Pro-China campaign targeted YouTube with AI avatars The Register

Think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute last week published details of a campaign that spreads English language pro-China and anti-US narratives on YouTube.
The campaign, which ASPI calls Shadow Play, includes 30 YouTube channels that have collectively published over 4,500 videos, accumulating 120 million views and 730,000 subscribers.
ASPI reported the accounts to YouTube and 19 of the channels were subsequently removed.
According to the think tank, Shadow Play has been operating since mid-2022.
Nilanjan Roy's last day as CFO will be March 31, 2024.
China proposes ten-minute deadline for data breach reporting.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology last Friday published draft guidelines for reporting of data security issues.
Reports to authorities must be comprehensive, with omission of details punished.
Indonesia's Minister of Trade has voiced support for the proposed strategic partnership between Chinese social media giant TikTok and local super-app developer GoTo.
China's home-made passenger jets, the C919 and ARJ21, landed in Hong Kong last Tuesday - an event that was celebrated with a ceremonial water salute.
The flights were the first overseas journeys for the planes.
Leaders of failed crypto outfit Three Arrows Capital faced questions in a Singaporecourt last Wednesday after successfully evading having to provide details into where its assets lie since its collapse in 2022.
Last week's regional coverage kicked off intriguingly, with the Chinese government's plan to make a game out of internet censorship by quizzing the populace on subjects like regulations and Socialist values.
Meanwhile Nvidia chief Jensen Huang told an audience in Singapore that his chip shop is working closely with the US government to design chips it can sell into China without violating export bans - but the US commerce secretary countered that she's not keen on vendors edging right up to the line.
She later conceded that since most AI applications would be commercial and not military in nature, the accelerator champ could and should sell chips to China.
A Belgian man found out the hard way that the US is serious about those restrictions when he was arrested for having masterminded the smuggling of millions of dollars worth of contraband tech into China and Russia.
Lenovo's not just making cheap trashy notebooks though, and it was among the first out of the gate with an announcement about building servers based on Intels's brand spanking new Emerald Rapids processors.
Back at the Canalys APAC Forum, Dell's APAC and Japan president Peter Marrs warned Nvidia that while it's the undoubted leader in the AI processor space right now, the industry is clamoring for AI accelerators and won't wait for the champ to deliver its ballyhooed but delayed next generation.
China's technological competition with the US is not just in terms of AI, but also in space exploration.
Also in China space news, the magnificently named Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Co., also boringly called i-Space, recycled a rocket after only 38 days - a huge milestone in the development of reusable launch vehicles.


This Cyber News was published on go.theregister.com. Publication date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 01:43:05 +0000


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