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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.

»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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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.

Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/large-scale-illegal-wildlife-shops-in-laos-found-scamming-chinese-tourists/

Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists
LUANG PRABANG, Laos — “No coffee, no coffee,” repeated the security guard. His smile stood in stark contrast to his faded camouflage fatigues and the machine gun slung over his shoulder. Few cafés in the sleepy Laotian tourist town of Luang Prabang boast armed guards, but Kin Liao Coffee is not the average café. While […]

You know it won't be long now when you see stories like https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/23/sharepoint-targeted-by-chinese-threat-actor-hackers-says-microsoft

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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It's only Tuesday so stay ahead of the curve by checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Three Chinese threat groups exploited SharePoint flaws, Microsoft,
--Businesses will have to report ransom payments in UK,
--AZ election officials blast CISA after Iran site defacement,
--Dutch public prosecutors disconnected after suspected hack,
--SoCal engineer pleads guilty to missile-related blueprint…

Three Chinese threat groups exploited SharePoint flaws, Microsoft
Businesses will have to report ransom payments in UK, AZ election officials blast CISA after Iran site defacement, Dutch public prosecutors disconnected after suspected hack, SoCal engineer pleads guilty to missile-related blueprints theft, Aussie body sues Fortnum for client data theft, much more

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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

Engineer Pleads Guilty to Stealing for Chinese Government's Benefit Trade Secret Technology Designed for Missile Launch and Detection (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/engineer-pleads-guilty-stealing-chinese-governments-benefit-trade-secret-technology-designed
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p130#a250721p130

Applying the Chinese Wall Reverse Engineering Technique to Large Language Model Code Editing
Manatsawin Hanmongkolchai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15599 htt…

Applying the Chinese Wall Reverse Engineering Technique to Large Language Model Code Editing
Large language models for code (Code LLM) are increasingly utilized in programming environments. Despite their utility, the training datasets for top LLM remain undisclosed, raising concerns about potential copyright violations. Some models, such as Pleias and Comma put emphasis on data curation and licenses, however, with limited training data these models are not competitive and only serve as proof of concepts. To improve the utility of these models, we propose an application of the "Chinese …

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…

For around 122 million euros: Chinese company buys Beyerdynamic
The Chinese manufacturer Cosonic wants to buy the audio specialist Beyerdynamic. The business will then continue largely unchanged.

Chinese nation-state groups exploiting SharePoint vulnerability, Microsoft confirms https://therecord.media/microsoft-sharepoint-vulnerabilities-china-groups-exploiting

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…

The Expressions of Depression and Anxiety in Chinese Psycho-counseling: Usage of First-person Singular Pronoun and Negative Emotional Words
This study explores the relationship between linguistic expressions and psychological states of depression and anxiety within Chinese psycho-counseling interactions, focusing specifically on the usage of first-person singular pronouns and negative emotional words. Utilizing a corpus derived from 735 online counseling sessions, the analysis employed a general linear mixed-effect model to assess linguistic patterns quantified by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software. Results indic…

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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Microsoft has observed three named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and Storm-2603, exploiting the SharePoint vulnerabilities.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/07/22…

Disrupting active exploitation of on-premises SharePoint vulnerabilities | Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, exploiting vulnerabilities targeting internet-facing SharePoint servers. In addition, we have observed another China-based threat actor, tracked as Storm-2603, exploiting these vulnerabilities. Microsoft has released new comprehensive security updates for all supported versions of SharePoint Server (Subscription Edition, 2019, and 2016) that protect customers against these new vulnerabilities. Custom…

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?
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Artificial Intelligence, Lean Startup Method, and Product Innovations
Gavin Wang, Lynn Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16334 https://ar…

Artificial Intelligence, Lean Startup Method, and Product Innovations
Although AI has the potential to drive significant business innovation, many firms struggle to realize its benefits. We examine how the Lean Startup Method (LSM) influences the impact of AI on product innovation in startups. Analyzing data from 1,800 Chinese startups between 2011 and 2020, alongside policy shifts by the Chinese government in encouraging AI adoption, we find that companies with strong AI capabilities produce more innovative products. Moreover, our study reveals that AI investmen…

