Hubei province is home to China's automotive industry, with over two thousand local suppliers.

Suizhou is a major manufacturing center for the specialty and heavy truck segment.

*Chinese factory groups work directly with companies and governments across the world, thereby going around middleman companies, agencies, and dealer networks, which are prevalent in North America and Western Europe. *

By dealing directly with Chinese factories and their engineering teams, global buyers slash their procurement costs, and maintenance and repair expenses.

I was thinking all the big name critics from the 90s had all passed, but Shalit is still around.

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Most teams rely on logs to understand what's happening on a Linux system. Think of a log like a digital paper trail; every action leaves a trace somewhere. The assumption is that if something goes wrong, you can go back and piece the story together using these records.

The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.

Tyler Buchanan, linked to Scattered Spider, pleaded guilty in the US to hacking companies and stealing millions in cryptocurrency. Tyler Buchanan, a 24-year-old from Scotland linked to the Scattered Spider group, admitted in a US court that he hacked dozens of companies, committed fraud, and stole millions in cryptocurrency. Spanish police arrested the British national […]

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A cyberattack hit France’s ANTS website, possibly exposing personal data from users applying for IDs, passports, and driver’s licenses. A cyberattack targeted France’s ANTS platform, which handles applications for passports, ID cards, residence permits, and driver’s licenses. Authorities detected the incident on April 15 and warned it may have exposed personal data from both individuals […]

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from +972’s Sunday Recap +972Magazine [published in Israel]

April 19, 2026

It remains unclear whether the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon that took effect Thursday will hold. In any case, Dimi Reider argued, it’s unlikely to stop Israel’s expansionist ambitions. Efforts to establish buffer zones and “natural borders,” he wrote, suggest that ongoing ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon is far from over.

Also:

• Why I will not stand for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day siren
• Can a renewed Joint List survive until Israel’s elections?
• Brief, arbitrary abductions: A new tool of Israeli intimidation in Masafer Yatta
• PODCAST: The disappeared of Gaza

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45785690