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'Build New NTA': Testing Agency Invites Applications For Researcher, General Manager, Content Writer
The NTA is also hiring for the role of General Manager. NTA Updates: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is inviting applications for Researcher, Senior Professional, English Content Writer, General Manager and other such positions. In a series of…
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and…
Ikea is growing its resale business. It's attracting bargain hunters and design nerds.
Your old Ikea bookshelf is part of a growing secondhand market. Ikea has spent five years growing its buyback and resell division, which pays customers for their old Ikea-brand furniture in store credit and resells it at the chain's stores. In…
Why billion-dollar robotics startups are obsessed with folding laundry
Before Silicon Valley's robots take over, they have to learn to fold your underwear. In recent months, some of the buzziest robotics startups — including Figure AI, Sunday Robotics, and Weave Robotics — have shown off robots that…
Australians must now prove their age to buy R18+ games on the Xbox store
If you use the Xbox store to buy either Xbox or PC games—and yes, the latter is possible—you may be prompted to verify your age the next time you try to buy an R18+ game. Microsoft confirmed as much via emails sent to users over the…
Market likely to adapt to new closing auction
SEBI has changed how the official closing price is determined for shares on which futures and options are available. Now, regular cash-market trading in these shares ends at 3.15 pm, followed by an auction. Broadly, the price at which the maximum…
First Quantum Crypto Hack May Leave No Trace
The first sign that quantum computing has broken modern cryptography probably won't be a splashy theft of Satoshi Nakamoto's dormant Bitcoin. It could just be a wave of unrelated crypto wallet breaches with no trace of how an attacker did it…
The Ball in OpenAI's court
On a gloomy July evening, Dean Ball is appraising the political theory shelf in the basement of San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore. It's the end of his second day at OpenAI, and he's arrived straight from orientation in a cashmere zip-up hoodie…
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Eightcap uses AI to scale compliance across global markets
Fast-growing Australian fintech Eightcap is using AI to help manage growing compliance workloads while ensuring customer data complies with privacy, access and data sovereignty requirements across multiple jurisdictions. Eightcap senior…
NTA's Post-NEET Overhaul: Agency seeks cybersecurity, vigilance and test-centre experts
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has stepped up recruitment, aiming at institutional overhaul following controversies surrounding its examinations, including the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak. The agency, in its latest advertisement notification, has…
Finding big money for AI and a smaller world for security at Black Hat USA 2026
Las Vegas was hotter than hell last week, but not as hot as the market for artificial intelligence-enabled security at Black Hat USA 2026. A bandwagon of million-dollar booths for overfunded agentic security startups arose like mirages from the…
Chinese brokers tighten client scrutiny to mitigate over-leveraging risks, Bloomberg reports
Chinese brokers are intensifying the scrutiny of new accounts and tightening reviews of margin financing, securities lending, and options trading, as part of regulatory efforts to curb risky bids after a sharp market pullback, Bloomberg reported on…
Trump is not shy of collecting spoils, and the US presidency has plenty
When it comes to American politics, Donald Trump may be more of a traditionalist than many give him credit. Back in 1832, New York-based US senator William L Macy, defending the behaviour of president Andrew Jackson, uttered these immortal and now…
Drivers issued warning after some caught out by RingGo parking scam
Motorists are being urged to be vigilant over a RingGo scam that is currently making the rounds. Drivers are receiving fraudulent text messages purportedly from RingGo, claiming they owe money. 'A routine review of open parking charges has…
Complacency in Gold May Be Hiding the Next Big Move
Weekly gold has broken above a multi-week congestion pattern, giving the bulls their first meaningful sign of life in some time. The market has spent much of 2026 trending lower from its January high, with the 20-week simple moving average now…
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