Jensen Huang discusses comeback as Nvidia CEO with allies: reports
Jensen Huang is considering a comeback as Nvidia’s chief executive, and has discussed with confidants the possibility of returning, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. One Hu
5,000 people linked to HKMU may have had personal data leaked in cyber breach
About 5,000 people linked to a university in Hong Kong may have had their personal data compromised in a cybersecurity incident, with information allegedly being offered for sale on the dark web. Data advertised by dark
Beaune wine auction in Burgundy hit by climate change
A showcase of luxury and charity, this year's Hospices de Beaune auction is constrained by the poor harvest caused by the summer heatwaves.
Jensen Huang: The French Connection
President Trump is heading to Asia in a few days time, and will meet President Putin and President Xi. There's likely to be one fewer tech giants at the table, Jensen Huang, newly resigned from Nvidia, over the suspected
How telecoms upgrade work sparked US flight chaos
US officials say the disruption was caused by old equipment overloading and not a cyber-attack.
Suspected China spy linked to Nvidia's ex-boss left in 2025, Megaspeed says
The Nvidia scandal has raised questions over whether advanced AI chips ended up in China, despite US restrictions.
Fascism built the AI bubble. What will burst it?
In the latest episode of Deja Vu, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor examine the latest model of disaster capitalism.
Alleged Chinese spy left Megaspeed last year, company says
Singapore-based Megaspeed International is under scrutiny from US authorities over reports it shipped AI chips to China in breach of trade restrictions.
Why the Nvidia scandal is bad news for Europe’s AI ambitions
Nvidia's Jensen Huang poured money into open-source AI, from French-founded Hugging Face to chips for Mistral's data centres, and fought Washington's attempts to restrict it. With Huang gone and China hawks emboldened, T
US probes nationwide flights stoppage as travel disruptions persist
US air travel is expected to return to normal this Sunday, following a nationwide ground stop Friday night that stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers and disrupted travel worldwide. The Trump administration blamed
Chinese spy, chip sales, Trump ties... The Nvidia scandal deepens
The Nvidia scandal continues to unravel. Sunday, the Singapore-based company Megaspeed said that Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang had officially left the company in 2025. She is the alleged Chinese spy that had an affai
South Korea's top scorer in tax accountancy exam admits cheating
Han Won-seok, 34, confessed to using a hidden camera and AI to get a near-perfect mark on the significant test.
Are we too reliant on technology? Questions arise after Microsoft's widespread outages
This week's Microsoft outage highlighted the risks of relying on a single technology provider for essential services. The disruption lasted nearly 24 hours, impacting millions of users across more than 70 countries – fro
China calls for AI cooperation with the US ahead of Shenzhen Apec summit
Chinese ambassador to the United States Xie Feng has signalled high hopes for major-power cooperation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shenzhen this week, while promoting a China-led AI alliance for reg
160 questions, only one wrong: top scorer in South Korea tax exam admits AI cheating
Fears for national college entrance exam next week as test taker admits sending photos of questions to AI tool The marks attained by the top scorer on South Korea’s national exam for aspiring tax accountants this year s
China’s upgraded VT-4B export tank gets fourth-gen Type 100 tech ahead of Zhuhai show
China has upgraded its VT-4 series main battle tank with cutting-edge technologies aimed at the international market, newly surfaced photos show ahead of the country’s premier defence exhibition in Zhuhai. The appearance
South Korea calms fears over 260,000 Nvidia chip order after Jensen Huang’s exit
The South Korean government said Nvidia’s existing partnership commitments to Seoul remain intact despite disgraced CEO Jensen Huang’s departure from the artificial intelligence giant. However, uncertainties linger as re
'Is this a cyberattack?' Grounded flights, a Microsoft outage and AI chaos fuel cybersecurity fears
A series of unsettling disruptions, from tech stock turbulence and Microsoft outages to a nationwide grounding of flights, has left millions wondering whether the world’s increasingly interconnected technology systems ar
South Korea probes top exam scorer after AI cheating confession
The candidate scored 397.5 out of 400 points in the first round, with only one wrong answer out of 160 questions, sparking cheating accusations.
Hong Kong must expand trade networks as AI development could slow, commerce chief says
Hong Kong must proactively expand trade networks and not “wait for luck to come our way”, as artificial intelligence development that has driven recent growth in exports may gradually slow down, the city’s commerce chief
No actors, no crew, no ticket sales: ‘So obviously AI’ film flops at China’s box office
China has ushered artificial intelligence into its cinemas, but the country’s first fully AI-generated feature film has flopped at the box office. Made with no human actors or camera crew, Sanxingdui: Future Past brought
Fresh coat, lighter load: Hong Kong airport puts runway-painting robots to work
Hong Kong International Airport has become the world’s first to deploy robots to repaint runway markings, cutting the time needed to refresh centre lines by about 67 per cent compared with manual painting, its managing a
Top tax accountant exam scorer in South Korea admits to using AI to cheat
South Korean police said on Sunday they had launched an investigation after the top scorer in a national tax accountant exam confessed to using artificial intelligence to cheat. The test taker, who ranked first in both r
AI ‘blue aliens’ rising as health experts on China social media spark pseudoscience backlash
In China, some influential online voices offering health advice are neither doctors nor academics, but AI-generated blue aliens. Depicted as emissaries from an advanced civilisation, the bald, blue-skinned digital figure
Chinese social media firms under fire as fake history spreads online
Pseudo-history about China is mushrooming online, spreading fake accounts of the past due in large part to platform algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) and a lack of monitoring, according to a Chinese provincial aut
Can Chinese AI companies curb cyber risks from open-weight models without losing their edge?
