Author: The Tech Guy

Cybersecurity startup Empirical has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $37 million. The new investment round was led by Brightmind Partners, with additional support from Costanoa Ventures, Hyde Park Angels (HPA), and other investors. Founded in 2024, Chicago-based Empirical will use the fresh funding to accelerate the development of its two flagship products that help organizations predict and identify threats in the agentic AI era. Empirical provides organizations with Foundation, a global cybersecurity model that monitors over 18,000 exploited CVEs for threat prediction, and Radiant, a predictive engine…

SpaceX Starlink V5 satellite terminal directly integrated into the Cybercab’s roof structure (alongside the GPS antenna, 5G LTE antenna, FSD computer, and various cameras). This is a clean, factory-integrated design rather than the external Starlink Mini dishes spotted on earlier prototypes/testing vehicles (often mounted on the trunk lid). Starlink V5 directly integrated in Cybercab pic.twitter.com/FxzTtzjB6I — Tesla (@Tesla) July 20, 2026 Higher-Resolution/Dual GPS The Cybercab includes a dedicated dual GPS (or dual-frequency GPS) system for significantly higher positioning accuracy and redundancy compared to standard consumer Tesla vehicles. This supports SAE Level 4 autonomy requirements (full self-driving in defined conditions without…

Assassin’s Creed Shadows only launched last year, and Switch 2 owners can already pick it up at almost half its original price. That reduction comes from a limited time deal that cuts Assassin’s Creed Shadows on Switch 2 from its usual £49.99 down to £25.99, a 48% saving that brings one of the franchise’s best reviewed games within easy reach. Assassin’s Creed Shadows for the Switch 2 is almost half price today, in a time limited deal This critically acclaimed Assassin’s Creed Shadows on Switch 2 drops from £49.99 to £25.99, a 48% saving on one of this year’s best…

If you’re tired of buying ink cartridges every few months, this is a good time to switch to a cartridge-free tank printer. Right now, the HP Smart Tank 5101 is $170 (was $260) at Amazon, and comes with 2 years of ink already included in the box.For home, dorm room, home office, and small businesses printing a mix of monochrome and color documents and photos, it’s an ideal pick. Particularly as HP’s ink tank printers tend to have larger tank reservoirs compared to rivals like Epson’s EcoTank range.Today’s top HP printer dealShould you buy it?✅ Buy it if…You want to save…

A critical remote code execution vulnerability that was recently patched in the ServiceNow AI platform is reportedly being exploited in the wild. The security hole is tracked as CVE-2026-6875 and it has been described as a sandbox escape issue that an unauthenticated attacker can exploit in certain circumstances to execute arbitrary code. When it announced the availability of patches on July 14, ServiceNow said a security update addressing the vulnerability had been deployed to hosted instances. However, self-hosted customers have to install the patches themselves. On the same day, cybersecurity firm Searchlight Cyber disclosed technical details and showed how the…

The Wabanaki people have a deep well of creation myths explaining the rocky coastlines of the Bay of Fundy, Downeast Maine, and Acadia National Park. Many involve Glooscap—a magical figure said to have floated down the Bay of Fundy in a stone canoe, sculpting coastal features by scraping the vessel across the landscape and scattering enormous boulders during battles with primordial beavers, frogs, moose, whales, and other gigantic animals. Fewer Indigenous creation myths survive to explain the origins of the sandy and marshy shorelines of southern Maine and the rocky, indented coasts of the state’s Midcoast region. But the sharp contrast…

Google Photos is giving users an easier way to leave its Gemini-powered search when a simple keyword would do. A new toggle now sits at the top of the results page, letting users switch between Ask Photos and classic search without digging through settings. The change appears to address feedback from people who opted into Ask Photos but wanted a quicker way to return to classic search when Gemini was slower or less useful for a straightforward query. Why did Google add the toggle? Ask Photos is built for complicated requests. It can understand natural-language questions and search for details…

The Play Store on your Android TV or Google TV may look like the whole story. It isn’t. You don’t have to limit your TV experience to what Google has approved for your model and region. You can try almost every app made for Android TV, including those that aren’t available officially. And no, I’m not talking about sideloading apps one by one. You can grab an alternative app store like F-Droid and unlock hundreds of more apps at once. F-Droid is an open-source app store that doesn’t require an account, is community driven, and only lists apps that don’t…

With Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event less than a day away, leaks continue to pour in. The latest one gives us another look at the upcoming wide-screen Galaxy Z Fold8 ahead of its expected debut. Tipster Roland Quandt has shared a new set of official-looking Galaxy Z Fold8 (wide) renders on BlueSky, offering another look at Samsung’s upcoming foldable. The renders showcase the Galaxy Z Fold8 Wide in three color options. In line with recent leaks, the smartphone appears in Cream, Graphite, and Lavender finishes. A Pistachio variant is also rumored to be available exclusively through Samsung’s online store. The second…

A vulnerability in OpenSSL could allow attackers to cause a server’s memory to be exhausted before any security handshake, Okta’s red team discovered. Referred to as HollowByte, the denial-of-service (DoS) bug could be triggered via a malicious payload of only 11 bytes that declares a larger incoming message body to trigger a buffer pre-allocation that is not immediately freed. HollowByte existed because older OpenSSL iterations pre-allocated receive buffer sizes based on the incoming message body length declared in the handshake message’s 4-byte header. The pre-allocation occurred before any data arrived, and an attacker could send an 11-byte payload to trigger…