Topic: Technology — Neutral reports only
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[2026-07-27 16:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's science ministry and the U.S. chip giant AMD Inc. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in the establishment of an open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, the science ministry said Monday.
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[2026-07-27 16:00 UTC+10:00] [AI (artificial intelligence)] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Research shows AI accounts are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice
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[2026-07-27 15:42 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea's cyber diplomacy group VANK has called on New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to revise texts in its Korean gallery, arguing that several descriptions present a biased interpretation of Korean history and culture.
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[2026-07-27 14:46 UTC+10:00] [South Korea] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Moscow gets more soldiers without risking another mass mobilisation, Pyongyang receives money and military tech
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[2026-07-27 14:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Moscow gets more soldiers without risking another mass mobilisation, Pyongyang receives money and military tech
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[2026-07-27 14:41 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Fortescue executive chairman Andrew Forrest has compared politicians who deny global warming to “arsonists wanting to shut down a fire escape”, claiming the science and technology is available to decarbonise the resources’ industry economically.
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[2026-07-27 14:11 UTC+10:00] [Technology] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Asia Times
Snippet: Keep independent journalism alive
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[2026-07-27 14:05 UTC+10:00] [Big Tech] [Factuality: 92]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Stories driving the day in Brussels and beyond.
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[2026-07-27 13:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Stray Kids will roll out digital album “SKZ-Replay 2026 Pt. 1” on Aug. 1, JYP Entertainment announced Sunday.
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[2026-07-27 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's chipmaking sector accounted for more than 10 percent of the country's manufacturing output in 2024 driven by growing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure following the advent of ChatGPT, a central bank report showed Monday.
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[2026-07-27 13:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The divide between China’s booming tech industry and struggling consumer sector has drawn attention. But regional disparities are also widening
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[2026-07-27 13:00 UTC+10:00] [Alibaba Group Holding] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The divide between China’s booming tech industry and struggling consumer sector has drawn attention. But regional disparities are also widening
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[2026-07-27 12:52 UTC+10:00] [BUSINESS] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Cyberattacks are becoming faster and more sophisticated with the use of artificial intelligence, Nobuo Miwa, president of Tokyo-based information security service provider S&J, said in a recent interview.
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[2026-07-27 12:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: AI-generated images made by IMD to demonstrate an ideally competitive country, left, and Japan. The bicycle represents the government, while the rider is the private sector. © IMD 2026
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[2026-07-27 12:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks turned lower late Monday morning as big chip shares lost ground despite eased Middle East tensions.
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[2026-07-27 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tech company founder Zhou Yuxiang sits down with the South China Morning Post for his first interview with a Hong Kong media outlet
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[2026-07-27 12:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tech company founder Zhou Yuxiang sits down with the South China Morning Post for his first interview with a Hong Kong media outlet
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[2026-07-27 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Antitrust] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: U.S. President Donald Trump says they're a tax. European regulators consider it routine enforcement. Either way, when EU bureaucrats slap the world’s biggest technology companies with a fine, the numbers can make your eyes bulge.
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[2026-07-27 11:59 UTC+10:00] [World / Asia] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Two Dutch men who started a run club in Bali just for foreigners have been banned from Indonesia.
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[2026-07-27 11:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) -- SK Innovation E&S, the energy arm of South Korea's SK Group, said Monday it will import condensate from an Australian offshore gas field that it invested in 14 years ago, marking the first such shipment to South Korea from the project.
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[2026-07-27 11:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s leading DRAM maker completes the biggest-ever Star Market IPO amid an AI-driven memory boom
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[2026-07-27 11:46 UTC+10:00] [Counterpoint Research] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: China’s leading DRAM maker completes the biggest-ever Star Market IPO amid an AI-driven memory boom
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[2026-07-27 11:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Shares of Chinese chipmaker Changxin Technology Group rose about 470% Monday as they debuted on Shanghai's tech-heavy STAR Market.
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[2026-07-27 11:16 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Naver Corp. said in a regulatory filing Monday it has agreed on a strategic partnership with US chip giant Nvidia Corp. to jointly establish a massive, global artificial intelligence factory.
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[2026-07-27 11:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) -- Naver Corp. said in a regulatory filing Monday it has agreed on a strategic partnership with U.S. chip giant Nvidia Corp. to jointly establish a massive, global artificial intelligence (AI) factory.
