Laura Dobberstein

Reporting about tech (mostly) in Asia (mostly) for @TheRegister.
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Open AI braces for international expansion

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OpenAI announces Singapore will serve as its APAC hub and appoints Oliver Jay, who served as Asana's chief revenue officer, to lead international expansion (@tech_apac / The Register)

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Murati leaves OpenAI

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I shared the following note with the OpenAI team today.

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Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years

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Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years https://t.co/AfZrTaTbkM

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No proof of DDOS.

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Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS https://t.co/pFvP48iO1A

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RIP Susan Wojcicki

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Former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, 56, succumbs to cancer https://t.co/Mz5jovsGNy

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Phone alert: You used your phone 31 minutes less this week than last week.

Me: YES! TAKE THAT PHONE ADDICTION 31 WHOLE MINUTES

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First there was Qoo10 subsidiary nonpayment to vendors, then a massive government bailout from Korea, now new rules on e-commerce.

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South Korea to force e-commerce marketplaces to pay vendors faster https://t.co/qP2EGKT4rN

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Size of chunk and price unknown #EQT #Acronis

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EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis https://t.co/Skmjg1FOCi

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Headline seen in the wild: Celebrity *insert name* looks tense while house shopping

IDK Maybe she's tense because some bloke is following her around with a camera while she's doing that very stressful activity of trying to find a new home?

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Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off🤦🏼‍♀️ https://t.co/4KkhKVHeyG

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Dell's "rank and yank" this round predicted to target 12.5k. #layoffs

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Dell makes new round of layoffs while it looks to unlock modern AI https://t.co/SEcQmK45BS

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China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation to ask if it's a good idea closes

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China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation to ask if it's a good idea closes https://t.co/9nNceYovwI

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Japan mandates app to ensure national ID cards aren't forged

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Japan mandates app to ensure national ID cards aren't forged https://t.co/ivehaIBbYm

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This week's round up of tech stories around Asia Pacific.

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India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months https://t.co/yzFBN42jiT

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ICYMI Nasscom warned that Infosys' GST demand represents an industry wide problem.

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WazirX may not use socialization strategy afterall

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Quick update about the poll. Your suggestions and feedback is how we'll be able to find a feasible solution 🙏

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Taxman disagrees with the outfit that built the tax portal

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Infosys denies it owes $4 billion in taxes to India https://t.co/f3cWXT83xh

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SMS OTPs are overused, so bring on the tokens and biometrics

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India contemplates compulsory dynamic 2FA for digital payments https://t.co/4I9KsXJlS7

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ICYMI - China ponders a future full of supercomputers instead of GPUs.

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China stops worrying about lack of GPUs and learns to love the supercomputer https://t.co/8CrVo5YkqL