Singapore Cybersecurity Firms Showcase SME-Focused Innovations to Counter Rising Cyber Threats at RSAC 2026 Conference
Cyber threats are projected to cost the global economy $23.84 trillion by 2027, leaving small and medium‑sized enterprises especially exposed. Singapore’s CyberSG Talent, Innovation and Growth Collaboration Centre (TIG Centre), backed by S$20 million, is showcasing three home‑grown startups—AgileMark, Scantist and StrongKeep—at RSAC 2026. Each offers a distinct, SME‑friendly solution: dynamic watermarks to curb data leaks, an AI‑driven platform for code‑level vulnerability detection, and an all‑in‑one security suite priced from S$39 per month. The showcase positions Singapore as a leading cybersecurity innovation hub for the Asia‑Pacific market.
Starlette 1.0 Launches with 325 M Monthly Downloads, Marking Major ASGI Adoption
Starlette maintainer Marcelo Trylesinski announced the 1.0 release, a stability‑focused milestone that pushes the framework to 325 million downloads per month—almost six times last year’s volume. The upgrade removes deprecated code, adopts strict SemVer, and underscores the framework’s growing role in...
Apple Stalls Launch of Two New Smart Home Devices as It Waits for Gemini Powered Siri AI: Report
Apple is holding back refreshed versions of its HomePod mini speaker and Apple TV set‑top box until its next‑generation Siri, powered by Google’s Gemini model, is ready. The delay follows a series of setbacks to the Siri AI project first...
Open‑source Super‑intelligent Model Accelerates Drug Discovery
Very important paper from our & @liquidai teams - deeply honored to have published with the geniuses @ramin_m_h & @xanamini . Take the super flexible model with high density of intelligence, post-train and fine-tune for basic...
South Australia on Path to 100 Pct Net Renewables Next Year After Labor Landslide and Liberal Backflip
South Australia’s Labor government, buoyed by a landslide win, will pursue a net‑100 percent renewable electricity target by 2027, relying solely on wind, solar and storage. The Liberal Party’s collapse removes a major policy obstacle, reinforcing voter support for clean energy....
Chinese E‑commerce Payments Top 1 Trillion Yuan Amid 618 and Black Friday Spending Spree
China’s e‑commerce payment volume surpassed 1 trillion yuan as the 618 shopping festival and Black Friday drove record domestic and cross‑border spending. The surge reflects deepening consumer adoption and a booming cross‑border payment infrastructure.
The Shipyard Unveils ‘This Is Huge’ Campaign for San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s Elephant Valley
Columbus‑based agency The Shipyard launched an integrated “This is Huge” campaign to promote the San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s Elephant Valley exhibit. The rollout spans social, outdoor, broadcast, streaming and a 700‑drone kinetic show, marking one of the most ambitious...
Never‑Seen Gemini 8 Photos Donated to Neil Armstrong Museum
The widow of Army veteran photographer Ron McQueeney has donated a cache of never‑published Gemini 8 photographs to the Neil Armstrong Museum in Ohio. The images, taken during the mission’s emergency splashdown in 1966, provide fresh visual documentation of the first crewed...
Uber Invests $300 Million in Rivian, Expands Robotaxi Fleet to 10,000 Vehicles
Uber has pledged an initial $300 million to purchase 10,000 fully autonomous Rivian R2 robotaxis, with an option for up to 40,000 more starting in 2030. The deal, part of a potential $1.25 billion partnership, aims to roll out the fleet in...
Samsung Chairman Lee Jae‑yong to Meet President Xi on China Investment Expansion
Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae‑yong is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss expanding the South Korean giant's investment footprint in China. The talks come amid shifting B2B market dynamics and supply‑chain realignments, though specific financial terms were...
SANS Stormcast Monday, March 23rd, 2026: GSocket Backdoor in Bash; Oracle Security Alert; Rockwell Attacks
In this episode, Johannes Ulrich reviews a bash-based malware analysis by Xavier that exploits the GSocket backdoor to maintain persistence via a ground job and employs time‑stomping to hide file modifications. He also highlights a critical Oracle security alert for...