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[2026-07-27 10:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Cyber Security Command will take part in a U.S.-led international cybersecurity exercise this week, aimed at helping allies better respond to malicious cyberspace activities, the defense ministry said Monday.
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[2026-07-27 09:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: It's not the spend, it's the return. That's what Friday's technology stock plunge said. I think it just might be the most significant tech selloff in more than a year. We need to know — potentially — what we are facing. We need to know if the trillion-dollar spigot is drying up — or it is just a dry spell.
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[2026-07-27 09:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Burberry and Cartier see sales surge in China, driven by Gen Z and tech wealth, but recovery remains uncertain amid economic challenges
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[2026-07-27 09:00 UTC+10:00] [Asia-Pacific] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Burberry and Cartier see sales surge in China, driven by Gen Z and tech wealth, but recovery remains uncertain amid economic challenges
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[2026-07-27 07:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-27 06:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Mon 27 Jul 2026 at 6:59am
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[2026-07-27 05:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: Mitsui Fudosan seeks to bring together Japanese and Taiwanese companies to develop next-generation semiconductor technologies for robots, industrial equipment and automobiles. (Nikkei illustration)
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[2026-07-27 04:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: 1. Mathieu van der Poel, Netherlands, Alpecin-Premier Tech, 1:58:49.
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[2026-07-27 02:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone in front of an image generated by ChatGPT’s Dall-E text-to-image model, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
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[2026-07-27 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The PostMag Quick CrosswordMonday, 27 Julyloading
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[2026-07-27 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Mini SudokuMonday, 27 Julyloading
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[2026-07-27 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The SCMP Cryptic CrosswordMonday, 27 Julyloading
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[2026-07-27 02:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Word SearchMonday, 27 Julyloading
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ERROR 404 page not found Click here to go to the home page
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. spent the week before his fifth State of the Nation Address visiting government projects and launching programs covering housing, agriculture, energy, health care, digital infrastructure, defense and public services.
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[2026-07-27 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
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Why the prosecution is failing in VP Sara’s impeachment trialTHE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte plods on with the public watching in exasperation, as there is no sign of improving its snail-like pace; its erroneous, vexing and incorrigible rulings by the presiding officer, competing with the unremarkable parade of worthless prosecution witnesses, who, instead of truthful testimonies, provide evasive and worthless narratives that distort and obfuscate the circumstances that surrounded the vice president’s controversial remarks.
So far, the three prosecution witnesses, presented to prove Article IV of the impeachment complaint charging VP Sara for the impeachable offense of betrayal of public trust — Senior Agent Mark Calilung, Regional Director Jeremy Lotoc and Director Melvin Matibag, all from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) — have not proved the case of the prosecution.
Calilung was presented to prove the authenticity of the video containing the online conference of VP Sara, where she uttered the remarks the prosecution regarded as grave threats and inciting to sedition, which formed the basis of the impeachable offense of betrayal of public trust.
In the first place, the said conference is not in dispute nor were the utterances made there; hence, Calilung’s testimony on this matter is unnecessary and useless. His other testimony touched on the investigation he conducted at that conference. Instead of favoring the prosecution, he highlighted the fact the inquiry he made was superficial and merely for show. He limited his investigation to four participants, i.e. news reporters and a blogger. He disregarded getting information from the other reporters present to determine the environment under which VP Sara’s remarks were made.
Calilung did not coordinate with the Presidential Security Group as to whether the vice president’s statements constituted a threat to the life of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., nor did it coordinate with the Armed Forces of the Philippines to evaluate whether her remarks constituted a threat to national security.
Additionally, Calilung was called to the witness stand as an expert witness on cyber libel. It turned out he only trained for two weeks — hardly a training experience required of a witness before qualifying as an expert witness in a particular field. This witness could not also answer directly the questions of the defense counsel on cross-examination, dodging these — a trait that understandably and unsurprisingly characterized the manner of responses by the other two NBI witnesses.
