Author: InfoForTech
The FBI and NCAA are teaming up to combat cyber-enabled sexual exploitation targeting college athletes as criminals break into online accounts to steal private and intimate photos. Stolen images can be posted or sold online or used for sextortion, harassment, and stalking. Athletes can be particularly attractive targets because large social-media followings and name, image, and likeness activity increase their public exposure and give criminals more leverage when threatening to release private material. The FBI and NCAA have not disclosed how many athletes have been victimized. How attackers get into athletes’ accounts Attackers are using phishing, password and PIN targeting,…
How many sales conversations start like this, even when it was layered with intent data? The data was not necessarily wrong. Someone did read the content, visit the page, or research the category. The system fails somewhere after that. Behavior becomes intent, intent becomes purchase readiness, and purchase readiness becomes an SQL. Three inferences stacked on top of each other. Then the dashboard presents the result like a fact. Of course, intent data works. It is one of the few ways marketing and sales teams can observe a buying journey that mostly happens without them. But it does not find…
by Kurt Schlosser on Aug 12, 2026 at 2:10 pmAugust 12, 2026 at 2:10 pm Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold during the team’s training camp. (Seahawks Photo) If your summer sports head is spinning about the current state of the Seattle Mariners, perhaps it’d be better served focusing on “spin rate,” particularly as it relates to Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold. The Seahawks are the subject of the latest season of HBO’s Hard Knocks, an inside look at training camp and how the team is preparing to defend its Super Bowl championship this season. Episode 2 of the series premiered Tuesday…
LinkedIn just introduced a new option for users: “Seems like AI slop.”
Google’s Pixel 11 family is here, and on paper, it fixes several things I wanted to see improved from the Pixel 10 generation. Tensor G6 promises a meaningful performance bump on all four models, while Google has upgraded cameras throughout the lineup, along with faster charging, and the Pro models get brighter and tougher displays. The Pixel 11 Pro Fold also undergoes much-needed design refinements. These are some solid improvements for an annual update to Google’s flagship lineup. But whether they justify replacing a Pixel 10 you bought a year ago is a different question. Having covered and used enough…
Everyone is wrong about Hank Green.In case you missed the controversy: The veteran YouTube star, writer, and science comms entrepreneur was recently “canceled” after he acknowledged using AI for research.“I have been relying too heavily on AI as a research aid,” he wrote in a statement on Reddit. “It can be very useful for this task, giving me access to a lot of papers I didn’t know existed really fast, but I think that has been to the detriment of my work because it has not given me the freedom to find all of my own ways into and around…
A little wind noise, a little connectivity flakiness, and a little lip-sync issues from YouTube, but look at that view! 🤩 Back to business, it’s the Brinks Home FAQ I found most interesting this week. I mean, how do you write your own FAQ then fail to actually answer most of the questions?! Being conscious that they’re the target of criminal extortion and are genuinely the victims here, I still struggle to grasp how simple incident response questions can be so lawyer-speaked as to remove all sensible meaning from the responses. But this is how these things tend to play…
Google’s first smartwatch debuted just four years ago, and at the time, the company went to great lengths to stress the accuracy of the Pixel Watch’s heart rate sensor. Even if Google was late to the wearable party compared to peers like Apple and Samsung, that focus on heart rate seems to be paying off with new features that are yet to be seen on competing products.On Wednesday, Google introduced the latest generation of its smartwatch, the Pixel Watch 5 (alongside the Pixel 11 smartphone family). The hot new health feature? Breathing Emergency Detection. Similar to the first-of-its-kind Loss of…
The Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro Fold and Pixel Watch 5 are expected today. Screenshots by Cherlynn Low (Google) Google has been dropping teasers of the devices it will be announcing at its hardware launch event over the last few days and all that build-up is ready to be released at last. At 6PM ET on August 12, the company will host a celebrity-packed event in New York, featuring host Trevor Noah and a long list of well-known names. People expected to make appearances include Alex Cooper, Steph Curry, PinkPantheress and Ayami Nakajo. Thanks…
Ravie LakshmananAug 12, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter, according to new findings from QUIRSO. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-59310 (CVSS score: 9.8), a directory-traversal vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server that a malicious actor with network access can exploit to execute arbitrary code. Patches for the flaw were released by Broadcom late last month. The German cybersecurity company said it discovered the activity following an incident response engagement. The attack chain is said to have exhibited path traversal activity consistent with the flaw,…