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Cybersecurity 14 min

The Coldcard Entropy Failure Was a Build-Configuration Bug, Not a Cryptography Bug

A macro was defined and set to zero. One guard tested whether it existed rather than what it held, the linker bound sile...

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Cybersecurity 6 min

Attackers Sweep 1,367 Bitcoin From Coldcard Wallets After Five-Year Firmware Flaw

Three waves of automated sweeps have taken about $89 million in bitcoin from 4,585 addresses since 30 July. The cause is...

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Finance 8 min

MAS Tightened Again and Most Economists Missed It. What "Steepening the Slope" Actually Means

Singapore does not set an interest rate. It steers a currency band, and on 27 July it steered harder — against the expec...

Sarah Chew

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Cybersecurity 8 min

A Password Was Built Into Cisco's Firewall Manager. It Is Being Exploited, and Agencies Had Three Days to Fix It

CVE-2026-20316 scores 5.3 — a medium. CISA still gave federal agencies three days and told them to check for compromise....

One industrial structure whose two corridors diverge, the left rising into light and the right descending into shadow — illustrating one company's two divisions moving in opposite directions.

Business 6 min

Samsung's Chip Division Made a Record Profit. Its Phone Division Lost Money for the First Time. Same Quarter, Same Cause

The memory business set an all-time high while the handset division posted an operating loss. Both results come from the...

Eva Chin

Singapore central business district towers seen across the river — illustrating the city that absorbed 94 per cent of the region's half-year technology funding.

ASEAN Tech 5 min

Southeast Asia's Tech Funding More Than Doubled. Take Out One Data-Centre Company and It Shrank

The region raised $7.4 billion in the first half, against $3.2 billion a year earlier. One Singapore data-centre operato...

Sarah Chew

A wide harvested field with a scattering of hay bales running to the horizon — illustrating a small confirmed-exploitation set inside a very large body of disclosures.

Cybersecurity 5 min

Vulnerability Disclosures Will Pass Last Year's Record by August. The Share Anyone Actually Exploits Is Falling

AI code scanning has pushed disclosures to 45,207 in seven months. Our own count of the exploited-vulnerabilities catalo...

Aerial view of a municipal water treatment works with circular settling tanks — illustrating the kind of small utility reached in this attack.

Cybersecurity 5 min

Thirty Minnesota Water Utilities Were Hit in One Weekend. The Flaw at the Centre Is Five Years Old and Has No Patch

A coordinated attack reached operational technology at more than 30 municipal water systems. One plant went offline for...

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Developer Tools 5 min

A Critical Rails Flaw Reads Your Server's Files From an Image Upload — and Patching Rails Is Not Enough

CVE-2026-66066 scores 9.5 and needs no authentication. The fix depends on a libvips version many deployments do not have...

Kenji Tanaka

Three tall monoliths rising above a vast field of small pebbles — illustrating how three incidents outweighed eighteen hundred others in this dataset.

Statistics 6 min

Three Breaches Caused Eighty Per Cent of the Half-Year's Victim Notices. The Other 1,800 Shared the Rest

The Identity Theft Resource Center counted 471 million victim notices in six months, more than all of last year. Take ou...

Nadia Rahim

A lone memory module on an otherwise empty steel shelf in a dark warehouse — illustrating the supply squeeze pushing up phone prices.

Consumer Tech 6 min

RAM Went From $2.80 a Gigabyte to $12. Google's Next Phone Costs More and Carries Less of It

Google has confirmed price rises across the Pixel range, blaming memory costs. Leaked specifications point the other way...

Amelia Wong