https://sagire.online/topic/technology/ Articles and notes about Technology. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/9f2bb33d/https://sagire.online/wire/9f2bb33d/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:24:00 -0300South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is pushing for a centralized cybersecurity agency after passport details and other personal information of 168 people, including the president, his wife and senior security officials, were reported to be accessible online for nearly five months, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP). Technology experts warn that creating a new organization alone does little to address the deeper problem of complacency, with businesses and government agencies viewing tighter cybersecurity as an unnecessary expense until a serious breach occurs.South KoreaCybersecurityEast AsiaTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/04ab52d4/https://sagire.online/wire/04ab52d4/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:24:00 -0300A test by France 24 Observers using a Chinese IP address showed that Doubao replies that the content is suspected of violating its rules of use and DeepSeek suggests the story is fake news and that there is no trustworthy information available. “This content is suspected of violating the rules for using Doubao,” Doubao responded. DeepSeek responded by suggesting the story was fake news: “As for the question of whether Mbappé said the words ‘Mao Zedong is a dictator’, there is currently no publicly available, trustworthy information or any news report that would make it possible to confirm this statement.” The controversy began with a joke by Mbappé in mid-October on the French podcast The Bridge, when he cited a meme in which his face appears superimposed on the figure of someone he called “a Chinese dictator”. Chinese football sponsors, including Dongpeng Group, dairy giant Mengniu and cheesemaker Milkground, ended partnerships with the Real Madrid striker; a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry lashed out at Mbappé during a press conference, and the player published an apology that, according to France 24, Chinese diplomats say is being taken seriously. Researcher Jennifer Pan of Stanford University said the original Chinese models are more likely to refuse to respond and to give short and vague replies to questions about Chinese politics than models developed elsewhere.ChinaArtificial intelligenceTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/2a0591b3/https://sagire.online/wire/2a0591b3/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:23:00 -0300Chinese genetic sequencing company Novogene has taken the US Department of Defense to court to challenge its inclusion on a Pentagon list of firms accused of supporting China’s military, according to the Times of India. The lawsuit was filed late Tuesday in a federal court in Washington; the company was added to the list in June, alongside Alibaba, Baidu, BYD and NIO, and is seeking to overturn its designation, arguing that the decision is unlawful and has damaged its business and reputation. From 2027, the Pentagon will be barred from purchasing products or services from the listed companies even through third-party suppliers. An injunction granted by a US court to Alibaba against Pentagon contract restrictions does not remove the company from the list, which it is continuing to challenge in court.ChinaUnited StatesTechnologyTrade https://sagire.online/wire/bb424f3b/https://sagire.online/wire/bb424f3b/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:26:00 -0300Speaking on a panel at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen on Tuesday, DeepSeek engineer Gao Xi defended the company’s commitment to open-source artificial intelligence to accelerate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), even if it heightens safety risks, amid growing US concerns and scrutiny in China over whether the strategy poses national security risks. “If AGI is going to arrive in 10 years, then I hope we can bring this forward to one year. If it is going to arrive in one year, then I hope it can arrive tomorrow,” Gao said.ChinaArtificial intelligenceTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/4a222bbb/https://sagire.online/wire/4a222bbb/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 03:21:00 -0300Japan Investment Corp (JIC), a Japanese state-backed fund, plans to sell chipmaking materials maker JSR to Mitsui Chemicals in a deal that could exceed 1.3 trillion yen ($8.2 billion), after buying it for some 900 billion yen two years ago, taking advantage of higher chip-firm valuations on the artificial intelligence investment boom, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters, in a text republished by DealStreetAsia. Founded in 1957, JSR is a leading manufacturer of photoresists used to transfer circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers, and Nikkei Asia notes that the sale would be the biggest deal in the history of Japan’s chemical sector.JapanSemiconductorsTechnologyEconomy https://sagire.online/wire/9f7d7a0b/https://sagire.online/wire/9f7d7a0b/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 23:25:00 -0300SpaceX stopped selling flights on its Falcon 9 rocket beyond 2028, as Starship enters commercial service, leaving European institutions without a guaranteed launch option. European demand is set to rise sharply by 2030, including for the sovereign IRIS² telecommunications constellation, and Christophe Bruneau, ArianeGroup’s executive chairman, acknowledged that if the launches all come in 2029, Europe will not have enough capacity. The European Space Agency’s director general, Josef Aschbacher, proposed investing about €10 billion over 10 years in a European system able to send astronauts to space and bring them back.European UnionTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/0e7e6eab/https://sagire.online/wire/0e7e6eab/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 23:25:00 -0300AMD recorded a $1.07 billion non-cash charge, or 66 cents a share, in the third quarter ended September 26, to account for warrants granted to OpenAI and Meta. The information comes from Reuters, in a text republished by StreetInsider. The company forecast