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So actually, the story about the Chinese spy had been circulating in certain elements of the tech press since last spring and apparently US investigations into it were squashed by high-ups in the current administration.
Also the same company that the spy purportedly worked for was implicated in the SuperMicro supply scandal from a couple years ago.

Oh and Huang resigned this morning. This will be an interesting time for them because apparently they didn't have continuity of business plans for a time when Jensen would not be available.
 
I had a lengthy compliance check in scheduled today that had to be put off because Outlook wasn't working for the people I was meeting with. That's the grown up version of a snow day.
 
Apparently the "Chinese spy" thing is overblown and it's just classic Asian racism because she works for a Singaporean company that Nvidia has ties to. I mean, I don't really care about that aspect -- just clearly having had affairs with multiple people in and around the company is enough of an ethical issue for him to have been ousted anyway. Even had they been out of the company entirely I would say the reputational hit alone from having him at the helm would be worth ousting him.
 
sedrosken said:
Apparently the "Chinese spy" thing is overblown and it's just classic Asian racism because she works for a Singaporean company that Nvidia has ties to. I mean, I don't really care about that aspect -- just clearly having had affairs with multiple people in and around the company is enough of an ethical issue for him to have been ousted anyway. Even had they been out of the company entirely I would say the reputational hit alone from having him at the helm would be worth ousting him.
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"Other Huang" was a Chinese TV News presenter who was somehow given an executive role with a tech company that seems to have dual identities in Singapore and China. The same company was also involved in Supermicro's illegal export scandals (both of them). There's plenty of reasons right there to think there is some amount of espionage involved. It's also extremely strange that the US executive branch seems to have killed investigations around her.

I'm not someone who really believes that something being illegal makes it wrong, but the actions of the US administration to kill scrutiny makes me think the actual story is probably even worse than we're being told.

I do kind of think that those people who have actual tens of billions of dollars need to re-frame their morality. Bezos and Gates were both implicated in the Epstein files and Jensen clearly can't keep it in his pants either. $100k or even $1M/month for an escort habit doesn't seem remotely crazy for these people who see their personal lives take an absolute shit to the tune of multiple billions of dollars.
 
Gödel said:
Yeah, the major MS Outlook outage made the national news.
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Oh, and have you heard the news that yesterday (Friday the 13ᵗʰ) the FAA cancelled thousands of airline flights for several hours? ✈️

Luckily, in their finite wisdom, they decided to let the flights that were already in-flight to be able to land. At actual airports, not in corn fields in Iowa.

"Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, blamed “an incredibly old air traffic control system.”"

And who is in charge of that now? Perhaps it got a bit too DOGE-y?

OTOH, Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of homeland security, says Trump administration officials blamed a telecommunication outage but said they said did not know its cause and that it would “take some time” to restart airport operations.

It's going to take some time for the Trump storm-troopers to get together and confirm that this was all Joe Biden's fault.
 
You know, change management is a well understood process. That they tried something like this and it failed badly enough to cause a nationwide transit outage tells me that no one involved in any of this had any business doing it in the first place. "Move fast and break things" is fine for a tech startup. It should be a five alarm fire when it's applied to healthcare or transit infrastructure.
 
I'm sure the experts in charge of the system strongly advised them against doing this but of course Trump and his inner circle always think they're smarter than people who have been doing something for decades. At least nobody died. This time anyway.

And yeah, I'm sure they'll blame this on Biden somehow.
 
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