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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

❌ Ethics
❌ A moral leg to stand on
✅ Most deadly military in the world
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/media/trump-mbs-saudi-prince-abc-mary-bruce-oval-office

Analysis: Trump’s anti-press outburst hits differently with a Saudi prince by his side
President Trump frequently demonstrates his disdain for journalists. He expresses his admiration for authoritarians almost as often. Tuesday showed how intertwined those two instincts really are.

Exclusive: Top lawyer for military joint chiefs told chairman that officers should retire if faced with an unlawful order (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/19/politics/unlawful-order-caine-widmar-retire
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p27#a251219p27

China überholt USA als Deutschlands Top-Handelspartner
China holt sich den Spitzenplatz im Handel mit Deutschland zurück. Doch am Absatzmarkt USA kommen Exporteure nicht vorbei – trotz der neuen Zölle.
https://www.

Bandcamp no permitirš la publicación de música creada con IA
https://indiehoy.com/noticias/bandcamp-no-permitira-la-publicacion-de-musica-creada-con-ia/
«La medida marca un fuerte contraste con servicios como Spotify, donde en los …

Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/poland_china_car_ban/

Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases
: Dell, however, is welcome to help build a local-language LLM

Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and 0.6% YoY for 2025 due to weak demand, rising prices, and memory shortages; iPhone shipments rose 28% (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/China-Smartphone-Shipments-Q4-20…

China's economy grows 5% in 2025, buoyed by strong exports despite Trump's tariffs (Chan Ho-him/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-economy-exports-trump-tariffs-6b3f53af8f22692bcd4d276c0695b1fc
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p94#a260118p94

Security researchers at Jamf found that Predator spyware can prevent iOS video and microphone recording indicators from appearing. 
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/02/19/iphone-camera-microphone-dot-can-be-suppressed-if-yo…

Predator spyware exploits SpringBoard to block iOS camera & microphone lights
Apple's camera and microphone indicators are supposed to tell iPhone users when the microphone or camera are on, but after a device is fully compromised with kernel-level access by another hack, Predator spyware can prevent those from appearing.

OpenAI says GPT-5 has demonstrated the ability to accelerate scientific research workflows but can't run projects or solve scientific problems autonomously (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/gpt-5-is-spe

GPT-5 is speeding up scientific research, but still can't be trusted to work alone, OpenAI warns
The model showed impressive strides - but the company isn't taking this as an indicator that AGI is near. Here's why.