China

Australian Prime Minister's WeChat Shanghaied by Chinese patriots

Politicians rush to blame Beijing, Tencent says the account was transferred from its original registrar and it's probing that shift

24 Jan 2022 04:58 | 15

Networks

China signs up 400 million new 5G subscribers in a year, more than doubling user population

730 million 5G services active in Middle Kingdom, while another 100 million 4G services came online too

21 Jan 2022 02:54 | 6

Security

Vulnerabilities and censorship tools among hot new features in Beijing's Olympics app

Visitors have to install it 14 days prior to arrival in China until their departure

19 Jan 2022 18:11 | 37

On-Prem

US-China chip cold war? It's only helping the Middle Kingdom, silicon makers warn

It's blowback time again

15 Jan 2022 00:01 | 128

Networks

China builds 'free trade data port' inclusive of submarine cable landing station

If the Middle Kingdom lets its data out, Beijing might as well be in control

12 Jan 2022 02:49 | 11

On-Prem

US Senator Marco Rubio calls Intel cowards for scrubbing remarks about Xinjiang and apologizing to China

Was no one else available? No one?

12 Jan 2022 00:38 | 37

Security

China puts Walmart in the naughty corner, citing 19 alleged cybersecurity 'violations'

Warning comes weeks after govt body accused subsidiary Sam’s Club of 'ulterior motive' in goods stocking spat

10 Jan 2022 13:35 | 17

Science

Robotic arm on China's space station does a demo, swings out 20 degrees and back while holding cargo ship

Plan is to use the arm to finish putting the outpost together

07 Jan 2022 11:44 | 21

Software

Technology can sometimes go from east to west: Ubuntu DDE 21.10 remix ships in 22.01

Deepin shows that good things come out of Wuhan, too

07 Jan 2022 11:04 | 28

Security

US Army journal's top paper from 2021 says Taiwan should destroy TSMC if China invades

No more chip factories would surely change Beijing's mind about unification

05 Jan 2022 19:01 | 88

Legal

US grounds investors in Chinese drone maker DJI over 'Xinjiang human rights abuses'

Alleges it and seven other Middle Kingdom tech outfits aid systematic oppression of Uyghur minority

17 Dec 2021 00:48 | 82

On-Prem

Korean semiconductor outfit Magnachip no longer merging with Chinese private equity Wise Road Capital

Wanna play on a US stock exchange? You'll need US regulators on side

15 Dec 2021 16:02 |

Personal Tech

Oppo joins the 'we designed our own chips' club, announces MariSilicon X

Chinese handset maker doesn't go too hardcore, focuses on making snaps sparkle

15 Dec 2021 05:32 | 1

Legal

China: Bars app that often hosted dissenting conversations

Also China: This one guy sent feedback to the government online, it was adopted, that shows we’re a democracy

10 Dec 2021 01:20 | 14

Servers

China's road to homegrown chip glory looks to be going for a RISC-V future

The RISC-V Summit is over - here's what you need to know

09 Dec 2021 20:45 | 22

PaaS + IaaS

Alibaba the biggest, but more clouds on China's horizon

Huawei, Tencent, and Baidu all growing fast, and Americlouds are about to expand

09 Dec 2021 04:54 |

On-Prem

Alibaba teases a breakthrough chip, merging processor and memory

And open sources Yun on Chip IoT silicon and ecosystem

08 Dec 2021 01:56 | 7

Security

Microsoft wins court approval to take over sites run by Chinese crime gang

'Nickel' back in trouble for trying to lift secrets, often by exploiting Microsoft snafus

07 Dec 2021 05:31 | 10

Updated

China to upgrade mainstream RISC-V chips every six months

Home-baked silicon is the way forward

06 Dec 2021 23:54 | 12

Off-Prem

Alibaba splits itself into Chinese and overseas ops

Seeks world domination through 'diversified business governance'

06 Dec 2021 06:01 | 6

Science

China's Yutu rover spots 'mysterious hut' on far side of the Moon

Cube-shaped object is probably just a rock. Yutu will check it out anyway

06 Dec 2021 05:00 | 120

Networks

Two Chinese companies leave US: China Telecom told it can't stay, DiDi gets out of Dodge

Just being practical here, but maybe they can share a cab?

03 Dec 2021 12:26 | 8

Off-Prem

ByteDance launches a raft of public cloud services

Volcano Engine adds plenty of the IaaS and SaaS you'd expect from a hyperscaler

03 Dec 2021 04:16 | 2

Legal

Alibaba exec accused of mishandling sexual assault case wants alleged victim to apologise

Manager was fired, now wants his reputation restored with post on a prominent website

03 Dec 2021 03:32 | 13

Science

ESA's Mars Express picks up plaintive bleeps of China's Zhurong rover, adding much-needed comms redundancy

We're all ears

02 Dec 2021 19:01 | 6

Software

China to create workers' paradise for ride share drivers

Communist China (belatedly) recognises that drivers are people who need food, sleep, bathrooms, and unions

