Social media

What is Bluesky, the fast-growing social platform welcoming fleeing X users?

Across the platform, new users – among them journalists, left-leaning politicians and celebrities - have posted memes and shared that they were looking forward to using a space free from advertisements and hate speech.

AI

Is AI's meteoric rise beginning to slow?

Industry insiders are beginning to acknowledge that large language models (LLMs) aren't scaling endlessly higher at breakneck speed when pumped with more power and data.

Social media

Jake Paul: multi-millionaire YouTuber-turned-boxer

YouTuber, content creator, entrepreneur, self-proclaimed face of boxing: Jake Paul has become a master of re-invention during his meteoric rise to fame and fortune.

Mobile apps

Swipe-transmitted infections? Dating apps linked to spread of STIs

Other researchers and commentators have complained that an unhealthy but pervasive combination of apps, pornography and deceptive photo editing – sometimes even using AI – has distorted dating habits.

Cybersecurity

AI tool that wastes phone scammers’ time launched in the UK

Do we need this in Malaysia?

Technology

Alibaba aims to raise $5 billion in dual currency bond deal, sources say

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group is aiming to raise $5 billion in multi-tranche dollar and offshore Chinese yuan bonds, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

Social media

ICYMI, using chat abbreviations makes you look insincere, tests show

The experiments showed texters who used abbreviations were also perceived as lazy.

Internet

From swiping to socialising: Single M’sians are logging off in search of love

In a world where digital connections are often a swipe away, some are rediscovering the magic of real-world interactions to find love and companionship.

Social media

Think before you trust advice sourced from social media

Malaysians increasingly turn to social media for advice, but the Board of Counsellors warns that unregulated opinions can overwhelm and mislead users.

Technology

New Nvidia AI chips overheating in servers, the Information reports

(Reuters) -Nvidia's new Blackwell AI chips, which have already faced delays, have encountered problems with accompanying servers that overheat, causing some customers to worry they will not have enough time to get new data centers up and running, the Information reported on Sunday.

Internet

How to escape your doomscroll hellhole

News websites and social media make it next to impossible to avoid the steady drumbeat of political earthquakes and gruesome images of war.

AI

Google Translate rival DeepL launches live translation feature

The German AI start-up DeepL is launching a feature for translating spoken language in real time, DeepL Voice, the company's chief executive and founder, Jaroslaw Kutylowski, has announced.

Video games

'Mario & Luigi: Brothership' review: Mario & Luigi energise an island-hopping quest

Mario, Nintendo’s famously high-voiced plumber, is known to most fans for his action platformers. Less celebrated are the 'Mario & Luigi' role-playing games, which inspire imagination but require a precise sense of rhythm, at least for your right thumb.

Video games

'Call of Duty: Black Ops 6' review: When war becomes an aesthetic, nobody wins

October’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 takes place in the early 1990s, immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Its main conflict is the 1991 Gulf War, a US-led bombing campaign and ground invasion of Iraq after Saddam Hussein decided to invade Kuwait over oil-drilling rights and contested debts.

Technology

TikTok parent ByteDance's valuation hits $300 billion, sources say

(Reuters) -TikTok's parent company ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300 billion, after it recently approached investors about a share buyback program, according to two people familiar with the matter and a document viewed by Reuters.

Technology

Turkey fines Amazon's Twitch 2 million lira for data breach

(Reuters) - Turkey's Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) has fined Amazon.com's gaming platform Twitch 2 million lira ($58,000) over a data breach, the official Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday.

AI

What to know about Elon Musk’s contracts with the US federal government

“It’s going to be a golden era for Musk with Trump in the White House.”

Social media

What is DOGE? Houston experts say Trump's new 'department' is not actually a department

By attaching the Musk name to the advisory panel, Trump could also be sending something of a dog whistle to supporters, said Jones.

Technology

Netflix back up for most users in US after outage, Downdetector shows

(Reuters) -Video streaming platform Netflix was back up on Saturday after an outage that lasted roughly six hours in the United States, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Technology

From a US$1mil DoorDash scam to a massive crypto heist, Gen Z linked to sophisticated online crimes

Younger people who grew up in the post-Internet age are more likely to be involved in digital crimes than those committed in-person, experts say.