Author: The Tech Guy
The Pixel Watch 5 is here, but it probably shouldn’t be – just yet, anyway. Google’s latest smartwatch has finally launched in the UK, US and beyond, bringing with it a familiar design, familiar hardware and the promise of several genuinely useful new features. The problem? Most of those features aren’t actually available yet, making the Pixel Watch 5 feel like a placeholder for the smartwatch Google actually wants to – and will – sell in a few months’ time. The Pixel Watch 5 is here, but most new features aren’t The Google Pixel Watch 5 is finally available to…
For the last 10 years, the cell phone has been the most technologically evolving piece of equipment we all own. I still remember when the coolest thing my phone could do was play Brick Breaker, and now, I can use it for things that I once thought were silly or made up. I used to carry around one of those massive wallets — you know, the kind your dad had that left an imprint on all his back pockets? It was stuffed with everything from a mountain of business cards to cash, credit cards, and more. It was uncomfortable and…
North Korean hackers are responsible for a new open source software (OSS) supply chain attack targeting the Rust ecosystem, cybersecurity firm Wiz reports. The attack occurred on August 20 and involved one of the most popular Rust crates, arrayref, an array-conversion utility with over 245 million downloads, found in approximately 75% of environments where Rust is used. The malicious package version, [email protected], was pushed to crates.io from its legitimate maintainer’s account. Roughly 20 minutes later, poisoned versions of internment and append-only-vec, two crates from the same owner, were also released. These packages, as well as attacker-owned crates (aovine, arone, aronenao,…
On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse darkened skies over Greenland, Iceland, and Spain. As the Moon covered the Sun, it briefly revealed the Sun’s wispy outer atmosphere — the corona — to those in the path of totality who were lucky enough to have clear skies. NASA researchers and photographers were along the eclipse path to study the corona, capture the phenomenon, and observe how the eclipse affected our planet. One NASA photographer in Spain captured the total solar eclipse as well as the partial phases before and after, until the Sun set below the horizon. In northern Maine,…
The idea of AirPods with cameras has already made some people uneasy, even though Apple has not announced such a product yet. Online forums have highlighted growing skepticism around the possibility of camera-equipped earbuds, with concerns ranging from privacy to whether such devices could eventually be restricted in workplaces and other public spaces. Those concerns may become harder to dismiss after a separate discovery reported by MacRumors offered a more detailed look at how Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods could potentially work. According to MacRumors, forum member mactracker uncovered a hidden macOS framework called “AccessorySensorManager,” which appears to contain references to sensors…
For years, VRAM has always been a major constraint for gaming. VRAM caps have grown astronomically in the past decade alone, jumping to over the baseline of 8GB, mandating some rather expensive upgrades. Still, there really hasn’t been a definite answer to the conundrum, and most of it does vary from game to game — but there is most definitely a common trend, and one I intended to find out. Armed with a beefy Radeon 8050S iGPU, I turned to the system’s configurable VRAM limits (in the BIOS) to lay the question to rest for good. Related Your hardware’s real…
Looking for a case for your brand-new Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold? You’ve come to the right place. The Pixel 11 Pro Fold is one of Google’s new handsets. It was announced in August 2026 alongside the standard Pixel 11, the 11 Pro, and the 11 Pro XL. Those are all pretty good (we enjoyed testing them out), but the 11 Pro Fold stands out for being the only foldable option of the bunch.The foldable phones market is looking increasingly competitive right now. In his Pixel 11 Pro Fold review, our editor-at-large Lance crowned it “the best folding Pixel yet”……
iAuthFlow V2 is a new phishing toolkit demonstrating the rapidly improving sophistication of phishing techniques. iAuthFlow V2 is a malware toolkit first seen on a Russian-language cybercrime forum. It is an advanced form of phishing that offers persistent access to the victim’s account, surviving a password reset. The base toolkit is offered for sale at $10,000, with additional modules available separately. Using available information from the seller’s forum posts and demonstrations (but without acquiring or running the malware), Abnormal researchers have postulated an analysis of its operation, based on the ‘passkey’ module and employed against a Gmail account. The target…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Elon Musk’s Tesla is giving up on its Solar Roof — the latest sign that the EV company is shifting gears as its mercurial CEO continues to lean into fossil fuels to sustain his AI ambitions. Two sources with inside knowledge of the program confirmed to Electrek that the company is discontinuing its solar roof tiles, a key offering allowing homeowners to turn their roofs into renewable energy generators without relying on more unsightly solar panels. According to one of the sources, Tesla…
Sony recently announced a launch event for August 25, starting at 11 AM Japan time. Sony said it’s for a new Xperia product but didn’t reveal its name. This Xperia product is expected to be the Xperia 10 VIII, which was recently spotted on Geekbench and has now appeared in an official-looking image shared by Android Headlines. The image below shows the Xperia 10 VIII’s design, which is almost identical to its predecessor – the Xperia 10 VII. It shows a dual-camera setup on the rear, placed inside a horizontally aligned camera island sporting the Sony logo. The NFC logo…