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“Out of 10 films, 9.5 will fail” Making a movie in Singapore sounds glamorous—until you look at the numbers. Kelvin Tan, better known as Mayiduo, learned this the hard way. In 2023, the 34-year-old businessman and media company founder decided to pursue a childhood dream: making a feature film. Two years, S$1 million, and countless headaches later, his comedy movie Follow Aunty La premiered in Jun 2025 and was nominated for Best Feature Film at the Golden Petal Award 金海燕奖. It broke even. That alone makes it an outlier in Singapore. “Out of 10 films, 9.5 will fail,” Kelvin told…
Day by day, I find we’re eeking more goodness out of OpenClaw and finding the sweet spot between what the humans do well and the agent can run off and do on its own. Significantly, we’re shifting more and more of the workload to the latter as all 3 of us at HIBP HQ get better at assigning workloads to machines. In addition to my use of my “PwnedClaw” bot to help catalogue and process data breaches, Stefan and I are both using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio extensively, and Charlotte is using her own Telegram bot, “Pwny,” plugged into…
A sales cadence is not a schedule. It is a read of how urgently a buyer needs to move and how fast they psychologically can. One size fits nobody. Most sales cadence advice sounds like this: follow up within 24 hours, space your next touch 48 hours out, wait three days after that, mix email with calls, add a LinkedIn message somewhere in the middle, run 8 to 12 touches over two to three weeks. It is not wrong exactly. It just describes the cadence as if the buyer does not exist. The buyer is the cadence. Their urgency, their…
In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful new properties. Today, atomic-scale defects are carefully introduced during the manufacturing process of products like steel, semiconductors, and solar cells to help improve strength, control electrical conductivity, optimize performance, and more.But even as defects have become a powerful tool, accurately measuring different types of defects and their concentrations in finished products has been challenging, especially without cutting open or damaging the final material. Without knowing what defects are in their materials, engineers risk making products that perform poorly or have unintended…
Inside an Amazon data center. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Amazon has purchased 1,300 acres of undeveloped land on the Oregon side of the Columbia River that could one day become a massive computing campus with up to 20 data center buildings, the Oregonian reports. The Seattle-based tech company on Monday confirmed that it bought the land but declined to provide details on the potential data center. “Amazon recently purchased land in Boardman, Oregon. Development plans are not final, and Amazon is performing our normal due diligence process as we develop new locations based on customer demand,” a company spokesperson…
Apple’s Hide My Email feature has always been a pretty good quality-of-life privacy tool. iCloud+ subscribers can access randomly generated email addresses that forward messages to their real inbox. This helps users avoid any apps or websites from seeing their actual address. Apple also states that it doesn’t read the forwarded messages either. All of this makes it quite a handy tool that genuinely cuts down on spam, creating a distance between you and whatever sketchy service wants your email. But what it apparently does not do is hide your identity from law enforcement. What’s going on? Hide my email…
You might remember feminist writer Lindy West from her days on X (né Twitter) yelling at sexist, anti-fat trolls. Or from her book Shrill. Now, West is back with Adult Braces, a memoir detailing her journey, a literal road trip, to accepting her husband’s request to open up their marriage. Except it wasn’t really a request, as West tells it. And this time, people across social media had very strong opinions about it.Slate senior writer Scaachi Koul joined Today, Explained co-host Noel King to talk through the internet’s reaction to West’s new book, and all that came after.Below is an…
Other Video Doorbells to ConsiderI’ve tested several other video doorbells. These are the ones that narrowly missed out on a place above.Photograph: Simon HillSwitchBot Smart Video Doorbell for $100: I don’t love the design of this wide doorbell, but it does come with a wee display that you can use to view who’s there and answer. This could be handy for folks who don’t want to rely on a phone and it lets anyone in the house check who is calling. Video quality is decent, though the frame rate is limited to 15, and the display is low res. You…
Industrial artificial intelligence has moved from promise to practice. A Cisco Systems Inc. survey of 1,000 industry leaders found that 61% of organizations across manufacturing, transportation and utilities are deploying AI to improve productivity, reduce costs and strengthen operational resilience. Yet despite this momentum, only 20% have reached truly scaled, mature adoption. The technology is advancing rapidly, but progress often slows once AI moves beyond pilots and into production. Lack of necessary infrastructure, cybersecurity risk and system complexity are the most common reasons, but beneath these technical challenges lies a more fundamental constraint, one rooted in how people work together.…
It’s a sad day for the dozens of players still grinding The Elder Scrolls: Blades. Bethesda announced that it’s permanently shutting down the servers for its free-to-play mobile spinoff on June 30. First spotted on Reddit, The Elder Scrolls: Blades has already been delisted from the App Store and Google Play store, and is currently unavailable on the Nintendo Store.In the meantime, players will receive a free bundle of Gems and Sigils, while all items in the in-game store are available for just one Gem or Sigil each. With a server shutdown imminent, The Elder Scrolls: Blades’ will at least…