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US Justice Department charges employees of Chinese IT contractor i-Soon. Silk Typhoon targets the IT supply chain for initial access. Chrome extensions that change shape. Attackers target airflow misconfigurations. LibreOffice vulnerability opens the door to script-based attacks. NSO group leaders face charges in spyware case. Today, our own Dave Bittner is our guest as he appeared on the Adopting Zero Trust podcast at ThreatLocker's Zero Trust World 2025 event with hosts Elliot Volkman and Neal Dennis and guest Dr. Chase Cunningham. And turning $1B into thin air. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today, our own Dave Bittner is in our guest spot as he appeared on the Adopting Zero Trust podcast at ThreatLocker's Zero Trust World 2025 event with hosts Elliot Volkman and Neal Dennis and guest Dr. Chase Cunningham aka Dr. Zero Trust. Adopting Zero Trust is an ongoing conversation about the people and organizations adopting Zero Trust. You can catch the full episode here where Dave and Dr. Zero Trust weigh the difference between delivering refined news and raw perspective, hitting critical mass for AI, and the current political environment. Selected Reading US charges Chinese nationals in cyberattacks on Treasury, dissidents and more (The Record) Silk Typhoon targeting IT supply chain (Microsoft) Malicious Chrome extensions can spoof password managers in new attack (Bleeping Computer)  Apache Airflow Misconfigurations Leak Login Credentials to Hackers (GB Hackers) LibreOffice Flaw Allows Attackers to Run Arbitrary Scripts via Macro URL (GB Hackers) Exploited VMware ESXi Flaws Put Many at Risk of Ransomware, Other Attacks (SecurityWeek) Catalan court says NSO Group executives can be charged in spyware investigation (TechCrunch) Former top NSA cyber official: Probationary firings ‘devastating' to cyber, national security (CyberScoop)  Financial Organizations Urge CISA to Revise Proposed CIRCIA Implementation (SecurityWeek) North Koreans finish initial laundering stage after more than $1 billion stolen from Bybit (The Record)  Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show.  Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Capitol Hill hearings featuring TikTok's CEO lead off episode 450 of the Cyberlaw Podcast. The CEO handled the endless stream of Congressional accusations and suspicion about as well as could have been expected.  And it did him as little good as a cynic would have expected. Jim Dempsey and Mark MacCarthy think Congress is moving toward action on Chinese IT products—probably in the form of the bipartisan Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act. But passing legislation and actually doing something about China's IT successes are two very different things. The FTC is jumping into the arena on cloud services, Mark tells us, and it can't escape its DNA—dwelling on possible industry concentration and lock-in and not asking much about the national security implications of knocking off a bunch of American cloud providers when the alternatives are largely Chinese cloud providers. The FTC's myopia means that the administration won't get as much help as it could from the FTC on cloud security measures. I reissue my standard objection to the FTC's refusal to follow the FCC's lead in deferring on national security to executive branch concerns. Mark and I disagree about whether the FTC Act forces the Commission to limit itself to consumer protection. Jim Dempsey reviews the latest AI releases, including Google's Bard, which seems to have many of the same hallucination problems as OpenAI's engines. Jim and I debate what I consider the wacky and unjustified fascination in the press with catching AI engaging in wrong think. I believe it's just a mechanism for justifying the imposition of left-wing values on AI's output —which already scores left/libertarian on 14 of 15 standard tests for identifying ideological affiliation. Similarly, I question the effort to stop AI from hallucinating footnotes in support of its erroneous facts. If ever there were a case for generative AI correction of AI errors, the fake citation problem seems like a natural. Speaking of Silicon Valley's lying problem, Mark reminds us that social media is absolutely immune for user speech, even after it gets notice that the speech is harmful and false. He reminds us of his thoughtful argument in favor of tweaking section 230 to more closely resemble the notice and action obligations found in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). I argue that the DMCA has not so much solved the incentives for overcensoring speech as it has surrendered to them.   Jim introduces us to an emerging trend in state privacy law: bills that industry supports. Iowa's new law is the exemplar; Jim questions whether it will satisfy users in the long run.   I summarize Hachette v. Internet Archive, in which Judge John G. Koeltl delivers a harsh rebuke to internet hippies everywhere, ruling that the Internet Archive violated copyright in its effort to create a digital equivalent to public library lending. The judge's lesson for the rest of us: You might think fair use is a thing, but it's not. Get over it. In quick hits,  I note that the Cyberlaw Podcast scooped WIRED in covering the GSA's lies about the security of login.gov and its later effort to justify those lies by invoking “equity”—currently replacing patriotism as the last resort of scoundrels. And I offer a brief, nostalgic requiem for Toshiba, which is being broken up for scrap by what's left of Japan Inc. Thirty years ago, Toshiba was treated on the Hill like Huawei is today – a scary and unstoppable competitor who threatened the American way of life.  Now, not so much.  Download 450th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

