Tech & AI
Every major AI story has an Asia-Pacific chapter, whether Silicon Valley admits it or not. The platforms, chips, and startups building what comes next in technology, first.
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Sep- 2026 -10 September
AI is collapsing the patch-gap window from weeks to days
Within days of its August 28 debut, the BlueMoon exploit kit spread to four espionage groups targeting US aerospace firms and Southeast Asian government entities, signaling that AI-assisted development has…
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9 September
A database of 220 million travelers sat open for four years, unguarded
Passport numbers, birth dates, and flight itineraries for anyone who flew through Vietnam between 2017 and 2026 were exposed via default credentials and misconfigured cloud paths, flagged by scanning services…
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9 September
OpenAI just locked Southeast Asia into Nvidia’s infrastructure playbook
Firmus's Malaysian data centres, backed by Nvidia and anchored by OpenAI, push the operator past 900 megawatts of contracted capacity while hardening the region's AI buildout around a single chipmaker's…
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8 September
Australia’s algorithm opt-out law hinges on one forgotten design choice
Communications Minister Anika Wells introduced a draft Digital Duty of Care bill on September 7 requiring Meta, TikTok, and Google to offer users an on/off switch for personalised feeds, but…
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8 September
Samsung and SK Hynix hold less than 10 days of DRAM stock
HBM4 production consumes three times the wafer capacity of standard DRAM, pushing global DRAM revenue up 59.5% to $154.73 billion in Q2 while supply cannot respond for years.
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5 September
Thailand froze 49 data centres to write rules AI outpaced
A newly formed committee has one month to draft nationwide standards for power, water, and environmental safeguards after developers applied for nearly 20,000 megawatts—roughly Thailand's entire current electricity demand.
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1 September
South Korea bets $600 billion on a chip boom that may not last
Seoul's record 2027 budget assumes corporate tax receipts will more than double to 216.7 trillion won, driven by semiconductor windfall—a wager that hinges on AI memory demand sustaining through 2027.
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Aug- 2026 -29 August
Indonesia’s new fiber grid is half-owned by its biggest rival
RAIA Grid launched 86,000 kilometers of wholesale backbone on August 26, but Indosat retains 49.7 percent while running a competing network, and control rests with the president's brother—a governance structure…
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28 August
Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting AI platforms
Two Perth men face 14 charges over credential theft through poisoned open source tools used by OpenAI, GitHub and Mercor, with over 500,000 credentials stolen across 1,000 organisations.
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27 August
U.S. freight forwarder faces first enforcement for smuggling AI chips to China
Apex Logistics, a Singapore unit of Kuehne+Nagel, is under investigation for 47 shipments of Nvidia servers, while Taiwan indicted nine people for diverting 130 B300 chips through falsified documents.