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

Co-persona: Leveraging LLMs and Expert Collaboration to Understand User Personas through Social Media Data Analysis
This study introduces \textsc{Co-Persona}, a framework bridging large-scale social media analysis and user understanding via integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and expert validation. Through a case study of B.Co, a Chinese manufacturer, we applied \textsc{Co-Persona} to bedside lamp development by analyzing 38 million posts from Xiao Hongshu. Our multi-stage NLP processing revealed five user personas based on nighttime behaviors: Health Aficionados, Night Owls, Interior Decorators, Chi…

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://

MyGO: Make your Goals Obvious, Avoiding Semantic Confusion in Prostate Cancer Lesion Region Segmentation
Early diagnosis and accurate identification of lesion location and progression in prostate cancer (PCa) are critical for assisting clinicians in formulating effective treatment strategies. However, due to the high semantic homogeneity between lesion and non-lesion areas, existing medical image segmentation methods often struggle to accurately comprehend lesion semantics, resulting in the problem of semantic confusion. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Pixel Anchor Module, which guid…

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”.

Russia damages Chinese consulate in Odesa as Chinese drone parts found in Kyiv following similar attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/russia-damages-chinese-consulate-in.html

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)

Optimal Transceiver Design in Over-the-Air Federated Distillation
The rapid proliferation and growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to the development of federated learning (FL). FL allows wireless devices (WDs) to cooperatively learn by sharing only local model parameters, without needing to share the entire dataset. However, the emergence of large AI models has made existing FL approaches inefficient, due to the significant communication overhead required. In this paper, we propose a novel over-the-air federated distillation (FD) framework by syner…

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/nyregion/mingkwai-typewriter-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk8.kDO_.q6egdxATN1zE&smid=url-share

A Professor’s Search for the MingKwai, a Lost Chinese Typewriter
A historian went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines. But there was one he thought he’d never find.

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

Rejection or Inclusion in the Emotion-Identity Dynamics of TikTok Refugees on RedNote
This study examines cross-cultural interactions between Chinese users and self-identified "TikTok Refugees"(foreign users who migrated to RedNote after TikTok's U.S. ban). Based on a dataset of 1,862 posts and 403,054 comments, we use large language model-based sentiment classification and BERT-based topic modelling to explore how both groups engage with the TikTok refugee phenomenon. We analyse what themes foreign users express, how Chinese users respond, how stances (Pro-China, Neutral, Pro-F…

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…

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
The Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment (LOVEX) is a scientific component of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Project (CLEP) Chang'E-7. The spaceborne component of LOVEX is implemented onboard the relay satellite QueQiao-2, which was launched on 2024 March 20, and later placed into an elliptical selenocentric orbit. The LOVEX-specific payload consists of an X-band cryogenic receiver, a hydrogen maser frequency standard, and VLBI data formatting and acquisition electronics. Several components of the QueQ…

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.

Accused Chinese hacker claims mistaken identity - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the attempted extradition by the US of an alleged Chinese ...

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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/

Conference> Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: From Three Treatises to Five Schools, 7-8 August 2025, Vienna
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CFP: Visibilising Marginalised Early Career Researchers in Peace, Conflict and Security Studies: A…
via Input 4 RELCFP

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

Entropy-Driven Pre-Tokenization for Byte-Pair Encoding
Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) has become a widely adopted subword tokenization method in modern language models due to its simplicity and strong empirical performance across downstream tasks. However, applying BPE to unsegmented languages such as Chinese presents significant challenges, as its frequency-driven merge operation is agnostic to linguistic boundaries. To address this, we propose two entropy-informed pre-tokenization strategies that guide BPE segmentation using unsupervised information-th…

For your Saturday reading pleasure, Metacurity offers our free and paid readers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads of the week.
This week's selection covers,
--Microsoft's Chinese "Digital Escorts" are a huge threat to DoD's digital security,
--Myanmar's scam centers are proliferating rapidly,
--Are VCs unpatriotic for investing in Chinese AI?,
--Afghanistan's extensive data systems need proper governance,
--AI c…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 7/12/25
Microsoft's Chinese "Digital Escorts" are a huge threat to DoD's digital security, Myanmar's scam centers are proliferating rapidly, Are VCs unpatriotic for investing in Chinese AI?, Afghanistan's extensive data systems need proper governance, AI can't replace humans in bug hunting

