Author: The Tech Guy

Some of you might not even remember, but when Steve Jobs first introduced the iPad in 2010, one of the biggest points he tried to sell us on was reading. Apple even launched its own bookstore, now Apple Books, using a price-fixing deal with publishers to try to take on Amazon. The antitrust lawsuit it lost wasn’t worth it, in the end. The Kindle Store still reigns supreme, and people buying a then-$599 tablet probably had a laptop replacement in mind. People do read on iPads though, and that’s more feasible now that there are cheaper and lighter models available.…

Anthropic has published new research showing that Claude-based AI agents, when placed in situations with competing objectives, deployed self-replicating malware against one another. The finding comes from an experiment designed to mirror behavior Anthropic says it has already observed in real-world deployments.  Researchers spun up three instances of the same Claude model, each running on its own virtual machine and tasked with migrating a shared Python backend to a different programming language — Rust, Go, or TypeScript — without initial knowledge that the other agents existed. Left to run for four hours, every model concluded that the other agents were…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Working class consumers around the world are tightening their belts, driven by runaway fuel prices, global inflation, and a wrath of new import tariffs introduced by US president Donald Trump. In the US, retail sales plunged 0.6 percent between May and July, blowing an expected 0.1 percent drop out of the water. In such a depressing financial environment, one class of consumer seems to be having a heyday: the ultra-rich in general, and the billionaires buoyed by the AI boom in particular. According…

Meta has spent much of this year trying to calm concerns about facial recognition coming to its smart glasses. But the company doesn’t look ready to give up on the idea, and a newly public patent application shows just how seriously Meta has continued exploring the technology. First reported by Patentlyze, the application was filed by Meta in February and describes using AI-powered facial recognition alongside smart glasses to identify people and use information associated with them when creating media. A patent filing does not guarantee any of these features will reach consumers. But it arrives after months of reports…

Bad news for those who get their updates through RSS feeds: Feedly, the largest stand-alone RSS reader worldwide, has experienced technical issues for over a week, and paying users are upset that the web app has been “unusably slow.” Some users have also reported that the company has ignored their support requests. Uh-oh. Feedly, the heir to the market ceded by Google when it closed Google Reader in 2013, is today among the most successful RSS newsreaders globally with 15 million users, according to its website. That makes it larger than competitive products like the web-based Inoreader as well as…

A Florida company has moved from printing furniture to manufacturing military drone boatsHaddy built its latest unmanned boat using giant robotic 3D printersThe company completed an earlier autonomous vessel project in nine daysHaddy, a digital manufacturing company in St. Petersburg, Florida, has produced a military drone boat using large-format robotic 3D printing.The company announced the vessel, called the TF-179 Drone Boat, but did not name the customer behind the project.Haddy started in 2022 building custom furniture and architectural pieces before shifting much of its focus toward defense manufacturing.Latest Videos FromTechRadarA rapid build processThe St. Petersburg facility spans roughly 30,000 square…

France’s Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) has disclosed a data breach impacting approximately 680,000 individuals. The incident was disclosed after a threat actor boasted on a hacking forum about accessing DGFiP’s internal systems and exfiltrating data. According to DGFiP, the threat actor accessed its systems in June and July, and the unauthorized access was suspended immediately upon detection. However, the public tax authority did not discover evidence of data exfiltration at the time. Last week, DGFiP confirmed that the attackers used compromised credentials for an employee and a third-party account to access its systems and steal the information of…

Head of Operations and Partnerships Chris Biele to lead sessions on secure scientific collaboration, agentic AI and the need to move from trust to cryptographic proof Continuing its effort to build global awareness of the need to move computing from assumption-based trust to cryptographic proof, OpenMatter Network today announced that Head of Operations and Partnerships Chris Biele will play a prominent role at Belgrade Blockchain Week 2026, where he will lead sessions focused on secure scientific collaboration, agentic AI and the growing need for Verification Architecture. Biele’s participation follows the recent commercial launch of the OpenMatter Network platform and the…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. TP-Link BE6300 One Minute ReviewI liked TP-Link’s BE3200 range extender, which helped to tackle the Wi-Fi deadspot in my office quickly and easily, and at a competitive price.However, the BE3200 is very much an entry-level option for Wi-Fi 7, with a relatively modest top speed of 3.2Gbps. If you’re looking for something a little faster for gaming or streaming 4K video then you could consider the BE6300 model, which…

TL;DR Two Pixel 11 ads show the same mysterious screen-equipped fitness tracker. It resembles a Charge-style fitness band more than the Pixel Watch 5 or Fitbit Air. There’s no evidence yet that it’s a new Fitbit or Pixel device, leaving its identity open. Google’s Pixel 11 launch has already given us plenty of hardware to talk about, but its advertising may have quietly introduced something else. A Reddit user recently spotted two Pixel 11 ads showing the usual phones and wearables alongside a small, screen-equipped tracker that Google hasn’t identified.That alone would be interesting. But what makes it more intriguing…