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Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/96fe9898-a3a4-4a33-be1d-da06bdb6cb2b
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"Climate change links Tibetan lakes to Yangtze River, fueling flood risks"
#Tibetan #Climate #ClimateChange
@… I could see someone using it as a sort of other-ing.
“Oh it’s good, for a Korean. But not on *our* level.”
We don’t call things udrama if they’re from the U.K., or canpop if it’s from Canada.
So why is it that seemingly just these Asian cultures must be specifically marked?
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✊🏽 Socialist Politics Can Break Through to Asian Immigrants
#politics
Climate change links Tibetan lakes to Yangtze River, fueling flood risks #Tibet
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at Japan’s oddly retro (to Western eyes) websites, China’s reverse engineering of top-spec chipmaking equipment and North Korea’s ill-gotten crypto hoard.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/japa
Netflix says Southeast Asian content on the platform grew nearly 50% from 2023 to 2024 and 40 Southeast Asian titles were in its Global Top 10 in 2025 (Zac Ntim/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix-southeast-asian-content-1236632912/
Before you leave for the weekend (or maybe even a long holiday break), make sure you check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The UK Foreign Office was hacked in October
--Delay in keystroke led Amazon to imposter discovery,
--A second suspect was arrested in an attempted Italian ferry malware attack,
--Denmark blames Russia for destructive cyberattacks,
--LongNosedGoblin is targeting SE Asian and Ja…
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Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen
New China-linked hacker group spies on governments in Southeast Asia, Japan https://therecord.media/china-linked-hacker-group-spied-on-asian-govs
The police describes the accused as a "white British national", a "black British national" an "Asian British national" – how is the colour of their skin relevant to the crime they are accused of? Or is it pure racism?
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Mexico's Senate approves tariff hikes on Chinese, other Asian imports (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/mexicos-senate-approves-tariff-hikes-chinese-other-asian-imports-2025-12-11/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p49#a251211p49
📉 No North, No South: The Tragically Unfulfilled Promise of Korea’s Asian Spring
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PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the first nine months of 2025, just over half of 2024's total, amid uncertainty due to US tariff policies (Pak Yiu/Nikkei Asia)
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Deadly Asian floods are no fluke. They're a climate warning, scientists say #Asia
1/2 Kiina on harva se päivä uutisissa. Mari Mannisen kirja "Kiinalainen juttu - 33 Kiina-myyttiä, jotka vaativat kumoamista" (2018) muistutti, että lähes kaikki, mitä "me" tiedämme Kiinasta, ei pidä paikkaansa. Tämä on tietysti huono juttu, sillä oikeat tiedot helpottaisivat suhtautumista Kiinaan, sen olemukseen, uutisiin ja ilmiöihin nyt ja jakossa.
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#potd Today I played Asian Tigers. Not easy... but actually quite simple mechanics. But it's very hard to make your plans come true. https://domm.plix.at/potd/2025-10-05.html
Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanburgos/2…
China-linked hackers target Asian organizations with Nezha monitoring tool https://therecord.media/china-linked-hackers-target-asian-orgs-monitoring-tool
Mamdani Blazes Trail as New York's First Muslim and South Asian Mayor-Elect (Anushka Patil/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/nyregion/mamdani-nyc-mayor-muslim-south-asian.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p174#a251104p174
Ireland’s Minister for justice, (who is about to spend the next year or so constantly saying things for media attention as he jockeys to remain top of mind in FF member’s heads) has also said he wants to break encryption (as soon as he finds out what it is. A kind of cupboard? A vase of some sort? A nut, perhaps, of Asian origin?)
Happy Saturday morning! Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Southeast Asian economies are becoming dependent on cyberscams,
--Cybercriminals are inflicting pain throughout India,
--Mr Deepfakes damaged people beyond the reach of the law,
--Soaring sales of Starlink are creating…
The surge in watermark removers within days of Sora 2’s release reminds us that most AI detection is just security theater at this point.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_sora-aiethics-aivideo-activity-738203300507213004…
Kaya Founders raises P1.47-billion fund to back more Filipino founders
https://www.philstar.com/business/2025/11/11/2486427/kaya-founders-raises-p147-billion-fund-back-more-filipino-founders
Hey #Asians? Need a good laugh? OMG, Hasan's slap bit... SO GOOD.
▶️ Comedians On Being Of Asian Descent In America
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An admirer of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
Sanae Takaichi is a protege of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ultra-conservative vision
and a regular at the Yasukuni Shrine,
seen as a symbol of Japan's wartime militarism,
which could complicate Tokyo's relations with its Asian neighbors.
#Sanae
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SoftBank Group Corp was among the Japanese tech stocks that fell on Dec. 18, as AI infrastructure spending worries on Wall Street crossed into the Asian markets (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/japan-tech-stocks-plun…
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Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 9% , Advantest 7% (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/softbank-ai-stocks-slide-on-valuation-jitters-.ht…
Tonight, I got to sit & watch the game in what is probably the coolest location in UCLA's Pauley Pavillion.
Center courtside.
And of course, y'boy was yellin' at the opposing team like an Asian Spike Lee. 🤣
#uclabruins #basketball
US announces ‘strike force’ to counter Southeast Asian cyber scams, sanctions Myanmar armed group https://therecord.media/strike-force-southeast-asia-scams
Hedging of exotic options in Hawkes jump-diffusion models by Malliavin calculus
Ayub Ahmadi, Mahdieh Tahmasebi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05689 https://arx…
SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the "physical AI" era (Chris Bryant/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles
Der Kalender der Plattform illustriert Einträge jetzt immer mit so lustigen Bildchen. Zu "Abendessen" fällt ihm was ein, aber bei "South Asian epistemology colloquium" bleibt die Bildmaschinerie ratlos.
Movement(s): Migrations, Resistance, and Currents of Asian Diasporas https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/07/movements-migrations-resistance-and-currents-of-asian-diasporas
Sumatra's flood crisis: How deforestation turned a cyclonic storm into a likely recurring tragedy https://phys.org/news/2025-12-sumatra-crisis-deforestation-cyclonic-storm.html
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Nexperia says China banned it from exporting China-made products, as Beijing hits back at the Dutch government for taking over the Wingtech-owned chipmaker (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-1…
Things are about to get woolly in cybersecurity, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The UK is a European hotspot for cyberattacks,
--Hackers stole employee data from FEMA,
--DoD and DHS prep for government shutdown,
--CISA kills CIS and MS-ISAC contract,
--WestJet says hackers stole data in a breach,
--Newsom signs nation's toughest AI safety law,
--Labour Party to stud…
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OpenAI expands its ~$5 ChatGPT Go plan to 16 new Asian countries, including Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, after launching it in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/openais-affordable-ch…
Red Lentil And Plantain Dhal With Parsnip Fritters #plantbased
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Robinhood is set to join Indonesia's retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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LECTURE> Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: A Paradigmatic Case? The Unpredicted Revitalization of Newar Buddhist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley
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[AAAS 2026] Creating Reciprocal and Relational Spaces in Asian American Refugee Storytelling
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Students hang out above dam in Six Mile Creek
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