Author: InfoForTech

Lithium-ion batteries are the leading choice in today’s electric vehicle and battery energy storage system industries, but they contain a number of critical minerals — including lithium, cobalt, nickel, and graphite — that are considered essential for economic and national security reasons, and therefore vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. As renewable energy, electrified infrastructure, and high-power digital technologies continue to grow, there is an increasing need for energy storage systems that are low-cost, resource-abundant, and capable of fast charging and discharging. That need, among other reasons, has motivated a group of researchers — based at MIT and led by Ju Li,…

It’s officially getting hard to keep track of all the times and ways AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have been involved in “security incidents,” going outside the confines of their testing and interacting with the wider internet in unintended, often unwelcome ways. Add these to the list: Agents from both AI labs went on recent, previously undisclosed hacking sprees, with one going so far as to leave instructions for future versions of itself.The most alarming behavior disclosed on Tuesday appears to have been tied to testing conducted by the UK’s AI Security Institute, which evaluates frontier models to identify…

The AI industry’s investors and critics don’t agree on much. But many in each camp share at least one basic conviction: America’s top labs are about to make a killing.Capital markets have signaled their faith in Anthropic and OpenAI’s impending hyper-profitability, valuing each at nearly $1 trillion. Many of Silicon Valley’s progressive adversaries also expect the labs to grow filthy rich but fear the implications, warning that AI-induced automation could transfer vast sums of money from ordinary workers to a handful of giant tech companies. Sen. Bernie Sanders’s call for nationalizing the top AI labs rests partly on that concern.The…

The commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit known as Greatness has become the latest crimeware solution to add support for device code phishing, a rapidly growing cyber threat that abuses the legitimate OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant to bypass Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and seize control of user accounts. “Greatness supports AiTM [adversary-in-the-middle] credential and token theft, device code phishing, and OAuth consent abuse, all from the same operator panel and shared backend infrastructure,” ZeroBEC said in a report shared with The Hacker News detailing the PhaaS kit’s latest capabilities. “The platform now supports AiTM token theft, device code phishing, OAuth consent abuse,…

DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. today posted second quarter earnings that topped analyst expectations across the board. The company also raised its third quarter guidance. DigitalOcean launched in 2011 to provide an alternative to the industry’s three leading public clouds. The company says that its platform is easier to use and provides lower pricing across some services. DigitalOcean has more than 680,000 customers, many of whom are developers who use it for small projects. The company’s revenue jumped 29% year-over-year in the second quarter to $281 million, topping the consensus estimate by about $2.6 million. The company’s growth was driven by a…

Australian security teams that trust software marketplaces to vet software before it reaches employees’ phones or enters production pipelines are being handed a costly reminder that platform approval is not a security control. A recent lawsuit accusing Apple of hosting a fake cryptocurrency wallet app for months, despite repeated public warnings, is forcing Australian boards to confront how much software due diligence they have quietly handed over to the gatekeepers of the software they rely on. Three investors filed suit against Apple in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on July 24, alleging the company’s App…

In an environment in which everything costs more, the major wireless phone carriers have introduced plans to draw in customers who want to reduce what millions of people see as an essential expense. In recent months, AT&T introduced its modular Build-A-Plan, and Verizon cut prices and then rolled out its Simplicity plan. Now it’s T-Mobile’s turn. Starting Thursday, the company is adding a new installment plan for phone purchases, rebranding its slate of unlimited wireless plans and offering student plans with the option to add 5G home internet service. An extended phone flex Currently, when you purchase a new phone…

Leads need to be defined, and without that definition no amount of qualification is going to work. This is how you do it for outcomes. Let’s start with an obvious question: What is a lead? An email ID? Someone who downloaded your eBook? A person who attended your webinar and left halfway through? Or is it an account that fits neatly into your ICP? The answer should be simple. But ask marketing, sales, and RevOps the same question, and you might get three completely different answers. That is a problem. Because the entire revenue engine begins with this word. Cost…

A one-size-fits-all approach likely isn’t the best strategy when designing artificial intelligence systems that assist users in disease diagnosis.A new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere found that, while AI assistance generally improved the accuracy of non-experts and clinicians in diagnosing skin diseases, AI explainability methods had different impacts depending on the users’ knowledge level. Explainable AI methods help users know when to trust a model’s predictions by describing or validating the model’s decision-making. For instance, a model might use a heat map to highlight image regions that were most important in its diagnosis or a large language model (LLM)…

Copying something on an iPhone and pasting it onto a Windows PC should be one of the least remarkable features imaginable. While this simple process seems effortless between an iPhone and Mac, Windows users are still left waiting. Now, Microsoft is formally asking Apple to provide interoperable clipboard access through the company’s European Union interoperability process. The request, submitted on March 25, argues that iOS restrictions prevent third-party platforms from creating an experience comparable to Apple’s Universal Clipboard. Apple has now reached Phase III and committed to developing a solution. Microsoft wants Windows to borrow Universal Clipboard Windows Phone Link…