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They say courage is contagious. So is resentment, anger, and bitterness.
Choose your crowd wisely.
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"Palermo was seen skipping and smiling while holding a giant bag of cash as he left Moscow"
Swiss reporter Thomas Renggli writes that Italian lawyer Giulio Palermo, who chaired the CAS panel which allowed the return of Russia to IIHF hockey, had appeared as a speaker at an arbitration conference in Moscow a few weeks earlier. CAS knew nothing about its own judge's trip. It raises the question about the integrity of the CAS panel and its decision.
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Gloucester, where he lives, is close to the UK's GCHQ, where the US Army embeds a SIGINT liaison detachment. Also NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. (Map by @UkDeclassified)
A 41-year-old United States Army soldier was arrested in the United Kingdom on Tuesday on suspicion of espionage related to Russia, according to London’s Metropolitan Police. cnn.com/2026/11/10/uk/us-arm…
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UAE signs a new $100k/month lobbying contract to, in part, defend itself against allegations that it supports the RSF in Sudan and block a discussed ban on weapons sales to UAE that the new Democrat-controlled Congress is likely to pursue. the-darkbox.com/abu-dhabi-bu…
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Trump had been twice warned about Jensen Huang’s suspected spy lover before the president opted to bring the Nvidia CEO with him to China last May. One of the warnings was aboard Air Force One on the way to pick Huang up. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Commerce hasn’t added a single company to the Entity List in over a year.
That’s the longest stretch without using the trade blacklist in nearly two decades, possibly longer.
It’s not just Megaspeed. It’s a complete shutdown of all regular business. The lights are functionally off at BIS.
Wow, the Commerce Dept still hasn't banned the company tied to the suspected Chinese spy from buying advanced AI chips.
Before this was a news story, I guess there's some argument for not tipping anyone off by blocking the company, but not doing it now?
Nvidia also says it stopped selling to the company for over a year, but Megaspeed is STILL listed as an Nvidia Cloud Partner.
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SCOOP: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was sent a highly classified memo warning about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang.
Lutnick oversees the agency charged with keeping sensitive U.S. technology out of the hands of American adversaries. The warning raises questions about how the department weighed potential security risks as it cleared advanced Nvidia chip sales to China-affiliated entities.
W/@MarcACaputo
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.@ChrisRMcGuire on China Talk.
"the big question for Congress and for the administration is: how could the Commerce Department have known about this? Have known that Mega Speed is being run by Chinese spies and not done anything to stop the export of chips to them? $4.8 billion worth of chips, and they were sitting on information that said they're being run by Chinese spies, and those spies are actively trying to to penetrate Nvidia at the highest levels. It is baffling to me how they could have sat on that and done nothing..."
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Great advice here for corporates from @isaacstonefish:
Compliance tips from the disastrous Nvidia scandal, from someone who specializes in China risk:
--This was an open secret in the China watching community for months before it broke into the public. Make sure that you're conducting highly sensitive internal investigations beforehand, so that if something like this breaks publicly, you're prepared. In other words, no one in Nvidia senior leadership or its board should have been surprised by this, and they should have a plan in place.
--When you're quantifying the risks of China exposure, remember that Chinese journalists are usually Chinese state employees, and should be treated as such. Alice Huang was a former Chinese TV journalist, which doesn't mean that she was an independent reporter from a business-minded TV station, but rather that she was a former government employee.
--More broadly, make sure you understand what your company's China exposure. It's essential that the board and the Chief Risk Officer or Chief Legal Officer understand and own these issues, so that they can make high-level, painful decisions in scandals like these.
--Usually with issues like this, there's more than one major scandal, and, when one breaks publicly, enterprising journalists and Congressional committees will look to find the others. This is an excellent time to make sure you know what those may be, so you're not caught surprised.
--Counter-intuitively, Beijing usually dislikes when American companies receive massive press attention for being too pro-China. It wants the mechanics -- around honey trapping and influence campaigns -- to stay in the shadows So far, Beijing has denied the allegations and claimed that this is a smear campaign against China. Nvidia needs to have a deep understanding of what it's China exposure is and price out the risk of offending the US versus offending China.
--For companies in the same space that aren't Nvidia: when a scandal like this breaks, journalists hunt around for trend stories. Great time to ensure that your CEO or board member isn't part of that trend. It's too early to tell if there will be several other companies who face intense scrutiny as part of this for their China exposure, or other Fortune 500 CEOs whose honeytrapping becomes public, but this is an excellent time to make sure you stay ahead of the media on this one.
