Zhipu's ZCode Uploaded Entire Workspaces to Alibaba Cloud OSS, Company Apologizes

Key Takeaways

1. Zhipu's AI coding tool ZCode was found uploading entire workspaces, including Git history and unpushed branches, to Alibaba Cloud OSS; Zhipu apologized and said the Repo Wiki feature was on by default at launch.
2. Claude Code 2.1.277 now falls back to AGENTS.md when no CLAUDE.md is present, with a toggle in /config.
3. A Mac cleanup project used an AI agent to process 300+ apps, producing 13 reusable rule categories, 90+ precise cleanup paths, and 100+ unit tests.
4. A data-driven comparison found at least 14 episodes of a Chinese podcast with over 20% similarity to other podcasts.
5. China's cyberspace regulator ordered platforms to scrub negative corporate information, including content contradicting official company statements.
6. A former Asahi Kasei employee is accused of leaking semiconductor packaging material secrets to a Chinese company.
7. A Chinese student was sentenced to 15 years in Switzerland for multiple attempted murders.

1. AI Tools and Developer Infrastructure

1. Zhipu's AI coding tool ZCode was reported by developer ferstar to package and encrypt an entire workspace in the background and upload it to Alibaba Cloud OSS after login, potentially including full Git history, LFS cache, reflog, unpushed branches, and project configuration. Zhipu issued an apology the same day, acknowledging that the Repo Wiki feature could trigger repository data uploads and that the feature was enabled by default when it launched. A post titled "ZCode silently uploads code, domestic tools are not trustworthy either" was reportedly removed after an infringement complaint filed by "Meizhou Fangxiang Public Relations Consulting Co., Ltd." — via 1
2. Arvid Kahl compared Claude Code's new AGENTS.md support to a patch like "SaaS now collects sales tax": starting with Claude Code 2.1.277, if no CLAUDE.md exists in a folder, the tool checks for and uses AGENTS.md, and the behavior can be toggled in /config. — via 1
3. Tw93 described using an AI agent with an "Extra High Fast" model and computer use to process over 300 Mac applications in 30 groups, downloading about 100 GB, to improve Mole's uninstall and residual cleanup capabilities. The agent automatically handled official site downloads, installation, directory checks, bundle updates, startup item checks, uninstallation, and residual detection, while some apps required manual assistance due to frequent permission popups, purchase prompts, or admin password requests. The effort produced 13 categories of reusable general rules, over 90 precise cleanup paths, corrections to more than 30 items that should not be modified, software update and startup check rules, and over 100 unit tests. The author estimated manual work would take 10 times longer and said Mole's advantage is cleaning more hidden junk, uninstalling more thoroughly, and being safer. — via 1
4. A Douban user spent about three weeks downloading recordings of the podcast "独树不成林," collecting 25 overseas podcast sources and over 7,000 episodes, and using speech-to-text, embedding similarity, and manual review to compare content. The user found at least 14 episodes with over 20% highly similar content to other podcasts, with episode 310 allegedly about half similar to the English podcast "Breaking History." Similarity above 20% mainly appeared as direct translation or large-scale paraphrasing, while 10% to 20% similarity appeared more as similar structure and core arguments. — via 1

2. Policy, Corporate, and Legal Developments

1. China's Cyberspace Administration issued a notice citing "optimizing the business online environment," requiring platforms to proactively clean up "aggregated and rehashed old corporate news and negative information" and to classify information contradicting public statements by companies or entrepreneurs on super-platform official accounts as "false and misleading." The notice also covers "mocking or vilifying corporate logos, products, and entrepreneur portraits" and using stigmatizing terms to disparage users of specific brands, requiring pre-review, in-process inspection, and post-handling of corporate-related information, with fast and strict handling of relevant accounts and MCN agencies. — via 1
2. Asahi Kasei announced on September 17 that former employee Shoichi Furukawa, 66, who had served as a factory manager and development lead in its electronic materials business, is suspected of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Act by leaking semiconductor packaging material manufacturing secrets to Chinese company Shandong Shengquan New Materials. Asahi Kasei said it plans to sue both Furukawa and Shandong Shengquan, demanding they stop using and destroy the materials. Police suspect Furukawa took manufacturing data for the epoxy resin curing agent "Novacure" when he left in 2018 and sent it to Shandong Shengquan personnel by email in September 2024. — via 1
3. The Zurich District Court found a Chinese student guilty of multiple counts of attempted murder and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, determining he had full criminal responsibility. The investigation showed he had systematically planned the attack for nearly two months, searching online for consequences of the act, studying anatomy, and practicing with a knife; on the day of the attack he watched nationalist videos, posted extremist content, and then went out to carry out the attack. — via 1
4. Reuters cited anonymous sources saying Beijing proposed a "US-China CEO roundtable" during Xi Jinping's visit to the US, but the White House rejected it; two other sources said accompanying Chinese executives are still expected to attend the White House state dinner but are not expected to meet with US think tanks or business groups. The rejection has not been publicly confirmed by the White House, which did not respond to Reuters, and China's Foreign Ministry said it had no information. Bloomberg reported the White House released Xi's itinerary: arriving in the Washington area on September 23, meeting Trump and attending the state dinner on September 24, and visiting the National Archives with Trump and Peng Liyuan on September 25 to see the originals of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights before departing after tea. — via 1 2
5. The Wall Street Journal cited people familiar with the matter saying Xi Jinping canceled his attendance at the September 12 BRICS summit dinner in New Delhi at the last minute due to feeling unwell, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi attending instead; Beijing did not explain the absence and the Chinese Embassy in the US did not respond to questions. The report noted that Xi has not clearly designated a successor since the 2018 removal of presidential term limits, and the absence again raised attention to his health and future power transition, while emphasizing there is no evidence he is seriously ill, had a stroke, or fainted. — via 1