I Spent 2 Weeks Testing the H2O Audio Sonar 2 Pro, and Found Them to Be the Perfect Headphones for...
The H2O Audio Sonar 2 Pro is a niche bone‑conduction headphone built specifically for swimmers. It sidesteps the Bluetooth‑in‑water issue with an 8 GB internal MP3 player and a unique Playlist+ recording feature. Rated IPX8, the device clips onto any headband and stays...
Monash University Research Highlights Safer, Smarter Human-Robot Teamwork in Manufacturing
Monash University researchers published a review in the International Journal of Production Research showing that better prediction of human behaviour by robots can make manufacturing safer, more adaptive and efficient as Industry 5.0 evolves. The study compares mechanism‑based, data‑driven and hybrid...
Samsung Galaxy S26 Launches in Australia with New ‘The Elephant in the Room’ Microdrama Series via Clemenger BBDO
Samsung Australia partnered with Clemenger BBDO to launch the Galaxy S26 series through “The Elephant in the Room,” a three‑part vertical micro‑drama streamed on social, BVOD, SVOD and Samsung TV Plus. The campaign showcases the S26 Ultra’s 100× zoom, Privacy Display and Nightography...
QCraft Closes $100 Million New Series D Financing to Advance Physical AI for Autonomous Driving and Mobility
QCraft announced the close of a $100 million Series D round aimed at scaling its physical‑AI hardware platform for autonomous driving and broader mobility applications. The financing, led by XYZ Capital with participation from existing backers and strategic automotive partners, will fund...
Your Smart Home Can Be Easily Hacked. New Safety Standards Will Help, but Stay Vigilant
The Australian government has rolled out mandatory minimum security standards for smart‑home devices, targeting weak default passwords, lack of update policies, and opaque vulnerability reporting. The rules require each product to ship with unique credentials, provide a clear disclosure process,...
Elliott's Multibillion Synopsys Bet Amid AI Chip Surge
Macro: AI-driven chip complexity raises EDA demand. Key: Elliott took multibillion stake in Synopsys; Nvidia tie, new CEO; shares −12%. Risk: activist margin push. Trade: accumulate SNPS on dips. —Viktor Kopylov, PhD, CFA More insights: t.me/si14Kopylov
Shopee and TikTok Shop Are Reshaping Vietnam Logistics
Vietnam's e‑commerce logistics is entering a consolidation phase as two major players, Ninja Van and Flex Speed, have withdrawn from B2C delivery. Shopee and TikTok Shop are projected to capture about 97% of the market, driving 429.7 trillion VND in...
MoD Offers £150k-Plus for Digital and AI Leadership Duo
The UK Ministry of Defence is recruiting two senior technology leaders—a Chief Digital Technology Officer (CDTO) and a Chief Artificial Intelligence and Data Officer—offering six‑figure salaries. The CDTO will earn roughly $203,000 and manage an annual delivery budget of about...
The 8 Worst Blind Spots for Your Security Cameras
Home security cameras are only as effective as their placement, and common blind spots can render even high‑definition devices useless. The article outlines eight critical errors, from filming private areas and neighbors’ yards to mounting cameras behind windows, in direct...
Claude Code Lacks Voice; OpenClaw Forgets Tasks
My personal experience on the drawbacks of using Claude Code vs. OpenClaw as a personal assistant from my phone: Claude Code - Doesn't have dangerously skip permissions via remote control. Also remote control doesn't feel super reliable - Doesn't have...
Child Protection Workers Are Under Pressure in NZ. Can Predictive Modelling Help?
Frontline child protection workers in New Zealand face growing caseloads, time pressure and fragmented information, making high‑stakes decisions about child safety and family intervention. Predictive modelling, which analyses large administrative datasets to generate risk scores, has been explored for over a...