The Capitol Hill hearings featuring TikTok's CEO lead off episode 450 of the Cyberlaw Podcast. The CEO handled the endless stream of Congressional accusations and suspicion about as well as could have been expected.  And it did him as little good as a cynic would have expected. Jim Dempsey and Mark MacCarthy think Congress is moving toward action on Chinese IT products—probably in the form of the bipartisan Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act. But passing legislation and actually doing something about China's IT successes are two very different things. The FTC is jumping into the arena on cloud services, Mark tells us, and it can't escape its DNA—dwelling on possible industry concentration and lock-in and not asking much about the national security implications of knocking off a bunch of American cloud providers when the alternatives are largely Chinese cloud providers. The FTC's myopia means that the administration won't get as much help as it could from the FTC on cloud security measures. I reissue my standard objection to the FTC's refusal to follow the FCC's lead in deferring on national security to executive branch concerns. Mark and I disagree about whether the FTC Act forces the Commission to limit itself to consumer protection. Jim Dempsey reviews the latest AI releases, including Google's Bard, which seems to have many of the same hallucination problems as OpenAI's engines. Jim and I debate what I consider the wacky and unjustified fascination in the press with catching AI engaging in wrong think. I believe it's just a mechanism for justifying the imposition of left-wing values on AI's output —which already scores left/libertarian on 14 of 15 standard tests for identifying ideological affiliation. Similarly, I question the effort to stop AI from hallucinating footnotes in support of its erroneous facts. If ever there were a case for generative AI correction of AI errors, the fake citation problem seems like a natural. Speaking of Silicon Valley's lying problem, Mark reminds us that social media is absolutely immune for user speech, even after it gets notice that the speech is harmful and false. He reminds us of his thoughtful argument in favor of tweaking section 230 to more closely resemble the notice and action obligations found in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). I argue that the DMCA has not so much solved the incentives for overcensoring speech as it has surrendered to them.   Jim introduces us to an emerging trend in state privacy law: bills that industry supports. Iowa's new law is the exemplar; Jim questions whether it will satisfy users in the long run.   I summarize Hachette v. Internet Archive, in which Judge John G. Koeltl delivers a harsh rebuke to internet hippies everywhere, ruling that the Internet Archive violated copyright in its effort to create a digital equivalent to public library lending. The judge's lesson for the rest of us: You might think fair use is a thing, but it's not. Get over it. In quick hits,  I note that the Cyberlaw Podcast scooped WIRED in covering the GSA's lies about the security of login.gov and its later effort to justify those lies by invoking “equity”—currently replacing patriotism as the last resort of scoundrels. And I offer a brief, nostalgic requiem for Toshiba, which is being broken up for scrap by what's left of Japan Inc. Thirty years ago, Toshiba was treated on the Hill like Huawei is today – a scary and unstoppable competitor who threatened the American way of life.  Now, not so much.  Download 450th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

