Author: The Tech Guy

A predawn Moon-and-planets meetup, a returning comet, a great chance to see the Milky Way, and Saturn’s rings at a new angle. July 7: Last Quarter Moon July 11 + 12: Dawn alignment of the Moon, Mars, Saturn, and Uranus July 14: New Moon; best dark-sky window for Comet 10P/Tempel 2 and the Milky Way Later in July: Saturn’s unusually thin rings are a rewarding telescope target July 21: First Quarter Moon July 29: Full Moon An early morning hangout with the Moon and planets, a comet swings by, prime time for the Milky Way, and Saturn’s rings shine at…

Apple’s next iPad Pro may not look dramatically different, but it could get one upgrade that makes a lot of sense for an ultra-thin tablet. Better cooling. According to Bloomberg, Apple is testing four new iPad Pro models planned for spring 2027. The tablets are expected to keep the current 11-inch and 13-inch display sizes, while focusing mostly on internal improvements, including faster chips. Apple has also reportedly tested a vapor chamber cooling system for the iPad Pro, which could help improve sustained performance and reduce overheating. Apple is catching up on cooling The iPad Pro won’t be the first…

I own three art TVs, and only one of them genuinely passes for a painting when I walk into the room. There’s a 32-inch Samsung Frame above a desk in our basement guest room, a 55-inch Frame over my office desk, and a 65-inch Hisense CanvasTV on the main wall of that same guest room. Most guests read all three as real artwork at a glance. I look at every one of them daily, though, which makes me a far tougher audience. After picking the Hisense over Samsung, I worked out why it fools me when the others only fool…

OnePlus’ slow transformation from independent brand to an Oppo sub-brand continues unabated. The latest example comes from Germany, where the official OnePlus website is now advertising Oppo products. Scroll down a bit once you land on the site, and you will see this – an ad pointing you to “a curated selection of Oppo accessories and IoT products”. If you click on that you’re taken to this page, where OnePlus says it’s “put together a selection of Oppo products equipped with the latest hardware and powerful software you know and are familiar with”, “all designed to give you seamless compatibility…

Citrix on Tuesday announced fresh NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway security updates that resolve six vulnerabilities, including the recent HTTP/2 Bomb flaw. Four of the issues, tracked as CVE-2026-8451, CVE-2026-8452, CVE-2026-8655, and CVE-2026-10816, are high-severity out-of-bounds read, memory overflow, and arbitrary file read bugs. Tracked as CVE-2026-10816, the fifth is a medium-severity out-of-bounds read, while the sixth is HTTP/2 Bomb, a denial-of-service (DoS) exploit targeting Apache HTTP Server. Tracked as CVE-2026-49975 and discovered using OpenAI’s Codex, HTTP/2 Bomb combines previously known attack techniques to knock web servers offline. Citrix assigned it a separate NetScaler-specific CVE identifier, CVE-2026-13474. All these weaknesses…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Everyone has had a bad day at work, but most of us are lucky enough that ours weren’t broadcast with a chyron live on television. On a live interview with CNBC‘s infamously churlish segment “Squawk Box,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp appeared to suffer a nearly 20-minute meltdown, complete with stuttering, nervous backtracking, and a steady supply of digressions so abstruse that the hosts seemed befuddled and perhaps even concerned for his wellbeing. Though Karp was called up to chat about an ongoing deal…

If you are an American Express cardholder, you can now finally use your Membership Rewards points when you check out with Apple Pay for online purchases. You can redeem your points directly within the Apple Pay secure checkout experience online, without needing to leave checkout, open another app, or complete additional redemption steps. You just shop online or in apps on your iPhone or iPad as usual, select Apple Pay at checkout, then choose an eligible American Express card, select Use Rewards and enter the amount of points you want to use to cover all or part of your purchase.…

Joe Maring / Android AuthorityTL;DR The sixth beta for Android 17 QPR1 is coming out today. The latest beta carries the build number CP31.260618.005. The update fixes several issues, such as being unable to select multiple spell checker languages. Last week, Google released Android 17 QPR1 Beta 5 with a list of fixes. Which came only two weeks after the company rolled out Beta 4. Although it’s only been about a week, hopefully you’re ready to update again. Google is releasing Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6.According to the announcement on Reddit, Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 is arriving today. The…

Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new Teams admin policy aimed at providing organizations with increased visibility and control over external bots joining their meetings. With AI meeting tools becoming increasingly common, the lack of proper controls creates security and privacy risks, especially when sensitive information is being shared, and the new protections are intended to eliminate that. To ensure that only intended participants join their meetings, organizations can now assign a new ‘Manage external bots and their access to meetings’ policy to individual users or specific groups from the Teams Admin Center. By default, Teams now detects bots and asks…

The IR-compiled delivery consensus is 406,024. This should get beaten by 60,000-80,000 cars. Screenshot Tesla vehicle shipments – Part 2 Kalshi also moving much higher. My number is 490k plus for shipments, with an absolute minimum of 475k. Kalshi (directional “Above X” markets) Above 460k: ~65% (up sharply, e.g., +24 points in recent data).kalshi.com Above 470k: ~53%.Above… — Randy Kirk (@RandyWKirk1) July 1, 2026 Hi everyone. Here are my Tesla delivery estimates for Q2 2026. The gap between my estimate and the analyst consensus is unusually large this time. • My estimate: 466,000• Analyst consensus: 406,024 (based on Tesla’s survey…