Privacy-PreservingLLM Middleware in LIS: Edge-Computing for Coagulation InterpretationUnder High-Dimensional Noise
A privacy‑preserving, edge‑deployed Large Language Model (LLM) middleware was built to interpret coagulation tests within Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) using a 4‑bit quantized Qwen2.5‑7B model on a 32 GB RAM terminal without a GPU. In a synthetic benchmark with 30 % semantic...
Propertymark Invites Members to Join Agent Advisory Board
Propertymark, together with REACH UK, is launching an Agent Advisory Board for member agents, with its inaugural session on 13 May 2026 in Westminster. The board serves as a working forum where agents gain early access to the 2026 REACH UK cohort...
The Hot Mess of AI (Mis-)Alignment
Anthropic’s new safety paper reframes AI misalignment as a statistical bias‑variance problem rather than a classic paper‑clip maximizer scenario. The research shows that as model intelligence and task complexity rise, both systematic bias and stochastic variance increase, heightening alignment risk....
When Alignment Becomes an Attack Surface: Prompt Injection in Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems
A new research proposal augments the GovSim multi‑agent platform with a Prompt Infection (PI) module, allowing LLM agents to transfer resources that mimic data theft. The study will vary communication norms, network size, and defensive mechanisms such as police agents...
Australia to Datacenter Operators: BYO Energy, Pay Your Way, Build Green, or Stay Home
The Australian government released new datacenter expectations requiring operators to build their own power generation, fund transmission infrastructure, and adopt sustainable water practices. Proposals that do not align with these criteria will be deprioritised in Commonwealth regulatory assessments. The guidelines...
From "Crutch" To Coach: Patterns of Sustained Engagement and Deepening Support in AI Wellbeing Coaching
The study of Nova, an AI wellbeing coach, examined 14,293 sessions from January to August 2025 to determine whether AI chatbots can foster sustained, coaching‑style relationships. Returning users continued prior work in 70.8% of sessions, indicating continuity beyond episodic support....
A New Era of Legal Operations
The UK legal market is entering a historic transformation driven by consultant‑led and platform models, a surge in alternative business structures, and a wave of private‑equity investment totaling roughly £1.2 bn over five years. Remote‑work trends have accelerated the rise of...
Hybrid IT Is Drumming up Opportunities for Aussie MSPs: Westcon-Comstor
Australian managed service providers (MSPs) are seeing strong revenue opportunities in hybrid IT, especially in security, threat management, cloud migration and ongoing cloud management. Westcon‑Comstor’s survey shows 22% of partners cite security as the top revenue driver, with 20% focusing...
Apps That Track You: 17 Of The Worst Offenders In Privacy Invasion
A new roundup highlights 17 mobile apps that are among the worst offenders in personal data collection, from Meta’s suite of social platforms to Amazon’s shopping and Alexa ecosystem. The article details the breadth of data each app gathers—Meta tracks...
User Praises New Notification Sorting, Wants Android Sync
Hey @nikitabier - A compliment and two feature requests: 1. Compliment: The way per-post notifications are sorted on web is so much better than it was a year ago. I love that it's sorted by some sense of how much...
Austria Could Generate 90 TWh via Agrivoltaics on 5‑16% Cropland
Austria could harness 90 TWh of agrivoltaics using 5–16% of cropland #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/2FuA0BpnDS https://t.co/6Ucd7AkD5L
3D‑Printed Drones Tag Whales for Ocean Research
Ocean Alliance Uses #3DPrinted #Drones to Tag Whales for Ocean Research by @UltiMaker #Innovation #EmergingTech #Technology #Tech https://t.co/eEjCP8utBi
GStack Delivers Daily AI-Powered Coding Feature Updates
GStack is your personal AI coding toolkit, I'm dropping multiple new features per day right now
Progress M-33 Orbit Confirmed; Electron Launch Data
Progress M-33 cataloged in a 263 x 279 km orbit, with third stage in 183 x 215 km. No orbit data yet for Friday's Electron launch.
