Author: The Tech Guy
Enlarge Image What a beautiful beast. Daniel Golson/CNETLuxury automakers are all about more is more, stuffing flagship vehicles with big power, high-end tech features and plenty of gimmicky options. The Mercedes-Benz S-Class is no different, with the latest generation being the most extravagant and advanced yet. But I’ll let you in on a secret: The base S500 is where it’s at. Like Fantastic in-line six engine Supreme comfort Great tech features Don’t like Misses out on a couple of cool features The S500 shares its turbocharged, mild-hybrid 3.0-liter in-line six with a number of other Mercedes products. In the S500…
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has sent Meta a cease-and-desist letter demanding that it stop using the term “PG-13,” as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. Last month, Meta announced that teens on Instagram would, by default, only see content that adheres to PG-13 movie ratings. Two weeks later, the MPA sent Meta a cease-and-desist letter, asserting that Meta’s claim that content on teen Instagram accounts would follow PG-13 guidelines is “literally false and highly misleading.” The company states that its movie-rating system can’t be compared to Meta’s content restrictions, which it says “appear to rely heavily on artificial…
Microsoft Teams flaws allowed message edits, spoofed alerts, and forged caller identitiesAttackers could exploit these bugs for phishing, wire fraud, and malware deliveryMicrosoft patched CVE-2024-38197; no user action needed post-October 2025 fixesExperts have found Microsoft Teams contained multiple vulnerabilities whioch allowed threat actors to edit messages, spoof notifications, and change user names, opening it up for different phishing and social engineering attacks, putting users at risk of data theft, wire fraud, and malware/ransomware infections.In a new report, experts from Check Point Research detailed the flaws in the popular online collaboration platform, noting the attackers could reuse unique identifiers in the…
Presented by Elastic Logs set to become the primary tool for finding the “why” in diagnosing network incidents Modern IT environments have a data problem: there’s too much of it. Organizations that need to manage a company’s environment are increasingly challenged to detect and diagnose issues in real-time, optimize performance, improve reliability, and ensure security and compliance — all within constrained budgets. The modern observability landscape has many tools that offer a solution. Most revolve around DevOps teams or Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) analyzing logs, metrics, and traces to uncover patterns and figure out what’s happening across the network, and…
Without a fully reusable Starship there will not be large scale AI Data Centers in space. SpaceX has to bring the cost of flying a SpaceX Starship below $80 million per flight. SpaceX will likely be able to do this for their own costs in 2026 but they may not sell Starship flights at less than $80 million per flight. The Starcloud startup has $20 million in funding. They have a 13 page white paper with their plan to scale towards a 5 gigawatt AI data center in space. CoreWeave extended its useful AI chip life calculation from 4 to…
After releasing the stable iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1 updates for the public, Apple has now seeded new iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2 betas to developers. The iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2 beta 1 updates are available for registered developers on compatible iPhone and iPad models. Developers will need to head to the Settings app to download and install the betas. While Apple has provided a changelog for the new beta updates, it doesn’t include any major new features. The beta updates mostly include bug fixes and system improvements. Apple is likely to release the public betas of iOS 26.2…
Enterprise AI has a data problem. Despite billions in investment and increasingly capable language models, most organizations still can't answer basic analytical questions about their document repositories. The culprit isn't model quality but architecture: Traditional retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems were designed to retrieve and summarize, not analyze and aggregate across large document sets.Snowflake is tackling this limitation head-on with a comprehensive platform strategy announced at its BUILD 2025 conference. The company unveiled Snowflake Intelligence, an enterprise intelligence agent platform designed to unify structured and unstructured data analysis, along with infrastructure improvements spanning data integration with Openflow, database consolidation with…
Last month, OpenAI brought its Sora video-generation app to iOS. Now, the company has rolled it out to Android users. Sora is currently available to download from the Google Play Store. Users in Canada, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the US can try out the app on their Android phones. The app can generate videos from text prompts and images. It also supports collaboration, offers multiple video styles to choose from, lets users remix others’ creations, and includes community features to share and discover content. OpenAI also recently announced that users in select regions can now access Sora without…
When the transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 in the now seminal Google paper "Attention Is All You Need," it became an instant cornerstone of modern artificial intelligence. Every major large language model (LLM) — from OpenAI's GPT series to Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and Meta's Llama — has been built on some variation of its central mechanism: attention, the mathematical operation that allows a model to look back across its entire input and decide what information matters most.Eight years later, the same mechanism that defined AI’s golden age is now showing its limits. Attention is powerful, but it is…
Elephant trunks and garden hoses hardly seem like inspirations for a miniature 3D bioprinter.Yet they’ve led scientists at McGill University to engineer the smallest reported bioprinting head to date. Described in the journal Devices, the device has a flexible tip just 2.7 millimeters in diameter—roughly the length of a sesame seed.Bioprinters can deposit a wide range of healing materials directly at the site of injury. Some bioinks combat infections in lab studies; others deliver chemotherapy to cancerous sites, which could prevent tumors from recurring. On the operating table, biocompatible hydrogels injected during surgery help heal wounds.The devices are promising but…