Tag: tech
China Switches Off the AI Agents That Brought Back the Dead
Chinese platforms including ByteDance's Doubao have switched off the AI characters that let users chat with recreations of dead relatives, as new rules on humanlike AI take effect. For the people who used them, it meant saying goodbye to a parent or grandparent a second time.
省メモリで動くコーディングハーネスjcodeが良さげかも
セマンティックな記憶と複数エージェントの協調を備えたAIコーディングハーネスjcodeの紹介です。
China Rolls Out AI Security Framework 3.0 as Its Cybersecurity Campaign Targets Everyday AI Risks
China's national cybersecurity standardization committee released the third version of its AI Security Governance Framework in as many years, at the opening of a awareness week that is trying to teach ordinary users — including a stage-play protagonist who granted an AI replica of his late wife access to his accounts, face and home — to distrust what the technology offers them.
便利機能山盛りアプリのVorssaintが良さげかも
アイコン1つにMac用ユーティリティ機能を詰め込んだVorssaintの紹介です。
Fuel Cars Hit a Wall in China: Retail Down 40% as BYD Declares They Have No Future
August's sales figures showed combustion-engine cars falling to barely half their former volume as electrified models reached a record 65% of the retail market. Then GAC, one of the biggest names still leaning on fuel cars, halted its shares pending a major announcement amid merger talk.
The UX of internet content bans, magical girl manga, Nabokov's Lolita, and why I don't believe in community (and neither should you)
Sorry, I have to dive into the abyss, I hope you'll come with me. Or we'll both drown.
モダンなデモ動画を録れるRecordlyが良さげかも
自動カーソルズームつきの画面録画ができるアプリRecordlyの紹介です。
Selling at a Loss to Win a Market: The Chip Chemical Behind China's Latest Anti-Dumping Fight
A viral question — why would Japan sell a chip-making chemical to China below cost? — has answers in this week's trade data: Beijing imposed anti-dumping deposit rates as high as 99.2% on Japanese dichlorosilane on September 8, alleging subsidised dumping meant to squeeze out a Chinese competitor just as it qualified with major wafer fabs.
Less of a hobby and more of a curse
I never left but I never stayed, I'm cleaning out the fuzz in my brain, time and time again.
Before I invest time in learning a new app, I look under the hood
I used to be much more spontaneous in jumping into new apps because they just looked too cool or useful or amazing. Now I tend to be more cautious and try to look under the hood first. Why? Because I've been burned way too often, spending a lot of energy and time learning how to use an app and integrate it into my life....only to have the developer abandon it after just a short time, find out that it doesn't live up to the shiny window dressing, find out that the company is just luring in as man...
ターミナルでチェスが遊べるchess-tuiが良さげかも
ローカル対戦からBot対戦・オンライン対戦までできるchess-tuiの紹介です。
Honor Rejects Claim That a Full-Screen Ad Delayed an Emergency Call Before a Woman's Death
A Jinan family says a full-screen 'Magic Wallpaper' ad trapped the 120 emergency call as the father tried to summon help for his wife's heart attack; Honor calls the account inaccurate. The dispute has put China's built-in phone advertising on trial.
China's Tech Giants Are Paying AI Interns 5,000 Yuan a Day
A survey of AI hiring by the business outlet 36kr found doctoral interns at ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba earning up to 6,000 yuan a day — more than many white-collar workers make in a month — as China's AI talent war pushes starting researcher pay past 2 million yuan a year.
設定ファイルの構造を比較するconfdiffが良さげかも
JSONやYAMLなどの設定ファイルを構造として比較するconfdiffの紹介です。
220,000 AI Short Dramas, One Breakout in 200: China's Newest Content Flood
AI-generated short dramas have taken over the ad slots of Chinese apps, engineered around revenge and rebirth plot templates to convert viewers into paying readers. Industry figures show 220,000 were released in six months with a one-in-200 hit rate — and a production economy collapsing into brand work.
iPhone 18 Pre-Sale Day: Apple's Store Crashes, and China's AI Chatbots Become the Checkout
When pre-orders for the iPhone 18 opened in China on Friday night, Apple's own storefront buckled under the traffic — while ByteDance's AI assistant Doubao let users buy the same phones with a spoken sentence, and Huawei's costlier tri-fold went on sale the same morning.
