🇨🇳 China · IT & software
6 storiesChina's software revenue tops 10 trillion yuan in January-August, up 8.8%
China's software business revenue exceeded 10 trillion yuan in the first eight months of 2026, up 8.8% year on year, according to Ministry of Industry and Information Technology data reported by local outlets on October 8. Total profit in t…
China's delegation completes ITU broadcasting study group meeting in Geneva
A Chinese delegation took part in meetings of the ITU Radiocommunication Sector's Study Group 6 (SG6) and its working parties WP6A, WP6B and WP6C in Geneva from September 21 to October 2, according to the website of the Ministry of Industry…
Google Chrome 155 adds default support for JPEG XL images with Rust-based decoder
Google's Chrome 155 browser now decodes the JPEG XL (.jxl) image format, which Google says compresses about 30% to 50% better than JPEG and supports lossless compression, HDR and lossless JPEG transcoding. Chrome uses jxl-rs, a decoder writ…
South Korea's Lee Jae-myung orders probe into bank customer data leaks
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung ordered a thorough investigation into a series of personal data leaks at banks and public institutions, his office said on 4 October. Financial authorities said about 25,000 Shinhan Bank customers' infor…
Google blocks unauthorized TLS certificates after .gh, .sl and .as registry hijacks
Google said the country-code top-level domains .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone) and .as (American Samoa) were hijacked, with attackers tampering with authoritative DNS records to obtain TLS certificates. Chrome blocked the identified unautho…
Apple to tighten macOS Full Disk Access as autonomous AI agents raise risk
Apple said it will tighten macOS’s “Full Disk Access” permission, so apps can obtain it only through a more explicit user action, because AI agents that operate a computer autonomously raise the risk of exposing personal data. The company h…