US tech enabled China’s #surveillance empire. Now #Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price www.independent.co.uk/news/nepal-c... @dakekang.bsky.social /AP

No passive utopia: Tibetan Sky, by Ning Ken, reviewed Tibet is portrayed as an uneasy cultural crossroads where globalisation, spirituality and the political traumas of two peoples collide in this sardonic, erudite novel www.spectator.com.au/2026/01/no-p...

US tech enabled China’s #surveillance empire. Now #Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price www.independent.co.uk/news/nepal-c... @dakekang.bsky.social /AP

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

A Chinese official exposed his boss. Now in Texas, he’s hunted by Beijing - with help from US tech apnews.com/article/whis... ( @dakekang.bsky.social / AP )

Our new ASPI report 'The Party’s AI' is out now. It shows how China’s LLMs, vision models and “AI+” governance architecture are hard-coding censorship and control into the future of AI. www.aspi.org.au/repo...

CNN – China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/c...

A WSJ analysis of satellite images shows clear evidence of the Chinese military’s expanding footprint through a network of facilities that dot the Tibetan plateau.

Congratulations to Gesbeen Mohammad, Guy Creasey, Sofia Fernandez Vyas, & Esella Hawkey for winning the ARTS & CULTURE STORY OF THE YEAR in the @fpalondon.bsky.social Media Awards 2025 for their film: Inside China: The Battle for Tibet ITV/FrontlinePBS/@hardcash.bsky.social www.fpalondon-awards.org

“Another area that worries #UK security officials is China's predilection for spying on dissidents, known as #transnationalrepression, something that has been a primary target for Chinese intelligence for years with a focus on groups like #Tibetan campaigners.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

An op-ed in @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social by former Congressional staffer Grant Mullins tells the history of how Rep. McCaul & Sen. Blackburn championed the Open Technology Fund Authorization Act -- and what we've been able to accomplish since its enactment. thedispatch.com/article/open...

Our latest case of #transnationalrepression: a young Chinese woman studying in France has disappeared some seven weeks ago while on a trip to visit her family in Hunan province. She is an editor for the digital platform “Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet” (CYST) www.tibetanreview.net/chinese-intl...

Jerome A. Cohen, 1930-2025 donaldclarke.substack.com/p/jerome-a-c...

Print version of my dive into the growing threats of hackers getting access to victim organizations’ #AI. Thanks to experts from NCC, SentinelOne, Endor and elsewhere.

This is yet another story about authoritarianism — but one that hits a little different. Phurba is resilience incarnate, a person born for these times. And his tale is bonkers. I hope you enjoy reading it as much we did reporting it. Gift link: www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...

“This is very frightening,” @interseclab.bsky.social's Marla Rivera explained the technical details of new @opentechfund.bsky.social - supported research into Geedge Networks’ censorship and surveillance technologies to @wired.com.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

The Chinese artificial intelligence engine #DeepSeek often refuses to help programmers or gives them code with major security flaws when they say they are working for #Tibetans, or other communities considered sensitive by the Chinese government, new @crowdstrike.com research shows:

Exclusive: China’s internet regulator has told the country’s biggest technology companies to stop buying Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips on.ft.com/468o6Rv

1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands: apnews.com/article/chin...

New @opentechfund.bsky.social-supported research from @interseclab.bsky.social and partners uncovers how Chinese company Geedge Networks is exporting a comprehensive, turnkey surveillance and censorship system worldwide. Learn more: buff.ly/R7FJAyD

Silicon Valley’s Surveillance Technology Transfer Problem (Davi Ottenheimer) www.flyingpenguin.com?p=72174

China controls ~70% of global cellular #IoT modules. Dependence risks go beyond supply chains: firmware backdoors or sudden cut-offs could be weaponised, argues Charles Parton:

In Opinion | “Even if you regard widespread surveillance as a reasonable precaution against crime, there is no way to be sure how this data could be used in the future, and no system in place to protect or regulate it,” Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez writes.

the CCP is going to collapse after a cult forms around an AI chatbot claiming to be Jesus and 50 million people die. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

CDT Quote of the Week: chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/09/inte...

