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Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-18 | by Mark Tyson | tags: floppy disk, game development, 2p_game_arcade

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AI chip boom lifts Samsung profits by 1,800% (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-07-06 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: ahead, chips, demand

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China’s Huawei to enter South Korean AI chip market with new Atlas SuperPods, clusters pack 8,192 Ascend 950 accelerators per deployment — reportedly challenges Nvidia dominance with 'tripled inference performance' of H20 at one-quarter the cost (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-06 | by Etiido Uko | tags: ascend, hardware, huawei

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Korean Workers Vote to Go On Strike, Fearing Robots Could Replace Them (futurism.com)

2026-06-27 | by Frank Landymore | get Industrial Robot Arm → | tags: hyundai, boston dynamics, atlas robot

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New macOS malware embeds fake errors to confuse AI analysis tools (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-06-25 | get Mac Malware Detection Kit → | tags: macos malware, gaslight, ai analysis tools

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Medicube Coupon Code: 40% Off for June 2026 (wired.com)

2026-06-16 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: medicube, booster pro, korean skincare

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North Koreans behind nearly half of US tech industry hacks, says CrowdStrike (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-10 | by Zack Whittaker | get Cybersecurity Software Suite → | tags: hackers, korean, north

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Tracking website, food watch: South Korea is obsessing over Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's visit (cnbc.com)

2026-06-05 | by Justina Lee Lisa Kim | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: huang, korea, korean

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South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-04 | get AI Image Censorship Scanner → | tags: forum, government, hardware

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South Korean Forums Will Need to Scan Every Images with AI Censorship Tools (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-04 | get AI Image Censorship Scanner → | tags: forum, government, hardware

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LG might be done making TVs after nearly 60 years (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-28 | get LG OLED TV → | tags: hisense, goldstar, consumer tech

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Korean funeral services company lost $33 million of its customers' money over a bad crypto bet — firm was secretly investing client funds into leveraged crypto ETFs (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-21 | by Hassam Nasir | get Crypto Investment Security Kit → | tags: bumo sarang, leveraged crypto etf, bitmine

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Medicube Coupon Code: 40% Off for May 2026 (wired.com)

2026-05-15 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: medicube, booster pro, korean skincare

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North Korean fake remote worker scam lands two Americans 18-month prison sentences for hosting laptops — US firms unknowingly shipped laptops to “employees” who secretly worked from overseas via remote desktop, generating $1.2 million for Pyongyang (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Etiido Uko | get VPN Proxy for Remote Work → | tags: north korean, remote desktop protocol, laptops

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Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-01 | by Moon Dong Wook | get Language Learning for Korean → | tags: north korean defectors, hangul, pyongyang dialect

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South Korea Police Arrest Man For Posting AI Photo of Runaway Wolf (slashdot.org)

2026-04-24 | get AI Wolf Photo Printer → | tags: ai-generated image, daejeon zoo, south korean police

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The South Korean president is doing quote-post diplomacy (theverge.com)

2026-04-17 | by Sarah Jeong | get South Korea Diplomatic Book → | tags: south korean, lee jae-myung, israel defense forces

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Two New Jersey men jailed for helping North Korean IT workers infiltrate 100+ companies (techspot.com)

2026-04-17 | get Cybersecurity Training Kit → | tags: north korean, doj, edison nj

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Two US citizens get combined 16 years in prison for running North Korean laptop farms — fake remote IT work scheme netted DPRK $5 million in around three years (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-16 | by Jowi Morales | get Cybersecurity VPN Router → | tags: north korean laptop farms, wire fraud, dprk

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US nationals behind DPRK IT worker 'laptop farm' sent to prison (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-04-16 | get Laptop Farm Security Kit → | tags: dprk, north korean, remote it workers

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Medicube Coupon Code: 40% Off for April 2026 (wired.com)

2026-04-14 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: medicube, booster pro, korean skincare

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DNA From 1,500-Year-Old Korean Mass Grave Exposes a Brutal Ancient Ritual (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-13 | get Ancient DNA Extraction Kit → | tags: korean, dna, ancient ritual

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Medicube Coupon Code: Top Promo Codes and Discounts for April 2026 (wired.com)

2026-04-09 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: medicube, booster pro, korean skincare

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Drift loses $280 million North Korean hackers seize Security Council powers (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-04-02 | get Cybersecurity USB Data Block → | tags: drift protocol, solana blockchain, elliptic

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North Korean hackers blamed for hijacking popular Axios open-source project to spread malware (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-31 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get Cybersecurity Software Suite → | tags: axios, npm, north korean hackers

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North Korean fake IT army of 100,000 nets Kim Jong-Un a cool $500 million a year — NK-aligned workers infiltrated in IT companies worldwide, feeding the nation's revenue generation (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-19 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Cybersecurity Training Kit → | tags: north korean, ibm x-force, blockchain technology

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KPop Demon Hunters is officially getting a sequel (engadget.com)

2026-03-12 | get KPop Demon Hunters Merchandise → | tags: netflix, sony pictures animation, kpop demon hunters

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What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-08 | get Macintosh → | tags: apple ii, field sequential color, cbs

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How to talk to anyone and why you should (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-02 | by Viv Groskop | get Self-Improvement → | tags: seoul, korean food, iphone

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The Clicks Communicator Will Have Keyboard Layouts in Arabic, French, German, Korean (cnet.com)

2026-02-27 | by See Full Bio | get Smartphone keyboard layouts → | tags: arabic, french, german