Google has enhanced Chrome's Safety Check feature, allowing it to act on its own in some circumstances.

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at new tech legislation in Australia, China's rejection of an international agreement, and Japan's supercomputer ambitions.

One of the world's largest banks, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), has been hit by a ransomware attack.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has arrested a 17-year-old male in Walsall as part of its investigation into the recent cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL).

A report by database-as-a-service provider Percona has found that 70% of users of the Redis database are looking to move to alternatives, following Redis' move away from the open source model.

A global summit on AI in the military domain concluded Tuesday with a non-binding declaration urging nations to maintain human control over nuclear weapons.

The European Court of Justice has overruled tax breaks Ireland gave to Apple, forcing the firm to pay up.

Microsoft has resolved a total of 79 vulnerabilities in this month's Patch Tuesday update, including seven critical bugs and four zero days, one of which has been publicly disclosed.

AWS says it will invest 8 billion in building, operating, and maintaining UK datacentres between 2024 and 2028.

The iPhone 16 series is arriving ahead of its much-hyped Apple Intelligence set of AI features, which will debut in beta next month with an initial set of features for the iPhone 15 Pro or higher as well as Macs and iPads with an M1 or newer system-on-chip.

Nominations now open until 30th September The Tech Women Celebration 50 is Computing's curated list of some of the most inspirational women working at all levels of tech. Blazing trails for other women into leadership is rightfully celebrated. But in addition to celebrating female leadership, the Tech Women Celebration 50 was designed to provide an opportunity for younger, more junior women to shine. You can see last year's winners here . Why should you enter or nominate a friend or colleague? H

The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act is now in force. If you haven't felt the shockwave yet, that doesn't mean you can ignore it.

Instead of a mad secretive approach, the UKs oil and gas companies now share terabytes of open data with each other thanks to regulator the NSTA.

Car rental giant Avis is alerting hundreds of thousands of customers that their sensitive personal information was stolen in a major cyberattack that took place in August.

If children are the future, why are we so blas about their education?

Tech giant Apple is set to unveil its latest flagship smartphone, the iPhone 16 featuring a new, powerful A18 chip built on Arm's cutting-edge V9 architecture.

Worldline UK&I is a finalist in this year's Cloud Excellence Awards.

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at a the Delhi High Court's threat to close Wikipedia's operations in India over non-compliance, China's easy access to advanced AI, and Telegram's problems in South Korea.

Nationwide is partnering with Red Hat to speed up application development and meet customers escalating digital expectations.

Ilya Sutskever, a key figure in the development of AI, has raised $1 billion from investors for his new AI firm, Safe Superintelligence or SSI.

The three major Western regions developing AI technology have signed the world's first legally binding international treaty.

Amazon has announced six new AWS water replenishment projects focused on high-risk areas in the US, South America, and China. Whilst the projects will return billions of litres of water annually, Amazon remains opaque on the extent of its overall water take.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared Microsoft's arrangements with Inflection AI, including the hiring of former Inflection employees.

Nvidia has still more than doubled in value this year, but investor confidence wobbles arent going away.

The far right AfD party achieved record breaking results in the recent German state elections and was the most popular party with voters aged 18 24 years. The degree to which TikTok influenced this outcome is under scrutiny.

The new government needs to build on existing success while also addressing areas of weakness, argues Nash Squared's Bev White.

As an organisation with a mission to be brilliant for customers every day, its important to provide best-in-class IT services that enable this. So, in a significant move towards enhancing its technological infrastructure and removing legacy technology, Direct Line Group (DLG) initiated a project to replace an outdated virtual desktop that suffered high latency, frequent downtime, and high costs - choosing Microsofts Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) with multi-session Windows-11 Enterprise.

Join us for the next Deskflix episode on Wednesday 25th September AI is no longer just a buzzword; it's here, and it's set to change everything. Artificial intelligence is a valuable business opportunity, offering opportunities and risks that can't be ignored. That's where the next episode of our free virtual event series, Deskflix, comes into play. Computing will be hosting this episode in collaboration with industry pioneers Intel and Dell Technologies, supported by exclusive research from The

US-based facial recognition startup Clearview AI has been slapped with a 30.5 million ($33.7 million) fine by the Dutch data protection authority (DPA) for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).