Author: The Tech Guy
Explanation: What’s happening to this meteor? This bright meteor streak appeared and disappeared quickly during a long exposure of the Great Lacerta Nebula, seen faintly in red toward the center of the image. The meteoroid, likely a small pebble, creates its glow partly by heating and exciting surrounding air in Earth’s atmosphere, but itself vaporizes and leaves wind-blown gas and dust with colors that give clues to its composition. The featured image was captured last month from Death Valley Observatories in Nevada, USA. This month, though, is particularly good for seeing meteors. Presently there are three meteor showers ongoing, although they are currently competing for visibility with the glow of a bright gibbous Moon. The most active…
July is now over and done, so let’s recap its final week. The vivo S2’s full specifications leaked ahead of its expected August 6 launch in India. The phone will feature a 6.83-inch 1.5K 120Hz curved AMOLED display, a MediaTek Dimensity 7360 chipset, a 50MP Sony IMX852 main camera, a 2MP secondary sensor, and a 32MP selfie camera. The phone has a massive 7,050mAh battery with 44W charging, and IP68/IP69 water and dust resistance. The 8/128GB model is tipped to cost between INR 40,000 and INR 45,000, while the listed box price is INR 66,999. Availability is expected from August…
When VMware Workstation shows Cannot scan local directory. You might not have permission to perform the operation; it usually appears while copying files or folders between the host and the virtual machine. So basically, VMware cannot read the source directory cleanly, so it cancels the copy. Cannot scan local directory. You might not have permission […] This article VMware cannot scan local directory, you might not have permission first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.
Mitja Rutnik / Android AuthorityA few months ago, I decided to take my household management to the next level. I’d already gotten pretty good at keeping up with the basic chores, but I needed a system to track our family calendar, family goals, and household inventory. Plus, I wanted a way to customize the experience for my family, pets, and the actual number of rooms in my house.I tried several existing household apps, and a few came close to what I was looking for. Still, I wanted something completely tailored to my situation, not just something “close enough.” That got…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Last week, OpenAI claimed that a group of its AI models had broken containment, successfully hacking into the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark test. In the wake of the announcement, two very distinct narratives have emerged surrounding OpenAI’s claims. Some say it was essentially a publicity stunt, with the company setting parameters for the test that pushed the models toward outrageous behavior. But others, including certain prominent researchers, warn that the hack should serve as…
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. The SteelSeries Stratus+ is a wireless Bluetooth controller built primarily for Android mobile gaming, with wired USB-C support for Windows PCs.It launched back in 2022 at $59.99 / £64.99, but has since tumbled to sale prices around $25 / £25. It’s a welcome price drop because it’s about the only thing that keeps it in with a shot of being worth picking up, and on the periphery of the…
I don’t need a flagship Galaxy to take pictures I actually want to keep. I use a Galaxy A34, and a few small changes made a bigger difference than I expected. Some were camera settings I had ignored. Others were simple habits, like checking the light before I take the picture. The thing is, you don’t have to take a photography course to improve your pics, but could you be missing out on features that are sitting in your camera settings? I save 48MP for the pictures that matter most I use the max resolution for bright scenes and details…
The handheld gaming PC space is in an interesting place. On the one hand, the devices themselves are hitting their stride, what with refined ergonomics, powerful and energy-efficient internals, and better-than-ever software implementations. On the other hand, owing at least in part to the AI-fueled RAM memory shortage, prices for handhelds are palpably expensive, adding to the barrier of entry. MSI’s third-generation handheld PC, the all-new Claw 8 EX AI+, is born right in the midst of this tumultuous backdrop. The device certainly has a lot going for it, as I’ll point out throughout this review, including being a halo…
JetBrains this week rolled out patches for a critical-severity vulnerability in TeamCity On-Premises that can be exploited without authentication. Tracked as CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score of 9.8), the security defect can be exploited via HTTP/S to bypass authentication and achieve remote code execution (RCE). “An unauthenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability via the TeamCity agent polling protocol to bypass authentication checks and execute arbitrary operating system commands with the privileges of the TeamCity server process,” JetBrains explains in its advisory. Depending on the available privileges, an attacker could access TeamCity data, configurations, and credentials, could tamper with the server state, and…
When AI compresses the information edge and hands everyone roughly the same high-quality financial insights, pure “knowing more” stops being a reliable source of alpha. The remaining edge shifts to the parts that are still scarce. Judgment under uncertainty,creative synthesis,structural positioning,behavioral discipline, and theability to act when others cannot. The Ken Griffin / Leopold Aschenbrenner episode illustrates this cleanly. The underlying AI-infrastructure names (Nebius, SanDisk, Bloom Energy, IREN, CoreWeave, etc.) were not obscure secrets. The thesis around them was widely discussed. What created the multi-hundred-million-dollar one-day swing was not a superior fundamental insight. It was Extreme leverage meeting a sudden…