PSA: @TencentGlobal is aggressively scraping the Internet to build yet another AI slop chatbot, DDoSing many websites in the process.
We've found that, as of last week, their scraping bots can now solve Cloudflare challenges and behave like real users while ignoring robots.txt. In the last 24 hours alone, our website received more than 3 million successful requests from Tencent bot IP addresses, plus another 1 million that were blocked by Cloudflare challenges.
These recurring DDoS attacks from Tencent have been going on for over a year, and we have been constantly adjusting our firewall rules to filter them while trying not to impact Tencent's real users. Because that is no longer possible, we're now fully blocking Tencent IP addresses, starting with ASN 132203. We recommend other sysadmins do the same.
Other ASNs displaying similar abusive behaviour will also be fully blocked from our services.
We'd also like to thank @Cloudflare for sponsoring us with Project Alexandria as of 2025, giving our sysadmin the tools to keep RPCS3's online services running without service disruptions.
As people are quite interested in our latest report on the "foreigner tracking" system, we think they should definitely revisit our earlier report on "Hawk Eye". An online surveillance system that seems designed to go much further than just national boundaries: https://t.co/zVuAsXTTFm
Absolutely not surprising but a limited leak of a Chinese local surveillance platform drawing off an apparently large national one has a special drop down for tracking for tracking foreign journalists in China… including me. @NetAskari found the data https://t.co/z6v9TrFiPe
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I do not think the scale of this story has fully sunk in yet, and this tweet actually understates it. UK border patrol and immigration officers with access to government databases were working for Chinese intelligence as part of a shadow policing operation inside the UK, tracking, surveilling, intimidating, and even breaking into the homes of Chinese dissidents. And those are just the ones who were caught. Now think about all the ones who have not been caught, as well as all the unofficial Chinese police stations and covert influence networks operating not just in the UK, but across Australia, Canada, the US, and elsewhere. When people living in Western countries can no longer act freely because of Chinese state thuggery operating on Western soil, it is long past time to respond decisively.
Good.
Now Apple must remove one of the worst 'features' which allows an app to persistently store data in the local keystore in a way that only a full phone wipe can remove.
If I uninstall an app, then reinstall it, I should not still be signed into my account for that app.
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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