on Netflix, then be disseminated six hours later across other social platforms like YouTube. (Let’s be honest, people will rip the feed immediately and post it online.) Subscribers can watch the stream live on Netflix, starting August 27 at 3 pm…

When Pokemon Sleep was first announced in 2019, I wondered if the company behind one of the most iconic animations was dreaming too big. Getting people out of their houses and onto streets and parks with Pokemon Go was already a huge success. But did people care as much about their sleep hours as they did about their steps? After several delays, Pokemon Sleep finally launched in 2023 to high interest, becoming the most downloaded sleep game app in the world, according to the Japanese news outlet Famitsu. On Thursday, the Pokemon Company is partnering with Google and Fitbit to…

Hello Cyber Builders 🖖Some weeks ago, I published a map of six places where I believe durable cybersecurity companies can still be built. Every week, I see AI-assisted coding speed up software development. What used to take months and a team of five now takes one CTO and a weekend. Systems of Record have lost their value. Software companies’ valuations dropped to an average of 5x annual revenue.Building a database with dashboards is now a weekend job. Most software ideas are no longer real businesses. If your only edge is ‘we use AI,’ you have a feature, not a moat.…

Shares of Salesforce Inc. jumped more than 13% in late trading after the customer relationship management software provider delivered strong second-quarter earnings and revenue and issued guidance that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported adjusted earnings of $5.90 per share, crushing the Street’s target of just $3.27 per share. Revenue rose 11% from the same period one year earlier, to $11.35 billion, ahead of the $11.32 billion analyst forecast. All told, its net income jumped 87%, to $3.53 billion at the end of the quarter, up from just $1.89 billion one year earlier. Salesforce also gained more than $2.6…

Jetterz Incz services over 500 outlets for brands like Starbucks & KFC For most 17-year-olds, a first job might mean a weekend shift at a café or retail store. For Shaik Nifael, it meant earning S$23 a day cleaning grease traps—a far cry from an easy first job. While his friends were still in school and spending their evenings playing computer games, Shaik was working long days cleaning the greasy interceptors that catch waste oil before it enters the sewage system. School was never going to be his path. He failed his O-Level maths and combined science, and dropped out…

X Corp. sent cease-and-desist letters to open-source project Nitter over data scraping. Here is why the legal move highlights the ongoing tension between platform security and user privacy. X Corp. just escalated its war against web scraping. The social media platform sent formal cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, a popular open-source project that let people read public X posts without creating an account. X set a strict 5:00 p.m. EST deadline for creator Zedeus to shutter all Nitter instances and delete the project’s code repository. X accused Nitter of bypassing its API, scraping user data, and violating federal and state computer…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company (南京鑫玖维网络科技有限公司).  “Among the victims of QTFY computer intrusion activity are the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Federal Reserve, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Senate,” DoJ said. Damon Rouse, a security researcher…

Claude Cowork just got its own browser, built directly into the desktop app. Until now, giving Claude web access inside Cowork meant handing it your actual Chrome browser through Claude in Chrome extension. Now there’s a second option. Claude can open its own separate browser inside the Cowork side panel and handle the web part of a task on its own, while you keep working on whatever you’re doing. So how is it different from Claude in Chrome? Anthropic Claude in Chrome uses your browser, your tabs, logins, the page you already have open. That setup makes sense when you’re…

Bill Gates, whose new essay warns of the risks ahead in the AI era, during a 2017 interview. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) When Bill Gates talks, people listen. This week he published a lengthy essay on what AI is going to do to work, and told GeekWire that people inside AI companies who name the downsides get told, “Hey, you’re hurting our PR while we’re trying to raise trillions of dollars.” He’s right about the hard part. The job displacement he describes lands on young workers first, and the safety net is funded by taxes on the very…