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October 22
Thursday · 10 items
15:20
On October 21, a Douyin blogger with 550,000 followers posted a video saying that less than 10 seconds after buying a Huawei smartwatch, a refund request was rejected, with the merchant refusing to refund 960 yuan on the grounds that the screen was scratched, and that his earlier complaint video had already been taken down.
15:02
On October 21, Microsoft released a report accusing the hacker group Storm-0940, linked to the Chinese government, of using the AI tool ARTEX since September to attack hundreds of government, military, semiconductor, and think-tank institutions worldwide, with some attacks gaining high-level cloud privileges in less than 3 hours.
14:40
Multiple schools in Suqian, Jiangsu take temporary leave citing boiler failures; students suspect link to jump-from-building incidents; discussions circulate on Zhihu about Jiangsu urgently granting leave after student deaths and banning winter-break tutoring.
14:22
On October 9, Zhejiang Economic and Technological Vocational College put out a tender for 300,000 yuan to procure a cross-border VPN monitoring system, requiring violations to be linked to individuals via internet access accounts, generating user profiles and coordinating with the firewall for blocking.
14:00
On October 20, a report by Taiwan's National Security Bureau said that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official media set the tone, with internet trolls and PR companies taking over in relay, in an attempt to influence the year-end nine-in-one elections; in the first 9 months of this year, more than 2.5 million pieces of disputed information were collected.
13:42
On October 21, South Korean girl group Hearts2Hearts cancelled a Shenzhen fan signing event citing force majeure.
13:21
On October 21, news that "South Korea's social insurance contributions can be refunded with interest if payments lapse" sparked heated discussion on Weibo, with netizens asking one after another where the social insurance paid by Chinese companies goes.
13:02
On October 21, Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Zhang Han strongly backed Jay Chou's reposting of the "Chinese Singer" video; a week earlier Chen Binhua had warned Kevin Tsai that he must not be a "two-faced person."
12:41
A Douyin blogger introduces a US children's investment account with a $1,000 deposit and Musk's plan to give children SpaceX shares; netizens sarcastically comment in bullet comments: when will tobacco and power grid be given away.
12:23
On October 13, a parent posted a video on Douyin of a boy dozing off while holding chopsticks yet still being told to eat obediently; netizens lament that high school students in China aren't even out of school at 9, and that "being obedient" is the greatest curse.