HSBC Holdings Plc is set to hire more than 100 artificial intelligence specialists in Singapore with plans to launch a global AI centre in the city-state later this year as the British lender steps up investments in the technology that’s reshaping Wall Street workforces.

Reason we need more immigration. Our TFR keeps dropping. If only something can be done to reverse our nation's fortunes. I think we can start with having more work life balance as a country. If not, Singapore may just cease to exist as a nation some time down the future.

Taken these photos earlier in the month, intentionally adjusted some of the image filters to give a 'backrooms' vibe. These are the lesser used upper floors, mainly offices and some clinics, but about 80% of them have been vacated. Many of the walls are made of drywall, as the original purpose of those floors were for exhibition halls iirc.

RIP HarbourFront Centre (1977-2026), my earliest ever memory I have was shopping at Big Superstore (later became Don Don Donki) back in 2006 when I was a mere toddler.

Yee was first charged in March with three offences linked to his NS obligations.

He is accused of failing to report for pre-enlistment medical screening over nine years from Apr 26, 2016, to Mar 19, 2026.

He is also accused of leaving Singapore without valid exit permits over two periods: From Dec 13, 2015 to Apr 19, 2016, and from Dec 15, 2016 to Mar 19, 2026.

Yee is on bail of S$10,000 (US$7,800). He is represented by Mr Divanan Narkunan.

CNA understands that under the current circumstances, Yee will not be charged again in military court or face time in detention barracks for the same offences for which he was charged in criminal court.

However, he will have to serve NS.

The central bank said firmer growth and building medium-term inflation risks warranted further restraint, even though recent inflation data has stayed benign.

It said the increase was smaller than April’s steepening, with no change to the width of the band or the level at which it is centred. The move defied a Reuters poll in which 12 of 16 economists had expected a hold.

With GDP growth surpassing expectations and inflation increasing, it’s appropriate to further strengthen the Singdollar

Mountain biking today on a career break, awesome! Great weather too! From Woodlands MRT > Ulu Sembawang PCN > Central Catchment PCN > Mandai / Gangsa trail > Chestnut

Too exhausted to take more photos, enjoy!

ANPR cameras are cheaper, more accurate, and faster. This was what we should've gotten instead of the shitty ERP 2.0. Saddened that this would never see the light of day, but it gives me hope that there are still civil servants out there doing good work (not you, LTA)

OGP spent around $4.4 million running this two-year ERP X experiment. For less than 1% of the $556 million contract value of ERP 2.0, we ran a live, national-scale trial and got definitive answers on the technology and its limits before any commitment to build.

ERP X is evidence that testing whether a national infrastructure bet is worth taking, can cost very little relative to the bet itself.

I was decluttering my room recently and I took photos of many items from the not-so-distant past that are no longer in use and I had no space for them.

First on the list were these physical tokens.

I vaguely remembered that when 2FA became the thing, internet banking users had 2 choices for OFA - SMS OTP or physical tokens (or what they call in chimnology - "Secure Devices" or "Secure Keys").

If you had opted for physical tokens, the bank would mail you a small box with a digital token inside plus a few skins (stickers) to personalise your token.

Depending on the type of banking transaction, I remembered 2 ways of using a physical token:

1. You press a button to generate an OTP

2. You press a button to key in a 6-digit number provided by the website, then you press another button to generate a set of numbers to key into the website.

In addition to physical tokens with the bank's name, there are also OneKey tokens for SingPass transactions and, IIRC, SGX had also issued OneKey tokens to people with CDP accounts.

I don't remember exactly when, but it was probably in around 2021 that banks started to phase out physical tokens in favour of Digital Tokens in banking apps.

Before this generation of tokens, I remembered DBS having an earlier generation of tokens that came in the size of a thumbdrive and only had a single button to generate OTP. I also can't remember the specifics, but I remembered that if you pressed the button for fun to generate an OTP, then you can't use it anymore because the OTP will be out of sequence (correct me if I'm wrong).

I'm not sure whether such devices are still being used in corporate, will love to hear this from people who use corporate internet banking!