Singtel CEO Yuen Kuan Moon's compensation fell 16.9% to S$6.8 million for FY23, despite a 39.5% rise in net profit. The company cited "material operational and reputational issues" including network outages at Optus and disruptions in Singapore.
AI-generated images depicting a non-existent family, including a man unaware his photos were used, have caused distress. The man discovered his image was used in a fabricated narrative after a friend alerted him, and later identified a former schoolmate as the source of the photos on Instagram.
A French teen is facing mischief and public nuisance charges in Singapore after posting a video on social media of himself licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and then putting it back. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 18, was charged on April 24 and has not entered a plea, the city state’s largest English-language newspaper, The Straits Times, said. He allegedly committed the offence at a shopping centre on March 12, and his video spread rapidly when it surfaced, the report...
Singapore police have arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly uploading Paramount Skydance's upcoming Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender animated feature online after illegally accessing a server where the project was stored. The film, scheduled for October 9th premiere on Paramount Plus, leaked onto the internet in early April, with footage spreading rapidly across social media. If convicted of unauthorized access to computer material, the suspect faces up to 10 years in jail and a $50,000 fine. The leak originated from an April 11th X post claiming someone at Nickelodeon accidentally emailed the entire movie.
