The official, Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, who serves as minister of digital economy and society, did not name Pegasus, but instead referred to spyware that infiltrates mobile phones. Speaking in parliament last Tuesday, a Thai minister admitted to use of the surveillance software, but said it was used in a limited format and only for national security or drug matters. The minister said the blocks were needed to curb the spread of fake news and anti-India propaganda.Ĭybersecurity watchdog Citizen Lab last week reported the NSO Group's Pegasus spyware was used widely against Thai pro-democracy protestors and activists between October 2020 and November 2021. India's minister of information and broadcasting, Anurag Thakur, last week announced his Ministry has required blocks of 94 YouTube channels, 19 social media accounts and 747 URLs. The four additions mean WorkSpaces Web now operates in seven AWS regions, making it one of the few services that has a larger footprint in APAC than the rest of the Amazonian realm. The service went live in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions last week. WorkSpaces Web provides browser-based access to internal web sites and SaaS services, and handles authentication to multiple sites without requiring users to log on to each. Additional financial investments are being made into power development feasibility studies, and automotive and AI chips.Īmazon Web Services has brought its WorkSpaces Web portal to four regions in the Asia Pacific. The Ministry said the government and private sector together would invest $230 million in small business as well as mergers and acquisitions of chip design firms beginning next year. The increased talent pool coincides with an aim for South Korea to increase the amount of homegrown semiconductor materials, components and equipment from 30 percent to 50 percent by 2030.
Total talent under this plan would rise from 177,000 to around 304,000 by 2032. The Ministry predicted this action will expand student places for chip-related higher education by 5,7000 places per year. Qualifications for professors will also be lowered. South Korea will designate twenty universities as specializing in semiconductor research and ease university admission requirements to find 150,000 new folks trained to work in the chip industry over the next decade, according to education minister Park Soon-ae. South Korea tweaks uni standards to grow semiconductor workforce
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He added that cutoff companies could regain access after compliance.Īs Indonesia's deadline for registration approached, netizens noticed that the register of PSE holders omitted several global web giants and speculated Indonesia could be forced to block a chunk of the internet.Īt the time of writing, Google and YouTube were not listed as having registered, but The Register understands the ad and video giant has filed its paperwork.īut over the weekend Pangerapan said Amazon and Alibaba had not registered, extended the deadline to do so for a few days, and warned that Indonesia will not hesitate to exercise its powers. "The stage is a written reprimand (warning), then there are fines and the last one is a temporary termination of access," said Ministry director general, Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan. "For PSEs that have not registered until the final deadline, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics will monitor the traffic of each digital platform from the largest level in Indonesia," said the Ministry, adding that the sites with the biggest traffic would be the first to be reprimanded.