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[siegecrossbow]

Anybody seen the footage of the ICE raid on Canal Street in New York's Chinatown? I didn't see anyone Asian looking in the area. I don't know New York so if anyone does, did they get rid of the Chinese in New York's Chinatown and is just a name now, was it some reverse gentrification going on, or was it where street vendors (which is the reason why the raid was there because it was reported by someone) will be anywhere to sell? In San Francisco and Oakland's Chinatown the only time you someone not Asian hanging around for extended periods are homeless people panhandling. You'll see some stores along Grant Ave. run by non-Chinese immigrants because that's the tourist street.

That’s disappointing. I was counting on Trump sending a bunch of Chinese libs in chains back to the PRC as retribution for RE ban/soybeans.

 

[Kalum Pupeter]

China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals​

China has worked for years to further separate its computing progress from the United States and its tech companies. Today heralds a major development to this end, as the Global Computing Consortium has announced the "UBIOS" global standard, a new replacement for UEFI and BIOS. Fast Technology reports that the GCC's new standard is a rebuilding of BIOS firmware from the ground up, bypassing UEFI development entirely.


UBIOS, or "Unified Basic Input/Output System", is a firmware standard to replace BIOS and UEFI, the first and most prolific motherboard firmware architectures, respectively, that bridge the gap between processors and operating systems. The UBIOS standard was drafted by 13 Chinese tech companies, including Huawei, CESI (China Electronics Standardization Institute), Byosoft, and Kunlun Tech. The standard is the first standardized and scalable Chinese domestic firmware, representing a major step forward for Chinese domestic tech development.

BIOS is the motherboard firmware that acts in between CPUs and operating systems like Windows or Linux. BIOS informs the operating system how much RAM the computer has, how many storage devices are installed, the speed of the CPU, and other essential, basic properties. UEFI, or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, has replaced the outdated BIOS in every modern consumer computer for the last several years, supported by a multi-company working group largely dominated by the American x86 CPU developers Intel and AMD.


China and the United States have been involved in a heated trade war over computing for the last several years, prompting China's government to push a major initiative encouraging its citizens and companies to move away from non-domestic computer hardware and software. The famous "Document 79" doctrine directs its people to abandon Western tech by 2027 — an incredibly ambitious goal. The development of the UBIOS standard is a major win for China as it seeks to reach this end.

The GCC and Chinese tech firms reportedly built UBIOS from the original BIOS spec, avoiding iterating on UEFI entirely. The working group claims it chose to avoid the UEFI spec due to the development bloat of UEFI and TianoCore EDK II, the Intel-made reference implementation of UEFI used almost universally among UEFI hardware and software developers.

UBIOS's unique features over UEFI include increased support for chiplets and other heterogeneous computing use-cases, such as multi-CPU motherboards with mismatching CPUs, something UEFI struggles with or does not support. It will also better support non-x86 CPU architectures such as ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch, the first major Chinese operating system.


UBIOS will be further discussed and revealed by the Global Computing Consortium at the 2025 Global Computing Conference in Shenzhen this November. For a country looking to both bolster its own domestic computing ecosystem and step away from American systems that constrict non-standard hardware implementations, the development of UBIOS may prove to be a major win for China. However, whether UBIOS becomes widely adopted and championed like the open standard RISC-V, or widely abandoned like LoongArch, remains to be seen.

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An extremely small (in the grand scheme of things) but positive step nonetheless, if true. The PRC still retains critical dependencies that adversaries such as the U.S., the EU, Japan, and the rest of the so-called “international rules-based order” could exploit. These include reliance on DUV lithography machines, aircraft components, entire aircraft, high-precision bearings, and advanced superalloys to name but a few. It remains essential to accelerate efforts to eliminate these vulnerabilities and to not forget the country’s dependence on the Western-dominated U.S. dollar and 'international' financial infrastructure.

 

[FriedButter]

Grasping at straws. The negotiations are obviously going nowhere because the US has zero intentions of doing anything in good faith. MAGA diplomacy has been to promise one thing and immediately do the opposite while blaming the other side to cover US duplicity. China isn’t backing down and MAGA is running in circles.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1981407552341434826

 

[siegecrossbow]

Grasping at straws. The negotiations are obviously going nowhere because the US has zero intentions of doing anything in good faith. MAGA diplomacy has been to promise one thing and immediately do the opposite while blaming the other side to cover US duplicity. China isn’t backing down and MAGA is running in circles.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1981407552341434826

Does this investigation magically resolves a dearth of RE and a surfeit of soybeans simultaneously?

 

[pmc]

What's the point of even playing by the rules when clearily they are not being enforced properly? I'm actually surprised China has managed to get past most of the legal and compliance bs unlike other nations like Russia. All those years of officials quoting some very obscure rule to convince the emperor to have their ways still works today I guess.

Gulf Royals support Europe in sport administration. (look at there investments ). I am not saying they are opposed to Russia and support Israel but you can expect anything not in public. Putin does not want Russian athletes get fame and move to other countries and he knows to undermine them.

 

[JohnnyD]

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[pmc]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1981292702835888332

lol GBTimes really waving Indias betrayal in front of russias face, indeed in front of all BRICS’ face.

Problem with India is that it still think it is Cold War 1 where it had room for non alignment as Arabs/Israeli concentrate on Soviets.
I dont think India has this option now. It is Russian oil traders that selling to India but obviously you cannot name the soft powers. They can easily rebrand Russia oil as American oil and sell it without discount in dollars to India. infact Indian $60b or so Russian energy is so tiny in grand schemes of things that if Russia completely halt this oil exports it will gain more Royal support.
Russia is displaying to Europe that it has India and China in support of war with Europe but internally Putin is showing to the people who actually fighting that they have Israeli and Royal Support. This Giant Mosque/Synagogue complex is gift to Dagestan.

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7.04.2025 17:00

Berl Lazar noted the conflict-free coexistence of different peoples in Dagestan at the opening of the "Caucasian Jerusalem"​

 

[BoraTas]

They can always loot washing machines

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1980996667928375785

 

[PeoplesPoster]

From what I can see that raid happened around Center, Lafayette and Walker streets which are on peripheries of Chinatown; perhaps that is why not many Asians are seen in that video.

NYC Chinatown is only like 20 something percent Asian with even fewer actual Chinese.

 

[henrik]

Flowers are blooming in Antarctica

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1981069375718228299

At least one Asian nation other than China doesn’t accept living as a subhuman slave to the Anglo American elites.

Also, regarding the latest Trump spasm to ban software, it strikes me just how much the rare earths ban has hurt them; they were so committed to economic and trade war against China and isolating China that they never considered that China would enact a counter containment strategy against them and demolish them.

How come Singapore is not part of this joint military exercise around the Strait of Malacca? Is Singapore under US influence now?