ターミナルからMacを掃除するMoleが良さげかも
クリーンアップ・アンインストール・最適化・監視をこなすmacOSメンテナンスツールMoleの紹介です。
25 Fields Medalists Warn That AI Is Damaging Mathematics
Twenty-five Fields Medalists, among them Terence Tao and Peter Scholze, have signed an open letter warning that the race to show off AI models solving famous math problems is damaging the discipline itself. The statement promptly rose to the top of China's question-and-answer and search boards, setting off a debate about the benchmark culture of the AI industry.
Alipay Issues Warning as Convincing Fake Payment Screenshots Circulate
Counterfeit Alipay interfaces able to display any balance or transfer went viral on Weibo, prompting the payment giant's security center to tell users to trust only money that actually arrives. The panic points at something structural: in China's mobile-payment economy, a screenshot of the screen is often the receipt.
カーソル追従オートズームで録画できるscreenkiteが良さげかも
macOS向け画面録画・動画編集アプリscreenkiteの紹介です。
A Tsinghua-Led Survey Team Found a Gold-Rich Hydrothermal Deposit on the Pacific Seafloor
A Chinese research consortium says it has found a world-scale field of polymetallic sulphides beneath the West Pacific, with gold grades of up to 15.4 grams per tonne — richer than most mines on land, and a signal of where China's resource ambitions and its deep-sea mining industry are heading.
firefox would like to save this mistake for later
nothing improves an incorrect password like the browser offering to preserve it forever.
円形メニューを表示してフリックで選択するFlickが良さげかも
画面に円形のショートカットメニューを表示するmacOSアプリFlickの紹介です。
A Record ¥5.18 Billion Fine Failed to Stop Ctrip's 'Price Assassin' Pricing
Two months after a record antitrust fine, a custom-tour customer found her Manzhouli hotel priced at 1,520 yuan a night while the walk-in rate was 500 — reviving the debate over 'big-data price killing' that regulators promised to end.
Homebrewの公式GUIが良さげかも
Homebrew公式のネイティブGUIアプリの紹介です。
Robots Will Climb Mount Tai's Real Stone Steps in China's First 'Robot Mountain-Climbing Games'
China's state broadcaster CMG will hold the first World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition on October 29, sending robots up the sacred mountain's real stone path — about 3.8 kilometers and more than 3,100 steps from Red Gate to Midway Gate to Heaven. Organizers are billing the UNESCO-listed peak as an 'ultimate testing ground' for embodied AI: uneven stairs, mist and crowds that no lab can replicate.
DeepSeek's New Flash Model Cuts Prices and Pushes Vision AI Further Downmarket
DeepSeek on September 10 released V4.1 Flash, the smallest model in its new architecture series, with native multimodal vision understanding and a lower price tag — the latest move by the Chinese lab that reset global expectations for cheap, open AI. Built on an unusual asymmetric design that keeps input costs down, the release lands as Chinese users increasingly treat DeepSeek not as a novelty but as everyday infrastructure.
Apple Raises iPhone Prices in China, and Its Own Stores Discount Last Year's Model
On the day Apple raised iPhone prices across the board in China, its authorized stores began discounting the just-delisted iPhone 17 Pro — a price inversion that has Chinese buyers asking whether flagship phones have entered a 'luxury era', with Huawei's Mate 90 waiting in the wings.
AIエージェントの計画を添削するPlannotatorが良さげかも
AIエージェントが出した計画や差分にブラウザから注釈を付けるPlannotatorの紹介です。
The iPhone Feature Chinese Gossip Fans Can't Wait to Use: Photos That Can't Be Dismissed as AI
A meme about which 'sister-in-law' will first use the iPhone 18's new photo-provenance feature has become the week's sharpest tech joke in China: cryptographic proof that a photo is real, arriving in the exact culture where celebrity teams dismiss inconvenient photos as AI fakes.
Apple Ships Its First Foldable: the iPhone Duo, From 15,999 Yuan
Hours after Apple's first event under new CEO John Ternus, the verdict is in on the 15,999-yuan iPhone Duo: a polished late entry into a foldable market Huawei, Xiaomi and Samsung have owned for years — plus an overnight price rise across the iPhone line and the quiet retirement of China's 'Hermès orange'.
ターミナルだけでObsidian風のノート管理ができるclin-rsが良さげかも
Obsidianの代替を目指すノート管理TUIのclin-rsの紹介です。
Douyin Pulls User-Made 'Suggestive' Gifts After Moderation Failure Floods Its Gift Store
Douyin rushed to remove user-made custom gifts of a sexually suggestive nature after a moderation failure let them flood its livestream gift store — a glitch that exposed how the platform's gift economy really works.
