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Chinese AI chipmaker Biren Technology plans to raise up to ~$623M in a Hong Kong IPO, pricing shares at ~$2.19 to ~$2.52, and expects trading to start January 2 (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…

New toy: Font coverage analyzer (alpha)
blueset.github.io/font-coverage/

Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is found guilty of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to publish seditious articles (Kanis Leung/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-ve…

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial
Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court. Three government-vetted judges on Monday found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. Under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law, Lai could face up to life imprisonment. A mitigation hea…

BREAKING: Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty under national security law (Hong Kong Free Press HKFP)
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/breaking-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-found-guilty-under-national-security-law/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p54#a251214p54

Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by UAE-based Stone Venture without disclosing its valuation, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026 (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Chinese robovan startup Neolix raises $600m for tech, product development
UAE investor leads funding round as autonomous delivery race heats up

Hong Kong logs warmest October on record #HongKong

Hong Kong logs warmest October on record
Hong Kong's weather service said Tuesday the city endured the hottest October on record, as scientists warn extreme heat will become more frequent and intense because of human-induced climate change globally.

The US FCC announces proceedings to potentially bar Hong Kong telecom HKT and its subsidiaries from accessing domestic US networks, citing its ties to China (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/us-block-h

FCC moves to expel one of Hong Kong’s largest telco companies from U.S. networks
The U.S. has taken steps to block one of Hong Kong’s largest phone companies from accessing the country's domestic telecom networks over national security concerns.

"Climate whiplash by 2064: Study projects extreme swings in rainfall and drought for Asia"
#Asia #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate whiplash by 2064: Study projects extreme swings in rainfall and drought for Asia
A climate study led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with an international research team, reveals that under a high-emission scenario, the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoons region will undergo extreme weather events starting in 2064. Asia and broader tropical regions will face frequent "subseasonal whiplash" events, characterized by extreme downpours and dry spells alternating every 30 to 90 days which trigger climate disruptions with catastrophi…

Degradation-Aware Model Predictive Control for Battery Swapping Stations under Energy Arbitrage
Ruochen Li (Department of Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China), Zhichao Chen (Department of Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China), Zhaoting Zhang (Department of Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China), Renjie Guo (Department of Decision Analytics and Operations, City Univers…

Degradation-Aware Model Predictive Control for Battery Swapping Stations under Energy Arbitrage
Battery swapping stations (BSS) offer a fast and scalable alternative to conventional electric vehicle (EV) charging, gaining growing policy support worldwide. However, existing BSS control strategies typically rely on heuristics or low-fidelity degradation models, limiting profitability and service level. This paper proposes BSS-MPC: a real-time, degradation-aware Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for BSS operations to trade off economic incentives from energy market arbitrage and long-…

After the building fire, Hong Kong summoned AFP, FT, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, and WSJ journalists, telling them to avoid "trouble making", and arrested a commentator (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/12/hong-kong-arre

Hong Kong arrests commentator, summons international media over deadly fire - Committee to Protect Journalists
Updated on December 8, 2025 2:31 AM EST New York, December 8, 2025—Chinese and Hong Kong authorities must immediately stop harassing journalists, release news commentator Wong Kwok-ngon, and allow the media to freely cover the city’s most deadly fire in decades, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. In a rare move, Beijing’s national security arm...

Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night,
leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing
with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise apartment buildings into the morning.
Police had arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with fire
which began Wednesday afternoon in a housing complex in Tai Po district, a suburb in the New Territories.
By Thursday morning local time, the fire was yet to be pu…

3 arrested in Hong Kong, as a high-rise fire leaves at least 44 dead and 279 reported missing
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night, leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise a...

Focused ultrasound pulses to mechanically destroy cancerous tissue without surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy https://thedebrief.org/its-a-game-changer-for-cancer-care-why-a-u-s-cancer-breakthrough-reached-hong-k…

"It’s a Game-Changer for Cancer Care": Why a U.S. Cancer Breakthrough Reached Hong Kong Before Canada
Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforces-slack-stop-…

Salesforce’s Slack to Stop Direct Service in China, Farm Out to Alibaba
Salesforce’s Slack has told customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba Group before February, if they want to continue with instant-messaging service, according to a Slack customer in mainland China and an Alibaba Cloud employee. The move is in response to a privacy and data security law that came into effect this year in

FMCache: File-System Metadata Caching in Programmable Switches
Qingxiu Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jiazhen Cai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Siyuan Sheng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Yuhui Chen (Xiamen University), Lu Tang (Xiamen University), Zhirong Shen (Xiamen University), Patrick P. C. Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

