Author: The Tech Guy

The high $50 Billion per GW lease rates for xAI/SpaceX Colossus and similar premium, immediately available AI clusters are for scarce of ready-to-use, large-scale coherent GPU capacity. Kevin Pathrath’s is wrong about a conspiracy. He is comparing against different types of data center. The $2.7M/MW ($2.7 billion per gigwatt build figure is shell-only and brownfield. Gavin Baker’s framing (via Altimeter research and public commentary) is closer to the economics. High monetization density on scarce capacity, rapid build advantage, and strong IRRs. The $2.7M/MW figure SpaceX has referenced for Colossus 2 is the facility/shell + power infrastructure cost in a brownfield…

Verdict The Sendy Audio Egret is a flagship-feeling open-back headphone for refined home listening sessions. A 98 x 84mm planar driver, a sub-800nm composite diaphragm built using Sendy’s Electron Beam Evaporation Deposition (EBED) process and handcrafted natural-wood housings combine for a wide, airy, intoxicatingly natural experience. The triple-composite balanced cable in the box would cost a small fortune as an aftermarket buy. At £799, the Egret undercuts several obvious rivals and is in straight contention for the best open-back headphone at the money Planar driver delivers flagship-class detail Handcrafted natural-wood housings look and feel beautiful Premium triple-composite balanced cable included…

Honestly, I think Google TV is rapidly becoming my preferred TV platform, at least when I can’t hook up an Apple TV 4K. Sure, you do have to put up with banner ads and disable ACR, but those ads are relatively easy to ignore, and most of the platform’s competition is lacking in key areas. Fire TV, for example, can be obnoxious about its promotions, and Roku doesn’t have anything to compete with Gemini AI commands. Samsung’s Tizen interface is needlessly confusing. Google TV isn’t necessarily firing on all cylinders out of the box. There are a bunch of changes…

Meta is the latest major AI developer to admit that its models broke loose during cybersecurity testing and hacked external systems. The tech giant said in a statement to the media on Wednesday that the incident occurred during independent evaluations conducted by Israeli AI security startup Irregular.  The tested AI models were inadvertently allowed to access the internet due to a misconfiguration, which led them to exploit a vulnerability in an unnamed third-party service. It’s unclear if it was a known flaw or a zero-day. Meta and Irregular said the incident is similar to the one reported last week by…

Explanation: What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? Instability. To be clear, a certain kind of interactive process called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). This instability can create waves and swirls when two streams flow past each other — in this case variable streams of solar magnetic plasma. Long hypothesized to occur on the Sun’s surface, KHI streaks and swirls were confirmed in just-released dramatic high-resolution images taken recently by the Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, USA.  The featured false-yellow image, actually taken in deep blue, is the highest resolution image yet of the Sun in visible light. It spans about the radius of the Earth, but its finest details are city sized. Visible are…

Meta just admitted that one of its AI models got loose during a security test and hacked into another company’s system. It’s the fourth time in recent weeks that a major player in the space has made the same kind of admission, and three of those incidents trace back to the same point of failure. One testing lab, three separate slip-ups Meta told the BBC the breach happened during an evaluation run by Irregular, a third-party firm hired to stress test its AI for security weaknesses. Meta called it a “misconfiguration” and said it’s still gathering details before it shares…

I’ve had a Roku Streambar since 2020, and for years I just assumed the flat, boxed-in sound was as good as a soundbar this size could get. Then I went looking for a “Virtual Surround” setting everyone online kept mentioning, and what I found instead changed how I watched. My Streambar is the original 2020 model, not the Pro, and Roku only ever added Virtual Surround to the Streambar Pro and the Smart Soundbar. According to Roku’s own sound settings support page, Virtual Surround is only available on those two devices, either on their own or paired with the optional…

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have taken direct aim at Grok after Minnesota became the first state to enforce a ban on AI “nudification” technology, using an unusually blunt official statement to criticize xAI’s attempt to stop the law. Days before the legislation took effect, Elon Musk’s AI company filed an emergency legal request seeking to block it, arguing that the measure violates the First Amendment. A federal judge refused to grant the request, allowing the law to go into effect while the broader case continues.The Sussexes made it clear which side they believe this fight should be on. “Technology…

Cyberspace is now the fourth domain of military conflict. Geopolitics can be summarized as the behavior of a country or region influenced by its location in time (history and current events), and space (geographical proximity to other countries or regions). Those geopolitical actions are also influenced by the state of the economy and the psychology of its leaders.  Geopolitical disagreements between countries are usually settled by diplomacy but sometimes by physical force of arms. The latter is usually a kinetic war involving, as necessary and available, land (an Army), air (an Air Force) and the sea (a Navy). Over the…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Whether magicians, thieves, or just fed up citizens, somebody has made an entire city’s worth of ALPRs vanish in the night. According to new reporting by MPR News, police in the city of Winona, Minnesota are incensed after their entire fleet of Flock license plate readers went missing. In a press release shared on Facebook, the Winona Police Department groused that “all eight of our city’s Flock cameras were missing.” The police department’s first clue came on the night of August 1st, when…