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Musk limits Grok AI use in UK to only paying users following ban threat
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 11/01/2026
» Elon Musk has restricted access to Grok AI on the X platform in the UK to only paying subscribers following a wave of intense criticism over the tool's role in generating violent and sexually explicit imagery.
Discord plans auto-restart feature to tackle high RAM usage
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 22/12/2025
» Discord has acknowledged that its desktop application can consume nearly 4GB of RAM, leading the company to test a new "Auto Restart" feature to mitigate performance degradation for Windows users.
Microsoft plans Remote Attestation system to prevent game cheating
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 07/12/2025
» Microsoft is advancing its measures to combat computer game cheating with a new system known as Remote Attestation, designed to verify a player's boot process and transmit confirmation data to Azure servers upon every startup. The feature is set to make its debut in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, utilising security technologies including Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and Virtualization-based Security (VBS).
DLsite launches payment system after Visa, Mastercard block
Life, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 11/10/2025
» Japanese digital platform DLsite has rolled out its own payment system after facing restrictions from major credit card firms Visa and Mastercard over adult-themed content.
The show goes on
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 29/08/2025
» The show must go on! And that is why the light has never gone out for five decades. Despite undergoing renovations, whether minor or major, Tiffany's Show Pattaya has raised the curtain every day, except on three occasions -- Sars in 2003, a protest in 2008 and Covid-19 in 2020 -- when tourism was brought to a standstill.
The lion roars on
Life, John Clewley, Published on 29/07/2025
» Musician and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo is 80 years old this month. The man, often dubbed the "Lion of Zimbabwe", is still hugely popular in his home country, despite having gone into exile and resettling in Oregon in 2000.
Girls gone bad
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 18/07/2025
» Remember the popular HBO series Girls from over a decade ago? The show was widely recognised for its postfeminist commentary on female sexuality and millennial angst and it ran for a surprisingly long six seasons. To this day, I still don't really understand the rave reviews. I only watched a few episodes here and there, so I won't pretend to be an expert on it, but what I saw never quite resonated with me.
Aespa's Dirty Work sells a million copies in pre-order
Life, Published on 08/07/2025
» Here's the latest K-pop news of the week -- Aespa's Dirty Work single sold over a million copies in pre-order and SF Cinema is preparing to screen five K-pop concert films launched by Hybe, a renowned South Korean music label.
Rising rents threaten the vibrant street food scene of the once-booming Banthat Thong Road
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 09/06/2025
» As night fell, neon signs gradually lit up Instagrammable restaurants and cafes. Despite pouring rain, tourists were taking photos of a dessert shop's logo of a boy holding a bun at an iconic intersection. Some eateries were teeming with customers, with a long queue of them spilling onto the sidewalk. Some, less popular, saw staff sitting idle. Others put up advertisement for lease.
The unstoppable puppeteer
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 04/06/2025
» The friendly and familiar faces emerged from the bags one by one: a buffalo, a dog, a bird, a crocodile and a pink-haired duck. Many Thais who grew up in the 90s will not only recognise these faces, but they will also know their names: Cha-ngon, Hang Dab, Jao Khuntong, Khon Loy and Ped Noi. These are the stars of children's television programme Jao Khuntong.