china
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Ex-ByteDance Exec Claims TikTok Gave Communist Party ‘God User’ Status
A former high-level ByteDance executive claims the company has a “back door channel” in its code that allows members of the Chinese Community Party view data from users anywhere in the world, including the US and Hong Kong. The former executive claims CCP officials have used that tool at least once to identify users involved…
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
Good Morning. It’s Wednesday, the first day back after the Anzac Day public holiday. Let’s get back into the swing of things with the five tech news stories headlining today. 1. Microsoft Edge is leaking your visited sites to Bing Kicking things off with Microsoft, and The Verge is reporting that the company’s Edge…
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Self-Driving Truck Start-Up Faces U.S. Espionage Investigation Over China Connection
TuSimple develops self-driving software for trucking companies, but it might not be keeping those big-brained developments here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. Members of a U.S. national-security panel are urging the Justice Department to bring charges against two of TuSimple’s founders and the company’s current CFO for patents being improperly transferred to China-based…
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China to Stop Welding Homes Shut Over COVID After Protests
China announced on Wednesday the country’s strictest COVID-19 rules will be lifted, allowing more freedom of movement for people who are living under some of the harshest health regulations in the world three years after the start of the pandemic.