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Exynos 2700 Beats Next Snapdragon in Leaked Benchmarks
Samsung's Exynos 2700 reportedly outscored Qualcomm's next flagship chip in benchmarks. Here's what 2nm, a 10% output increase, and wider Galaxy S27 adoption actually mean.
10/26/2026
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Samsung's First Clip-On Earbuds: Galaxy Buds On
Samsung unveiled Galaxy Buds On, the first clip-style open-ear earbuds in its Galaxy Buds line. Here's what the open design, leak-reduction engineering, and nod-to-answer control actually change.
10/21/2026
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Korea's Twin Data Breaches: A Glitch and a Late Report
Business card app Remember blamed a system error, not hackers, while coffee chain Hollys missed the legal reporting deadline. Two breaches, two very different holes in Korea's privacy regime.
10/21/2026
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Crypto Miners Breached Hollys' Cloud — 2.76M Records Exposed
Korean coffee chain Hollys reported a breach of about 2.76 million customer records after attackers accessed its cloud to mine cryptocurrency, exposing a legacy membership data file.
10/19/2026
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Naver Cloud Launches Free Security Self-Check for Businesses
Naver Cloud opened a free 21-question security self-assessment site for companies, including questions on data leakage risk from AI tool usage. Here's what it actually changes for under-resourced IT teams.
10/19/2026
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$1 Trillion Wiped From AI and Chip Stocks in Four Days
The top 20 AI and semiconductor companies by market cap lost roughly $1 trillion in four trading days. Here's why rate fears, AI capex doubts, and Chinese memory makers hit at once — and why Korea may feel it hardest.
10/18/2026
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Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra Lands on TIME's Best Inventions 2026
Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, Bespoke AI Family Hub and Odyssey G8 made TIME's Best Inventions of 2026. Why a privacy display — not specs — became the headline feature.
10/17/2026
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OK Savings Bank Breach Exposes 250 Loan Applicants
South Korea's OK Savings Bank confirmed a hack exposed personal data of 250 loan applicants. Why the small headcount understates the risk, and what customers should do now.
10/15/2026
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VESSL AI Bets on 200,000 GPUs by 2030 in Neocloud Pivot
Korean MLOps firm VESSL AI announced a pivot to the neocloud business, targeting 200,000 GPUs by 2030 across eight domestic AI data centers, plus an early rollout of NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72. Here's what it means.
10/15/2026
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80% of Korean Firms Hit by a Security Incident, Cisco Says
Cisco's Relentless Defense report finds 80% of Korean organizations suffered a business-impacting cyber incident in the past year, versus 91% globally. Here's why the gap may reflect detection, not safety.
10/14/2026
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Two Korean Data Breaches, One Day: 400 vs 39.5 Million
MG Community Credit Cooperatives disclosed a breach affecting 400 insurance members, including account numbers and balances. The same day, Tving's CEO blamed "AI-based hacking" for a 39.54 million-user leak. Here's what the two cases reveal.
10/13/2026
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Seoul National University Hacked 28 Times in Six Years
Korea's top national university logged 28 breaches over six years and 1,132 leaked personal records, with attack attempts topping 500 a year. Why universities keep getting hit.
10/11/2026
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Samsung's Phone Unit Is Losing Money Despite Record Fold Sales
Samsung's Galaxy Z8 series set a record 1.44 million domestic pre-orders, yet its mobile division is expected to post a second straight quarterly operating loss. Here's how the AI-driven memory price surge is eating smartphone margins.
10/10/2026
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Coupang Sues to Overturn $440M Privacy Fine
Coupang has filed suit to cancel a record 624.6 billion won privacy fine from Korea's data protection regulator, plus a request to suspend enforcement. Here's why the case matters for every large platform in Korea.
10/9/2026
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Two Korean Breaches, One Lesson: The Vendor Is the Weak Link
Kia union members and Korea's largest church both disclosed data breaches on the same day. Neither core system was hacked — the outsourced and peripheral ones were. Here's why that pattern matters.
10/7/2026
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Korea's Top Science Schools Top 30,000 Applicants on AI Hype
Applications to Korea's four elite science institutes topped 30,000 for the first time, driven by new AI departments and semiconductor hype. Here's what it signals about talent flows in tech.
10/5/2026
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113 IT Failures, $5M Paid: Korea's Brokerage Problem
Ten major Korean brokerages logged 113 IT system failures in under three years, paying out roughly 7 billion won to 19,055 customers. Half were software bugs — here's why that matters.
10/4/2026
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Samsung's SmartTag3 Finally Works With iPhones
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy SmartTag3 on October 1, with a smaller body, roughly 3x longer Bluetooth range at up to 60m, and — for the first time — location lookup from iOS devices. Here's why cross-platform support matters more than the specs.
10/1/2026
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AWS Becomes First Cloud Cleared for NATO Restricted Data
AWS has become the first cloud provider cleared to handle NATO Restricted information across all member states. Here's what meeting NATO's D32 guidance means, how it reshapes the defense cloud race, and why it matters.
9/29/2026
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Korea's KOSDAQ IPO Rush: Robots, Chips and Defense
Robot automation platform Bigwave Robotics debuts on KOSDAQ as four robotics, semiconductor and defense firms crowd into the same late-September listing window. Here's what's driving it.
9/28/2026