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What Data-Localization Laws Do, and Why They Are Spreading
A growing number of countries now require that certain data about their citizens be stored or processed within their borders. The motives…
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AI, consumer tech, enterprise and the policy around it. Cubed News technology coverage explains how the systems shaping daily life actually work, and what is at stake. Edited by Wei Chen.
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How Modern Ransomware Operations Are Actually Structured
Ransomware is no longer lone hackers and crude code. It has become an industry — with suppliers, affiliates, customer service and a…
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The Economics of Cloud Lock-In, and How It Happens
Moving to the cloud was sold as freedom from owning hardware. For many organisations it has quietly become a new kind of…
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What Is Edge Computing, and Why It Is Reshaping the Cloud
For two decades the trend was to centralise computing in vast distant data centres. Edge computing pushes some of it back out…
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What the EU AI Act Actually Requires of Companies
The world's first comprehensive AI law sorts systems by risk rather than by technology. Understanding its tiered structure explains who it binds,…
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How End-to-End Encryption Works, and Why It Matters
End-to-end encryption is the reason a private message stays private even from the company that carries it. The idea is elegant, the…
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Why Advanced-Chip Supply Is So Geopolitically Fraught
A handful of companies in a handful of places make the most advanced computer chips on earth. That extreme concentration has turned…
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How Large Language Models Actually Work, Explained Plainly
Behind the chatbot is a deceptively simple idea — predict the next token — scaled to staggering size. Understanding that mechanism explains…