Author: The Tech Guy

Explanation: The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small constellation Musca, The Fly. A dusty interstellar cloud, it’s seen against rich starfields just south of the Coalsack Nebula and the Southern Cross. Stretching for about 3 degrees across this telescopic field of view, the Dark Doodad is punctuated near its southern tip (upper right) by yellowish globular star cluster NGC 4372. Of course NGC 4372 roams the halo of our Milky Way galaxy, a background object some 20,000 light-years away and only by chance along our line-of-sight to the Dark Doodad. About…

If your phone’s storage keeps mysteriously shrinking, WhatsApp channels might be part of the reason. Photos, videos, voice notes, and other media shared by channels can pile up in the background, and until now, cleaning them out hasn’t exactly been a pleasant experience. That’s finally changing. WhatsApp is rolling out a new storage cleanup tool for channel media, giving Android beta users a much simpler way to free up space without digging through endless files one by one. The feature was first spotted in development a couple of months ago, and it’s now beginning to reach select beta testers through…

As a fan of both Plex and Kodi media players, I shied away from trying out Jellyfin for far too long. As it happens, there are many advantages to this platform, including a centralized server with no paywalls, true privacy, full ownership, and easy remote access. So what was the catch? Well, frankly, I didn’t like the interface, which is a significant factor when organizing and playing files in a home media setup, especially compared to Plex’s familiar, intuitive interface and the vast array of customizable Kodi “skins” on offer. However, once I stopped using the default app, I began…

Smartphones with ultra-thin bezels have been around for years, but a truly bezelless display has remained out of reach. Tecno is now looking to change that with its Next-Gen Borderless Concept Phone, a prototype device featuring a display with true zero bezels. Tecno has confirmed in an official press release that its Next-Gen Borderless Concept phone features a display with 0mm bezels. The concept device will be showcased at IFA 2026 in Berlin this September. According to the company, the 0mm display bezels were achieved through “advanced internal stacking, new screen packaging techniques, and structural re-engineering”. Tecno hasn’t provided any…

Bank of America announced on Thursday that it plans to acquire UK-based information security consultancy MDSec Consulting Limited. The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals. Financial terms were not disclosed. Headquartered in Macclesfield, England, MDSec provides technical information security consulting services and employs approximately 65 cybersecurity professionals. The acquisition will expand Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America’s existing presence in northern England. The financial institution has more than 1,400 employees in nearby Chester, where it also operates a cyber threat operations center. “We have long admired the exceptional ability of the…

As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of last week, a different kind of excitement was building within the mathematical community.Levent Alpöge, a mathematician working at the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, made a very casual announcement on X that he had found a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a very old and well-known problem in a field of mathematics called algebraic geometry. He had done this using Anthropic’s large language model Claude Fable 5, released to the general public only a few weeks ago.This is just the latest…

Yesterday we showed you what the Samsung Galaxy Buds On will look like, thanks to some leaked illustrations. Today the same source is back with new ones, only these are depicting a different pair of earbuds. Specifically, earbuds with an ear hook design. These are reportedly internally codenamed Buds Canal 5, and like all similar products that are already on the market, they are said to be targeting workout and running use. They have flat hooks and an ear tip design that could be either in-ear or semi-in-ear. Although it’s not pictured here, these will most likely come with a…

Joe Maring / Android AuthorityTL;DR T-Mobile has launched discounted versions of three unlimited plans for students. The cheapest option cuts one Essentials Saver line from $50 to $30 per month. The T-Mobile student plans are limited to two lines and may come with less generous device offers. T-Mobile has made headlines about plans for the wrong reasons lately, retiring some older plans and moving affected customers to newer, potentially more expensive options. But the carrier now has better news for students, with new discounted plans that bring its cheapest single Essentials line down to $30 per month. Which T-Mobile alternative…

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging water and wastewater system (WWS) operators to protect operational technology (OT) against malicious activity targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs). The alert is a fresh call to action that comes just days after a coordinated cyberattack disrupted automated controls at dozens of water utilities in Minnesota. In an alert published July 30, CISA said it is observing a significant increase in threat actors targeting PLCs in the water and wastewater sector, and urged critical infrastructure owners, operators, and integrators to remove publicly exposed PLCs and other OT from the internet as…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech There’s been plenty of buzz lately around vandalism of Flock Safety’s automatic license plate readers, which are AI-integrated surveillance cameras that index license plate data from passing vehicles indiscriminately and without a warrant. Countless vigilantes have taken to the roadways armed with trash bags, spray paint, laser pointers, and power drills to render the surveillance poles useless, resulting in arrests and investigations by police. But what if there was another way to block Flock cameras that didn’t involve damaging public property? Turns out…