3. Platform Economy and Consumer Issues

1. Beijing's Market Supervision Administration announced investigations into four online hotel and travel booking platforms—Feizhu, Tongcheng, Tujia, and Meituan—for suspected illegal activities. The China Hotel Association said the same day that some platforms raise hidden costs for merchants through high commissions, forced bundling, opaque data, and low-price traffic diversion, and called for public disclosure of rules on search ranking, traffic allocation, and commission rates. — via 1
2. Ahead of the National Day holiday, some high-speed rail and bullet train discounts narrowed, with actual ticket prices rising by tens of yuan; 12306 customer service said daily ticket prices have discounts and holiday fluctuations are normal. Commenters said things like "we don't call it holiday price increases, we call it regular discounts" and "even if prices rise, you still can't buy tickets," with one留言 saying "I won't spend a penny on any adjusted holiday. Refuse to consume, starting with me." — via 1
3. On September 19, "调休 不是让人休息是拉动消费" topped Weibo's hot search, with a user complaining that adjusted holidays move existing weekends to form long breaks, disrupt rest rhythms with make-up workdays, and bring higher flight and hotel prices due to concentrated travel. Another blogger said "they want you to create GDP, and they want you to spend the money you earn, but they don't want to give you more days off," arguing that unfulfilled double weekends and paid leave combined with adjusted holidays make people more exhausted. Weibo's "智搜回答" called this a "precise summary" of the golden week system's goals. On September 20, "调休 抵制消费" reached fourth on Weibo's social ranking before the topic was blocked, showing "according to relevant laws, regulations, and policies, this topic's content is not displayed." — via 1 2
4. Huang Yiping, a member of the People's Bank of China's Monetary Policy Committee, warned at an economic forum in Beijing that AI may further aggravate China's "strong supply, weak demand" contradiction: production capacity keeps rising, but household income and purchasing power may not keep up. According to Sina Finance's on-site transcript, he cited Engels' observations of workers during the Industrial Revolution, noting that despite large productivity gains, workers' incomes and living conditions did not improve in tandem, and "distribution favors capital, not labor." Reuters reported he suggested advancing market-oriented reforms, raising household income's share of the economy, and having the central government borrow more to help local governments, financial institutions, and enterprises repair their balance sheets. — via 1
5. On September 18, a chemistry PhD posted a video questioning how illegal vendors could obtain controlled sulfur for food processing in the Guangdong Qingyuan "sulfur-fumigated bamboo shoots" case, and suggested authorities also test for arsenic in the bamboo shoots beyond sulfur dioxide residue. He said he needs to take sulfur from an explosion-proof cabinet in the lab and worried that if the workshops used industrial sulfur containing arsenic and other impurities, it could bring other contamination risks. On September 19, "渔猎齐哥" posted a follow-up saying that with coordination among Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong police, a large truck full of sulfur was intercepted in Chenzhou, Hunan; two processing sites in Qingyuan were handled and relevant people controlled, and authorities are investigating the bamboo shoots and tracing their flow. He opened a large bag of shredded bamboo shoots, saying they were abnormally white and had a strong irritating odor, with video subtitles saying such products are cheap and "used more in large canteens." — via 1 2
6. On September 19, CCTV's "看丹观察" video commentary criticized regulators for being slow: from "cabbage dipped in formaldehyde" to "sulfur-fumigated bamboo shoots," why do media and bloggers find these cases while frontline regulators always react "half a beat late"? Commenters said "civilian supervisors" are gradually replacing "investigative journalists." — via 1

