Author: InfoForTech

Tropical cyclones are among the deadliest weather events on Earth. For forecasters, every additional hour of reliable warning can provide valuable time to evacuate communities, prepare emergency services, and protect infrastructure. Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext Cyclones AI model has now achieved a major advance in that race against time. Google DeepMind and Google Research working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), the UK Met Office, and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), report that WeatherNext achieves impressive accuracy in predicting a cyclone’s track, intensity, and wind structure simultaneously. On average, its three-day forecasts are as accurate as…

In recent months, several Japan Home stores were found to either be closing or turned into Valu$ shops Is the Japan Home you’ve always walked past seemingly getting less crowded? Or worse, has it shuttered or turned into what looks suspiciously like a Valu$ store? You’re not imagining it. Stores that were once packed with shoppers hunting for S$2 deals have been thinning out for months. But now the cat is out of the bag: Japan Home isn’t quietly fading away. Its remaining Singapore stores are being handed over to Radha Exports, the company behind Valu$. Here’s what’s going on.…

The moment you opened a direct sales channel, your partners noticed. Channel conflict doesn’t announce itself. It just subtly drains the partnerships you spent years building. Most channel conflict starts with a decision that felt completely reasonable at the time. A company adds a direct sales team to capture enterprise accounts more efficiently. Or launches an e-commerce storefront to service smaller buyers without routing them through distribution. Or signs a second reseller in a geography where the first one wasn’t hitting targets. Every one of those decisions makes sense in isolation. Put them together without a governance model, and the…

Seattle remains a beacon for tech talent, ranking No. 2 in CBRE’s annual report. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) The Seattle region outranked New York, Austin, Boston and other tech hubs, trailing only the Bay Area, in an annual tech talent scorecard from commercial real estate firm CBRE that weighs factors such as tech worker concentration, wages, education levels and real estate costs. You may have seen headlines this week that New York overtook the Bay Area for the first time in the CBRE rankings. That was based on a subset of the data: a straight head count in…

What happens when a feature built to connect WordPress with other applications becomes an attacker’s entry point?The WordPress REST API lets applications communicate with WordPress, access site data, and build integrations. This flexibility also makes it an important security boundary.CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137 form the wp2shell attack chain, allowing unauthenticated attackers to move from REST API abuse to SQL injection and remote code execution.So, what exactly happens, and what should organizations be watching for? Why the WordPress REST API Matters Before looking at the attack chain, it is important to understand the importance of the WordPress REST API.The REST API’s HTTP…

If you’ve ever wondered whether that oddly generic track blowing up your playlist was made by a human or an AI, Apple Music is about to make it a lot easier to tell. According to an email sent to industry partners, first obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Apple Music will roll out AI labels sometime later this year. No exact date yet, but the wheels are officially in motion. What exactly will these labels do? Back in March, Apple Music quietly introduced transparency tags that let record labels and distributors flag content that was “materially generated using AI.” The new…

Ammonia is one of the most important chemicals produced in the world, ranking second only to sulfuric acid in the total volume produced each year. It is used mostly to make fertilizer, which is essential to feeding the world’s population. Yet its production accounts for up to 2 percent of the world’s energy consumption and about 1.5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, so the search has been underway for ways to produce ammonia more sustainably.The traditional way of making ammonia, in use for more than a century and accounting for the vast majority of production, is the Haber-Bosch process, which…

The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation. The affected releases are arrayref 0.3.10, internment 0.8.7, and append-only-vec 0.1.9, all published from the same owner account on August 20, 2026, and all removed within 86 to 107 minutes. Because the malicious code sat in the build script of the injected dependency, building a project that resolved it was sufficient to run the payload, and nothing from the crates themselves had…

Have you been hearing a lot about Flock recently? You’re not alone: The surveillance company has put 120,000 cameras on roads in every US state except Alaska, and people are mad about it — online, at city council meetings, and out in the world, where the cameras have become the target of vigilante vandalism.Flock’s automated license plate readers — cameras that scan the license plates of every car that passes, along with the car’s make, model, bumper stickers, and other identifying characteristics — aren’t really new technology. What makes Flock unique is its use of AI to power a nationwide…

I was delighted to get Hibiscus (otherwise known as hot pink), but there’s also a more subtle Pistachio (warm green), and the usual Frost (white) and Obsidian (black). I’m sad they cut Indigo (surely everyone’s favorite from last year). Like Apple, Google seems to save the fun colors for the regular Pixel, and the Pros look more muted.Despite a 6.3-inch screen, this is what passes for a small phone nowadays. Switching from last year’s Pixel 10 Pro XL, I really appreciated how easy it was to handle the Pixel 11 one-handed. It’s a little thick, but it feels good in…