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One in five retrenched resident professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) remain jobless two years after losing their jobs, while four in 10 of those who return to work earn less than before, with a median pay cut of 25%. Acting Minister for Manpower Jasmin Lau gave these figures in Parliament on Tuesday (Oct 6), according to The Business Times. The figures come as retrenchments climb in Singapore. In Q2 2026, there were 4,620 retrenchments, the highest level since Q4 2020, up from 3,830 in Q1. Who’s getting retrenched? Image Credit: Shadow of light via Shutterstock Overall, about seven in…
Artificial, the new comedy-drama about OpenAI and the artificial intelligence arms race, is a movie of weird walks.As OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, Russian actor Yuri Borisov clomps around, like a geeky Frankensteinian monster. As the controversial OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Andrew Garfield bounces and skips boyishly—a gait that Altman himself recently commended for its accuracy. And as Elon Musk, Ike Barinholtz puts on a loping swagger, commanding rooms of computer nerds like some sort of alpha gorilla (a semblance matched by his long, pouting faces, which call to mind those old Bored Ape NFTs).During the movie’s post-premiere Q&A earlier this…
When businesses evaluate new technology, the conversation usually follows a familiar path. What are our pain points? What problem are we solving? Can we build it or buy it? What will it cost? Who will support it? For most technology investments, these are reasonable questions to ask. But AI can influence more than the systems supporting a process. It can change how the work is performed, who performs it, and where decisions happen. The more important question is how AI can change the way a business operates end-to-end. Before choosing an AI tool, leaders need to understand how the work…
Swati KhandelwalOct 06, 2026Vulnerability / Open Source A malicious spreadsheet can make LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice run an attacker’s code as soon as the file is opened, security researchers have shown. There is no warning first, of the kind either program shows before it runs a macro. The attack works only when the program’s Java support is enabled. So far, it has only been shown as a proof of concept, and there are no reports of its use in real attacks. LibreOffice has already fixed the flaw, which it tracks as CVE-2026-63277, in updates released on October 5. It recommends that…
Pedram Rezaei, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, is joining Amazon Web Services as a distinguished engineer. (Amazon Photo) A longtime Microsoft engineering leader who was previously a Copilot chief technology officer is joining Amazon Web Services to work on its competing AI tools for coding and workplace productivity. Pedram Rezaei, a nearly 20-year Microsoft veteran who was most recently a corporate vice president on the Microsoft Superintelligence team, starts Monday as a distinguished engineer in the AWS Agentic AI and Emerging Technologies organization, led by Swami Sivasubramanian. Rezaei will work initially on Kiro, the AWS coding tool, and Quick, Amazon’s AI…
IBM Corp. and its Red Hat unit said today that their Lightwell open-source security program has found and fixed more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries. The companies also made Lightwell Clearinghouse generally available. Enterprise customers can use it to submit specific open-source dependencies to IBM and Red Hat for priority review and remediation. The milestone is pitched at a risk the two companies say is growing as autonomous artificial intelligence agents get better at chaining several lower-risk software weaknesses into one serious attack. Because many businesses still run library versions that are years old, any…
Swapping labels and signing honor-system pledges isn’t going to protect society from high-stakes AI risks. But are tech leaders aware? AI to superintelligence has been an awry path, full of uncertainties and hidden risks that have instilled doubts in an optimistic audience of techies, investors, and tech leaders. Will it or won’t it is the question users are now asking of AI. And the answer has been scattered in all directions. Recently, AI leaders from Musk to Amodei to Altman flagged the need for regulations and stringent governance practices around the tech, which Huang thought wasn’t the need of the…
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here.Hi readers, happy Friday! It’s been a big week for the AI debate — not the one about whether it will cause the robot apocalypse, though there’s still plenty to worry about there, but instead about whether the technology is conscious.The folks at Anthropic, the AI company behind the large language model Claude, certainly seem to think it is — or at least, they’re extremely open to the possibility.As the New York Times reported earlier in the…
On Friday morning, Shivon Zilis, a top executive and lieutenant of Elon Musk at his brain chip implant company Neuralink—as well as mother of four of the 14 children he is known to have fathered—took to his social media platform, X, to announce an abrupt shift in their relationship.“It’s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that’s just how it is sometimes,” Zilis wrote, sharing a screenshot of the X account @BigTechAlert that showed Musk had unfollowed her there. Zilis’ post continued: “I feel happy that I got to show Elon…
Your phone can fold in half, but your keys shouldn’t join it. Robert Way/Shutterstock The most common mistake you should avoid when using foldable phones is dropping them. But that’s common knowledge and doesn’t make for a very exciting discussion. You’re probably thinking about the inside foldable screen, where the most common way to damage it is closing it on something that shouldn’t be there. Samsung’s foldable care page warns that cards, coins or keys can scratch or even puncture a Galaxy foldable’s inner display. That seems straightforward enough; just make sure your car keys aren’t sitting…