Author: The Tech Guy

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Sungshin Choi, Yi-Chun Chen, Emma Yates, Eduardo Bendek. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond. Sungshin Choi is a Project Scientist with Amentum in the Space Biosciences Division. Sungshin is recognized for her enduring support of many space biology flight investigations past, present and future, including CBIOMES, ODYSSEY, and Space Algae II more recently. She is a tireless advocate for high-quality science and the principal investigators whom she represents. Yi-Chun Chen…

Apple’s future OLED Macs could deliver a noticeable display upgrade. A new report suggests the company is planning to adopt an even wider colour standard for upcoming MacBook Pro, iPad Pro and iMac models. According to research firm TrendForce, Apple is expected to gradually move towards OLED panels capable of covering 95% of the BT.2020 colour gamut. If accurate, it would mark one of the biggest advances in Apple’s displays since the OLED iPad Pro launched in 2024. Apple’s current premium displays on the best iPads use the DCI-P3 colour space, which is already the standard for professional photography, filmmaking…

Fable will feature a repopulation system if players murder too many NPCsPlayground Games originally thought about letting players live with the consequences of their actionsIt decided the absence of NPCs would ruin some of the game’s other systemsPlayground Games has confirmed that if Fable players, for some reason, decide to kill every non-player character (NPC) in a settlement, they will repopulate over time.During a press Q&A at an Xbox event adjacent to this year’s Summer Game Fest (SGF) attended by TechRadar Gaming, associate game director Will Kennedy discussed Fable’s reactive world, including the permanence of player actions. As a role-playing…

Critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in some Daktronics controllers could allow hackers to tamper with highway signs and billboards, according to the cybersecurity researcher who discovered the flaws. Daktronics is an American company that designs, manufactures, and services large-scale LED video displays, electronic scoreboards, digital billboards, and dynamic audio systems. Its displays can be seen worldwide, spanning everything from high school gymnasiums and professional sports arenas to highways, international airports, and metropolitan billboards.  According to an advisory published by CISA last week, the Daktronics VFC-DMP-5000, DMP-5000, and DMP-8000 controllers, which control the company’s large-scale displays, are affected by three vulnerabilities. SecurityWeek…

AI’s hacking skills are big news at the moment, but finding vulnerabilities in code may be the least of our worries. A new study suggests AI models can discover potentially damaging loopholes in the rules and regulations underpinning society.Modern AI systems are powerful optimizers. Give them a goal, and they’ll pursue it relentlessly, quickly discovering solutions that would take a human years to find. But they are also incredibly literal in the way they approach a problem. They will do exactly what you tell them and are incapable of reading between the lines in the ways a human would.This tendency…

If you’ve ever been on vacation and chose to record video instead of taking photos only to avoid missing the fun moments, thinking you’d pause and take screenshots later, you might have ended up questioning your decision later.  You see, the process involves multiple steps, starting from hunting for the right frame, pausing, and taking a screenshot. If it doesn’t look good, you go back to the video, pause somewhere else, and try taking another screenshot. You see where I’m going with this? It’s a specific little misery that iOS 27 has now quietly fixed, and I genuinely can’t believe…

Fantasy author George R.R. Martin published A Game of Thrones, the first book in his A Song of Ice and Fire novels, in 1996. He published four more books in the series over the next 15 years, ending with A Dance With Dragons in 2011. Since then, fans have been waiting for him to complete The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in the saga, without luck. In fact, Martin has now been working on The Winds of Winter for longer than it took him to write the first five books in the series. That is a sobering statistic, and…

Just a few hours ago, Nothing confirmed that its upcoming Phone (4b) will be powered by a Snapdragon chipset, without going so far as to reveal which one. Meanwhile, an X user seems to have gotten his hands on all three colors of the Nothing Phone (4b) and decided to show them off to the world in live image form. Here they are in all their glory: Nothing Phone (4b) live images The same source has also shared images showing the About Phone section, which confirms a bunch of things about the device. It is running…

Attackers can take over developers’ systems by hiding indirect prompts in normal-looking repositories that, when executed by Claude Code, cause the agent to spawn a reverse shell, Mozilla’s 0Din security researchers warn. The attack raises no red flags because the attacker’s repository contains no malicious instructions or code, and when the repository is cloned, Claude Code follows legitimate installation steps. The repository contains setup notes that Claude Code follows when asked to get the cloned repository running. The entire attack relies on an error thrown during installation and on Claude Code being instructed to fix it. During the first-time setup,…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If you’re using AI to try and make “art,” Madonna Ciccone has some bad news for you. In a new interview with Vogue Italia, the Queen of Pop emphatically declared that AI is antithetical to art itself because it stifles creativity and pushes you down the boring and safe route. “Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks and to me that is the opposite of making art,” Madonna said. Her comments on AI were part of a broader missive on…