FMCache: File-System Metadata Caching in Programmable Switches
Fast and scalable metadata management across multiple metadata servers is crucial for distributed file systems to handle numerous files and directories. Client-side caching of frequently accessed metadata can mitigate server loads, but incurs significant overhead and complexity in maintaining cache consistency when the number of clients increases. We propose FMCache, an in-switch file-system metadata caching framework that leverages programmable switches to serve file-system metadata requests f…

Super Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong – video https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/sep/25/super-typhoon-ragasa-batters-hong-kong-video
Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong and south China after killing dozens in Taiwan and Phil…

Death Toll Rises to 128 in Hong Kong High-Rise Fire - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/world/asia/hong-kong-fire.html

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[4/5]:
- Sample, Don't Search: Rethinking Test-Time Alignment for Language Models
Gon\c{c}alo Faria, Noah A. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03790 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114301112970577326
- A Survey on Archetypal Analysis
Aleix Alcacer, Irene Epifanio, Sebastian Mair, Morten M{\o}rup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12392 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/114357826909813483
- The Stochastic Occupation Kernel (SOCK) Method for Learning Stochastic Differential Equations
Michael L. Wells, Kamel Lahouel, Bruno Jedynak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11622 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114539065460187982
- BOLT: Block-Orthonormal Lanczos for Trace estimation of matrix functions
Kingsley Yeon, Promit Ghosal, Mihai Anitescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12289 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathNA_bot/114539035462135281
- Clustering and Pruning in Causal Data Fusion
Otto Tabell, Santtu Tikka, Juha Karvanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15215 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114550346291754635
- On the performance of multi-fidelity and reduced-dimensional neural emulators for inference of ph...
Chloe H. Choi, Andrea Zanoni, Daniele E. Schiavazzi, Alison L. Marsden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11683 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114692410563481289
- Beyond Force Metrics: Pre-Training MLFFs for Stable MD Simulations
Maheshwari, Tang, Ock, Kolluru, Farimani, Kitchin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14850 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicschemph_bot/114709402590755731
- Quantifying Uncertainty in the Presence of Distribution Shifts
Yuli Slavutsky, David M. Blei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18283 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114738165218533987
- ZKPROV: A Zero-Knowledge Approach to Dataset Provenance for Large Language Models
Mina Namazi, Alexander Nemecek, Erman Ayday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20915 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/114754394485208892
- SpecCLIP: Aligning and Translating Spectroscopic Measurements for Stars
Zhao, Huang, Xue, Kong, Liu, Tang, Beers, Ting, Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01939 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophIM_bot/114788369702591337
- Towards Facilitated Fairness Assessment of AI-based Skin Lesion Classifiers Through GenAI-based I...
Ko Watanabe, Stanislav Frolov, Aya Hassan, David Dembinsky, Adriano Lucieri, Andreas Dengel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17860 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114912976717523345
- PASS: Probabilistic Agentic Supernet Sampling for Interpretable and Adaptive Chest X-Ray Reasoning
Yushi Feng, Junye Du, Yingying Hong, Qifan Wang, Lequan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10501 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115032101532614110
- Unified Acoustic Representations for Screening Neurological and Respiratory Pathologies from Voice
Ran Piao, Yuan Lu, Hareld Kemps, Tong Xia, Aaqib Saeed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20717 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115111255835875066
- Machine Learning-Driven Predictive Resource Management in Complex Science Workflows
Tasnuva Chowdhury, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11512 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/115213444524490263
- MatchFixAgent: Language-Agnostic Autonomous Repository-Level Code Translation Validation and Repair
Ali Reza Ibrahimzada, Brandon Paulsen, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Joey Dodds, Daniel Kroening
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16187 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/115247172280557686
- Automated Machine Learning Pipeline: Large Language Models-Assisted Automated Dataset Generation ...
Adam Lahouari, Jutta Rogal, Mark E. Tuckerman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21647 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/115286737423175311
- Quantifying the Impact of Structured Output Format on Large Language Models through Causal Inference
Han Yuan, Yue Zhao, Li Zhang, Wuqiong Luo, Zheng Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21791 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115287166674809413
- The Generation Phases of Flow Matching: a Denoising Perspective
Anne Gagneux, S\'egol\`ene Martin, R\'emi Gribonval, Mathurin Massias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24830 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115462527449411627
- Data-driven uncertainty-aware seakeeping prediction of the Delft 372 catamaran using ensemble Han...
Giorgio Palma, Andrea Serani, Matteo Diez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04461 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSY_bot/115507785247809767
- Generalized infinite dimensional Alpha-Procrustes based geometries
Salvish Goomanee, Andi Han, Pratik Jawanpuria, Bamdev Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09801 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115547135711272091
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A profile of Wang Jian, a journalist who has moved to the US in 2018 due to increasing press restrictions in Hong Kong and has built a news operation on YouTube (Lauren Hilgers/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct

Crypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after rising as much as 6.6% before falling 8.4% intraday, amid a weakness in digital assets (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/crypto-exchange-hashke…

"China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September as competition at home intensifies"
#China #EV #ElectricVehicles

China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September as competition at home intensifies
HONG KONG (AP) — China has reported that its electric vehicle exports doubled in September from a year earlier as its automakers expanded further into overseas markets. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Tuesday that exports of “new energy vehicles,” which include battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, jumped 100% last month to 222,000 […]

🐭 High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice
#brain

High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice
A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a breakthrough in brain imaging by developing the world's first technology to capture high-resolution images of the brains of awake experimental mice in a nearly noninvasive manner.

A Story About Bypassing Air Canada's In-flight Wifi Network Restrictions
https://ramsayleung.github.io/en/post/2025/a_story_about_bypassing_air_canadas_in-flight_network_restrictions/

Sources: 6 Chinese AI companies, including chip firms Montage and GigaDevice, are set to go public in Hong Kong in the coming weeks, aiming to raise up to $1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/…

Just finished "Age 16" by Rosena Fung. It's an excellent semi-autobiographical graphic novel about beauty standards, being fat, and how these things echo down generations, connecting 1954 Guangdong, 1972 Hong Kong, and 2000 Toronto.
The art is lovely, as is the message of accepting your body and standing up to your family when necessary.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Why is Greenpeace East Asia releasing an #AI report that doesn't include a single company based in East Asia?
It also does not include an single social factor, only ranking on energy, which seems to go against @… own core on centering communities when campaig…

GBA-UBF : A Large-Scale and Fine-Grained Building Function Classification Dataset in the Greater Bay Area
Chunsong Chen, Yichen Hou, Huan Chen, Junlin Li, Rong Fu, Qiushen Lai, Yiping Chen, Ting Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08921

GBA-UBF : A Large-Scale and Fine-Grained Building Function Classification Dataset in the Greater Bay Area
Rapid urbanization in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) has created urgent demand for high-resolution, building-level functional data to support sustainable spatial planning. Existing land use datasets suffer from coarse granularity and difficulty in capturing intra-block heterogeneity. To this end, we present the Greater Bay Area Urban Building Function Dataset (GBA-UBF), a large-scale, fine-grained dataset that assigns one of five functional categories to nearly four millio…

Holy fuck Hong Kong.

«The recent news concerning GigaScience’s owners, BGI, laying off the entire editorial, software and curation team in Hong Kong on short notice, has filled us with both surprise and deep disappointment.»
Indeed, GigaScience has always been a mainstay at BOSC and the larger intersection of life sciences & open source/science & citizen science.
https://www.open-bio.org/2025/09/30/2025-09-30-gigascience/

On the Optimality of Tracking Fisher Information in Adaptive Testing with Stochastic Binary Responses
Sanghwa Kim (KAIST), Dohyun Ahn (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Seungki Min (Seoul National University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07862

On the Optimality of Tracking Fisher Information in Adaptive Testing with Stochastic Binary Responses
We study the problem of estimating a continuous ability parameter from sequential binary responses by actively asking questions with varying difficulties, a setting that arises naturally in adaptive testing and online preference learning. Our goal is to certify that the estimate lies within a desired margin of error, using as few queries as possible. We propose a simple algorithm that adaptively selects questions to maximize Fisher information and updates the estimate using a method-of-moments …

Apple removed the Taiwan flag emoji (🇹🇼) from the iOS 13 keyboard for users in Hong Kong and Macau.
#Numbnuts

If #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading

Vancouver housing is 'impossibly unaffordable,' says new report
Vancouver is behind only Hong Kong and Sydney, according to the 2024 Demographia International Housing Affordability Report. Read more.

If #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading

Vancouver housing is 'impossibly unaffordable,' says new report
Vancouver is behind only Hong Kong and Sydney, according to the 2024 Demographia International Housing Affordability Report. Read more.

