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pAsia In Brief Indian infosec firm CloudSEK last week claimed it found records describing 750 million Indian mobile network subscribers on the dark web with two crime gangs offering the trove of data for just 3000ppCloudSEK named CYBO CREW affiliates CyboDevil and UNIT8200 as the vendors of a 18TB trove which contains mobile subscribers names phone numbers addresses and Aadhaar detailsppCloudSEK stated its investigation of the trove saw threat actors claim to have obtained the data through undisclosed asset work within law enforcement channels rather than as a result of a leak from Indian telcos CloudSEK said its initial analysis found that the leak affects all major telecom providers The leak of Personally Identifiable Information PII poses a huge risk to both individuals and organizations potentially leading to financial losses identity theft reputational damage and increased susceptibility to cyber attacks stated CloudSEKppAfter making an alliance with Google the centerpiece of the launch for its Galaxy S24 smartphone range Samsung has decided to use the ERNIE model from Chinas Baidu for versions of the devices sold in the Middle KingdomppBaidu told The Register that ERNIE will allow the S24 to perform realtime call translation intelligent summarization of transcribed documents and enable the circle to search feature with results from the Chinese giants search engineppCircle to search was previously only offered on the S24 and Googles own Pixel 8 handsetsppSingaporebased crypto outfit Terraform Labs TFL last week filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States The exchange which hit trouble when its stablecoin crashed and wiped 42 billion from investors portfolios called the move a strategic protective step that enables TFL to continue executing its business plan while resolving outstanding legal proceedings including representative litigation pending in Singapore and US litigation involving the SECppA filing with the bankruptcy court in Delaware revealed the outfit has assets and liabilities in the range of 100 to 500 million Terraform Labs continues to operate despite its troubles and ongoing attempts to extradite founder Do Kwon from MontenegroppIndian IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar reportedly revealed last week that his ministry would propose a 12 million supercomputing and quantum computing hub The publicprivate scheme would offer high performance computing HPC access to startups micro small and medium enterprises either on a lease or on a computeasaservice basis It will include setting up of graphic processing units in PPP mode with datacenters in the private space and public datacenters under CDAC Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Chandrasekhar is reported to have said before adding that CDACs existing PARAM supercomputers will be included in the scheme to boost AI capabilitiesppTelstra International and Trans Pacific Networks TPN announced a partnership on the Echo undersea cable The cable is the first of its kind to connect the US directly to Singapore and will also connect to Indonesia and Guam The path between Guam and the US will launch this year while the rest wont be live until 2025ppTelstra will become TPNs operating partner and will deliver cable landing station services The 17000km cable is owned by Google and Meta The Australian telco cited predictions that bandwidth demand across the Pacific will increase by 39 percent year on year until 2029ppOur regional coverage from last week included Huaweis ambition to break from Android with its own Harmony OS and the Chinese governments fresh attempts to define metaverse standardsppWe also noted South Koreas restoration of smartphone subsidies and the unexpected profit posted by local memorymaker SK hynix Still on the peninsula we considered North Koreas increasing use of AI and fears that cloud providers and scientists may not be doing enough to stop the rogue nation obtaining the resources it needs for applications like battle planningppThe sad demise of Japans SLIM Moon lander also caught our eyeppSo did Taiwans first homegrown quantum computer going online and Australia sanctioning a Russian national suspected of a 2022 attack on health insurer Medibank Private ppSend us newsppThe Register Biting the hand that feeds ITpp
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