Welcome to Computing's fortnightly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at China's $47 billion chip fund, India's approval of deepfakes and strikes at Samsung.

Law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe have taken down cybercrime networks responsible for defrauding victims of billions of dollars.

Central to trust is the acquisition of the .Bank domain

The personal data of 560 million Ticketmaster customers has allegedly been exposed in a massive data breach.

The BBC has begun an investigation after the details of more than 25,000 current and former employees were exposed in a data breach.

Check Point has released emergency hotfixes to address a critical vulnerability in its VPN products that attackers were actively exploiting.

2024 Women and Diversity Tech and Channel Festival will celebrate the full range of diversity across the tech workplace.

Leaked documents have provided a window into one of the web's most closely guarded secrets, Google's search ranking algorithm.

The second in our series of articles based on our cloud sustainability research takes an in depth look at indirect emissions.

Like Microsoft, Google is adding gen-AI features to its own hardware and the branding is pretty similar, too...

Once again this year Computing is showcasing the UK's top tech talent in our Tech Rising Stars 30 list. View the 2023 list here . If you are a UK-based technologist, age 30 or below who is innovating, making waves, pursuing a vision or driving change, put yourself forward and gain the kudos and recognition you deserve. Who should enter? To enter, you just need to be a technologist who's 30 or under with an inspiring story to tell. You might be a developer or an engineer who's pioneered a new app

The UK cloud market is booming, with revenues more than doubling in just three years, but the market is consolidating around Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

Google's parent, Alphabet, is making moves to acquire HubSpot, a marketing software company valued at $30 billion.

Scraping web data is an easy way to train AI models, but content owners object to the practice. With no legislative end in sight, Reddit's deal with OpenAI marks a way forward, says Travers Smith's James Longster.

The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) has launched an investigation after a data breach allegedly exposed nearly 70,000 members' personal information.

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British tech magnate Mike Lynch has appeared in a US court to defend himself against allegations of fraud related to the 2011 sale of his company, Autonomy, to Hewlett-Packard (HP).

iFixit and Samsung have announced the termination of their nearly two-year partnership aimed at improving tools, parts and resources for DIY repairs. The repair firm expressed disappointment with Samsung's lack of commitment to making its hardware more repairable.

A law to regulate Big Tech has been rushed through the Parliament, but the UKs GDPR is on hold.

Microsoft faced a service outage on Thursday, leaving many users in Asia and Europe frustrated as Bing Search became inaccessible.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is facing a 750,000 fine after a significant data breach last year exposed the identities of all 9,483 serving officers and staff.

The act becomes law next month, and is considerably more stringent than it's US equivalent.

Even before yesterday's announcement, there were growing concerns about the varying approaches of big tech and social media companies in tackling misinformation, deepfakes and the monitoring of online content.

Nvidia shares topped $1000 for the first time yesterday after it's Q1 fiscal results surpassed high expectations.

Nutanix is not an open source company, but its moving in that direction.

Copilot+ PCs, which Microsoft bills as the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built, are expected to be adopted quickly as the end of Windows 10 support spurs customers into looking at new devices.

Johansson versus Altman is symptomatic of some much deeper problems with the development of AI chatbots If you haven't yet spotted the smoke arising from the Scarlett Johansson versus OpenAI legal binfire here's your TLDR summary: Last week, around the time of the launch of GPT-4o, Sam Altman of OpenAI tweeted this. her Sam Altman (@sama) May 13, 2024 This refers to a 2013 movie in which Scarlett Johansson voiced the character of an AI assistant. Soon after the launch, lots of people spotted th

Microsoft's new AI feature is meant to take the frustration out of PC use, but campaigners - and regulators - have concerns.

Opensource database MariaDB, has received backing from its shareholders for a private equity takeover bid.

Since its $61 billion takeover by Broadcom last year, customers of pre-eminent virtualisation software VMware have been nervously awaiting the parent company's next moves on licencing and pricing.

Ten nations and the EU have signed the Seoul Statement of Intent toward International Cooperation on AI Safety Science, agreeing to establish the first international network of AI safety institutes.

The UK government's newly established AI Safety Institute (AISI) has published a report highlighting significant vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs).

ChatGPT has seen its biggest revenue spike yet since the launch of GPT-4o

Mayur Gondhea of Cubelynx and Dr. James Cusack of Autistica, explain why cultivating an understanding that everyone sees the world differently, benefits your entire workforce and the bottom line, and set out some ideas for action. Cubelynx provides independent, financial modelling services to clients across the public and private sector including investors, banks, developers, regulators and local authorities. The company strapline is we think differently. Mayur Gondhea, Founder of Cubelynx, exp

Microsoft has introduced a new initiative to tackle a spike in its greenhouse gas emissions since 2020, largely driven by the expansion of its datacentres.

Increased use of AI is set to drive a dramatic surge in data centre power demand, with a projected increase of 160% by 2030, according to new research.

IT leaders say Computings latest research into cloud providers ESG efforts shines a light on this complex area of procurement.

With burnout rife among the UK's overworked security professionals, is a simple summer holiday enough to get them back on track?

British engineering firm Arup, the company behind architectural marvels like the Sydney Opera House, has fallen victim to a sophisticated deepfake scam, losing a HK$200 million (20 million) to fraudulent financial transfers.