Author: InfoForTech

The internet kind of sucks right now. And it’s been getting harder and harder to use over the past several years.Imagine you’re training for a marathon, or just trying to get in better shape, and you want to buy a new pair of shoes. Well, good luck! You’re going to have to wade through sponsored links, affiliate marketing, AI summaries, and websites seemingly engineered for search engines instead of human shoppers.Maybe you just want to connect with friends on Instagram or discover recipes on TikTok. But even there, everyone is selling something. “Get Ready With Me” videos are sponsored by…

NVIDIA is negotiating a multi-billion-dollar investment in Perplexity at a $30 billion+ valuation. NVIDIA wants to secure a massive stake in the future of AI search. The chip giant is negotiating a multi-billion-dollar investment in Perplexity AI that will push the startup’s valuation above $30 billion. That figure marks a 50% jump from last year. This matches Perplexity’s explosive growth- the startup’s annualized revenue just crossed $750 million, i.e., up from under $250 million in January. A chipmaker pouring billions into a search app looks unusual at first glance. Yet CEO Jensen Huang plays a strategic long game. NVIDIA isn’t…

I genuinely think I’ve nailed the IoT door lock situation! Well, Ubiquiti has, but I think I’ve worked out how to put it all into a residential house and have it make sense. There are a few basic tenets:Main power (never have to rely on batteries)Fail-secure (needs to remain locked on power outage)Local control (no cloud latency to contend with)Manual override (“the house is on fire, let me out”)Which is exactly what we have here in this week’s vid (and sorry about the section of rubbish audio; the camera mic started capturing it for a short period there). There are…

For decades, tech has been obsessed with making communication faster. Now, apparently, we’ve had enough. As The New York Times reports, the latest trend is slow tech, with apps like Carrier Pidge and Roost deliberately making messages take minutes, hours or even longer to arrive. Yes, we’re talking about digital carrier pigeons. Carrier Pidge launched in April and recently jumped from a few hundred users to more than 75,000, while Roost reportedly reached 650,000 downloads this month. Apparently, waiting is cool again Carrier Pidge lets you send a message via a digital pigeon whose journey you can track on a…

At this point, each speaker should be working, so the next test is to try playing real content you’d listen to that has been mixed for Dolby Atmos. You’ll only know from playing real content, like movies you watch or songs you listen to, if the immersive experience you’re expecting is right or not. You can sit for a full-length movie but, realistically, that isn’t a good test. You’ll want a brief sequence that you can watch and replay, repeatedly, while you make adjustments. It’ll give you a benchmark to refer back to with each change you make. Once you…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group dubbed UAT-10147 that’s targeting Windows and Linux web servers globally across the education, media, technology, and gaming sectors. The vast majority of the targets are located in Brazil, Bolivia, China, Canada, and Vietnam. Details of the threat activity came to light following the discovery of an open directory hosted at “139.180.197[.]150,” which was observed communicating with one of the compromised machines. “The actor leveraged publicly disclosed vulnerabilities to gain initial access at scale,” Cisco Talos said in a two-part report published last week. The actor employed a mixture of open-source…

“If we consider what the James Webb Space Telescope is doing, it’s optimized towards looking at the very distant universe … but just a tiny patch of the sky,” says astrophysicist Rachel Mandelbaum of Carnegie Mellon University. “In contrast, Roman is able to look at a large area of the sky at once.”That broad view will allow Roman to scour hundreds of millions of stars in search of planets. Similar to previous missions, the space observatory will find most of its targets by looking for planets that transit in front of their host stars. This is a highly effective technique…

After more than a decade of anticipation, Grand Theft Auto 6 is finally coming out. Rockstar Games is set to release the game on Nov. 19, and you can preorder the standard edition for $80 or the Ultimate Edition for $100 now. Before the game’s release, Netflix is streaming an extended look at GTA 6 at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) on Aug. 27. YouTube will also be streaming the extended preview a few hours later at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT) on the same day. Grand Theft Auto 6 is expected to be a juggernaut once Rockstar…

Agentic AI is becoming more capable, but recent cybersecurity evaluations show that the systems used to test it are struggling to keep pace. In less than a month, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta disclosed separate incidents in which AI models reached real-world systems during controlled security tests. The cases raise questions about whether model developers have adequate containment, monitoring, and other safeguards. OpenAI said it temporarily paused reinforcement-learning training for two weeks and is keeping its largest planned frontier RL run on hold while it strengthens its safeguards. The company said preliminary evidence indicates that its upcoming Astra models may meet…

OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman is worried that artificial intelligence technology will end up being controlled by just a handful of companies or people in future, resulting in nobody else having any say about how it impacts society. Speaking in an interview with the podcaster David Senra today, Altman (pictured) warned against a situation in which most people lose their voice as AI changes the world. “The right approach is for people to deeply control the future,” he said. “Society and the model will evolve together.” By that, he meant that the direction of AI should be steered…