Decade old patent suit goes Apple's way But wait! There could be more litigation as VirnetX isn't giving up yet Legal31 Mar 2023 | 4
Do you use comms software from 3CX? What to do next after biz hit in supply chain attack Miscreants hit downstream customers with infostealers Cyber-crime30 Mar 2023 | 21
Google (sort of) loses in Indian antitrust appeal Updated $161 million slap-on-the-wrist fine stands, but major restrictions are eased Legal30 Mar 2023 | 4
US bans good for Chinese chipmakers, and bad for us, says Taiwanese rival Beijing investing locally in advanced nodes will mean it buys locally, says MediaTek chairman Systems29 Mar 2023 | 13
FTX cryptovillain Sam Bankman-Fried charged with bribing Chinese officials Court gives him new rules: Use one laptop, while living with the 'rents. Cyber-crime29 Mar 2023 | 52
SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up Chinese fast fashion vendor could be this season's TikTok thanks to alleged tax evasion, slave labour, toxic goods, and an outsized carbon footprint Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 18
Jack Ma is back, and he has some feelpinions to share Offering wisdom on AI signals the Alibaba boss is in Beijing's good books again AI + ML28 Mar 2023 | 12
India-based cybergang busted for selling fake KFC franchises It's finger-licking.... what happened to my $$$? Legal27 Mar 2023 | 13
No 'decoupling' here: Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm sing China's praises First big government expo since COVID sees CEOs galore jet in Legal27 Mar 2023 | 8
China's best selling smartwatch offers surveillance-as-a-service … for kids Asia In Brief ALSO: Indian space agency completes OneWeb constellation; Singapore warns on AI weapons; AUKUS tech pact advances AI + ML26 Mar 2023 | 6
Where in the world is Terraform Labs villain Do Kwon? Montenegro, actually Probably in a jail cell, waiting to be extradited stateside Legal24 Mar 2023 | 12
Turing Award goes to Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of the Ethernet A cool $1 million to a man who is not afraid to eat his own words, nor roll out his own cable Networks23 Mar 2023 | 40
Japanese outfit's private Moon mission enters Lunar orbit Now all it has to do is land Science23 Mar 2023 | 15
Indian state turns off internet for 27 million, for four days, to stymie one man Digital rights org criticizes use of fill-in-the-blank template used to quell separatist protests Legal22 Mar 2023 | 14
US details CHIPS Act rules that give China and South Korea some comfort Allows a little expansion of output from existing Middle Kingdom facilities Legal22 Mar 2023 |
Baidu's ERNIE chatbot has nothing to say about Xi Jinping Bot also botches some requests, but is about to be baked into cloud services anyway AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 3
Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes Australian airline Qantas warns pilots to keep calm and carry on amid reports of satnav and altimeter jamming Security20 Mar 2023 | 150
Hong Kong's state-sponsored SEO on national anthem strikes the right note Can't get Google to finish the job, though Legal20 Mar 2023 | 11
Samsung to splurge $230B on five new chip plants for South Korea Will build out domestic industry while it builds out US domestic industry... Systems15 Mar 2023 | 1
SVB collapse's mix of money, urgency and uncertainty makes it irresistible to scammers Phishing, dodgy domain names, and sophisticated attacks already deployed Security15 Mar 2023 | 1
China sought control of submarine cables to spy, says Micronesia Outgoing president alleges Beijing is systematically bullying strategically located island paradise Security15 Mar 2023 | 18
Flirting hard with India doesn't mean US is breaking up with China Commerce secretary says relationship with Beijing is 'benign' and wants to be open to new possibilities On-Prem14 Mar 2023 | 17
India floats idea of dedicated tribunal to handle online offences Consultation for the long-awaited Digital India Act is finally under way although the draft law's still not been revealed Cyber-crime13 Mar 2023 | 2
China launches yet another crackdown on social media 'I am the Chinese Communist Party. I will be with you forever' - Beijing's new propaganda vid says the quiet part out loud Legal13 Mar 2023 | 18
Infosys president leaves to join rival Tech Mahindra as CEO Asia In Brief PLUS: Singapore tests AWS quantum network; Honda bulks autonomous truck; India tightens crypto laws; and more Software12 Mar 2023 | 1
Electronics market shows US-China decoupling will hike inflation and slow growth Singapore's central bank has a gloomy vision of the future Security10 Mar 2023 | 7
Acronis downplays intrusion after 12GB trove leaks online Cyber-thief said goal was to 'humiliate' data-protection biz Cyber-crime10 Mar 2023 | 8
60% of Germany's 5G network is Huawei, says Chinese embassy Would be a shame if anything happened to it Networks09 Mar 2023 | 40
China's semiconductor and IC imports have slumped. Why on Earth could that be? It looks like sanctions – and economic chills – are biting as total trade with EU, US and Japan declines Systems09 Mar 2023 | 23
Singapore admits it should have explained COVID app data could be used by cops Island nation reworks digital infrastructure found to have slowed down pandemic response Software09 Mar 2023 | 11
Boeing signs off design of anti-jamming tech that keeps satellites online China and Russia won't be jammin' US sats no more Security08 Mar 2023 | 27
