India’s flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row
One payload out of fifteen survived and sent home some useful data
Science14 Jan 2026 |
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India demands crypto outfits geolocate customers, get a selfie to prove they’re real
Government is fed up with bad actors using digi-cash to fund dodgy deeds
Public Sector13 Jan 2026 | 10
India’s government denies it plans to demand smartphone source code
Says ongoing talks about security are about understanding best practice, not strong-arming vendors
Security12 Jan 2026 | 5
India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64
No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic pride
Systems17 Dec 2025 | 48
Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband satellite
Asia In Brief PLUS: Drugs found in ink cartridges; Censorship fighters criticize Vultr; Coupang CEO resigns; And more!
Science15 Dec 2025 | 47
India’s government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models
Proposes central body to collect royalties and dole out cash to creators
AI + ML11 Dec 2025 | 7
BROADER TOPICS
NARROWER TOPICS
Intel to explore making chips with mega-corp Tata in India’s first fab
Chipzilla doesn’t need 28nm product, so maybe this is about landing another outsourced packaging partner
On-Prem09 Dec 2025 | 6
India's government targets Uber, Ola with plan to launch zero-commission rideshare platform
Minister wants to ‘free drivers from dependency on private companies’
Public Sector04 Dec 2025 | 7
Indian government reveals GPS spoofing at eight major airports
Extra infosec investments are taxiing towards the runway
Security03 Dec 2025 | 23
India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset
'Sanchar Saathi' shares data to help fight fraud and protect carrier security
Public Sector02 Dec 2025 | 30
Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs
Asia in Brief PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more!
Public Sector01 Dec 2025 | 13
India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions
Feature Creating 37 supers in a decade is impressive. The homegrown tech in them, less so
Supercomputing Month26 Nov 2025 | 1
70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture
Asia In Brief PLUS: Manga publishers win Cloudflare copyright case; India, EU to link payment systems; Storm over Australia’s weather website; And more!
Security24 Nov 2025 | 86
Jaguar Land Rover hack cost India's Tata Motors around $2.4 billion and counting
Asia In Brief PLUS: Active noise cancellation for entire rooms; More trouble for Korea Telecom; The Wiggles apologize for bad batteries; and more
Security17 Nov 2025 | 23
Data breach at Chinese infosec firm reveals cyber-weapons and target list
Asia In Brief PLUS: India’s tech services exports growing fast; South Korea puts the bite on TXT spam; NTT gets into autonomous vehicles; and more!
Security09 Nov 2025 | 7
White House says China to lift rare earth export bans, stop probes into US tech companies
Asia In Brief PLUS: Google's massive AI giveaway in India; Raid on Australian software company; Alleged scam camp owner's assets seized; and more!
Public Sector03 Nov 2025 | 13
India to dethrone US for dev numbers as AI reshapes coding, says GitHub
TypeScript was ranked top programming language
Software29 Oct 2025 | 13
Australia sues Microsoft for misleading M365 users about Copilot subscription options
Asia In Brief PLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more!
Legal27 Oct 2025 | 34
India's tech talent pipeline is sputtering
Feature AI and new wave of offshoring mean graduates can't get gigs
AI + ML04 Oct 2025 | 29
Russia-backed Indian oil company loses bid to force SAP support as sanctions bite
Delhi High Court denies urgent relief after vendor halts services citing EU rules
Software29 Sep 2025 | 11
Datacenter fire takes 647 South Korean government services offline
Asia In Brief PLUS: US court grounds China’s DJI; India requires 2FA for most payments; Great Firewall busters launch VPN; and more!
Off-Prem28 Sep 2025 | 5
India’s IT minister moves to Zoho’s spreadsheet and word processor, urges 1.4 billion people to do likewise
Watch out, Microsoft and Google
Public Sector24 Sep 2025 | 44
Huawei used its own silicon to re-educate DeepSeek so its output won’t bother Beijing
Asia In Brief PLUS: India ponders tax breaks for datacenters; Samsung plans hiring spree; Taliban bans fiber internet; and more
AI + ML22 Sep 2025 | 7
Indian court stops streaming hearings on social media to protect lawyers from mean memes
Did you hear the one about the thin-skinned barrister?
Legal16 Sep 2025 | 3
Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models
Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb
AI + ML05 Sep 2025 | 6
India hails 'first' home-grown chip as a milestone despite very modest specs
It’s been to space. It likely won’t launch India as a semiconductor superpower
Systems03 Sep 2025 | 16
India's PM laments missing out on global chipmaking dominance – in 1964!
Prime Minister promises first local silicon will appear this year, decades after Fairchild Semi's Robert Noyce made polite inquiries
Systems18 Aug 2025 | 2
Microsoft briefly turned off Indian company’s cloud, perhaps due to EU sanctions on Russia
Oh, the irony of Europe demonstrating the importance of the sovereign cloud it craves
Off-Prem04 Aug 2025 | 32
Panic buying ahead of Trump tariffs added $825 million to Apple's sales last quarter
World War Fee iBiz warns import imposts set to rise
Personal Tech01 Aug 2025 | 4
India gets its turn on the Trump tariff train: 25% levy to start Friday
world war fee The US president also hints at an extra penalty for New Delhi over trade with Russia
Public Sector30 Jul 2025 | 29
India eats China's lunch in US smartphone manufacturing
But overall sales are basically flat, says Canalys
Channel28 Jul 2025 | 11
Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe
Asia In Brief PLUS: China’s massive lithium find; Cisco’s new Asia boss; Japan and EU plan satcomms collab; and more
Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 8
'Quad' nations launch plan to stop China making critical minerals into Unobtanium
India, Japan, USA and Australia see risks and opportunities in rare earths
Public Sector03 Jul 2025 | 12
Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country ASAP
Asia In Brief PLUS: Broadband blimps to fly in Japan; Starbucks China put ads before privacy; and more!
