The mastermind behind an extensive cyber-fraud empire, Vincent Chen Zhi, has been deported from Cambodia to China.
Cambodian tycoon Vincent Chen deported to China amid $10bn fraud and money laundering allegations | The Standard
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/china-news/article…
Oxide Computer, which lets companies build their own cloud, raised $200M led by USIT, taking its total funding to nearly $390M since its 2019 founding (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/02…
Revolutionary 65,536-electrode wireless brain-computer interface #BCI
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Tencent’s abusive bot, Chinese AI startups profiting from IPOs and Indian tech’s pessimistic outlook.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/chinese-chatbot-has-had-e…
"Personal computing must be [...] a social project of all of us building things, trying things, learning from one another."
(Original title: Personal computing)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/08/personal-computing/
NFL Week 15 confidence picks: Why Green Bay will beat Denver https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6878138/2025/12/10/nfl-week-15-confidence-picks-packers-broncos/
🍚 Race to secure 2025 rice crop heats up, lifting prices
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/japan/new-rice-crop-competition/
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Google launches a cheaper AI Plus plan in India, costing ~$2.21 per month for the first six months and ~$4.44 thereafter, to compete with ChatGPT Go (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/google-launches-sub-5-ai-pl…
U.S. House passes bill to combat stadium drones https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47266975/us-house-passes-bill-help-stadiums-combat-drones
Sources: Strava, the fitness app founded in 2009, filed confidentially for an IPO; its revenue grew more than 50% YoY in 2025 but was still less than $500M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/strava-filed-confidentially-ipo-hi…