4. Society and Labor

1. On September 17, the Huai'an Justice Bureau released results of its 2027 municipal government rulemaking suggestion collection: of 150 public suggestions received, 148 involved animal protection, accounting for 98.7%, including anti-cruelty and anti-killing measures and stray dog and cat management. Supporters of "Wangwang" had previously launched initiatives to submit animal protection legislative suggestions to multiple places. The Huai'an Justice Bureau said it will work with relevant departments to conduct demonstration and evaluation. On September 19, a user posted that people in their small county were also speaking up for Wangwang, and commenters shared car stickers, including a dark blue car with a Wangwang high-five image and "Remember Wangwang," and another with a dog image and "If you don't love, don't hurt" and "Be kind to every life." — via 1 2
2. On September 16, volunteers in Dezhou, Shandong, organized a march in support of "Wangwang," with participants wearing fluorescent reflective vests and holding signs with dog photos at night, the video cover reading "We are in Dezhou, speaking up for stray dogs." — via 1
3. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1
4. On September 20, anti-trafficking volunteer Shangguan Zhengyi posted that near Shiti Village in Xixia County, Nanyang, Henan, an unidentified woman who cannot speak had been doing hard labor at a ton-bag site for years, with "hands already deformed." Local authorities had rescued the woman about a month before the post, but her relatives have not been found; the rescue station said she "arrived at this household in her teens." He asked whether her labor compensation had been resolved and called on Nanyang authorities to help find her family and protect her legal rights. On September 19, Shangguan Zhengyi also posted about a woman in Xiwangzhuang Village, Yeyi Town, Yexian County, Pingdingshan, Henan, who was reportedly brought from Hainan to be a wife at about 17; the man's stated birth year differs from her household registration by 11 years. He said the woman has intellectual disabilities, is about 40, lives with a man about 60, and the man said she was born in 1988 but her registration says 1977, calling on Yexian authorities to verify. — via 1 2
5. On September 20, Shangguan Zhengyi posted that his Douyin video exposing disabled people doing hard labor without pay at a cattle farm in Huguan County, Changzhi, Shanxi, had been restricted to self-only visibility, with a violation notice citing "content unsuitable for display." He asked "Who is blocking the search for truth? Can blocking videos stop the truth?" and asked whether the person had found relatives and received labor compensation, and why local authorities had not discovered it despite a national special campaign since last year. He also said there are similar situations elsewhere in Changzhi and called on local authorities to investigate. — via 1
6. On September 18, Shandong petitioner Zhao Xigao died; his family complained that he was sentenced to prison while seeking enforcement of a court judgment and that his legs were severely ulcerated and blackened in prison. According to the material, Zhao, nearly 80, won a lawsuit but could not get the enforcement payment for a long time and repeatedly went to courts and procuratorates to demand enforcement. He was arrested on December 5, 2025, and sentenced by Wenshang County People's Court on January 4, 2026, to one year and six months for "disturbing the work order of state organs," then sent to Liaocheng Prison. Due to a disease covered by Article 19 of the "Scope of Serious Diseases for Medical Parole," he was approved for temporary execution outside prison starting May 14, 2026, and a person familiar with the matter said he died on August 1, 2026. His family said his legs were fine before prison and became like that after six months, questioning abuse or neglect; the person also alleged he was given unknown drugs, and the specific medication situation and whether there was abuse or delayed treatment remain to be investigated. — via 1
7. On September 16, a video exposed a bridge-bottom space near Xingfucheng in Longhua, Shenzhen, sealed with dense iron fences and water barriers. The videographer said the bridge hole used to shelter homeless people at night and is now tightly blocked purely to drive them away, lamenting "now if you're homeless in a big city, you don't even have a place to shelter from wind and rain; if you don't work hard, you won't even have a place to sleep under a bridge." Commenters wrote "no homeless people allowed," "Chinese slaves of suffering," "finding every way to make life hard for the bottom," and "not even qualified to be homeless." — via 1
8. On September 18, during a special electric bike governance campaign in Changsha, Hunan, a user posted a video saying traffic police were still stopping electric bikes on the road at 4 a.m. The penalty decision showed a 20 yuan fine for "not wearing a safety helmet as required." Commenters sarcastically said "it looks like a 1990s scene of hunting down armed robbers," "they worry so much for the people," and "if only food safety were checked like this." — via 1
9. On September 18, at a commercial plaza in Qiantang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, several wheelchair-using disabled people clashed with security guards and local police during a street performance; video showed chaotic chasing during negotiations, with someone throwing white powder and a large crowd gathering. — via 1
10. On September 18, a 28-year-old netizen with a stable job and income posted that they planned to go to Hong Kong to buy a camera, but when applying for a Hong Kong and Macau travel permit in another city, their household-registration police station called their parents and even relatives to verify and ask questions. The netizen added in comments that the calls were from the household police station, asking whether parents knew and agreed to the trip; police explained it was out of "worry for safety," but the author, as a person with full civil capacity, found it hard to understand why their private itinerary was made known to relatives. — via 1
