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Philippines DICT Chief Stays At Work Amid Resignation Report

DICT Secretary Henry Aguda said he remains focused on the department’s work after a report claimed he had resigned or been forced to resign, while platform-safety and public Wi-Fi issues remain active.

#DICT #Henry Aguda #platform safety

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Singapore Online Shoppers Rank Lowest For Savvy Buying In Southeast Asia

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Singapore Online Shoppers Rank Lowest For Savvy Buying In Southeast Asia

A Cube-Lazada study covered by Asian Business Review found only 9% of Singapore online shoppers qualify as savvy, with marketplace exposure and purchase protection among the main gaps.

#Singapore e commerce #online shopping #Lazada

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Saudi World Cup Contractor Hack Exposes 1.5 Million Files, Cyber Group Says

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Saudi World Cup Contractor Hack Exposes 1.5 Million Files, Cyber Group Says

A cyber monitor identified a breach at a Saudi construction consortium linked to Jeddah Central Stadium, with about 17 terabytes of project and employee data reportedly stolen.

#cybersecurity #Saudi Arabia #World Cup 2034

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Hamilton County Schools Starts K-12 Quantum Curriculum With TN QuantumWorks

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Hamilton County Schools Starts K-12 Quantum Curriculum With TN QuantumWorks

Hamilton County Schools is using TN QuantumWorks curriculum from Chattanooga Quantum Collaborative and Thinking Media to introduce quantum concepts across grade levels as EPB adds a $22 million quantum computer.

#quantum education #Hamilton County Schools #TN QuantumWorks

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SUBCO Weighs Australia Cable Ship As Repair Capacity Shifts Toward 2030

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SUBCO Weighs Australia Cable Ship As Repair Capacity Shifts Toward 2030

SUBCO is considering an uncrewed survey vessel and a US$165 million cable-laying ship as Australia looks for more certain submarine cable survey and repair capacity beyond 2030.

#submarine cables #Australia connectivity #SUBCO

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Nettle Raises $4.8 Million To Expand AI Insurance Inspections

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Nettle Raises $4.8 Million To Expand AI Insurance Inspections

Irish-founded Nettle raised a $4.8 million seed round led by MTech Capital to expand its AI insurance inspection platform across the US and Europe.

#Nettle #insurance technology #MTech Capital

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Alliance Backs Kenya’s Cloud9 With $500,000 for Cross-Border Payments

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Alliance Backs Kenya’s Cloud9 With $500,000 for Cross-Border Payments

Alliance invested $500,000 in Kenyan fintech Cloud9 as the company expands from digital banking into cross-border payments, stablecoin settlement and business accounts after two acquisitions.

#Cloud9 #Alliance #fintech

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Googlebook Launch Leaves Samsung Phones Waiting For Better Together Support

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Googlebook Launch Leaves Samsung Phones Waiting For Better Together Support

Googlebook laptops launched with Better Together phone features limited to Pixel devices, while Google says Samsung support for Android 17 phones will arrive in the coming weeks.

#devices consumer tech #Googlebook #Android 17

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AstaBrief Gives Asta An Open 8B Fast Mode For Scientific Reports

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AstaBrief Gives Asta An Open 8B Fast Mode For Scientific Reports

Ai2 released AstaBrief 8B as an open-weights report-generation model for Asta, with a one-pass pipeline that averaged 51.1 seconds per report in Fast mode.

#artificial intelligence #scientific AI #open weights

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Atlassian Warns Data Centre Admins To Patch Critical File Access Flaw

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Atlassian Warns Data Centre Admins To Patch Critical File Access Flaw

Atlassian is urging Data Centre customers to patch CVE-2026-21589, a critical flaw that can let unauthenticated attackers read specific web-root files.

#cybersecurity #Atlassian #Data Center

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Finland Halts Work at Two Google Data-Centre Sites

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Finland Halts Work at Two Google Data-Centre Sites

Finland’s environmental supervisor ordered preparatory work to stop at Google-linked data-centre sites in Muhos and Kajaani while Tuike Finland answers questions over forest clearance and environmental assessment requirements.

#Google #data centres #Finland

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FYDY Funding Talks Put $12 Million Behind Stealth AI Research

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FYDY Funding Talks Put $12 Million Behind Stealth AI Research

Stealth AI research startup FYDY is negotiating a $12 million maiden round from Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst as it builds OpenScientist and a frontier AI team split across India and the US.

#FYDY #Fuzzy Dynamics #OpenScientist

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