Author: InfoForTech

TikTok has finalized the deal for its US entity, with its parent company ByteDance selling majority of its stake to a group of non-Chinese investors. The deal was closed just before the Trump Administration’s latest deadline, banning the app in the US unless it was divested from ByteDance, which will only retain 20 percent of the new entity. TikTok’s investors will own 80 percent, with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX, an Emirati-state owned investment firm, taking 15 percent each. Other investors include the investment firm of Dell’s CEO.The terms of the deal were first leaked last month, after TikTok CEO…

Share of Search predicts market share before sales data confirms it. But most teams track it like a vanity metric and miss the real patterns. Marketing teams love metrics that sound important. Brand awareness. Engagement rate. Impressions. Share of voice. All numbers that look good in a deck but rarely connect to revenue. Then there’s Share of Search. It’s different. Not because it measures something new, but because it predicts something old: market share. The correlation is consistent. Brands with higher Share of Search tend to gain market share. Brands with a declining Share of Search tend to lose it.…

Cloud computing’s agility has permanently reshaped enterprise IT, but it also exposes new layers of vulnerability. Modern organizations run thousands of workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud while orchestrating containers, microservices, and APIs that shift by the minute. Security teams face a paradox: every innovation that accelerates development also multiplies risk. Agent-based protection once served as the foundation of visibility, but installing and maintaining agents across constantly changing environments is both time-consuming and disruptive. “Security teams are being asked to move faster while their attack surface expands, whether they like it or not,” said Gil Geron, co-founder and CEO…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has once again laid out an ambitious timeline for the company’s long-awaited humanoid robot, Optimus. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Musk said Tesla plans to begin selling Optimus robots to the public by the end of 2027, assuming the machines reach the levels of reliability, safety, and functionality the company is targeting. Tesla The comments follow a series of years-long development milestones. Optimus, which was originally unveiled as the Tesla Bot in 2021, has undergone multiple prototype iterations and has already been pressed into service handling simple tasks in Tesla factories. According to…

Hello Cyber Builders 🖖Every day, I talk to security pros, MSSPs, CISOs, risk analysts, SOC operators, and more. They tell me what frustrates them, what they want, and where cybersecurity still falls short.At the same time, I work daily with startup founders—passionate individuals driven to build businesses and innovate. In today’s world, especially with the speed of AI, change is rapid. But what does not change is how to reach your next customers, build trust, and partner with them. Going to market in cybersecurity requires best practices and has specific requirements. I’m kicking off a new series on GTM. In…

Thursday has been a tough work day for many — or maybe, a great one, depending on how eager you are to access work-related programs. Microsoft services, including Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 are experiencing a significant outage that’s still going on as of early evening, Pacific time. Microsoft hasn’t announced an expected time when everything will be back up and running.You can follow the official Microsoft 365 Status account on the social-media platform X, which has been regularly posting updates about the outage.Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google…

It was not a philosopher nor a sci-fi novelist who sounded the alarm. It was a decree from one of the world’s most powerful banks.The Boss of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, has poured a bucket of cold water on the AI hype cycle, concluding that society may need to slow down the roll out of artificial intelligence if it is going to want to keep its balance.His comments, which came at a time of growing angst about automation and social decay, “had the effect of a spark in dry grass,” especially among tech leaders who rush ahead at full throttle.At the heart of the…

Twelve years (and one day) since launching Have I Been Pwned, it's now a service that Charlotte and I live and breathe every day. From the first thing every morning to the last thing each day, from holidays to birthdays, in sickness and in heal… wait a minute – did we marry each other or a data breach service?! We decided to do a 12th-birthday special together today to give everyone a bit more insight into what she does and what life is like running this service. It's a different weekly vid, and we really hope you enjoy watching it…

Elon Musk, the richest man on earth, is very good at making money. His track record of predicting the future is less stellar.Through the years, Musk has made several outlandish forecasts—about self-driving cars, about space exploration, about brain chips, about robotics—that have not panned out. The Tesla CEO and former steward of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency seems at least a bit self-aware. During a surprise appearance and his debut at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, he concluded with something like a mission statement: “Generally, for quality of life, it’s better to err on the…

The post, dated November 18, 2025, is a self-introduction styled as if written by Google’s newly released Gemini 3 Pro AI model, highlighting claimed advancements in reasoning, multimodality, and agency, though it appears to be user-generated content from a third-party AI blog rather than an official Google document.Research suggests the described features align closely with official announcements, though with some hype; for instance, Gemini 3 Pro emphasizes improved reasoning and tool use, yet early user feedback indicates occasional bugs and inconsistent performance.It seems likely that the post was created using Gemini 3 Pro itself or similar tools, capturing excitement around…