Chinese 'surveillance balloon' over US causes fearful gasbagging
Updated Floats over missile silos, shooting it down ruled more dangerous than whatever it's up to
Security03 Feb 2023 | 108
China
China unveils massive blockchain cluster running homebrew tech
1,000 servers capable of 240 million transactions a second, because Beijing wants to watch everything
On-Prem03 Feb 2023 | 14
China reportedly producing quantum computers – good luck observing one
More supposition than superposition as local media goes on Sci-Fi journey
Systems02 Feb 2023 | 14
Counterfeit crud crooks crossed over to e-commerce during COVID
Piracy-as-a-service, 'bulletproof' ISPs, fake influencers, and big Chinese e-tailers turned a blind eye
Networks01 Feb 2023 | 3
White House pushes for total ban on US exports to Huawei
Beijing watching developments closely as death knell rings for company's foreign supply chain
Networks31 Jan 2023 | 14
Beijing grants permit to 'flying car' that can handle 'roads and low altitude'
X2 eVTOL doesn't have wheels but paves the way for sedan-like X3
Offbeat31 Jan 2023 | 35
BROADER TOPICS
NARROWER TOPICS
Phone the rich: Premium handsets sole survivors of slump in India, China
Market shifts from volume-driven to value-driven
Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 3
China shops around US bans to power its nuclear weapons research program
Entity List proves to be a non-entity once Beijing's buyers get busy
Systems31 Jan 2023 | 19
Japan, Netherlands reportedly join US in China tech export ban
But the first rule of Chip Fight Club must be observed. Meanwhile Beijing may have its own shadow bans
Systems30 Jan 2023 | 23
China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis
Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more
On-Prem30 Jan 2023 | 6
US in talks with critical chip tech countries Netherlands, Japan. Topic? China sanctions
Uncle Sam well aware of strategic importance of lithography industry crucial to production nodes
Systems27 Jan 2023 | 14
Google slays thousands of fake news vids posted by pro-China group Dragonbridge
If you yell 'death to America' and no one watches the video, does it make a sound?
Security27 Jan 2023 | 13
US ban on China chip exports rebounds, causes 2,700 job losses
California-based chipmaking kit-maker Lam hit by DRAM decline, inability to export to Middle Kingdom
Systems27 Jan 2023 | 14
Chinese mobe-makers play a long game with homebrew chips
Modest, low-volume chips will pay off over time, apparently
Personal Tech24 Jan 2023 | 14
India floats plan to make big tech pay for news, walks back government censorship
Asia In Brief PLUS: Taiwan’s new supercomputer; China-linked cybercrims strike; Australian content clampdown; and more
Security23 Jan 2023 | 2
Happy Lunar New Year: Beijing warns of enhanced surveillance during celebrations
Censors are on the lookout for showering under a waterfall of money, overeating, and more conventional sins
Security20 Jan 2023 | 8
University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok
Great, now staff and students can stop scrolling and get back to work
Security19 Jan 2023 | 27
Like Uber, but for China: Beijing creates state-owned meta rideshare service
Private services smeared for 'disorderly expansion and data security problems'
Personal Tech19 Jan 2023 | 6
US chip ban left back door in Beijing-controlled Macau for months
Until Tuesday, when the former Portuguese colony was added to the 'You Shall Not Pass' list
Systems18 Jan 2023 | 5
Oh, WoW: Chinese gamers to be cut off from Blizzard games next week
Contractual mess has players wondering if preserving progress in Warcraft, Overwatch, and StarCraft will be possible
Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 7
Tencent fired 100 people for corruption during 2022
A couple have already been jailed, others shown the door for embezzling or arranging sham contracts
Security17 Jan 2023 | 7
Beijing lifts restrictions on rideshare giant DiDi Chuxing
After eighteen month exile, it's allowed to recruit new customers
Software17 Jan 2023 | 1
Asia rules the mobile world: more users, more often, generating more cash
Chinese developers are cashing in as the region buys in to TikTok and games
Personal Tech16 Jan 2023 | 2
China aims to grow local infosec industry by 30 percent a year, to $22 billion by 2025
Optimistically suggests international collaboration – including on standards – will help it get there
Government Tech Week16 Jan 2023 | 9
Microsoft fumbles zero trust upgrade for some Asian customers
Enhanced access privileges for partners choke on double-byte characters, contribute to global delays
Security13 Jan 2023 | 4
Questions asked about Chinese takeover of UK tech company
Are flow sensors such a big deal? In any case, MP invokes National Security and Investment Act
Systems12 Jan 2023 | 15
Hong Kong ups its SEO game to stop Google playing a protest song as its national anthem
It's not the anthem – it's the algorithm
Off-Prem12 Jan 2023 | 9
US think tank says China would probably lose if it tries to invade Taiwan
But even a short conflict would wreck the economy, which would be bad news for semiconductor supplies
Government Tech Week12 Jan 2023 | 58
Beijing official says crackdown on tech companies is over
We might be looking at a new China for 2023 and the Year of the Rabbit
Legal10 Jan 2023 | 3
China follows through on plan to ban deepfake tech
Synthetic media undermines national security, says internet regulator
AI + ML10 Jan 2023 | 8
US pressures Asian allies to join crusade against Chinese chipmakers
American ambassador to Japan wants a unified front against the Middle Kingdom
Government Tech Week09 Jan 2023 | 12
Chinese Tesla owners protest another round of price cuts
Models 3 and Y are up to 24% cheaper than last year, and buyers said to want compensation
Personal Tech09 Jan 2023 | 29
China's Mars rover hibernates for a scarily long time
Zhurongs don't make a right and suggest the mission may not have survived winter
Science09 Jan 2023 | 19
China's Hisense bakes Teams into Android-powered commercial displays
Sees collaborationware as its route into foreign markets
On-Prem09 Jan 2023 | 12
Alibaba's Jack Ma out as boss of fintech Ant Group
'Corporate governance optimization' sees founder's role reduced, but not in pursuit of a listing
Legal09 Jan 2023 | 3
Chinese researchers' claimed quantum encryption crack looks unlikely
Near-term vulnerability of RSA-2048 keys not so near, says quantum boffin Scott Aaronson
Security07 Jan 2023 | 31
From execs to factory products, Tesla's China unit is gaining prominence
Country boss now second in command, general manager vows to take 'Made in China' overseas... like everything else?
