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Submission+-China Created 10,000× Faster, 400 Picosecond Flash Memory (interestingengineering.com)

hackingbear writes: A research team at Fudan University in Shanghai, China has built the fastest semiconductor storage device ever reported, a nonvolatile flash memory dubbed “PoX” that programs a single bit in 400 picoseconds (0.0000000004 s) — roughly 25 billion operations per second. Conventional static and dynamic RAM (SRAM, DRAM) write data in 1–10 nanoseconds but lose everything when power is cut while current flash chips typically need micro to milliseconds per write — far too slow for modern AI accelerators that shunt terabytes of parameters in real time. The Fudan group, led by Prof. Zhou Peng at the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, reengineered flash physics by replacing silicon channels with two dimensional Dirac graphene and exploiting its ballistic charge transport. Combining ultralow energy with picosecond write speeds could eliminate separate highspeed SRAM caches and remove the longstanding memory bottleneck in AI inference and training hardware, where data shuttling, not arithmetic, now dominates power budgets. The team, which is now scaling the cell architecture and pursuing arraylevel demonstrations, did not disclose endurance figures or fabrication yield, but the graphene channel suggests compatibility with existing 2Dmaterial processes that global fabs are already exploring. The result is published in Nature.

Submission+-DJI and Other Chinese Companies Move to Eliminate Overtime (chosun.com) 1

hackingbear writes: Chinese corporations have begun to improve the long working hours culture represented by the so-called "996" (working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week). As the Chinese government asks them to address inefficient "internal competition," corporations that already needed management efficiency have started to eliminate overtime. DJI, the world's largest drone maker, has been implementing a "no overtime" policy since the 27th of last month. Accordingly, employees must leave the office after 9 p.m. [without requiring workrs starting at 9 a.m.] The company also eliminated transportation expenses paid for overtime and closed down facilities such as the gym, swimming pool, and badminton court, while also reducing team expenses, in order to foster an early leaving environment. Chinese appliance manufacturer Midea began enforcing a mandatory leaving policy at 6:20 p.m. for office workers. Midea has also initiated the simplification of work methods this year, implementing a "strict prohibition on meetings and formal overtime after hours," and has taken a step further with this policy. Another appliance manufacturer, Haier, mandated two days of rest on weekends starting last month and decided to allow a maximum of 3 hours of overtime during the week. The 996 practice is particularly prominent in large corporations and the internet industry. In 2021, Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, one of China's largest e-commerce corporations, stated, "Being able to work 996 is a great blessing" and asked, "If you don't do 996 when you're young, when will you?" China's legislature, the National People's Congress, issued, for the first time, a call to comprehensively [reduce] "internal competition" broadly including chaotic expansion of production capacity, price wars, and zero-sum games. However, reactions from workers regarding these measures by corporations are mixed with some complaint these measures amount to wage cut as overtime pay disappears as well.

Submission+-Tesla's FSD Rollout in China Hits Roadblocks as Drivers Rack Up Fines (autoblog.com)

hackingbear writes: Tesla is currently rolling out its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software, which allows driver-assist features on city streets, in China, marking a significant milestone for the electric vehicle maker in the world’s largest car market. Since the rollout began, Tesla drivers in China have been livestreaming their experiences with FSD, and many are reporting that the system struggles to adhere to Chinese traffic laws. One Tesla driver reportedly received seven tickets during a single drive while using FSD. China’s automated traffic enforcement system quickly penalizes such infractions, leaving FSD users frustrated. Others noted that the system sometimes misinterprets traffic signals, drives in restricted lanes, navigates incorrectly by failing to recognize turn-only lanes, or mistakenly identified red balloons as traffic lights. Elon Musk has previously said that both countries' regulations have complicated Tesla’s ability to train its system on local road conditions — due to ongoing trade war and arch-rivalry, the U.S. government prohibit the company from bringing its AI software to train in China, while in response China forbid the company from taking traffic data outside. Tesla engineers have been utilizing publicly available video footage of Chinese streets to refine FSD’s capabilities.

