Author: The Tech Guy

Shapes, an app where humans and AI characters chat together in shared group conversations, is emerging from stealth with $8 million in seed funding. Think Discord, but with AI characters alongside humans.  Founded in 2022, Shapes has more than 400,000 monthly active users. The app’s founders, Anushk Mittal and Noorie Dhingra, believe that Shapes can address issues around “AI psychosis,” which refers to cases where prolonged interactions with AI chatbots or AI companions can cause individuals to develop delusions or paranoia.  Instead of isolating people with one-on-one interactions with AI, Shapes allows people to connect with AI within their everyday…

Honor is preparing to announce its Watch 6 Plus smartwatch in the coming days or weeks, and to hype people up, the company shared a teaser poster, revealing the design and sharing a few key new features. Honor Watch 6 Plus teaser poster First off, the design doesn’t seem to be all that different compared to the Honor Watch 5 Ultra, but it does bring an improved battery life thanks to a larger battery. Honor markets 35 days of battery life, which, if true, will offer one of the longest battery lives in the industry, falling short only…

A critical-severity vulnerability in the open source AI gateway LiteLLM was exploited days after public disclosure to access database tables containing sensitive information, Sysdig reports. The security defect is described as an SQL injection during the proxy API key verification process and is identified as CVE-2026-42208, with a CVSS score of 9.3. In an April 20 advisory, LiteLLM’s maintainers explained that a database query used during key verification did not pass the caller-supplied value as a separate parameter, including it in the query instead. This allowed an unauthenticated attacker to send a specially crafted Authorization header to any LLM API…

WILMINGTON, Delaware, April 29th, 2026, CyberNewswire Malicious intent-based deepfake detection shifts the focus from purely technical analysis to real-world risk and impact Brinker, recently named “Narrative Intelligence Solution of the Year 2026” by The Cyber Review, today announced the official launch of its malicious intent-based deepfake detection capability, introducing a fundamentally new approach to combating AI-driven disinformation. A report from the European law enforcement agency Europol suggests that by the end of 2026, up to 90% of online content could be manipulated. When almost everything is fake, the value of forensic deepfake detection becomes increasingly redundant. Brinker’s new capability is…

Motorola introduced the Motorola Signature earlier this year in two colors – Pantone Martini Olive and Pantone Carbon. Now, a new leak suggests the brand will introduce a third colorway, which might be called House of Moto Indigo. Reliable leakster Evan Blass shared a bunch of images of this new colorway, revealing its design. Motorola Signature House of Moto Indigo version’s leaked images The difference between this colorway and the other two Pantone models is likely to be cosmetic, so expect the new version to come with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC, a 6.8″ 165Hz 1,264p…

Dhruv Bhutani / Android AuthorityTL;DR Some iPhone 17 users report their phones don’t turn on immediately after fully draining, with multiple cases surfacing online. There’s no official fix yet, but leaving the phone on charge longer or using MagSafe or wired charging has helped some users. The issue appears to be software-related, meaning a future update could potentially resolve it, though Apple hasn’t confirmed anything yet. A smartphone is supposed to take battery anxiety off your mind, especially in the long run. But if you’ve used an iPhone for years, you’ll know that hasn’t always been the case. Unless you’re…

Researchers at cloud security giant Wiz discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in GitHub that exposed millions of repositories. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-3854, affected the code-hosting platform’s internal Git infrastructure. It impacted both GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub.com. “By exploiting an injection flaw in GitHub’s internal protocol, any authenticated user could execute arbitrary commands on GitHub’s backend servers with a single git push command – using nothing but a standard git client,” Wiz explained. According to the security firm, which discovered the issue using AI, exploitation is easy.  In the case of GitHub Enterprise Server, an attacker can…

An extreme drought that has gripped the Southeast for months helped fuel two large, destructive, human-caused wildland fires in southern Georgia in April 2026. The Pineland Road and Highway 82 fires together burned more than 50,000 acres (20,000 hectares) as of April 28, according to the Georgia Forestry Commission. Satellite images of the fires captured by Landsat 8 show charred forests and residential areas in and around Atkinson (above) and Fruitland (below). The images are false color (bands 7-5-4), in which burned areas appear gray and vegetated areas green. The infrared signatures of actively burning fire fronts are orange. By…

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. Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2): two-minute reviewBetween the boom in generative AI technology and the ability of manufacturers to produce smaller-than-ever hardware components, accessories as light as glasses frames can house impressive computing power these days, and leading that particular charge has been Meta, with its stylish and capable Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, made in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica (the parent company of Ray-Ban and Oakley), set the…

Anybody trying to cut the cord on cable has searched for alternatives for their viewing pleasure. Unless you’re giving up on TV altogether, you need to find ways to still watch your shows without having to pay those frustrating cable fees. Signing up for a cable package that gives you a ton of channels you don’t want and only some that you do makes little sense. Some people aren’t ever going to give up their cable package as they want access to live channels as soon as they turn on the TV. But what those people may not know is…