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This story was (and is) completely insane and Bloomberg did incredible work showing how brazen Megaspeed's Chinese smuggling operation is, not to mention that Alibaba is both their largest customer *and loaned them money to buy GPUs from NVIDIA*, which is how Alice met Jensen.
New: Nvidia’s biggest Southeast Asian partner imported tens of thousands more AI chips than Nvidia saw in its data centers, told potential investors about a “specific area” facility in an unnamed country — & has something of a Chinese corporate twin
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“2 people who know Alice say while involved with Litong she helped move about 240,000 export-restricted chips into China, mostly H100s and H200s.
For scale that's more than double the number of H100s in xAI's Colossus”
New article from The Information is mad.
Turns out Jensen's mistress leveraged her access to him to help move ~240k export-controlled chips to China (!).
Just to back up: Century Litong was founded by the sister of Alice (the mistress and alleged spy) in 2023.
Alice had zero AI background but got credibility by telling everyone she could always get chip supply through her contacts in and around Nvidia.
She bragged that Jensen celebrated her birthday every year with dinner / gifts, and posted photos of them together on WeChat.
Within 4 months Litong was a Nvidia 'preferred cloud partner' giving it priority access to chips (which it still has today!).
And 2 people who know Alice say while involved with Litong she helped move about 240,000 export-restricted chips into China, mostly H100s and H200s.
For scale that's more than double the number of H100s in xAI's Colossus.
Apparently a business contact described Litong as the place to get any chip the US gov had banned and some of the chips ended up with Alibaba and Tencent.
Asked detailed questions, Nvidia didn't deny anything specific, it just gave a generic statement that it sells through partners and its due diligence has led to prosecutions.
(If there's more stuff like this the pressure on Jensen to resign might get really serious. How can he possibly work with the incoming Congress?)
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When I spoke to an Anthropic employee who invited me to their HQ for a "Christian leaders" gathering, they told me that when they hear Dario speak about morality, they often cry. That was one of the key moments I realized I was out. If you watch this man speak and are moved to tears, you probably need to talk to a psychologist. And you should not be in a position of power at any frontier lab, because we need anti-mimetic brakes on the spreading of psychosis.
That's not how mental illness works, and frankly, the more fantastical promises/predictions these CEOs make, the stronger the case against trusting them or their product becomes.
Big Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos vibes.
No, no, these guys are definitely the smartest guys in the room. You're just not believing hard enough! xitter.twitterapi.xyz/EricTopol/status/21203…
Setting an unattainable objective. I wish it would come true, but curing all these diseases in the next 10 years is impossible.
And I'm very optimistic about the impact of AI for improving health.
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Absolutely none of this information threatens the privacy of any wounded soldier, or their families, and all of it should have been released much earlier by DND.
A confidential briefing document provided to Global News showed that as of November 5:
- 21 soldiers remain hospitalized in Alberta
- 10 were listed in critical condition (that number is 9 as of today)
- 8 were stable in intensive care
- 3 were stable in medical units
- 4 patients have burns covering 51 to 60 % of their bodies
- 3 have burns covering 41 to 50 %
- 7 have burns covering 30 to 40 %
- 4 have burns covering less than 30 % of their bodies
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Ashleigh has been dogged in pursuing what happened at CFB Wainwright & to those affected.
Her scoop is because a government official noticed that commitment - not the DND.
NEW: For a week, we pressed DND for updated information on soldiers injured in the deadly CFB Wainwright fire, including how many remained in critical condition.
DND wouldn't disclose that number.
So someone else did.
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Høyreradikale nettaktivister har forlengst slått fast at gjerningsmannen i Krakow er ukrainsk fremmedkriger, homofil kommunist og venstreekstremist. Vi har gått gjennom hva vi egentlig vet. Og hva vi ikke vet. filternyheter.no/sprer-falsk…
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Pani Dominiko @dominikacosic, czy skomentuje Pani swój wpis, w którym załączyła zdjęcie sugerujące, że jest na nim zamachowiec? W załączeniu zdjęcia z Łodzi, z marca 2026 z marszu skrajnej lewicy. Czy przeprosi Pani za swój wpis i go usunie? Czy wcześniej dokonała Pani weryfikacji źródła zdjęcia, która Pani zamieściła?
Also: She finally found a class of folks 'undeserving' of her mask lectures! Compare a reply from yesterday (image 1) with xitter.twitterapi.xyz/a_picazo/status/174085… and xitter.twitterapi.xyz/a_picazo/status/211739… and other examples included here. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/neontaster/status/2119…
I need Taylor Lorenz to explain to me how working for "billionaire-owned corporate media" is somehow morally worse than hawking AI investment slop that will lose your already-poor followers even more money.
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