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Cops arrest budding politician for allegedly dealing with Flock's expansion the American way

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The Lenovo LOQ Essentials 15 Gen 11 pairs an RTX 5060, 144 Hz display, and excellent upgradeability with a comfortable keyboard, but its low-power GPU configuration and outdated CPU leave it struggling against rivals at the same price.

Endeavor Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

OpenAI denies Apple's allegations in a blog post. The company claims that it doesn't have and even doesn't want its rivals trade secrets.

A new video shows Taiwan’s Coast Guard warning a 200-ft long Chinese-flagged research vessel, spotted loitering over a fiber internet cable, to change course.

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.

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The cybersecurity industry has spent decades assuming that offensive capability scales with technical expertise. That assumption is starting to break. Security teams have long estimated risk by ranking attacker sophistication. Nation-state actors sat at one end. Organized criminal groups followed. Inexperienced attackers, dismissed as "script kiddies," sat at the other end, running public

Customers told traffic may be limited at certain times following more than ten days offline

Google deleted three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit (ADK) Python repository. Pillar Security showed that a public GitHub issue could manipulate a triage agent into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent. The researchers said the public agent could be prompt-injected into posting /adk-issue-fix as adk-bot. They identified the bot as a collaborator, so that comment satisfied

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Secretlab has finally reduced the price of the Magnus Evo standing desk. In its first-ever discount, you can save $50 on a new sit-to-stand desk.

cPanel has patched a flaw that let an authenticated hosting customer execute SQL in the database's root context, crossing the privilege boundary between a cPanel account and the server's administrative database identity. It shipped in a targeted security release that closes two other routes past account boundaries. The database bug is tracked as CVE-2026-58048 (CVSS 4.0 score: 9.4) and affects

For the first time in Steam history, 8-core CPUs have overtaken 6-core CPUs and GPUs with 16GB of VRAM have overtaken 8GB GPUs. Even though the hardware survey doesn't represent everyone, it still indicates a paradigm shift for the mainstream market.

A new report claims that HP, Asus, and Acer have started to use a small amount of CXMT memory chips in notebooks for non-US markets.

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A GitHub repo documents running DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (304B parameters) on a single AMD MI300X GPU in production, achieving 168.6 tok/s single-stream decode and ~8K tok/s prefill with vLLM ROCm nightly. The entire model fits in the MI300X's 192 GB HBM without quantization or offload, but required custom patches for FP8 format differences, MoE routing, speculative verification, and kernel tuning.

China tightens legal protections for domestically developed chip layout designs by raising originality requirements and strengthening infringement penalties.

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The dominance of legacy automakers is no longer a given For decades, Toyota’s position at the top of Singapore’s car market looked almost untouchable. The Japanese automaker built its dominance on a reputation for reliability, fuel efficiency and strong resale value, making it the default choice for generations of motorists. Even as new competitors entered […]

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BEIJING, Aug 4 — Chinese technology and e-commerce giant Alibaba has unveiled another powerful artificial intellig...

Unisem is trading at about 81 times forecast FY2026 earnings and 39 times FY2027 earnings Record revenue, stronger execution prompt Kenanga to up earnings forecasts through FY2027 When Unisem released its 2025 Annual Report earlier this year, management made the point that its heavy investments weighing on earnings would begin paying off in 2026 as utilisation improved at its Malaysian operations while its Chengdu plant in China increasingly became the group's profit engine. The latest quarterly results suggest that strategy is beginning to bear results. Its 2Q FY2026 results released on 31 July (for the quarter ended 30 June 2026) show that revenue rose 20.0% to US$143 mil (RM570.1 million) with net profit up 8.5% to US$2.5 million (RM9.91 million). RM1 = US$0.25 First-half revenue was RM1.03 billion, but the group recorded a RM3.45 million net loss for the six months. The loss was entirely due to the weak first quarter, when low utilisation and elevated production costs resulted in a RM13.4 million net loss. A research note from Kenanga Research said Unisem's earnings recovery has started to gain traction and expects momentum to strengthen in the second half of 2026 as the Malaysian operations approach breakeven, helped by improving utilisation at Gopeng, additional wire-bonding capacity and the recovery at Unisem Advanced Technologies (UAT). At the same time, the Chengdu, China plant is expected to remain the group's primary earnings driver. Kenanga noted that the Chengdu operation has become one of Unisem's most significant investments over the past decade. Built in phases with a cumulative investment of well over RM800 million, the facility began commercial operations in 2017, with successive expansion phases adding advanced wafer bumping, flip-chip and power-management packaging capacity to serve China's growing semiconductor market. Those investments are now emerging as the group's biggest earnings contributor. Cheow Ming Liang, Kenanga analyst said that Chengdu's healthy utilisation and continued capacity expansion should underpin earnings growth in the coming quarters. The research house noted that second-quarter revenue climbed 20% year-on-year and 23% quarter-on-quarter to a record RM570.1 million. Reported net profit was RM9.9 million after a RM15.9 million withholding-tax charge on dividends remitted from Chengdu. Excluding the one-off tax, earnings would have been about RM25.8 million, marking a sharp turnaround from the previous quarter's loss. Management is guiding for another 10% to 15% sequential increase in US dollar revenue in the third quarter, with Malaysia expected to grow faster than Chengdu from a lower base. Gopeng's utilisation is forecast to improve as additional equipment comes onstream, Infineon's MEMS microphone line enters commercial production and testing activities are consolidated there, improving operating efficiency. Kenanga also expects Chengdu to remain the group's earnings anchor. "Unisem Chengdu should re