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Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Given the number of various support schemes provided by the government in Singapore, one might question whether there aren’t too many of them and if it wouldn’t be simpler to simply disburse one cash payment to every eligible person. After all, it’s not like the government isn’t doing that already, depositing funds directly for GST Vouchers, Assurance Package payments and cost-of-living support, regularly appearing in recent years. So why bother with CDC Vouchers, which require an entire digital infrastructure to allow their issuance and redemption? Wouldn’t a…
My wallet flinched the second I saw the words “TSMC” and “price increase” in the same headline, and honestly, yours should too. Turns out the company behind the silicon powering basically every flagship device out there, including Apple’s A-series and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, is reportedly about to make all of it a little pricier. Apple So how big of a price hike are we actually talking about? According to Nikkei Asia, later confirmed by Reuters, sources familiar with TSMC’s pricing strategy say the company plans to raise chip prices between 5% and 10%, depending on the customer and the chip,…
Ravie LakshmananJul 21, 2026Vulnerability / Cloud Security Apple has moved to address a security flaw in its Hide My Email service that enabled users’ real email addresses to be unmasked, effectively undermining the feature’s privacy guarantees. 404 Media reported Tuesday that a fix for the issue was deployed by Apple on July 3, 2026, after more than a year, when it was disclosed to the company by Tyler Murphy, co-founder of EasyOptOuts. Hide My Email generates unique, random email addresses that forward messages to a user’s personal email inbox automatically. By creating disposable email addresses, the idea is to safeguard…
Recording artist, DJ and entrepreneur Diplo invested in Copper. Photo via BusinessWire Seattle’s Copper has landed a high-profile new backer as it looks to accelerate growth of its consumer rewards platform, announcing Tuesday that Grammy-winning artist, DJ and entrepreneur Diplo has invested in the company. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. “I’m always looking for things that actually make sense for people,” Diplo said in a statement. “Copper’s one of those — you’re already on your phone, you’re already spending money, and this gives something back. That’s real.” Copper says more than 4 million members use its platform…
As AI tools proliferate and become deeply ingrained in software development around the world, new research from the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike shows how attackers are actively targeting the AI toolchain to steal access credentials, gain deeper access to a target environment, exfiltrate sensitive data, and even destroy target files and systems—all while finding new ways to cover their tracks.Researchers discovered a worm in the wild while investigating AI software supply chain attacks. Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior vice president of counter adversary work, says that the company has not yet attributed the activity to a specific actor, but that it fits…
Information technology security software company Ivanti Inc. today introduced predictive remediation, a new capability across its Autonomous Endpoint Management line that forecasts compliance gaps and flags them before service-level deadlines pass. The feature is built on the company’s Ivanti Neurons platform and pairs with Autonomous Patch Management, which Ivanti positions as the step beyond risk-based patching. Predictive remediation is meant to close the distance between spotting a vulnerability and fixing it, letting teams see which patches are set to fall out of compliance and which blockers stand in the way before a fix is due. Ivanti framed the launch around…
Dongkun Lee, formerly of Hyundai, will oversee its strategy. Mykolastock/Shutterstock Samsung has created a new division called RX or Robotics eXperience for all of its robotics projects. Its strategy will be headed by Dongkun Lee, who joined Samsung in May as an Executive Vice President. Before he joined Samsung, Lee led Hyundai’s robotics strategy, including Boston Dynamics’. Samsung CEO TM Roh himself will oversee the new division. While RX will be based in Samsung’s Seoul facilities in South Korea, Reuters says the company is also planning to build robotics research hubs in the US, China and Japan to tap into…
I reckon this week's video on how Claude is tying together info from UniFi, Home Assistant and the Pi-Hole is an absolute ripper. Or at least the concept is – if ever there was an actual value proposition for AI it's taking lots of noise and converting it into a useful signal. Or, sometimes, it's just helping you see the woods through the trees, and that's exactly what Claude helped me do last night when every Sonos unit in the house refused to connect to any music service. It only took Claude a moment to work out: "you know your…
Token counts are visible. Business outcomes aren’t. The gap between those two things is where AI cost management either works or doesn’t. Gen AI spend is predicted to reach a staggering $2.59 trillion by the end of 2026- a 47% YoY increase. It might seem like a growth curve, but instead it’s a vertical line. And most enterprise finance teams didn’t see it coming until the invoice landed. Because AI introduces a spending model that breaks every framework they built for cloud, software, and infrastructure budgeting. Cloud costs scale with instances. SaaS costs scale with seats. AI costs scale with…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an ongoing campaign codenamed FakeGit. “FakeGit uses copied projects, lookalike developer profiles, convincing READMEs, and malicious ZIP files to deliver SmartLoader malware,” Oleg Zaytsev, lead security researcher at Island, said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The end goal of these attacks is to leverage the access afforded by SmartLoader to establish persistence and push secondary payloads, such as StealC,…