Hellocloud South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has named three consortiums, led by SK Telecom, KT and Kakao, to operate the government’s “AI for All” project, which will give every resident free access to artificial intelligence tools and services. The ministry picked the three groups from a pool of six applicants after assessing their service … Read more
Four Naga civilians were killed when a group of heavily armed Kuki militants opened fire on a pick-up mini truck along the Imphal-Tamei IT Road, between Makui Ashang and Thanamba Naga village, roughly 20 km from the Kangpokpi district headquarters. The attack occurred at around 8:30 am. Victims Identified The victims were travelling from Chawangkining … Read more
A research consortium at KAIST has developed a protein-structure prediction model that, in internal tests, matched the accuracy of Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and ran up to 25 times faster than comparable systems. The model, called K-Fold, was built by Team KAIST, the group leading the Ministry of Science and ICT’s AI-specialized foundation model development project. … Read more
At least five Naga civilians were killed and another injured in an ambush by armed militants along the Imphal-Tamenglong IT Road in Kangpokpi district on Tuesday morning, escalating tensions in a region already affected by the Naga-Kuki conflict. The Attack and Its Victims The attack took place around 8:30 am between Makui Ashang and Thanamba … Read more
Modern processors are fast, in part, because they guess. Rather than waiting to find out which way a program will branch, a chip predicts the likely path and races ahead. When the guess is right, time is saved. When it is wrong, the work is discarded, but traces of it linger. Since the Spectre vulnerability … Read more
Punjab’s government employees are preparing to escalate their agitation over long-pending dearness allowance (DA) dues after Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann called off a scheduled meeting with union leaders in Jalandhar, triggering angry protests at the Punjab Secretariat and a chaotic standoff in the city. Maha Hartal and Union Demands The “Maha Hartal” had already drawn … Read more
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has ordered government agencies to patch their Citrix NetScaler appliances against a vulnerability that is already being exploited, with a deadline of Saturday. The CVE-2026-8452 Memory Overflow Flaw The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8452, stems from a memory overflow weakness affecting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances configured … Read more
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a new generation of open language models built to power AI agents that can reason, use tools, write code, follow complex instructions, and process speech. The models are available in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes and are released under an Apache 2.0 license, which lets organizations download, fine-tune, and … Read more
Government services across Punjab were disrupted on Thursday as more than three lakh employees from nearly all departments, boards and corporations went on a day-long mass casual leave, demanding payment of long-pending dearness allowance arrears and other dues. Joined by nearly four lakh pensioners, the employees staged sit-in protests at government offices at the district, … Read more
As part of Patch the Planet, I received preview access to GPT 5.6-Cyber with a simple task: evaluate its cyber capabilities. Recent events inspired me to give it a challenge to work through: escape the VM I’d normally use for sandboxing. The target was a QEMU/KVM VM on my Linux dev machine (Debian Linux 12, … Read more