Author: InfoForTech

Like many people, I have a contentious relationship with the Memories feature on my iPhone, the AI-powered nostalgia machine that serves up photos and slideshows from deep in your camera roll, either reminding you of a beautiful day at the beach or surfacing an old photo of your ex. About once a month, for whatever reason, my iPhone reminds me of the time my phone got stolen.The Memory is a glitchy, fragmented one — an auto-generated slideshow of my first few years living in New York. But because my phone was stolen, the photos in the slideshow are a random…

RunLayer and Rippling mutually dropped their high-stakes legal battle over AI trade secrets. RunLayer and Rippling mutually dropped their messy legal war this week, ending a brief but intense battle over AI trade secrets. Neither company paid a settlement fee. The conflict highlights a classic nightmare for early-stage founders. Last year, HR software titan Rippling trialed RunLayer’s MCP gateway software. The product helps enterprise teams control how autonomous AI agents access internal databases. Rippling refused to sign a paid contract after a year-long pilot. And instead, a Rippling insider texted RunLayer CEO Andrew Berman with a stark warning: Rippling was…

1. Visibility and Data Health Percentage of priority assets covered Percentage of unmanaged assets discovered Network segments monitored Endpoint agent health Cloud accounts and subscriptions monitored Identity systems integrated Telemetry ingestion latency Data-source availability Event parsing and normalization failures Retention achieved by data class Whether the XDR platform has complete, reliable, and timely evidence to support detection and investigation.2. Detection Mean time to detect Detection rate for tested attack scenarios ATT&CK coverage for prioritized techniques Percentage of detections using multiple telemetry sources High-confidence detection rate False-positive and non-actionable alert rates Percentage of incidents detected before material impact Detection rule precision…

Netflix‘s library goes far beyond the algorithm-driven hits everyone already knows about. This is why I dug through some overlooked titles to create this week’s lineup. It ranges from a chilling historical mystery to a horror film rooted in real trauma to a dark comedy. Make sure you add these three Netflix movies to your watchlist this weekend. We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best free movies, and the best movies on Amazon Prime Video. The Wonder (2022) Genre: Mystery, dramaIMDb: 6.6/10Rotten Tomatoes: 84%…

The DoJ said the app has made significant strides in privacy protections since the 2024 suit. Mario Tama/Getty Images TikTok and ByteDance have reached an agreement with the Department of Justice to settle a lawsuit that claimed the app broke children’s privacy laws. The settlement is one of the “largest recoveries ever obtained” for a case related to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the DoJ said in a statement. The settlement dates back to a 2024 lawsuit brought by then-President Joe Biden’s Justice Department. The DoJ alleged that the company had violated the terms…

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0. “When the module loads, it locates the bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process,” TrendAI, Trend Micro’s enterprise cybersecurity business, said in a report published Thursday. “No install hook function call is needed; a single import anywhere in the dependency graph, even a transitive one, is enough to execute the payload.” The list of identified packages is below – streak-metrics-math@1.0.0,1.0.1 kit-map-vim@1.0.0 streak-map-cache@1.0.0 streak-map-kit@1.0.0 map-streak-kit@1.0.0…

My colleague Paresh Dave and I each spent a day in federal court in Oakland, California, this week, monitoring the latest Meta child safety trial.In case you missed it in the spring, Meta (along with YouTube) lost a landmark social media case in California, in which a jury found the companies liable for harming a young user with certain design features in their apps. Then, earlier this month, Meta was ordered to pay more than $940 million in the state of New Mexico for being a public nuisance and causing psychological harm to children.Now Meta is defending itself in a…

Most people experience constipation at some point in their lives. For astronauts, it’s a common occurrence. The problem is that no one knew exactly why. Now, science seems to have figured out the No. 1 reason why astronauts have problems going No. 2 in space. Research dating back nearly three decades has explored the effects of low- or zero-gravity environments on human digestion. A new study published in Nature by researchers at the University of Copenhagen working in tandem with NASA suggests that because astronauts spend so much time in microgravity, this state of near weightlessness causes food to move more…

Microsoft is finally pulling the plug on a decades-old Windows tool that administrators still use — and attackers have repeatedly abused. The company has now removed Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) from Windows, completing a long-running deprecation process that has gradually pushed the utility out of the operating system. Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Beta build confirms that WMIC is gone, although the underlying Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) system remains intact. That makes the change more than a routine Windows cleanup. WMIC has been abused as a living-off-the-land binary (LOLBIN), giving malware and ransomware operators a legitimate Windows utility they…

Data centers, of all things, now look like they’re going to be a prime political issue in the midterm elections and beyond. Really? Really. Even the GOP is worried that opposition to AI data centers could give Democrats a potent campaign issue. It seems a little odd given that data centers are decades old, power our iPhones and the whole internet, and no one raised issues before. Sure, there’s a whole lot more of them being built and more proposed, and yes, they can have environmental issues and they don’t employ many people, but on the face of it, big…