Author: The Tech Guy

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…

Amazon shows how capex-heavy bets can terrify investors yet compound into fortunes. From 1997–2003, Amazon had over $5 billion in cumulative losses amid relentless infrastructure spends—warehouses, servers, logistics—totaling ~$10B adjusted, or 5–6x annual revenues at peaks. In 1999, Amazon’s market cap was approximately $25.7 billion, fell as low as $3.6 billion in 2001 and got back to $21 billion in 2003. Investors feared a death spiral. Stock traded at 100x sales in 1999, then cratered 95% in the dot-com bust, with quarterly losses hitting $1B+. Explosive capex (often 3–4x near-term revenues) driven by technological leaps as seen with fiber and…

Enlarge Image If you ever forget what you’re driving, just look at the hood. Andrew Krok/CNETThere’s no missing a Range Rover. Whether it’s the prominent letters emblazoned fore and aft, or the unmistakable silhouette, this large luxury utility vehicle has capital-P presence everywhere it goes, and its latest generation is no different. The 2023 Range Rover holds true to the tenets that have kept this ute at the top of the luxo-barge pile, and its latest batch of changes will certainly keep it there for years to come. Like Serene ride Impeccable style inside and out Oodles of capability Don’t…

Using the right model and the right prompt is only part of the enterprise AI challenge, it's also critical to optimize the prompt.It's a challenge that Databricks has been working to solve with its Agent Bricks technology, which was launched back in June. That technology has steadily improved and today Databricks revealed new techniques it is using to further improve prompt optimization. New research released today from the company shows how its GEPA (Generative Evolutionary Prompt Adaptation) technique improves prompt optimization by an order of magnitude. Databricks claims the enhancement to Agent Bricks can now enable enterprises to make models…

The Pixel 10 Pro Fold and the Pixel Buds 2a, both of which were originally unveiled back on August 20, are now finally available for purchase. The timing means that Google missed Amazon’s big sales event, so the offers right now are pretty limited. To entice you to upgrade to the new foldable, the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold comes with a £300 bonus for trade-ins and that’s it. The phone measures 10.8mm when closed and weighs 258g, which is fairly high for a 2025 foldable. The Tensor G5 also fails to impress. It has a 48MP main camera, 10.8MP…

How a semiconductor veteran turned over a century of horticultural wisdom into AI-led competitive advantage For decades, a ritual played out across ScottsMiracle-Gro’s media facilities. Every few weeks, workers walked acres of towering compost and wood chip piles with nothing more than measuring sticks. They wrapped rulers around each mound, estimated height, and did what company President Nate Baxter now describes as “sixth-grade geometry to figure out volume.”Today, drones glide over those same plants with mechanical precision. Vision systems calculate volumes in real time. The move from measuring sticks to artificial intelligence signals more than efficiency. It is the visible proof…

Juniper Networks has announced patches for nearly 220 vulnerabilities in Junos OS, Junos Space, and Security Director, including nine critical-severity flaws affecting Junos Space. More than 200 security defects were resolved in Junos Space and Junos Space Security Director, Juniper’s October 2025 security advisories, published as part of the company’s predefined quarterly schedule, reveal. Junos Space version 24.1R4 was rolled out with fixes for 24 cross-site scripting (XSS) issues, including a critical-severity bug (CVE-2025-59978, CVSS score of 9.0) that could allow attackers to store script tags in text pages and execute commands on a visitor’s system with administrative privileges. Junos…

A supermoon takes over the sky, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteor shower shines bright. Oct. 6: The October supermoon Oct. 6-10: The Draconid meteor shower Oct. 21: The Orionid meteor shower peaks (full duration Sept. 26 – Nov. 22) What’s Up for October? A Supermoon takes over, the Draconid meteor shower peeks through, and the Orionid meteors sparkle across the night sky. The evening of October 6, look up and be amazed as the full moon is bigger and brighter because – it’s a supermoon! This evening, the moon could appear to be about 30%…

Did you pick up a new phone during Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days? If not, here are some regular deals – ones that don’t require a Prime subscription – for your consideration. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge is part of a new trend that’s actually pretty old – smartphone makers once again think that super-thin phones are what the people want. Are they right? Whether or not the Edge will replace the Plus next year is unclear. Either way, 2025 has both a Galaxy S25 Edge and an S25 Plus. With how much Samsung has been pushing the…