GStack Relies on Codex for Every Code Review
GStack actually will use Codex for code and plan reviews and I use it 100% of the time now
Unstoppable Flow Helped Me Crush 22 Tasks
Knocked 22 tasks off my hit list this past week thanks to Unstoppable Flow ✨ ✨ Try it here 👇 https://t.co/2GyyHn2yKD
Pixel AI Lets You Create Post‑apocalypse Photo Effects
With the latest version of Android, Pixel phones have gained some powerful AI photo manipulation tools. If you can find them, that is. Here's a walk-thru of how to "distress" a photo for that post-apocalypse look... https://t.co/PuHVZYeIjW #android #gemini #photography...
Codex vs Claude: Functional References vs Problem‑Solving Skills
Very different philosophies for skills in Codex versus Claude Code OpenAI seems to conceive of skills functionally, mostly matter-of-fact technical references for Codex. Claude skills are more about giving the AI approaches to problems See the difference in skill creator skills https://t.co/Gq3hcf1In0
Play These PC Games to Master Coding Skills
Best Online PC Games to learn coding: 1. Python https://t.co/fa5pPEYA7E 2. Blockchain https://t.co/mbB0IECnkg 3. Kubernetes https://t.co/lPZ59472Bj 4. Cybersecurity https://t.co/by1p4thwei 5. Javascript https://t.co/QFAOpodKav 6. Git https://t.co/5NsD5DdxFw 7. Typescript https://t.co/YXIQgZ8i19 8. SQL https://t.co/Kd8IyRjtrV 9. Mobile Coding https://t.co/QW0W3mPnj7
Hackathon Yields Robot Dungeon Master for DnD
.@seeedstudio @pollenrobotics @nvidia held a hackathon post GTC this weekend. Our clear favorite was this robot programmed to act as the dungeon master for your DnD game. https://t.co/NAUeIELTnk
Sea‑Inspired Robots Redefine the Future of Robotics
#Robots Inspired by Sea Creatures: Biomimetic Machines Shaping the Future of #Robotics via @ZappyZappy7 #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #ML https://t.co/9HxAvC0HmS
NightBeacon Mobile Debuts with AI Assistant, Nostalgic Coding Fun
NightBeacon mobile version launched with AI assistant. Some late night coding lately, feel like I’m in the late 90s/early 2000s. Having so much fun. https://t.co/unvyKfDV6d #BinaryDefense https://t.co/tCyntTeePl
Learn Claude Cowork & Codex Directly From Their Creators
I got two very special episodes coming up next from the people behind two of my favorite AI tools - Claude Cowork and Codex. There's no better way to learn these tools than from the people who actually built them. 📌 Subscribe...
OpenAI Aims to Create Fully Automated Researcher
OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher | MIT Technology Review https://t.co/7NbWxuAL8L
Stem Cell Dose Boosts Walk Test, Cuts Frailty
Randomized phase 2b dose-escalation trial of stem cell therapy with laromestrocel for aging frailty 🌟Performance on the 6-minute walk test improved in a dose-response fashion 🌟Improved 6-minute walk test distance correlated with patient-reported outcomes 🌟The percentage of study subjects classified as frail decreased...
Devin AI Usage Spikes 50% MoM After Ryan Carson Endorsement
Reupping the @devinai explainer now that everyone is suddenly loving kloud koding because @ryancarson said so (btw devin usage has grown >50% MoM every month this year, it has shocked even scott) https://t.co/7hGCELdLhW
EV Owners Forget Gas Stations Offer Instant, Universal Refueling
What's a gas station? I just plug my car in at home. You mean you have to ... go somewhere special to add range to your car? How interesting.
Newer LLMs Fix Bias Against Less‑Educated Users
Anthropic showed older (2022) LLMs will give you less accurate answers if you seem less educated to the AI, but this issue has, as far as I know, been addressed in more recent models. https://t.co/iXnlBpYXLA https://t.co/ByclHjwywR