Author: The Tech Guy
French cloud computing and web hosting company OVHcloud says a hacker used the GitHub account of one of its developers to plant a secret-stealing binary in its official command-line interface (CLI) tool. The supply chain incident occurred on October 19, and OVHcloud lists versions v0.11.0 through v0.15.0 as compromised. Version 0.10.0 and the newly released version 0.16.0 are clean. “The hacker used the GitHub account of one of the developers and added a binary whose job is to retrieve secrets from the disk. The quality of the binary is poor but it can go all the way,” OVHcloud founder Octave…
The patients sit perfectly still as a needle inches toward one of their eyes. After the injection, they’ll no longer be completely human. The syringe is filled with a gene therapy that installs a light-sensitive algae protein into failing retinas and could reboot some lost vision.When scientists first proposed using algae proteins to restore human eyesight, the idea seemed like science fiction. Could alien proteins integrate into our intricate visual system? Even if they did, could the brain translate the resulting signals into sight, rather than nonsensical bursts of light?A new study suggests yes, with caveats. The team treated people…
Eufy has made robots with self-empty stations and robots with self-cleaning stations, and the X10 Pro Omni is the first in its range to combine both. That two-in-one station now comes with a much smaller bill, as Amazon has cut the Eufy X10 Pro Omni from £599 to £399, a 33% drop worth £200 on a robot that vacuums, mops and handles its own upkeep. This robot vacuum washes, dries and empties itself, and it’s £200 off Offering a self-emptying, self-cleaning station and camera obstacle avoidance, the Eufy X10 Pro Omni is now down to £399, a 33% saving. View…
There’s a lot of talk about the length of software and security support for Android phones, with brands like Samsung and Google upping this to seven years for their last few generations of devices. But we rarely hear about the longevity of iPhone and the length of support Apple offers for these devices. It definitely seems as if iPhones last a pretty long time. I know people who are still using their iPhone XRs to this day, and that phone launched eight years ago in 2018 and was discontinued in 2021. Apple offers software support for anywhere from five to…
Chinese smartphone maker Coolpad isn’t a brand we cover often, but the company has just launched the Cool X Wide, a widescreen smartphone similar to the Huawei Pura X View. Naturally, we had to take a closer look. The Coolpad Cool X Wide features a 6.38-inch LCD display with an HD resolution, a 90Hz refresh rate, and a wide 16:10 aspect ratio. It is powered by the MediaTek Helio G99 chipset, which is paired with up to 12GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 256GB of UFS 2.2 storage. The phone has a 50MP main rear camera and a macro sensor, however,…
Between April and July, AOMEI Backupper served malware to its users multiple times in short-burst supply chain compromises, security researchers warn. AOMEI Backupper is Windows backup, sync, and disk cloning software, available in free and paid editions for home users, businesses, and Windows Server environments. AOMEI says its products are used by more than 186 million people worldwide. Unlike typical supply chain attacks, this campaign relied on short-lived tampering windows to serve the CrossRoad downloader and the ShinyRoad backdoor. “Each tampering window remained active for only five to ten minutes before reverting to authentic versions,” report Google Cloud’s Google Threat…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech As Meta was scrambling to release its Muse AI agent to the public earlier last month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to social media to insist that it was “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” On X-formerly-Twitter, the billionaire’s simple post soon had a correction tagged on via a community note, and for good reason: the AI agent is a font of untold privacy horrors. As Ars Technica reported today, security researchers found Muse is capable of exposing sensitive information on…
Today Apple has announced new and expanded partnerships under its American Manufacturing Program (AMP), for critical materials and components used in the iPhone Duo and the iPhone 18 Pro, since nearly 100 components in those phones, from wireless chips to the silicon that powers key functions, are produced by American companies, with suppliers spread across more than a dozen states. Apple iPhone 18 Pro Perryman Company supplies the grade 5 titanium enclosure of the iPhone Duo. Apple is committing up to $100 million over the next three years for it, as Perryman melts, forges, and rolls titanium with a minimum…
Credit: Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority 2026 gave us plenty to argue about. Foldables got lighter and finally went wide, mid-range phones borrowed more flagship tricks than ever, and categories that barely existed a few years ago, from robot mowers and pool robots to wearable exoskeletons, grew into products we’d genuinely recommend. We spent the year testing and reviewing devices here at Android Authority (and all the best new audio at our sister site SoundGuys). Below are our top three picks in each category, from phones and wearables to audio, smart home, power, and handhelds.
Effective and efficient use of complex agentic systems is important for all organizations, but recognizing, preventing and recovering from them going rogue could be an existential necessity. NIST, the NSA, and CISA recognize the increasing potential for AI agents to behave in an unexpected and potentially harmful manner, and has responded with a list of key practices for both preparing for and responding to such behavior. The report (Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation) uses the term super intelligence (SI) rather than artificial intelligence (AI) in line with presidential executive order 14434. In…