Author: The Tech Guy

ChatGPT is about to become faster and more conversational as OpenAI upgrades its flagship model GPT-5 to GPT-5.1.OpenAI announced two updates to the GPT-5 series: GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. Both models are now accessible on ChatGPT. GPT-5.1 Instant, essentially the default and most-used model, is now “warmer, more intelligent, and better at following your instructions,” according to OpenAI. Meanwhile, GPT-5.1 Thinking is an advanced reasoning model that responds faster for simple tasks and more persistently on complex ones.“We heard clearly from users that great AI should not only be smart, but also enjoyable to talk to,” OpenAI said in a…

Singapore, Singapore, November 13th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Recognition we believe underscores global customer trust and proven product excellence for security teams evaluating NDR solutions ThreatBook, a global leader in threat intelligence-based cybersecurity solutions, today announced that for its Threat Detection Platform (TDP), it has been recognized as a Strong Performer in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Network Detection and Response (NDR). This marks the third consecutive year that ThreatBook has received this distinction, which we believe underscores consistent customer satisfaction, product innovation, and operational excellence. According to Gartner: “‘Voice of the Customer’ is a document that…

If you’ve been searching for a smartwatch that looks premium, tracks everything, and doesn’t need charging every night, this new Huawei deal might be exactly what you’ve been waiting for.  The Huawei Watch GT 5 is now available for just £140, down from £229.99, giving you a 39% discount on an impressive Huawei wearable this Black Friday. Pick up the Huawei Watch GT 5 for £140, offering a full week of power Score a 39% discount on the Huawei Watch GT 5, as it drops to £140 from £229.99. View Deal The Watch GT 5 maintains a design that resembles…

Mishaal Rahman / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google is working to make it easier for ‘experienced users’ to install apps made by unverified developers. The company is building a new ‘advanced flow’ that allows these users to accept the risks of installing unverified apps. Previously, the only permitted method for experienced users to install apps from unverified developers was to use ADB. Back in late August, Google announced a major change to Android that angered many enthusiasts and independent developers. Starting next year, Android will block users from installing apps made by unverified developers. The announcement spurred backlash from power users who…

Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence.Chinese social networking company Weibo's AI division recently released its open source VibeThinker-1.5B—a 1.5 billion parameter large language model (LLM) that is a fine-tuned variant of rival Chinese tech firm Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B. It's available now for free download and usage by researchers and enterprise developers—even for commercial purposes—under a permissive MIT License on Hugging Face, GitHub and ModelScope, with a technical report on open access science publishing site arxiv.org.And yet, despite its compact size, VibeThinker-1.5B achieves benchmark-topping reasoning performance on math and code tasks,…

An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard‘s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States — once again highlighting how ubiquitous algorithmically generated music is becoming. The song, titled “Walk My Walk,” by a fictional group called Breaking Rust, tells an incredibly generic story about a man who has “been beat down” and got “mud on my jeans,” yet perseveres through it all. The song was accompanied by an AI slop video on Instagram, showing a man in a cowboy hat heroically walking into the sunset. Despite the song’s generic and uninspired nature, Breaking Rust has accumulated over two…

Samsung is expected to launch the Galaxy Z Flip8 alongside the Galaxy Z Fold8 next summer, and today a report from its home country of Korea has some intriguing details about the former. The Flip8 will allegedly be at least 10% thinner and lighter than its predecessor. That would make it at most 6mm thin when opened, 12mm thick when closed, and around 170g in weight. This is going to be key to Samsung achieving 10% better sales for the Flip8 and Fold8 compared to the Flip7 and Fold7. The company has apparently set a sales target of 6.7 million…

Like most of us, I have depended on Google’s productivity tools for years. Google Keep has been the underrated hero through it all. Lately, its place next to Gmail in the narrow sidebar has made it a quiet connector between Gmail, Google Docs, and Gemini. I have stopped losing ideas thanks to Keep’s utility, a mouse nudge away. The minutes saved add up as I don’t juggle too many tools. Everything is just a bit more seamless now. I have found a few different ways to use the Gmail + Keep combo, starting with small time-savers and ending with the…

There’s a pretty good chance that whatever weather app you’re using isn’t just telling you the forecast, but also selling your data to outside entities. MyRadar, one of the most popular apps in the space, has been open about selling data to third-party companies such as Arity. Arity, a mobility data and analytics company and a subsidiary of Allstate Insurance, partners with several popular apps, including Life360, to track traffic data and patterns using geolocation by implementing its own software development kit in third-party apps. To the average consumer, this sounds pretty dicey, and it probably should. Luckily, I have…

As software systems grow more complex and AI tools generate code faster than ever, a fundamental problem is getting worse: Engineers are drowning in debugging work, spending up to half their time hunting down the causes of software failures instead of building new products. The challenge has become so acute that it's creating a new category of tooling — AI agents that can diagnose production failures in minutes instead of hours.Deductive AI, a startup emerging from stealth mode Wednesday, believes it has found a solution by applying reinforcement learning — the same technology that powers game-playing AI systems — to…