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- Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data
Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Billionaire Palmer Luckey isn’t leaving California over the wealth tax
"It's causing a lot of people to run who I don't want to be running," native Californian Palmer Luckey said. "But I'm planning on staying in California. I'm going to keep fighting it."
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. and by that he doesn't just mean assembly, but every individual component, some of which are exclusively made in China today.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative
General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Nepal expects demand for 5.18 million flower garlands during Tihar
Kathmandu, October 27 An estimated 5.18 million flower garlands of various varieties will be consumed across Nepal during this year’s Tihar festival, generating business worth around Rs 480 million from garlands alone.…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - NEPSE rises as hydropower stocks lead gains and turnover increases
Kathmandu, October 27 Nepal’s stock market rose marginally by 0.94 points on Tuesday, taking the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) index to 2,630 points. Share prices of 136 companies increased, while those of 135 companies…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Kamana Sewa Bank launches digital AI assistant “KS Mitra”
Kamana Sewa Bikas Bank has launched KS Mitra, an AI-based customer support and complaint management system, with the aim of providing customers with faster, easier and more effective service. The bank said customers can…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - NIFRA’s profit drops 20 percent
Kathmandu, October 27 Nepal Infrastructure Bank (NIFRA) has published its unaudited financial statements for the first quarter of the current fiscal year. According to them, the bank’s net profit has fallen 20 percent…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Standard Chartered Bank announces dividend
Kathmandu, October 27 Standard Chartered Bank has announced a dividend for its shareholders. The bank’s board of directors has decided to give shareholders a cash dividend of 16 percent of paid-up capital. The bank said…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Apple to replace foldable iPhones after screen issues
Kathmandu, October 27 Apple will replace its foldable smartphone, the “iPhone Duo,” after screen problems appeared within days of going on sale. The long-awaited smartphone is being seen as the biggest change to the…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Gold price rises, while silver falls in Nepali market
Kathmandu, October 27 The price of gold increased in the Nepali market on Tuesday, while the silver price decreased. Gold rose by Rs 800 per tola on Tuesday, following an increase of Rs 3,000 per tola on Monday.…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - X is nudging users to promote their posts with a pointing hand, and people are confused
Whose hand is behind this travesty?
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - After years of delay, Budhigandaki faces another change of plan
Successive governments have changed the project’s development models. Latest plan to set up an authority has raised new questions over implementation.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Daily Security Brief — today's top actively-exploited and high-severity vulnerabilities.
⚡ 6 item(s) name a component we run (patch-watch). • [CRITICAL] CVE-2026-115905 CVE-2026-115905: zip is a zip library for Rust that supports reading and writing simple ZIP files. Through … ⚡ • [CRITICAL] CVE-2026-77055…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce
Employees in the US, Canada, India, and the UK may receive offers to leave MS today.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers
Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: it’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Watch out, YouTube; Instagram goes from short-form to 90-minute videos
As Instagram rolls out long form videos of up to 90 minutes, the platform has an opportunity to challenge YouTube if it plays its cards right.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Worms mate in man's eyes, get plucked out right before larvae burst out
Case study gives a whole new meaning to "bedroom eyes."
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Meet the real-life Scottish surgeon who inspired Sherlock Holmes
Lindsey Fitzharris chats with Ars about her new book, Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo
Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Uh oh, it sounds like the iPhone Duo keeps cracking and users aren’t happy about it
A small number of early adopters of the much hyped new foldable phone from Apple have complained of screens cracking.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Apple reveals updated iPad mini with a bigger OLED screen for $700
Apple claims this is the most significant update ever for the iPad mini line.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Fusion startups are giving the government shares in exchange for awards. Is it worth it?
Fusion startups face a new challenge, one unrelated to plasma physics: Give the government shares in exchange for funding awards or go it alone?
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Boston Dynamics employees want to block sale of robot dogs to ICE
US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink terms with deadly drone strikes
Ukraine says Starshield back to normal, denies misuse of Starlink commercial service.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - This startup’s self-driving excavators help dig up $600M in new funding
Bedrock Robotics, which is now valued at $4.1 billion, is particularly focused on autonomous excavators, in part because of a growing shortage of skilled operators.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing
Apple's "precision-engineered" hinge is apparently damaging some iPhone Duo screens.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked
Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise customers stickier.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo
SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees, reports say
The buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - F1 in Texas: The American race that fans love to attend
Ars spends the weekend with the Audi Revolut F1 team at the Circuit of the Americas.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race
Tesla hopes autonomy subscriptions can deliver the margins car sales cannot.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Nepal plans Rs 30 billion LPG pipeline and storage project to end supply shortages
Kathmandu, October 26 Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) is accelerating plans to build a cross-border LPG pipeline and a large storage facility in Sarlahi to address recurring cooking gas shortages caused by natural…
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Anthropic officially files for its public debut
Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.
Technology · DigiTechNepal · - Apple unveils new iPad mini with OLED display and faster A20 Pro chip
The new iPad mini features a thinner and lighter design than its predecessor.
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