DM-RSA: An Extension of RSA with Dual Modulus
Andriamifidisoa Ramamonjy, Rufine Marius Lalasoa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14197 https://

DM-RSA: An Extension of RSA with Dual Modulus
We introduce DM-RSA (Dual Modulus RSA), a variant of the RSA cryptosystem that employs two distinct moduli symmetrically to enhance security. By leveraging the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) for decryption, DM-RSA provides increased robustness against side-channel attacks while preserving the efficiency of classical RSA. This approach improves resistance to partial compromise of a modulus and integrates easily into existing infrastructures.

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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)

China-backed hackers used Microsoft flaw in attacks, defenders say
Researchers say Chinese actors, along with other criminal hackers, exploited a security flaw in SharePoint software widely used by governments and businesses.

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

Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Despite the rapid proliferation of generative AI in higher education, students in China face significant barriers in accessing global tools like ChatGPT due to regulations and constraints. Grounded in the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) model, this study employs qualitative interviews to investigate how Chinese university students interact with both global and domestic generative AIs in the learning process. Findings reveal that engagement is shaped by accessibilit…

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. …

Chinese Wind, Solar Projects Shut Amid Shift to Market‐Based Pricing

Ukraine detains two Chinese nationals for attempted espionage: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/ukraine-detains-two-chinese-nationals.html

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/

FBI cyber leader: US can’t forget about China's 'Typhoon' groups amid Mideast conflict https://therecord.media/china-typhoon-groups-espionage-fbi-cyber-brett-leatherman

Dies geht auch mit Hühnerfiletstücklein vortrefflich, und mit Ssamjang statt Srirache (Chilipulver würd's wahrscheinlich auch tun). #nommention
https://…

Cumin Beef and Green Bean Stir-Fry Recipe (Gift Recipe)
Borrowing from both Hunan and Indo-Chinese cuisine, this speedy stir-fry features a generous amount of crushed cumin seeds for their aroma and earthy flavor. While ketchup is commonly used in Indo-Chinese cooking to provide tangy sweetness, sriracha does double duty, delivering a spicy kick without needing to reach for the chile powder. Green beans are ideal here for their mild sweetness and crunchy texture, but any quick-cooking vegetable will work in their place.

Little-known but Chinese companies are also victims of ransomware attacks. Thai authorities arrested six Chinese nationals for sending "ransomware links" to Chinese companies.
PATTAYA HOTEL RAID UNCOVERS GAMBLING DEN, CHINESE RANSOMWARE RING https://www.

FBI gives Congress intel on alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail-in ballots in 2020 (John Solomon/Just The News)
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbi-gives-congress-intel-alleged-chinese-plot-create-fake-mail
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p48#a250617p48

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Ukraine detains 2 Chinese nationals suspected of spying on Neptune missile technology, SBU says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/ukraine-detains-chinese-nationals-suspected.html

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/

Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China
: Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too

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, …

West Hollywood's Chin Chin will serve its last Chinese chicken salad in July
The West Hollywood restaurant that helped popularize Chinese American cuisine will close in late July after more than 40 years in business.

Hold on to your hats and check out today's Metacurity for a ton of major infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--SharePoint server software security flaw sparked global attacks,
--France probes Musk's X over fraudulent data extraction,
--UK backtracks on encryption backdoors,
--Microsoft to stop Chinese digital escorts,
--Russia is kicking WhatsApp out,
--419k impacted by Louis Vuitton Hong Kong breach,
--UNC38…

SharePoint server software security flaw sparked global attacks
France probes Musk's X over fraudulent data extraction, UK backtracks on encryption backdoors, Microsoft to stop Chinese digital escorts, Russia is kicking WhatsApp out, 419k impacted by Louis Vuitton Hong Kong breach, UNC3886 hit Singapore with cyberattack, much more

Conference> Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: From Three Treatises to Five Schools, 7-8 August 2025, Vienna https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120484/conference-chinese-buddhist-philosophy-three-treatises-five-…

Singapore accuses Chinese state-backed hackers of attacking critical infrastructure networks https://therecord.media/singapore-accuses-chinese-backed-hackers-critical-infrastructure-attacks

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Ukraine sanctions 5 Chinese firms for supplying components used in Russian drones: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/ukraine-sanctions-chinese-firms-for.html

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/15/uk-woefully-ill-protected-against-chinese-and-russian-undersea-cable-sabotage
UK ‘woefully’ ill-protected against Chinese and Russian undersea cable sabo…

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/

How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyber Spies
A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus.