Een influencer in China heeft van de autoriteiten een boete gekregen van maar liefst 210 miljoen dollar. Zij wordt verdacht van belastingontwijking. 'De Chinese autoriteiten zijn het toezicht en de controle op sociale media en op IT-concerns aan het opvoeren', zegt BNR-commentator en macro-econoom Kees de Kort. 'Dit is de volgende stap om de Chinese IT-wereld duidelijk te maken dat iedereen die iets doet wat Beijing niet goed vindt, daar heel veel spijt van zal krijgen.' De wijze waarop de Chinese overheid met de IT-sector omgaat, waar ook deze torenhoge boete een goed van voorbeeld is, noemt De Kort ' de dood in de pot' voor de sector. 'IT, ICT en social media is toch nieuw, anders en vernieuwend. Daar zijn mensen die dingen mogen doen. Nu gaat iedereen op zijn handen zitten en toestemming vragen aan een paar mensen. Dat is macht en controle, en dat is buitengewoon negatief voor de groeicijfers in de economie.' Over Kees de Kort Econoom Kees de Kort geeft elke dag net na 12:00 uur zijn (eigen) kijk op de financieel-economische wereld. Luister live in BNR Zakendoen of wanneer je wilt via bnr.nl/keesdekort, Apple Podcast en Spotify See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Een influencer in China heeft van de autoriteiten een boete gekregen van maar liefst 210 miljoen dollar. Zij wordt verdacht van belastingontwijking. 'De Chinese autoriteiten zijn het toezicht en de controle op sociale media en op IT-concerns aan het opvoeren', zegt BNR-commentator en macro-econoom Kees de Kort. 'Dit is de volgende stap om de Chinese IT-wereld duidelijk te maken dat iedereen die iets doet wat Beijing niet goed vindt, daar heel veel spijt van zal krijgen.'

Een influencer in China heeft van de autoriteiten een boete gekregen van maar liefst 210 miljoen dollar. Zij wordt verdacht van belastingontwijking. 'De Chinese autoriteiten zijn het toezicht en de controle op sociale media en op IT-concerns aan het opvoeren', zegt BNR-commentator en macro-econoom Kees de Kort. 'Dit is de volgende stap om de Chinese IT-wereld duidelijk te maken dat iedereen die iets doet wat Beijing niet goed vindt, daar heel veel spijt van zal krijgen.'

On this episode Leo interviews Marian Danko and Ervis Micukaj. Two entrepreneurs on foreign soil.Marian Danko is an entrepreneur from Ukraine with a passion for innovation and technology. As the founder of weHustle, a platform for innovators in China, Marian is working on connecting local and international scenes to build a diverse and inclusive innovation ecosystem. Many years of partnering up and working with 20+ tech and entrepreneur communities in China led Marian to launch TECOM Conf, an annual event celebrating the power of the community. TECOM Conf Shanghai 2019 brought Marian to Forbes China. In the same year, he won the Yicai Brilliant Award and entered the list by EqualOcean of 30 Foreign Entrepreneurs in China 2020. Marian has a deep understanding of a startup ecosystem with 9 years of China experience, making him a frequent speaker and panelist at many entrepreneurship and innovation-related events.Connect with Marian on LinkedIn -Company website -Ervis Micukaj is Managing Partner at JET IT Services. A team of western and Chinese IT professionals offering international grade enterprise IT solutions to companies operating in China.  They are a one-stop-source, built to provide enterprise-grade IT & Communications services and supplies required to compete in today's China business environment. They design, install, and maintain complete IT and communications networks involving multiple vendors, protocols, carriers, locations, and standards. Tailor-made solutions can meet customer's unique requirements for performance, fault tolerance, real-time manageability, cost-effectiveness, and network simplicity.Connect with Ervis on LinkedIn Company website Self-learning is of paramount importance in the business world, listen to your international peers and step up your game. Connect with the host Leonardo Marra on LinkedIn  - Follow the page on LinkedIn 

