Author: InfoForTech

The sheer scope of cybercrime can be hard to fathom, even when you live and breathe it every day. It’s not just the volume of data, but also the extent to which it replicates across criminal actors seeking to abuse it for their own gain, and to our detriment.We were reminded of this recently when the FBI reached out and asked if they could send us 630 million more passwords. For the last four years, they’ve been sending over passwords found during the course of their investigations in the hope that we can help organisations block them from future use.…

AheadComputing CEO Debbie Marr. (AheadComputing Photo) AheadComputing, a Portland, Ore.-based chip startup that designs and licenses CPU cores aimed at boosting performance for AI and data center workloads, announced a $30 million funding round. Founded in 2024 and led by former Intel engineering leaders, AheadComputing says its CPU cores are faster and more efficient than existing options for AI-heavy workloads. The startup is building CPU cores based on RISC-V, an open-source instruction set that lets companies customize chips instead of relying on proprietary architectures. GPUs may dominate headlines, but CPU performance remains critical to how efficiently AI applications run at…

Fun fact: You do not need a box spring with a hybrid mattress. This is a recurring question I see, and pocketed coils in hybrids eliminate the need for one. Box springs were designed to give more support and elevate performance to traditional coil beds, which would align certain sections of coils to yield more support. Nowadays, you may actually void your warranty if you use a box spring with a hybrid mattress—be sure to check that fine print.Our favorite hybrid we’ve tested is the Helix Midnight Luxe, which happens to be our top overall pick in our best mattresses…

Artificial Intelligence has come a long way in recent years. From chatbots that answer questions to AI systems that compose music or create art, machines are beginning to mimic some aspects of human intelligence. But one question fascinates scientists, technologists, and the general public alike: Can AI really think like a human? “AI can mimic thought, but it cannot feel the world the way we do.. “ Let’s explore how close we are—and what “thinking like a human” even means. What Does “Thinking Like a Human” Mean Humans don’t just process data—they reason, imagine, feel, and learn from experience. Thinking…

As many as 3,136 individual IP addresses linked to likely targets of the Contagious Interview activity have been identified, with the campaign claiming 20 potential victim organizations spanning artificial intelligence (AI), cryptocurrency, financial services, IT services, marketing, and software development sectors in Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, and Central America. The new findings come from Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, which is tracking the North Korean threat activity cluster under the moniker PurpleBravo. First documented in late 2023, the campaign is also known as CL-STA-0240, DeceptiveDevelopment, DEV#POPPER, Famous Chollima, Gwisin Gang, Tenacious Pungsan, UNC5342, Void Dokkaebi, and WaterPlum. The 3,136…

The paper clip problem always seemed too absurd to me. Also known as the paper clip maximizer, this is the thought experiment by philosopher Nick Bostrom that imagines how a superintelligent AI with the goal of maximizing paper clip production could end up destroying the world by directing all available resources to making paper clips.While it would be irresponsible to say this is happening, we are starting to run low on some resources. And it’s about to affect your life.You may have heard about the global memory shortage caused, in part, by the rapid buildout of AI data centers. Just…

As one would expect, artificial intelligence was a big theme at last week’s National Retail Federation’s annual event in New York City, as it was last year, but there was one subtle difference. The 2025 edition was focused more on AI education, whereas I felt this year’s NRF focused more on use cases. In fact, one of the speakers I saw said something to the effect that NRF is no longer a technology show but rather a business outcomes event. Concurrent with the event, Nvidia Corp. released its latest trends report, State of AI in Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods,…

The Nemotron 3 lineup – comprising Nano, Super, and Ultra – delivers leading performance for multi-agent AI systems, combining advanced reasoning, conversational, and collaborative capabilities. The models leverage a hybrid Mamba-Transformer mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, providing best-in-class inference throughput while supporting context lengths of up to 1 million tokens. Nemotron 3 Nano, the smallest model, is optimized for cost-efficient inference and tasks such as software debugging, content summarization, AI assistant workflows, and information retrieval. Despite possessing 30 billion total parameters, it intelligently activates only about 3 billion per token. With a unique hybrid MoE design, Nano achieves up to 4× higher…

Automation Anywhere’s tie-up with OpenAI pushes enterprise agentic AI beyond automation hype. It’s bold, but the tangible value still hinges on outcomes. Automation Anywhere just dropped a major update in the enterprise AI arms race. The company announced new AI-native agentic solutions built with OpenAI’s reasoning models. It’s more than marketing speak. It’s a deliberate push to put AI that acts, not just responds, into the core of how work gets done. The pitch is simple. Traditional automation stacks repeated rigid rules and brittle flows. The new approach combines Automation Anywhere’s Process Reasoning Engine with OpenAI models to augment bots’…

Enterprise AI World 2025, co-located with KMWorld 2025, offered a clear signal this year: the era of “drop a chatbot on the intranet and call it transformation” is over. The conversations shifted toward AI that sits inside real work—capturing tacit knowledge, restructuring workflows, building organizational memory, and reframing what humans are actually good for. Across the keynotes and sessions, three patterns kept repeating: AI is moving from content generator to decision partner and team member. Knowledge, structured, contextual, and connected, is becoming the real platform. Policy and practice, including leadership and workforce design, are now the rate-limiting steps, not models.…