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MOF’s first inequality deep-dive since 2015 tracks who got richer, how wealth piled up, and why climbing the ladder is getting harder The latest Singapore Occasional Paper on income growth, inequality and social mobility trends has been released by the Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Feb 9. For the first time, the government is releasing data on wealth inequality, where administrative data taken from household surveys is used to derive estimates of wealth distribution in Singapore. This is the second Occasional Paper to be published, coming after the first one that was released in Aug 2015. Here are some of…

For more than a decade, MIT Associate Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli has used artificial intelligence to create new materials. As the technology has expanded, so have his ambitions.Now, the newly tenured professor in materials science and engineering believes AI is poised to transform science in ways never before possible. His work at MIT and beyond is devoted to accelerating that future.“We’re at a second inflection point,” Gómez-Bombarelli says. “The first one was around 2015 with the first wave of representation learning, generative AI, and high-throughput data in some areas of science. Those are some of the techniques I first brought into my…

Ravie LakshmananFeb 12, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking News Threat activity this week shows one consistent signal — attackers are leaning harder on what already works. Instead of flashy new exploits, many operations are built around quiet misuse of trusted tools, familiar workflows, and overlooked exposures that sit in plain sight. Another shift is how access is gained versus how it’s used. Initial entry points are getting simpler, while post-compromise activity is becoming more deliberate, structured, and persistent. The objective is less about disruption and more about staying embedded long enough to extract value. There’s also growing overlap between cybercrime, espionage tradecraft,…

Email should be a premium space- almost sacred. But its not. Instead, it has become spam. Let’s stop that, why don’t we? The SaaS industry is currently obsessed with “volume.” As we discussed in the SaaSpocalypse, the response to a lack of growth is almost always to create more—more content, more webinars, and especially, more emails. a pattern that has distorted many B2B SaaS growth marketing strategies today. But in this rush to automate, we’ve forgotten a fundamental truth: Email is supposed to be premium owned media. It is the best, most direct line of communication you have with your market. Yet, walk…

(Ironwood Studios Image) The Seattle-area independent production studio behind the hit video game Pacific Drive raised $4 million in seed funding. The round, led by Lifelike Capital, is aimed toward financing Redmond, Wash.-based Ironwood Studios’ next game. Pacific Drive, released in Feb. 2024 for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC and published by Kepler Interactive, is a “driving survival” game set in 1998, where players build, fix, and customize an old station wagon in order to survive a science-warped zone in the rural Pacific Northwest. Notably, PD features no traditional combat; instead, you must outwit and evade environmental dangers while using scrap…

Just yesterday, we were talking about how Google is going straight to Android 17 Beta 1 without going down the Developer Preview route like it usually does, and how the first beta could have dropped yesterday. However, the Alphabet-owned giant seems to have cancelled those plans. Although the Android 17 Beta 1 was scheduled to arrive at 10 AM PT, the company decided to pull the plug on the beta release. In a statement sent to Android Police, Google says that “last-minute changes” have led to the delay. Google Android 17 Beta 1 is now “coming soon” “Android Beta 1…

Discussions around artificial intelligence increasingly focus on speed, scale, and strategic advantage. These are important debates. But they risk overlooking a more fundamental issue—one that ultimately determines whether AI strengthens security or undermines it. AI does not create intelligence on its own. It amplifies what it is given. And what it is given is data. As governments deploy AI across defense, intelligence, border security, and public services, the quality, integrity, and governance of underlying data become decisive. Without trusted data, even the most advanced AI systems produce unreliable outcomes. In national security contexts, that is not simply a performance problem—it…

It’s February 2020 again.An exponential process is in motion — one that will inevitably shake the world to its core — and upend our economy, politics, and social lives. Yet most people are still going about their business, oblivious as dinosaurs in the shadow of a descending asteroid.This is what many in and around the AI industry believe, anyway.Except, in this telling, the invisible force that’s about to change our world isn’t a virus that will rip through the population and then ebb. Rather, it is an information technology that will irreversibly transform (if not extinguish) white-collar labor, accelerate scientific…

If you’ve ever considered practicing meditation, you might believe you should relax, breathe, and empty your mind of distracting thoughts. Novices tend to think of meditation as the brain at rest, but a new international study concludes that this ancient practice is quite the opposite: Meditation is a state of heightened cerebral activity that profoundly alters brain dynamics.Researchers from the University of Montreal and Italy’s National Research Council recruited 12 monks of the Thai Forest Tradition at Santacittārāma, a Buddhist monastery outside Rome. In a laboratory in Chieti-Pescara, scientists analyzed the brain activity of these meditation practitioners using magnetoencephalography (MEG),…

You sign up (free tier available), build your companion by customizing traits and looks, then jump into chat.The Ourdream AI chat flows based on your selections and memory history. If you subscribe, you unlock media generation-creating images and short videos of your companion based on chat context or manual prompts.The interface is straightforward: pick, chat, generate. Just keep in mind premium features require DreamCoins or subscription upgrade.How to Create AI Girlfriend with Ourdream AI?Here’s a practical, step-by-step guide to creating an AI girlfriend in 6-steps shown in the screenshots. I’ll walk you through every control you can see, plus tips…