Author: InfoForTech
Ravie LakshmananApr 30, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News The internet is noisy this week. We are seeing some wild new tactics, like people using fake cell towers to send scam texts, while some developers are accidentally downloading tools that peek into their private files during a simple install. It is definitely a busy time to be online. Security is always a moving target. Millions of servers are currently sitting online without any passwords, and old software bugs are showing up in the most unexpected places. Even with the right fixes available, staying one step ahead is a full-time job for…
Developer-centered artificial intelligence cloud provider Runpod Inc. today announced the launch of Flash, a software development kit and platform that removes the infrastructure overhead for deploying AI. With Flash, developers can go directly from local Python code to cloud AI inference, no container setup, no image management, no infrastructure configuration – just freewheeling and auto-scaling. “We built Flash because the feedback was consistent: Serverless is powerful, but the setup gets in the way,” said founder and Chief Executive Zhen Lu said. “Docker is a great tool; it’s just not the work developers came to do. Flash gives developers back that time.” Lu said developers need only write Python, pick their compute preference and then they’re serving…
The night sky over Microsoft’s headquarters campus in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft will take a $900 million charge in its current quarter for its one-time voluntary retirement program, the company disclosed in its earnings report Wednesday. Just to put that in context, it’s roughly equal to one day of revenue for the company at its current rate. Microsoft brought in $82.9 billion in its most recent quarter, ended March 31. The retirement program is part of a broader reshaping of Microsoft’s workforce, which numbered 228,000 employees globally as of mid-2025, the last publicly released count.…
GTM teams set goals all the time. Most of them are either too vague to act on or too narrow to mean anything. SMART goals are not a framework to follow rigidly. They are a forcing function that reveals whether you actually understand your motion, your buyer, and your organization’s capacity. Here is what that looks like in practice. Every GTM team has goals. The question is whether those goals are doing any work. There is a version of goal-setting that happens in planning cycles that looks productive and produces almost nothing. Numbers get written down. Slides get built. Leadership…
Regi Cris/Shutterstock Meta’s superintelligence team is working on a new set of AI agents that are meant to help the company’s users “achieve the diverse goals in their lives,” according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg, who is reportedly also overseeing an AI clone of himself, said that his goal is for the agents to be more approachable and easier to use than existing agent products like OpenClaw. Speaking during Meta’s first-quarter earnings call Wednesday, Zuckerberg said that the upcoming business and personal agents will build on the newly-released Muse Spark…
I’ve spent a fair share of my time copying Gemini’s outputs into a Word document, reformatting the headers, fixing the spacing, and wondering why AI can’t do this on its own. Fortunately, Google has finally done something that reduces my pain. Today, Google announced an update wherein the Gemini app can generate downloadable, ready-to-share files directly inside the chat, with no manual reformatting required. You can now ask Gemini to create Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs, and more directly in your chat. No more copying, pasting, or reformatting, just prompt and download.Available globally for all @GeminiApp users. pic.twitter.com/VuhlvehFuU— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai)…
In today’s hospitals and clinics, a dermatologist may use an artificial intelligence model for classifying skin lesions to assess if the lesion is at risk of developing into a cancer or if it is benign. But if the model is biased toward certain skin tones, it could fail to identify a high-risk patient.Perhaps one of the best known and most persistent challenges that AI research continues to reckon with is bias. Bias is often discussed in relation to training data, but model architecture can also contain and amplify bias, negatively influencing model performance in real-world settings. In high-stakes medical scenarios,…
Emergency first-responder leaders told federal regulators in a private meeting last month that they were frustrated with the performance of autonomous vehicles on their streets—that city firefighters, police officers, EMTs, and paramedics are forced to spend time during emergencies resolving issues with frozen or stuck cars. One fire official called them “a safety issue for our crews as well as the victims.” WIRED obtained an audio recording of the meeting.Officials from San Francisco and Austin, where Waymo has been ferrying passengers without drivers for more than a year, said the vehicles’ performance is getting worse. “We are actually seeing something…
GM announced earlier this week that it will upgrade 4 million vehicles with Gemini, Google’s family of generative AI models. The rollout will occur over several months and include GM’s four brands — Chevrolet, GMC, Buick and Cadillac — with model year 2022 or newer. The vehicles must already have Google built-in, an Android-based operating system integrated into the vehicle dashboard.A representative for GM did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Google built-in operates much like a phone, giving drivers and passengers access to Google Maps, Google Assistant and the Google Play store. Typically, you cannot add Google built-in…
Information technology services company Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. today announced it agreed to acquire Astreya Inc., a San Jose-based information technology managed services firm specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and data center operations. The deal is worth about $600 million, the company confirmed to Reuters, and is expected to strengthen Cognizant’s AI portfolio. Founded in 1994, Cognizant describes itself as a professional services outfit that helps clients modernize technology and transform their experiences. In practical terms, that means the company works from inside enterprises to rebuild processes and technology foundations. In the AI era, that increasingly means reconstructing engineering around…