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Huawei drives China’s push to make its own advanced chips

Tech giant plays ‘project management’ role to build components needed for DUV machines and avoid export controls

Nvidia supplier Wistron's shares drop after it announces $1.5 billion global stock sale

Wistron shares fall Tuesday after announcement of $1.5 billion global share sale

China hits Japan with anti-dumping measures on chip chemical

Companies importing Japanese dichlorosilane are required to provide cash deposits of up to 99.2 per cent from Sept 8.

Digital camouflage: how crypters hide malware

Learn how crypters help malware evade detection, the risks they create, and the steps you can take to strengthen your cy...

French burglar used ChatGPT to locate Canberra home with luxury goods

The crime began with photos of designer items posted on social media in Australia and ended with the arrest of four Fren...

Rare Beijing spy series highlights real-life intelligence drama with Taiwan

A television drama produced by Beijing’s top counter-espionage agency has put the spotlight on real-life cases in the hi...

Japan needs artificial intelligence its factories can plug in

Japan's competitiveness will hinge on industrial adoption of AI rather than accumulating national computing capacity.

Seoul court sentences man to 5 years in prison for spying on defectors, soldiers

The operator of a South Korean cryptocurrency investment firm has been sentenced to five years in prison for collecting ...

India’s Cross-Border Cyber Scams Against the US and the West

In poor areas such as Jamtara and Mewat, cyber scams have become an important source of household income.

More than 1 million users affected in Mathspace data breach

Learning provider Mathspace says more than a million people, including students, school staff, and parents have been aff...

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.

Taiwan eyes silicon photonics as next big tech leap

Drone operators fined NT$16 million

OpenAI attempted to hide rogue AI agent behavior

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 ...