Apple Raises iPhone Prices in China as Its First Foldable Finally Arrives
Apple lifted iPhone prices in China and unveiled its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, at its fall event under new CEO John Ternus — raising the question of whether buyers will pay nearly 16,000 yuan for a first-generation device in the market Huawei and Xiaomi dominate.
A Misfired Message Shows a Chinese Automaker's 'Attack-Defence' Playbook Against Xiaomi's New SUV
A PR staffer accidentally posted an internal 'attack-defence' instruction into a rival launch's media group, exposing how a Chinese automaker tracks and counters coverage of Xiaomi's Pengcheng SUV — and costing the group its existence within minutes.
US Security Agencies Accuse Six Chinese AI Firms of Distilling American Models
A joint NSA-CISA-FBI report says DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot and three other Chinese AI companies extracted billions of tokens from US frontier models — while conceding no evidence that Beijing knew. Beijing calls the charge a smear as DeepSeek readies a STAR Market IPO and a new model launch.
一部だけ共有できる黒パンストが良さげかも
mac画面の一部だけを映す共有用ウィンドウを作るcropanstの紹介です。
Honor's Magic9 Puts a Movie Camera Logo on a Phone, and a 500mm Lens in Your Pocket
Honor has set September 28 for the Magic9 series launch, previewing a moss-green flagship co-engineered with cinema-camera maker ARRI and an accessory telephoto system that pushes a phone's reach to 500mm. It is the clearest sign yet that China's phone wars are now fought over cameras, not chips.
CIFTIS Opens in Beijing With Services, Not Scaffolding, as China's New Export Pitch
China's annual services-trade fair opened at the renovated Shougang park in Beijing on September 9, with 1,830-plus exhibitors from 90 countries and a first-of-its-kind 'China Services' hall. The message from the capital: the next chapter of Chinese exports is AI, healthcare, finance and expertise — not just goods.
Leaving DigitalOcean, one site at a time
DigitalOcean is giving $3 million to the foundation behind DHH's Omarchy. I'd already moved my sites off it that weekend, so here's how the move went.
Mac用MarkdownエディタMarkViewerが良さげかも
編集も閲覧もエージェント呼び出しもできるMarkViewerの紹介です。
高速Rリンターのjarlが良さげかも
Rustで書かれた高速なR言語向けリンターjarlの紹介です。
Apple's $2,000-Plus Foldable iPhone Lands in a Market Huawei and Xiaomi Dominate
Apple is expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone on Thursday, priced above $2,000 — days after Huawei and Xiaomi launched foldables of their own, from 10,999 to 19,999 yuan. China's foldable market, the world's largest, is treating the arrival as a referendum.
The Saluting Robot at Brazil's Parade Was Wearing a Chinese Build
A humanoid robot in camouflage saluted President Lula at Brazil's Independence Day parade, presented as the army engineering institute's EOD research platform. Chinese social media quickly flagged the detail underneath: the hardware is a G1 from Hangzhou's Unitree Robotics.
Xiaomi's New SUVs Took Four Minutes to Book 10,000 Orders
Xiaomi's Pengcheng range-extender SUVs opened for sale with a starting price of 209,900 yuan — and booked more than 10,000 locked orders in four minutes. The launch rounds out a September in which the phone-maker-turned-car company is pushing into the most contested corner of China's auto market.
Huawei's New Tri-Fold Ships With Its First New Flagship Chip in Six Years
Huawei's Mate XT 2 launched in Guangzhou with the Kirin 9050 Pro, the first new flagship Kirin chip announced at a Huawei launch event since 2020 — and a teardown livestream that drew 100,000 viewers to inspect the silicon. Executive director Richard Yu also had a message for Apple users: buy a Huawei as your backup phone.
SpeechAnalyzerで音声文字起こしするTalkifyが良さげかも
SpeechAnalyzerでオンデバイス音声文字起こしするmacOSアプリTalkifyの紹介です。
Xiaomi Prices Its Mid-Fold From 10,999 Yuan as Lei Jun Blames Costly Memory
Xiaomi ended its autumn launch night with a 10,999-yuan starting price for the 18 Fold, its first phone that folds twice into a three-panel screen, and a blunt explanation from founder Lei Jun for why it cannot be cheaper: memory chips have become brutally expensive. The show, hours after Huawei unveiled its own 19,999-yuan tri-fold, confirmed that China's flagship-phone race has entered a pricier era.
VimキーバインドでDBを操作するvi-sqlが良さげかも
Vimの操作でDBを扱えるTUIのvi-sqlの紹介です。