OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator
GitHub stars for OpenAI’s Sora project plummeted by over 50%, dropping from a peak of nearly 3,000 stars to just under 1,400 within the span of two weeks following the…
Amazon will give you a $100 gift card when you buy the Nothing Phone 4a Pro
The Nothing Phone 4a Pro, touted as Amazon’s latest gift card incentive, boasts impressive yet problematic benchmarks and thermal performance metrics compared to its predecessor. In our testing under controlled…
Epic is laying off more than 1,000 workers, citing a downturn in Fortnite engagement
Last week, Epic Games made headlines by announcing layoffs of more than 1,000 employees due to a downturn in Fortnite engagement since 2025. This marks the second significant round of…
‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran
According to Krebs on Security, within a span of just three days following its initial release in December 2025, the CanisterWorm malware garnered over 1,000 GitHub stars and had more…
Claude Code and Cowork can now use your computer
Anthropic’s recent update to Claude Code and Cowork marked a significant shift in AI tool usage, as evidenced by an increase of 50% in GitHub stars within the first month…
Can you trust Firefox’s new free VPN for all browser users? What you need to know
Mozilla’s latest venture into privacy tools has hit a rocky start as it announced its free Virtual Private Network (VPN) for Firefox users on March 3, 2026. Within the first…
Tech in Asia – Connecting Asia’s startup ecosystem
The latest migration from v3.4 to v4.0 of the OpenAPI framework caused a significant disruption for developers across Asia, as indicated by recent metrics from Tech in Asia’s startup ecosystem…
Zero-Downtime Splunk Migration at inDrive: From Bare Metal to AWS SmartStore
In March 2025, inDrive announced a major infrastructure overhaul by migrating its Splunk instance from bare metal to AWS SmartStore. By June of the same year, this migration had resulted…
Tech in Asia – Connecting Asia’s startup ecosystem
Tech in Asia reported that a leading startup ecosystem platform saw its GitHub stars increase by 50% from December 31, 2024, to February 28, 2026, indicating strong community engagement and…
Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks
According to Krebs on Security, in a coordinated international effort spearheaded by U.S. authorities, the online infrastructure of four notorious IoT botnets has been dismantled. These botnets—dubbed Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid,…