Apple to settle class action for $490 million after Tim overcooked China outlook CEO's optimism was not reflected in the supply chain Legal19 Mar 2024 | 1
India celebrates rapid adoption of its internet of livestock Latest piece of digital public infrastructure is positively beastly Public Sector19 Mar 2024 |
Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation 875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested Cyber-crime18 Mar 2024 | 29
India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs Asia in brief Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 2
Alibaba pits people against AI in its annual mathematics competition Thankfully the prizes for human winners are far higher than those for machines AI + ML15 Mar 2024 |
Korea's SK Innovation liquidates Chinese battery subsidiary The Chaebol that also runs chipmaker SK hynix lacks energy to run multiple middle kingdom entities Offbeat14 Mar 2024 |
South Korea goes out on a limb to manage forests with AI, satellites Plans to digitally transform trees Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 1
Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings 100,000 Chinese drivers join queue just to check out the 'SU7' in a showroom Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 18
Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills Extra zeroes added to transaction values, just a handful of days before a payment deadline Public Sector13 Mar 2024 | 13
Singapore startup SiliconBox to open packaging fab in Northern Italy Shared cultural values sealed the deal and we're struggling to figure out what they are Systems12 Mar 2024 | 2
Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident Plus: Pilots on Lion Air’s Batik fall asleep and miss Jakarta Offbeat11 Mar 2024 | 42
China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too Software11 Mar 2024 | 7
Singtel loses $260 million tax case in Australia Asia in brief PLUS: Chinese tops Steam’s language charts; HPE opens Saudi server factory; Indian government apps have flaws Public Sector10 Mar 2024 | 2
Biden's State of the Union included a battle cry against AI mimicry Lots of pats on the back for the CHIPS Act too AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 16
Font security 'still a Helvetica of a problem' says Australian graphics outfit Canva Who knew that unzipping a font archive could unleash a malicious file Security08 Mar 2024 | 38
US politicians want ByteDance to sell off TikTok or face ban The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms Personal Tech07 Mar 2024 | 18
Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027 Science07 Mar 2024 | 23
China pushes 'AI Plus' initiative to integrate technology and industry Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
NASA and Japan's X-ray satellite space 'scope sends first snaps of distant galaxies Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August Science06 Mar 2024 | 4
Grab shrank its superapp by a quarter in order to survive Large APKs and disk footprints spell doom in a developing market Software05 Mar 2024 | 12
India demands beta AIs secure government permission before going public Not compulsory for now, but IT minister says that's coming after Google's Gemini said the quiet part out loud AI + ML04 Mar 2024 | 2
Indian tech minister vows to stop Google removing local apps from Play Store Asia In Brief PLUS: APNIC director general to step down; Hong Kong's odd cloud survey; Rent-a-friend online in China; and more Software03 Mar 2024 | 8
NTT boss takes early retirement to atone for data leak No mere mea culpa would suffice after 9.2 million records leaked over a decade, warnings were ignored, and lies were told Security01 Mar 2024 | 8
Vietnam may ban virtual assets to fix its bad rep for money laundering Hopes to get itself off an international naughty list – as you would when you want foreign investment in your chip sector Public Sector01 Mar 2024 | 8
Baidu admits it may never get leading-edge GPUs again Execs swear Chinese cloud will beat local rivals with a superior software stack that makes AI sing AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 2
Toyota admits its engines are overrated – by its own power testing software Japan's government slapped it for using the wrong code to produce too-powerful results Software29 Feb 2024 | 34
Nvidia lures senior autonomous car developer from China's Baidu Jensen Huang's automotive engineering team has now pinched two significant Middle Kingdom talents AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 7
EU sanctions Indian tech outfit that has partnered with New Delhi's IT Ministry Si2 Microsystems was tapped for silicon photonics expertise, but has Russian ties that worry Washington and Brussels Public Sector28 Feb 2024 | 9
Japan's SLIM unexpectedly wakes up on Moon after month-long nap How's that for resilient? Science27 Feb 2024 | 14
Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now Science26 Feb 2024 | 33
Gen AI and cloud optimization help Asian SuperApp Grab turn a profit Headcount down 18 percent as content creation time shrinks from 99 hours to 90 minutes Off-Prem26 Feb 2024 | 3
India’s homebrew RISC-V CPU goes on sale in new development board Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei’s tablets beat iPad sales; Japanese supermarket’s long ransomware fight; Do Kwon extradited Systems26 Feb 2024 | 3
