How Alibaba overcame Beijing’s crackdown to become an AI giant

On a cold November evening in Shanghai in 2020, the world’s largest IPO was abruptly canceled by Chinese regulators. It was Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of tech giant Alibaba. The company’s founder Jack Ma, one of China’s most famous billionaires, was under scrutiny for comments seemingly criticising the country’s financial regulators.   What followed was four years of […]

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Holiday air travel, Novo Nordisk trial results, ‘Wicked: For Good’ debut and more in Morning Squawk

John Williams, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, during a farewell symposium for former De Nederlandsche Bank NV President Klaas Knot at the central bank headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. Lina Selg | Bloomberg | Getty Images This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to […]

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Second Sha1-Hulud Wave Affects 25,000+ Repositories via npm Preinstall Credential Theft

Nov 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Multiple security vendors are sounding the alarm about a second wave of attacks targeting the npm registry in a manner that’s reminiscent of the Shai-Hulud attack. The new supply chain campaign, dubbed Sha1-Hulud, has compromised hundreds of npm packages, according to reports from Aikido, HelixGuard, Koi Security, Socket, […]

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Chinese DeepSeek-R1 AI Generates Insecure Code When Prompts Mention Tibet or Uyghurs

New research from CrowdStrike has revealed that DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 produces more security vulnerabilities in response to prompts that contain topics deemed politically sensitive by China. “We found that when DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) likely considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with […]

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ShadowPad Malware Actively Exploits WSUS Vulnerability for Full System Access

Nov 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability A recently patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has been exploited by threat actors to distribute malware known as ShadowPad. “The attacker targeted Windows Servers with WSUS enabled, exploiting CVE-2025-59287 for initial access,” AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) said in a report published last week. […]

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Oppo Find N6 Tipped to Launch as First Foldable With Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5; Find X9s, Find X9 Ultra Said to Follow

Oppo is reportedly preparing several new flagship devices, led by the Find N6, which may debut as the first foldable smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. The foldable is tipped to feature satellite connectivity, a thinner design, lighter build, and upgraded cameras. Alongside it, Oppo is also expected to introduce the […]

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