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The pilot version of the digital yuan app, developed by the People’s Bank of China’s digital currency research institute, has been made available for download on Chinese Android and Apple app stores since Tuesday. The app notified that it is only available to selected users through supported institutions that provide e-CNY services, including major domestic... Read more »
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In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said the payments would be for all but "high income people." Read more ›
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Bank of America is facing a proposed class and collective action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay hundreds of hourly workers for time spent booting their computers. Read more ›
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The literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa society argues "the replacement of human readers by AI has lately become a real possibility. "In fact, there are good reasons to think that we will soon inhabit a world in which humans still write, but do so mostly for AI." "I write about artificial intelligence a lot, and lately I have begun to think of myself as writing for Al as... Read more ›
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The games we enjoy today would be unimaginably different without the improvements ushered in by DirectX 8 and its programmable shaders. Shader Model 1.0 introduced per-pixel programmable lighting, letting developers write custom code to control how light interacted with objects, rather than relying solely on the GPU’s built-in fixed-function logic. Read more ›
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In February OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe-coding." By November, it made it into the dictionary. Read more ›
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"For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby," reports the Wall Street Journal: Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the startup — called Preventive — has been quietly preparing what would amount to a biological first. They are working toward creating a child born from... Read more ›
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Trump says he will use tariff revenue to send $2,000 checks to Americans. While most would welcome the infusion, it could cost them in the long run. Read more ›
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In 2022 the iPhone 14 featured emergency satellite service, and there's now support for roadside assistance and the ability to send and receive text messages. But for future iPhones, Apple is now reportedly working on five new satellite features, reports LiveMint: As per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is building an API that would allow developers to add satellite connections to their own apps. However, the implementation is said to depend... Read more ›
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A former Intel software engineer who spent over a decade with the company allegedly stole several thousand documents, including confidential ones, after he was laid off. Read more ›
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Fast-food chains like McDonald's and Wendy's are tweaking some bills in the absence of pennies, rounding them up or down to the nearest nickel. Read more ›
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"A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years," reports The Register. And the software librarian at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, Al Kossow of Bitsavers, believes the tape "has a pretty good chance of being recoverable." Long-time Slashdot reader bobdevine says the tape will be analyzed at the Computer History Museum. More from The Register: The... Read more ›
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YouTube TV has notified subscribers that a $20 credit is heading their way in light of its ongoing standoff with Disney, which has resulted in numerous channels going dark on the platform, including ESPN, ABC News and Disney Channel. In an email to subscribers, the YouTube TV Team said subscribers should expect to see an email in the coming days about the credit, which will be applied to their next... Read more ›
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Things haven't been going well for Funko financially, and it's now looking at different ways to keep itself around. Read more ›
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Trump Mobile announced the T1 Phone this summer with a fall release date, but paying customers still haven't gotten their hands on the device. Read more ›
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After a high-stakes meeting, Tesla investors voted to approve Musk's $1 trillion proposed compensation plan that is contingent on lofty goals. Read more ›
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An AMD BC-250 mining board powered by the PS5’s custom APU has reappeared in China for around $120. Read more ›
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Disney and YouTube TV's parent company, Google, have yet to agree on a new licensing contract, leaving YouTube TV subscribers in a bind. Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence has taken yet another victim. After GPUs and memory, storage is now facing a shortage as well, at least in the enterprise space. Production capacity for nearline storage, fueled by high-capacity server HDDs, is booked for the next two years. Cloud providers are switching to QLC NAND to avoid the lead times. Read more ›
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Some 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits, but payments have become shrouded in uncertainty amid the ongoing government shutdown. Read more ›
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Google is launching Ironwood, its new TPU. The chips could ease GPU shortages. Many companies training AI models have found themselves stuck — GPUs are expensive, in short supply, and power-hungry. That might soon change. Google is preparing to add a new version of its Tensor Processing Unit, called Ironwood, to its cloud service. The ... Read more ›
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Dubai digital government AI achieves 96% adoption. Uses months-long deployments and binding ethics to outpace global competitors. Predictive services platform coming early 2030s; synthetic data frameworks enable privacy-safe innovation at scale. While most governments measure digital transformation timelines in years, Dubai’s digital government AI initiatives are rewriting the playbook with deployment cycles measured in months ... Read more ›
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Univers has launched the Global Impact AI Lab with AMD, Microsoft, and NUS. To help cut downtime, save energy, and scale edge AI. Leaders are turning to edge-to-cloud intelligence because traditional systems no longer give them the visibility, control, or efficiency they need across dispersed operations. Against this backdrop, Univers has launched the Global Impact ... Read more ›
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Hong Kong unveils Fintech 2030 strategy with four pillars—Data, AI, Resilience, and Tokenisation—to cement its position as a global fintech hub HKMA announces Ensemble Pilot for real-value tokenised transactions and expanded GenAI Sandbox++ to drive responsible innovation Nine years ago, 2,500 curious minds gathered in Hong Kong for what seemed like a modest experiment—the inaugural ... Read more ›
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The AWS OpenAI partnership commits $38 billion over seven years, providing immediate access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs—one of the largest cloud computing deals in AI history OpenAI is already using the infrastructure, with full deployment targeted by the end of 2026, raising questions about AI infrastructure consolidation among major cloud providers Every ... Read more ›
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According to IDC, around 70% of Asia-Pacific organisations expect agentic AI (autonomous, task-executing systems) to disrupt business models within the next 18 months. With cost pressures, competitive disruption and regulatory demands all rising, enterprises look to shift from experimentation to operationalisation of AI-driven capabilities. This reality means senior technology and business leaders should move from ... Read more ›
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Microsoft’s zero-water datacenter cooling in Johor Bahru sets a new sustainability benchmark for Southeast Asian cloud infrastructure Southeast Asia 3 region will train 150 graduates and benefit 30,000+ people through water conservation and environmental programs While tech giants race to expand their cloud footprint across Southeast Asia, Microsoft’s latest zero-water datacentercooling approach in its upcoming ... Read more ›
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The White House says Nvidia’s top AI chip will not go to China. The move follows debate over smaller models as talks with Beijing remain paused. The White House is holding firm on its position that Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence chip should not be sold to China. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, spokesperson Karoline ... Read more ›
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Malaysia AI adoption surged 35% to reach 2.4 million businesses. 73% remain stuck at basic efficiency levels, not driving innovation. “Two-tier AI economy” emerges: startups outpace large enterprises in advanced AI integration. Malaysia’s AI adoption has reached a important inflection point – but not necessarily the one policymakers might have hoped for. While headline numbers ... Read more ›
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At Hong Kong Fintech Week 2025 last week, Ant Group’s Chairman, Eric Jing, positioned the city as a hub for AI-driven and tokenised financial innovation. His remarks highlight a shift in Asia’s financial sector, where regulated artificial intelligence and blockchain-based tokenisation are changing cross-border payments, trade finances, and liquidity management models. For business and technology ... Read more ›
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