Author: The Tech Guy

Switching phones tends to feel like a bigger commitment than it needs to be, especially when the mid-range market asks you to give up something meaningful to stay within budget. What makes this moment different is that a phone launched in 2025, running Android 15 with six years of OS upgrades promised, has already dropped to a price that most people would associate with a handset half as capable. Samsung’s Galaxy A17 5G has fallen to its lowest cost yet, turning this deal into a smart time to switch phone With six OS upgrades guaranteed and a sale price of…

The 151st Preakness Stakes will take place at Laurel Park in 2026 – the first time in over 100 years it won’t be held at Pimlico Race Course. While Pimlico, currently undergoing major redevelopment, typically hosts more than 120,000 people, Laurel Park’s capacity is a mere 5,000, so it’s no surprise tickets are already sold out.Often known as the “Middle Jewel,” this is the second leg of the American Triple Crown for three-year-old Thoroughbreds, held after the Kentucky Derby and before the Belmont Stakes. After winning the Kentucky Derby, Golden Tempo will not run in the Preakness Stakes, meaning there…

The infamous TeamPCP hacking group that besieged the open source software ecosystem several times over the past half year has released the source code of its Shai-Hulud worm, opening the door to copycat attacks. The code was shared via GitHub repositories under several users and was accompanied by detailed instructions on how to use it. While GitHub removed the repos, multiple forks also appeared, Datadog says. The repositories also contained the “Shai–Hulud: Open Sourcing The Carnage” message from the hacking group itself, which states the intended purpose of the release, namely to fuel more supply chain attacks. In fact, security…

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,…