Can China’s EV boom give it decisive edge in geopolitical tech war?
China may increasingly seek to use its dominance in the global electric vehicle industry as geopolitical leverage, giving Beijing greater influence over countries dependent on…
Category: SCMP
Opinion | How a Chinese model stopped a cyberattack when US guard rails failed
An American company found itself under attack by American artificial intelligence systems. Its unlikely rescuer was a Chinese AI model. It sounds like a Hollywood…
Philippines seeks coders, hackers for military – will it be ‘a career killer’?
The Philippines is targeting to recruit more coders, engineers and cybersecurity specialists into the military, as Manila confronts a battlefield increasingly shaped by software, networks…
Anthropic CEO urges Washington to tighten China chip export bans
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is urging Washington to tighten chip export bans and clamp down on Chinese “distillation”, framing it as critical for…
Hong Kong banks in early stages of preparing for quantum computing threats, HKMA says
Hong Kong’s banking sector is still in the early stages of preparing for cybersecurity risks posed by quantum computing, the city’s de facto central bank…
China’s Kimi K3 ‘significantly below’ US rivals in hacking power, study shows
Chinese unicorn Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model trails far behind top American rivals in its ability to launch cyberattacks, joint British-US government research shows, challenging…
Malaysia probes telecoms giant Maxis over Khairul Aming privacy leak
A social media post over an unpaid phone bill has triggered a data-protection investigation in Malaysia, after one of the country’s most recognisable influencers questioned…
China’s cyberscam crackdown pushed syndicates to target Americans, analysts say
Criminal syndicates increasingly turned from targeting Chinese nationals to Americans after Beijing’s 2023 crackdown on online scams in Southeast Asia, analysts said on Wednesday, triggering…
China’s Kimi K3 fuels fears safety curbs are holding back US AI
Chinese unicorn Moonshot AI’s new Kimi K3 model rivals top US systems in spotting cybersecurity flaws, according to early research, stoking fears in Washington that…
Malaysia cracks down on cybercrime with new rules for digital space: ‘necessary reset’
Malaysia is close to overhauling its nearly 30-year-old cybercrime law and giving authorities long-sought tools to pursue online fraud, digital impersonation and AI-generated abuse, but…
Why South Korea is racing to build a sovereign AI model for cybersecurity
South Korea plans to develop its own cybersecurity-focused artificial intelligence model by the end of this year, after a brief US clampdown on advanced systems…
UK court jails young hackers for massive London transport cyberattack
A UK court on Thursday jailed two young men for a 2024 cyberattack on London’s public transport operator that exposed the details of millions of…