Author: The Tech Guy

Sometimes, surprises are lurking in everyday data. Take a category of consumers that Doug Rubin’s startup, Northwind Climate, calls “climate doers.” They’re concerned about climate change and tend to prioritize climate-friendly purchases, the sort of identifiers who might be stereotypically associated with things like buying organic foods or prioritizing local businesses.  “Turns out that the climate doers category actually are the consumers who most frequent fast-food restaurants,” Rubin told TechCrunch. What’s more, some 30% of climate doers are Republicans, he added. Northwind Climate evolved from Rubin’s work in the political world, where surveys are vital to understanding shifts in public…

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant have continued to analyze the recent Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) extortion campaign and their researchers have identified some of the pieces of malware deployed in the attacks. The attacks came to light on October 2, when GTIG and Mandiant warned that executives at many organizations using Oracle EBS had received extortion emails. It has since been determined that hackers likely exploited known EBS vulnerabilities patched in July, likely along with a zero-day flaw tracked as CVE-2025-61882. The hacker groups ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider (now calling themselves Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters) have published a proof-of-concept…

Artificial IntelligenceNvidia Researchers Boost LLM Reasoning Skills by Getting Them to ‘Think’ During Pre-trainingBen Dickson | VentureBeat”This approach encourages the model to ‘think for itself before predicting what comes next, thus teaching an independent thinking behavior earlier in the pretraining,’ the researchers state in their paper. [Models trained like this] show significant improvements in learning complex reasoning tasks downstream, hinting at a future of more capable and adaptable AI for real-world tasks.”BiotechnologyScientists Just Reversed Alzheimer’s in Mice. Could They Do It in Humans?Gayoung Lee | Gizmodo”[In their a paper the researchers] describe how, by harnessing the brain’s garbage disposal system,…

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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…