Inside China’s traffic-driven self-media commentary industry that turns clicks into yuan

I feel this is relevant to Singapore as it goes into the underlying reasons for the recent social media posts disparaging Indians. It’s not even a governmental effort, it’s just content creators trying to make money with made up stories and being rewarded for it.

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u/NerubianAssassin — 23 days ago

Singapore launches new AI supercomputer to boost climate, healthcare research

Built with more than 1,500 of Nvidia’s advanced H200 GPUs, Aspire 2B can run more than 100 quadrillion calculations per second – a task that would take a global population over 170 days to complete manually.

It also has four times the computing power of its predecessors Aspire 2A and 2A+ combined. They are supercomputers launched in 2024 that have supported more than 1,500 projects.

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u/NerubianAssassin — 28 days ago

Sir John Curtice: Election results show politics in the UK has fragmented

The overnight local election results have confirmed that, for the time being at least, electoral politics in Britain has become highly fragmented.

Reform are certainly the winners. The party has won most seats - 30% of those declared so far. 

Meanwhile in a sample of over 500 wards where the BBC has collected the detailed voting figures, the party has recorded an average vote share of 26% - not an especially high figure but still enough to put them well ahead of all of their rivals.

Nigel Farage's party has done best in places that voted heavily for Brexit in 2016. In wards where more than 60% voted for Leave in 2015, support for Reform has averaged 41%.

In contrast, in places where less than 49% backed Brexit, Reform won on average just 10%. The one place where it has gained control of a council, Newcastle-under-Lyme, voted by nearly two-to-one in favour of Brexit.

The Greens' success was more modest. They have averaged 16% of the vote in the wards declared so far, much as we would anticipate from their standing in the polls. 

Nevertheless, this represents a seven-point increase on the party's support when this round of local elections was last held in 2022 - and on its performance in the local elections held shortly before the 2024 general election.

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u/NerubianAssassin — 2 months ago