Jupiter's Great Red Spot wobbles like Jell-o, according to Hubble snaps
Scientists undecided about possible flavor
Science11 Oct 2024 | 16
Laura is an enterprise technology reporter for The Register, focusing primarily on the APAC region. Before joining our publisher, she held roles ranging from science journalist to mechanical engineer at a leading maker of business computer systems.
Healthcare attacks spread beyond US – just ask India's Star Health
Acknowledges bulk customer data leak weeks after Telegram channels dangled it online
Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 1
OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff
Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 3
OpenAI appoints international expansion boss
Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside
AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 4
Asian crime gangs are growing – fast – thanks to AI and other tech
UN report finds Telegram, cryptocurrency are tools of a growing 'criminal service economy'
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 7
Samsung apologizes for bad financial performance
Profit doesn't pop despite AI-inspired memory boom, leading to executive mea culpa
Systems08 Oct 2024 | 8
China reportedly tells local AI buyers to ignore Nvidia
In Brief Plus: Google, Oracle, spend $9.5 billion on Asia datacenters; Philippines to tax clouds; Vietnam infosec praised; and more
AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 3
Google Cloud to help India export its Digital Public Infrastructure
Bundles free government apps to help digital diplomacy – and maybe find some new customers
Public Sector04 Oct 2024 | 1
Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids
California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger
Systems04 Oct 2024 | 5
Fujitsu teams up with Supermicro on Arm-based server CPU
Liquid cooling on the mind
On-Prem03 Oct 2024 | 3
Singapore tires of Big Tech's slow and half-hearted help for abused users
PM promises agency to handle complaints as he outlines new digital nation plan
Public Sector02 Oct 2024 | 3
TSMC preps facilities as Taiwan braces for powerful Super Typhoon Krathon
Plants in Tainan and Kaohsiung face heavy rainfall
Systems01 Oct 2024 | 3
Fire halts production at Indian iPhone factory
Tata was about to double the workforce at the plant
Personal Tech01 Oct 2024 | 4
Imagine a government that told Big Tech to improve resilience – then punished failures
It's happening in South Korea
Off-Prem01 Oct 2024 | 16
China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband
Great Firewall reaches all the way into space
Networks30 Sep 2024 | 27
Binance claims it helped to bust Chinese crypto scam app in India
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: SpaceX plans Vietnam investment; Yahoo! Japan content moderation secrets; LG offloads Chinese display factory; and more
Cyber-crime30 Sep 2024 | 5
Data harvesting superapp admits it struggled to wield data – until it built an LLM
Engineers at Grab don't need to ask each other questions any more
AI + ML27 Sep 2024 | 9
Japanese orgs now paying salaries direct into e-wallets
Starting at SoftBank, using its own PayPay service
Software27 Sep 2024 | 11
SK hynix begins mass production of 36 GB 12-layer HBM3E
Should be Jensen Huang's hands in less than 60 days
Storage26 Sep 2024 | 2
India extends IT hardware import license scheme that enraged Big Tech
And hints at revised rules to come later this year
Systems26 Sep 2024 | 6
Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways
Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation
Networks25 Sep 2024 | 6
China claims Taiwan, not civilians, behind web vandalism
Taipei laughs it off – and so does Beijing, which says political slurs hit sites nobody reads anyway
Cyber-crime25 Sep 2024 | 2
Vietnam finds a formula – C = SET + 1 – to grow its semiconductor industry to $100bn
It only adds up to being as big as Nvidia today, in 2050
Public Sector24 Sep 2024 | 1
Chinese server-maker Inspur claims it's on track for better liquid cooling with 'railway sleeper' design
Beijing is happy at surging sales and production capacity, falling energy requirements
Systems23 Sep 2024 | 3
Alibaba Cloud claims its modular datacenter architecture shrinks build times by 50 percent
Also reveals boosted utilization rates, upgraded IaaS and more – all in the name of AI apps
Off-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 4
NTT Data, IBM team on mainframe cloud for banks
SimpliZCloud is only for India right now, based on big Blue's LinuxONE
Off-Prem19 Sep 2024 | 4
Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers
Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume
Systems19 Sep 2024 | 2
China's tech giants buy into Indonesia - just like US tech giants did in India
GoTo commits to the Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba promises not to sell its stake
SaaS18 Sep 2024 |
Alibaba Cloud waiting for hardware to dry out before trying to restore customer data
Digital Realty's Singapore disaster still complicating cloud after a week
Off-Prem17 Sep 2024 | 8
Biden tackles trade loophole used by cheap Chinese e-tailers
Removing de minimis exemption could stymie Beijing’s plans to grow its cyber-bazaar abroad
Personal Tech16 Sep 2024 | 22
Bank fines HPE's financial services arm in India
Alleges its governance was MIA and its KYC SNAFU
Public Sector16 Sep 2024 | 2
Plunging printer sales see Japan's Ricoh plan 2,000 redundancies
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Superapps in trouble across Asia; Indonesia connectivity doubles; Alibaba turns 25; and more!
