Author: The Tech Guy

Stress does more than take a toll on mental health. After a particularly taxing week or month, it’s easier to catch a cold and harder to recover. Health issues build up as stress lingers, raising the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and a weakened immune system.Chronic stress is often treated as an unavoidable part of modern life. While therapy can help people cope, researchers are increasingly asking a deeper question: How do stress signals in the brain ripple through the rest of the body, and can that damage be stopped?A new study offers one of clearest answers yet. In…

Samsung has released the fourth One UI 9 beta for the Galaxy S26 series, bringing another round of bug fixes and refinements ahead of the software’s official debut later this month. The update has started rolling out in India first, carrying firmware that ends in ZZG4, and is available to users already enrolled in Samsung’s One UI 9 beta programme. At around 1.25GB, it’s a sizeable download. Rather than introducing major new features, this latest beta focuses on stability as Samsung enters the final stretch before launch. According to the changelog, the company has fixed a range of issues affecting core parts of the interface. These…

Windows 11’s July update has arrivedIt packs some smart features, including pausing updates at length and a new recovery optionThis patch also cures a nasty bug that slowly eats more and more drive space, but there’s an issue to be aware of for Dell laptop ownersMicrosoft has released its monthly patch for Windows 11 and the July update is a biggie, packing a feature that I’ve been awaiting for quite some time.That would be the ability to pause updates on Windows 11 Home – beyond just a short period of time, which has been the only choice to date –…

Google and Mozilla have released fresh Chrome 150 and Firefox 152 updates that resolve critical-severity vulnerabilities. Mozilla rolled out Firefox 152.0.6 with patches for two critical security defects, warning that exploit code has been published for both. The bugs are tracked as CVE-2026-15718 and CVE-2026-15719, and are described as an invalid pointer in the ‘JavaScript: WebAssembly’ component and a site isolation issue in the ‘DOM: Navigation’ component. “We are aware that exploit code for this is public however we are not aware of any attacks in the wild abusing this flaw,” Mozilla notes for both weaknesses. Google fixed 15 vulnerabilities…

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…