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A breach every month raises doubts about South Korea’s digital defenses | TechCrunch
South Korea is world-famous for its blazing-fast internet, near-universal broadband coverage, and as a leader in digital innovation, hosting global tech brands like Hyundai, LG, and Samsung. But this very success has made the country a prime target for hackers and exposed how fragile its cybersecurity defenses remain. The country is reeling from a string…
SEA-LION v4: Multimodal Language Modeling for Southeast Asia
AI Singapore (AISG) has released SEA-LION v4, an open-source multimodal language model developed in collaboration with Google and based on the Gemma 3 (27B) architecture. The model is designed to support Southeast Asian languages, including those with limited digital resources, and provides both text and image understanding capabilities. SEA-LION v4 uses a commercially permissive license…