On-Prem16 Sep 2024 | 1
Japan to put a small red Swedish house on the Moon
No, you read that right
Science13 Sep 2024 | 62
Feds pull plug on domains linked to import of Chinese gun conversion devices
Illegal goods allegedly shipped to the US labeled as toys or jewels
Cyber-crime13 Sep 2024 | 30
Domo arigato, Mr Roboto: Japan's bullet trains to ditch drivers
The Shinkansen have operated without fatalities for sixty years – how hard can it be?
AI + ML12 Sep 2024 | 125
Samsung faces strikes in India, amid reports of global layoffs
Union alleges work conditions are like solitary confinement and violence is common at Tamil Nadu plant
Legal12 Sep 2024 | 1
India to train 5,000 'Cyber Commandos'
Minister reckons dedicated cops necessary to protect digital transactions
Security11 Sep 2024 | 3
Wanna watch a movie? Sure! Lemme just park the lounge room
Foxcon and Sharp imagine a sofa and television in a connected electric van
Personal Tech11 Sep 2024 | 9
US spends CHIPS Act cash to explore Indian chipmaking collabs
Starting with an analysis of what India has to offer, which is plenty
Public Sector10 Sep 2024 | 6
Malaysia's plan to block overseas DNS dies after a day
Minister orders regulator to slow down following immediate backlash
Public Sector10 Sep 2024 | 14
MI6, CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven enemies
Spy bosses use first-ever joint article to bemoan how Russia and China use tech to mess with the world
AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 55
Big Tech got its 'next billion' – but there's three billion people still offline
The GSMA and its friends are looking for ways to bring those within mobile range onto the 'net
Networks03 Sep 2024 | 8
Chinese boffins advocate nuking nearby asteroids – it’s the only way to be sure
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Alibaba exits regulatory purgatory; India slows CBDC rollout; China creates eight new datacenter hubs
Science02 Sep 2024 | 19
Crypto boss finds fraud trial a serious pain in the neck
Thankfully his injuries are not life threatening
Legal30 Aug 2024 | 10
China is beating the world at scientific research, think tank finds
Could monopolise 24 key techs if current trends continue
Science30 Aug 2024 | 35
EU tries to pin down China on definition of 'important data'
Rules on cross border data transfers have European businesses scratching their heads
Legal29 Aug 2024 | 2
Missing Fujitsu PCs? It's back with a fresh lineup of 16 models
Business left Europe last year, but remains ticking away
Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 19
Big Tech: Malaysia won't let us set our own rules and that's not fair and makes us grumpy
Asia Internet Coalition asks for rethink of social media licensing law with the old 'You'll scare away investors' line – a week after AWS opened a region
Public Sector28 Aug 2024 | 22
Boom Supersonic takes baby steps toward breaking the sound barrier
Twitchy roll resolved, landing gear works on one-third size demonstrator
Personal Tech27 Aug 2024 | 68
Infosys CEO promises jobs to 2,000 graduate recruits it has kept on hold for two years
But they have to show up for unpaid training, or lose their jobs-in-waiting
On-Prem27 Aug 2024 | 18
Cognizant alleges Infosys swiped its trade secrets
Sueball suggests outsourcer went out of bounds by developing competing product
CxO26 Aug 2024 | 9
India misses ten million public WiFi hotspot goal, catchup not looking likely
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Glowing reports for Fukushima wastewater; New datacenters in Fiji, Malaysia & South Korea; and more
Public Sector26 Aug 2024 | 3
India delays planned space station and moon base by five years
As results from 2023's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest south pole Moon magma
Science23 Aug 2024 | 30
China's rideshare champ Didi gives users the option to report stinky cars
Also testing allowing women to chose female drivers
Offbeat23 Aug 2024 | 6
Walmart clears out its shares of Chinese e-tailer JD.com
That’s one way to mark the end of an eight-year partnership
SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 1
LG Electronics aims to become a datacenter cooling player, with aircon and immersion tech
2030 vision also calls for its appliances and televisions to turn you into a subscription cash cow
Cloud Infrastructure Month22 Aug 2024 | 4
Shein, Temu escalate epic e-commerce squabble
Chinese fast fashion slingers get their Spider-Man meme moment
Legal21 Aug 2024 | 45
China's chip tech still lags the West – by up to five generations
Think tank warns US and friends they can't assume Beijing won't catch up
Systems21 Aug 2024 | 27
Pakistan’s internet slows to uncomfortable levels, allegedly due to new China-style firewall
Minister issues denial – it's just an upgrade to the 'web-management system'
Public Sector20 Aug 2024 | 6
Japan's Astroscale wins contract for space junk harvesting robotic arm
The plan is to do away with an H-IIA rocket upper stage – and prove it's possible
Science19 Aug 2024 | 9
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