02 Dec 2021 06:57 | 5

Software

Beijing wants to level up China's software industry, with an emphasis on FOSS

Plans to build 'two or three open source communities with international influence' in the next five years

01 Dec 2021 06:57 | 25

Security

UK intel chief says MI6 must outsource innovation – and James Bond's in-house 'Q' is nonsense

China is on the march, Russia loves to destabilise, no intelligence agency can stop 'em without help

01 Dec 2021 03:56 | 39

On-Prem

HPE sees 'no indication' its tech was sold to Chinese military, seeks answers from Uncle Sam on sanctions

In the dark about how New H3C chip org ended up on USA’s naughty list

29 Nov 2021 23:54 | 11

AI + ML

Warning: China planning to swipe a bunch of data soon, so quantum computers can decrypt it later

Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat

29 Nov 2021 06:31 | 73

Poll

Robotaxis freed to charge across 60km2 of Beijing

Baidu's Apollo tech exits testing phase, so punters must now pay the machine for a ride. Would you?

25 Nov 2021 07:56 | 50

Security

US bans Chinese firms – including one linked to HPE’s China JV – for feeding tech to Beijing's military

Other additions to Entity List are accused of helping Pakistan, North Korea make nukes, missiles

25 Nov 2021 01:11 | 33

Security

China trying to export its Great Firewall and governance model

Beware of Communists bearing internet governance proposals, says Australian Strategic Policy Institute

24 Nov 2021 02:56 | 31

Science

China's hypersonic glider didn't just orbit Earth, it 'fired a missile' while at Mach 5

Middle Kingdom suggests US is making it all up to justify arms development. As if!

23 Nov 2021 00:35 | 100

Off-Prem

Alibaba profits plunge as Beijing's bans – and beefy competitors – bite

Investors are going to have to put up with growth of merely 22 per cent, not the promised 29 or more

19 Nov 2021 06:57 | 5

Off-Prem

Ready, player anyone? China's gaming ban left cloud providers looking for someone to play with

Canalys CEO reckons up to 30 per cent of big Chinese clouds' infrastructure is under-used, new datacentre builds deferred

17 Nov 2021 03:35 | 3

Security

Chinese Communist Party official expelled for mining cryptocurrency

Middle Kingdom floats fresh data security rules, too, with eight-hour privacy breach notification requirement

16 Nov 2021 00:49 | 10

OSes

Huawei hands its cloud Linux to China's only open source foundation

OpenEuler now an Open Atom Foundation project, China Telecom has released a cut, tech minister loves the idea

12 Nov 2021 02:58 | 4

Software

Tencent's growth slows as child gamers switch off under new Chinese laws

Founder Pony Ma reassures all he is proactively embracing new regulatory environment even as numbers take on less rosy hues

11 Nov 2021 06:35 | 3

Security

Former Broadcom engineer accused of pinching chip tech to share with new Chinese employer

We're guessing it wasn't Fiber Channel, but it would be weirdly cool if it was

10 Nov 2021 05:56 | 14

Security

You'll never guess who's been exploiting the ManageEngine service to steal passwords

Webshells and backdoors come with Chinese instructions

08 Nov 2021 16:15 | 17

Security

Beijing fingers foreign spies for data mischief, with help from consulting firm

Chinese media wonders why it hasn't been reported in the West - hang on, you're reading this ...

05 Nov 2021 05:45 | 14

Software

140 million Chinese punters adopt Digital Yuan and spend up big

But central bank worries about security, usability – and business continuity

05 Nov 2021 04:37 | 17

Personal Tech

Yahoo! shuts! down! last! China! operations! as! doing! business! becomes! 'increasingly challenging'!

惊叹号

02 Nov 2021 15:30 | 30

Security

China says it applied to join digital free trade deal days after proposing law against cross-border data flow

Xi Jinping announces to G20 he wants in on 3-nation agreement

02 Nov 2021 11:30 | 16

Comment

Latest Loongson chip is another step in China's long road to semiconductor freedom

Homegrown processor looks like RISC-V-MIPS fan fiction

02 Nov 2021 08:04 | 39

Off-Prem

Don't super-size me – China defines rules for 'super-large' platforms

Creates category to control what we call a superapp for antitrust behavior and more

01 Nov 2021 10:15 | 6

Software

Get FOSS-happy, China tells its financial institutions

Use it, contribute to it, respect its licences – and plan for security emergencies it creates

29 Oct 2021 01:59 | 12

Updated

Warehouse belonging to Chinese payment terminal manufacturer raided by FBI

PAX Technology devices allegedly opening suspicious connections to Middle Kingdom

27 Oct 2021 09:41 | 21

On-Prem

Apple kicked an M1-shaped hole in Intel's quarter

Chipzilla braces for a China-gaming-ban-shaped hole in future results, predicts more product delays

22 Oct 2021 07:26 | 13

Personal Tech

China to crush secondary market providing forbidden gaming accounts to kids

Beijing's recent crackdowns on internet behaviour have spawned rebellious entrepreneurs, because of course they have.

