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China's top e-tailers laying off staff

kk131 — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:21:23 +0800

China's top e-tailer sends sacked staff a 'graduation certificate'

China's big tech companies are making deep job cuts, and at least one is framing them as "graduation" from the company.

Reports of the job cuts have circulated for weeks, with Alibaba reportedly offloading more than 40,000 workers, and Tencent potentially losing around a tenth of its headcount. Ride-sharing company DiDi has also cut staff loose, as has ByteDance. None have addressed the matter in public.

Some of the job losses were made in response to Chinese regulations that have curtailed web giants' activities. Beijing's ban on online tutoring colleges has wiped out business units at big tech firms and plenty of small companies alike.

Some job cuts have been in poorly performing business units, while others have been done to cut costs.

E-tail giant JD.com has reportedly used all of the above rationales for its job cuts, which appear to have been detailed in an internal spreadsheet that leaked to Chinese media. The document details closures of some operations, and deep cuts among technology teams.

JD's letter to its redundant staff has gone viral on Chinese social media because it frames the job losses as a "graduation" from the company on grounds that staff may have been axed but got quite an education while on the books at the e-tail giant. Video sharing site Bilibili has used similar language in its letter to soon-to-be-former staff. We've heard of employees being upgraded, or downgraded, to customers as a euphemism, but this takes the cake.

Chinese journalist Zichen Wang shared the Bilibili and JD letters on Twitter.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/29/chin...keepreading-top

Asus RT-AC58U CVE-2018-18287 Hacking

kk131 — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 09:40:41 +0800

If you're running a RT-AC58U with old firmware, you may have been hacked and your details up for sale.

The White Ops Threat Intelligence team received a tip via Twitter user @Bad_Packet’s honeypot system about mass scanning for vulnerability CVE-2018-18287. From this tip, we found evidence of at least 50K, and possibly as many as 120K, hacked routers worldwide.

WhiteOps website

Forbes article based on above

10.1'' Capacitve Touch Screen Panel 10E06-FPCA-1 F

kk131 — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:43:11 +0800

Item(s): Capacitve Touch Screen Panel 10E06-FPCA-1 F for Pipo W3 tablet

Package includes: Capacitve Touch Screen Panel

Price: RM130

Warranty: 7 days

Dealing method: COD

Location: Sungai Buloh

Contact method/details: PM
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Item(s) conditions: New with protective covering

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Reason for sale: Surplus item

[wtb] 2nd hand Samsung Note 5

kk131 — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:45:27 +0800

Looking for 2nd hand Note 5 - colour gold platinum 32 GB

Please offer good price.