Apple beats expectations, but drops in China
India saw an all-time revenue record and is poised for four more physical stores
Personal Tech01 Nov 2024 | 1
Laura is an enterprise technology reporter for The Register, focusing primarily on the APAC region. Before joining our publisher, she held roles ranging from science journalist to mechanical engineer at a leading maker of business computer systems.
Japan's space agency to build a digital twin of its ISS module – right before it retires
It's the space economy, stupid
Science01 Nov 2024 | 4
Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years
India makes it onto list of likely threats for the first time
Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2024 | 13
Equinix to pad Thai coffers with $500 million investment
Another Asian country declares ambition to be a tech hub
Off-Prem31 Oct 2024 | 6
Beijing claims it's found 'underwater lighthouses' that its foes use for espionage
Release the Kraken!
Security30 Oct 2024 | 66
Chinese chips, quantum and AI now on US investment blacklist
Wouldn’t want to inadvertently fund the PLA
Systems29 Oct 2024 | 3
NASA narrows Artemis III landing target list to nine
The Mons Mouton Plateau looks nice this time of year. Or maybe you prefer Slater Plain?
Science29 Oct 2024 | 13
Intel to expand Chengdu facility, despite US China tension
Chipzilla unlikely to give in when it comes to its biggest sales market
Systems28 Oct 2024 | 2
China's first space tourism venture sells first pair of tickets
Just two of 'em, at a discount befitting the early stage of development for the kit involved
Science28 Oct 2024 | 8
Indonesia bans iPhone 16 over Apple’s undelivered investment promises
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Singapore building two Supercomputers; Toyota to rebuild IT with Fujitsu AI; Are Samsung engineers jumping ship?
Public Sector27 Oct 2024 | 5
Google Cloud burst by 12-hour power outage in German region
Loose juice led to cooling issue in one zone, but the pain was widespread
Off-Prem25 Oct 2024 | 26
With record revenue, SK hynix brushes off suggestion of AI chip oversupply
How embarrassing for Samsung
AI + ML24 Oct 2024 |
China's top messaging app WeChat banned from Hong Kong government computers
Google and WhatsApp also binned, which is far easier to explain than canning a local hero
Security24 Oct 2024 | 14
Flying taxis cleared for takeoff under new US aviation rules
'Powered-lift' becomes first new category of aircraft in nearly 80 years
Offbeat24 Oct 2024 | 15
Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch
Another step toward tech independence for China – on the day Tim Cook came to town
OSes23 Oct 2024 | 31
Fujitsu delivers GPU optimization tech it touts as a server-saver
Middleware aimed at softening the shortage of AI accelerators
AI + ML23 Oct 2024 |
Telcos find cloud migrations, security, are a pain in the IaaS
Carriers consume less than half the cloud they committed to use
PaaS + IaaS22 Oct 2024 | 17
Intern allegedly messed with ByteDance's LLM training cluster
No losses caused – except the intern's job – says TikTok parent
AI + ML22 Oct 2024 | 18
Tesla, Intel, deny they're the foreign company China just accused of making maps that threaten national security
As TSMC defends itself against report it may have helped Huawei
Security21 Oct 2024 | 13
AI 'bubble' will burst 99 percent of players, says Baidu CEO
Asia In Brief Plus: Australian bank glitch empties accounts; China online slang crackdown; Toshiba teams with Airbus; and more
AI + ML20 Oct 2024 | 18
Intel hits back at China's accusations it bakes in NSA backdoors
Chipzilla says it obeys the law wherever it is, which is nice
Security18 Oct 2024 | 28
Someone's tried sneaking semiconductor secrets out of South Korea's patent office
Government hardens up infosec to stop this - as you would when Samsung and SK hynix are massive parts of your economy
Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2024 | 5
Oh, what a feeling: Toyota building robots that get better with practice
Bots that learn to peel potatoes is a lot less scary than Black Mirror
Science17 Oct 2024 | 15
Wipro orders hybrid work as other tech giants make full-time pants-wearing mandatory
India's services giants think their consultants can serve you from wherever
On-Prem17 Oct 2024 | 11
IBM acquires Indian SaaS startup Prescinto to shine a light on renewable energy assets
Also: Crypto-hub Binance helps Delhi police shut down solar power scam
SaaS16 Oct 2024 | 1
Asian tech ministers fear effective AI regulation will prove elusive
New Zealand isn't bothering. Singapore fears harms are inevitable
Public Sector16 Oct 2024 | 1
Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6
Wants 'super-large capacity, super-wide bandwidth' datacenters – and more submarine cables
Public Sector14 Oct 2024 | 20
Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption
With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine, but only against very short keys
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 23
Indonesia orders Apple, Google to take down Chinese bargain app Temu
Plus: Infosys stops sending job offer emails; Singtel outage; Australia to require ransomware payment reveals
