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AI & Enterprise
Iris-based World ID can overcome limits of captchas and KYC for proof of personhood in AI era
Tools For Humanity, which develops the iris-based ID project World, said proof of personhood is becoming more important in the AI era and that World ID can overcome the limits of captchas and KYC checks. Chief Business Officer Trevor Traina said bots generate more than half of web activity and can now replicate IDs, weakening existing verification. He said the World app has nearly 40 million downloads and 18 million users verified via Orb.
Games & Commerce
Wemade Play maintains ISO27001 information security certification for seventh straight year
Wemade Play has maintained ISO27001, an international information security standard, for a seventh consecutive year. The company said on Thursday it completed an ISO27001 audit by the International Organization for Standardization and has kept the certification through follow-up and renewal reviews since first obtaining it in 2020. The latest review also verified a zero-trust security policy introduced late last year and its operating system for related solutions.
Industry
Bithumb donates 300 blood donation certificates for stem cell transplant patients
Bithumb donated 300 blood donation certificates to the Korea Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Association, it said on Thursday. Including the latest donation, the company has donated a total of 700 certificates. Bithumb has held quarterly blood drives and donation activities since 2022. It held blood drives in January, May and September this year, with about 170 employees taking part, and also donated certificates employees had kept separately.
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Crypto
BDACS CSO Kim Tak-jong says won stablecoin should target payment areas previously hard to reach
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AI & Enterprise
Hecto Innovation introduces stablecoin-based infrastructure for foreign patient hospital bills and trade payments
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AI & Enterprise
MSIT minister steps in amid questions over Korean AI foundation model project, two-track push with frontier AI
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AI & Enterprise
AI hacking responsibility fight heats up
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Games & Commerce
Overseas game firms\' domestic agent liability tightened, user protection duties expanded
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Industry
South Korea semiconductor exports top $60 billion for first time in September, total exports up 84%
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AI & Enterprise
Speed responsibility, not speed control, is core; South Korea should lead functional solidarity linking U.S. and China
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Finance
Global financial firms step up push into South Korea, targeting retail ETFs and institutional alternatives
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Finance
KOSPI rises for first time in four sessions on semiconductor gains, nears 7,000
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AI & Enterprise
MSIT launches K-Moonshot rare earth industry-academia-research council
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AI & Enterprise
MSIT to boost support to link quantum research results to startups and commercialisation
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Crypto
Korea digital asset market cap down 33 percent in H1, trading volume falls 44 percent
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Games & Commerce
Nexon starts pre-registrations for Temppal: Overgeared, launch due this year
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Games & Commerce
Korea platform membership rivalry heats up: Naver points vs Coupang delivery vs Kakao connections
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People & Appointments
Gu Hyeok-chae meets Estonia education ministry to discuss advanced technology cooperation