In the future, every famous person will be a movie star for 85 minutes. China Salesman continues our 85 Minutes Of Fame season with Mike Tyson, best known as the former heavy weight champion of the world, and Russian celebrity Steven Seagal. Yan Jian, a young Chinese IT engineer who volunteers to go to North Africa and help the company he works for to win a competition. The winner can own the right to control the communication between south and north. French spy Michael works for the West. His boss ordered him to go to the North Africa and win the competition, and they can control the great mineral resources of Africa. He hired the best mercenary in Africa whose name is Lauder and a former general Kabbah to help him. Yan has discovered their conspiracy, he is the only one who can stop them. We can't stress enough how weird this plot is. It literally revolves around setting up a cellphone network. So sit back and enjoy the laughs as The Cult Film Showdown fixates on the best part of this film, a knock down fight between Seagal and Tyson! After listening to this episode about China Salesman, check in with The Octagon, our on-going ranking of the movies covered in The Cult Film Showdown. And stay tuned at the end of the episode as the team pitches their themes for season 15! Subscribe (and review) on your favorite podcast player and Youtube so you don't miss an episode! Follow us on Instagram! There can be only one The on-going list of the top b-movies as rated by the Cult Film Showdown team! Join them each episode as they tirelessly search for the Ultimate B-Movie! FilmSchlock AppealMore Heart Than BudgetWTF MomentsMemorable MomentsCrazy ConceptScore Out of:40-----------------------------40-----------------------------40-----------------------------40-----------------------------40-----------------------------100----------------------------- Ninja III: The Domination37 35 35 32 34 86.5 Miami Connection383836303186.5 Samurai Cop383238323385.5 Frankenhooker333432324085.5 Flesh Gordon Meets The Cosmic Cheerleaders373433323685 Flesh Gordon343637312983.5 Wolf Guy352839323383.5 Deadly Prey393339322383 Frankenstein Island383138213883 Maniac (1934)343138243583 Furious (1984)343140253081 The Apple273038343381 Road to Hell304025263879.5 Raw Force382933233579 R.O.T.O.R.343339252578 H.O.T.S.322930332877 Chopping Mall323429263177 Crank 2: High Voltage292933253475 Deathstalker II343735271775 Frankenstein Conquers The World312732253474.5 Elves312232273674 Flash Gordon341934342773 Screwballs333435281372.5 Loose Screws353234311072 Starcrash313336232071.5 Ninja The Violent Sorcerer342734143471.5 Traxx312630292771.5 Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky342137282371.5 Preppies302737271770 The Doll242940163069.5 Gutterballs282932292269 Space Mutiny313033202368.5 Malibu Express342433222668.5 Gymkata341730263068.5 Santa's Slay262535292168 Tales From The Quadead Zone292631093968 Spookies283132192567.5 Incredibly Strange Creatures...283326163167 Big City Blues262731282166.5 Isle of the Snake People372435142266 Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo293227311265.5 312630172365.5 American Shaolin252730251965 Game of Death II341436183065 Cabin Boy272617293065 Fatal Deviation263234191864.5 One Down, Two To Go272535172363.5 Killer Klowns From Outer Space293018252563.5 Up the Creek271929292463 Cast a Deadly Spell183121312763 Phase IV202925292262.5 Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971)282432152461.5 Terror in Beverly Hills341637251061 Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time302329221860 Class of 1999263117232560 The Weird Man262828142259 Revenge of the Nerds172523371659 Battle Beyond the Stars254017221458 Planet of the Vampires133911302057.5 The Monster Squad213314331457.5 Dracula AD 1972262219242457.5 Spellcaster242425182357

In the future, every famous person will be a movie star for 85 minutes. China Salesman continues our 85 Minutes Of Fame season with Mike Tyson, best known as the former heavy weight champion of the world, and Russian celebrity Steven Seagal. Yan Jian, a young Chinese IT engineer who volunteers to go to North […] The post Cult Film Showdown 1404: China Salesman appeared first on We Talk Podcasts.

(Chinese) It's dangerous to meditate on your own without a great enlightened Master, because there will be Maya's hindrance. Our souls are likely to get out during our meditation. Without the protection from the power of a great enlightened Master, the power of Maya, or lonely ghosts, Astral beings or devils of higher levels, will come and borrow our body. Our house will be occupied when we come back. If two or three persons are forced to live together, they may fight. That's why that kind of people will suffer a ...

(Chinese) It is an Indian tradition that one becomes Buddha after a special ceremony in which a particular paint is pressed upon the place of the wisdom eye. After that, he is recognized as Master, Teacher, Enlightened Master and Buddha. This is the Indian way of enlightenment and wisdom eye-opening. After the wisdom eye-opening, one becomes Buddha. Initiation is also a time of enlightenment and opening of the wisdom eye so you can see the light. This is the true enlightenment and wisdom eye-opening. When ...

(Chinese) It’s not right for us to be attached to any place in this world. It is the best if we never come back again. Since we will leave the world later no matter how reluctant we are, so we’d better be prepared before leaving, and be gone forever; otherwise, we will become attached and bound to each other again when we come back, and then we’ll be gone again after a while, leaving our families in deep sorrow. Once we become attached to someone, we are bound in the circle of life and death. When we come ...

