Tag: black market
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The Register: Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/us_ai_chip_tracking/ Source: The Register Title: Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China Feedly Summary: Plan would embed location verification in advanced semiconductors to combat black market exports The Trump administration wants better ways to track the location of chips, as part of attempts to prevent advanced AI accelerator…
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The Register: A billion dollars’ worth of Nvidia chips fell off a truck and found their way to China, report says
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/nvidia_chips_china_whoops/ Source: The Register Title: A billion dollars’ worth of Nvidia chips fell off a truck and found their way to China, report says Feedly Summary: Psst, wanna buy some innovation? An estimated $1 billion worth of smuggled high-end Nvidia AI processors have reportedly found their way onto the Chinese black market, despite…
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The Register: Three charged in Singapore in case linked to illicit shipments of Nvidia GPUs to China
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/28/singapore_arrest_server_fraud/ Source: The Register Title: Three charged in Singapore in case linked to illicit shipments of Nvidia GPUs to China Feedly Summary: Accused face up to 20 years in prison The authorities in Singapore have charged three men with fraud, reportedly in connection with the shipment of Nvidia GPUs into China in violation…
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Wired: China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/chineses-surveillance-state-is-selling-citizens-data-as-a-side-hustle/ Source: Wired Title: China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle Feedly Summary: Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the alarming phenomenon…