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Chinese Phones Should Be Thrown Away Due to Censorship Concerns, Lithuania Defence Ministry Says

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Chinese Phones Should Be Thrown Away Due to Censorship Concerns, Lithuania Defence Ministry Says

Lithuania’s Ministry of Defense advised consumers to avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found that the devices had built – in censorship features.

Flagship phones sold in Europe by China’s smartphone giant Xiaomi have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as “Free Tibet”, “Taiwan is living independence” or “democracy movement”, Lithuania’s state cyber security body said on Tuesday.

The feature in Xiaomi’s Mi 10T 5G phone software had been turned off for the “EU region”, but can be turned on remotely at any time, the Ministry of Defense’s National Cyber ​​Security Center said in the report.

“Our recommendation is not to buy new Chinese phones and get rid of those already purchased as soon as reasonably possible,” Defense Minister Margiris Abukevicius told reporters as he introduced the report.

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Xiaomi did not respond to a request for comment from Reuters.

Relations between Lithuania and China have become sour recently. China last month demanded that Lithuania withdraw its ambassador to Beijing and said it would withdraw its envoy to Vilnius after Taiwan announced that its mission in Lithuania would be called the Taiwan Representation Office.

Taiwanese missions in Europe and the United States use the name of the city of Taipei and avoid a reference to the island itself, which China claims as its own territory. US President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan spoke with Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte last week and underlined support for his country in the face of pressure from China.

The National Cyber ​​Center report also said that the Xiaomi phone sent encrypted phone usage data to a server in Singapore. A security flaw was also found in the P40 5G phone by China’s Huawei, but no one was found in the phone from another Chinese manufacturer, OnePlus, it says. Huawei’s representative in the Baltics told the BNS news cable that its phones do not send the user’s data remotely.

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The report said that the list of terms that could be censored by the Xiaomi phone’s system apps, including the default web browser, currently contains 449 terms in Chinese and is constantly being updated.

“This is important not only for Lithuania, but for all countries that use Xiaomi equipment,” the center said in the report.

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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