(Chinese) It’s OK if we do not believe that person is Buddha, because it’s well enough if he has the method of Buddha. That means Buddha has taught the Dharma to us and guided us which way to choose and which way can bring us liberation. The world we live in is like a labyrinth with dead ends everywhere. There’s only one way out. If we do not know the way, we can never get out. A section in Surangama Sutra is about a meeting between 25 Bodhisattvas and Shakyamuni Buddha, in which they were talking ...

(Chinese) It’s better to be a horse in the western country, as the horse has horse rights. In some areas, humans don’t have human rights, but the horses have horse rights and dogs have dog rights. The westerners have more respect for animal rights. The western dogs sometimes live better lives than the humans. The dogs have passports and visas in case they need these things when they go abroad. They also have golden chains around their necks, with tags showing their photos, addresses, and names. So it’s not bad ...

(Chinese) It's difficult to communicate in this world even when we speak the same language. But in the Pureland or heavenly kingdom, we can understand each other even without speaking ; Supreme Master Ching Hai reveals that in the higher world, communication is just through radio waves. There's no need to distinguish between languages. It seems there's only one type of language in the whole world. So how should we communicate with the whole universe? Why do the scriptures say "Buddha speaks one single language ...

(Chinese) It is not easy to make progress in our spiritual practice without keeping the precepts strictly. How is our practice different from those that allow so-called freedom and do not demand people to keep precepts? Some people have inner visions while working. Should they pay attention to the vision or concentrate on the work? What is one-pointed concentration? After practicing spiritually, what will happen if we offer guests cigarette, alcohol or meat. If we hear someone talking in our meditation, ...

Falun Gong is a religious movement heavily persecuted in China. In 2017, members of the movement sued Cisco Systems for aiding and abetting the Chinese government in this persecution - since Cisco helped China erect 'Golden Shield'": the massive Chinese IT infrastructure project which combined internet censorship and pervasive Chinese state cyberspying. The post The Great Firewall of China, Pt. 2: Cisco’s Trial appeared first on Malicious Life.

Matthieu David interviews Steve Mushero, CTO of China MSP YunChang. The cloud internet service is fairly new to China and Steve Mushero’s company has been one of the pioneers on the Chinese market. In 2015 he managed to raise 9 million USD to fund his business, but how embracing is the Chinese market for this type of service? How easy is it to reach Chinese IT investors and what are the main differences between the internet cloud service market in China vs the West? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this new China Paradigm podcast. 0:15 Guest introduction 2:54 The niches that an internet cloud service company can take advantage of 6:07 Company size and a brief history of funding 7:29 Being part of the club - how hard was it to function on the Chinese market 9:58 How does YunChang cater to the international businesses that want to operate in China? 11:17 How does YunChang handle the competition? 12:58 Does YunChang provide client-tailored services? 14:14 Has the Coronavirus brought change to the time people spend online? 16:01 Has the market normalized yet? 16:53 What actions did YunChang take to cope with the lockdown period? 18:48 What are the main differences between China and the West regarding the way the IT industry functions? 26:37 Why is the software market so small in China? 33:27 How were the 9 million USD raised in 2015 by Steve Mushero used for? 35:37 The differences between financing an internet cloud service business in China vs the West 38:06 How easy is it to have access to investors in China? 41:37 What books have inspired Steve Mushero in building his business? 43:48 What book, publication or movie about China can Steve Mushero recommend? 47:04 What productivity tools does Steve Mushero like to use in China to run his business? 48:07 Should he have extra time, what other business would Steve Mushero pursue? 51:08 Is AI replacing the human workforce a worry? 54:03 What unexpected business success and failure has Steve Mushero witnessed in China? 56:33 A few details about Steve Mushero's blog Learn more about YunChang: https://www.yunchangcloud.com/ Going from digital agency to SaaS business in China with Daphne Tuijn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y61fV3Eo3T0 Listen & Subscribe: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/china-paradigms-daxue Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/china-paradigms/id1450916630 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/78qDpsYgQXWrkPpJyZJLtx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2y6ixpQB1WIs6GMdUeoq4g?view_as=subscriber Website: https://chinaparadigm.com/ Thanks for listening! If you like what you hear, do us a favor and write a review on iTunes. What is China Paradigms Podcast? China Paradigms is the China Business Podcast for entrepreneurs and China watchers. Learn from business professionals in China on our China Paradigms.

