When cybersecurity researchers discover that an attack was simply quick rather than sophisticated, a certain kind of fear descends upon them. That is precisely how the CyberStrikeAI campaign, which was the subject of three different investigations in early 2026, makes one feel. More than 600 FortiGate firewalls were compromised. 55 nations. An official assessment of a threat actor from Amazon’s own team revealed that they had “low-to-medium baseline technical capability.” No days with zero. No top-tier craft. Just a human operator watching as an AI platform handles the heavy lifting. The core of this is CyberStrikeAI, an open-source, Go-based offensive…
Author: Taylor Lowery
Taylor Lowery
Taylor Lowery is a senior editor at glofiish.com, a technology writer, and a true circuit enthusiast. She works in the tech sector, so she does more than just cover it. Taylor works for a smartphone company during the day, which gives her a firsthand look at how gadgets are designed, manufactured, promoted, and ultimately placed in people's hands.Her writing is unique because of this insider viewpoint. Taylor makes the technical connections that other writers overlook, whether she's dissecting the silicon architecture of a new flagship chipset, analyzing the implications of a significant Android update for actual users, or tracking the effects of a new AI model announcement across the mobile industry.Her editorial focus covers every aspect of the current tech stack, including smartphone software and hardware, artificial intelligence (from large language models and generative tools to on-device inference), and the broader innovation trends influencing the direction of the consumer technology sector. She is especially passionate about the nexus of AI and mobile computing, which she feels is still in its most exciting early stages.
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Samsung was put in a difficult situation earlier this year. Days after releasing the Galaxy S26 Ultra, the company had to discreetly retract a statement made by its own representatives to reporters during the press conference. Samsung has now acknowledged that the S26 Ultra lacks a true 10-bit display. It didn’t. It features an 8-bit panel in conjunction with Frame Rate Control, a software technique that quickly switches between shades at a speed that is too fast for the human eye to follow, simulating the appearance of deeper color. The correction fell off awkwardly. It was necessary for some reviewers…
The sound of the bolt sliding back on your front door when you tap your phone is strangely comforting. You won’t have to search for the keys or worry about leaving it unlocked. You only need to tap once to gain access. This concept was effectively marketed by smart locks, and millions of people both literally and figuratively adopted it. However, the more time goes by and security researchers dissect these systems, the more difficult it is to ignore a silent, unsettling reality that is right at the front door. Digital access systems and smart locks are fundamentally little computers…
Holding a contemporary smartphone has a subtle surreal quality. It weighs hardly more than a deck of cards, the glass feels cool, and the edges are spotless. There is nothing about it that suggests trillion-dollar supply chain conflicts, war rooms, or geopolitical standoffs are being fought in its name. Beneath that narrow rectangle, however, is a piece of technology that governments are spending tens of billions of dollars to control, businesses are reorganizing entire operations to secure, and analysts now refer to as the most strategically significant material in the global economy. The chip is that part. In particular, the…
Recently, a home in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, sold for about $30 million. Lucy Guo, a co-founder of Scale AI, which she left in 2018, was the buyer. She was not a software salesperson. She didn’t introduce a product. She just kept her stock long enough for Meta to invest $14.3 billion in the business she had previously assisted in founding. That purchase conveys a message. The AI boom is no longer theoretical, it claims. According to MIT principal researcher Andrew McAfee, nothing quite like this has ever occurred in over a century of data. Not the boom in railroads.…
In Brussels, a lamppost close to the Grand Place has a sticker on it. It reads: “Fuck instead of Facebook, love instead of liking, and dance instead of tweeting.” The majority of people pass by it. Some pause, read it twice, and take pictures with their phones. It seems that nobody is blind to the irony. The Radical Anti-Smartphone Front, or RASF, is the group that owns that sticker. It originated in Germany and has been discreetly distributing its message throughout European capitals. London, Paris, Berlin, and now Brussels. It appears to be a fringe provocation at first glance. When…
At game development conferences, a pattern is starting to become unavoidable. Console pitches are increasingly being skipped entirely by independent developers, the type that operate in two-person studios, ship games from converted garages, and make a living on thin margins. It’s not that they don’t want console gamers. Because the method of getting to them has quietly ceased to make sense. The figures support this in a way that ought to unnerve Microsoft and Sony. Eighty percent of developers are currently working on PC games, according to the Game Developers Conference’s 2025 State of the Game Industry report. Just a…
Anyone who grew up with early personal computers tends to remember this particular moment. The desk’s beige tower. the wires that lead to the ground. The sound of a fan working harder than it ought to. It felt important, as if you were sitting in front of something important, even though it wasn’t elegant. Looking back, it’s more difficult to realize how much smaller that entire world was going to get. The change wasn’t made overnight. It gradually increased as phones became more intelligent, laptops became lighter, and processors managed to perform more tasks while occupying less space. Moore’s Law,…
In prosthetics research, there’s a moment that sticks in your memory. It’s not the press release or the engineering breakthrough, but rather the more subdued scene where a patient sits across from a doctor, inquiring about the cost and observing how the conversation changes. This field has been characterized for decades by the gap between what is technically feasible and what is financially feasible. But something is beginning to shift. The bionic limb market has functioned in an odd contradiction for the majority of its recent history. Neural interfaces, AI-assisted mobility, and sensory feedback were examples of technological advancements, but…
Spec sheets and promotional videos don’t fully convey one aspect of the OPPO Find N6. When you unfold it and run your finger over the inner display, nothing is visible. Not a ridge. Not a dip. There’s no subtle reminder that the gadget you’re holding physically folds in half. This feels genuinely odd to anyone who has used previous foldables and noticed that persistent crease the way you notice a scratch on a watch crystal. Since the introduction of the category, foldable phones have been plagued by the crease issue. It was never disastrous. The majority of people adjusted. However,…