Applications13 Oct 2024 | 3
Jupiter's Great Red Spot wobbles like Jell-o, according to Hubble snaps
Scientists undecided about possible flavor
Science11 Oct 2024 | 18
Healthcare attacks spread beyond US – just ask India's Star Health
Updated Acknowledges bulk customer data leak weeks after Telegram channels dangled it online
Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 1
OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff
Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 4
OpenAI appoints international expansion boss
Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside
AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 4
Asian crime gangs are growing – fast – thanks to AI and other tech
UN report finds Telegram, cryptocurrency are tools of a growing 'criminal service economy'
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 7
Samsung apologizes for bad financial performance
Profit doesn't pop despite AI-inspired memory boom, leading to executive mea culpa
Systems08 Oct 2024 | 8
China reportedly tells local AI buyers to ignore Nvidia
In Brief Plus: Google, Oracle, spend $9.5 billion on Asia datacenters; Philippines to tax clouds; Vietnam infosec praised; and more
AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 3
Google Cloud to help India export its Digital Public Infrastructure
Bundles free government apps to help digital diplomacy – and maybe find some new customers
Public Sector04 Oct 2024 | 2
Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids
California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger
Systems04 Oct 2024 | 5
Fujitsu teams up with Supermicro on Arm-based server CPU
Liquid cooling on the mind
On-Prem03 Oct 2024 | 3
Singapore tires of Big Tech's slow and half-hearted help for abused users
PM promises agency to handle complaints as he outlines new digital nation plan
Public Sector02 Oct 2024 | 3
TSMC preps facilities as Taiwan braces for powerful Super Typhoon Krathon
Plants in Tainan and Kaohsiung face heavy rainfall
Systems01 Oct 2024 | 3
Fire halts production at Indian iPhone factory
Tata was about to double the workforce at the plant
Personal Tech01 Oct 2024 | 4
Imagine a government that told Big Tech to improve resilience – then punished failures
It's happening in South Korea
Off-Prem01 Oct 2024 | 16
China calls for realtime censorship of satellite broadband
Great Firewall reaches all the way into space
Networks30 Sep 2024 | 27
Binance claims it helped to bust Chinese crypto scam app in India
ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: SpaceX plans Vietnam investment; Yahoo! Japan content moderation secrets; LG offloads Chinese display factory; and more
Cyber-crime30 Sep 2024 | 5
Data harvesting superapp admits it struggled to wield data – until it built an LLM
Engineers at Grab don't need to ask each other questions any more
AI + ML27 Sep 2024 | 9
Japanese orgs now paying salaries direct into e-wallets
Starting at SoftBank, using its own PayPay service
Software27 Sep 2024 | 11
SK hynix begins mass production of 36 GB 12-layer HBM3E
Should be Jensen Huang's hands in less than 60 days
Storage26 Sep 2024 | 2
India extends IT hardware import license scheme that enraged Big Tech
And hints at revised rules to come later this year
Systems26 Sep 2024 | 7
Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways
Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation
Networks25 Sep 2024 | 6
China claims Taiwan, not civilians, behind web vandalism
Taipei laughs it off – and so does Beijing, which says political slurs hit sites nobody reads anyway
Cyber-crime25 Sep 2024 | 2
Vietnam finds a formula – C = SET + 1 – to grow its semiconductor industry to $100bn
It only adds up to being as big as Nvidia today, in 2050
Public Sector24 Sep 2024 | 1
Chinese server-maker Inspur claims it's on track for better liquid cooling with 'railway sleeper' design
Beijing is happy at surging sales and production capacity, falling energy requirements
Systems23 Sep 2024 | 3
Alibaba Cloud claims its modular datacenter architecture shrinks build times by 50 percent
Also reveals boosted utilization rates, upgraded IaaS and more – all in the name of AI apps
Off-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 4
NTT Data, IBM team on mainframe cloud for banks
SimpliZCloud is only for India right now, based on big Blue's LinuxONE
Off-Prem19 Sep 2024 | 4
Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers
Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume
Systems19 Sep 2024 | 2
China's tech giants buy into Indonesia – just like US tech giants did in India
GoTo commits to the Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba promises not to sell its stake
SaaS18 Sep 2024 |
Alibaba Cloud waiting for hardware to dry out before trying to restore customer data
Digital Realty's Singapore disaster still complicating cloud after a week
Off-Prem17 Sep 2024 | 8
Biden tackles trade loophole used by cheap Chinese e-tailers
Removing de minimis exemption could stymie Beijing’s plans to grow its cyber-bazaar abroad
Personal Tech16 Sep 2024 | 22
Bank fines HPE's financial services arm in India
Alleges its governance was MIA and its KYC SNAFU
Public Sector16 Sep 2024 | 2
Biting the hand that feeds IT