In the second instalment of the Konsto's Konvos podcast, we welcome, Kar Meng Lee.He is a Scots-born, Chinese IT guru who is currently plying his trade in the Czech Republic.In this episode, we discuss COVID-19, national identity and our time working at the Amazon photographic studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Emmanuel Straschnov. Emmanuel is the founder of Bubble.io, a company that empowers anyone to build software without code. On Bubble, people can start businesses and tech startups without engineering talent or knowing how to code and launch products and whole businesses in just the fraction of the time it used to take. In fact, many of the businesses created today like AirBnb or Twitter could be built with a solution like Bubble. It truly opens a whole new world for entrepreneurs. And thousands of products and companies have started using the platform worldwide. But Emmanuel didn’t start out to create a solution like Bubble. In fact, at 22, he was a waiter in a Chinese restaurant and went on to become a management consultant in China for a number of years. He and his partner bootstrapped Bubble over the last 7 years and only just recently took on venture backing. It’s the lessons learned in this journey that I’ve asked him to come on and share with you in this episode. www.Bubble.io contact@bubble.io Emmanuel is also very active on Twitter​ Emmanuel’s path was not a direct one. He grew up being fairly technical, but at 18 decided that he wanted to be in management and after college took a job with the French Government. After some time, he realized that if he didn’t go abroad early in his life, he would most likely never be able to, so he negotiated a 3 year delay in his start date as a government employee. He wen to China and did management consulting for 3 years. He did a lot of different projects and unique things. After 3 years, he decided to discover the U.S. and ended up going to Harvard for his MBA. It was during this time that he began to get more clear on what he would do with his life. He took an internship in the fashion industry with Prada. It was one of the best jobs he ever did. He decided to not go into government because it was too slow and to stay in the US and work in the corporate world. During this time, he started to get the entrepreneurial itch to build software. It was a passion for him as a kid and he re-discovered it. He dropped going into the corporate fashion world. He graduated Harvard without a job, but had a mission to become a software entrepreneur. He started networking across New York, Boston and other cities. During this time, he got connected with his now partner, Josh, who was working on a “no-code” development concept and as Emmanuel says, “Partnered up after the first coffee meeting.” They have built the company together ever since. Did your experience as a management consultant in China help prepare you to build Bubble? Yes, it taught him to deal with uncertain and ever-changing environments. His less technical background, but manager experience helped provide balance with his business partners skillset. Working in China taught him how to still thrive and contribute when he didn’t necessarily understand everything and it was useful for building Bubble as well. Did your experience being a waiter in China do anything to help you in your business? It was the most efficient way to learn Chinese It teaches you that you are not above any task. You have to learn and do everything. This helped him in business because he was not afraid to take on every aspect of the business and learn it and do it as they built the company. In fact, this lesson led to the policy at Bubble where all employees have to be on “success rotation” in customer service for 2 weeks. Tell us what you’ve learned about bootstrapping a company… There are tradeoffs. You go slower at first. You will be more customer centric because you don’t have investors to talk to, you only have your clients. It teaches you to be careful with cash. It forces you to have to generate real revenue so you can grow and hire, etc. What advice do you have on getting the first few customers? They focused on the non-technical tech savvy founder struggling to find engineers for their product. They found them in Meetups. They went to their first Meetup at NYU and started networking with founders. The in-person connection really made a difference in getting people to give them a chance. They were able to help people take an idea and turn it into reality. The first couple years was finding clients by word of mouth and used their feedback to build out the solution. Once they had gotten the product to a good place, they launched on Product Hunt and started getting new clients from the recognition. Best advice is to not try and get too many clients up front. Find 5 great clients that are willing to work with you and your initial, somewhat ugly solution and work with them to make it great. “If it is an idea where everybody says, “that’s great,” it’s probably not because most likely it would have already been done. But, if it is an idea where most people say, “That’s stupid or not going to work,” but about 5% of people are extremely excited about it and want it – then that is a good idea.” You recently took on a funding partner, tell us about it and the benefits so far… It was something that had to happen at some point. They needed to be able to balance growth while really building out and scaling the platform and it made sense to get capital to do so. The raise was just over $6 million. Half of it went to product/engineering. The rest is being used for marketing, etc. They chose a group that has a longer term view in how they operate. The benefit for them was to get in early. What makes a great business partnership? Emmanuel and Josh didn’t know each other. There was a good personality match. It is a relationship like a marriage. They are direct in their feedback. They are extremely complimentary from a skill set standpoint. It has allowed them to be extremely efficient. What advice would you give a new entrepreneur starting out today? Don’t let excuses stop you from getting started. Get clients as soon as possible on your MVP. But wait as long as possible before you make the “big splash” and launch in large way in the market. Get yourself in position for growth before you take on the growth.   Best Quote:  “If it is an idea where everybody says, “that’s great,” it’s probably not because most likely it would have already been done. But, if it is an idea where most people say, “That’s stupid or not going to work,” but about 5% of people are extremely excited about it and want it – then that is a good idea.”​   Emmanuel's Misfit 3: Use your college and school years to do things that you would never do once into a career, etc. Learn things that you don’t think will be relevant to what you expect to in your future work. You’ll be amazed at how useful these things can be. If you have the opportunity, spend a few months abroad once in your life. Go live somewhere else in the world for a few months. It will give you valuable perspective for your life. When it comes to facing a hard choice, ask yourself this question, “If you will be successful no matter which decision you make, which one will you choose?” That will give you your answer.   Show Sponsors: Mack Weldon:  www.MackWeldon.com promo code Misfit 5 Minute Journal: www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com/Journal

