Chinese hackers took trillions in intellectual property from about 30 multinational companies
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This Is Our Best Look Yet At China’s Knockoff Of The U.S. Navy’s Sea Hunter Drone Ship
The country wants the open source community to pitch in
Ah yes. Please westerners, use your principles of openness and transparency to help us build software that we will ultimately and inevitably close down and use to repress our closed society. We save more money when we use your free labour.
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I guess the only news here is the push back
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The more worrisome aspect is that if China can steal technology from the world’s premier superpower with the best funded and trained spy and counter-surveillance agencies, with a long history of espionage given the Cold War, how infiltrated is Taiwan?
Also, given Taiwan’s love for centralized records, cameras everywhere, etc. - the potential implications of a compromised network is far reaching. Everything from an apparently monogamous politician or army general going to see a doctor for a STI to where people live and what routes they take to work may be accessed.
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Credit where it is due
I expect the same is true for patents, and recently on another thread had to have this argument again
Others, who have barely scratched the surface of their fields, simply repackage existing studies: proposing slightly tweaked hypotheses or new methods to “verify” old conclusions. Those recycled studies, in turn, are published as so-called new discoveries.
The surge in these “junk papers” has been staggering. In 2024, Chinese scholars published about 845,000 papers in international scientific journals indexed by the Science Citation Index, far exceeding the 483,000 by American researchers.
A study published by Science in May 2025 found a rise in low-quality papers based on public databases such as the U.S. Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). More than 92% of those papers were authored by Chinese researchers.
According to an analysis by Nature, of the nearly 14,000 research papers retracted worldwide in 2023, about 75% involved Chinese scholars. From 2021 to 2024, another 17,000 China-based studies were withdrawn
If the patents and research were truly innovative, given the educated youth unemployment and general distrust of foreigners, why would they go to the trouble of making a new visa?
Making great uh strides in robotics
@snowstorm, is this thread wumao enough for you 