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Investigative report details how export-restricted Nvidia AI chips reach China — public records reveal how Chinese entities skirt US sanctions (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-17 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: nvidia ai chips, china export controls, chip smuggling

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Investigation details how billions' worth of export-restricted Nvidia AI chips are sold to China — report details how Chinese firms skirt Trump's regulations (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-17 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: nvidia, china, export controls

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Attackers conceal phishing lures using invisible Unicode characters (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-09-06 | get YubiKey 5C NFC security key → | tags: ascii smuggling, phishing, unicode

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Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | get Not with a Bug But with a Sticker book → | tags: ascii smuggling, prompt injections, microsoft defender

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'HTTP Terminator' Hunts for Novel Desync Attacks (darkreading.com)

2026-08-26 | get Web Application Hacker's Handbook → | tags: http request smuggling, portswigger, black hat usa 2026

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Questions I Have After Learning That Trump Was Allegedly Smuggled Out of Air Force One in a Catering Box (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: air force one, trump, smuggling

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Nvidia slashes list of authorized customers in Asia in a bid to reduce AI chip smuggling, report claims — company sent field inspectors, called customers to check if business is genuine after pressure from Washington (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-14 | by Jowi Morales | tags: china, chips, compliance

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Singapore charges two people over a scheme to smuggle Nvidia chips to China through a $42 million property deal (techspot.com)

2026-07-03 | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, singapore, smuggling

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China black market Nvidia prices rocket in wake of smuggling crackdown and customs freeze — five-year-old A100 servers triple in price, now fetching up to $82,000 (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-24 | by Luke James | get Nvidia A100 GPU → | tags: nvidia, a100, dgx b300

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Exif Smuggling (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-09 | tags: cache, example, exif

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Exif Smuggling (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-09 | get Exif Data Viewer → | tags: cache, example, exif

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Judge dismisses human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-22 | get Legal Defense Strategy Book → | tags: human smuggling, kilmar abrego garcia, u.s. district court

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Taiwan raids 12 locations in its first formal crackdown on Nvidia AI chip smuggling — hunts three fugitives for document forgery, fraudulent declarations in Super Micro smuggling case (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-21 | by Zak Killian | get Nvidia AI Chip Security Kit → | tags: nvidia, supermicro, ai chips

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Australian who smuggled 50 pounds of cocaine inside printers get nine years behind bars — five devices intercepted by border forces had compressed powder stuffed in the paper trays (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-15 | by Mark Tyson | tags: australian federal police, border force, cocaine smuggling

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US biology lab locked down for more than a week amid smuggling inquiry (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-15 | by Garisto | get Biology Lab Security Kit → | tags: usda, indiana university, biological samples

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Smuggled Starlink Terminals are Beating Iran's Internet Blackout (slashdot.org)

2026-05-03 | by Posted | get Starlink Satellite Internet Kit → | tags: starlink, iran, satellite internet

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One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-02 | get Ant Farm Kit → | tags: ant trafficking, wildlife smuggling, queen ants

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A Supermicro co-founder is accused of smuggling $2.5B in AI servers to China (techspot.com)

2026-03-31 | get Supermicro Server Rack → | tags: supermicro, ai servers, yih-shyan liaw

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Massive $2.5B smuggling case exposes loopholes in US AI chip ban (techspot.com)

2026-03-31 | get AI Chip Security Kit → | tags: supermicro, ai chips, yih-shyan liaw

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Three individuals charged with attempting to break US sanctions on AI chips — damning text messages between conspirators reveal intention to find clients to ‘act as pass through partner for customers in China’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-26 | by Jowi Morales | get AI Chip Sanctions Guide → | tags: ai chips, supermicro, nvidia

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The Super Micro AI accelerator smuggling scandal proves how cut-throat the global AI race has become — as global trade evolves, so does export control evasion (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-25 | by Jon Martindale | get Supermicro SuperServer Kit → | tags: super micro, ai chips, nvidia gpus

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Super Micro co-founder indicted on Nvidia smuggling charges leaves board (cnbc.com)

2026-03-20 | by Jordan Novet | get Supermicro Motherboard Kit → | tags: super micro, nvidia, ai chips

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Super Micro Co-Founder Charged With Smuggling $2.5 Billion of AI Tech Into China (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-20 | get AI Tech Security Lock → | tags: super micro, ai tech, yih-shyan liaw

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Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-20 | get Super Micro Computer Server → | tags: super micro, co-founder, smuggling plot

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Supermicro employees accused of smuggling $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia hardware to China — perps used a hairdryer to move serial numbers between real hardware and thousands of dummy servers (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-20 | by Mark Tyson | get Supermicro Server Hardware Security Kit → | tags: supermicro, nvidia, smuggling

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U.S. uncovers scheme to reroute Nvidia GPUs worth $160 million to China despite export bans (cnbc.com)

2025-12-09 | by Dylan Butts | get Nvidia GPUs → | tags: china, export, nvidia

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Understanding the Worst .NET Vulnerability (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: chunk, http, net

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Google won’t fix new ASCII smuggling attack in Gemini (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-10-31 | get science reference book → | tags: ascii, gemini, google

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UAE’s deal to buy Nvidia AI chips reportedly on hold (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Rebecca Szkutak | get sustainability guide book → | tags: ai, chips, deal