Why are you studying Chinese? It seems that everyone has a different reason, but your reason is critical to your success in learning Chinese. Jared and John discuss the importance of having a reason to learn Chinese and cultivating existing and new motivations. If you don’t have a reason to learn, you wont get far with the language.Guest interview is with Theresa Munford from the UK. She began learning Chinese shortly after the Cultural Revolution in an idealistic time. She provides a perspective that you are unlikely to find anywhere else. As you listen, you’ll be taken back to another time and place where China was waking up to the rest of the world.Thanks for listening to our podcast! Please write us a review on Apple Podcasts and we’ll give you a shout out on the podcast! We are also taking questions from our listeners. If you have a question, reach us at feedback@mandarincompanion.com.Follow us on Facebook and catch our latest Chinese learning memes on InstagramLinks referenced in this Episode.Episode #3 With John’s Story of Learning ChineseJared's Cinnamon Roll bakery in Shanghai - CinnaSwirlEpisode #15 Interview with Steven KaufmannRecycling and Garbage Separation PropagandaLearn and write Chinese characters “葡萄” Grape pinyin and strokes with relaxing musicChina’s Cultural Revolution“Chinese Through Poetry” by Archie BarnesMandarin Companion Memes - Instagram

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Gareth Mitchell talks to Gillian Foulger of Durham University about HiQuake, the world's largest database of human-induced earthquakes. Professor Foulger and her colleagues have so far compiled close to 750 seismic events for which there are reasonable cases to be made for anthropogenic triggers. Triggers include mining operations, fossil fuel extraction, reservoir filling, skyscraper construction and tunnelling. Among the surprises is the fact that the US state of Oklahoma is more seismically active than California because of quakes and tremors set off by the local oil and gas industry. The theory of plate tectonics is 50 years old. It's as fundamental to understanding the Earth as evolution by natural selection is to understanding life. Roland Pease meets geologists such as Dan McKenzie, John Dewey and Xavier Le Pichon who played key roles in proving the hypothesis in the late 1960s. The United States has removed more than half of its diplomats from its embassy in Havana, Cuba. A signficant number of staff have complained of ailments such as hearing loss, dizziness, headaches and nausea, and there has been speculation that some kind of sonic or acoustic weapon might be responsible. Trevor Cox, professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford, discusses the likelihood with Gareth. Stanford University's Tom Mullaney is the author of 'The Chinese Typewriter: A History'. He talks to Gareth about the great engineering and linguistic challenge in the 19th and 20th centuries of getting the Chinese language onto a table top machine. The survival of the ancient language or China's entry into the modern world depended on the success of numerous inventors. In fact one consequence was the development of predictive text in the Chinese IT world long before it appeared in the West. Note: In the podcast version of this programme, there is an additional item on new research on the role of the world's botanical gardens in global plant conservation. One of the scientists involved, Dr Paul Smith of Botanical Gardens Conservation International, tells Gareth that there's good news about these institutions' contributions and there are areas where there is room for improvement. Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker

