Author: The Tech Guy

My C: drive was running out of free space, but the files I had on it did not match reality. I turned to the traditional cleanup tools but didn’t get great results. However, after running a single command, I recovered 11GB of storage that I didn’t think existed. This happened without me deleting my documents, photos, downloads, apps, or anything personal. The command addressed the space that Windows’ recovery snapshots had consumed. It’s become one command I never overlook on a Windows installation when I’m running low on storage but can’t let go of any personal data. Related I turned…

Khamosh Pathak / Android AuthorityAlmost every morning plays out the same in my home. Eggs for breakfast, and then a pour-over coffee that goes straight into the insulated Fellow Carter mug so I can stretch the flavors out for eternity. And while doing that, I read.It used to be all over the place. I called it multi-pronged research. News websites, Threads, YouTube, Mastodon, Google News—you name it. But I soon got tired of all the noise. The incessant scrolling, jumping through sources, avoiding pop-up ads. The coffee was done, but I was none the wiser. So yet again, I went back…

Explanation: The Milky Way was not created by an evaporating lake. The colorful pool of water, about 10 meters across, is known as Silex Spring and is located in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA. Illuminated artificially, the colors are caused by layers of bacteria that grow in the hot spring. Steam rises off the spring, heated by underground magma associated with the Yellowstone Hotspot. Unrelated and far in the distance, the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy arches high overhead, a band lit by billions of stars. The picture features a 16-image panorama taken in 2014. If the…

Google’s Pixel collection has shifted from camera- to AI-focused in the past few years, driven mainly by the ever-more-capable Gemini – and that, of course, continues with this year’s Pixel 11 collection. However, if you’re tempted to go out and pre-order one ahead of release later this month, I’d advise you to think twice.  Why? Because some of the touted AI features that Google has been singing and dancing about since the initial announcement of Android 17 back in May – arguably the reason to upgrade from last year’s Pixel 10 – aren’t actually available at launch in regions outside…

Audio can be just as important on an iPad as it is on your smartphone or laptop, sometimes moreso. When I’m flying long-distance, for instance, I prefer to pass the time binging movies and TV shows, and that means using headphones that are both noise-canceling and up to cinematic standards. At home, you might turn to an iPad for gaming, or as an expensive control center for your workday soundtrack. You’re not necessarily getting the best sound out of the box, however. Even if you’re using Apple’s AirPods or Beats products, there are settings you can change that may drastically…

Artificial IntelligenceThese Startups Are Chasing the Next Big Thing in LLMsWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review ($)”Transformers are starting to show their age. Many of the recent advances in LLMs, such as the development of so-called reasoning models and their ability to handle large amounts of input at once, are not neat extensions of that core technology but workarounds that patch over some of its fundamental flaws. A growing number of scientists and engineers are now asking what’s coming next.”SPACEAstronomers Discover a New Kind of Cosmic Object—a Black Hole ‘Star’Ian Sample | The Guardian”Astronomers claim to have discovered a…

Samsung appears to be preparing a major visual overhaul for One UI, with early leaks suggesting One UI 9.5 could adopt a more glass-like design with shinier edges, transparency, and greater visual depth. The reported changes surfaced shortly after Samsung began rolling out One UI 9 Beta 5 for the Galaxy S26 series. According to Android Central, tipster Fahad Ali shared leaked screenshots of the upcoming interface on X, offering an early look at Samsung’s apparent design direction. Samsung could be giving One UI a glassier makeover The leaked screenshots suggest Samsung is experimenting with a glass-inspired interface across parts…

Running your own home media server isn’t new. For years, people have installed their media server software of choice and streamed movies and TV shows to devices both inside and outside their homes. For most, that media server software was Plex. But it’s far from the only option. And it isn’t the best option either. Jellyfin isn’t a newcomer to the media server scene, but it’s improved considerably in recent years. Now, it’s the best media server software for most people, and it isn’t even close. Related After a decade of streaming, I finally tried Jellyfin — and I’m never…

Look, I really don’t think we should be naming our AI chatbots. It feels like one of the easiest ways to start anthropomorphizing them, encouraging us to see them as people or “beings” rather than tools. Which is then a slippery slope to users becoming too dependent on them. But unfortunately, for many people that ship has already sailed. Whether they’re using AI as a friend, companion, work coach or something else, plenty of people have been given their chatbots names. And many others have gone a step further and asked the AI what it wants to be called.Now, obviously…

A multi-stage Rust-based macOS information stealer has been distributed through a counterfeit GitHub download page in recent ClickFix attacks, Jamf reports. The fake download page lures victims into pasting a command into Terminal, which leads to the newly discovered AmnesiaStealer being installed. As part of a three-stage infection chain, a shell script runs to fetch and execute the payload, the infostealer harvests data, and a third module is run on command to provide interactive control over the victims’ browsers. “Its objectives overlap with families such as Atomic (AMOS), MacSync and CrashStealer. Three traits set it apart: a builder-driven configuration, OS…