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Beijing is moving to crack down on the use of facial recognition by private companies, while preparing to roll out its ...

Open-sourcing has become China’s strategic workaround: Legal, scalable, and globally collaborative. It mirrors how Android ...

Geopolitical tensions and authoritarian governance challenge Beijing’s efforts to engage the new generation of the Chinese diaspora.

By Maciej gaca When DeepSeek-R1 debuted at a conference in Hangzhou this February, the atmosphere was electrifying and ...

China has arrested 30 women for writing danmei, a genre of gay-themed erotica, amid rising censorship and pressure to promote ...

As CBR.com reported earlier this week, the BBC published a lengthy article discussing how the authors of danmei fiction are suffering reprisals and arrests for publishing what the CCP declares as ...

A recent Supreme Court case marks the end of America’s three-decade experiment with extreme leniency.

Chinese authorities have arrested dozens of writers of Boys’ Love (BL), or danmei, a genre of online homoerotic fiction featuring male protagonists, and typically created by and for women. This latest ...

BitChat uses “Bluetooth mesh network,” which passes the message along from one phone to another until it reaches the recipient ...

Instagram does not work without a VPN, and the whole Internet does not work with it (VPN).” The Russian government has been ...

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has developed a decentralised bluetooth-based messaging app, Bitchat, which sends encrypted ...