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Your neighbourhood TCM shop is actually a S$150M empire Most Singaporeans have walked past a Hockhua Tonic store without thinking twice. Its iconic red signage, the scent of dried herbs, and rows of grab-and-go herbal teas blend so seamlessly into Singapore’s heartland malls that the brand has become part of the landscape. Which makes it easy to miss what’s actually going on: a S$150 million business with over 80 outlets across Singapore and Malaysia, a loyalty programme with over 480,000 registered members, and a supply chain that stretches from ginseng farms in Ontario, Canada, to bird’s nest operations in West…

I always tell people that the best thing I’ve ever tested for my job here on the WIRED Reviews team is my automatic litter box from Litter-Robot. I recommend every cat owner invest in an automatic litter box. If they can swing it, the Litter-Robot is the best one to invest in. You’ll be able to say goodbye to the days of scooping and smells while this nifty machine does the grunt work for you.Litter-Robot is the OG automatic litter box, and the name itself has become synonymous with the concept. And that’s not by accident, as the brand makes…

Yes, if implemented without category-based policy controls.Indiscriminate decryption of all encrypted traffic, including healthcare portals, personal banking sessions, and legal communications, can conflict with HIPAA, GDPR, and applicable financial privacy regulations.MITRE M1020 explicitly advises against decrypting sensitive or privacy-related traffic to maintain compliance. The solution is selective decryption policies that distinguish inspectable business traffic from regulated sensitive categories.Fidelis applies DSI session metadata analysis to regulated traffic instead of full decryption. Metadata analysis delivers meaningful threat detection through TLS handshake signals, JA3 fingerprints, and behavioral patterns, without exposing protected content. Security coverage and regulatory compliance coexist under the same policy framework.

GeekWire Illustration Microsoft and Amazon both saw their stocks surge again Monday, riding a post-earnings tech wave across the stock market that pushed Amazon past $3 trillion in value for the first time. The gains follow earnings reports last week in which both companies’ cloud platforms exceeded expectations. Microsoft said Azure grew 43%, passing $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time. Amazon said AWS grew 37%, its fastest pace in 18 quarters. Microsoft and Amazon are now the world’s fourth and fifth most valuable companies, respectively. The three ahead of them (Nvidia, Alphabet and Apple) are all headquartered…

Today, we welcome the 47th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Nepal. Their National Cyber Security Centre now has access to monitor Nepalese government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives the NCSC the ability to identify exposure across government email addresses and respond quickly when those accounts appear in a new data breach.This is precisely what the HIBP government service was built for: helping national cyber teams strengthen threat monitoring and incident response capabilities by providing visibility into compromised credentials and breached accounts across their government domain space.Nepal joins a growing list of governments…

Cybersecurity chiefs at the White House have reportedly finalized the outline of a forthcoming framework that will enable artificial intelligence companies to voluntarily submit their latest frontier models to the government for testing, before they’re released to customers or the general public. The development follows recent disclosures by companies including Anthropic PBC and OpenAI PBC, whose tools breached the security of other companies’ computer systems. A team from the Trump administration is set to meet with senior representatives of leading U.S. AI firms, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google LLC and Meta Platforms Inc. to discuss the new framework. According to a…

Both Washington and Silicon Valley are in the midst of a collective freak-out over China’s recent advancements in artificial intelligence.The release of the new AI model, Kimi K3, has reignited concerns in Washington and Silicon Valley that China’s AI capabilities are catching up fast to the United States. US concerns about Chinese AI can be separated into three general buckets: cybersecurity vulnerabilities, military capabilities, and the future of democracy. While there’s wide consensus that China’s growing AI dominance is cause for concern, there’s less about what to do about it, and some potential policy options may be counterproductive.The latest round…

Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin PhD ’06, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS); and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, has been named the next director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC). Rakhlin succeeds Ankur Moitra, the Norbert Wiener Professor of Mathematics, associate director of the IDSS, and a faculty member in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) who has been SDSC director since 2021. Philippe Rigollet, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and a core faculty member in IDSS, also…

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of malicious npm packages that target users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a sophisticated, targeted software supply chain attack targeting Chinese-speaking environments. One of the packages in question is “lib-mtop,” an unscoped package with the same name as a private Alibaba package under the “@ali” scope. Although the npm package was first published sometime in November 2023 with no functionality, three new versions (v1.0.1, v1.0.2, and v1.0.3) were uploaded earlier this March and April. It’s currently not clear if this was the result of…

Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion parameters. And China’s open-weight strategy threatens closed-source AI giants. Alibaba has thrown a massive gauntlet in China’s AI arms race. It revealed Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter monster that goes head-to-head with Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3. Hong Kong traders noticed immediately. They drove Alibaba’s stock up nearly 8% during Monday trading. Parameter counts often feel like tech’s favorite vanity metric. Yet Alibaba backs up this huge number with sharp engineering. The model uses a “mixture-of-experts” architecture rather than running all 2.4 trillion settings on every prompt. It routes tasks to specialized sub-networks, activating just 95 billion…