Author: The Tech Guy

The 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission under contract with NASA is headed to the International Space Station with new scientific experiments after lifting off at 6:05 p.m. EDT Friday on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The SpaceX spacecraft, loaded with nearly 6,500 pounds of cargo for the space station’s Expedition 74 crew, is scheduled to autonomously dock at about 7 a.m. Sunday, May 17, to the forward port of the station’s Harmony module. Watch NASA’s live rendezvous and docking coverage beginning at 5:30 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime,…

AI-generated videos are getting so realistic now that spotting a fake version of someone online is becoming harder by the week. And for creators, that opens up a pretty uncomfortable problem: what happens when your face starts appearing in videos you never made? YouTube seems to be taking that concern seriously. The platform is now expanding its AI likeness detection system to a much larger group of creators, giving eligible users new tools to track and report videos that digitally imitate them using artificial intelligence. The feature was previously limited to a smaller pilot group within the YouTube Partner Program,…

Chrome is known to be fast and convenient, but it takes up a significant amount of RAM. So, when Chrome rolled out the Memory Saver feature, I was optimistic and excited to try it. On paper, this feature sounds like a lifesaver. Memory Saver promises to free up RAM by putting your inactive apps to sleep so they don’t eat precious system resources in the background. This is supposed to make your system a lot smoother. After using Chrome’s memory-saving feature for a while, I found it’s doing the opposite for me. Rather than improving performance, it has made my…

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is preparing a very bold sign-up incentive for the Apple Card. The new deal is expected to go live as early as next week and will apparently only be available in Apple retail stores. It goes like this. Sign up for an Apple Card in-store and you will get $249 cash back if you purchase a pair of AirPods Pro 3. Since the AirPods Pro 3 cost exactly $249, you are in effect getting them for free. The Apple Card was introduced back in 2019 in the US, in partnership with Goldman Sachs and…

Technical details and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code targeting a newly patched critical-severity vulnerability in NGINX are now available. Tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score of 9.2), the issue was patched in the widely used web server this week as part of F5’s latest quarterly patch release, 16 years after it was introduced. The bug is described as a heap buffer overflow in the ngx_http_rewrite_module component that could be exploited to trigger a restart, creating a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Remote code execution (RCE) is also possible if Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is disabled, F5 warned. According to Depthfirst, CVE-2026-42945 impacts NGINX…

For most of us, a locust swarm sounds like an utter nightmare. For roboticists, it’s inspiration.Nature abounds with creatures that cooperate with a “hive mind.” From bees gathering pollen to schools of sardines grouping to avoid predators, individuals seamlessly move together in ever-changing configurations. Roboticists inspired by these dynamics have designed microrobots—often no more than the width of a human hair—to mimic their behavior.These tiny machines show promise in medicine and environmental cleanup. They easily sail through blood vessels to remove blood clots, deliver chemotherapy to tumors, and bring medicines to the eye and gut. In the wild, they remove…

ChatGPT can now take care of your personal finances, which definitely sounds like a good idea. In the US, subscribers to ChatGPT Pro can now connect accounts from over 12,000 financial institutions, thanks to a partnership OpenAI has established with the financial connection service Plaid. Once you connect your account(s) to ChatGPT, you’ll see a dashboard of your portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments. ChatGPT can answer questions about your spending or plans to save money with context from your actual financial situation. You can manage the connections to your accounts at any time and remove any of them,…

DealHunt / Android AuthorityWhen it comes to securing our homes or businesses, having reliable surveillance is essential. If you’re weighing up your options, you might be interested to know that the Ring Floodlight Cam Pro is now available at its lowest price ever.DealHunt / Android AuthorityThis top-of-the-line security solution is currently priced at $229.99, making it an attractive option for those looking to enhance their security setup.The Ring Floodlight Cam Pro is packed with impressive features. It boasts Retinal 4K video, providing crystal-clear visuals that capture every detail. The wide-angle view ensures that nothing escapes your attention, while 10x enhanced…

OpenAI has disclosed the impact of the recent TanStack supply chain attack, warning that credential material was exfiltrated from internal source code repositories. The open source web application development stack TanStack was hit on May 11, when the TeamPCP hacking group exploited security weaknesses in the package publishing process to release 84 malicious artifacts across 42 packages. Over 170 packages across several high-profile NPM and PyPI namespaces were compromised on the same day as part of a coordinated campaign. Developer devices were infected with the Shai-Hulud worm. OpenAI was one of the organizations affected downstream. Two employee devices were infected…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech It looks like Elon Musk has an even bigger sycophant than his AI model Grok. According to a new analysis by The Washington Post, the world’s richest man appears to be obsessed with an anonymous account on X named “XFreeze” that he’s interacted with more than any other user on the platform this year. And naturally, the main thing XFreeze posts about is Musk.  The account, which WaPo traced to a man in India, constantly lavishes the site’s owner with praise: boosting his…