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  • Hackers, secret cables and security fears: The explosive fight over the UK's new Chinese embassy

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  • China’s existing embassy was inherited from the Qing Dynasty. Makes sense why they want a replacement to reflect their current status.

    What an absurdly weird take.

  • UK: Rights group urges House of Lords to block Chinese influence and halt foreign media ownership

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  • @Grerkol@leminal.space

    The Chinese party-state not only censors its own country heavily, it also doesn't allow foreign media ownership within its borders and doesn't allow foreign media ownership within its borders. Citing "freedom of expression and information" when it comes to Chinese media ownership is deeply hypocritical and discredits you.

  • Trump is creating so many jobs with this parade (This is satire)

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  • No problem. Have a great time.

  • Trump is creating so many jobs with this parade (This is satire)

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  • I know. It's just that unlike the satire post, which says they pay, the 'real' jobs don't get paid. Just wanted to joke around, but probably I'm mistaken or it was a dumb idea (sorry, if so).

  • Trump is creating so many jobs with this parade (This is satire)

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  • Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet

    The 4,000 California National Guard soldiers who President Donald Trump surged into Los Angeles remain unpaid due to delays in issuing official activation orders, leaving compensation and benefits in limbo.

    According to more than a dozen Guardsmen across four units who spoke to Military.com, none has received formal activation orders, the critical paperwork that not only authorizes their duty status, but also unlocks pay, Tricare health benefits and eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs services. Without those orders, troops remain in a legal and administrative limbo.

    This is not satire :-)

  • How Russia is using Gaelic and AI to peddle disinformation in Scotland

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  • It's a Russian website registered with a Russian registrar. Just look up yourself before trolling around.

  • China is building a cyber army of hackers, report finds

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  • What does 'dishonest' mean in this context?

    Your comment supports exactly what I said. I have been here on Lemmy for only a short period of time, but I have been observing that whenever one posts an article critical of China, this user gets whatabouted to death (and sometimes called "idiot", "F@ing liberal", and other names). One user here in this thread even asked me whether I support the war in Israel (!) - because I posted an article on China "building a cyber army of hackers."

    What is this?

    Such behavior is so widespread here on Lemmy that I argue it must be orchestrated, this doesn't rise up organically. And it appears to be supported not only by users but also by many admins and mods.

    I will stop responding to this kind of comments, btw. This is off-topic and leads to nowhere.

  • China is building a cyber army of hackers, report finds

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  • As a response to several of the posts in this thread: It is really amazing how many people here on Lemmy are downplaying or even denying China's crimes (even many admins and mods). You can post articles critical of the US, EU, Australian or any other government, but if you post a China-critical text you are whatabouted to death. The tonality of many of these comments alone is very telling.

  • Open source AI models favor men for hiring, study finds

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  • "These biases stem from entrenched gender patterns in the training data as well as from an agreeableness bias induced during the reinforcement learning from human feedback stage."

    No surprise.

  • China is building a cyber army of hackers, report finds

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  • China is building a cyber army of hackers, report finds

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  • China is building a cyber army of hackers, report finds

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  • @demesisx@infosec.pub

    Quick question also to you: Do you fundamentally disagree with what Israel and the US are accused of but fully support China's domestic surveillance, transnational repression, supression of free speech and freedom of the press, bullying of its neighbours, aggression against Taiwan, just because they are perpetrated by “the good guys”?

  • China is building a cyber army of hackers, report finds

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  • 'China has almost doubled their aggression in cyber’, experts say

    Today, Western governments have been more outspoken in linking China to cyber attacks and sanctioned organizations linked to malicious cyber activity. Despite this growing awareness of the threat posed by China-backed groups, ... people still don’t have a firm grasp on the extent to which China has infiltrated enterprise systems ...

  • China is building a cyber army of hackers, report finds

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  • China is building a cyber army of hackers, report finds

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  • This is not about 'bolstering cybersecurity' but rather about attacking other countries. There is nothing even remotely similar to a 'Tianfu Cup' in any other country.

    As I asked already in another thread: Why is it that whenever one posts something critical of China here on Lemmy, there is some commentary arguing that the US is doing the same? I don't understand that.

    That's whataboutery back and forth.

  • Germany designates AfD as right-wing extremist organization, citing threat to democracy

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  • Quick remainder that the AfD is supported by foreign countries like Russia and China (and Trump and Musk).

    A former aide to an AfD politician is being charged of espionage for China

    Germany's federal prosecutor's office on Tuesday pressed espionage charges against the former aide of Maximilian Krah, a far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician, and a Chinese national, both of whom are accused of working for Chinese intelligence agencies.

    Simultaneously, three more people were arrested in the western city of Düsseldorf and the town of Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt, also on suspicion of spying for Beijing.

  • Uyghur rights group calls on hotel chains not to ‘sanitise’ China abuses in Xinjiang

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  • Tihis is somehow related regarding 'sanitising:'

    Uyghur Genocide: Activists slam Disney for filming Mulan in Xinjiang

    Activists and netizens have been outraged after Disney shot several portions of the action movie Mulan in parts of China where it is believed that authorities have placed countless people, mostly Uyghur Muslims, in concentration camps, subjecting them to human rights abuses. Campaign for Uyghurs Executive Director Rushan Abbas in a video message said she was horrified by the choice of Disney to shoot there ignoring the genocide of people by communist China.

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    "Triggering more controversies and objections from the netizens, the final credits of the movie thanked a government security agency in Xinjiang province."

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    Social media users noticed that in the credits Disney thanked a number of government entities in Xinjiang, including the public security bureau in the city of Turpan and the "publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomy Region Committee", reports BBC.

    The public security bureau in Turpan is tasked with running China's "re-education" camps where Uighurs are held in detention.

    Walt Disney Co. Chief Financial Officer Christine McCarthy said the company’s decision to shoot some scenes of 'Mulan' in a controversial region of China has 'generated a lot of issues for us', reports Bloomberg.

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    Campaign for Uyghurs Executive Director Rushan Abbas said the issues raised by Disney’s choice to film in a land stained by China’s genocide has serious implications for the entire global community, and especially for the Muslim ummah worldwide ...

  • Chinese researchers can access medical information from half a million UK GP records through UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fears

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  • There are also articles about this. Feel free to apply the whataboutery also there. (s/ just to be safe, it would indeed be better to stop whataboutering and stay on topic.)

  • Chinese researchers can access medical information from half a million UK GP records through UK Biobank, despite western intelligence agencies’ security fears

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  • @Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org

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    ... indicating that [China's] BGI units’ “collection and analysis of genetic data poses a significant risk of contributing to monitoring and surveillance by the government of China, which has been utilised in the repression of ethnic minorities in China”. It also claimed “the actions of these entities concerning the collection and analysis of genetic data present a significant risk of diversion to China’s military programs”.