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Hiroshi Yokota, senior vice-president for regional digital printing and business solution operations at Canon Singapore. PHOTO: Canon Businesses that have already been struggling to keep out the growing number of cyber threats would have been happy to see AIs now adding to their list of concerns. Hardly a week passes without yet another headline of an attack engineered by AI or worse, by an AI that had escaped the safe confines of its test environment.

The Leica SL3-P, the famed German camera maker’s latest full-frame mirrorless camera, arrives with a familiar shape but a lighter frame. More portable, yes, but the aim is to keep the signature build and image quality that Leica fans love. For starters, the new camera keeps the same silhouette as its predecessors, so anyone who has held a Leica SL or SL2 will feel right at home. It has good chunky handling that balances out Leica’s stouter lenses and yet does not feel that heavy.

If you are crazy about Japan or Korea, as most Singaporeans are, you can now brush up your knowledge of the countries’ histories with the latest Brush and Blade DLC (downloadable content) for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII. The fifth DLC since Civilization VII’s launch last year, Brush and Blade focusses on the East Asian civilisations of Japan and Korea. It adds two leaders to the roster, four new civilisations to play and four new wonders to build and discover.

Four data centre operators have been selected to build new facilities and boost Singapore’s capacity by 200MW to meet new AI demand, partly with the help of green energy. Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) will each build 50W facilities, which together will represent a “mega-sized” campus when completed on a data centre park on Jurong Island.

PHOTO: Esmond Xu If you’re liked Nothing phones in the past and have been looking out for a value-for-money option, then the Nothing Phone (4b) should interest you as it first (b) line of wallet-friendly phones. It’s good news for those who have been saddened that there is no release of the company’s traditional budget CMF phones this year. So, the Nothing Phone (4b) fills that void in a way.

In partnership with Vorwerk If you’ve always thought about cooking your favourite mee soto or even chilli crab at home without the hassle of preparing the many ingredients or just want a step-by-step guide from a proven recipe, then the Vorwerk Thermomix TM7 machine might be something worth checking out.

Based on its well-liked flagship sibling, the new Oppo Find X9s is a curious mid-cycle refresh of a smartphone that trims more than it adds. At first glance, it looks like the same phone as the Find X9, but the changes underneath make you wonder if it offers the same value for everyday users and photo enthusiasts alike. The Find X9s keeps the same outer dimensions as the original Find X9, so it slips into pockets and small bags with equal ease.

Yes, it’s a phone made by the famed German camera maker. And yes, the Leica Leitzphone is based on the Xiaomi 17 Ultra, as part of a collaboration with the Chinese phone maker. So, what you get is a Leica phone that uses the same camera hardware, though Leica has given it a more luxurious exterior, different camera interface and a few exclusive photography modes. In Singapore, it is priced at S$2,299, which is S$500 more than the Xiaomi 17 Ultra.

If you ask an AI agent to help book a spot at the gym but it ends up trying to hack the website to complete its task, will you be blamed for its actions? That was a question a friend asked on Facebook this week, as news of a growing number of advanced AIs were said to have broken out of their sandboxes or safe testing grounds and gone on to hack other organisations in the past month.

Companies are facing new AI-related cybersecurity risks as employees are using many AI tools, as well as rogue browser extensions and vulnerable autonomous agents that have exposed organisations to new types of cyberattacks, according to an Akamai report. While AI use has grown across business functions, it revealed, much of the risk is concentrated among a small group of highly active “AI power users” who account for a large share of enterprise AI exposure.