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Asia's Backup Infrastructure Faces AI-Era Collapse Risk as Attackers Obliterate Hypervisors

Commvault's CTO warns that frontier models are accelerating exploits from weeks to minutes, forcing enterprises to rethink recovery from bare-metal rebuild upward

By Marcus Halloran·Jun 8, 2026·8 min read
AI

Google's Gemma 4 12B Targets the Local AI Gap With 16GB RAM Footprint

The new model bridges the divide between mobile-scale and datacenter-class inference, fitting on consumer laptops without GPU upgrades—a str

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
Policy

When Convenience Kills Security: The Active Directory Description Field Breach

A UK firm lost 2,000+ endpoints to ransomware after developers stored service account passwords in AD description fields—readable by any aut

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
Policy

When Security Researchers Turn Whistleblower: The Microsoft Disclosure Standoff

A VS Code exploit leaked within an hour of private disclosure signals widening fractures between researchers and MSRC—and Asia's developer e

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
Products

Waymo's California Data Reveals Robotaxis Mirror Ride-Hailing's Traffic Impact

A decade after DARPA's desert trials, the autonomous vehicle industry's $100 billion bet confronts an inconvenient truth: removing the drive

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

Ramp's $44B Valuation Doubles Down on AI Token Management as Fintech Narrative Shifts

The New York expense platform's $750M raise signals investor appetite for infrastructure plays around enterprise AI spend control—but also e

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
Dev

Microsoft Ships 75 Linux Commands to Windows — and Grep Becomes an AI Agent Tool

Redmond's coreutils binary erases decades of command-line friction, but the real play is making Windows containers safe for agentic workflow

Marcus Halloran ·   · 7m
AI

Microsoft Bets on 'Always-On' AI Agents That Work While You Don't

The company's new Autopilot category, led by Scout, runs continuously in the background—raising questions about autonomy, security, and the

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
AI

Baidu releases open-weights model that beats GPT-class on Chinese-language reasoning

ERNIE-X 350B is the first frontier-tier Chinese model with permissive commercial terms – and it's already inside three Vietnamese banks.

Ravi Kim ·   · 8m
Startups

VNG cloud arm files for a Singapore listing as Vietnam's tech IPO window cracks open

The carve-out values infrastructure ahead of consumer – a deliberate signal to the next ten founders watching from HCMC.

Thao Nguyen ·   · 6m
Policy

Taipei's new chip export schedule reshapes who gets advanced packaging in 2026

The list is short. The exclusions are louder than the inclusions.

Ananya Iyer ·   · 7m
Dev

Server Actions in production: three teams, three regrets, one quiet success

What the framework docs don't tell you about caching, error boundaries, and 03:00 alerts.

Jordan Chen ·   · 11m
AI

Singapore quietly built Southeast Asia's largest sovereign AI cluster – and Jakarta wants in

Inside a 220-megawatt build-out that has rewired regional capital flows, ministerial visits, and the careers of a dozen researchers nobody h

Mei Lin ·   · 14m
Products

Oppo Find X9 Pro review: a camera-first flagship that finally trusts its own sensors

The 1-inch main is doing real work. The compute is doing less work – and that's the point.

Jordan Chen ·   · 10m
Latest

How an ASEAN insurer rebuilt its claims pipeline on serverless in 18 weeks

A DTW Studio Presents feature, produced for AWS ASEAN. The DTW newsroom was not involved in writing or editing.

Mei Lin ·   · 6m
Latest

The $84B build-out: every datacenter announced across ASEAN in the last 12 months, mapped

We pulled filings, planning permits, and grid-connection requests from seven jurisdictions. Here is what the spreadsheet actually says.

Mei Lin ·   · 22m
AI

What 'AI-assisted' actually means in our newsroom – a worked example

Translation, transcription, summarisation. Not generation. Here's our checklist.

Ravi Kim ·   · 5m
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