Author: The Tech Guy

One of the biggest tech tips for PC owners is to enable XMP/EXPO profiles in the BIOS to use the manufacturer-intended clock speeds, because by default, RAM won’t run at its rated speeds. However, most guides overlook the fact that there is more than one XMP/EXPO profile, and selecting the wrong one might cost you latency and instability. Related My computer felt slow for months until I realized my RAM was never running at full speed A simple BIOS setting unlocked the full speed my RAM promised. Your RAM runs slower than advertised by default Why JEDEC speeds come first…

The iPhone Duo has been in very high demand since pre-orders started last week, with shipping dates slipping all the way to January within hours. Now, a new report claims Apple has responded by raising its iPhone Duo shipment target by 44%. According to supply chain sources, Foxconn and component makers have received instructions reflecting an increase from 9.7 million units to 14 million for the first 12 months of production. For context, back in July, Nikkei Asia reported that Apple had asked its suppliers to make around 10 million foldable iPhones in 2026. Then in September, analyst Jeff Pu…

Corey Thuen is a hacker with a hacker mindset that is focused on the right way to do wrong things to get the right result. Corey Thuen is the founder and CEO of Gravwell, a firm with a slight difference: it develops data analytics and vulnerability detection through a combined team of big data experts and hackers. When interviewing a candidate for the hacker half of the team, he looks for people who have what he calls ‘the evil bit’. “Do they have that ‘evil streak’? Do they have that adversarial mindset that can look at a product and seek…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A cybercriminal used AI agents to commit a string of attacks against more than 100 different companies — an alarming incident that shows how autonomous agents with advanced AI hacking capabilities have exponentially raised the threat that a single human hacker can pose. As Reuters first reported, a threat researcher at the cybersecurity company NorForge discovered that a Chinese-speaking hacker had used autonomous agents to carry out the mass hacking spree, which impacted global companies including John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins, among dozens of…

Sony’s Integrated Processor V1 and Dual Noise Sensor technology drive the noise cancelling on the WH-CH720N, now down to $88. Pairing that processing with a steep price cut, Best Buy has brought the Sony WH-CH720N Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones from a comparable value of $178 down to $88, a saving of $90, or 51%, on a pair built for quieter commutes. Sony’s WH-CH720N headphones are now under $90 Offering up to 35 hours of battery life and Dual Noise Sensor technology, the Sony WH-CH720N headphones are down to $88, a 51% saving. View Deal Shoppers comparing the best noise-cancelling headphones…

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR The subscription service known as Kindle Unlimited has a new name. Amazon has rebranded the service to Kindle Plus. The rules of the service are still the same. For avid readers, Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited subscription is very convenient. It gives you access to the company’s extensive collection of media, lets you borrow up to 20 titles at a time, and so on. While it’s long been known as Kindle Unlimited, the service is now undergoing its first-ever major rebrand. Get ready to say goodbye to the name Kindle Unlimited. Just like every other…

Signal has resolved a critical-severity vulnerability that could allow a malicious caller to keep audio and video tracks enabled even after the user hung up. The security defect is tracked as CVE-2026-113380 (CVSS score of 9.3) and impacts RingRTC, the open source library Signal uses for voice and video calls, which is based on WebRTC. Due to the issue, a remote peer could flood the call’s Finite State Machine (FSM) event queue with junk, and the call would not terminate. This happened because the hangup was not treated as a kill switch, but as an event added to the FSM…

Everything that matters for Tesla should scale in Q2 2027. AI5 chips in April 2027 integrating with Optimus.Customer cars start joining the Robotaxi fleet in Q2 2027Optimus targets to 20,000 a week (a 1 million/year run rate) by Q4 but should be substantial in Q2 2027.Factories scaled for 5 million cars a year by 2030TeraFab test chips mid-2027 and volume production Q3 2028FSD should be at near 100% adoption for new and used Tesla AI4 cars by Q1 or Q2 2027.Tesla FSD 15.X will be next level and at or near fully unsupervised. Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader…

The iPhone Duo reviews are out, and Apple’s foldable phone has earned plenty of praise for its polished hardware. However, experts have also criticized the loss of Face ID, since Apple switched to a Touch ID fingerprint sensor embedded in the side button. But Apple appears to be working on fixing the problem for the next-gen iPhone Duo.  Apple Why did Apple replace Face ID on the iPhone Duo? According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is testing iPhone Duo 2 units with an under-display Face ID module. Of course, it’s not certain Apple will make the switch, but there’s a…

There are plenty of things that annoy me about Windows, but I have to give Microsoft credit where it’s due. Some of the built-in apps have gotten so good that they’re giving third-party paid tools a real run for their money. In my case, these built-in tools have made me stop paying for four apps I’d been using for years. Related 6 open-source Windows apps I use every day — and nobody talks about them The unsung open-source gems your PC needs. CCleaner Windows already has automatic storage cleaning, driver updater, and more Digvijay Kumar / MakeUseOf CCleaner was one…