Month: July 2026

Storage upgrades cost too much, and we need microSD cards back

Robert Triggs / Android Authority The impact of AI was much further-reaching than first imagined — and in the opposite direction. AI data centers are devouring memory chips, leading to a shortage across the industry, including consumer devices. We have…

Model Context Protocol is going stateless to make scaling simpler

“When your infrastructure team asks whether MCP services can scale like other cloud applications, the answer used to be ‘not quite.’ With the move to a stateless architecture, the answer is now yes,” Bandta added. Earlier versions of the protocol…

Toyota’s Rumored Mid-Engine GR Sports Car May Have Been Caught Testing at Fuji Speedway : Automotive Addicts

Automotive Toyota’s performance division may be getting very serious about its next sports car, and a short video from Fuji Speedway has added more fuel to the rumor mill. A prototype recently filmed lapping the Japanese circuit appears…

The dairy industry spent a decade betting on fermentation tanks to replace cows — and a handful of plant biologists just found a cheaper shortcut hiding inside ordinary crop leaves

Cow’s milk without the cow has been a biotech goal for a decade, and the usual route runs through vats of genetically engineered yeast or fungi churning out casein and whey in industrial fermenters. A new line of research flips…

Samsung One UI 9 brings Pixel-style Google Search home

TL;DR Samsung has been preparing a new home screen setting for One UI 9, with the option for a Google Search bar. With One UI 9 stable on the new Z8 series, we finally see this setting make its debut….

Oracle issues critical patches for Database Server, Fusion Middleware

Oracle’s July 2026 Critical Patch Update, its largest ever, contains 1,449 new security patches spanning 32 product families, from Oracle Database and E-Business Suite to PeopleSoft, GoldenGate, Java SE, and Fusion Middleware. Fusion Middleware was particularly hard hit, with new…

Dodge Charger Sixpack Is Getting More Power but a HEMI Comeback Still Looks Unlikely : Automotive Addicts

Automotive Dodge appears ready to give muscle car fans something new to talk about, even if it is not the long-rumored HEMI comeback many still want. A more powerful gas-powered Dodge Charger is reportedly set to debut at…

By the time 50 million had installed Meta’s smart-glasses app, few knew what sat unused inside it: dormant facial-recognition code that could spot a face, build a biometric signature, and flash ‘person recognised’ the instant it saw someone

Here is the line Meta would probably like you to walk away with: the code never ran, it was dormant, and users could not have triggered it. Within a day of the reporting that exposed it, most of it was…

Google starts informing Android users about a major backup storage change

Shimul Sood / Android Authority TL;DR Google has started emailing Android users about its upcoming backup storage policy change that takes effect in 45 days. All Android backup data, including SMS, call history, device settings, and app settings, will soon…

AI OK in Linux development, says Torvalds

“It can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a ‘it keeps finding embarrassing bugs’ standpoint,” he said of the use of AI in security scanning. “The solution is to make sure those LLM…