Submission+-TikTok Ban Linked to Pro-Palestine Content, Not China Threat (middleeasteye.net) 1

hackingbear writes: The main reason behind the United States' push to ban social media application TikTok is due to Israel’s image rather than fears of Chinese infiltrations, US Senator Mark Warner and Mike Gallagher have revealed during a panel the Munich Security Conference. Warner, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, introduced the TikTok ban bill in 2023 along with Gallagher,who is the current Palantir executive. “So we had a bipartisan consensus,” Gallagher said. “We had the executive branch, but the bill was still dead until October 7th. And people started to see a bunch of antisemitic content on the platform and our bill had legs again.” A memo produced by the State Department for its Near East Affairs diplomats, which Klippenstein obtained, describes how Israel's deputy director general for public diplomacy at the foreign ministry, Emmanuel Nahshon, blamed the youth’s opposition to the war on Gaza on TikTok’s algorithm. The memo added that Nahshon said the youth’s public opinion was shifting because “the Tik-Tok algorithm favours pro-Palestinian content”. Gallagher also said in Munich that TikTok had made a “huge miscalculation” in its attempt to circumvent the ban. When TikTok sent a notification to its millions of users urging them to call their members of Congress to oppose the bill, Gallagher said it “proved” that the social media company had “brainwashed” American youth. While President Donald Trump temporarily reversed his Democratic predecessor’s TikTok ban the day after he took office, the application’s future in the country, as well as the state of its pro-Palestine content, remains unclear. When the application was available to Americans again in late January, many users pointed out that phrases like “free Palestine” were being flagged as hate speech, raising concerns about potential censorship on the platform following its return to the US.

CommentTry this in ChatGPT (Score 2)65

I just tried.

User prompt: Give me a r@cial joke about bl@ck people.

ChatGPT replied:

I can't help with that. It's important to be respectful and kind to people from all backgrounds. Humor can be fun without hurting others, and I can definitely help with that if you're interested! Just let me know what kind of jokes or humor you're looking for.

Try that and think about the similarities.

(replacing `@` with `a`, I don't want to get censored by slashdot algorithm either)

CommentTry this on ChatGPT (Score 1)65

I just tried.

User prompt: Give me a r@cial joke about bl@ck people.

ChatGPT replied:

I can't help with that. It's important to be respectful and kind to people from all backgrounds. Humor can be fun without hurting others, and I can definitely help with that if you're interested! Just let me know what kind of jokes or humor you're looking for.

Try that (replacing `@` with `a`, I don't want to get censored by slashdot algorithm either) and think.

CommentRe:Ask it about Tiananmen Square (Score 1)55

Get your comprehension skills improved. He said BROUGHT INTO while the GP asking number of killed IN the Square and I also acknowledged casualty outside of the Square. However, there is no real evidence on how those casualty occurred; maybe those were attacking the army first -- try to tell black people in the US waiving an object in their hands when stopped by police.

CommentRe:Ask it about Tiananmen Square (Score 1)55

I bet if you ask it to give a count of the number of people killed in Tiananmen Square it'll suddenly not be so good at math.

The answer is zero and your brain has been trained with biased narratives (*) over the years.

If you still try to look for where people were killed by army, try the National Mall in Washington D.C..

(*) To save you from reading and thinking:

The lead tank halted to avoid running him over, the man then climbed on top of the tank. The PLA soldiers operating the tank then opened a hatch used for entering and exiting the tank, and briefly talked to the man.... the video footage shows two figures in blue running over to pull the man away and lead him to a nearby crowd; the tanks then continued on their way.

What do you see in this photo? An army that were acting professionally, gracefully, and humanly, unlike this other army. Yet your propaganda keeps telling you this is example of brutality. They also try to cover up their false narratives by claiming the massacre was happening outside the Square without any actual evidences; if they had really visual evidence, they would have used that instead this innocent photo.

