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
China loathes AirDrop so much it's publicized an old flaw in Apple's P2P protocol Infosec academic suggests Beijing's warning that iThing owners aren't anonymous deserves attention outside the great firewall too Security15 Jan 2024 | 13
Nvidia can't sell its best chips to China, but India is more than happy to take them Datacenter biz plans to deploy 32,000 Nvidia H100 and H200s next year Systems12 Jan 2024 | 1
Chinese company's rocket debut makes waves by launching from the sea Real-life Kerbal Space Program? Science11 Jan 2024 | 2
Infoseccers think attackers backed by China are behind Ivanti zero-day exploits Customers currently left patchless while attacks are expected to increase Cyber-crime11 Jan 2024 | 6
US Navy sailor swaps sea for cell after accepting bribes from Chinese snoops Petty officer Wenheng Zhao admitted to taking as many as 14 payoffs in return for non-public military information Security09 Jan 2024 | 32
Nvidia readies downgraded chips for China, but will anyone want to buy them? Once again, export restrictions are having the opposite to intended effects Systems08 Jan 2024 | 10
Tesla's latest Autopilot safety patch hits 1.6M Chinese vehicles Perfect timing – now BYD can rub that in Tesla's face along with stealing the global EV sales crown Software05 Jan 2024 | 22
Huawei finally gives up on US schmoozing efforts So long, and thanks for all the sanctions as PR and government relations teams decamp Networks05 Jan 2024 | 42
Semiconductor scene set for AI-led recovery in 2024, and China will be in front That's what happens when Uncle Sam tries to curb your chip sector Systems04 Jan 2024 | 1
Three Chinese balloons float near Taiwanese airbase Also: Remember that balloon over the US last February? It might have used a US internet provider CSO04 Jan 2024 | 15
US reportedly pushed ASML to cancel chipmaking kit for China early Dutch photolithography giant claims export control not hurting its bottom line Systems02 Jan 2024 | 32
Nvidia slowed RTX 4090 GPU by 11 percent, to make it 100 percent legal for export to China For now Personal Tech28 Dec 2023 | 34
What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it Interview 'Our licenses aren't working anymore,' says free software pioneer Software27 Dec 2023 | 130
China bans export of rare earth processing kit Beijing also wants its human gene-editing kit – and LiDAR– to stay at home Legal22 Dec 2023 | 110
China's GPU contender Moore Threads reveals card that can cope with Nvidia’s CUDA MTT S4000 GPU isn't super-fast, but the 'kilocard cluster' design supporting it looks interesting Systems20 Dec 2023 | 23
Beijing demands government apps must shed their bureaucratic skins Its hard to disagree with a mandate to make government digital services fit for people, not box-tickers Software19 Dec 2023 | 13
National Grid latest UK org to zap Chinese kit from critical infrastructure Move reportedly made after consulting with National Cyber Security Centre Security18 Dec 2023 | 39