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Middle East’s data center push endures under cloud of war

The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have invested heavily in technology and pitched their respective nations as re...

Did the FBI bury evidence of alleged Saudi agent’s role in 9/11?

Omar al-Bayoumi has always denied being an extremist and a Saudi spy.

N-able patches max severity N-central flaw amid ongoing attacks

N-able has released an emergency hotfix for a maximum-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting its N-central ...

From dance floor to war: China readies humanoid robots for combat

BEIJING, Sept 7 - At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, robots jumped, boxed and danced. Some fleet-foo...

Sovereign Shield, Alliance Sword: Evolving NATO’s Strategic Communications Doctrine for Cognitive Warfare

Abstract Cognitive warfare is routinely described as something a state does, or as a new name for propaganda, disinforma...

New videos of man in 9/11 lawsuit reveal extremist links

The footage and other evidence the FBI failed to share undermine Omar al-Bayoumi's 25 years of denials.

China won’t permit AI dominance; South Korea’s deepfake crisis: 5 weekend reads you missed

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond....

25 Years After 9/11, What Are We Failing to Imagine Now?

The counterterrorism community struggles with how technology might be applied to novel use cases.

Australians could opt out of social media algorithms under proposed law

Australians could be given the option of opting out of powerful social media algorithms under new legislation cracking d...

Didi to apply for driverless vehicle tests in Hong Kong this year

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing will apply to test autonomous vehicles in a Hong Kong urban area this year, a go...

Korea’s entertainment platforms hit by major data breaches

Popular South Korean entertainment platforms Weverse and Tving are grappling with major data breaches, renewing the spot...

Could NVIDIA's purchase of Hugging Face boost the EU's AI sovereignty?

The deal, marking NVIDIA's increased focus on open-AI models, is likely to draw significant regulatory concern from the ...

Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation

Firms like Meta, Google and TikTok should face "substantial" penalties if they don't give the option, minister says.

Taiwan flexes chip diplomacy muscles as it faces pressure to share AI wealth with allies

Taiwanese firms acknowledge the need to expand manufacturing beyond the island.

Australia’s proposed ‘opt out’ law targets Big Tech algorithms

Social media platforms face scrutiny over addictive algorithms; new law aims to give Australians greater feed control.

Satellite internet’s regulatory battle

For most of Pakistan’s history, space and connectivity were kind of separate. Satellite was largely a business-to-busine...

China’s ‘Tesla imitators’ have a new mission: build affordable humanoid robots for consumers

When Nio CEO William Li outlined earnings prospects for the Shanghai-based carmaker in March, he could not help but like...

ChatGPT Astra is now rolling out to $20 Plus subscription

OpenAI is now rolling out ChatGPT Astra, its most powerful model to date, to those with a $20 Plus subscription, but the...

Australians could opt out of social media algorithms under new law

The draft law requiring a “digital duty of care” is expected to be introduced to Australia’s Parliament this week.

Drone operators fined NT$16 million

OpenAI attempted to hide rogue AI agent behavior

Taiwan eyes silicon photonics as next big tech leap

OpenAI implicated in another hack

A swarm of OpenAI agents hacked a German website this spring, Reuters reported, in the latest incident of advanced AI vi...

When A.I. Starts Scheming

An unreleased model escaped human control and formed a swarm of A.I. agents. It was the kind breach that could cause cha...

Rewriting world history puts China’s image and ‘cultural security’ at risk: party journal

Radically rewriting world and Chinese history without solid proof could threaten China’s international image and nationa...

Attackers conceal phishing lures using invisible Unicode characters

Threat actors have adopted the ASCII smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, using invisible Unicode characters to ev...

Unions Gains Support as AI Reshapes Work

A Gallup poll shows 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and a record 47% want them to have more influence, while 52...

Russia calls Leipzig drone attack accusations 'start of real war'

The German government concluded last week that Russia was responsible for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig Airport l...

Punching above their weight: how China’s AI giants stretch each dollar in compute race

The massive gap in artificial intelligence spending between US and Chinese tech titans may not buy the advantage expecte...

Ukraine's Prosecutor General denies involvement in scam call center protection racket

"I have no involvement whatsoever in covering up illegal call centers, I have not issued any instructions to facilitate ...

Germany plans anti-sabotage shield after airport drone attack

Germany is planning a broad package of measures to strengthen its defences against drone attacks, cyber intrusions and o...

Why China is being urged to study Ukraine’s wartime PR blitz in the AI age

China has been urged to draw on the lessons from Ukraine’s communications as it looks at new forms of wartime messaging....

China will never allow any country in this world to achieve AI dominance: Victor Gao

China will thwart US ambitions for global artificial intelligence (AI) dominance, the vice-president of the Centre for C...

Berlin planning 'protective shield' to defend against sabotage, report says

The new plan would see the creation of a "Cyberdome," a network of digital sensors that would help seek out and intercep...

Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication

Attackers are exploiting MikroTik routers with their Secure Shell (SSH) remote-access service, which is reachable from t...

Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner

Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows...

German authorities develop plan to counter drones, cyberattacks — Bild

According to its information, it provides for the expansion of mobile federal police units for combating drones

12 English police forces involved in contentious Palantir pilot programmes

More than a quarter of forces in England and Wales have the same kind of contract that was blocked in London by Mayor Sa...

Viral Jennie clip tests limits of South Korea’s AI deepfake laws

For a few seconds during Blackpink member Jennie’s headline set at Tokyo’s Summer Sonic festival last month, it looked l...

MND ‘cyber hunt team’ plan revealed