Topic: digital identity
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BEEAH Group Partners with Hashgraph for Digital Identity
BEEAH Group partners with The Hashgraph Group to launch a decentralized digital identity solution using Hedera's technology, enhancing secure access across its services in environmental, energy, real estate, technology, and healthcare sectors. The initiative, supported by The Hashgraph Associatio...
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Australian Consumer Trust Plummets as Security Fears Soar: Ping Identity
Only 11% of Australian adults fully trust organizations with their digital identities, reflecting a significant decline in consumer trust driven by AI-related data security fears. Australians are increasingly concerned about AI-driven threats, with 82% more worried about data security than five y...
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LexisNexis Opens APAC Data Hub in Malaysia to Boost Fraud Defense
LexisNexis Risk Solutions has launched a new APAC data hub in Malaysia to enhance digital identity protection and fraud prevention across the Asia-Pacific region, supporting secure business operations. The facility will process data for key APAC markets, improving system performance and transacti...
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Ledger's New Nano: More Than Just a Crypto Wallet
The Ledger Nano Gen5 is a larger, $179 device rebranded as a versatile "signer," featuring a nearly three-inch E Ink touchscreen for improved usability and security in reviewing transactions. It aims to attract a broader audience beyond cryptocurrency users by positioning itself as a secure tool ...
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Germany Launches Quantum-Secure National ID Cards
Germany is launching a new generation of national ID cards with quantum-resistant security features to protect against future threats from quantum computers. The upgrade involves a two-phase rollout, starting with quantum-resistant digital signatures and transitioning to a fully quantum-safe syst...
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Yubico Unveils Post-Quantum Crypto & Digital ID Breakthroughs
Yubico introduced new passkey capabilities that extend beyond password replacement, enabling secure digital identity management and credential signing directly from YubiKeys. The company showcased a prototype for Post-Quantum Cryptography on hardware security keys, highlighting the need for new h...
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Speed Up Real-Time Payments Without Compromising Security
Securing real-time payments requires balancing robust fraud prevention with a seamless customer experience, using advanced analytics and adaptive authentication to detect threats without slowing transactions. The speed of real-time payments increases fraud risk, making pre-authorization preventio...
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METSAKUUR Inc. Unveils Global Growth at GITEX Global 2025
METSAKUUR Inc. showcased its advanced facial recognition AI at GITEX Global 2025, attracting international interest and advancing its expansion in Middle Eastern and European markets. The company presented AI-driven security systems with anti-spoofing features, perfect accuracy, and rapid process...
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UAE's IOPn Launches World's First Blockchain Citizenship with São Tomé
The UAE and São Tomé and Príncipe have launched the world's first blockchain-powered Citizenship-by-Investment program, managed through STPSA and IOPn. This initiative utilizes Emirati-developed blockchain, AI, and cloud technologies to ensure transparency and security while boosting the UAE's in...
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UAE's Gewan Holding, IOPn Partner to Advance Sovereign AI and Blockchain
Gewan Holding and IOPn have partnered to advance sovereign AI and blockchain technologies in the UAE, aiming to enhance the nation's digital infrastructure and global leadership. The collaboration features a sovereign AI stack using NVIDIA GPUs and OPN Chain, integrating AI with digital identity ...
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From Station Platforms to Smart Hospitals: How Hong Kong’s Tech Projects Are Quietly Reshaping Daily Life
From AI‑powered hospitals to autonomous shuttles, Hong Kong’s smart city projects are grounded in real institutions and measurable results. This fact‑checked report shows how government, research hubs, and companies are making daily life more efficient, connected, and sustainable.
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Netflix Acquires Avatar Company to Expand Into Party Games
Netflix is acquiring avatar technology company Ready Player Me to integrate cross-platform avatars into its games, aiming to create a more connected and personalized gaming ecosystem. The acquisition will phase out Ready Player Me's standalone developer services by early 2026, with the team and t...
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Can't Afford a Vacation? This AI App Sells You Fake Ones
A new wave of AI applications generates fake vacation photos, allowing users, often middle to low-income individuals, to mentally escape and visualize a life of luxury they cannot afford as a form of therapy or goal manifestation. These tools, such as Endless Summer and various "AI manifestation"...
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Master Your AI Video Presence with Sora
OpenAI has introduced new user controls for Sora, its AI video platform, allowing individuals to restrict how their digital likenesses are used, such as blocking appearances in political content or with specific language. The platform, often compared to a "TikTok for deepfakes," enables the creat...
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Google's Nano Banana AI Makes Photos Unreliable
Google's Nano Banana Pro AI image model creates highly realistic images that are difficult to distinguish from authentic photographs, improving on previous flaws like blurring and unnatural textures. The subscription-based service, built on Gemini 3 Pro architecture, is accessible with a free tie...
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Senators Push to Ban Teen Access to AI Chatbots
A bipartisan bill called the GUARD Act, introduced by Senators Hawley and Blumenthal, seeks to ban individuals under 18 from using AI chatbots and requires tech companies to implement strong age verification systems. The legislation mandates that AI chatbots regularly disclose their non-human nat...
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Unlock Your Phone's Potential: The Ultimate Guide to eSIMs
eSIMs are embedded digital alternatives to physical SIM cards, securely storing subscriber information in a device's internal memory instead of on a removable chip. They offer greater convenience by allowing users to switch carriers or plans through a simple software update, eliminating the need ...
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Sam Altman's Merge Labs Spins Out From Nonprofit
A new brain-computer interface startup called Merge Labs has been spun out from Forest Neurotech, co-founded by OpenAI's Sam Altman and focusing on using ultrasound to read brain activity. The stealth-mode company, linked to key neurotech figures and Caltech research, aims to realize the vision o...
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Roblox Adds Age Verification for Chat Feature
Roblox has rolled out a mandatory age verification system for its chat features globally, aiming to create safer, age-appropriate social interactions by grouping users based on verified age brackets. The platform uses facial scan technology for initial age estimation, with options to appeal via I...
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