Tech giant Oracle on Wednesday said it plans to invest more than $6.5 billion on cloud services data centres in Malaysia, joining a list of US titans rushing to build up their AI infrastructure in Southeast Asia. The firm said the cloud region would help organisations in the country

A SpaceX capsule sent to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) has docked. The Dragon capsule, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, docked at 17:30 eastern time (22:30 BST). The pair arrived at the station on

A Brazilian judge locked in a legal row with X owner Elon Musk on Friday said he would reinstate the social network in Brazil if a fine of around $1.8 million was paid. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes last month ordered X to be shut down in Brazil, after Musk refused to

Meta launched AI chatbots voiced by Hollywood celebrities like John Cena and Judi Dench on Wednesday, betting that its billions of users are eager to embrace artificial intelligence. “I think that voice has the potential to be one of, if not the most frequent ways, that we all

Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology adviser Md Nahid Islam said today that there was no directive from the government to shut down internet services in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). “There have been isolated incidents of temporary internet disruptions, which

Some X users in Brazil have said they can once again access the social media platform, the BBC has learned. This comes after the service, formerly known as Twitter, was banned in the country at the end of August. The change was made possible after the firm, which is owned by

A syndicate led by Smart Technologies, backed by former finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal’s daughter Nafisa Kamal, has allegedly siphoned off millions of dollars from a foreign-funded project of the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA). The $67 million

TigerIT, an internationally blacklisted firm, has maintained a stranglehold on the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) over the last 13 years, managing important projects like number plates and digital smart card driving licences with the blessings of the top level of the deposed

Facebook owner Meta says it is banning several Russian state media networks, alleging they use deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations and evade detection on its platforms. "After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media

TikTok argued in court on Monday that a US law - which would see it banned unless it is sold by ByteDance - would have a “staggering” impact on the free speech of its US users. The law was prompted by concerns that US users' data is vulnerable to exploitation by

Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam today (September 12) declared a work plan for the next 100 days to speed up the works of the ministry and departments and organizations under it. The adviser made public the work plan at a press briefing at the meeting room of the

European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has scored two major wins as Europe’s top court has backed her crackdown against Apple’s Irish tax deal and Google’s anticompetitive practices in two landmark cases. Vestager, who ends her term in November, has made a

Apple on Monday announced a new iPhone built for generative artificial intelligence as it seeks to boost sales and show it is keeping up in the technology race. The tech giant has a lot riding on what would be the iPhone 16 and will hope that customers are enticed to buy the latest

X, formerly Twitter, has been banned in Brazil after failing to meet a deadline set by a Supreme Court judge to name a new legal representative in the country. Alexandre de Moraes ordered the "immediate and complete suspension" of the social media platform until it complies

Russian-born Durov, 39, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris late Saturday, and while the judicial authorities have repeatedly extended his initial period of detention, it can last a maximum of 96 hours. This means that by Wednesday evening he should either be released or

Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov has been arrested by French police at an airport north of Paris. Mr Durov was detained after his private jet had landed at Le Bourget Airport, French media reported. According to officials the 39-year-old had been arrested under a warrant for

Two Nasa astronauts who have been stuck in space for over two months will return to Earth in February 2025 with SpaceX. Nasa said the Boeing Starliner spacecraft the astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore had travelled to International Space Station (ISS) on would return to Earth

Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Adviser Md Nahid Islam today (August 24) directed the telecom regulator to provide free diesel for the generators to keep the mobile network tower operational in Feni district. "In the absence of electricity, a good quantity of

A group of Bangladeshi hackers, known as "SYSTEMADMINBD," has hacked and defaced the official website of Zee Media Corporation Limited on Wednesday. The hackers accused the zee media of making fun of the flood like situation in Bangladesh. Zee Media Corporation Limited is one

OpenAI and global magazine giant Condé Nast have announced a partnership to allow ChatGPT and its search engine SearchGPT to display content from Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ and other well known publications. The multi-year deal is the latest such agreement struck by OpenAI with