Apple to settle class action for $490 million after Tim overcooked China outlook CEO's optimism was not reflected in the supply chain Legal19 Mar 2024 | 8
India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs Asia in brief Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 2
Alibaba pits people against AI in its annual mathematics competition Thankfully the prizes for human winners are far higher than those for machines AI + ML15 Mar 2024 |
Forget TikTok – Chinese spies want to steal IP by backdooring digital locks Updated Uncle Sam can use this snooping tool, too, but that's beside the point Security14 Mar 2024 | 21
Korea's SK Innovation liquidates Chinese battery subsidiary The Chaebol that also runs chipmaker SK hynix lacks energy to run multiple middle kingdom entities Offbeat14 Mar 2024 |
US Congress goes bang, bang, on TikTok sale-or-ban plan Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 60
Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings 100,000 Chinese drivers join queue just to check out the 'SU7' in a showroom Personal Tech13 Mar 2024 | 18
Samsung and SK halt sales of used chipmaking gear to brokers Reports indicate Korean giants fear 'backlash' from US over resale of lithography equipment to Middle Kingdom Systems12 Mar 2024 |
China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too Software11 Mar 2024 | 7
Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort Comment Florida man would rather have app stay so as not to give gift to 'true enemy of the people' ... Zuckerberg Personal Tech09 Mar 2024 | 92
US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment Dutch lithography giant caught in crossfire amid escalating tensions Systems07 Mar 2024 | 51
VMware urges emergency action to blunt hypervisor flaws Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest Virtualization07 Mar 2024 | 16
US politicians want ByteDance to sell off TikTok or face ban The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms Personal Tech07 Mar 2024 | 18
Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense Science07 Mar 2024 | 6
Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G's security, allegedly On-Prem07 Mar 2024 | 13
Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China's help Roscosmos has had a few problems landing on the lunar surface recently Science06 Mar 2024 | 26
China pushes 'AI Plus' initiative to integrate technology and industry Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales Washington reportedly decided chipmaker hadn’t done too little Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 9
Indian tech minister vows to stop Google removing local apps from Play Store Asia In Brief PLUS: APNIC director general to step down; Hong Kong's odd cloud survey; Rent-a-friend online in China; and more Software03 Mar 2024 | 8
Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden China's automakers don't sell in America, but the Feds are still going to investigate whether they're a threat Security29 Feb 2024 | 113
Alibaba Cloud cuts prices – hard – for multi-year commitments in mainland China This might solve its twin problems of low growth and short-term customers Off-Prem29 Feb 2024 |
Baidu admits it may never get leading-edge GPUs again Execs swear Chinese cloud will beat local rivals with a superior software stack that makes AI sing AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 2
Chinese PC-maker Acemagic customized its own machines to get infected with malware Tried to speed boot times, maybe by messing with 'Windows source code', ended up building a viral on-ramp Security29 Feb 2024 | 24
Chinese chip slinger found not guilty of stealing memory secrets from Micron Fujian Jinhua escapes prosecution tho remains on the US sanctions list Storage28 Feb 2024 | 1
Chip fab supplier Applied Materials gets subpoenaed over China sales Updated Comes after US probe into biz's dealings with SMIC Systems28 Feb 2024 | 1
Nvidia lures senior autonomous car developer from China's Baidu Jensen Huang's automotive engineering team has now pinched two significant Middle Kingdom talents AI + ML28 Feb 2024 | 7
Apple Vision Pro rentals take China by storm ahead of official release Factoring in the deposit, you'd be better off running away with it Personal Tech27 Feb 2024 | 6
China warns of fake digital currency wallets fleecing netizens Scammers' tactics are tiresomely familiar: get-rich-quick schemes and data harvesting Security27 Feb 2024 | 5
It is a bird, a plane or a Chinese spy balloon? None of the above One year on, balloon fever remains alive and well in the US Offbeat26 Feb 2024 | 26
Giant leak reveals Chinese infosec vendor I-Soon is one of Beijing's cyber-attackers for hire Trove reveals RATs that can pop major OSes, campaigns against offshore and local targets Security22 Feb 2024 | 8
China could be doing better at censorship, think tank finds Complex overlapping bureaucracy sometimes lacks the funds and skills to do it right Security21 Feb 2024 | 10
Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 62