One of them, Lotoc, was nowhere an improvement on Calilung as a witness. He effectively sunk further the prosecution’s case as he validated Calilung’s testimony that the NBI’s first and second investigations were not thorough and merely pro porma. Both Calilung and Lotoc admitted that they did not investigate the threat against VP Sara’s life, apart from sending her an invitation to provide their agency information on the threat — which she declined — despite the continuing visible threat, in addition to the oppressive acts committed against her, her family, her staff and her allies, especially the withdrawal of her trusted security personnel, whose circumstances triggered her outburst, calling out the people for help on the imminence of her physical obliteration and seeking justice for her planned assassination, as well as unmasking her would-be perpetrators.
Lotoc, using his being a lawyer to full extent, hewed and dodged as he avoided answering directly the questions from the cross-examiner. He came out as an unreliable witness when he admitted that he was facing serious criminal charges of arbitrary detention and unlawful arrest at the Office of the Ombudsman, including crimes involving moral turpitude, such as theft, robbery and perjury.
Both Calilung and Lotoc admitted that there were no reported seditious acts committed by various groups as a consequence of VP Sara’s allegedly seditious remarks and grave threats against President Marcos, nor was she present at anti-government rallies advocating to overthrow the government.
The third prosecution witness, Matibag, whose political somersaulting qualifies him as a political operator, thereby exposing his dubious political loyalty to a cause, is a patently biased witness. He admitted to writing three vicious, disparaging articles in the Daily Tribune against VP Sara. His wife is a member of the House of Representatives who voted to impeach the vice president. He cannot, therefore, say anything good against the respondent and would certainly testify against her, and in fact he did, with gusto.
Despite the relentless propagandizing of the prosecution team inside the impeachment court, inadvertently aided by the erroneous rulings of the presiding officer, as well as the constant black propaganda dished out in public by its allies in Congress, its case against VP Sara and obsession to remove her from office and disqualify her from running in the 2028 presidential elections has not gained a foothold, simply because there is no constitutional basis for the articles of impeachment.
Not even a foolish rant from a member of the impeachment court notorious for advocating the necessity of bending or breaking a law could help the prosecution’s losing cause. This law bender railed against his colleagues for standing up and defending themselves from malicious innuendo and evident intimidation coming from a prosecution witness and a government official who foisted the filing of cases against two senator-judges, necessarily impugning their integrity. He doesn’t even know the function of the impeachment court, which is to hear a case filed against an impeachable officer and to decide it in accordance with the law and evidence presented before it.
One begins to wonder what sins have the people committed to deserve a harebrained politician, and what graver sins they have committed, to deserve failed governance from those they have placed in power.Snippet: THE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte plods on with the public watching in exasperation, as there is no sign of improving its snail-like pace; its erroneous, vexing and incorrigible rulings by the presiding officer, competing with the unremarkable parade of worthless prosecution witnesses, who, instead of truthful testimonies, provide evasive and worthless narratives that distort and obfuscate the circumstances that surrounded the vice president’s controversial remarks.
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[2026-07-27 00:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: As the AI infrastructure buildout and global geopolitical developments spur massive spending, an old-guard sector of the economy is getting a level of attention from investors that rivals the action in tech. The industrials sector of the S&P 500 is trading at a price-to-earnings ratio above 30, a level investors more often associate with high fliers, and a P/E ratio that is well above industrials' long-term average, which is closer to 20.
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[2026-07-27 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-07-26 22:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Two members of the United States Congress have introduced bipartisan legislation that would require developers of the country’s most powerful artificial intelligence systems to build in a “kill switch”, allowing advanced AI models to be slowed, suspended or shut down if they pose a catastrophic risk.
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[2026-07-26 22:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TRYING to explain what happened in the unprecedented cybersecurity incident involving autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) systems has raised more questions than answers about how an experimental AI system escaped its test environment. As of this writing Hugging Face is pressing OpenAI to disclose the agents' activity and help strengthen defenses against similar attacks.
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[2026-07-26 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tech founders are not known for ‘restraint’. But a transcript shows Liang Wenfeng is chasing an ultimate goal in AI, not short-term gains
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[2026-07-26 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tech founders are not known for ‘restraint’. But a transcript shows Liang Wenfeng is chasing an ultimate goal in AI, not short-term gains
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[2026-07-26 21:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THE World Health Organization or WHO emphasized this year that air quality monitoring is crucial for understanding the health effects of air pollution and tracking efforts in reducing it.
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[2026-07-26 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The refusal to meet a visiting delegation during a recent fact-finding trip signals China’s new approach to tech diplomacy, observers say
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