According to a new report from The Information, Apple has increased its reliance on Chinese partners, both as a way of cutting costs as well as to “curry favor with Beijing.” 9to5Mac reports: Today’s report from The Information comes on the heels of a …
Attackers in China Using Open-source Log4j Flaw
A group of Chinese attackers has been using the massive vulnerability in Log4j, common piece of open-source code, to target a large academic institution, Crowdstrike says. From a report: Experts say hundreds of millions of systems are vulnerable and th…
Hong Kong media outlet Stand News to close after police raid
Reports say editors, board members and pop singer were held in early morning sweep as 200 officers raid officeThe most prominent pro-democracy media outlet still operating in Hong Kong, Stand News, said it will shut down after police raided its offices…
Speed of Stand News shutdown sends chilling signal to Hong Kong’s media
Analysis: the police raid and closure of the pro-democracy website has left journalists wondering who will be nextThe Christmas attack on Hong Kong website Stand News was no great surprise in a city where all forms of political opposition are being dis…
6 things in cybersecurity we didn’t know last year
The past twelve months in cybersecurity have been a rough ride. In cybersecurity, everything is broken — it’s just a matter of finding it — and this year felt like everything broke at once, especially towards the end of the year. But for better or worse, we end the year knowing more than we did […]
How Meituan is redefining food delivery in China with drones
On a congested sidewalk next to a busy mall in Shenzhen, a 20-something woman uses a smartphone app to order a milk tea on Meituan, a major food delivery company. In under ten minutes, the pearl-white drink arrives, not on the back of one of the city’s ubiquitous delivery bikes, but descending from the cloudy […]
China upset about needing to dodge SpaceX Starlink satellites
A formal complaint to the UN under space treaties says the US is responsible.
中国でおそろいの服を着て大音量を鳴らしながら練り歩く「暴走団」
中国で赤いジャージらしきものを着た100人を超える集団が、あらゆる場所で大音量で移動するという問題が起きているそうだ。「1・2・3…4!」「1・2・3…4!」のかけ声とともにスピーカーで大音量で音楽を流しながら集団で隊列を組み、ダンスをしているかのように様々な場所に移動する。グループが集まって踊る「広場ダンス」が騒音被害で問題視されているという(FNN)。
FNNの記事によれば、この集団は暴走族ならぬ「暴走団」という名前で呼ばれているらしい。日本の1980年代前半の竹の子族に近い存在であると思わ…
Baidu’s Jidu Auto To Mass Produce Its ‘Robot’ Electric Vehicles in 2023
Baidu Chief Executive Robin Li said Jidu Auto would start mass production of its first “robot” electric vehicles (EV) in 2023. From a report: Jidu, an electric vehicle venture between China’s tech giant Baidu and Chinese automaker Geely, would make EVs…
今年面白かった社会学論文10選(2021年)
2019年、2020年と年末に面白かった社会学論文の10選を載せたが、今年も10本の論文を紹介することにした。例年通り、今年私が読んだものの中で、特に「面白い」と感じた10本で、今年出版されたとは限らない。 私の専門フィールドは社会学の中でも移民研究(migration studies)なので、移民研究関係の論文が多い。方法論…