MeanFlowSE: One-Step Generative Speech Enhancement via MeanFlow
Yike Zhu (Audio, Speech and Language Processing Group), Boyi Kang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, Audio, Speech and Language Processing Group), Ziqian Wang (Audio, Speech and Language Processing Group), Xingchen Li (Audio, Speech and Language Processing Group, Huawei Technologies, China), Zihan Zhang (Huawei Technologies, China), Wenjie Li (Huawei Technologies, China), Longshuai Xiao …

MeanFlowSE: One-Step Generative Speech Enhancement via MeanFlow
Speech enhancement (SE) recovers clean speech from noisy signals and is vital for applications such as telecommunications and automatic speech recognition (ASR). While generative approaches achieve strong perceptual quality, they often rely on multi-step sampling (diffusion/flow-matching) or large language models, limiting real-time deployment. To mitigate these constraints, we present MeanFlowSE, a one-step generative SE framework. It adopts MeanFlow to predict an average-velocity field for on…

Singapore dollar-pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinbase, giving the city-state a head start over Hong Kong in launching a local currency-linked stablecoin (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/cryptocur…

Singapore beats Hong Kong to debut stablecoin amid crypto fever
XSGD touted for digital payments as Coinbase, Grab pile in

Filing: HashKey, Hong Kong's largest licensed crypto exchange, is aiming to raise up to ~$215M in its IPO in the city (Kumar Tanishk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hashkey-launches-hong-kong-ipo-seeking-up…

Sources: Chinese companies including Ant Group and JD.com pause plans to issue stablecoins in Hong Kong after instructions from regulators not to move ahead (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8bc1fcfa-8c69-4de0-b6cb-ab6f7117558b

The evolution of influence operations
from crude Russian troll farms to sophisticated AI systems using large language models;
the discovery of GoLaxy documents revealing a "Smart Propaganda System" that collects millions of data points daily, builds psychological profiles, and generates resilient personas;
the fundamental challenges of measuring effectiveness;
GoLaxy's ties to Chinese intelligence agencies;
operations targeting Hong Kong's…

Awful. How’s that even possible? I thought modern building materials would prevent this
Edit: might be bamboo scaffolding
#hongkong<…

Shares of JD.com's JingDong Industrials, a supply chain tech and services provider, opened down 7.8% after the company raised ~$383M in its Hong Kong IPO (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/jingdong-ind…

Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/382729/redotpay-series-b-stablecoin-payments…

Baidu stock fell as much as 9.8% in Hong Kong on Friday after its latest AI model Ernie 5.0 fails to impress investors (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-14/baidu-slumps-as-latest-ai-model-fails-to-im…

Sources: WeRide is set to raise ~$308M in its Hong Kong listing, planning to price shares at ~$3.48, representing a ~4% discount to its Monday Nasdaq close (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/weride…

Filing: JD.com's JingDong Industrials, or JDi, a supply chain technology and services provider in China, aims to raise up to ~$420M in its Hong Kong IPO (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/jdcoms-jdi-launche…

iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement to hand control to its secured lender and key supplier, Shenzhen Picea (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/robot…

Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years
iRobot Corp. filed for bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co., its main supplier and lender, and Santrum Hong Kong Co.

Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said its Guangzhou operations had broken even per car, as it targets a 3,000 global robotaxi fleet in 2026 (Linda Lew/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Pony AI Rises After Guangzhou Robotaxi Operations Break Even
Pony AI Inc. shares rose for a third day in Hong Kong trading, arresting a steep decline since listing three weeks ago, after the robotaxi firm said its Guangzhou operations had broken even on a per-car basis in an early indication its business model is sustainable.

Shares of Pony.ai and WeRide fell as much as 15% in their Hong Kong trading debut; Pony.ai raised ~$863M in the secondary offering and WeRide raised ~$309M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-06/pony-wer…

Hong Kong-based crypto investor Animoca Brands plans to list on the Nasdaq via a reverse merger with Currenc Group, set to close in 2026 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-03/animoca-brands-pla…

Sources: Uber plans to invest in the Hong Kong listings of Pony AI and WeRide, deepening its Chinese robotaxi ties, including ~$100M in Pony AI's share sale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Pony.ai becomes the first company to receive a citywide robotaxi permit for Shenzhen, allowing self-driving taxis to operate beyond pilot zones (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/31/chinas-ponyai-gets-the-first-permit-fo…

Pony.ai becomes first to win citywide robotaxi permit in China's Silicon Valley
Pony.ai said it is the first company to get a permit to operate taxis across all of the Chinese city of Shenzhen on the border of Hong Kong.