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KOREASouth Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank taps Ripple for cross-border paymentsSouth Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank has partnered with blockchain payments company Ripple to deploy its cross-border payment system for business customers.The service targets businesses including import-export companies, technology startups and online content creators. Ripple said its system would provide the bank with faster, less expensive remittance capabilities than conventional transfers routed through intermediary banks via the SWIFT messaging network, which can take several days. South Korean lawmakers seek expanded FIU powers over unregistered crypto firmsA group of South Korean lawmakers has introduced a bill to amend an existing financial law and expand the Financial Intelligence…

Kubota unveiled the integrated, autonomous M5 Narrow diesel specialty tractor at CES 2026. | Credit: Kubota Humanoid robots and AI are chasing a powerful promise: replacing repetitive manufacturing tasks for lower cost, easing caregiver shortages, taking people out of dangerous work, and helping more of us live better, fuller lives in environments built for humans. That’s important, and it’s coming. On rural farms or urban construction sites, the problem looks different. The urgent question isn’t “Can a robot live with us?” It’s “can intelligent machines help us keep producing food and building infrastructure when skilled operators are disappearing and margins…

You likely noticed the recent redesign of the Cloudflare Blog. We added dark mode, modernized the look and feel, and made a lot of other small improvements along the way.What you might not have noticed – well, except for those who are more terminally online – is that the redesign was part of a much bigger migration project. On Wednesday, August 12, we moved the blog to EmDash, a content management system (CMS) built especially to work on Astro and with Cloudflare.We’ll take you into the migration story – what we learned and how EmDash got better – as well…

By Manuel Nau, Editorial Director at IoT Business News.The FCC is exploring whether devices operating in spectrum used by Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other unlicensed technologies could communicate directly with satellites. The proposal could expand IoT coverage without conventional cellular or satellite radios—but regulatory permission alone will not make ordinary devices satellite-ready.Satellite IoT has generally required purpose-built hardware, access to licensed spectrum and a service agreement with a specialised network operator. A new US regulatory proceeding could begin to loosen that model.On August 6, 2026, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking examining whether devices operating under its…

XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform.The Chinese electric vehicle maker announced the funding round for its robotics business through a set of share purchase agreements with multiple investors. XPENG says the deal represents the largest single-round private capital raise in China’s physical AI industry to date, based on both the amount raised and the resulting valuation.He Xiaopeng, Chairman and CEO of XPENG, said: “Over the past 12 years, XPENG has remained committed to full-stack in-house R&D, building a solid technological foundation for the physical AI…

Information extraction teams face a recurring choice. Small encoder models are cheap but rigid, and large language models are flexible but expensive per document. Fastino released GLiNER2.5 to narrow that gap. The release replaces span enumeration with boundary prediction: the model scores where an entity starts and ends instead of scoring every candidate span against a width grid. That single change removes the maximum entity width, allows a 4,096-word context, and keeps computation linear in sequence length for a fixed schema. It also unlocks joint entity-relation decoding, cross-task label constraints, and per-span attributes. Across 16 zero-shot benchmarks, the multilingual checkpoint…

Ravie LakshmananAug 24, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking A package gets installed. A login prompt opens. A box sits exposed to the internet. Nothing looks unusual yet. That’s roughly the mood this week. Trusted tools turn hostile, old weak spots get fresh attention, AI makes exploit work cheaper, and researchers keep finding attacks that sound harder than they actually are. Plenty to clean up. Here’s the short version. ⚡ Threat of the Week U.S. Warns of AI-Powered Attacks on Siemens PLCs — Threat actors are using AI to write exploit scripts targeting internet-exposed Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used across…

In brief Ox Alpha, a free “stealth model,” launched August 20 on OpenRouter, OpenCode, Cline, and Nous Research’s portal+. A viral claim that Ox Alpha beats Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE came from a 10-task sample; two separate full 113-task runs landed near 63%, roughly level with GPT-5.6 Sol. Google, Xiaomi, DeepSeek, and Microsoft’s MAI were all floated as the model behind it; but the most popular theory points to Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.3 family. AI enthusiasts are getting very excited about an AI model called Ox Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on August 20 with no company…

Most people have received a message like this at some point. A bank, a retailer or even a healthcare provider informs you that your data may have been exposed. The language is familiar and carefully reassuring, emphasizing there is no evidence of misuse. Out of an abundance of caution, your password has been reset, and you are advised to monitor your accounts. You read it, glance at your statements, see nothing unusual and, like most people, move on. It feels contained, as though whatever risk existed has already passed. Over time, these notifications begin to blur together, becoming less a…

J. David Ake/Getty ImagesFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysOnly 15% of organizations have reached scaled multi-agentic orchestration.Most business leaders are reevaluating their business models in light of advances in agentic AI.Scaling agentic AI must begin with sufficient resources to transform the workforce.Most US-based companies are under pressure and working hard to shift from experimenting with AI agents to deploying them in production, according to the latest research from Deloitte. A survey of 501 senior business leaders involved in driving their companies’ AI strategies or implementations revealed that most organizations struggle to develop an executable, integrated…