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The Impact of Language Mixing on Bilingual LLM Reasoning
Yihao Li, Jiayi Xin, Miranda Muqing Miao, Qi Long, Lyle Ungar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15849 htt…

The Impact of Language Mixing on Bilingual LLM Reasoning
Proficient multilingual speakers often intentionally switch languages in the middle of a conversation. Similarly, recent reasoning-focused bilingual large language models (LLMs) with strong capabilities in both languages exhibit language mixing--alternating languages within their chain of thought. Discouraging this behavior in DeepSeek-R1 was found to degrade accuracy, suggesting that language mixing may benefit reasoning. In this work, we study language switching in Chinese-English bilingual r…

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FCC wants to ban Chinese tech from undersea cables https://therecord.media/fcc-plans-to-ban-chinese-tech-undersea-cables

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…

Nvidia’s China Restart Faces Production Obstacles
President Donald Trump’s recent decision allowing Nvidia to resume sales of the H20 artificial intelligence chips to China sent its Chinese customers—mostly big tech firms like ByteDance and Alibaba—into a frenzy to snap up chips before the U.S. administration changes its mind again. Nvidia’s ...

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

Fine-Grained Chinese Hate Speech Understanding: Span-Level Resources, Coded Term Lexicon, and Enhanced Detection Frameworks
The proliferation of hate speech has inflicted significant societal harm, with its intensity and directionality closely tied to specific targets and arguments. In recent years, numerous machine learning-based methods have been developed to detect hateful comments on online platforms automatically. However, research on Chinese hate speech detection lags behind, and interpretability studies face two major challenges: first, the scarcity of span-level fine-grained annotated datasets limits models'…

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/chinese-hackers-suspected-law-firm-hack Chinese hackers hacked into the most powerful telecom and communications law firm in DC and maybe the world. Founded by former FCC chairman and true gentleman Dick Wiley.

Chinese hackers suspected in breach of powerful DC law firm
Suspected Chinese hackers have broken into the email accounts of attorneys and advisers at a powerful Washington, DC, law firm in an apparent intelligence-gathering operation, the firm, Wiley Rein, told clients this week in a memo reviewed by CNN.

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

Trump-appointed FCC chairman probes Biden cybersecurity program over China concerns
President Trump's FCC is raising the alarm over alleged Chinese connections in Biden's cybersecurity labeling initiative as documents reveal national security concerns.

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Now that the weekend is over, check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you might have missed, including
--Suspected Chinese hackers breach top telco law firm,
--13 Romanians busted for phishing attacks on UK revenue & customs office,
--Hacker shares racist and antisemitic posts on Elmo's X account,
--Flaw can trigger train emergency break,
--DoJ tries to recoup Trump boosters' stolen crypto,
--Google Gemini for Workspace…

Suspected Chinese hackers breach top telco law firm
13 Romanians busted for phishing UK revenue & customs office, Hacker shares racist & antisemitic posts on Elmo's X account, Flaw can trigger train emergency break, DoJ tries to recoup Trump boosters' stolen crypto, Google Gemini for Workspace flaw enables malicious instructions, much more

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…

China’s cyber sector amplifies Beijing’s hacking of U.S. targets
Chinese-government hacking attacks against US targets are more serious than ever before, current and former officials said in interviews.

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

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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…

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A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers

A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expertise to identify malicious code.

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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

How open-source AI is helping China win hearts and market share
China’s free-for-all AI models, developed by firms like DeepSeek and Alibaba, present a viable alternative to US closed-source systems.

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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…

Chinese start-up Manus AI relocates to Singapore amid US chip curbs
Manus AI has begun recruiting in the city state, offering positions such as data analyst and AI agent engineer.

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