North Korea running malware-laden gambling websites as-a-service $5k a month for the site. $3k for tech support. Infection with malware and funding a despot? Priceless Cyber-crime15 Feb 2024 | 3
China's Volt Typhoon spies broke into emergency network of 'large' US city Jeez, not now, Xi. Can't you see we've got an election and Ukraine and Gaza and cost of living and layoffs and ... Security14 Feb 2024 | 9
India weighs 18 bids to build subsidized local chip factories APAC in Brief PLUS: Rideshare mega-merger mooted; France raids Huawei; Mongolia plans first satellite Off-Prem12 Feb 2024 | 1
Crime gang targeted jobseekers across Asia, looted two million email addresses That listing for a gig that looked too good to be true may have been carrying SQL injection code Cyber-crime09 Feb 2024 | 1
How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists Capitalism made communism stronger On-Prem09 Feb 2024 | 32
Alibaba Cloud posts modest growth, mostly thanks to other Alibaba business units Customers from beyond the Chinese giant are being let go if they've signed for low-margin contracts Off-Prem08 Feb 2024 |
Volt Typhoon not the only Chinese crew lurking in US energy, critical networks Presumably American TLAs are all over Beijing's infrastructure, too ... right? Public Sector07 Feb 2024 | 4
US says China's Volt Typhoon is readying destructive cyberattacks 12 international govt agencies sound the alarm, critical infrastructure at the heart of threats Security07 Feb 2024 | 10
Chinese Coathanger malware hung out to dry by Dutch defense department Attack happened in 2023 using a bespoke backdoor, confirming year-old suspicions CSO06 Feb 2024 | 13
Where there's a will, there's a way to get US chips into China Buy 'em, rent 'em, smuggle 'em – export restrictions don't cover illegitimate means Systems05 Feb 2024 | 10
China 'readies production' of homegrown high-bandwidth memory Breaking the AI performance bottleneck is key for Middle Kingdom's ambitions Storage01 Feb 2024 | 4
Uncle Sam designates more Chinese tech slingers as military collaborators No restrictions, but it could be harder to deal with American businesses Systems01 Feb 2024 | 14
Huawei hits speed bump in production of intelligent automotive unit Holding up the EV supply chain is not a great start to 2024 Personal Tech01 Feb 2024 | 1
Congress told how Chinese goons plan to incite 'societal chaos' in the US American public is way ahead of them Security01 Feb 2024 | 83
FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet Disinfects Cisco and Netgear routers to thwart Chinese critters Security31 Jan 2024 | 43
China puts homegrown GPUs and other AI infrastucture on its national to-do list Don't have to deal with sanctions if you build it yourself AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 8
The latest cold war is already being fought in the supply chain trenches AI and the chips that power it are at the center of the equation Systems30 Jan 2024 | 2
US shorts China's Volt Typhoon crew targeting America's criticals Invaders inveigle infrastructure Security30 Jan 2024 | 7
Eyeing China, US may require clouds to report when foreign actors rent kit to build AI models What’s the point of hardware export bans if foreign entities can access what they want on the cloud? Legal29 Jan 2024 | 5
Tencent explores a future where HPC, quantum, cloud and edge have converged And it will all come together in one big, happy, hybrid innovation engine Off-Prem29 Jan 2024 | 3
Apple's Vision Pro costs big bucks to buy and repair ... just don't mention the box design Still, up to 180,000 units sold under pre-order and China gray market prepping locals Bootnotes25 Jan 2024 | 7
ASML orders boom but export restrictions could hamper growth Extremely key kitmaker does predict good times in 2025, though Systems24 Jan 2024 | 12
China names members of a second tech supergroup to define the metaverse Goggle-eyed Beijing wants technical and identity standards Software23 Jan 2024 | 6
Russians invade Microsoft exec mail while China jabs at VMware vCenter Server Plus: Uncle Sam says Ivanti exploits 'consistent with PRC' snoops Cyber-crime20 Jan 2024 | 9
US agencies warn made-in-China drones might help Beijing snoop on the world It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s a flying menace out to endanger national security Security19 Jan 2024 | 17
Asia beat US, EU in chip building because the West didn't invest, Intel CEO claims Gelsinger reckons pandemic-era supply chain snarls helped demonstrate the sector's importance On-Prem18 Jan 2024 | 29
Chip wars could lead to oversupply as China increases domestic capacity Middle Kingdom can make market moves too... as potential global price battles loom Systems17 Jan 2024 | 7
The chips are down in China as imports see largest ever drop Makes sense since the global market fell 11% in 2023 Systems16 Jan 2024 | 5
Europe benched in high tech 'Champions League' says ASML Calls for stronger team play in the global economic tournament Systems16 Jan 2024 | 13
Reports that China's military uses Baidu's AI lead to stock plunge Web giant retorts that researchers simply used its publicly available APIs AI + ML15 Jan 2024 | 10