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Apple goes after Chinese giants over App Store fee loopholes

Apple wants China's Tencent and ByteDance to close loopholes in its apps that let it dodge App Store fees.

iMore

Lures and violent threats: old school cheating still rampant at Australian universities, even as AI rises

Integrity experts say sites offering cheating services to students are hard to trace, and some are run by criminals willing to make threats of violence

The Guardian - AU

‘Garbage time of history’: Chinese state media pushes back on claims country has entered a new epoch

Authorities unhappy as Chinese chat groups and WeChat feeds buzz with discussion of whether China has entered period of inevitable failure

The Guardian - UK

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Beijing accuses MI6 of recruiting Chinese couple as spies

State security service says it has uncovered ‘major espionage case’ involving husband and wife

The Guardian - UK

China's latest AI chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping's political ideology

China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by

The Independent UK

How food and chopstick skills are helping ease US-China tensions

What officials eat and how have become key ingredients in efforts to find common ground in a testy relationship.

Al Jazeera

Cash is king — for now: China signals it will slow transition to cashless society

With tourists struggling to access the two primary digital payment apps, Alipay and WeChat pay, Beijing has put measures in place to make cash payments easier

The Guardian - AU

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The five iPhone changes Apple might have to make if the DOJ has its way

Everything you need to know about the DOJ's landmark lawsuit, plus deals, tips, and more.

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Chinese Internet Giant Tencent Posts Lowest Annual Profit Since 2019

Chinese internet giant Tencent on Wednesday posted its lowest annual profit since 2019, despite slight improvements recently in China's economy and a more lenient attitude taken by regulators towards the tech sector.

International Business Times

WeChat Pay Operator Approved to Raise Registered Capital to 15.3 Billion Yuan

With the increase, Tenpay’s registered capital will be more than 15 times higher than the current 1 billion yuan

Caixin Global

The new era of Conversational Internet

In this new era of Conversational Internet, chatbot is the new website, and the messaging app the new browser.

TechRadar

Hungry Panda delivery rider launches legal action against company claiming loss of work after protesting pay

Data seen by Guardian Australia shows Zhuoying Wang gets between 30 to 70 orders per shift but this dropped down to zero around the protest

The Guardian - AU

From therapy to qigong: survivors of the Monterey Park mass shooting are still searching for healing

For many Asians, therapy is taboo – but a year after LA’s worst mass shooting, some elders in the community are embracing it

The Guardian - US

Seasonic asks you to gamble your $1,000+ GPU that its new 16-pin connector won't melt — company gives out a free 16-pin power cable for beta testing

Seasonic introduces a suitable connector with the new 12V-2x6 connector standard with reinforcements soldered connections. The company is also running a contest in China for users to test this new cable with their own compatible SeaSonic PSU and Nvidia GPUs.

Tom’s Hardware

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The Conversation

How social media is breathing new life into Bhutan’s unwritten local languages

Dechen, 40, grew up in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan. Her native language was Mangdip, also known as Nyenkha, as her parents are originally from central Bhutan. She went to schools in the city, where the curriculum was predominantly taught in Dzongkha, the national language, and English.

The Independent UK

North Korean art sells in China despite UN sanctions over nuclear program

A Beijing-based art dealer touts itself as China's premier seller of North Korean art, despite stiff U.N. sanctions prohibiting the sale of such goods, The gallery’s existence and conspicuous sales tactics, highlight China’s lax enforcement of U.N. sanctions targeting North Korea to stymie Pyongyang’s nuclear program

TechRadar

Canada joins list of nations to ban Kaspersky and WeChat from government devices

Privacy concerns surrounding the instant messaging service and antivirus software have prompted the Canadian government to take action.

The Conversation

The Chinese government claims LGBTQ+ people are protected from discrimination. Our interviews with 26 activists tell another story

In China, LGBTQ+ activists and groups are consistently targeted by authorities and tech platforms. This is done digitally through computer algorithms, and physically by law enforcement and state security personnel trying to constrain their work.

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'No' campaign is dominating the Voice debate among Chinese Australians on WeChat: new research

Some 1.4 million Australians are of Chinese ancestry, or about 5.5% of the population. Given the size of the community, it will be an important voting bloc in the upcoming referendum on a Voice to Parliament for First Nations people.

The Conversation

China's WeChat is all-encompassing but low-key − a Chinese media scholar explains the Taoist philosophy behind the everything app's design

Elon Musk’s vision of Twitter, now rebranded as X, as an “everything app” is no secret. When the X logo replaced Twitter’s blue bird, the internet buzzed with heated discussions about just what it would mean for X to be an everything app.

Fortune

Musk wants to charge everyone to use Twitter to counter 'bots’

Bots are actually advertisers' problems, but Musk needs to get account details from all his users if he wants to create an 'everything app' that rivals WeChat.

WEKU

My grandma in Wuhan is philosophical about COVID, life and her favorite topic: death

In 2020, Laura Gao hoped to visit her birthplace, Wuhan, to see her grandparents. The coronavirus caused her to cancel. They beat the virus and say they're now "walking backward" toward the sun.

The Guardian - UK

China’s army filmed apparently preparing for conflict in Taiwan strait

Propaganda video shows troops running past anti-landing barricades similar to those that dot Taiwan’s coast

The Conversation

Elon Musk aims to turn Twitter into an 'everything app' – a social media and marketing scholar explains what that is and why it's not so easy to do

Elon Musk’s recent rebranding of Twitter as X is a step toward the CEO’s goal of developing an “everything app.” Musk’s vision is for X to mark the spot for all your digital needs – to chat with your friends, order groceries, watch videos and manage your finances, all on…

The Conversation

Foreign interference through social media is an active threat. Here's what Australia can do

Last week, a special Senate committee released a report on foreign interference through social media.

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