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Here’s the strategy behind Shaw Theatres’ 90-year run It’s easy to conclude that Singapore’s cinema scene is in decline. After all, cinemas have been downsizing and closing in recent years, from fan-favourite indie cinema The Projector to the shuttering of Cathay Cineplexes after 86 years of operation. Data from the Singapore Department of Statistics also shows that cinema attendance has more than halved over the past decade, falling from over 20 million visits to fewer than 10 million. But there’s one local brand that’s managed to hold its ground through the tumultuous years of pandemic lockdowns, Hollywood strikes, and the…

On Tuesday, the day after hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants effectively lost their temporary protected status that allowed them to live and work in the US, Republican pundit Steve Bannon wasted little time in demanding their instant removal.“I was under the assumption that when they pulled TPS and their eligibility for that program ended … they were going to be boarding planes or buses today … today, this morning at dawn to go back to Haiti,” said Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, on his War Room podcast on Tuesday. “Why are they not out of the…

Jacob Colker of AI House speaking at the Showbox Market in Seattle, where he later joined his bandmates on drums. (Photo via AI House) AI House co-founder and managing director Jacob Colker may be Seattle’s number one cheerleader. In posts on LinkedIn, panel discussions and recent news stories, Colker is reminding Seattleites that this is a pretty special place. That all bubbled up at a Seattle Tech Week startup showcase event on Tuesday when the venture capitalist gave a passionate speech about the positive attributes of Seattle — a city that despite a robust innovation economy, spectacular scenery and a great…

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a program that will give 100,000 researchers free access to ChatGPT’s advanced features. ChatGPT for Academic Researchers is part of a $250 million OpenAI initiative designed to support scientific projects. The initiative also includes several other programs. Last May, OpenAI made $50 million worth of artificial intelligence resources available to a group of universities. This month, it announced plans to support multiple U.S. Energy Department research projects. Scientists can apply to ChatGPT for Academic Researchers via a form on OpenAI’s website. Initially, the program will be open to 10,000 users at a limited number of…

Today’s NYT Connections puzzle might be tricky. The blue category was the easiest, I thought. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. Hints for today’s Connections groups Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group hint: Honest and true. Green group hint: Involves sports equipment. Blue group hint: The Love Boat. Purple group hint: Right on. Answers for today’s Connections groups Yellow group: Virtuous. Green group: Activities with multiple balls. Blue group: Cruise lines. Purple group: On the ____, to…

Before the advancement of scientific data storage and collaboration via the cloud, medical investigators seeking health research breakthroughs had to overcome significant obstacles to collaboration and key clinical data gathering. Data were siloed and difficult to distribute, so those looking to undertake research had no option but to gather them themselves. This not only made research more expensive, but it was challenging to compare findings across datasets. In 1975, researchers studying arrhythmias at MIT and Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital envisioned another way: the team began collecting and digitizing electrocardiogram recordings with the intention of not only studying them, but of also making…

Most companies deploy identity access management tools and call it a day. The breach happens anyway. Here’s what the tool alone can’t fix. Here’s a stat worth sitting with. IBM’s 2025 Data Breach Report found that stolen or compromised credentials ranked among the top two attack vectors globally. Not zero-days. Not sophisticated malware. Credentials. The thing identity access management tools exist specifically to protect. So either the tools aren’t working, or the way companies deploy them isn’t working. The honest answer is usually the second one. Most organizations treat IAM as a checkbox. They deploy a tool, configure the basics,…

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a maximum-severity security flaw in Ruflo, an open-source agent meta-harness for Anthropic Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59726 (CVSS score: 10.0), impacts all versions of the project before version 3.16.3. It has been codenamed RufRoot by Noma Security’s research team, Noma Labs. Originally launched as Claude Flow, Ruflo is an AI multi-agent orchestration platform and harness that allows users to deploy multi-player swarms, coordinate autonomous workflows, and build conversational AI systems. The project has more than 66,500 stars on GitHub. The crux of the…

You didn’t ask for an AI summary of your inbox or a chatbot in your camera app, but you got it anyway. The same thing is happening to the monkeys of Costa Rica’s Taboga Forest Reserve. According to a New York Times report, researchers have handed them a touchscreen system that uses artificial intelligence to study how wild capuchins think and learn without ever taking them out of their natural habitat. Even monkeys can’t escape AI now Unlike the AI features popping up across our apps, this one actually has a scientific purpose. The device, called CapuchinAI, is a portable…

Opening a Git repository in a vulnerable version of Cursor could be enough to give attackers code execution on a developer’s Windows machine. Security researchers at Mindgard discovered that Cursor would execute a malicious git.exe file planted in the root of a cloned repository, allowing attacker-controlled code to run with the logged-in user’s privileges. The company quietly patched the flaw roughly seven months after receiving a private disclosure, shortly before researchers made the vulnerability public. Seven months after the vulnerability was initially disclosed, Cursor has silently patched it, just before Mindgard’s public disclosure of the issue. Because AI coding assistants…