Author: The Tech Guy
ChatGPT is famously polite (and so are we). It agrees, elaborates, and rarely challenges you. Its lightning-fast answers make us feel productive. But after a while, the responses sounded smart but safe. I realized the importance of making AI stop agreeing with me. I didn’t want it as an echo chamber, but a thinking partner. One day, I typed: “Play devil’s advocate and argue against my idea.” With this tweak, ChatGPT went from agreeable assistant to critical partner. It uncovered weak arguments, questioned my logic, and even highlighted blind spots. Since then, the “devil’s advocate prompt” has become one of…
I use an iPhone 16 Pro as my daily driver, so to speak, but I’m not an Apple diehard. I’ve owned multiple Android phones in the past, and my work machine is a Windows PC. I’m actually a little jealous of Android users occasionally — the best Android phones tend to have superior camera and charging specs, and Google’s Pixel devices are graced with AI features that iPhones are struggling to catch up with. It took until this fall’s iOS 26 for Apple to add call screening and hold assist options that have been on Pixel phones for years. If…
AI tools are revolutionizing software development by automating repetitive tasks, refactoring bloated code, and identifying bugs in real-time. Developers can now generate well-structured code from plain language prompts, saving hours of manual effort. These tools learn from vast codebases, offering context-aware recommendations that enhance productivity and reduce errors. Rather than starting from scratch, engineers can prototype quickly, iterate faster and focus on solving increasingly complex problems.As code generation tools grow in popularity, they raise questions about the future size and structure of engineering teams. Earlier this year, Garry Tan, CEO of startup accelerator Y Combinator, noted that about one-quarter of…
Apple on Friday announced significant updates to its bug bounty program and the company is now offering up to $2 million for complex exploit chains. Since the launch of its public bug bounty program in 2020, Apple has awarded a total of more than $35 million to over 800 security researchers. Multiple hackers earned $500,000 for their work, Apple said. The tech giant recently unveiled Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), an always-on memory-safety protection for iPhones designed to combat sophisticated attacks such as the ones conducted by mercenary spyware vendors. Apple believes these spyware attacks are the only ones that actually…
Scientists have developed a nanoparticle-based treatment that successfully reversed Alzheimer’s disease in mice. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, the team co-led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain (IBEC), and West China Hospital, Sichuan University, developed bioactive “supramolecular drugs” that can proactively repair the blood-brain barrier. The barrier plays an important role in the health of the brain, defending it from harmful substances and other pathogens. Alzheimer’s has been linked to a weakening of the barrier’s integrity, allowing for impairing toxins to make it through. More specifically, the disease…
The iPhone Air is an impressively slim 5.6mm-thick smartphone that really showcases the best of Apple’s engineering prowess. It’s just a shame the same can’t be said for the similarly-branded iPad Air. Despite the iPad Air branding suggesting that, like the iPhone Air, it’d be super thin and light, that’s not actually the case. The iPad Air is not the thinnest iPad on the market, nor is it even the thinnest tablet in Apple’s current line-up – and that just doesn’t make much sense. The iPhone Air is the thinnest iPhone yet… The iPhone Air is an impressive feat of…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint against Sendit, an anonymous question app that became popular with Gen Z and younger, for unlawfully collecting children’s data, deceiving users about who sent them messages, and tricking users into buying memberships. On Sendit, users — who are mostly teens — can send each other anonymous questions via integrations with Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat. Several apps like this have cropped up over the years, including YOLO and LMK, which were suspended on Snapchat in 2021 due to a lawsuit over a child’s suicide. After that suspension, Sendit quickly gained 3.5 million…
Computer mice are pretty simple – you point and click on spreadsheets or pop melons in your favourite game, but the pointer that feels right for work is not always the one that helps you get that headshot.If gaming is one of your passions, upgrading to a better mouse makes a real difference.The best gaming mice have the specs needed, whether that’s extra buttons to map, programmable RGB lighting, high DPI sensors or even wireless charging. So we were excited when a stack of TechRadar favourites were discounted for Prime Big Deal Days. Even more so when we realised that…
Meta signed another big solar deal on Thursday, securing 650 megawatts across projects in Kansas and Texas. American utility and power generation company AES is currently developing the solar-only projects, with 400 megawatts to be deployed in Texas and 250 megawatts in Kansas, the company told TechCrunch. Meta said it signed the deal to power its data centers, which have been expanding to support its growing AI operations. The company already has more than 12 gigawatts of capacity in its renewable power portfolio. AES typically signs new power purchase agreements two to three years before they begin commercial operations, and…
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) this week published 13 advisories describing unpatched vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager. One of the flaws allows local attackers to elevate their privileges and was reported to Ivanti in November 2024. The remaining 12 lead to remote code execution (RCE) and were reported in June 2025. While the vulnerabilities are technically not zero-days, ZDI flags all of the unpatched flaws it discloses as ‘0day’. ZDI’s advisories name the vulnerable component and provide a general description of the root cause, but do not contain any other technical details. No CVE identifier has been issued for…