Author: InfoForTech
Can communities, livelihood, and the environment be rendered expendable in pursuit of technological progress? “Residents are using words like silenced, ignored, secretive, and not seen and not heard.” Erin Brockovich has built a website focused on transparency surrounding data center construction, with over 3,674 community reports in just two months. And yes, it’s the same consumer advocate who single-handedly built a massive case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company back in 1993. Source This website is basically an archive, and its most intriguing aspect is the map showing all data centers that are up and running/being constructed/planned/pending approval across different states in the US.…
Today, we welcome the 46th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: the Philippines.The Philippines’ National CERT, working with the Department of Information and Communications Technology, now has access to monitor official government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives their Cyber Threat Intel and Monitoring Section the ability to identify exposure across government email addresses and respond quickly when those accounts appear in new data breach.This is precisely what the HIBP government service was built for: helping national cyber teams better understand credential exposure across their government domain space, monitor for compromised accounts on demand…
To accelerate and refine decision-making in a fast-paced, global marketplace, enterprises may deploy generative artificial intelligence models to help summarize and interpret the charts that often fill market summaries and financial reports.But even the latest vision-language models sometimes struggle with this task, since it requires a model to integrate visual, numerical, and linguistic understanding. A company that invests in a state-of-the-art model might still receive inaccurate or incomplete information.To fill this performance gap, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab developed a multifaceted resource for AI users that is specifically designed to teach vision-language models (VLMs) how to…
The company is bringing AI agents to businesses on WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. Meta During Meta’s most recent earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg hinted that the company had big plans for AI agents. Now, we’re seeing the first part of those plans come to fruition. At the company’s Conversations event in London, Meta introduced AI agent tools for businesses that rely on WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. Officially called the “Meta Business Agent,” the new tool will allow business owners to delegate many of their everyday tasks, including interacting with customers and booking appointments. Meta says that the…
For most fitness trackers, customization starts and ends with buying a different strap. Google appears to have a much bigger vision for the Fitbit Air. The company has published detailed design guidelines, CAD files, and certification information that effectively invite creators, developers, brands, and hobbyists to build their own accessories for the ultra-lightweight health tracker. So, Google doesn’t just want third-party Fitbit Air bands to exist — it wants people to create them. The move is a fascinating departure from the tightly controlled accessory ecosystems that dominate the wearable tech landscape. If Google gets its way, Fitbit Air owners could…
Ravie LakshmananJun 03, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an unpatched issue that could be exploited to disclose a user’s NTLMv2 hash to the attacker. Like in the case of CVE-2026-33829, which impacted the Windows Snipping Tool’s ms-screensketch: URI handler, the newly flagged issue resides in the search: URI handler, per Huntress. CVE-2026-33829 refers to a spoofing vulnerability that could expose sensitive information to an unauthorized actor. It was patched by Microsoft in April 2026. “An attacker could induce the user into clicking a specially crafted link in a Web browser or other URL source, by…
Perplexity, an AI-powered search and answer engine, has a new way to turn personal devices into decentralized data centers. The company said Tuesday that it’s adding a new hybrid local-server system to Personal Computer, its AI agent that can work across files, apps and the web. Starting in July, the system will automatically decide which parts of a task should run directly on a user’s device and which should be sent to more powerful AI models in the cloud.A smaller model running locally could handle sensitive data and routine work locally, such as financial records, health information and personal files. More…
If you’re hunting for a new vacuum, Dyson has surely come up in one way or another. The brand is famous for its powerful vacuum cleaners, but its air power also extends to other parts of the home, including hair care and air purification. It’s a dream household staple; I lugged around an old Dyson vacuum for years until I could upgrade to one of the newer stick models rather than buying something that wouldn’t be as powerful or last as long.But the cost can make it a hard investment to make, even if it’s worth it. If you’re shopping…
AMD is aggressively reshaping local AI development with massive memory capabilities in its new Ryzen AI Halo platform and Max PRO processors, leaving competitors scrambling to match this raw power. Here in my home office in the high desert of Bend, Oregon, I regularly build around two to three desktop systems a year. It is a necessary, hands-on practice to keep a firm, tactile understanding of where PC hardware is heading, rather than relying solely on sanitized press releases and corporate roadmaps. When you are frequently up to your elbows in motherboards, cooling loops, and bare silicon, you notice the…
Sema4.ai Inc. a startup that provides tools for building and managing artificial intelligence agents, has announced a massive revamp of its platform, with big changes coming to every layer of the agent development stack. The refreshed platform will impact and improve everything from the way agents are built to how they capture and understand business context, and the way they’re deployed within customer’s computing environments. Sema4 first started getting attention last year when it raised $25 million in a Series A round of funding. It was founded by its Chief Executive Rob Bearden, who once held the same role at…