完整文稿请登陆以下网址： http://english.cri.cn/7146/2014/04/14/2582s821859.htm Microsoft has stopped providing technical assistance for Windows XP, a major operating system for Chinese computer users. The move has opened up opportunities for China's IT companies. Since April 8, technical assistance for Windows XP has no longer been available from Microsoft and the company has stopped providing security updates. Microsoft says computers can still run XP but it will become more insecure and prone to viruses. The company advised users to upgrade to Windows 8.1 and get a new PC if necessary. China has about 200 million XP users which account for 70 percent of the entire PC market, and the majority has no plans to switch. According to an online survey, many users think updating the system is too expensive. The price of Windows 8 is almost 1,000 yuan, or about 160 U.S. dollars, and to run the system, one would need to buy a new computer. To protect the 13-year-old operating system and help users continue to use it, Chinese security providers have released specialized XP-protection products. Microsoft China, Tencent and Lenovo jointly launched a Windows XP user support plan last month for security and anti-virus services in China. A group of other Chinese IT companies have joined in the plan and will provide defense solutions for XP users until they upgrade their systems. They will keep "building a hedge" for a transition period expected to last two to three years or even longer. This is NEWS Plus Special English. Global warming makes feeding the world harder and more expensive. That was according to a United Nations scientific panel. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change says a warmer world will push food prices higher and trigger "hotspots of hunger" in the world's poorest regions. The panel says the world is facing the specter of reduced yields in some of the key crops that feed humanity. Even though heat and carbon dioxide are often considered good for plants, the overall effect of various aspects of man-made warming is that it will reduce food production compared to a world without global warming. The last time the panel reported on the effects of warming was in 2007. It said it was too early to tell whether climate change would increase or decrease food production. But in the past several years, scientists have been overwhelming in showing that climate change hurts food production. But experts say this doesn't mean in 50 years there will be less food grown. Thanks to improved agricultural techniques, crop production is growing about 10 percent per decade, while climate change is likely to reduce yields by 1 percent a decade. So crop production will still go up, but not as fast. You're listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Yun Feng in Beijing. Tourist attractions across Shanghai reported record visitor numbers over the three-day Qingming Festival holiday as locals took advantage of the warm weather to have fun in the sun. It is a tradition for families to enjoy a spring outing, or ta qing, after paying their respects to their ancestors on tomb-sweeping day. At Shanghai Wildlife Park in the Pudong New Area, the number of visitors in the three day holiday rose 350 percent from last year, to 80,000. It was a similar story at Dongping Forest Park in Chongming Island, where visitor numbers doubled to reach almost 30,000. Likewise, Jinjiang Amusement Park, Happy Valley, Century Park and Shanghai World Financial Center all reported 100 percent increases in visitor numbers. Attractions with a floral theme also drew the crowds, with the Shanghai Peach Blossom Festival, Cherry Blossom Festival and Rape Flower Festival reporting a combined 570,000 visitors. This is NEWS Plus Special English. In a related development, Qingming Festival is also celebrated by various ethnic groups in China. And different groups have different traditions to honor their ancestors. Early in the morning, the Gelao ethnic group in Guizhou Province, southwest China, began their annual sacrificial ceremony. First, the host serves up sacrificial offerings including grains, fruit and home-made fabrics. Then there comes the showcase of folk dance accompanied by the group's traditional music. Thousands of tourists witnessed the ceremony, which is held near the mountain where the god was born. The local people hold this sacrificial ceremony there every year, praying for god's blessings of health and fortune. Qingming Festival is also a time to get close to nature. In Longli County, people of the Buyi ethnic group go to pick a kind of wild herb to make offerings to their ancestors. The herb is very rare and can only be found around the festival. The offering is made from the herb mixed with sticky rice flour. The local people offer the food to their ancestors in a simple ritual held at home. After that, the tasty dish is shared by the family. Qingming Festival is celebrated by many ethnic groups across the country, but in very different ways.