The latest technology news from across Asia-Pacific
The agent framework market has stabilized around operational maturity rather than innovation. Enterprise buyers are evaluating observability, governance, and deployment control—not novel reasoning capabilities. This matters for APAC CTOs managing legacy systems alongside AI modernization.
Encryption protects data in transit. Ephemerality limits how long it exists. The difference matters for enterprise security teams facing quantum computing threats and compliance requirements. Here's what CTOs need to know about combining both approaches.
Amazon data scientist Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao's recent work highlights Bayesian tail-risk modeling for retail marketing - a statistical approach that models full probability distributions instead of point estimates. The method protects budgets from rare, catastrophic campaign failures that traditional marketing mix modeling misses.
Microsoft's KB5060842 update quietly enforced automatic deletion of System Restore points older than 60 days in Windows 11 24H2, regardless of available disk space. Enterprise IT teams are pushing back on the restriction, which prevents long-term rollback options for critical systems.
Most enterprise systems succeed by one measure—they work—while quietly accumulating technical debt that won't surface for years. Without comparable alternatives or control groups, engineering teams optimise for delivery over durability, mistaking correct output for quality design.
Every Bash variable is a string until proven otherwise—a quirk that underpins 80% of enterprise automation scripts but catches even seasoned teams off guard. The lack of data types isn't a bug, it's the design. Worth remembering when debugging production failures.
An engineer inherited a months-old branch assumed to be clean. API contracts had changed, conflicts made merging impossible, and three days of work had to be scrapped. The real cost wasn't the reset - it was the duplicated effort, wasted AI tokens, and credibility hit in standups.
AlphaWiseWin spent January migrating from Vue to Next.js for SEO, then launched payments. The timeline mirrors enterprise reality: technical debt compounds when you skip fundamentals. Worth noting: $495 in tips validated demand before Stripe went live.
A GitHub project called AdBoost does the opposite of what most browser extensions do - it adds advertisements to webpages instead of blocking them. The two-day-old proof-of-concept appears to be commentary on browser extension monetization rather than a serious commercial product.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released V4, a 600B-parameter MoE model that matches GPT-4.5 Turbo on coding benchmarks while undercutting OpenAI's API pricing by 84%. The model ships with open weights under Apache 2.0, positioning it for enterprises with data sovereignty requirements. History suggests skepticism - verify benchmarks independently before migration.
A developer published a custom PostgreSQL backup solution after hitting Supabase's paid tiers. The approach - pg_dump, cron jobs, S3 storage - reflects a broader trend of enterprise teams reconsidering managed service costs as datasets grow. The question isn't whether DIY works; it's whether the trade-offs make sense at scale.
Chetan Pathade tested 1,400+ prompts against major LLMs and found current defenses inadequate. His proposed Generative Application Firewall addresses what traditional WAFs miss: semantic and behavioral attacks that bypass prompt filters.