Unable to detect external USB hard drive after updating to Talos 22.1.1

The Live ISO and Installer?

Otherwise that means nothing.

But I suppose you mean recent Stable updates from May 7th on an already installed system?
[Stable Update] 2023-05-07 - Kernels, KDE Gear 23.04.0, KDE Frameworks 5.105.0, Qt5, Firefox, Thunderbird

Lets be sure:

sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu

PS.