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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, in 2020. Space X’s Starlink is partnering Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel in India’s satellite-based digital communications industry. Photo: TNS
India

Musk’s SpaceX set to transform India’s space sector with Jio and Airtel tie-ups

Reliance Jio and its rival Bharti Airtel have signed separate deals with SpaceX to bring the Starlink internet service to India.

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India

In India, cyber scams targeting elderly fuel digital safety concerns

United States

Meta expands Instagram parental controls and brings them to Facebook

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Artificial intelligence

IBM launches new mainframe system to handle heavy workload of AI models

The new z17 mainframe enables a chunk of business data to remain on customer-owned servers and not hosted on the cloud.

IBM’s new z17 mainframe is powerful enough to handle the work of artificial intelligence models with stored data. Photo: Shutterstock
DeepSeek

DeepSeek unveils new AI reasoning method amid anticipation for R2 model

In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek developed a technique combining reasoning methods to guide AI models towards human preferences.

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E-commerce

Trump tariffs, ‘de minimis’ exemption end challenge China’s e-commerce merchants

The policy changes affect many of China’s 120,000 online exporters, whose major market is the United States.

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Artificial intelligence

Quora-like platform Zhihu bets on AI to become China’s X and LinkedIn

‘In the era of AI, the influence of high-quality content will only grow,’ finance chief Wang Han says in an interview with the Post.

Zhihu is hoping to become China’s primary platform for public discussions and professional knowledge sharing with the help of AI. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong society

Rat filmed at Japanese eatery Sushiro in Hong Kong triggers check, prosecution

Video circulating online shows ‘huge’ rat scurrying on the surface of light panel installed on ceiling.

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Singapore

Singapore detains boy, 17, allegedly planning to kill Muslims

The boy, 17, had decided on five mosques across Singapore for his post-Friday prayer attacks.

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ByteDance

ByteDance-owned Douyin sheds light on algorithm amid regulatory pressure

The Chinese version of TikTok has launched a special website that explains how the app recommends and ‘moderates’ content for its users.

Algorithms track users’ behaviour – including likes, follows, shares and the period of time one watches a video – to predict their preferences, according to Douyin. Photo: Shutterstock
Japan

Japan ‘becoming very angry’ with misbehaving social media influencers

Ice Poseidon and Johnny Somali are among the foreign streamers who have been arrested for trespassing and making a nuisance of themselves.

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Johnny Somali was arrested in late August after allegedly breaking into a construction site in Osaka. Photo: X/@g_menguts_ch
Crime in Hong Kong

Privacy rules broken in data leak of major fashion brands: Hong Kong watchdog

Data of 130,000 people including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth months, sex and nationalities exposed in breach.

When China’s cyber nationalists cross Beijing’s red line

Anti-West blogger Sima Nan’s tax scandal exposes lucrative hustle of patriotic fury that dodges political risk – until it doesn’t.

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Icons and Influencers

Who is Ashton Hall, the fitness influencer with an ‘insane’ morning routine?

Hall’s Instagram post shares details of his start to the day, which includes waking up before 4am, plunging his face into ice cold Saratoga Spring Water, meditation and rubbing banana peel on his skin.

An early start for fitness influencer Ashton Hall. Photo: @ashtonhallofficial/Instagram
US-China relations

China hails US YouTube star who had 10 million views on Beijing, Shanghai

Influencer is seen praising the people who greeted him enthusiastically, clean streets and internet connectivity on the subway.

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US YouTuber IShowSpeed with his fans in Vietnam. Photo: X/iShowSpeedHQ
The Philippines

Filipinos find a new way to earn extra pesos – as virtual assistants

Driven by a desire for better pay and flexible hours, a million Filipinos hungry for opportunity are powering a virtual-assistant revolution.

Pacific nations

Pacific nation’s Facebook blackout tied to content ‘control’ experiment

Meta’s Facebook and Messenger remained inaccessible to users in Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, over 24 hours after mysteriously going offline.

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Human trafficking

Tate brothers check in at police station after returning to Romania

Andrew and Tristan Tate comply with judicial measures after a trip to the US.

Andrew Tate after checking in at a police station in Voluntari, Romania. Photo: AP
Crime in China

China fines ultranationalist blogger Sima Nan US$1.2 million for tax evasion

In November, after decades of posting and amassing more than 50 million followers, outspoken blogger went silent on social media.

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Japan

Japan’s PM ‘will not tolerate’ Assassin’s Creed cultural disrespect of shrine

Japan’s PM criticised Assassin’s Creed: Shadows for cultural disrespect, sparking debate on historical accuracy and the game’s portrayal of shrines.

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Tencent

Tencent fourth-quarter profit surges 90% as AI gamble pays off

Profit reaches US$7.1 billion for the quarter, while full-year profit rises to US$26.8 billion.

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Tencent has made a big bet on artificial intelligence and is pushing for the use of its Hunyuan large language model across various industries. Photo: Reuters
Alibaba

Alibaba’s Quark draws positive reviews in China as AI agent race heats up

Quark shows Alibaba’s ambition to be competitive in the market for AI agents, like Butterfly Effect’s Manus and OpenAI’s Deep Research.

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Quark is powered by Alibaba Group Holding’s Qwen reasoning artificial intelligence model. Photo: Shutterstock
Tech CEOs

Meet Jay Graber, the young female CEO of X alternative Bluesky

Unlike billionaire social media owners Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Graber deploys a collectivist approach to Bluesky, which now has over 30 million users.

Alibaba

Video | How Alibaba.com is betting on AI to transform e-commerce

In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Alibaba.com president Zhang Kuo discusses the next big shift in global trade: AI.

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Alibaba

Alibaba.com targets 100% AI adoption by merchants in 2025

Zhang Kuo, president of Alibaba’s international wholesale marketplace, expects the AI initiative to help sellers and buyers on the platform.

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Kumamoto / JAPAN - Oct 3 2020 : Alibaba.com logo on iPhone in cart with Chinese flag. Alibaba Group, Chinese multinational conglomerate holding, is the world's largest retailer and e-commerce company.
X (formerly Twitter)

Elon Musk says X hit by ‘major cyberattack’

Musk said in an interview the cyberattack came from IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area.

Elon Musk wears a shirt that says ‘Tech Support’ during a cabinet meeting with US President Donald Trump. Photo: AP
Semiconductors

How Alibaba’s new RISC-V chip hits the mark for China’s tech ambitions

Alibaba research arm Damo Academy’s launch of the XuanTie C930 is expected to usher in more open-source chip innovation in China.

Ukraine war

‘Say thank you’: Poland and US clash over Ukraine’s access to Musk’s Starlink

US billionaire Elon Musk said the Ukrainian front would collapse if his Starlink system was turned off.

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