China’s leading artificial intelligence model companies are beginning to curb the cybersecurity capabilities of their most advanced open-weight models, following a string of high-profile AI hacking incidents involving bo
Japan firms thrive on AI boom, but uncertainty grows
Factors like raw material prices amid Middle East turmoil and data center construction have come industry analysts concerned.
Nigeria's upcoming election marred by rising AI disinformation
As Nigeria inches closer to the 2027 polls, the use of artificial intelligence in the electoral process has prompted questions about integrity and institutional readiness. Can Nigerians trust their democratic processes?
Open-weight AI like 'a Nazi coach', UN-backed anti-terror group says
A group that aims to prevent the unsafe use of artificial intelligence says open-source AI is like "having a Nazi coach at your disposal, reinforcing your thoughts".
Sex, spies and Silicon Valley: Nvidia scandal highlights risks for big tech
Chinese economic espionage is in the spotlight after the downfall of Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, and former intelligence officials say the US is not doing enough to combat it.
Art ‘must not be sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit’, Liberal senator says as AI policy debate rages
Andrew McLachlan says he chooses ‘real forests over virtual ones’ as he urges Labor government to consider AI’s impact on artists and environment Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast The outspok
Italy fines Meta €805m over accessing users' photos
The social media giant is accused of not informing 20 million users it had access to their photos.
Italy fines Meta $880m over photo privacy
Regulator said Meta's 'lack of cooperation' and the large number of people affected contributed to size of the fine.
Microsoft confirms all services are restored after global outage
Microsoft has said that all services have been fully restored after a global outage which affected the NHS, police, schools and other services across the UK.
Microsoft apologises for global outage and rules out cyberattack
The tech giant said on Saturday that service has now been restored across Teams, Outlook, and its other products, ending the shutdown.
When tech founders leave, what happens to their companies?
Nvidia could lose 30 percent of its value following cofounder Jensen Huang's decision to step down, analysts warns.
Italy hits Meta with €805M fine over privacy law violation
It is the largest fine ever issued by Italy's data protection regulator.
Zero capital, 116 projects: AI spots the devils in the details of China corruption case
Disciplinary staff in Wuhan, provincial capital of Hubei in central China, were going about their routine workday when a red alert landed. It was from a large data model – flagging a possible case of corruption. “A compa
Microsoft services fully restored after global outage
Microsoft said on Saturday that services had fully recovered across Teams, Outlook and its other products, ending a global outage that crippled online communications for businesses and governments for over 24 hours.
Microsoft confirms services fully restored after major global outage
Microsoft stated that the disruption was due to a ‘technical issue not related to cyber or AI agents’
Microsoft's widespread outages caused global chaos, including in the healthcasre industry
Microsoft says it is seeing improvements in its service availability after an hours-long disruption knocked out its platforms including Outlook and Teams. The outage has affected hundreds of millions of people across the
Can Nvidia survive without tech titan Jensen Huang?
The Financial Times says computing giant Nvidia has approached Rene Haas, CEO of British chip designer Arm, in its search for a potential successor to Jensen Huang. Huang resigned after his affair with an alleged Chinese
US nationwide flight ground stop: "Our routers got overloaded with data"
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a rare nationwide ground stop. More than 8,200 flights, or over 31% of those scheduled in the United States, were canceled. The ground stop lasted nearly five hours a
Hong Kong police to activate AI facial recognition across surveillance network
Hong Kong police will activate artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition across their expanding smart surveillance network on Monday, the force’s chief has said. Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming said on
Microsoft says all services working again
US tech giant Microsoft says it has fixed problems that led to a global outage of its services. The glitch severely disrupted online communications in businesses and governments for more than 24 hours.
Nigeria: How the pcoming elections are influeced by the rise of AI disinformation
As Nigeria inches closer to the 2027 polls, the use of artificial intelligence in the electoral process has prompted questions about integrity and institutional readiness. Can Nigerians trust their democratic processes?
Can Europe’s tech firms really replace Amazon, Google and Microsoft?
MEPs want public bodies to buy more European cloud services. The continent’s alternatives are growing, but they remain a fraction of the size of Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
Microsoft says services fully restored after day-long global outage
Efforts to address the underlying problem with Outlook, Teams and Copilot are complete, the tech firm says.
Microsoft ‘deeply sorry’ for global outage that could have billion-dollar impact on Australia
Experts say disruption exposes ‘Australia’s reliance on foreign technology’ as software giant says services being restored Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Microsoft outage could be a disa
Microsoft says all services 'fully recovered' after global outage
The tech giant confirmed on Saturday morning that all services have recovered across Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other applications, ending a global outage that crippled online communications across businesses and
Microsoft says services fully restored after outage roiled world
Access has been fully restored to itd flagship software, ending an outage that paralyzed government offices, traders and businesses around the world.
Hong Kong urged to look beyond university rankings to attract international students
Leaders of top British universities have urged the city to look beyond institutional rankings in its “Study in Hong Kong” campaign, warning that attracting and keeping top overseas talent requires government-backed caree
FAA lifts nationwide ground stop on all US flights
The United States on Friday lifted an hours-long ground stop at the nation's airports, with top officials explaining that the disruption was not due to a cyberattack or a sweeping Microsoft outage.
US flights resume after nationwide ground stop lifted
The United States on Friday lifted an hours-long ground stop at the nation's airports, with top officials explaining that the disruption was not due to a cyberattack or a sweeping Microsoft outage. Transportation Secreta
China confinement nanny’s emotional farewell to baby after 3 months moves family, internet users
A Chinese confinement nanny’s heartfelt farewell to a baby she had cared for over three months moved the family and people online, shining a spotlight on the country’s postpartum care industry. In her final days caring f