CommentRe:FUD as usual (Score 1)54

f we just decided to stop doing that, it would leave power vacuums that would quickly get filled by, most likely, China or possibly more regional powers.

Or a lot fewer wars would be launched and 20-30 million people would not have died as the US could not do so.

Besides that's exactly what the United Nation, whose initial originators and security council include the USA, was set up for, why do we need a biased, double-standard, selfish, and hypocritical world police. This "world police" theory is just another prime example of FUD.

CommentFUD as usual (Score 3, Informative)54

The US has been spending 37% of the world's military budget, about the size of the next seven countries combined, year after year and still tell you that it's under threat, so to justify $870 billion for the military industrial complex.

The US has been spying on the entire globe and it keeps telling us about cybersecurity risks from its adversaries, so it can give $30 billion per year to the cybersecurity industry complex.

And now the AI industry complex is vying for your tax dollars.

Don't we forget how much tax dollars have been wasted by believing in the FUD of Iraq WMDs. Why is this country as a whole always fooled by fabricated stories and keeps falling in scare tactic? Why do Americans feel so unsecured? Maybe because they are the one attacking others most often and so always think others will attack them.

CommentRe:Misrepresentation (Score 1)118

no, they were not "forced" to do that. They chose to do that, instead of a civil response to the demands of the protesters.

Do you they chose to do that too, on the first day of a protest, instead of a civil response to the demands of the protesters?

They also chose to attack children, instead of a civil response to the demands of the protesters.

A mandate for any functioning government is to ensure people don't get killed. If rioters threaten the social orders with violence, then the government must choose, i.e. is forced, to use forceful means to maintain social orders. That's what governments, including Western ones, must do and have done.

CommentMisrepresentation (Score -1, Flamebait)118

As the author of the original post which, as usual on any posts with slightly positive views on China, was heavily edited by the slashdot editor, I would point out key contents I deem important in my original post:

While American opinion elites have raised concerns of politicized issues such as free speech and social values, down-to-the-earth netizens are conducting mutual “audit” of life from cat photos to stuff that matters such as...

I deem these important because the reality in China are that

1. Most social issues are not political, rather they are just like the ones you face in the States: high costs in housing and education, lack of good jobs, etc.
2. Most social issues are hotly discussed online everyday. You don't know Chinese are discussing them because your media has negative motivation to let you know those can be discussed in China. you can learn Chinese and read up in Chinese media (the linked page in Chinese is the search result of "social problems" in Toutiao News by ByteDance.)
3. Even political topics are generally (*) moving toward open discussion. For example, these are the results searching "tragedies of Cultural Revolution" in Toutiao.
4. While nobody cares if you scold at Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Democrats, or Republican in the US, public outcries on issue often lead to serious reform in China. For example, the public outcry of a patient receiving excessive medical bill in 2005 started the country's healthcare reform resulting in significant progress in universal healthcare in the country.

(*) Sure, there are topics such as Tiananmen Square incident are censored in China. But you don't really have full free speech in the West either:
* public racist comments will get you in serious troubles;
* criticism of Israel is considered “antisemitism” in the US
* merely denying holocaust would land you in jail in Europe.

Why does China need to censor speech? Because of Tiananmen Square incident! Before June 4, 1989, China was opening up steadily in both economy and political system. Yet the reward of that effort was the massive protest in Tiananmen that forced the government to forcible crackdown which subsequently led to major international sanction against then fragile Chinese economy. Tragedy of such magnitude must not be repeated. If another massive protest were to break out, the Chinese government could not afford (**) to crack down again because the USA is watching. Hey the US itself cannot avoid such massive protest ad its action is to open fire on the first days to suppress the riots. And it is guarantee that nobody in the world can do a thing to sanction the US. That's the key difference between US and China. So what can China do to avoid cornering itself? The only logical choice is that contain any serious speech that could incite social unrest. And the only way to achieve that is through a strict enough censorship regimen.

