Experts blame a compromised engineer’s laptop for the Binance breach, but warn that AI is raising the risk for everyone.
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South Africa’s biggest telecoms operators say they cannot endorse Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.
AI is easier to adopt than to monetise, and agents raise the stakes for market infrastructure, writes Alicia Greenwood.
AI tools that reverse engineer paid programs are producing free clones of Office, Photoshop and other software.
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ERP, sales and accounting systems will accommodate increase and reversal easily, but business operations will suffer.
Economic gains from AI will boost global output by around 0.5%/year between 2025 and 2030, the IMF said.
Chinese car maker Chery is making a big entry into the hybrid vehicle market.
The US, the world’s former champion of free trade and globalisation, has become its biggest challenger.
Circle is launching a payments network for for settling cross-border transactions, sources said.
Asian crime syndicates behind the multibillion-dollar cyberscam industry are expanding globally.
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Britain is banning TikTok on government phones with immediate effect over security concerns.
However, Morris Chang has warned that a reversal of globalisation would increase prices and reduce the ubiquity of chips that power the modern world.
The Biden administration has demanded that TikTok’s Chinese owners divest their stakes in the popular video app, the company said.
Samsung Electronics expects to invest $230-billion over the next 20 years to develop the world’s largest chip-making base.
Shares in Tencent jumped in Hong Kong on Friday morning amid reports that China had reopened the door for new game titles. Traders should curb their enthusiasm.
Why didn’t Facebook do a full accounting after March of all its partnership arrangements that hooked outside companies into Facebook data? It cannot seem to clean up its own mess.
