Author: The Tech Guy

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?"The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a Snowflake schema, asks "What is our revenue?", and watches as the model generates a syntactically perfect SQL query. It feels like magic. But when these systems move from a sandbox to production, the magic collapses. The bot reports $12 million revenue on Monday and $9.5 million on Tuesday, despite the underlying data remaining unchanged.The failure isn't a lack of model intelligence; it is an architectural "context gap."…

Joe Maring / Android AuthorityWe’re officially at that time when almost every app has an end-of-year recap for you to watch. Music streamers like Spotify and Apple Music have offered this for a while, and now even apps like Google Photos have recap features.One of the latest apps to join the recap bandwagon is YouTube. YouTube Recap launched earlier this week as a new way to see your last 12 months of YouTube activity distilled into a quick, flashy summary.It’s something YouTube users have been asking for, but there’s just one problem: YouTube Recap isn’t showing up for many users.…

Presented by IndeedAs AI continues to reshape how we work, organizations are rethinking what skills they need, how they hire, and how they retain talent. According to Indeed’s 2025 Tech Talent report, tech job postings are still down more than 30% from pre-pandemic highs, yet demand for AI expertise has never been greater. New roles are emerging almost overnight, from prompt engineers to AI operations managers, and leaders are under growing pressure to close skill gaps while supporting their teams through change. Shibani Ahuja, SVP of enterprise IT strategy at Salesforce; Matt Candy, global managing partner of generative AI strategy…

Bethesda, USA / Maryland, December 2nd, 2025, CyberNewsWire While most cybersecurity companies pour resources into AI models, massive compute, hoovering up all the data, and enhanced analytics to detect and prevent threats, Frenetik, a Maryland cyber startup, is betting on something simpler: making sure attackers don’t know what defenders know. The company emerged today with a fundamentally different approach using novel cyber deception and a newly issued U.S. patent to back it. “The industry has turned cybersecurity into a compute and analysis war,” said founder Hans Ismirnioglou. “Bigger models, more data, faster analysis. But you can’t out-compute or out-analyze an…

Price rises seem almost near-constant these days, and we’ve become accustomed to regular price hikes from streaming services, but for Netflix and HBO Max subscribers the opposite is being rumored. Yes, a streaming subscription price drop is being considered. Really. Reuters is reporting that Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery’s studios and streaming unit could have a positive knock-on effect for subscribers of two major streaming services. Quoting “two people familiar with the proposal”, the deal could see Netflix and HBO Max bundled together, for a lower combined cost than the services are separately. The sources also noted that…

HBO Max has really cornered the market in a lot of ways. Sure, one could make the argument that prestige television has found a new home on Apple TV+, the premium streamer is still pumping out quality shows and movies. And the future does look bright, as fans will be treated to even more Game of Thrones spin-offs and prequels, as well as superhero fare like Lanterns. While those sound intriguing, I actually enjoy HBO Max mostly for its thriller shows. From tense cop mysteries to horror-tinged supernatural shows, the streamer has a little something for everyone. But some of…

When the last Chromecasts were discontinued in favor of the Google TV Streamer, some people were legitimately dismayed by the news. The Streamer is, technically, a more powerful product, for instance serving as a Matter and Thread hub for smart homes — but it’s not nearly as portable, or as easy to conceal behind a TV. It feels like Google threw a functional product under the bus, even if there isn’t as nearly as much need for it today as when the original version shipped in 2013. That one was a salvation from the nightmare of proprietary smart TV apps.…

Researchers at MiroMind AI and several Chinese universities have released OpenMMReasoner, a new training framework that improves the capabilities of language models in multimodal reasoning.The framework uses a two-stage process. It first refines a base model with a curated dataset in a supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage. Then, a reinforcement learning (RL) stage guides the model to reason more effectively in tasks that involve both text and visual data. Experiments show that models trained with OpenMMReasoner outperform other leading visual reasoning models, often while being trained on a smaller, higher-quality dataset. The framework and all its assets, including a trained 7B model,…

NASA has selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide the necessary systems required to return temperature sensitive science payloads to Earth from the Moon. The Lunar Freezer System contract is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award with cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders. The contract begins Thursday, Dec. 4, with a 66-month base period along with two optional periods that could extend the award through June 3, 2033. The contract has a total estimated value of $37 million. Under the contract, the awardee will be responsible for providing safe, reliable, and cost-effective hardware and software systems NASA needs to maintain temperature-critical science materials, including…

Following in the footsteps of the OnePlus 13, OnePlus 12, and OnePlus Open, today the OnePlus 11 from 2023 is receiving the update to OxygenOS 16 based on Android 16. The update will initially only be available for Indian units. It arrives over-the-air as build CPH2447_16.0.1.300(EX01). It’s a whopping 3.58GB download, so make sure you grab it while connected to a fast enough network. As always with updates like this one, the rollout is staged, so not everyone who owns an Indian OnePlus 11 will have already received the update notification. If you haven’t, don’t worry – it will arrive…