Author: The Tech Guy

There have been many formats of physical media over the past several decades, and if you’ve been a collector from the start, then you probably have all kinds of different formats. While it’s still possible to hook up a VCR to your smart TV, it’s usually not worth the trouble — believe me, I found this out myself, and I used a CRT TV. When we look at modern physical media formats, we have three to pick from. Of the bunch, we have DVD sitting at the bottom as the most affordable, but also the worst quality. Blu-ray is a…

Around the time some OpenAI models escaped their testing environment and hacked Hugging Face, some agents exploited a Linux kernel vulnerability to escalate privileges on OpenAI’s own systems. This was mentioned in a report published by OpenAI this week to detail the incident in which its models hacked Hugging Face in July. The AI giant’s investigation found that agents used an unauthorized makeshift message board to communicate and plan their actions, including encouraging one another to hack what they correctly guessed were real systems rather than test environments.  Rogue agents went beyond Hugging Face, hacking other organizations as well. However,…

X identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, they found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy. These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public’s expense. The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations: We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and more than 100 other companies and organizations are warning that AI-powered cyberattacks could become much more widespread and sophisticated within months. The group is calling for a global push on cyber defense as more capable AI models make attacks easier to automate and harder to contain. Hospitals, water treatment plants, and internet infrastructure are among the systems it says could face greater risk if defenses don’t improve quickly enough. The warning carries extra weight because it isn’t coming from one corner of the tech industry. AI developers, cybersecurity firms, and infrastructure companies are all backing…

OpenAI wants every business, firm, government, and infrastructure provider to be hardened against cyber AITo do this, frontier AI firms and their friends in the security industry need to provide access and trainingA letter laying out these aims and how to achieve them has been signed by over 120 companiesFollowing a string of accidental cyberattacks and demonstrations of powerful AI models capable of finding vulnerabilities and breaches in even the most hardened defenses, OpenAI has called upon its compatriots to shore up the world’s businesses, governments, and critical infrastructure.“Each of us can reduce risk now,” OpenAI’s call to arms said.…

Shares of Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA) are surging after reporting stronger-than-expected second-quarter financial results and raised its outlook for the full fiscal year, with artificial intelligence (AI) emerging as an increasingly important source of demand. Shares of the of identity security company jumped more than 19% in extended trading Wednesday, climbing above $160 after closing the regular session at $134.42. For its fiscal second quarter, ended July 31, Okta reported revenue of $805 million, an increase of 11% from the same period a year earlier. Subscription revenue rose 12% to $793 million. The company posted GAAP net income of $116 million,…

Explanation: At the latitude of ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, about 25 degrees south, Earth’s rotation moves the planet’s surface eastward at over 1,500 kilometers per hour. And while that’s faster than the speed of sound at sea level, the motion is imperceptible. Still, that motion can be revealed in the apparent rotation of the night sky by photographing star trails. This star trail image was composed from a digital stack of 300 consecutive 25-second exposures made with a camera fixed to a tripod to trace the star trail arcs. The graceful arcs are concentric and centered at the south…

Over the past few days we’ve seen leaked CAD-based renders of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S27 and S27 Ultra, and today we’re getting a look at the S27 Pro. This will be the new model in the line, and you can think of it as a smaller version of the S27 Ultra, devoid of an S Pen. The Galaxy S27 Pro inherits the S27 Ultra’s new camera island design, which seems heavily inspired by Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. The camera plateau takes up almost the entire width of the top part of the phone’s rear, even though…

When Valve announced the Steam Machine, there was a lot of dismay (and rightfully so) over its price, and it was possible to even assemble a more powerful PC for roughly the same budget. But specs only tell half of the story. The Steam Machine also has a bunch of other tricks up its sleeve, something which many will find expensive (or in some cases, outright impossible) to implement. Whether it’s the custom, tiny Mini-ITX form factor or the whisper-quiet, low-power internals, the Steam Machine still excels in a few areas. One of these areas would be HDMI-CEC support —…

Recently, Indian smartwatch brand Fire-Boltt entered the smartphone market with the launch of the Boltt Ace and Boltt Evo. Now, another Indian brand, audio products maker Mivi, has confirmed that it is also entering the smartphone market. In an official post on X, Mivi revealed that it will launch a 5G smartphone in India in September. The upcoming handset is confirmed to be powered by a Snapdragon chipset. The teaser shows the smartphone in a green colourway, with a flat rear panel and flat frame with rounded edges. It carries the “Pretty Powerful” tagline, which likely hints at the Snapdragon…