Author: The Tech Guy
When a new smartphone debuts, we’re told about how much faster it runs and all the new AI tricks it can perform. None of those things really matter — at its core, a phone is a communication device, and it keeps us in contact with the people in our lives. The most important job of a smartphone is to keep us safe and connect us with help in an emergency. That’s why your phone can make emergency calls on any available network, even if you don’t have an active SIM card. Plenty of phones offer safety and emergency features, but…
The world has been moving away from traditional cable for several years now, and that means you should be hopping on the streaming bandwagon. Pretty much any TV you buy these days will have a streaming interface that lets you download all the popular streaming apps like Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney+. A lot of people just install those apps on their TV and call it a day, but there’s so much more that can make your streaming setup better. Many upgrades mean you have to spend an arm and a leg, but there are some smaller ones you can…
TrendAI, Trend Micro’s enterprise business, has informed customers that it has patched another Apex One vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. The zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-34926, is a medium-severity directory traversal issue that can be exploited by an unauthenticated local attacker to “modify a key table on the server to inject malicious code to deploy to agents on affected installations”. TrendAI noted that the attacker requires admin credentials to the server, and the attack only works against the on-premises version of Apex One. No information has been shared by the cybersecurity firm on the attacks exploiting the latest…
FutureThese Companies Say AI Is Reviving Entry-Level Jobs, Not Killing ThemLindsay Ellis | The Wall Street Journal ($)”In one of the biggest surveys on employers’ graduate hiring plans this year, nearly three times as many executives at companies using or exploring AI said they were increasing junior-level hiring in 2026 than cutting back. Those using AI most extensively were the most bullish, according to Strada Education Foundation, which surveyed about 1,500 employers.”RoboticsThe Internet Can’t Stop Watching Figure AI’s Humanoid Robots Handling PackagesJeremy Hsu | Ars Technica”The promotional robot demo has become a viral sensation among tech enthusiasts, spurring YouTube commenters to…
A navigation issue affecting the My Pixel app has left a number of Pixel owners unable to access key sections of the preinstalled Google app, with the bottom tab bar disappearing entirely from the interface without warning. The missing bar ordinarily carries four tabs covering Home, Tips, Support, and Store, giving users a single access point for feature guidance, troubleshooting help, and direct links to Google’s hardware shop from within the device itself. Reports from affected users on Reddit confirm the tabs have vanished from their devices, with at least one account suggesting the issue followed a dismissal of a…
Two years ago, IBM realized there was one glaring omission in its roster of sports partnerships: Formula One. Formula One has become one of the world’s most popular sports, especially in the U.S., where Netflix’s “Drive to Survive” documented the working lives of F1 drivers and turned them into mainstream celebrities. The tech-centric sport has also become a hot ticket for tech companies like AWS, Oracle, and Anthropic, which partner with teams for sponsorship visibility and to provide data analytics and AI tools that can deliver a competitive edge. So when IBM went looking for its next major sports partnership,…
Watch Bayern Munich vs Stuttgart live streams as Vincent Kompany’s league winners attempt to complete a domestic double by overcoming the cup holders in Berlin and lifting the German Cup for the 21st time.What a season it has been for Bayern Munich. Under the guidance of Kompany, the Bavarians romped to the league title, losing only one of their 34 Bundesliga matches and scoring 122 goals in the process. However, their journey to their first DFB-Pokal final in six years was far from plain sailing as they required a 94th-minute winner just to overcome third-division side SV Wehen Wiesbaden in…
Threat actors are exploiting a vulnerability in shared content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure to hide connections to malicious domains. Dubbed Underminr, the issue is a variant of domain fronting, a now-mitigated type of attack that enabled threat actors to place an allowed domain in the SNI and TLS certificate validation fields of an HTTPS request, while embedding a different target domain in the TLS tunnel’s encrypted HTTP host header. Because CDNs routed requests internally based on the host headers, the request reached the hidden destination, while traffic would appear to be going to a reputable front domain. Instead of using…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The idea of manually tampering with our atmosphere to combat climate change, such as by seeding clouds with reflective particles to dim the Sun, remains extremely controversial. These acts of geoengineering could deliver us from climate doom, the thinking goes, or backfire spectacularly in ways we never anticipated — which is why scientists are proceeding with caution. But to an extent, something like this is already happening on a global scale. In a new study published in the journal Earth’s Future, researchers warn…
For a few strange hours, the Sonos app effectively disappeared from Apple’s App Store ecosystem, leaving users unable to download or update it on iPhones and Macs. And honestly, given Sonos’ recent software history, the timing could not have looked worse. Users first noticed that the app’s App Store listing had vanished entirely. Opening the direct App Store link reportedly led to an error page stating the content could not be found, while manual searches for the app returned nothing. At the same time, Sonos acknowledged the issue on its system status page, warning users that they could experience problems…