Public Sector30 Jun 2025 | 30
AI-hosted infomercial shifts $7.5 million worth of product in China
Asia In Brief PLUS: India tries to untangle TXT marketing opt-ins; China’s AI crackdown succeeds; Australia and Boeing team AWACS, drones; and more!
AI + ML23 Jun 2025 | 3
Single passenger reportedly survives Air India Boeing 787 crash
Aircraft didn't even get its wheels up before sinking into suburban area
Offbeat12 Jun 2025 | 40
‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources
CEO of India's KiranaPro, which brings convenience stores online, vows to name the perp
Cyber-crime04 Jun 2025 | 22
India none-too-subtly reminds Big Tech that local laws prohibit dark patterns
‘Consumers will not tolerate deceit’ Minister tells Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Uber
Legal29 May 2025 | 9
Rideshare companies in India are asking for tips before the trip
Consumer affairs Minister is not happy with Uber for following local players with this scheme to encourage rapid pickups
Public Sector23 May 2025 | 25
Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India
Cupertino's plan to spend $500bn stateside wasn’t enough to placate the tycoon of tariffs
Public Sector16 May 2025 | 55
Stop Pakistani content at the border, India tells media, tech biz
Songs, social network vids threaten national security, apparently
Public Sector08 May 2025 | 12
India ready to greenlight Starlink – as long as it lets New Delhi censor, snoop
Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity
Networks07 May 2025 | 12
India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease
Asia in brief PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more!
Public Sector05 May 2025 | 7
India gets Google to unbundle Android and the Play Store on Smart TVs
Meanwhile, OpenAI expresses an interest in unbundling Chrome from Google
Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 10
China reportedly admitted directing cyberattacks on US infrastructure
Asia In Brief PLUS: India's new electronics subsidies; Philippines unplugs a mobile carrier; Alibaba Cloud expands
Security14 Apr 2025 | 6
Asian tech players react to US tariffs with delays, doubts, deal-making
Asia In Brief PLUS: Qualcomm acquires Vietnamese AI outfit; China claims US hacked winter games; India's browser challenge winner disputed; and more
Public Sector07 Apr 2025 | 11
IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India
Big Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America
On-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 86
India ditches its 'Google Tax', perhaps to tickle Trump and dodge tariffs
Binned an e-commerce tax last year so this may not be complete capitulation
Public Sector26 Mar 2025 | 5
China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms
Asia In Brief PLUS: Zoho's Ulaa anointed India’s most patriotic browser; Typhoon-like gang targets Taiwan; Japan debates offensive cyber-ops; and more
Security23 Mar 2025 | 19
India investigates whether Uber makes iPhone users pay more to ride
Rideshare companies said it isn’t happening. Lawmakers aren’t convinced
Public Sector14 Mar 2025 | 22
India wants backdoors into clouds, email, SaaS, for tax inspectors
Asia in Brief PLUS: Malaysia teams with Arm for local chip designs; NTT warns of possible breach; Samsung strikers settle; and more
Security09 Mar 2025 | 7
India's top telco plans cloud PCs for its 475 million subscribers
Asia In Brief PLUS: China bans AI leaders from visiting USA; Acer data leak suspect cuffed; and more
Virtualization03 Mar 2025 | 5
Indian authorities seize loot from collapsed BitConnect crypto scam
Devices containing crypto wallets tracked online, then in the real world
Cyber-crime18 Feb 2025 | 13
India's banking on the bank.in domain cleaning up its financial services sector
With over 2,000 banks in operation, a domain only they can use has potential to make life harder for fraudsters
Security10 Feb 2025 | 16
Huawei revenue growing fast, suggesting China's scoffing at sanctions
Asia In Brief PLUS: Japan shifts to pre-emptive cyber-defense; Thailand cuts cords connecting scam camps; China to launch 'moon hopper' in 2026; and more!
Security09 Feb 2025 | 11
Singapore says Nvidia's astounding local sales don't mean it's the source of DeepSeek's GPUs
Asia In Brief PLUS: Chinese bus lanes put Tesla in a tangle; India drops electronics tariffs; Samsung worries about soft demand
AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 15
First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works
28nm and fatter processes first, says minister, as semiconductor supply chain players move to cash in
Systems24 Jan 2025 | 20
When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight
Asia In Brief PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company
Software20 Jan 2025 | 5
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit
As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter
Science16 Jan 2025 | 14
Infosys founder calls for 70-hour work week – again – claiming it creates jobs
Asia In Brief Plus: China wants to end AI mashups of classic vids; TSMC set to open Japan fab; and more
On-Prem16 Dec 2024 | 51
Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers
Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands
Networks11 Dec 2024 | 33
Binance accused of tax evasion by India's finance department
Minister reveals 17 crypto players owe $100 million – with Binance the baddest of the bad
Personal Tech04 Dec 2024 | 7
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