Author: Vidya Saras
President William Lai has pledged to uphold Taiwan’s self-governing status in his most high-profile public address since taking office earlier this year.In a thinly-veiled reference to China’s claim over the island, Lai said he would “uphold the commitment to resist annexation or encroachment upon our sovereignty.”Lai was speaking to a crowd in Taipei to commemorate Taiwan’s National Day, only nine days after Communist China celebrated its 75th anniversary.At the same time, Lai promised to maintain “the status quo of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait” and pledged to cooperate with Beijing on issues such as climate change, combating infectious…
By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -China has no right to represent Taiwan, but the island is willing to work with Beijing to combat global challenges such as climate change, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Thursday, striking both a firm and a conciliatory tone. Lai, who took office in May after being elected in January, is detested by China, which calls him a “separatist”. Beijing claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, a view Lai and his government reject. Giving a keynote national address outside the presidential office in Taipei, Lai reiterated that the Republic of…
An illicit JavaScript pop-up on the Internet Archive proclaimed on Wednesday afternoon that the site had suffered a major data breach. Hours later, the organization confirmed the incident.Longtime security researcher Troy Hunt, who runs the data-breach-notification website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) also confirmed that the breach is legitimate. He said it occurred in September and that the stolen trove contains 31 million unique email addresses along with usernames, bcrypt password hashes, and other system data. Bleeping Computer, which first reported the breach, also confirmed the validity of the data.The Internet Archive did not return multiple requests for comment from…
Apple TVPremiering at the London Film Festival, Steve McQueen’s sprawling drama tries to shine new light on what happened, but has “many of the clichés of a traditional period piece”.As the director of the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen has proven himself to be an expert at approaching well-known historical horrors from revelatory new angles, and an expert at mixing mainstream thrills with the innovations that smack of his earlier career as a groundbreaking visual artist. That’s what he attempts again in Blitz, the opening film at the London Film Festival. A sprawling drama about the bombing of…
NFTs dominated headlines from late 2020 throughout 2021 before peaking in early 2022. By November 2020, the global NFT sales volume was around $8 million. NFT Market Down 92% From January 2022 Peaks: Best Time To Invest? However, roughly 13 months later, this had grown to over $6 billion. The rapid growth was pumped partly by the excess market liquidity due to record low interest rates. Due to the accommodative policy, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and even the BNB Chain ecosystems grew. Fast forward two years later, and NFTs are in shambles and struggling. Throughout 2022 and 2023, the trajectory has…
Over the last weeks, we have been closely monitoring the security and safety in Istanbul. In particular, we have been focused on how events in Israel and the Gaza Strip may impact attendee safety. We try to assess risk whenever we host an event. In the case of Devconnect Istanbul, we have consulted with our event organizer partners, local community members, and monitored government warnings that affect our community or the region. We recently took an additional step of working with external risk advisory services to consider where and how we may need to make changes to reflect conditions regionally.…
Liz Hamren, the CEO of Amazon’s Ring camera business, often wonders whether her husband remembered to grab the package of frozen goods that is regularly delivered to their home. She could nag him, or she could check the footage from their Ring.Historically, the latter option required her to tediously swipe through a video timeline in Ring’s app to identify if and when the box was picked up and by whom. But in recent weeks, Hamren has been able to let AI do the searching. She types “package today” into the app and right away can see the clip of her…
Blockchain-based battle royale game ‘Off the Grid’ has launched in early access, making it available to players on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via the Epic Games Store.Developed by Gunzilla Games, Off the Grid introduces a new dimension to the battle royale genre by integrating blockchain technology.Although the game’s full functionality is not yet available, this early release offers players a preview of its unique gameplay mechanics and blockchain-based economy. Source: Off the GridWhat is Off the Grid?Off the Grid is a dystopian battle royale shooter that places players in a large city map where teams must outlast…
Yet Hodgkinson worries that researchers in the field will pay attention to the technique, rather than the science, when trying to reverse engineer why the trio won the prize this year. “What I hope this doesn’t do is make researchers inappropriately use chatbots, by wrongly thinking that all AI tools are equivalent,” he says.The fear that this could happen is founded in the explosion of interest around other supposedly transformative technologies. “There’s always hype cycles, recent ones being blockchain and graphene,” says Hodgkinson. Following graphene’s discovery in 2004, 45,000 academic papers mentioning the material were published between 2005 and 2009,…
Whereas Joe Biden was able to mask his radical ideas as normal, Kamala Harris doesn’t have the political savvy to conceal her far-left vision.