Author: InfoForTech
Most follow-up emails fail before they are sent. Not because the writing is bad, but because the intent behind them is wrong. These templates are built around one idea: the buyer owes you nothing, and your follow-up has to earn its place in their day. Here is how to do that, with examples you can actually use. There is an industry anecdote that if you do not reply within the hour, you lose the buyer. Whether that is true depends entirely on who the buyer is and what they are evaluating. But the larger point holds: the follow-up is where…
MOM just released its latest advanced quarterly labour report & employers are showing signs of caution Singapore’s labour market continued to expand in Q1 2026, but employers are showing early signs of caution as they tighten hiring plans, according to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM)’s latest advance quarterly labour market report released today (Apr 30). The report, based on preliminary data, found that the city-state added 5,000 jobs in the first quarter of 2026, extending an 18-quarter growth streak. While this was higher than the 2,300 jobs added in Q1 2025, it marked a sharp slowdown from the 17,700 jobs…
Ravie LakshmananMay 01, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence A newly discovered Vietnamese-linked operation has been observed using a Google AppSheet as a “phishing relay” to distribute phishing emails with an aim to compromise Facebook accounts. The activity has been codenamed AccountDumpling by Guardio, with the scheme selling the stolen accounts back through an illicit storefront run by the threat actors. In all, roughly 30,000 Facebook accounts are estimated to have been hacked as part of the campaign. “What we found wasn’t a single phishing kit,” security researcher Shaked Chen wrote in a report shared with The Hacker News. “It was a…
This post is brought to you in paid partnership with QuickBooks The Intuit Enterprise Suite (IES) interface doesn’t dramatically differ from QuickBooks Online. Core navigation, workflows, and accounting functions remain familiar. The main difference is added functionality for managing multiple entities, user permissions, and consolidated reporting. This means most users can adapt quickly while gaining tools to handle more complex financial operations. Key takeaways IES keeps familiar workflows but adds multi-entity functionality. Navigation remains similar, with additional controls for managing entities. Users adapt quickly by learning reporting and entity-level differences. What is the difference between IES and QuickBooks Online? Intuit…
Tracy Drinkwater engaging with visitors at the Seattle Universal Math Museum, which she founded. (SUMM Photo) Tracy Drinkwater bristles when people — sometimes proudly — declare they “can’t do math.” No one, she notes, would similarly boast about being bad at reading or history. But she understands the sentiment. Math education, she argues, was designed decades ago to produce NASA engineers, not curious learners — reflected in all-or-nothing grading and a fast-paced curriculum that pushes kids into calculus before high school graduation. “It ends up making a lot of people feel really stupid,” Drinkwater said. So the former middle and…
We recommend an electric kettle for tea lovers, though they can come in handy for just about anybody, and this is one of our top picks. It has an insulated, double-walled body, four preset programs (for oolong, white, and green tea, along with a button for boil), along with an auto shutoff and “keep warm” mode. It also has a really cute look, with a matte finish that’s available in adorable colors like cornflower blue and sage green. We also love that the buttons on the touch-activated display only appear when the kettle is in use, so it looks super…
When she was a child, MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt would spend summers on her grandparents’ farm in rural Alabama outside Birmingham. The practical and cultural differences between farm and city life became more pronounced by comparison. “Life and the way we lived it slowed down on the farm,” she says. “It was a nice change of pace.” These days, Honeycutt, a double major in computation and cognition and linguistics, still finds herself moving between several worlds that are simultaneously connected and distinctly different. Her research interests lie at the intersection of human thinking and awareness, language learning and acquisition, technology, and social group…
When I think of heroic doctors, I think of the physician in the hospital who’s presented with a patient suffering bizarre or vague symptoms and pulls out the right diagnosis just in time. It’s the basis of almost every medical procedural TV show, from House, MD to The Pitt. It’s the mystique that has made doctors among the most revered professionals in society.But what if a machine could make that call just as well or even better? What should we do about it here in the real world?That question is becoming more urgent. According to a major new study published…
Customer experience used to be something tuned at the edges. Better call center scripts, nicer portals, lower prices or a new survey could make incremental improvements in consumers’ perceptions of a brand. Today, it starts much earlier because every interaction across the channels customers use every day matters. Text, voice and messaging are no longer just “pipes” for getting a message from point A to point B. They’re now the primary mechanism through which trust is built or eroded in seconds. The evolution of CX is long overdue. My research shows that 90% of companies now say they compete primarily…
Ravie LakshmananApr 30, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Malware In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft. According to Aikido Security, OX Security, Socket, and StepSecurity, the two malicious versions are versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, both of which were published on April 30, 2026. The campaign is assessed to be an extension of the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain incident that targeted SAP-related npm packages on Wednesday. As of writing, the project has been quarantined by the administrators of the Python Package Index…