IDC gets even more pessimistic about PC sales Retirement of Windows 10 should eventually drive recovery in 2024 and 2025 Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 29
Beijing's done its sums and found a billion netizens watching short video services Meanwhile, TikTok analog Douyin cleans up 5,000 misbehaving e-commerce accounts Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 5
The cause of last December's failed satellite launch? Nozzle material, says ESA Arianespace Vega-C rocket failure sent two Airbus satellites into the Atlantic Ocean Science06 Mar 2023 | 8
Wait, what? Workstation sales set new record in 2022? Then they plunged properly like all other client devices Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 1
China accelerates drive for scientific self-sufficiency Asia In Brief PLUS: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more Science06 Mar 2023 | 21
China leads the world in tech research, could win the future, says think tank US comes in second, rest of the world is a distant third in fields from biotech to batteries Science03 Mar 2023 | 27
Amid the gloom of widespread layoffs, Fujitsu is hiring and acquiring Buys GK Software and intends to put 1,600 new people on staff – some of them oldies Software02 Mar 2023 | 7
China blocked 54.3 million items online in 2022, after snitches sent 170 million tips Regulator warns it's far from finished and the deletions will continue until morale improves Legal01 Mar 2023 | 5
Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed Timely application as delinquencies rise with interest rates Offbeat28 Feb 2023 | 198
Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, pals proclaim 'Japan Metaverse Economic Zone' Updating the nation through the power of games. And ads. Lots of ads Software28 Feb 2023 | 9
China makes it even harder for data to leave its shores Many foreign companies had already given up – now there's more red tape Security27 Feb 2023 | 7
Germany to court Indian IT talent – starting with easier visa application processes Perhaps just in time to give H-1B holders affected by US tech layoffs somewhere to go other than home Legal27 Feb 2023 | 25
Infosys founder slams working from home, side hustles, as slowing India's growth Asia in brief PLUS: Australia to appoint cyber-coordinator; FTX Japan resumes operations; India's PC market bucks trend with growth; and more Off-Prem27 Feb 2023 | 29
Mozilla says 80 percent of Google Play's app safety labels are inaccurate Labelling scheme offers developers easy loopholes to play down personal info spreading Networks24 Feb 2023 | 34
China cuts off two chatbots: A local effort that flopped, and ChatGPT Meanwhile Baidu plans to add its Ernie generative AI to search in March AI + ML23 Feb 2023 | 2
Ancient art of banning rideshare companies revived in India, this time on motorbikes Two-wheelers outnumber cars three to one in India, so promised licences mean Uber and Ola aren't off-road forever Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 2
Wipro tells freshers a job awaits - if they accept a lower salary than first offered Entry-level hires were IT services giants' answer to enormous staff attrition rates. Now they're being squeezed On-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 28
Google's APAC outpost joins the global job cuts club Almost 200 staff let go with emails that landed late at night Off-Prem22 Feb 2023 | 2
FTX is back in Japan, where users can withdraw fiat and crypto System back online with money still there, thanks to Japanese regulations Software21 Feb 2023 | 32
Hong Kong to crypto exchanges: get a securities broker's licence, or go home Crashes like FTX and Terra have made regulation necessary, say authorities, even as Territory seeks to become a virtual asset hub Legal21 Feb 2023 | 7
Meta to add verification to Facebook and Insta under scheme that should avoid Twitter's Musk-stakes Paid accounts will be more prominent than your shouty relatives and get – wait for it – a support line Personal Tech20 Feb 2023 | 40
Toshiba COO dumped over entertainment expenses scandal Asia In Brief PLUS: Chinese province to buy four million servers; Google Cloud's nine-day APAC network glitch; and more Legal19 Feb 2023 | 1
Tesla's self-driving code may ignore stop signs, act unsafe. Patch coming ... soon Musk takes issue again with 'recall' given this will be an over-the-air update AI + ML17 Feb 2023 | 104
Norway finds a way to recover crypto North Korea pinched in Axie heist Meanwhile South Korea's Do Kwon is sought for fraud by US authorities Cyber-crime17 Feb 2023 | 7
Chinese semiconductor industry: This Western chip ban alliance stinks Trade org claims restrictions will 'cause serious harm' globally Systems16 Feb 2023 | 21
Foxconn expands Vietnam factories, perhaps to help Apple diversify beyond China Zhengzhou is lovely this time of year, Bac Giang could be nicer still Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 5
Warren Buffet cashes out of TSMC, which splashes cash on fabs Legendary investor appears to have made many millions in under 90 days On-Prem15 Feb 2023 | 17
China's tech giants and Beijing – the city – rush to build AI chatbots Bootleg ChatGPT mini-apps are already testing the limits of OpenAI's policies AI + ML14 Feb 2023 | 1
Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death Kickstarter backers left empty-handed Software13 Feb 2023 | 49