Author: The Tech Guy

The Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for online people-powered research, has reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 billion classifications contributed by volunteers around the world. This milestone is a celebration of everyone who has marked a dip in a light curve, confirmed the presence of a moving object in a short video, or identified species in a camera trap image. Each of these small contributions collectively advances our understanding of the universe. A total of 31 NASA-sponsored citizen science projects have been hosted on Zooniverse, accounting for 120 million classifications by 324 thousand volunteers since 2020.…

Artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at creating fake human faces. So good, in fact, that the old tricks people relied on – counting fingers, spotting warped earrings, or looking for distorted backgrounds – are quickly becoming obsolete. According to a new study highlighted by the BBC, the next line of defence may not be a better AI detector at all. It might simply be a better-trained human. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen, working alongside Australia’s National University, found that people can dramatically improve their ability to distinguish AI-generated faces from real ones after a relatively short period of…

The low entry price and no-commitment approach of streaming services makes them attractive to budget-conscious buyers. Buying a digital copy or physical release of one movie could cost the same as an entire month’s worth of a video streaming service. This leads to the misconception that physical media is an expensive hobby, and streaming is cheap. In reality, you could end up spending more in the long run on monthly subscriptions than it would cost to own the media you truly care about. The barrier of entry to owning physical media has never been smaller. A $10 Blu-ray player from…

The Honor Magic V6 is available in Europe at a discounted price of €1,700/£1,500 until the end of the month. The EU price is set to go up to €2,300 in August and the UK price relies on a £500 voucher, which probably won’t last long. In either case, you get a free Honor Pad 10 and a 24-month screen protection plan. Even so, the price is turning some potential buyers away. In last week’s poll, two nearly equal groups formed – those who are interested in buying the Magic V6 at its current price accounted for 25.3% of the…

Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Technion, and Intuit have detailed a new attack technique dubbed ‘HalluSquatting’ that turns AI assistants’ tendency to hallucinate into a scalable infection vector.  The cybersecurity community has identified several ways to hack or hijack AI tools through prompt injection delivered via channels such as emails, logs, comments, and messaging notifications. These promptware attacks leverage the fact that the attacker has a direct channel to the targeted user’s LLM application.  HalluSquatting, on the other hand, has been described as a form of untargeted promptware that relies on a technique named adversarial hallucination squatting, in which threat…

Artificial IntelligenceKhosla-Backed Startup Claims Breakthrough With Largest-Ever AI Model on an iPhoneAaron Tilley | The Information ($)”The largest AI models, which can measure in the trillions of parameters, are still far too big to run on mobile devices. But the model PrismML has working on an iPhone is capable of tasks like complex chat, reasoning, fully autonomous agents and software coding, the startup said.”RoboticsHumanoid Robots Controlled by Surgeons Did World-First Operation on Live PigsJeremy Hsu | Ars Technica”Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment—but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human…

At the end of this month, Samsung’s attention will shift towards launching the new Galaxy Z foldables – you can already pre-reserve one here. We know that some of you don’t care for foldables, so let’s have a look at what’s going on with Samsung’s slab flagships. The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is under $1,000 yet again. This isn’t the lowest price we’ve seen for the 12/256GB model, but it’s within $50 or so. Unfortunately, the upgrade to 512GB storage is quite pricey at the moment. Amazon has the better deal on the 256GB variant and the same $1,300 price…

Copilot Cowork is now generally available for all Microsoft 365 Copilot users with a new interface and features. Copilot Cowork (powered by Work IQ) is an agentic system that brings enterprise-ready AI to automate complex tasks and streamline multi-step work across Microsoft 365. Instead of describing or suggesting what you can do, it does the […] This article Getting started with Copilot Cowork: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.

Shimul Sood / Android AuthorityImagine you’re watching a YouTube video, completely invested in what’s happening, and then an ad suddenly interrupts. It’s annoying every single time, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels that way. I’d much rather install an ad blocker in a few minutes than pay for YouTube Premium just to avoid ads.If you’re tired of YouTube constantly nagging you about ad blockers, here’s how you can get it working on your device, too. How do you deal with YouTube ads?1081 votesI use an ad blocker.36%I pay for YouTube Premium.32%I just put with them.21%I’ve stopped…

Threat actors are abusing the GitHub API to systematically enumerate organizations, repositories, and user accounts, Datadog reports. Spanning multiple overlapping campaigns, the activity has been ongoing for several months, relying on ghost accounts that were registered two to five years ago but left dormant. The activity, Datadog says, involves automated scanners, the abuse of leaked credentials, and coordinated networks of dormant accounts. While the observed GitHub API requests are targeting publicly available data, blending with normal traffic, the continuous activity that in some cases escalated to the attackers cloning discovered repositories raises concern. “A large share of GitHub’s API surface…