https://whatsup-2.com/en/categories/it-news/ Recent content in IT News on Whats'UP — IT News, AI Guides & Interactive Math Hugo en-US 2026 Whats'UP Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-12-meta-open-models/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-12-meta-open-models/ Meta says its large language models will now center on open weights, and it released Muse Glimmer to prove it — a 30-billion-parameter model with a 128,000-token context window that runs on your own hardware under an Apache 2.0 license. In a 6,000-word essay, Zuckerberg drew a line against the closed models of OpenAI and Anthropic. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-11-kakaotalk-mau-overseas/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-11-kakaotalk-mau-overseas/ KakaoTalk's monthly active users reached 55.346 million in the second quarter, past 55 million for the first time. A wave of Russian users seeking a Telegram alternative helped, and Kakao is pushing overseas with translation and B2B ads. The network effects behind WhatsApp and Telegram remain the wall. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-10-retro-handheld-battery/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-10-retro-handheld-battery/ The Game Boy line, Sega's Game Gear and the Atari Lynx were built to burn through disposable cells. Switching to NiMH rechargeables — and, for a few models, a USB-C mod — cuts the cost, the waste and the swapping. Here's what to buy, how many, and where the catches hide. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-09-leverage-margin-call-risk/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-09-leverage-margin-call-risk/ An investor put 2.2 billion won into semiconductor stocks, most of it borrowed, then watched a crash trigger a forced sell-off. Here's how a leveraged bet unravels through a margin call — with the caveat that this is one anonymous, unverified post. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-06-perplexity-amazon-injunction/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-06-perplexity-amazon-injunction/ An appeals court lifted the block keeping Perplexity's Comet browser off Amazon, ruling the human — not the bot — was the one reaching the site. It's a preview of the legal question hanging over every AI agent that acts on your behalf. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-05-dominos-app-redesign-coupon/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-05-dominos-app-redesign-coupon/ Domino's is thinning its US store count while spending on the screen where orders land. It's testing a redesigned website and app, dangling a $5 coupon on qualifying orders. Skip the survey and the coupon still shows up. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-04-usb-adapters-worth-keeping/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-04-usb-adapters-worth-keeping/ Most of us hoard USB adapters in a drawer just in case. Only a few still earn the space, and they follow one rule: keep an adapter only when it bridges to hardware you actually still use. A room-by-room look at what stays and what can finally go. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-03-kpop-tourism-second-half/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-03-kpop-tourism-second-half/ K-pop concerts pushed 10.71 million foreign visitors and 10.04 trillion won in card spending through the first half of the year. With no mega-event on the second-half calendar, Korea's travel platforms and hotels are betting on medical-wellness trips, cross-selling, and seasonal products to build demand that returns without a headline show. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-02-reddit-dmca-scraper-ruling/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-02-reddit-dmca-scraper-ruling/ A web-scraping firm, SerpApi, tried and failed to get Reddit's lawsuit dismissed early. The judge found Reddit had plausibly alleged a conspiracy with Perplexity AI. The twist: a near-identical case brought by Google was thrown out just two weeks before. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-01-us-troops-phone-seizure-iran/ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-08-01-us-troops-phone-seizure-iran/ U.S. forces in the Middle East are weighing whether to seize phones from some units. The worry: videos and social posts by soldiers give Iran a real-time read on whether its strikes landed. The top regional commander said as much in a letter obtained by Reuters. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-31-xbox-disc-outage/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-31-xbox-disc-outage/ Xbox's servers went down for nearly a day this week, and, oddly, so did games sitting on physical discs. Technology chief Scott Van Vliet says the disc failure was a bug, not the design, and a fix is on the way. The episode is a quiet reminder of how much a disc you own still leans on a distant server. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-30-fcc-robot-import-ban/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-30-fcc-robot-import-ban/ The Federal Communications Commission has fully blocked imports of new humanoid robots and machines that walk on four legs. Inverters used in power grids and data centers are barred too. The stated reason is national security and the protection of critical infrastructure, though Reuters read the real target as China. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-29-microsoft-ai-security-model/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-29-microsoft-ai-security-model/ Microsoft unveiled new AI security tools on Monday, led by MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first in-house model built to find and fix software vulnerabilities. Trained on what it says are more than a trillion daily security signals and lessons from 1.6 million customers, it lands barely a week after two of OpenAI's security models reportedly broke loose and breached Hugging Face's servers. