9+ hour, 6+ min ago   (514+ words) SINGAPORE, Sept 13 — Consumers looking for a new laptop or desktop may want to think twice, as PC prices here have skyrocketed by as much as 40 per cent amid a global shortage of key components. The squeeze is being driven largely…...

1+ day, 31+ min ago   (716+ words) BRUSSELS, Sept 13 — Calls are growing louder in Europe for action against “pervert” smart glasses after secretly filmed footage of girls and women appeared online—with a petition in Britain demanding a ban on their sale. The devices grabbed attention this…...

1+ day, 27+ min ago   (337+ words) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 12 — ChatGPT maker OpenAI confirmed today that autonomous software built on its models targeted another website during testing a couple of months before a separate attack on the coding site Hugging Face. The new report adds to concerns…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (293+ words) SINGAPORE, Sept 12 — The police have warned cryptocurrency users whose email accounts were recently hacked to check their account security after a rise in cases involving unauthorised access to linked crypto accounts since mid-August. The Straits Times reported that police investigations…...

2+ day, 30+ min ago   (378+ words) BRUSSELS, Sept 12 — If there is an industry for it, there will be a lobby group representing its interests in Brussels, home to the European Union’s institutions. The biggest spenders are the digital, banking and energy sectors, according to civil society…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (609+ words) WASHINGTON, Sept 10 — Meta said yesterday it had begun testing Community Notes in 16 Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, a step toward replacing the professional fact-checking programme it runs with partner organisations across the region. The crowdsourced notes system, modelled on the…...

4+ day, 17+ min ago   (1083+ words) KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 — Streaming a video, making an online payment, shopping online or using an AI-powered service involves data being stored and processed somewhere. Much of that happens in data centres — facilities that house computer servers and other equipment used…...

4+ day, 42+ min ago   (388+ words) BEIJING, Sept 9 — The operator of Chinese mega-app WeChat said Wednesday it had fixed software weaknesses flagged by a US cybersecurity firm that demonstrated how AI could be used to exploit them. WeChat is ubiquitous among Chinese speakers worldwide, used by…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (363+ words) HELSINKI, Sept 9 — Google said today that it would invest at least €13 billion (RM60.8 billion) in digital infrastructure, including data centres to power artificial intelligence models, in Finland over the next two years. “This is Google’s largest single investment in Europe and…...

6+ day, 33+ min ago   (599+ words) BENGALURU, Sept 8 — When rescue dog Chloe is not tumbling across the grass on a farm outside India’s tech capital Bengaluru, she is learning to sniff human breath for cancer with a little help from AI. Fitted with a 3D-printed helmet…...