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Grandma Huang has never used a smartphone even though her son bought her the latest iPhone 15 and installed high-speed home network and WiFi at home. She said that she did not know how to use it and could not figure out the application instructions. It would be bad if she pressed the wrong button. Smartphones has never appeared in her life and without it, her life would still go on. Aunty Li was envious when she saw her best friend watching “Happiness Comes” on her tablet computer while riding the train. She also wanted to watch it on her 5.4-inch mobile phone, but the screen was too small, and her eyesight was not good, so she had no choice but to give up.

Touted as a “personal air-conditioner” on the wrist, Silent Cicada’s line of watches use an advanced cooling plate placed against the wrist to reduce blood flow temperature.

Straits Times published a commentary on how workers and firms can hedge bets and widen opportunities in a world marked by disruption. The article mentioned a research study done by LKYCIC.

Associate Professor Yeo Kang Shua was involved in the restoration works as the conservation adviser. Gazetted as a national monument in 1973, the cathedral is the oldest surviving Anglican place of worship in Singapore.

In this digital age, children are exposed to overwhelming amounts of information online, some of it unverified and increasingly generated by non-human sources, such as AI-driven language models. As children grow older, the ability to assess a source’s reliability is an important skill in cultivating critical thinking.

Straits Times published an opinion piece about the need to prioritise workers and involve them in the process of Singapore’s Just Transition to green energy. The article cited a study by NTUC that was done in partnership with LKYCIC.

Cambodianess published an opinion piece about capturing the process of citizens reshaping cities. This article was co-written by LKYCIC research fellow Dr Rafael Martinez.

5Ghoul is a described as “a family of implementation-level 5G vulnerabilities”, or a collection of CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) present in the firmware implementation of 5G mobile network modems from major chipset vendors Qualcomm and MediaTek. NSoE Phase II’s IoT sector lead Assistant Prof Sudipta Chattopadhyay’s team discovered 14 vulnerabilities n the chipsets, of which 12 were new. Of the 10 vulnerabilities that affected 5G modems from Qualcomm and MediaTek, six had a high severity rating. For their discoveries, they were awarded US$36,000 by Qualcomm and MediaTek, and featured in Channel News Asia on 12 Dec 2023. Technical information on 5Ghoul can be accessed at https://5ghoul.com/

Channel NewsAsia speaks to SUTD researcher Dr Matheus Garbelini who shared about the discovery process. This discovery was made by Dr Garbelini and his team, which includes Assistant Prof Sudipta Chattopadhyay, SUTD PhD student, Shang Zewen, and two researchers from A*STAR.

Collectively tagged as 5Ghoul, the 14 security defects can be exploited to drop and freeze 5G connections on smartphones and routers, and to conduct downgrading attacks, according to the research team. The majority of the flaws affect 5G modems from Qualcomm and MediaTek.