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[This is a sponsored article with Chocolate Finance] For decades, Singaporeans were taught that good financial habits meant putting money into a savings account, or locking it away in a fixed deposit. That approach made sense when bank interest rates were competitive and the choices were limited. But today’s savers face a very different landscape. Traditional savings accounts often require salary crediting, minimum spending, or multiple banking products to unlock their highest interest rates. Fixed deposits, meanwhile, ask customers to trade liquidity for returns. As more Singaporeans become comfortable managing their own money, many are starting to ask the same…
Ravie LakshmananAug 07, 2026Cybercrime / Vulnerability A new analysis has uncovered that the threat actor tracked as TeamPCP has been active on the cybercrime scene as far back as 2020, indicating the group has been compromising internet-facing infrastructure for years before training their sights on the software supply chain. “The connection is supported by overlapping domains, malware deployment paths, staging techniques, backend infrastructure, and operational tradecraft,” Oligo Security researchers Avi Lumelsky and Gal Elbaz said. This includes two campaigns observed in the second half of 2025: ShadowRay 2.0 (aka IronErn), which involved hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure into a self-propagating…
Palo Alto-based Naïve Inc., an artificial intelligence lab that’s developing autonomous agents capable of setting up and running entire businesses, said today it has closed on a $28.5 million Series A round of funding. Nexus Venture Partners led the round, which saw participation from Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2 and a host of angel investors. The startup is all about automation, noting that AI tools that can lighten people’s workloads have proven to be especially popular with people such as developers, enabling them to avoid repetitive and tedious tasks. Now it wants to advance this and use AI automation to…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser is scheduled to stop working on Aug. 9, 2026, leaving users little time to preserve browser data and test a replacement. Bookmarks will not transfer automatically, while open tabs and browsing history may not carry over. The shutdown affects individuals who use Atlas for research and agentic browsing, along with IT teams responsible for managed devices and approved AI tools. OpenAI is moving browser-based agentic capabilities into ChatGPT and Codex, but organizations should verify data, permissions, and essential workflows before uninstalling Atlas. Preserve browser data before the deadline Under OpenAI’s Atlas migration guidance, users should export…
HItchPiggy founder Skylar Windham, left, on a trip to Florida with his friend and former graduate school professor Alexis Cancemi. Planning a trip to a college campus, concert or Northwest landmark? Portland startup HitchPiggy is betting the ride you need may already be headed out on the road. The company’s new marketplace allows drivers to post trips they’re already planning and connect with passengers heading the same way. Unlike on-demand services such as Uber or Lyft, HitchPiggy is focusing on regional travel, allowing drivers to choose who rides with them and what passengers contribute toward the trip. Founder Skylar Windham…
Sales engagement platforms promise pipeline. Most teams get automated noise instead. What precisely separates the platforms that move deals from the ones that merely move fast? Every serious B2B sales team runs a sales engagement platform. That’s not a competitive advantage anymore. That’s the floor. The reps at the company beating you this quarter aren’t using a better platform. They’re running better sequences, with better targeting, built on a clearer understanding of who they’re reaching and why. The platform is just the infrastructure. What runs on it is what actually matters. Here’s the uncomfortable part. Most teams treat the platform…
For months, reports have suggested that OpenAI’s first hardware product would be a screen-free smart speaker designed to act more like an AI companion. We already knew it could understand its surroundings, be carried around the home, and proactively help users. A new Bloomberg report now gives us a clearer picture of what the device may actually look like. As per the report, OpenAI’s first gadget will be shaped like a doughnut and measure about the same size as a hockey puck. You will be able to carry it between rooms or leave it nearby on whatever surface is convenient.…
Support Vox’s reporting on important issues like this. Become a Vox Member today. In the teensy Midwestern town of Braham, homemade pie capital of Minnesota, something unusual in the municipality’s computer systems knocked the city’s entire water supply offline last week.Within a few hours, dozens of other Minnesota cities discovered that their water and wastewater utilities, too, had been compromised, most likely as part of a massive Iranian cyberattack, the kind that US officials have been warning about since the war began.At least a dozen states have been affected by the attack, which briefly led to a flurry of small-town…
In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence model WeatherNext, developed by Google’s DeepMind and Google Research, went with the latter. Five days before landfall, it predicted with 80 percent confidence that the storm system would hit Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane.Hurricane Melissa was catastrophic, causing flooding and landslides across Jamaica. But the AI model helped forecasters give an earlier warning to communities in its path, so they could better prepare.In a…