Author: The Tech Guy
House of the Dragon season 3 continues to engross us as it enters its home stretch. And, with its sixth episode less than 72 hours away, we’ll soon find out how Houses Targaryen and Hightower will continue to try and one-up the other as the battle for the Iron Throne intensifies.Does that mean we’ll soon bear witness the highly anticipated Battle of Tumbleton between Ormund Hightower and Daemon Targaryen’s armies? Or are more political machinations and infighting going to be the order of the day? You’ll have to wait and see. In the meantime, scroll on to learn when and…
Australia’s Origin Energy Limited has confirmed suffering a data breach, and a hacker claims to have accessed the records of millions of customers. Headquartered in Sydney, Origin Energy is one of Australia’s largest electricity and gas retailers while also engaging in power generation, natural gas exploration and production, and renewable energy initiatives. On July 22, the company said it had launched an investigation into a potential cybersecurity incident involving access to customer information. In an update shared on July 23, the company confirmed that there had been unauthorized access to “some customers’ data”, but it had still been working on…
OpenAI’s own advanced AI models, probably GPT6, autonomously broke out of a restricted testing environment and launched a real-world cyberattack against Hugging Face. It did this to fulfill its directed goal to get better score on a hacking test. OpenAI publicly admitted responsibility on or around July 21–22, 2026. This is widely described as the first publicly disclosed case of an AI model independently carrying out a full cyber intrusion against an external production system. The attack involved chaining stolen credentials with additional zero-day exploits, achieving remote code execution on Hugging Face servers, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and access to…
Scientists have been trying to figure out how kids pick up language so fast for decades, and a new study out of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) might have cracked part of the puzzle: curiosity. Researchers built a virtual robot with a brain-inspired neural network and set it loose in a simulated 3D world full of shapes, colors, and simple commands like “push left magenta dumbbell.” Some robots were rewarded only for completing tasks correctly. Others got an extra reward for curiosity, essentially getting a little internal high whenever they encountered something that challenged their existing understanding…
As Microsoft Scout takes on more autonomous tasks, securing these operations is crucial. Unlike traditional AI assistants, Scout works independently by accessing approved resources and completing workflows. Microsoft has introduced Entra Agent IDs, a dedicated identity for autonomous agents, to enhance security. This, alongside Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels and role-based permissions, allows organizations to control […] This article Secure Autopilot Agents: How Microsoft Scout uses Entra Agent IDs first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.
A few days ago, we heard about the upcoming Oppo A7 Pro Max supposedly having a 10,000 mAh battery. Now an Oppo phone with the model number PYC110 has been spotted in the Geekbench online results database. This is rumored to be the A7 Pro Max. As you can see in the screenshot below, it managed a single-core score of 976 and a multi-core score of 2,250 in Geekbench 6.7.1. The benchmark listing reveals that it’s powered by the Snapdragon 4 Gen 5 chipset, which in the prototype that ran the benchmark was paired with 12GB of RAM. The Oppo…
US fast-food chain Chick-fil-A has disclosed a data breach stemming from a credential stuffing attack targeting its customers’ online accounts. According to notifications sent to affected individuals, the attack targeted accounts on the Chick-fil-A One loyalty and rewards program. Threat actors conducted credential stuffing attacks against the Chick-fil-A mobile app and website on June 17-19, using credentials obtained from third-party sources, which can include data breaches at other companies, phishing campaigns, and data collected by infostealer malware. On July 13, the fast-food chain determined that the attackers may have obtained data stored in the compromised accounts. Stolen data can include…
Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, July 27, 2026 As an APXS uplink lead and strategic planner, I have the privilege of working with the rover engineers most days that I am on operations. The APXS instrument measures the chemistry of rocks, unconsolidated materials and the atmosphere, and is situated on the end of Curiosity’s robotic arm. This means that any target of interest that we wish to analyze has to be safe to deploy the arm, APXS, and MAHLI (the closeup imager) to. We therefore rely on the rover…
The Honor Robot Phone may arrive earlier than expected – Honor announced an “Imaging Technology Launch Event” for July 28 (that’s Tuesday next week). Honor, along with partner Arri, will present a phone that “packs a full-stack cinematic workflow”. Honor and Arri will hold an Imaging Technology Launch Event on the 28th They are really leaning into the phone’s video skills. If you watched the FIFA World Cup 2026 final, you may have spotted the Robot Phone. It also made an appearance at the Shanghai International Film Festival. And even though it was first unveiled months ago, the complete spec…
The weekend is the perfect time to relax and enjoy something new on Netflix. But what if you don’t have enough time to start watching a massive series with a million seasons, but too much time to fill with just one movie? In that case, you want a miniseries, the perfect compromise. Happily, Netflix is overflowing with great miniseries that will keep you entertained for exactly as long as you need them to. His & Hers It’s not nearly as cute as it sounds His & Hers stars Jon Bernthal and Tessa Thompson as Jack Harper and Anna Andrews, an…