Elliptic: Tudou Guarantee and other Telegram-based crypto scam marketplaces have grown rapidly since Telegram banned the two most popular ones a month ago (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/telegram-purged-chinese-cryp…
»Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt:
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto-scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.«
Is anyone of you surprised? But the real question is, how do I convince people to stop using Telegram?
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Chinese Hackers Are Exploiting Flaws in Widely Used Software, Microsoft Says - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/world/asia/chinese-hackers-microsoft-sharepoint.html
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I'm eating lunch at a tiny neighborhood Chinese joint and I just heard a bunch of Chinese on a duo call with "skip school" and "study" in English. 🤨
Every country has their own version of Chinese food, except China which is different in every third stall, shop or restaurant.
#MoreObviousThings
Yue-Sai Kan is a Chinese-American television host, producer, author, entrepreneur and humanitarian. Renowned for her work in bridging the gap between China and the United States, she has been nicknamed "The Oprah of China". People, The Observer and ABS News have called her "the most famous woman in China".
Oh wow! Beyerdynamic is being acquired by a Chinese company called Cosonic. Feels very AKG-esque, but of course, “nothing will change.”
https://www.heise.de/en/news/For-around-122-million-euros-Chinese-company-buys-Beyerdynamic-1044…
The Expressions of Depression and Anxiety in Chinese Psycho-counseling: Usage of First-person Singular Pronoun and Negative Emotional Words
Lizhi Ma, Tong Zhao, Shuai Zhang, Nirui Song, Hongliang He, Anqi Li, Ran Feng, Huachuan Qiu, Jingsong Ma, Zhenzhong Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13839…
baidu: Chinese online encyclopedias (2011)
Four networks from Chinese online encyclopedias Baidu (百度百科, http://baike.baidu.com/) and Hudong (互动百科, http://www.hudong.com/
Microsoft says it "has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting" the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
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Eenvandaag terugkijken over fatbikes en Chinese import. ....
Met bestaande wetgeving is het eenvoudig: als het bij al die losse pakketjes te vaak 'fout gaat' is het doodnormaal een kwestie van stop en zoeken. Dat willen we op andere gebieden toch ook?
#China #fatbikes
Co-persona: Leveraging LLMs and Expert Collaboration to Understand User Personas through Social Media Data Analysis
Min Yin, Haoyu Liu, Boyi Lian, Chunlei Chai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18269
MyGO: Make your Goals Obvious, Avoiding Semantic Confusion in Prostate Cancer Lesion Region Segmentation
Zhengcheng Lin (City University of Macau), Zuobin Ying (City University of Macau), Zhenyu Li (Shandong University), Zhenyu Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jian Lu (Peking University), Weiping Ding (Nantong University)
https://
If Western leftists really “treat all warmongering nations equally”, why haven't I heard of russian, belarusian, Iranian, Chinese, Ethiopian, Sudanese, Myanmar, Indian diplomats being assassinated downtown?
Yes, the assassin shouted “#FreePalestine”.
Optimal Transceiver Design in Over-the-Air Federated Distillation
Zihao Hu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jia Yan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Ying-Jun Angela Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jun Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Khaled B. Letaief (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
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Day 2:
Not for the faint of heart. A special banh mi.
Wikipedia:
Phš lấu (Chinese:拍滷; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phah-ló̍) is a Vietnamese dish from Ho Chi Minh City, made from pork meat and offal that is braised in a spiced stock of five-spice powder (with curry powder sometimes added).
I was not blown away tbh.
#photography #30daysofIRL
Rejection or Inclusion in the Emotion-Identity Dynamics of TikTok Refugees on RedNote
Mingchen Li, Wenbo Xu, Wenqing Gu, Yixuan Xie, Yao Zhou, Yunsong Dai, Cheng Tan, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14623
Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
Xiaoyu Hong, Weiren Wu, Qinghui Liu, Dengyun Yu, Chi Wang, Tao Shuai, Weiye Zhong, Renjie Zhu, Yonghui Xie, Lihua Zhang, Liang Xiong, Yuhua Tang, Yongliao Zou, Haitao Li, Guangli Wang, Jianfeng Xie, Changbin Xue, Hao Geng, Juan Zhang, Xiaojing Wu, Yong Huang, Weimin Zheng, Lei Liu, Fang Wu, Xiuzhong Zhang, Tao An, Xiaolong Yang, Fengxian Tong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Yong Zheng, Minfeng Gu, Xiaofei Ma, Liang Li, Peiji…
The German foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador in Berlin after a Chinese warship used a laser to target a German aircraft taking part in an EU operation helping to protect shipping in the Red Sea.
“The endangerment of German personnel and disruption of the operation are completely unacceptable,” the ministry said on X.
Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the attempted extradition by the US of an alleged Chinese hacker of vaccine secrets who was arrested in Italy last week, and fast-fashion ecommerce company Shein’s plans to go public
https://www.
Human Traces 👤
人类的踪迹 👤
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baidu: Chinese online encyclopedias (2011)
Four networks from Chinese online encyclopedias Baidu (百度百科, http://baike.baidu.com/) and Hudong (互动百科, http://www.hudong.com/
Entropy-Driven Pre-Tokenization for Byte-Pair Encoding
Yifan Hu, Frank Liang, Dachuan Zhao, Jonathan Geuter, Varshini Reddy, Craig W. Schmidt, Chris Tanner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15889
Human Traces 👤
人类的踪迹 👤
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Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability (Washington Post)
Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Qin Xie, Ming Li, Fei Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14377
I wouldn't over-claim re China's emissions reduction.
The reduction is only 1% and still likely to change to an increase.
Moreover, "Many wind and solar power projects have been halted across multiple Chinese regions "after a shift to market pricing. …
baidu: Chinese online encyclopedias (2011)
Four networks from Chinese online encyclopedias Baidu (百度百科, http://baike.baidu.com/) and Hudong (互动百科, http://www.hudong.com/
Urban Diaspora 🌐
城市放逐 🌐
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Google files a lawsuit in the US against 25 unnamed individuals in China, accusing them of operating the BadBox 2.0 botnet, compromising 10M devices worldwide (Jessica Lyons/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/google_sues_25_unnamed_chinese/
douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
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Celebrity haunt that made ‘Chinese chicken salad a household name’ to close this summer
Sweet-crunchy, crispy-wonton-laced Chinese chicken salad was most likely created by Madame Sylvia Wu at her Santa Monica restaurant Madame Wu’s Garden,
but a large share of the dish’s popularity across L.A. in the 1980s and ’90s can be credited to Chin Chin.
“Owner and founder Bob Mandler is the man responsible for making Chinese chicken salad a household name in Los Angeles County, …
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How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus (Kim Zetter/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-honkers-elite-cyber-spies/
Alley Stories V 🔣
巷弄故事 V 🔣
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巷弄故事 V 🔣
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Sources: after Trump let Nvidia resume H20 chip sales to China, Nvidia told Chinese customers it has limited stocks and doesn't plan to restart production (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidias-china-restart-f…
Chinese drones, Russia's failure, and the split in OPEC — consequences for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/chinese-drones-russias-failure-and.html
Fine-Grained Chinese Hate Speech Understanding: Span-Level Resources, Coded Term Lexicon, and Enhanced Detection Frameworks
Zewen Bai, Liang Yang, Shengdi Yin, Yuanyuan Sun, Hongfei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11292
Docs: the FCC is probing USCTM, launched by the Biden administration as a voluntary safety label for IoT devices, over its administrators' alleged ties to China (Brian Flood/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trumps-fcc-p
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城市植被 III 🌳
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Urban Vegetation III 🌳
城市植被 III 🌳
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Not only the Chinese! Ukrainian fighters captured mercenaries from Cameroon #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/not-only-the-chinese-ukrainian.html
CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets were up 2x from 2024 to 330 incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to "hacking-for-hire" (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/16/china-hackin…
Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax files confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO, targeting a $4B valuation and aiming to raise $510M , set to float by 2025's end (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
Urban Living III - Secrecy 🙊
都市生活 III - 秘密 🙊
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Sources: an official told Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC that the US wants to revoke waivers that let them ship American chipmaking equipment to Chinese factories (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/u-s-prepares-act…
A Garden Aloft ⛲️
空中花园 ⛲️
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Urban Living V - Iconography 🎎
都市生活 V - 图解 🎎
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An Afternoon in a Café ☕️
咖啡厅的下午 ☕️
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An Afternoon in a Café ☕️
咖啡厅的下午 ☕️
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How an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
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巷弄故事 III 🔣
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The team behind AI agent Manus has relocated its HQ to Singapore and started recruiting there, while parent company Butterfly Effect reportedly remains in China (Hannah Wang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-t…
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Alley Stories 🔣
巷弄故事 🔣
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Alley Stories 🔣
巷弄故事 🔣
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Dark Areas ⬛️
黑黢黢的角落 ⬛️
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Alley Stories IV 🔣
巷弄故事 IV 🔣
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Alley Stories IV 🔣
巷弄故事 IV 🔣
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Urban Living 🌝
都市生活 🌝
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Alley Stories II 🔣
巷弄故事 II 🔣
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Alley Stories II 🔣
巷弄故事 II 🔣
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Urban Discoveries III 🏙️
都市发现 III 🏙️
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Urban Discoveries III 🏙️
都市发现 III 🏙️
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Urban Composition V
都市构图 V
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