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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公园探险 IV 🏞️
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Park Discovery III 🏞️
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Watching The Martian (2015). It features a plot point where only the Chinese space agency can rescue the American mission. So of course they all cooperate and get the thing done.
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…
My /home directory was stored on a RAID 0 composed of two cheapish SSDs, and one of them already has "slow sectors".
I migrated it to the next best thing I had lying around: An array of 4 mechanical HDDs in RAID 10. (far2 layout)
You would think that HDDs would be painfully slow, but it's not that bad, actually.
It's very slightly slower, but it appears that 4 HDDs working together can almost beat a cheap chinese SSD.
High-Density EEG Enables the Fastest Visual Brain-Computer Interfaces
Gege Ming (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University), Weihua Pei (Laboratory of Solid-State Optoelectronics Information Technology, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Sen Tian (Suzhou Nianji Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Xiaogang Chen (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Medical Sci…
Western governments: Industrial policy doesn't work. The government is worse at picking winners than the market.
Chinese government: Our industrial policy is to create a native electric car industry that can beat Western petrol car makers.
Western governments: Hey, no fair!
BBC News - How China made electric vehicles mainstream
Vatican Radio 🇻🇦 has assigned the following #shortwave frequencies for its coverage of #PopeFrancis funeral.
0750-1130z April 26th, 2025
15565 Portuguese
17520 French
17540 English
Also on YouTube only in Arabic, Chinese, German, Polish, Spanish & Vietnamese
…
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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城市节奏 II 🎵
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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
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…
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://
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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城市节奏 II 🎵
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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
Cross-Subreddit Behavior as Open-Source Indicators of Coordinated Influence: A Case Study of r/Sino & r/China
Manon Pilaud, Ian McCulloh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16857 htt…
Social media uptake of scientific journals: A comparison between X and WeChat
Ting Cong, Er-Te Zheng, Zekun Han, Zhichao Fang, Rodrigo Costas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17114 ht…
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
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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/
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”.
From Data Acquisition to Lag Modeling: Quantitative Exploration of A-Share Market with Low-Coupling System Design
Jianyong Fang, Sitong Wu, Junfan Tong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19255
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)
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. …
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…
Urban Diaspora 🌐
城市放逐 🌐
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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
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/
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
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城市节奏 🎵
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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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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/
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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Alley Stories V 🔣
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
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
Urban Vegetation III 🌳
城市植被 III 🌳
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Urban Vegetation III 🌳
城市植被 III 🌳
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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
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…
Urban Living III - Secrecy 🙊
都市生活 III - 秘密 🙊
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A Garden Aloft ⛲️
空中花园 ⛲️
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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…
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
Alley Stories III 🔣
巷弄故事 III 🔣
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Alley Stories III 🔣
巷弄故事 III 🔣
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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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