faster-than-expected 2027 growth on surging data-center sales, and its shares rose 8% in extended trading. The warrants are part of a wave of equity incentives used by chipmakers to secure long-term purchases from a small group of AI customers: Cerebras granted OpenAI warrants against a $20 billion commitment, and Marvell issued warrants to Alphabet’s Google that give Google the right to buy a potential $12.2 billion stake.United StatesSemiconductorsTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/88291f74/https://sagire.online/wire/88291f74/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:24:00 -0300Samsung Electronics will use its second semiconductor plant in Taylor, Texas, to produce base dies for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips for AMD and Nvidia, according to South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper, which cited industry sources, in a Reuters report published by WHTC. Construction is due to start formally this month, with the plant having secured orders for its entire output, most of it for AMD. The facility will use 2-nanometer technology and cover about 2.7 million square feet, roughly 1.5 times the size of the first plant, which has a contract with Tesla. Equipment is expected to be installed from February 2029, with mass production in 2030.South KoreaUnited StatesSemiconductorsTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/9e7d7585/https://sagire.online/wire/9e7d7585/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 07:22:00 -0300Chinese Premier Li Qiang said at the opening of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen that China opposes the overgeneralization of the concept of national security and the erection of a digital iron curtain. Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai said that only open source can popularize artificial intelligence and, with that, create a sustainable and inclusive industry. According to him, Alibaba is using 25 billion dollars in free cash flow from its e-commerce business to fund AI infrastructure and models and has doubled its investment in computing capacity every year for the past three years.ChinaArtificial intelligenceTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/5652a33a/https://sagire.online/wire/5652a33a/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 22:21:00 -0300South Korea’s Defense Ministry says it launched a new drone headquarters on Monday and plans to acquire more than 20,000 low-cost, expendable combat drones, while accelerating the Korean Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (K-LUCAS) program, according to the Korea Herald.South KoreaDefenseDronesEast AsiaTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/31bf8fd3/https://sagire.online/wire/31bf8fd3/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:21:00 -0300Japanese group GMO Internet suspects that a North Korea-linked hacking group was behind a data leak. The company suspects that the attack targeting users of its foreign exchange service was the work of a North Korea-linked group and reported the case to authorities.North KoreaJapanCybersecurityTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/81e068c0/https://sagire.online/wire/81e068c0/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:21:00 -0300GMO Internet Group CEO Masatoshi Kumagai and other executives will hold a news conference in Tokyo on Monday to address a series of unauthorized access incidents, the company said Saturday, according to The Japan Times. The company will explain the circumstances surrounding a cyberattack on its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service, which provides servers for automated foreign exchange margin trading.JapanCybersecurityTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/c65786b3/https://sagire.online/wire/c65786b3/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:23:00 -0300Foreign ministers of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) voiced “grave concerns” over the use of trade restrictions and other measures they view as economically coercive, without naming the country, and committed to providing over $85 million in technical and financial assistance to improve access to trusted artificial intelligence across the Indo-Pacific, according to Kyodo News. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the group was not “an anti-China or anti-anybody coalition” and that the joint statement addressed behaviors and activities that, he said, were “coming repetitively from one country”.United StatesChinaDiplomacyTradeTechnologyEast Asia https://sagire.online/wire/e0c4991a/https://sagire.online/wire/e0c4991a/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:22:00 -0300The FBI attributed to North Korea the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets from the Binance exchange on or about October 29 and identified the operation as TraderTraitor, saying it had observed the hackers converting the stolen assets primarily into Ethereum, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, which published the statement. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, told the BBC it had covered 90% of the $6.3bn stolen in Thursday’s hack. The remaining 10% are less liquid tokens that may take longer to source in the required amounts, the company added.North KoreaUnited StatesCybersecurityTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/4d6aea57/https://sagire.online/wire/4d6aea57/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:23:00 -0300China’s State Council ruled that artificial intelligence application projects in the area of market access with a possible significant impact on employment must undergo an employment risk assessment during review, according to the text published by the Chinese government. The guidelines also urge employers to notify employees affected by automation in advance and provide support for training, redeployment and other employment transitions, according to IBTimes. The country created 10.52 million new urban jobs in the first nine months of 2026, 87.7 percent of the annual target, and the surveyed urban unemployment rate averaged 5.2 percent in the first eight months, according to figures released at Saturday’s press conference.ChinaLaborArtificial intelligenceTechnologyEconomy