Author: The Tech Guy

SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights: Nvidia cloud gaming partner suffers data breach Nvidia has confirmed that a breach of GeForce NOW user data occurred through GFN.am, its regional Alliance partner operating the service in Armenia, with no impact on Nvidia’s own…

After NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled a sample from this rock on April 25, 2026, it withdrew its robotic arm and pulled the entire rock off the surface with it. Engineers spent several days repositioning the arm and vibrating the drill to try and get the rock loose. When it finally detached on May 1, the rock broke into pieces. This close-up image of the rock was produced by Curiosity’s Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on May 6. Nicknamed “Atacama,” the rock is estimated to be 1.5 feet in diameter at its base and 6 inches thick. It would weigh roughly…

Samsung’s PenUp app is getting a useful creative upgrade for Galaxy users, especially those who use the S Pen for casual digital art. For those unaware, PenUp is Samsung’s app for sketching and coloring templates. It works with touch input, but the latest update should be most useful on Galaxy phones and tablets with S Pen support. The latest PenUp update, version 3.9.22.23, adds 53 new brushes through the “Download more brushes” option. It also adds Dual brush, a new tool that lets two strokes work together for layered effects. Samsung What new drawing tools does PenUp add? Brush controls…

Web scraping probably sounds like something reserved for developers and hackers, but it can be as simple as pulling data from a website straight into Excel without copying and pasting anything manually. Instead of switching between your browser and spreadsheet, you stay in Excel, paste in a website address, and have the data appear in your workbook almost instantly. As complicated as that might sound, you don’t need Python, browser extensions, or any coding knowledge whatsoever. As long as you can access Power Query in your Excel app, which you should if you’re using Excel 2016 or later, you can…

Google is rolling out a new feature on Quick Share on Android that allows users to send files to iOS devices using a QR code. If Quick Share on your Android phone does not offer AirDrop compatibility yet, this new QR code-based method offers a simple alternative. Recipients can scan the code with their iPhone to quickly access and download the shared files. The new feature was announced during The Android Show: I/O Edition earlier this week. When an iPhone user scans the QR code with the Camera app, the selected files are securely uploaded to the cloud and delivered…

American Lending Center this week revealed that a data breach discovered last year has impacted more than 123,000 individuals. American Lending Center (ALC) is a California-based non-bank lender that manages a $3 billion portfolio specializing in government-guaranteed small business loans. The organization is notifying individuals affected by the data breach that information such as names, dates of birth, and SSNs may have been stolen in a ransomware attack detected in July 2025.  “Through a forensic investigation into this breach, it was discovered that the threat actor compromised internal network, executed a ransomware attack, and accessed certain files that may have…

As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island.We can imagine that his wife, Penelope, would have asked him about that particular time. Odysseus might have replied, “It was nothing. In fact, it was less than nothing. Negative five years I dwelt with Calypso. How else could I have arrived home after only ten years? If you don’t believe me, ask her.”Quantum particles, it turns out, are just as wily as Odysseus, as my colleagues and…

If you are constantly making VoIP calls on apps like WhatsApp, Telegram or Messenger from your Android phone, then you may soon be able to dial contacts on those apps straight from your default phone dialer app. Google has been testing this feature for a while now, and it seems like it is finally ready for a wider rollout under the Calling accounts domain. The folks over at Android Authority were able to get it running on a Pixel 9 using the latest Android Canary 2605 build. The Calling accounts feature was seen inside the settings for the Phone by…

Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google has confirmed to Android Authority that it is testing a new storage policy with reduced free storage. The test is only applicable to new Gmail accounts created in select regions. Google’s 15GB free cloud storage may be going away soon. Several user reports from yesterday claimed that Google is offering only 5GB of free data to new Gmail users. In a statement to Android Authority, Google has confirmed that it is testing this change. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? A Google spokesperson said: We’re testing a new storage policy for…

Mythos appears to be as powerful as claimed at detecting software vulnerabilities; but its capabilities in other areas is more nuanced. Anthropic’s Mythos AI model has been making waves since its announcement in early April, primarily because of its reputed ability to unearth considerably more vulnerabilities than any other AI model. XBOW, an autonomous offensive security firm, has aimed its own AI testing armory against Mythos Preview to check the validity of this and other Mythos capabilities. Anthropic’s primary claim is confirmed. “Mythos Preview presents a significant step up over all existing models, regardless of provider,” reports XBOW.  As Gary…