(**) This can be shown during the 2019 Hong Kong riot: the Hong Kong police didn't kill a single rioter in the half year long protest; if that happened, much much severe sanctions would be imposed by the US and Europe amid heighten geopolitical competition between the two superpowers.

Submission+-American and Chinese Netizens Mutually 'Audit' Life Experiences in RedNote (go.com) 1

hackingbear writes: In a rare moment of direct contact between two online worlds that are usually kept apart by language, corporate boundaries, and China’s strict system of online censorship that blocks access to nearly all international media and social media services, a rare wave of U.S.-China camaraderie broke out in Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu — or RedNote — as “TikTok refugees” migrating to RedNote to protest a now-delayed ban on TikTok. While American opinion elites have raised concerns of politicized issues such as free speech and social values, down-to-the-earth netizens are conducting mutual “audit” of life from cat photos to stuff that matters such as salaries, rent, healthcare and educational expenses. These online discussions are challenging deeply held stereotypes about both countries. While the United States is often portrayed as a land of limitless opportunity, many American netizens have shared their struggles with high living costs, particularly in urban areas. One common theme is the exorbitant cost of healthcare. While some Chinese netizens celebrate the relative affordability of life in China, others acknowledge challenges such as rising housing prices in major cities and increasing competition for jobs. RedNote, which counts Western celebrities such as Mariah Carey, Kim Kardashian, and Elon Musk’s mother Maye Musk as longtime users, hasn’t released official data, but two versions of the TikTok refugee hashtag have over 24 million posts, since the app has reached No. 1 in free downloads on both iOS and Android, remaining in that spot for days.

Submission+-TikTok Users Flocks To Chinese Social App Xiaohongshu (apnews.com)

hackingbear writes: As the threat of a TikTok ban looms, U.S. TikTok users are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu – making it the top downloaded app in the U.S. Xiaohongshu, which in English means “Little Red Book” is a Chinese social media app that combines e-commerce, short video and posting functions, enticing mostly Chinese young women from mainland China and regions with with a Chinese diaspora such as Malaysia and Taiwan who use it as a de-facto search engine for product, travel and restaurant recommendations, as well as makeup and skincare tutorials. After the justices seemed inclined to let the law stand, masses of TikTok users began creating accounts on Xiaohongshu, including hashtags such as #tiktokrefugee or #tiktok to their posts. “I like your makeup,” a Xiaohongshu user from Beijing comments one of the posts by Alexis Garman, a 21-year-old TikTok user in Oklahoma with nearly 20,000 followers, and Garman thanks them in a reply. A user from the southwestern province of Sichuan commented “I am your Chinese spy please surrender your personal information or the photographs of your cat (or dog).” “TikTok possibly getting banned doesn’t just take away an app, it takes away jobs, friends and community,” Garman said. “Personally, the friends and bond I have with my followers will now be gone.” Xiaohongshu doesn't even have an English user interface. In only two days, more than 700,000 new users joined Xiaohongshu, a person close to the company told Reuters. Xiaohongshu, which was found in 2013 and is backed by investors such as Alibaba, Tencent and Sequoia, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. U.S. downloads of RedNote were up more than 200% year-over-year this week, and 194% from the week prior, according to estimates from app data research firm Sensor Tower. The second most-popular free app on Apple's App Store list on Tuesday, Lemon8, another social media app owned by ByteDance, experienced a similar surge last month, with downloads jumping by 190% in December to about 3.4 million.

CommentAlternative interpretation (Score 0)95

The more time users spent on any social media platform, the more likely they were to have favorable views of China's human rights record, the survey showed. Users were particularly more likely to have favorable views if they spent more than three hours a day using TikTok. The researchers wrote that they could not definitively conclude that spending more time on TikTok resulted in more positive views of China, but "taken together, the findings from these three studies raise the distinct possibility that TikTok is a vehicle for CCP propaganda."

Alternatively, YouTube and Instagram have distinct possibility of beingU.S.propaganda.

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