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The cuts are reportedly not part of any AI initiatives Lazada said today (Jun 23) that it has laid off about 5% of its workforce across Southeast Asia. The move was made after reviewing certain roles in its regional markets, according to a report from the Business Times. The e-commerce firm did not disclose which roles were affected, adding that the review was based on business needs, role requirements and organisation efficiency. The cuts are understood not to be part of any artificial intelligence initiatives. Lazada currently operates in six Southeast Asian markets: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and the…
NVIDIA’s Rubin platform turns the heat up to 45°C, ditching fans and water-guzzling towers for a new, efficient era of liquid-cooled AI infrastructure. The era of the AI factory has officially arrived, one not powered by fans- it’s powered by hot water. With the launch of the Rubin platform, NVIDIA has effectively declared war on the inefficient, water-guzzling infrastructure that has supported the internet for the last two decades. By engineering a system where cooling liquid can circulate at a blistering 45°C, the temperature of a high-end hot tub, NVIDIA is doing more than just keeping chips from melting. They…
Celebrity partnerships are everywhere right now. Whoop has Cristiano Ronaldo. Beats teamed up with Kim Kardashian. Google signed NBA star Stephen Curry for Fitbit campaigns. Now Meta is joining the trend, doing so with a product that could play a major role in its AI ambitions. Meta has officially unveiled Meta Glasses, the company’s first smart glasses, developed in partnership with eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica, without relying on established brands such as Ray-Ban or Oakley. Unlike previous Meta wearables, the new glasses prominently carry Meta branding and introduce a celebrity-designed edition created in collaboration with internet personality Kylie Jenner. The launch…
The Steam Machine 2026: a full gaming PC in a six-inch black cube. (Valve Software press image) Valve Software abruptly opened reservations for its latest Steam Machine on Monday, but due to the ongoing PC component shortage, did so at a significantly higher price than expected. The company, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., first announced the new version of the Steam Machine late last year. It’s a small-scale, high-powered gaming PC that’s designed for your living room, which runs the same Linux-based SteamOS as Valve’s Steam Deck. The 2026 Steam Machine starts at a whopping $1,049 through Valve’s digital storefront Steam,…
A new chip developed by MIT researchers could help tiny, low-power UAVs avoid obstacles as they zip around tight corners inside an industrial HVAC system to check for gas leaks.The chip allows small autonomous robots and other battery-limited devices to construct detailed 3D maps of their environments in real-time using only about as much power as a single LED. A robot could use such a map to plan a collision-free path to reach its goal.Typically, generating such thorough maps requires power-hungry systems and a great deal of memory to build and store 3D representations of the obstacles in a robot’s…
As Amazon’s Prime Day tech deals kick off again, in the middle of a persistent cost-of-living crisis, you may well be rolling your eyes. But there are some genuine deals on tech you’ll use every day. Why pay more? The trick is filtering out the noise and tuning into discounts on gadgets that are actually worth buying. Every one of the Prime Day tech deals you see here is on a device that has been tested by the WIRED Reviews team in our own homes, and we only recommend the best.If you haven’t found the deal you want yet, browse…
Ravie LakshmananJun 23, 2026Malware / Social Engineering Direct messages sent via WhatsApp are being used to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) files that lead to the installation of legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software. Per findings from Kaspersky, the active campaign is targeting users of WhatsApp Desktop and WhatsApp Web across Malaysia, Brazil, India, Mexico, Singapore, the U.K., Spain, Taiwan, Australia, Russia, and Vietnam. The highest concentration of victims has been reported in Malaysia. “The threat actor uses deceptive file names masquerading as business and financial documents to persuade recipients to download and execute the attachment,” security researcher…
The Antichrist is back in American political discourse. After President Donald Trump posted an AI photo of himself depicted as Jesus on Truth Social, many of his Christian followers were up in arms. Trump later claimed that he was supposed to be a doctor in the photo, but the damage was already done. Prominent far-right advocates like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes began wondering if Trump was the Antichrist.This is not the first time the Antichrist has popped up in American politics. Armageddon and the Second Coming have affected US political thought since at least the 1880s.…
When Amazon Web Services Inc. held its New York Summit last week, Vice President of Agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian as usual was the headline act, delivering the opening keynote. Sivasubramanian made the case to enterprise leaders that the artificial intelligence conversation has moved beyond pilots and productivity hacks into a world where the real advantage lies in compounding momentum across work, security, software delivery and data. For IT pros, that means your architectural decisions over the next 12 to 18 months will determine whether AI agents become a force multiplier or a new source of chaos. Here are five big ideas from Sivasubramanian’s…
This won’t make the already-controversial AI training endeavor any more popular. PJ McDonnell/Shutterstock Meta has paused use of an AI training program that tracks its own employees’ keystrokes and mouse movements. The company has suspended the Model Capability Initiative, not because of workers’ understandable displeasure around being (almost) perpetually monitored or for potentially breaking privacy laws, but because it caused an internal data leak. Business Insider reported that sensitive data collected through MCI, including employees’ private conversations, performance data and transcriptions, was made inadvertently available to the entire Meta staff. “We have carefully designed this program…