Author: The Tech Guy

When you spend $3,600 on a television, you probably expect that, as an expensive new model, it will come with all the newest connections at the back. Pay more, get more: more bandwidth, more headroom, more space for whatever you end up plugging in over the next few years. Sony’s 2026 lineup breaks that assumption, though, and it does so against itself. The flagship True RGB Bravia 9 II has fewer full-speed HDMI inputs than the entry-level Bravia 3 II sitting several rungs below it, and if you’re shopping at the top of anyone’s range this year, the port count…

Many companies are showcasing their cybersecurity products and services this week at the 2026 edition of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. To help cut through the clutter, the SecurityWeek team is publishing a digest summarizing vendor announcements at Black Hat USA 2026, including new products and services, updates to existing offerings, reports, and other initiatives.  The first part of this roundup covers announcements made in the days leading up to the event, as well as some of the announcements made on Monday, August 3. Acalvio launches Deception Guardrails for AI agents Acalvio has launched Deception Guardrails, a new…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech For a president who upholds “Make America Healthy Again” as a load-bearing narrative pillar, Donald Trump has gone to remarkable lengths to make the US a breeding ground for a widening range of viruses, bacterium, and parasites — and no, we’re not talking about his cabinet. Early into his second tenure as commander-in-chief, Trump and his cronies set to rapidly dismantling offices doing critical work on public health. His appointments were a one-two punch on longstanding institutions safeguarding the US from the ravages…

Right now, the Internet is drowning in articles about the Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – some loved it, others haven’t seen it, and a few have criticised it. Allow me to add another opinion to the heap. I very much enjoyed watching The Odyssey, having bought my ticket for Waterloo BFI IMAX when the tickets went on sale (waiting in an online queue for about 50 minutes to do so). I went into the film avoiding the hype (which is always out of proportion), looking to enjoy the film. And while I was sightly conflicted once the lights turned back…

Cue At the Castle Gate. Almost as enduring as the BBC itself, The Sky at Night is one of the longest-running TV programmes anywhere. First shown in 1957, it’s like a hand reaching out from the past, albeit with butter-fingers. Many of the episodes, somewhat pleasingly, have been lost forever, the romantic legacy of a bygone era.We can only imagine what was contained within them. And that rather neatly encapsulates what The Sky at Night stands for. The science, the explainers, the expert insight is illuminating and educational, but at its heart is something altogether more nebulous, even sentimental: that…

The INC Ransomware group is responsible for most of the recent activity surrounding two fresh vulnerabilities in SonicWall’s SMA1000 secure remote access appliances, Resecurity reports. Tracked as CVE-2026-15409 (CVSS score of 10) and CVE-2026-15410 (CVSS score of 7.2), the security defects allow unauthenticated remote attackers to open a WebSocket tunnel to restricted services and escalate their privileges to root. Patched on July 14 and added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on the same day, the two flaws had been exploited in the wild as zero-days since at least June 22. Cybersecurity firm Volexity attributed the observed exploitation to…

The AI2027 superAI scenarios are tracking a bit slower but we are still heading quickly to SuperAI. Risk milestones are arriving ahead of the capability milestones that were supposed to produce them. There is a AI2027 tracking website and they observed capability predictions were running a bit behind but the SWE Verified benchmark caught up. Safety risks, security risks and governance predictions are ahead — Mythos-as-Agent-2 arrived about a year early. In early 2025, a team of five researchers from the AI Futures Project published AI 2027: a scenario document tracing how technological progress, governance choices and geopolitical dynamics would…

Xiaomi’s new family SUV is basically a house on wheels with enough claimed range to cover more than 1,000 miles. It also costs considerably less than its outlandish feature list might suggest. The company has officially launched the SkyNomad N90 Max in China for 299,900 yuan, equivalent to roughly $44,400 through direct conversion. Preorders are open now, with the first vehicles expected to reach customers in September. The converted figure provides useful context, though it does not represent pricing outside China. Xiaomi describes the seven-seat flagship as a “house you can move.” This unusually grand pitch starts making sense once…

Because I watch a lot of TV at night once everyone else has gone to bed, cranking up the volume isn’t an option. But sometimes, even if I watch in the evening, I have to turn up the volume to hear softer dialogue, then turn it back down when there’s loud background music or booms and bangs in an action show. This frustrating is something most people have encountered at one point or another. My solution for this is to usually keep the TV lower than I’d like, especially late at night, and turn on the captions. In fact, I…

Samsung is rumored to introduce a new Pro model with the Galaxy S27 lineup, which is expected to debut in early 2027. While several details about the Galaxy S27 Pro have already leaked, a new report now offers information on the handset’s telephoto camera. According to a report from ET News, citing industry sources, the Galaxy S27 Pro will feature a 12MP telephoto camera with support for 3x optical zoom. The Galaxy S27 Pro is expected to slot below the Galaxy S27 Ultra in Samsung’s upcoming flagship lineup. Rumors suggest it will feature a 200MP primary camera and a 50MP…