Personal Tech05 Jan 2023 | 4
Dell said to be planning purge of Chinese chips from products by 2024
Meanwhile, US 'ratcheting up' restrictions, expanding definition of what counts as 'cutting edge tech' says analyst
On-Prem05 Jan 2023 | 12
China may have to reassess chip strategy in face of US sanctions
Beijing's dreams of producing advanced semiconductors could take much longer than hoped
Systems04 Jan 2023 | 19
HPE to offload remaining stake in Chinese joint venture H3C
Nothing to do with Washington and Beijing butting heads, says US giant
On-Prem03 Jan 2023 | 1
Nexperia calls in the lawyers to save Welsh chip fab deal
Oh, Shapps
Security30 Dec 2022 | 50
TikTok confirms it tracked journalists' locations as part of leak investigation
As if you needed another reason to delete the app right now
Networks23 Dec 2022 | 32
Tencent CEO Pony Ma reportedly bemoans internal corruption, inefficiency
This has the ring of truth to it because Chinese giant has disclosed similar worries on earnings calls
Off-Prem23 Dec 2022 | 9
US sanctions drain Huawei of homegrown advanced chips
Huawei to the chipless zone prediction
Systems21 Dec 2022 | 19
TSMC’s CEO is not pleased with the growing US-China rift
Leader of the the world's largest contract chip manufacturer would like it if the two world powers could work out their differences
Systems21 Dec 2022 | 18
US sanctions help vaporize chunk of Chinese chip barons’ wealth
Beijing's 'military-civil fusion' doctrine suffers multi-billion dollar blowback
Systems20 Dec 2022 | 8
Taiwan to Foxconn: Selling stake in Chinese chipmaker? We’ll still fine you
A notable misstep as the iPhone supplier looks to grow its chip-making footprint
Systems20 Dec 2022 | 2
GPUs dodge price hike as US extends China tariff deadline beyond 2022
Happy New Year! Concession is made on GPUs and other parts
Systems19 Dec 2022 |
Tech supply chains brace for impact as China shifts from zero-COVID to rampant COVID
Hundreds of millions of cases expected to bring new waves of disruption
Off-Prem19 Dec 2022 | 32
Latest US blacklist spells trouble for China’s biggest domestic 3D NAND supplier
Analysis One research firm thinks YMTC may have to exit 3D NAND altogether
Systems18 Dec 2022 | 20
US adds 36 Chinese entities to naughty list, drops 25 after checking it twice
Some are suspected of helping other banned suppliers get around sanctions
Security16 Dec 2022 | 5
Chipmakers to spend $500b on 84 new fabs by 2024 despite shaky economy
We sure do love those government subsidies, says industry cheerleader
Systems15 Dec 2022 | 4
Here's something communism is good at: Making smartphones less annoying
Beijing cracks down on undeletable pre-installed bloatware and dodgy apps
Software15 Dec 2022 | 56
China reportedly bars export of homebrew Loongson chips to Russia – and everywhere else
Meanwhile, Moscow ponders a ban on offshore tech workers
Systems15 Dec 2022 | 38
TikTok could be banned from America, thanks to proposed bipartisan bill
If you listen really closely, you can hear Mark Zuckerberg's excitement
Security14 Dec 2022 | 27
Arm processor technology caught up in US chip war with China
Alibaba reportedly pulled into the fray, plus: world's top chipmaking equipment maker, ASML, pushes back
Systems14 Dec 2022 | 18
Citrix patches critical ADC flaw the NSA says is already under attack from China
Yet more pain for the software formerly known as NetScaler
Security14 Dec 2022 | 3
China publishes first images captured by Kuafu-1 solar probe
Initial attempt at longitudinal magnetic map of our local star
Science14 Dec 2022 |
China files complaint with WTO against US chip export controls
America: Yeah but they can't help you if it's national security. And it totally is
Systems13 Dec 2022 | 17
China bins its COVID tracking app
Tracked location and kept records of phone calls, and determined ability to travel. Which China will keep doing with other tech, for other reasons
Software13 Dec 2022 | 9
China bans deepfakes created without permission or for evil
'Deep synthesis service providers' otherwise free to create AI-generated humans in line with socialist values
AI + ML12 Dec 2022 | 3
Foxconn sinks $500m into India for iPhones, semiconductors
Colosso-conglomerate Tata Group also wants some of Delhi's substantial silicon subsidies
Systems09 Dec 2022 | 2
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