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China is expediting IPO approvals amid its AI rivalry with the US, recently approving listings for chip designers MetaX and Moore Threads in just three months (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-fast-tracks-tech-ipos-counter-…

China Fast Tracks Tech IPOs to Counter US AI rivalry
The tech rivalry with the U.S. has made China take an unusual step: It is accelerating the pace at which startups go public in hopes of increasing investment in the tech sector. In recent months, securities regulators in China approved the public listings of two chip designers, MetaX and Moore ...

China's Geely takes on BYD.
(To the headline writer: still pretending Tesla is in this global affordable EV game is a bit funny.)
https://insideevs.com/news/782861/geely-xingyuan-affordable-ev-tesla-byd-china/

Meet The Affordable EV Beating Tesla And BYD At Their Own Game
Geely’s Xingyuan EV has rocked China’s electric vehicle sales charts in a short period, outselling even the Tesla Model Y and BYD Seagull.

CNN launches its new All Access streaming subscription tier for $6.99 per month, including live channels and on-demand video, after shutting down CNN in 2022 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/cnn-launches-all-access-streaming-service-w…

CNN Launches All Access Subscription Streaming Offering, Raising Curtain On New Era
CNN is ushering in a new era today with the launch of its All Access subscription streaming tier.

Fact check: 11 false claims Trump made to the troops in Japan (Daniel Dale/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/politics/fact-check-trump-japan-troops
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p122#a251028p122

Can we please, in the name of humanity, stop this motherfucker?
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251028-israeli-planes-strike-gaza-city-after-netanyahu-orders-powerful-attacks

Israeli planes strike Gaza City after Netanyahu orders 'powerful attacks'

China claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind energy and cooled by seawater (Anna Lagos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-dives-in-on-the-worlds-first-wind-p…

China Dives in on the World’s First Wind-Powered Undersea Data Center
The $226 million project uses ocean breezes and seawater to stay cool.

Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-sur

US government helps Silicon Valley firms sell surveillance technology to China
Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, an Associated Press investigation has found. And time after time, despite bipartisan attempts, Congress has turned a blind eye to loopholes that allow China to work around its own rules, such as cloud services, third-p…

After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there "isn't really another choice" but to use AWS and "the entire stack" is "owned by 3-4 players" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807147/signal…

‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
Signal head Meredith Whittaker has responded to concerns about the encrypted messaging app’s use of Amazon Web Services, saying “there isn’t really another choice.”