Author: The Tech Guy

Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images As the nation reels over Pete Hegseth allegedly giving direct orders to carry out heinous war crimes, we are now being reminded of the defense secretary’s other big scandal from earlier in the year: when he was caught texting secret war plans about launching airstrikes in Yemen in an unsecured group chat while totally oblivious to the fact that a journalist was in there reading everything. That context is important, though the latest embarrassing detail to emerge from the “Signalgate” scandal comes not from Hegseth but his vice president and charisma black hole JD Vance.…

Saving memories is usually a hassle. URLs go in the bookmarks section or are copied and pasted in a dedicated app. Then there are camera clicks of posters, or the dozens of screenshots we take, which lie around like an uncluttered mess in the Photos app. Imagine a system where you press the iPhone’s Action Button. It takes a screenshot, writes a brief summary of the on-screen content, adds hashtags for quick search, and automatically saves all the information in an app of your choice.  Sounds terrific, right? Well, the iPhone won’t do that. Android devices, such as the OnePlus…

Spotify says yesterday’s launch of its annual year-in-review feature, Spotify Wrapped, was its biggest ever. The streaming service reports that Wrapped 2025 saw over 200 million engaged users within the first 24 hours, 19% more than last year’s AI-centered flop. Last year, it took Wrapped 62 hours to reach 200 million users, the company noted. Engaged users are counted as those who have viewed at least one of the stories within the Wrapped experience. In addition, Spotify said Wrapped was shared more than 500 million times this year, 41% more than last year. This includes native shares from within the…

Format wars have been going on since the beginning of the home theater industry. Most people are aware of the battle between VHS and Betamax, but there have been many, many similar rivalries over the years, all in the name of becoming the de facto product customers have to turn to, and other electronics firms have to license. There was even a brief time when you could buy an HD DVD player for your Xbox 360 — which, in retrospect, was a futile attempt to challenge Blu-ray when attempts at an industry-wide standard failed. One of the newest challengers is…

For all their superhuman power, today’s AI models suffer from a surprisingly human flaw: They forget. Give an AI assistant a sprawling conversation, a multi-step reasoning task or a project spanning days, and it will eventually lose the thread. Engineers refer to this phenomenon as “context rot,” and it has quietly become one of the most significant obstacles to building AI agents that can function reliably in the real world.A research team from China and Hong Kong believes it has created a solution to context rot. Their new paper introduces general agentic memory (GAM), a system built to preserve long-horizon…

Austin, TX, USA, December 4th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Phishing has surged 400% year-over-year, highlighting need for real-time visibility into identity exposures. SpyCloud, the leader in identity threat protection, today released new data showing a sharp rise in phishing attacks that disproportionately target corporate users. The company tracked a 400% year-over-year increase in successfully phished identities, with nearly 40% of the 28+ million recaptured phished records containing a business email address – compared to just 11.5% in recaptured malware data. The result is a warning to enterprises that their workforce is three times more likely to be targeted with phishing attacks than…

The upcoming OnePlus 15R has appeared on Geekbench, revealing key specifications. The phone is set to launch on December 17 and will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset. A OnePlus device bearing the model number CPH2767 has appeared on Geekbench and is believed to be the 15R. The listing shows it running Android 16 with 12GB of RAM. The phone scored 2,846 points in the single-core test and 9,775 points in the multi-core test. The OnePlus 15R is expected to be a rebranded Ace 6T, which was recently launched in China. So far, OnePlus has confirmed that…

Pluribus’ debut season is barrelling towards its conclusion. Indeed, with the sci-fi mystery show’s sixth episode out now on Apple TV, we’re just three chapters away from this season’s finale.Right now though, there are more important things to discuss – namely, the new things Carol (and, by proxy, we) learn about The Others in episode 6, titled ‘HDP’. There’s also the small matter of – whisper it quietly – the Apple TV Original’s protagonist finally landing an ally who also seems to want the world to go back to the way it was.Full spoilers immediately follow for ‘HDP’, so proceed…

OpenAI researchers have introduced a novel method that acts as a "truth serum" for large language models (LLMs), compelling them to self-report their own misbehavior, hallucinations and policy violations. This technique, "confessions," addresses a growing concern in enterprise AI: Models can be dishonest, overstating their confidence or covering up the shortcuts they take to arrive at an answer. For real-world applications, this technique evolves the creation of more transparent and steerable AI systems.What are confessions?Many forms of AI deception result from the complexities of the reinforcement learning (RL) phase of model training. In RL, models are given rewards for producing outputs…

Over the course of several hours, technicians meticulously connected the inner and outer segments of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. This marked the end of Roman’s construction. After final testing, the telescope will move to the launch site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch preparations in summer 2026. Roman  — named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer — is…