In South Korea's competition to locally create an independent AI model, three of the five finalists used foreign open-source code, which they argue is practical
Korea's efforts show how hard it is to develop homegrown AI models and break a reliance on U.S. or Chinese tech giants
Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more
Jayden Clark first heard about Chinese peptides at his Fourth of July party this past year. — In the backyard of a San Francisco …
Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK's Foreign Office, which aimed to access tens of thousands of sensitive files
The UK's Foreign Office was the victim of a major cyber attack in October, which officials believe was carried out by Chinese hackers.
Interviews with 10 Kenyan AI annotators show how Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability
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US and Canadian agencies warn that Chinese hackers are using Brickstorm malware to penetrate and maintain backdoor access to unnamed government and IT entities
Chinese-linked hackers used sophisticated malware to penetrate and maintain long-term access to unnamed government …
South Korea is investigating a data leak at Coupang, allegedly by a former Chinese employee, that exposed ~33.7M accounts, or 65% of the country's 51.7M people
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How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M+ IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity
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Chinese toymaker FoloToy suspends sales of its GPT-4o-powered teddy bear, after researchers found the toy gave kids harmful responses, like about fire and kinks
Shot: www.techmeme.com/060618/p18#a... Chaser: www.techmeme.com/251117/p5#a2... [embedded post] Chris Baraniuk / @chrisbaraniuk.com : “the cuddly companion was giving [...] tips on how to find and l...
Australia's spy chief Mike Burgess says Chinese state hackers probed telecom networks and critical infrastructure; Australia lost ~$8.1B in 2024 to espionage
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When asked on 60 Minutes about his pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao, President Trump said “I don't know who he is” and “I heard it was a Biden witch hunt”
but CBS cuts it from broadcast Caitlin Keith / Deseret News : 3 takeaways from Trump's ‘60 Minutes’ interview: Trump says he doesn't know who Binance founder Changpeng Zhao is Steven Walgenbach / Insi...