For more than a year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has repeated the party line about covert smuggling of his highly coveted premium chips: There’s no evidence Nvidia AI chips are being diverted to China, Huang has asserted. But now two bombshell scandals, both allegedly running through Southeast Asia, have blasted a data-center sized hole through
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Guatemalan man extradited to the U.S. over his role in a 2022 human smuggling attempt that ended in the deaths of 53 migrants who had been transported in a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas. U.S. and Guatemalan prosecutors called Rigoberto Ramon Miranda Orozco’s sentencing another step toward justice in
Super Micro Computer, the troubled hardware ally of Nvidia and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has finally hired a new head of finance. The appointment comes nearly two years after a board-level independent investigation led the company to commit to “immediately” begin searching for a replacement for longtime chief financial officer David Weigand. Mark Long, 59, replaced
Super Micro Computer said on Thursday that an independent investigation led by its board found no evidence that current members of senior management knew about an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5 billion in hardware packed with Nvidia chips to China. The announcement was meant to clear the air for investors after a shaky five months
One of the largest criminal networks smuggling drugs and people in the western Mediterranean has been dismantled, authorities have said. Europol said 78 people were arrested in Spain and Algeria in a bust of the network, that is also linked to other criminal activities including “violent robberies, extortion, illegal detentions, and money laundering”. The group
Two scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, have been charged in connection with biological material they brought into the United States from abroad.Credit: PBH/Alamy Images Two virologists at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) face charges related to the alleged smuggling of non-infectious monkeypox virus (MPXV) and other biological samples into the