21 Oct 2021 05:59 | 28

Virtualization

China to allow overseas investment in VPNs but Beijing keeps control of the generally discouraged tech

Foreign ownership capped at 50%

20 Oct 2021 19:03 | 6

Science

Lunar rocks brought to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 show Moon's volcanoes were recently* active

* Just a couple of billion years

20 Oct 2021 09:58 | 18

Security

Chinese tech minister says he's 'dealt with' 73,000 sites that breached the law

Ongoing crackdown saw apps 1.83 million apps tested, 4,200 told to clean up their act, pop-up ads popped

18 Oct 2021 07:56 | 9

On-Prem

Chinese developers rebel against long working hours with crowdsourced tell-all on employers

Despite modern labour laws, 72-hour work weeks are still common

18 Oct 2021 05:58 | 23

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Australian Prime Minister's WeChat Shanghaied by Chinese patriots

China signs up 400 million new 5G subscribers in a year, more than doubling user population

Vulnerabilities and censorship tools among hot new features in Beijing's Olympics app

US-China chip cold war? It's only helping the Middle Kingdom, silicon makers warn

China builds 'free trade data port' inclusive of submarine cable landing station

US Senator Marco Rubio calls Intel cowards for scrubbing remarks about Xinjiang and apologizing to China

China puts Walmart in the naughty corner, citing 19 alleged cybersecurity 'violations'

Robotic arm on China's space station does a demo, swings out 20 degrees and back while holding cargo ship

Technology can sometimes go from east to west: Ubuntu DDE 21.10 remix ships in 22.01

US Army journal's top paper from 2021 says Taiwan should destroy TSMC if China invades

Intel ‘regrets’ offending China with letter telling suppliers to avoid Xinjiang

Tencent unexpectedly offloads stake in fellow Chinese giant JD.com

Alibaba Cloud slapped by Chinese ministry for mishandling Log4j

US Commerce Dept says China has brain-control weaponry

China lists 100 topics citizens can't include in online vids

US grounds investors in Chinese drone maker DJI over 'Xinjiang human rights abuses'

Korean semiconductor outfit Magnachip no longer merging with Chinese private equity Wise Road Capital

Oppo joins the 'we designed our own chips' club, announces MariSilicon X

China: Bars app that often hosted dissenting conversations

China's road to homegrown chip glory looks to be going for a RISC-V future

Alibaba the biggest, but more clouds on China's horizon

Alibaba teases a breakthrough chip, merging processor and memory

Microsoft wins court approval to take over sites run by Chinese crime gang

China to upgrade mainstream RISC-V chips every six months

Alibaba splits itself into Chinese and overseas ops

China's Yutu rover spots 'mysterious hut' on far side of the Moon

Two Chinese companies leave US: China Telecom told it can't stay, DiDi gets out of Dodge

ByteDance launches a raft of public cloud services

Alibaba exec accused of mishandling sexual assault case wants alleged victim to apologise

ESA's Mars Express picks up plaintive bleeps of China's Zhurong rover, adding much-needed comms redundancy

China to create workers' paradise for ride share drivers

Beijing wants to level up China's software industry, with an emphasis on FOSS

UK intel chief says MI6 must outsource innovation – and James Bond's in-house 'Q' is nonsense

HPE sees 'no indication' its tech was sold to Chinese military, seeks answers from Uncle Sam on sanctions

Warning: China planning to swipe a bunch of data soon, so quantum computers can decrypt it later

Robotaxis freed to charge across 60km2 of Beijing

US bans Chinese firms – including one linked to HPE’s China JV – for feeding tech to Beijing's military

China trying to export its Great Firewall and governance model

China's hypersonic glider didn't just orbit Earth, it 'fired a missile' while at Mach 5

Alibaba profits plunge as Beijing's bans – and beefy competitors – bite

Ready, player anyone? China's gaming ban left cloud providers looking for someone to play with

Chinese Communist Party official expelled for mining cryptocurrency

Huawei hands its cloud Linux to China's only open source foundation

Tencent's growth slows as child gamers switch off under new Chinese laws

Former Broadcom engineer accused of pinching chip tech to share with new Chinese employer

You'll never guess who's been exploiting the ManageEngine service to steal passwords

Beijing fingers foreign spies for data mischief, with help from consulting firm

140 million Chinese punters adopt Digital Yuan and spend up big

Yahoo! shuts! down! last! China! operations! as! doing! business! becomes! 'increasingly challenging'!

China says it applied to join digital free trade deal days after proposing law against cross-border data flow

Latest Loongson chip is another step in China's long road to semiconductor freedom

Don't super-size me – China defines rules for 'super-large' platforms

Get FOSS-happy, China tells its financial institutions

Warehouse belonging to Chinese payment terminal manufacturer raided by FBI

Apple kicked an M1-shaped hole in Intel's quarter

China to crush secondary market providing forbidden gaming accounts to kids

China to allow overseas investment in VPNs but Beijing keeps control of the generally discouraged tech

Lunar rocks brought to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 show Moon's volcanoes were recently* active

Chinese tech minister says he's 'dealt with' 73,000 sites that breached the law

Chinese developers rebel against long working hours with crowdsourced tell-all on employers

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