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The high cost of hydrogen fuel stood in the way of mass adoption of the clean energy source, the city’s environment minister has said after the government announced its strategy for hydrogen energy development. Environment minister Tse Chin-wan told RTHK on Wednesday that the city would adopt hydrogen where it would be cost-effective, pointing to the high cost of the fuel and Hong Kong’s land crunch. “But in the long term, traditional forms of fuel such as coal, petrol, and natural gas will be gradually phased out,” he said. The city’s first hydrogen-fuelled double-decker bus commenced service...
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The personal data of over 20,000 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) staff and students has been stolen after a server at one of the institution’s schools was hacked, the latest in a string of large-scale data breaches in the city. the server of an online learning system used by CUHK’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies (CUSCS) was hacked on June 3, the school announced in a statement on Thursday. A total of 20,780 people, including staff, part-time teachers, students, graduates and other visitors, were victims of the data breach. While their names and email addresses were stolen...
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A police inspector has become the first Hongkonger selected for China’s space programme as a “preparatory astronaut,” local media reported on Tuesday. Police Chief Inspector Lai Ka-ying was named in reports as the first Hongkonger picked for the possible space role, although authorities have not yet confirmed the identity of the candidate. The China Manned Space Agency announced on Tuesday that a payload specialist from Hong Kong and another from Macau were among 10 candidates selected for the country’s fourth batch of astronauts. Payload specialists carry out scientific and applied research i...
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While christening a new UCLA technology and research center in January, Gov. Gavin Newsom let loose with some fairly typical rhetoric about California's leading-edge role in tech development: "California is the epicenter of global innovation—from the creation of the internet to the dominance of artificial intelligence, humanity's future happens here first." Yet for the so-called epicenter of innovation, our state certainly doesn't give innovators a lot of room to experiment with new ideas. California lawmakers and regulators are so intent on limiting and controlling any promising new developme...
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HKJunkCall – a service popular among Hongkongers looking to block spam and scam calls – has suffered a data breach attempt, it said in an email to users on Monday. It is the latest in a string of Hong Kong entities to report a database security incident in recent weeks. When HKFP checked on Monday evening, HKJunkCall’s website was inaccessible with a notice saying it was down for “maintenance.” See also: Spam or scam? How unwanted phone calls – from salesmen or crooks – plague Hongkongers despite countermeasures “On May 25, 2024, we were alerted [to] a security incident concerning unauthorized...
Hong Kong Free Press
A Hong Kong school has seen its computer system invaded by hackers, causing the personal data of over 600 people to be leaked. It is the latest known cyberattack targeting local groups and institutions in recent months. Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity (HKICC), a liberal arts secondary school, said in a statement last Saturday that the school discovered a ransomware attack on its servers last Monday. Data amounting to eight terabytes was encrypted and stolen. The data involved the personal information of current students and their families, graduate...
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Hong Kong’s environmental authorities have conditionally approved an ecological report into a planned technology hub near the city’s border with mainland China, giving the project the go ahead despite green groups’ concerns. Director of Environmental Protection Samuel Chui on Friday defended the environmental impact assessment report for the San Tin Technopole project as “scientific, professional and comprehensive,” adding that the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) had proposed additional ecological mitigation measures on top of the eight suggested in the report. One of the main measur...
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Personal details of more than 8,000 students at a private Hong Kong college have been stolen and reportedly posted on the dark web, the latest in a spate of cyberattacks in the city which have sparked calls for tighter safeguards. The Hong Kong College of Technology – which offers a government-subsidised Higher Diploma in Cybersecurity – said on Thursday it suffered a ransomware attack by hackers in late February, in which many internal documents were stolen and encrypted. “This attack was not a typical one but rather a highly targeted and unusual cyber attack. HKCT strongly condemns any form ...
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Video-sharing app TikTok, and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, have filed a legal challenge in the US against a legislative move to force its sale, lest it face a country-wide ban. The petition said the demand violated constitutional guarantees to free speech detailed in the First Amendment, after President Joe Biden signed a bill giving the tech firm nine months to find a non-Chinese buyer. TikTok is estimated to have around a billion users worldwide and roughly 170 million users in the US. The firms argued on Sunday that “Congress has made a law curtailing massive amounts of protected s...
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Hong Kong’s fire department has discovered a computer system breach that exposed the personal data of over 5,000 department personnel and hundreds of residents, marking the third data security incident involving the government in less than a week. The Fire Services Department (FSD) said in a statement on Monday evening that there was no evidence that the breach, caused by an unauthorised alteration of access rights during a data migration procedure by an outsourced contractor, led to the data being “released.” The data included the surnames and telephone numbers of approximately 480 people who...
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