X protests forced suspension of accounts on orders of India's government Nonprofit SFLC links orders to farming protests Public Sector23 Feb 2024 | 20
Please stop pouring the wrong radioactive water into the sea, Fukushima operator told Government takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident Science23 Feb 2024 | 41
Boeing-backed air taxi upstart Wisk plans to fly you across town at UberX prices by 2030 Absence of an on-board pilot will lower costs and raise blood pressure, starting soon in Texas Offbeat22 Feb 2024 | 57
China could be doing better at censorship, think tank finds Complex overlapping bureaucracy sometimes lacks the funds and skills to do it right Security21 Feb 2024 | 10
Singapore's monetary authority advises banks to get busy protecting against quantum decryption No time like the present, says central bank Security21 Feb 2024 | 9
Superapp Gojek fine-tunes each new error message for a week. What? Why? Multilingual service spans five nations and finds fancy graphics improve engagement Software20 Feb 2024 | 14
Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards Iris scan, voice samples and blood type to be included in database Public Sector20 Feb 2024 | 23
Days after half a billion Asians went to the polls, Big Tech promises to counter 2024 election misinformation Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and pals promise they'll try very hard to keep AI nasties off the 'net AI + ML19 Feb 2024 | 12
India won't become a semiconductor superpower anytime soon, says think tank $10 billion subsidies predicted to deliver just five modest fabs by 2029 Systems16 Feb 2024 | 3
North Korea running malware-laden gambling websites as-a-service $5k a month for the site. $3k for tech support. Infection with malware and funding a despot? Priceless Cyber-crime15 Feb 2024 | 3
India weighs 18 bids to build subsidized local chip factories APAC in Brief PLUS: Rideshare mega-merger mooted; France raids Huawei; Mongolia plans first satellite Off-Prem12 Feb 2024 | 1
India to make its digital currency programmable Reserve Bank also wants a national 2FA framework Cyber-crime09 Feb 2024 | 26
Crime gang targeted jobseekers across Asia, looted two million email addresses That listing for a gig that looked too good to be true may have been carrying SQL injection code Cyber-crime09 Feb 2024 | 1
Alibaba Cloud posts modest growth, mostly thanks to other Alibaba business units Customers from beyond the Chinese giant are being let go if they've signed for low-margin contracts Off-Prem08 Feb 2024 |
Bank boss has pay slashed after presiding over tech outages in 2023 Singapore's DBS wants accountability for digital dropouts CxO07 Feb 2024 | 4
India to launch android into space to test crewed launch capability Vyommitra, your multitasking, bilingual, female space friend, will fly before the long-delayed Gaganyaan launch in 2025 Science07 Feb 2024 | 6
Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong acquitted of stock manipulation charges What a surprise, said no one Legal06 Feb 2024 | 5
Singapore finally deletes its COVID-era contact tracing data Except for the data used for a controversial murder investigation. That stays. Forever Software06 Feb 2024 | 8
Deepfake CFO tricks Hong Kong biz out of $25 million Recordings of past vidchats suspected as source of fakery – so there's another class of data you need to lock down AI + ML05 Feb 2024 | 27
ASEAN bloc to build submarine cable network, link government apps APAC in Brief PLUS: TikTok returns to Indonesian e-commerce; Chinese giants' EV battery swap scheme; India drops mobile tariffs Off-Prem04 Feb 2024 | 1
Wikileaks source and former CIA worker Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years jail 'Vault 7' leak detailed cyber-ops including forged digital certs Cyber-crime02 Feb 2024 | 56
Huawei hits speed bump in production of intelligent automotive unit Holding up the EV supply chain is not a great start to 2024 Personal Tech01 Feb 2024 | 1
Singtel does the 'we’re building datacenters to host Nvidia clusters’ thing Renames its bit barn business as ‘Nxera’ as it plans three new facilities, some built just for AI Off-Prem01 Feb 2024 | 1
Indian PM's advisors suggest AI might lead to 'mass schizophrenia' Reject recent rule-making with plan to adopt transparency and reporting rules used in financial markets to stop binary brainboxes burying humanity AI + ML01 Feb 2024 | 8
China puts homegrown GPUs and other AI infrastucture on its national to-do list Don't have to deal with sanctions if you build it yourself AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 8
Oracle is hiring two new teams to build its cloud faster and stronger Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team to help build datacenters, data team to create new services Off-Prem31 Jan 2024 | 5
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human Controling prostheses? Mr X imagines an app for that Science30 Jan 2024 | 69
Microsoft signals expansion of APAC datacenter fleet with 'land acquisition' hire Hiring for regional and global execs to help it find new spots for bit barns, and make sure they get built right Off-Prem30 Jan 2024 | 4