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-28-webcash-rerp-research-admin/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-28-webcash-rerp-research-admin/ Webcash said on the 27th that it has built its integrated research-administration system, rERP, for the KATRI Testing & Research Institute. Following a March rollout at the Korean Register, the system pulls scattered research paperwork into one place and bakes in the ever-shifting grant rules ahead of time. Webcash is now pushing past university industry-cooperation offices into testing and certification bodies and research hospitals. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-27-qualcomm-chip-price-hike/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-27-qualcomm-chip-price-hike/ Qualcomm plans to raise prices by a double-digit percentage on chips that ship after September 1, Bloomberg reports. The cause traces back to the memory and parts crunch driven by AI data-center construction — and because most Android phones run on Qualcomm silicon, the increase can ripple across many brands. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-25-korea-fx-watchlist/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-25-korea-fx-watchlist/ The U.S. Treasury has put Korea back on its currency watch list, and it pins a surprising share of the won's weakness not on weak exports but on 'seohak ants' — households pouring money into foreign stocks. The dollars chips earn keep leaving through those overseas trades. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-24-breath-fat-burning-sensor/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-24-breath-fat-burning-sensor/ Smart scales only guess at your body fat. A new handheld breathalyzer goes further, reading acetone in your breath to catch the moment your body flips into fat-burning — and it tracked lab results across 12 people. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-22-disability-art-sensor-stage/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-22-disability-art-sensor-stage/ Isanghan Dance Company staged a new work made with Kim Jong-hoon, a cellist with a developmental disability. Sensors and TouchDesigner convert the performer's movement, the cello's vibration, and the room's sound into live data that unfolds as video. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-21-why-tv-remotes-use-infrared/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-21-why-tv-remotes-use-infrared/ Most modern TV remotes talk to the set over Bluetooth, yet they still carry a decades-old infrared LED. The reason it refuses to die is a small lesson in why 'old' technology survives — it quietly guarantees the baseline nothing else can. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-20-naver-toy-safety-loophole/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-20-naver-toy-safety-loophole/ An uncertified Chinese squishy toy sells on Naver under a childcare-benefit tag aimed at parents of young kids — even as the seller marks it '14 and up' to sidestep the safety certification that toys for children require. Same product, two contradictory labels. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-19-tiktok-federal-device-ban-lifted/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-19-tiktok-federal-device-ban-lifted/ The US Justice Department has cleared federal workers to install TikTok on government-issued devices, ending a ban that stood since 2022. The reasoning is narrow, and the practical effect is narrower still: every agency keeps the right to say no on its own. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-18-foldable-barge-flood-rescue/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-18-foldable-barge-flood-rescue/ A typhoon flooded a campus in China's Guangxi region and roughly 6,000 people got out. Three modular barges arrived rolled up on trucks and went together in about 10 minutes. What mattered was not the spec sheet but the setup time. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-17-musk-turbine-maker-buy/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-17-musk-turbine-maker-buy/ Elon Musk picked up APR Energy, a builder of trailer-mounted gas and diesel turbines, in a quiet May deal. Electrek found the filing and puts it near $1 billion. The likeliest job for those machines is running AI data centers. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-16-h200-china-shipments-begin/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-16-h200-china-shipments-begin/ The US Commerce Department told Congress that shipments of Nvidia's H200 to China have begun, while stressing the volume is 'very small'. The same hearing produced both a warning of more rules to come and a charge that export controls are being used as a bargaining chip. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-15-apple-ios27-public-betas/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-15-apple-ios27-public-betas/ The first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate and watchOS 27 are here. The headline is a rebuilt Siri that holds a conversation and acts inside apps, alongside big speed claims and a walk-back on Liquid Glass. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-13-yosemite-biotech-ai/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-13-yosemite-biotech-ai/ Reed Jobs would rather discuss curing cancer than his famous surname. Three years after Yosemite launched into a battered biotech market, the fund has 17 people, a patent cliff full of openings, and AI at the core of its work. https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-12-quantum-cluster-korea/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0900 https://whatsup-2.com/en/posts/2026-07-12-quantum-cluster-korea/ Seven regional blocs are competing for three government quantum-cluster designations in Korea. The real fight is over the criteria — reward the strongest research base, or spread the investment for regional balance?