Author: The Tech Guy
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The tech giant Meta fired about 8,000 workers yesterday — about 10 percent of its staff — and reassigned 7,000 more to AI projects. The company’s remaining workers continue to have every click of their work lives monitored as the company pivots from expensive project to even-more-expensive project — but not to worry! According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, there won’t be any more layoffs for at least seven more months. Meta first told employees that the massive workforce cuts were coming back in April, leaving staff…
How simplicity and accessibility are reshaping how users handle everyday digital tasks. The modern workplace has changed drastically in the last decade and is now categorized by remote access and widely distributed teams. And yet, many administrative tasks have remained surprisingly clunky. You can now collaborate on a group project with people from all over the world, but the process of managing a simple document, such as signing a PDF, converting a file, or just making a quick edit, can make the workflow grind to a halt as you search for the right app. Many works still jump between desktop apps, online…
Wahlap left an open Elasticsearch instance exposing 18.9 million records tied to its WeChat mini‑program ecosystemData included 6.6 million unique Union IDs, 1.7 million phone numbers, and personal details that could enable targeted phishing and fraudThe archive was locked down after disclosure, though there’s no evidence the exposed information was exfiltratedChinese arcade-maker powerhouse Wahlap, reportedly kept a huge user database open on the internet, available to anyone who knew where to look, security researchers from Cybernews have warned, putting personal information at risk.Wahlap is one of the largest arcade makers in the world, working with some of the biggest names…
Cisco on Wednesday announced patches for a critical-severity vulnerability in Secure Workload that could allow attackers to access site resources with Site Admin privileges. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20223 (CVSS score of 10/10), exists due to insufficient validation and authentication in the REST API endpoints. “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability if they are able to send a crafted API request to an affected endpoint,” Cisco notes in its advisory. Successful exploitation of the security defect allows an attacker to read sensitive information and modify configurations across tenant boundaries, with Site Admin privileges. “This vulnerability affects Cisco Secure Workload Cluster…
A prototype MicroSparc chip was fabricated, the Casimir team tests it using low-noise experimental setups designed to reduce electromagnetic interference. Dr. White said these tests were performed in dark, RF (radio frequency)-sealed enclosures over several weeks “using precision electrometers capable of measuring signals down to microvolt and attoamp sensitivities.” They observed device outputs ranging from millivolts to volts at picoamp current levels, well above the instrumentation’s noise floor. The team also directly measured polarization fields at the microscale in individual custom Casimir cavities using Atomic Force Microscopy, which White noted was operating in “Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy mode.” The team…
After several teasers, HMD has officially launched the Vibe 2 5G in India. The smartphone arrives as the successor to the HMD Vibe, which debuted in September 2025, and brings several upgrades, including a larger battery. The Vibe 2 5G sports a 6.75-inch LCD display that offers an HD+ resolution and a refresh rate of 120Hz. It is powered by the Unisoc T8200 chipset, which can be paired with up to 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. The phone offers a microSD card slot for storage expansion up to 1TB. In terms of optics, the handset gets a…
Summary Vivaldi 8.0 fights AI-driven search overload with a privacy-first, opt-in approach. Unified design merges toolbars, panels, and tabs into one cohesive, gesture-friendly UI. Deep customization: themes, gestures, integrated mail/notes, and the ability to revert to the old look. As an independent writer, I spend countless hours exploring the web, researching, and planning the stories I write. Lately, that experience has been nothing short of a nightmare, with every major browser racing to inject chatbots, AI search, and summaries, and generally pressuring me to accept AI as default. And it’s only going to get more prevalent, for better or worse.…
Samsung has released the One UI 8.5 stable update for the Galaxy Tab S11 and Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra, making them the first tablets to be upgraded to stable One UI 8.5. Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra 5G The One UI 8.5 stable update for the Galaxy Tab S11 comes with firmware version X736NKOU5BZE3, while the update for the Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra has firmware version X936NKOU5BZE3. Samsung Galaxy Tab S11 5G The One UI 8.5 stable update for both tablets is currently rolling out in South Korea, but the rollout should expand to other markets soon. Samsung Galaxy Tab…
AI, and especially agentic AI, is remodeling attack and defense throughout cybersecurity. Any distinction between emerging targets and primary targets in app security has dissolved, courtesy of bad actors’ rapid adoption of agentic AI. All apps should be considered primary targets, and security budgets should be allocated to reflect the new reality. Two areas of focus are discussed in Digital.ai’s 2026 App Security Threat Report. Firstly, the number of attacks against client-facing apps monitored by the firm has increased from 55% in 2022 to 87% in 2026. This increase is driven by the role of AI in permanently collapsing the…
It’s a truism among oceanographers that there is more accurate mapping of the surface of the Moon and Mars than of the deep-ocean floor. That’s especially true for the Bismarck Sea, a relatively deep body of water north of Papua New Guinea. It’s an ocean basin with a geologically complex seafloor rife with faults, volcanic features, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones at depths that make high-resolution sonar mapping challenging. When satellites detected signs of an unexpected submarine volcanic eruption in the Central Bismarck Sea on May 8, 2026, volcanologists were confronted with the reality that no high-resolution…