Author: The Tech Guy

Samsung’s next Galaxy smartwatches could last longer than ever, thanks to bigger batteries and more efficient processors. According to a report from WinFuture, Samsung is set to swap its long-running Exynos smartwatch chips for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear Elite platform. This new chip is built on a 3nm manufacturing process, and as such, should bring a welcome boost to both performance and power efficiency. As a result, everyday tasks might feel snappier while battery life could be extended. The leak also suggests that memory and storage will vary by model. Samsung is reportedly pairing the new chipset with 2GB of RAM.…

Nothing disrupts a Windows Hyper-V environment like a checkpoint that refuses to delete. The error typically occurs when users attempt to delete a checkpoint through Hyper-V Manager or PowerShell, only to encounter a generic failure message. However, this is nothing to fret about. In this article, we will explore the possible reasons for this frustrating […] This article Hyper-V Cannot delete checkpoint: Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF) first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has warned AI companies are training their models on the business secrets of their customersThese secrets are then used to train new, more powerful models, that are sold to their customer’s competitorsBut, Nadella says there is a way to remain competitive without being locked in to one AI vendorMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella has warned the big players in the AI industry are using their proprietary models to learn the business secrets of their customers, which they can then use to train and deploy more advanced AI models.The crux of the issue, Nadella said in a blog…

The Pentagon is suspending Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) phase two requirements that were set to take effect in November, pending a 60-day review of the entire program.  Kirsten Davies, CIO at the Department of War (formerly the Department of Defense), said the move clears bureaucratic obstacles without lowering the bar on cybersecurity, noting that contractors must still meet phase one requirements and existing regulations for handling government information.  A newly formed CMMC review and reform task force will collect industry feedback and then recommend scaled-back security measures to speed up contracting for small and nontraditional businesses.  “The Department of…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Rarely has the Los Angeles Police Department found a police toy it doesn’t love. The third-largest police force in the US has major Palantir contracts in place, uses sketchy apps to track minority communities, and routinely sends drones to spy on peaceful protestors. So when the LAPD ends a contract with a surveillance company because it thinks the technology is too dangerous, you know there’s a problem. Over the weekend, the police department announced it was abandoning its contract with Flock Safety, the…

If you own a Pixel Watch, there’s a chance you have seen a stubborn permission prompt carrying the Fitbit logo on your wrist. It asks for access to your sensor data and refuses to leave no matter how many times you dismiss it. The frustrating part is that most people hit by this have already granted every permission the watch could possibly want. Everything is toggled on, and yet the warning keeps persisting.  Several users on Reddit have also pointed out that the Health app is still recording their sensor data without any trouble, which suggests the error message is…

I leaned toward a wired connection to solve my internet issues, so it was frustrating when my Ethernet connection began stuttering during calls and games. This was particularly painful because speed tests returned normal results. After thorough troubleshooting, I found that the same energy-saving features designed to make Ethernet greener were creating an unpleasant experience in practice — it’s time to check if they affect you, too. Related I tested Windows Game Mode on and off for a month — here’s what the benchmarks actually showed A month of frame-time data settled an old Windows argument. Ethernet adapter latency issues…

Back in April, we learned that WhatsApp was developing a feature that would let its Android users back up their WhatsApp chats on its own encrypted cloud storage. Now we hear that the Meta-owned company is testing this feature on iOS as well. This revelation comes from the folks at WABetaInfo, who discovered this development on beta version 26.28.10.16 of WhatsApp for iOS. Right now, Android users can back up their chats to Google Drive, while iOS users can back up theirs to iCloud. This new feature allows Android and iOS users to choose between Google Drive/iCloud and WhatsApp’s cloud…

A vulnerability in RabbitMQ could allow attackers to obtain the broker’s confidential OAuth secret, potentially posing a serious threat to enterprises, according to cybersecurity firm Miggo. RabbitMQ is a popular open source message broker that routes, buffers, and distributes messages, enabling asynchronous communication between applications. Tracked as CVE-2026-5721 (CVSS score of 8.7), the security defect impacts an open management endpoint that returns the OAuth secret to anyone, without authentication. The bug was discovered in an obsolete endpoint in RabbitMQ’s management web interface, and could be triggered in configurations where the administrator had set up the broker’s confidential password for identity…

Drone ship maker Saronic’s next-generation 180-foot (≈55 m) Marauder medium unmanned surface vessel (MUSV) entered the water for trials in 2026. It represents a major leap in size and capability. It has a payload of up to 150 metric tons. New containerized weapon payloads will be used on the Marauder. One potential configurations would carry multiple missile launchers (systems like Anduril Barracuda). One drone ship could carry around 128 long-range cruise missiles (hundreds of miles range, significantly more explosive power than Hellfires per missile). A single Marauder could theoretically deliver more strike capacity than a traditional cruiser in certain scenarios,…