#Surveillance systems used to monitor #Tibetans are sometimes built with Silicon Valley technology- exported, repurposed, and weaponised for repression. turquoiseroof.org/weaponising-...

积至公司与MESA实验室：防火长城史上最大规模文件外泄分析 gfw.report/blog/geedge_... @gfw.report.web.brid.gy gfw.report/blog/geedge_...

Silicon Valley’s Surveillance Technology Transfer Problem (Davi Ottenheimer) www.flyingpenguin.com?p=72174

Suspected Indian APT group Sidewinder is using the recent Nepalese Gen-Z protests to phish and infect with Android malware whatever is left of the local government strikeready.com/blog/sidewin...

look at the dismissive tone in this article (gift link). Is it because it's Nepal and not, say Taiwan? Because the protestors have been branded young? or just a determination to keep following the disingenuous line that the protests were about social media bans and now there's ✨irony✨?

The Israeli military “offers an important insight into how the latest technologies can be adopted for widespread monitoring and control.”

How Gen Z protestors chose #Nepal first woman PM on #Discord news.google.com/search?q=nep...

The retreat of the US from the #InternetFreedom agenda is not just a geopolitical shift but a normative collapse, argues Konstantinos Komaitis www.techpolicy.press/the-us-just-... @techpolicypress.bsky.social

In a matter of days, #Nepal has gone from a fragile democracy to a digital battleground where the future of the nation is being shaped not in parliament, but on #Discord servers, explains @techschmuck.bsky.social techpolicy.press/lessons-from...

RAND: (2014) Internet freedom gains #resilience from synergy across projects, and many small bets: a portfolio of diverse, redundant tools beat any single solution, any day. #InternetFreedom www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

Our latest analysis digs into newly identified Salt Typhoon-linked companies, revealing the murky ecosystem of front firms and legitimate businesses that prop up Chinese state cyber operations. A beacon of clarity? Or just more questions in the storm? nattothoughts.substack.com/p/salt-typho...

We did a little bit of an analysis of a leaked project mindmap that according to us, reveals some internals of a Chinese network range, operated by the Ministry of Public Security.

CYBERWARCON isn’t a typical hacker con or policy forum. It’s a one-day event focused on the destruction, disruption, and disinformation shaping the cyber threat landscape. Happening Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025, in Arlington, VA + virtually! Grab your spot or submit a talk proposal: www.cyberwarcon.com

For the geolocation crowd, here's a recent google street view image of "The Lair" where it all happened 😁

Conor Gearty dead? This is a great shock. One of the most important academic voices on #HumanRights in the UK and beyond.

I spoke with @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social and @chinafile.bsky.social's Jessica Batke about their recent Locknet report, which provides a brilliant, concise, detailed but accessible overview of China's online censorship system.

PRC lawmakers are this week considering a draft amendment to the country’s Cybersecurity Law that will introduce certification requirements for technology products, alongside more severe penalties for security shortcomings affecting critical sectors & sensitive data. therecord.media/china-cybers...

China is piloting its #Fengqiao village #surveillance model in the Solomon Islands; collecting household data, fingerprints, and using community mapping in villages. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

From content generation to operational refinement, China-linked accounts are increasingly using generative AI to support influence operations, explains @sarahgcook.bsky.social thediplomat.com/2025/09/for-...

In a matter of days, #Nepal has gone from a fragile democracy to a digital battleground where the future of the nation is being shaped not in parliament, but on #Discord servers, explains @techschmuck.bsky.social techpolicy.press/lessons-from...

Fascinating article by @kimzetter.bsky.social about the 2013 Mandiant APT 1 report that revealed the identities of the Chinese PLA threat actors behind the attacks. Q&A with the main report's architect reveals behind-the-scenes details. It's a great read! www.zetter-zeroday.com/how-the-infa...

Our analysis of procurement notices revealed a #surveillance system that fuses data from existing PSB systems into a central #Oracle database. This system, developed on top of U.S. tech is instrumental in a campaign that criminalises Tibetan culture in #Tibet turquoiseroof.org/weaponising-...

New report reveals a coordinated campaign targeting #Tibetan #Buddhist institutions during the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday year. Senior monks disappeared, monasteries raided, and surveillance intensified across #Tibet. Full report: tibetwatch.org/coordinated-...