^EN The fines are small next to the companies' app-store revenue, so the real test is enforcement: whether the platforms actually open up to alternative payment options. Korea was the first country to legislate against in-app payment mandates, so regulators elsewhere will watch how this plays out. Expect appeals, and expect compliance to be slow and contested.

^EN With stocks weak and the property market in a slump, gold is one of the few places Chinese savers feel safe putting money. That domestic demand may put a floor under prices, but it also shows how little faith households have in other assets.

^EN Repeated breaches suggest the problem is cultural as much as technical: security is treated as a cost, not a duty. Stronger penalties for negligent companies would probably change behavior faster than another round of guidelines.

^EN Tailscale SSH sits in a trusted spot inside many private networks, so any flaw there matters. The details of the post are not in the summary, so judge the company by how transparent and fast its fixes are, not by the headline.

^EN This is a vendor making the case for its own product, since Intel has lost the GPU race. Still, agent workloads involve a lot of orchestration and tool-calling, which do lean on CPUs. How much it shifts spending remains to be seen.

^EN As planar scaling runs out of room, 3D stacking in memory and logic is where the industry's progress now comes from. That favors equipment makers like Applied, which sell the tools needed for these complex structures.

^EN Competing on points and discounts has squeezed card issuers' margins. Selling data and marketing know-how to partners gives Hyundai Card a way to lock them in. The risk is that partners with their own data may not want to share control.

^EN Defamation complaints between parties are a familiar tactic and often say more about political positioning than about the facts. The outcome will hinge on whether Joo had a reasonable basis for the claim, which police must now establish.

^EN World models are increasingly seen as a path toward training agents and robots in simulation. The key question is whether the simulated physics is consistent enough to be useful for training rather than just impressive in demos.

^EN The story resonates because it flips the usual money-equals-happiness narrative. It's an anonymous post and can't be verified, but the loneliness theme is real: sudden wealth often strains friendships.