11. On September 19, students at Wancheng Primary School in Wanning, Hainan, collectively demonstrated standardized "five classroom routines" to "leaders and teachers." The video sparked heated discussion online, with many commenters joking "can't hold it in," "scared to tears," "how did they make it so uniform," "obedience," and "mass-produced robots." The video has been taken down. — via 1
12. On September 15, Guangming Daily published "Mourning Culture Merchandise Should Not Be Sold to Minors," criticizing merchandise printed with phrases like "May heaven have no KPI" and "I really want to die at my desk," saying minors immersed in a mourning culture environment may experience "consciousness and behavioral variation" and calling on regulators and society to resist the "attack" of mourning culture. Commenters said "reverse causation, demand creates the market" and "why mourning culture arises and why it is so popular is what should be considered." — via 1
13. On September 19, Chinese writer Lian Yue published an article on WeChat saying "Singapore today is a despicable country," attacking Lianhe Zaobao's wording in a report that mentioned the second anniversary of the Shenzhen Japanese boy attack alongside the September 18 Incident, calling it "despicable and immoral" and expanding the attack to Singapore as a whole, calling it a "country as small as a booger" and saying Singapore "offends its superiors" on China-US and Taiwan Strait issues, threatening that "hugging China tightly" is the only way out or it will "seek its own death." The article received over 100,000 reads and many donations. The material said Lian Yue lives in Japan and has been teased online for having a Japan IP while being pro-China and doing "patriotic business." — via 1
14. On September 18, Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao posted on X that the day was the anniversary of the September 18 Incident and also the second anniversary of the death of a Japanese boy attacked in Shenzhen, and that Japanese in China still feel lingering fear. Some patriotic influencers then criticized it for mentioning both events together, and the topic "Lianhe Zaobao September 18 association sparks anger" entered Weibo's top 18 and social top 8 with over 10 million reads; later users found the article on the newspaper's website and the X post had both been deleted. — via 1
15. On September 17, at 2 a.m., a delivery rider in Jiangsu found another rider asleep at a traffic light intersection; commenters said several people around them had fallen asleep on electric bikes and broken ribs. Another older female delivery worker shared her day: her last order was at 11:50 p.m., and combined income from two platforms was 197 yuan. — via 1 2
16. On September 16, a netizen shared a chat screenshot applying for a nurse job: a BOSS Zhipin recruiter said the position was 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., one day off per week, probation monthly salary 5,000 yuan, currently no five insurances, no holidays off, yet called it "relatively humane," explaining social insurance was not set up because it is a "new clinic" and "we are a private clinic." Commenters described being asked to cook for doctors, buy groceries, and clean at other clinics, or working 13 hours a day, two days off a month, no five insurances, and a base salary of 2,000 plus 500 performance. — via 1
17. On September 18, employees of Shandong Xinfa Like Supply Chain Management Co. hung banners in front of the company demanding unpaid wages; commenters sarcastically said "careful they sue you for malicious wage demands," "why not report to authorities," and "hanging banners is illegal." The same day, employees of Guangdong Dongguan Shengkai Animation Technology Co. gathered on a rooftop demanding wages, reportedly owed from May to September with the person in charge unreachable; firefighters had laid rescue air cushions. — via 1 2
18. Late on September 19, residents of Poly Aiyue Town and surrounding areas in Zhaoqing High-tech Zone, Guangdong, spontaneously gathered in front of Zhaoqing Juyuan Biochemical Co. and Zhaoqing Changlong Biotechnology Co. to protest long-term chemical plant exhaust pollution affecting over 4,000 households, forcing them to keep windows closed at night; many suffered nasal congestion and breathing difficulty, with severe cases triggering asthma. They demanded investigation of suspected "secret dumping"; local environmental and police authorities responded but have not announced results. — via 1
19. On September 18, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice citing "optimizing the business online environment," requiring platforms to proactively clean up "aggregated and rehashed old corporate news and negative information" and to classify information contradicting public statements by companies or entrepreneurs on super-platform official accounts as "false and misleading." The notice also covers "mocking or vilifying corporate logos, products, and entrepreneur portraits" and using stigmatizing terms to disparage users of specific brands, requiring pre-review, in-process inspection, and post-handling of corporate-related information, with fast and strict handling of relevant accounts and MCN agencies. — via 1
20. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1
21. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1
22. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1
23. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1
24. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1
25. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1
26. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1
27. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1
28. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1
29. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1
30. On September 18, the fourth anniversary of the Guizhou quarantine transport bus accident, a user shared a photo of a community bulletin board with handwritten slogans reading "If it's not me, then next time it will be me," alongside multiple white papers listing the bus rollover, fires, and months without income to afford food, repeatedly writing "it's me," and two other papers reading "Mourn the victims of the 11·24 Urumqi fire" and "Rather pain than numbness." — via 1