Author: The Tech Guy

Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context source, and provider-native retrieval has quietly overtaken the dedicated vector databases that define the category — yet a majority of enterprises have already watched their agents produce confident, wrong answers traced to missing or inconsistent context. A governed semantic layer is emerging as the fix, but most are still building it; the field is converging on hybrid retrieval; and even as provider-native tools lead in practice, a plurality say they intend to…

British supply chain security firm Risk Ledger has announced raising £24 million (roughly $32.3 million) in a Series B funding round that brings the total raised by the company to £33.8 million (roughly $45 million). The fresh investment round was led by Axiom Equity, with additional support from previous investor Mercia Ventures. Founded in 2018, London-based Risk Ledger has built a network-first platform that tackles modern supply chain cyber risks by connecting organizations and suppliers for faster, comprehensive assessments. The supply chain security solution enables connected organizations to view supplier profiles created after every supplier completes a standardized assessment and…

Research suggests offloading mental work to AI is like debt: an immediate payoff with long-term consequences. But collaborating with the technology may boost our work without eroding skills. Thinking is hard. It’s no wonder we lean on technology to lighten the load. We use calculators instead of doing long division by hand, GPS or Google Maps for navigation, and search engines instead of countless trips to the library. Yet just a few decades ago, getting around meant unfolding paper maps, and looking up a word required leafing through a hefty dictionary. Cognitive offloading of mental tasks to tools makes us…

For decades, engineers have chased the dream of an invisible drone. The usual approaches have involved transparent materials, camouflage coatings, or complex optical systems that bend light around an object. Researchers at Northwestern University decided to take a completely different route. Instead of hiding the drone itself, they chose to fool the human eye. The result is Phantom Twist, an experimental drone that spins so rapidly it almost disappears into the background. It’s not technically invisible, but to anyone watching, it looks more like a faint blur than a flying machine. The research was presented at Robotics: Science and Systems…

Back in April, a rumor claimed that Huawei would unveil the Mate XT2 in October. Now, a newly surfaced patent for the alleged tri-fold smartphone hints at a new design and folding mechanism. The patent images, shared by well-known tipster Ice Universe on X, suggest that the Mate XT2 could adopt an inward-folding design, replacing the Z-shaped folding mechanism used on the Mate XT and Mate XTs. The folding mechanism appears to be similar to the Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold, although it works differently. Based on the patent images, the Mate XT2 will offer a cover display alongside a large…

Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss; only about a third give every agent its own scoped identity, and most agents still share credentials; and only three in ten isolate their highest-risk agents. The security stack is overwhelmingly borrowed from the model providers and hyperscalers rather than purpose-built for agents, spending remains a thin slice of the security budget, and enterprises are evenly split on whether their defenses are keeping…

The use and reliance on AI is the biggest single growth area in technology. But AI is enormously energy-intensive and requires a new quality of data center.  The demand is fueling rapid growth in AI data center builds. The danger is that those building this new type of data center, at speed, do not readily understand the difference between traditional data centers and AI data centers – and the result is leaving the new AI data centers open to a new scale of risk.  Traditional data centers are primarily data processing warehouses serving a known clientele. AI data centers are…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech SpaceX bears are smelling blood in the water. As its stock languishes below its IPO price  — at press time, $131 — short sellers are going all in against the company, hoping to make a killing off of CEO Elon Musk’s faltering pull on investors. As CNBC reports citing data from S3 Partners, 185 million SpaceX shares are now sold short, which is nearly 29 percent of its publicly tradable shares, when it was around only five to seven percent three weeks ago.…

16 years after the first version became available on iOS and 6 years after Phocus Mobile 2 was released for iPhones, Hasselblad’s Phocus Mobile is now finally available on Android too. It works with the Hasselblad X2D II, X2D 100C, and 907X & CFV 100C cameras. The app delivers the end-to-end Hasselblad Natural Color Solution (HNCS) experience on mobile, combining AI-powered noise reduction with a comprehensive editing suite and photo management tools. In the Android app, you can now review, edit, organize, and export images. The colors, tonal gradations, and highlight details are preserved from preview to export. On Android…

I love my speakers, in this case, a pair of KRK Rokit 5 active studio monitors. They sound fantastic, with silk dome tweeters, Kevlar woofers, powerful built-in amplifiers, LCD panels at the rear, and a companion app for fine-tuning. The only thing they lack is the convenience of modern streaming. Now, I could simply buy a Bluetooth adapter, but that would mean a downgrade in sound quality. I realized that to keep the superior sound and have wireless functionality, I’d have to find another solution, and that’s when I stumbled upon the WiiM Pro. This little box could be the…