Author: The Tech Guy

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech These days, corporations aren’t just using AI as an excuse to justify layoffs, but are increasingly turning to their chatbots for advice deciding who to fire. As Reuters reports, 26 Meta employees filed a lawsuit accusing the company of using an internal AI platform to select targets for the thousands of jobs cut earlier this year. Per the suit, Meta used its AI to cull workers based on opaque productivity metrics and large language model (LLM) token usage, a move which disproportionately targeted…

Samsung’s July 22 Galaxy Unpacked event won’t be all about new foldables. The company has also started teasing its next-gen smartwatches, and its pitch leans heavily on AI. In a newsroom post published ahead of the event, Samsung promises “a whole new level of effortless wellness,” describing the upcoming watches as an “AI-powered health companion.” From tracking to interpreting Samsung says the new Galaxy Watch will shift from passive tracking to proactive guidance, using AI to interpret sleep apnea, energy, and stress data instead of just logging it on a graph. The company also teased “all-new internal components” and improved…

The Roku Streambar I have in my bedroom started buffering in the evenings when I wanted to just chill and watch some TV. The obvious checks came up clean. Roku’s own network test, found under Settings > Network > Check connection, kept reporting “Connection check was successful” with a simple OK button. My other devices streamed fine on the same network. So the Roku insisted it was healthy while buffering two or three times an episode. The tool that I finally found is a diagnostic screen Roku ships on every device but never mentions anywhere, reachable only by a button…

Earlier today, Redmi unveiled the Note 17 and Note 17 Pro in China. The former has the model number 26021RN18C. Meanwhile, in the latest HyperOS firmware build, references to a Poco M8 Power have been found, and this one has the model number 26021PC18I. Let’s unpack that. “RN” stands for Redmi, “PC” stands for Poco. The last character in the model number denotes the region it’s intended for – “C” is for China, “I” is for India. So, with all of that in mind, it certainly looks like the Poco M8 Power is headed to India at least – of…

Silicon-to-systems design firm Synopsys says it has found no evidence of a data breach after a cybercrime group claimed to have hacked its systems and gained access to valuable data belonging to one of its major customers, Bosch. A new ransomware group named D1R in recent days listed Synopsys and Bosch on its Tor-based leak website. The cybercriminals claimed to have exploited a vulnerability in Synopsys’ website to access a corporate client database containing 40,000 entries, and they are threatening to leak the stolen data unless a ransom is paid. Separately, D1R claimed to have hacked German engineering and technology…

SpaceXAI has real-world proof of 6–12 month deployments for large clusters via warehouse retrofits, phased build-out, and on-site/mobile power. They have gas turbines from partners like Solar Turbines + APR Energy that can install in days to 6-12 weeks. People are worried about how quickly the big tech hyperscalers are spending their hundreds of billions in cash on AI and AI data centers. The issue is how fast the spend turns into actual functioning data center that becomes revenue and profit. They can spend $220 billion on capex. $60 billion on buildings and energy and they can make $80-90 billion…

The Galaxy Z Fold7 featured a third generation of Armor FlexHinge, which was 27% thinner and 43% lighter than the hinge inside the Z Fold6. Now the company is introducing the next innovation that will make foldable displays even tougher and slimmer while minimizing the crease – Flex Titanium. This is just a preview of what is to come on Wednesday next week. The Flex Titanium technology promises a more refined viewing experience for the new Z Folds, while making the display more resistant to external shocks and the wear and tear of being folded and unfolded hundreds of thousands…

Mishaal Rahman / Android AuthorityTL;DR Samsung’s about to launch a trio of new foldable phones, including the Fold 8 and Flip 8. Rumors have already suggested these devices could feature virtually creaseless display panels. Samsung now details how it plans to achieve this with its new Flex Titanium tech. Samsung’s new foldables are on their way. The Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, and the Z Flip 8 have already leaked six ways from Sunday, and in just a little over a week, we’ll finally see all three go official at July 22’s Unpacked event. Ahead of that…

Microsoft on Tuesday announced patches for a record-breaking 622 vulnerabilities, including two bugs in Active Directory and SharePoint Server that have been exploited in the wild as zero-days. Tracked as CVE-2026-56155, the exploited AD flaw affects Federation Services (AD FS) and could allow attackers to elevate their privileges locally to administrator. Also leading to privilege escalation, the SharePoint Server flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-56164 and can be exploited over the network without authentication. Another security defect that Microsoft drew attention to is CVE-2026-50661, a BitLocker security feature bypass issue that can be exploited by physical attackers and which was publicly…

NASA astronaut Anil Menon, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, arrived safely at the International Space Station Tuesday, bringing the orbiting laboratory’s crew to 10 for about the next two weeks. The trio launched aboard the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT (7:47 p.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After a three-hour, two-orbit journey, the spacecraft docked at 1:52 p.m. with the station’s Prichal module. Following hatch opening, expected about 4 p.m., the new arrivals will be welcomed by the space station Expedition 74 crew: NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, and Chris…