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WeChat (Weixin) is a Chinese super-app from Tencent combining messaging, social networking, payments, and mini-programs, used by over a billion people.
SUD open-sourced COCOS 4 under MIT on January 5, 2026, but its WeChat mini-game support is still rolling out in stages. A developer with a Cocos Creator 3.8 game in production wrote that 3.8 is the stable path for anything already shipping to WeChat.
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Nature found more than 30 academic press releases celebrating honours from sham societies that used scientists' names without consent. Several academies the societies named as partners told Nature they knew of no such ties, a check universities could have made before announcing anything.
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Calif's WeWorm abused a memory corruption bug in WeChat's VoIP stack to take over accounts on an iPhone 17e and two Pixel 10a handsets, and Tencent blocked it server-side on 28 August without publishing an advisory or a CVE.
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Documented, El Timpano and Conecta Arizona reach immigrants over WhatsApp, WeChat, TikTok and SMS. Conecta Arizona's founder says members now avoid the group chat and write to staff privately, one reader at a time.
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Liu Shengyu, who helped write a component of DeepSeek's latest model, wrote that AI-written operators will probably be as good as his own or better. He expects to keep his job and to lose the hands-on part of it.
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The Supreme People's Court says an AI double made or shared without the subject's agreement is an infringement, and providers share the liability once they have been notified. Likeness clearance becomes a budget line, not a lawsuit.
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Mainland usage of OpenClaw runs at nearly twice America's, on SecurityScorecard's count. The state has tallied almost 23,000 exposed installs without publishing the base that would make that a rate.
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The technique is 60 years old, the drainage rationale is plausible, and the evidence at the point of mass adoption was footage of a single patient. Controlled trials are only starting now.
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