Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down.
They got their video taken down over a copyright strike, link to post on YT
Here's a mirror on internet archive.
THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments : Gamers Nexus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
NVIDIA (NVDA) GPUs have become so in-demand for so-called AI workloads that a black market has emerged around them. Where there's prohibition, there's...Internet Archive
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Problem setting battery charging thresholds on ThinkPad
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Running Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 10th gen here.
Ok, so a while back, when I had TLP installed, I tried to set charging thresholds (I think with tlp-gui, does that sound right? Anyway . . .), and while I don't remember exactly what happened, I think there was a problem where the battery applets were stuck at a certain %, neither (apparently) charging nor discharging. I used the emergency reset button on the bottom of my Lenovo, started up again, removed all traces of TLP, and everything went back to normal.
As I wrote previously:
I have notifications set to warn me when a charge goes under 20% or over 90%, so that I either plug in or unplug when I get them, which TTBOMK constitutes “best practices.” Very possibly I’m just getting old and getting lost too deeply in whatever I’m doing, but I feel like I’m constantly getting these notifications, and they’re really starting to get on my nerves!
After consulting with my fellow Lemmings (who I should've listened to more carefully 🙄), I ended up doing this and then found myself stuck with the same problem again, stuck at 89% neither charging or discharging, at least according to my applets.
I tried timeshifting out of it, without success, then I did the emergency reset button on the bottom again, both with and without the laptop on, but again without success!
Since then, I've installed tlp, and am now in the process of recalibrating the battery (sudo tlp recalibrate). Still plugged into the AC, it drained the battery down to zero, and is now in the process of powering up to 100%.
So my question is, why does this keep happening? It seems like every time I try to set charging thresholds, the battery gets confused and I have to somehow try and fix it. For now, I'll have to wait until it gets to 100% and then see how it goes (maybe uninstalling tlp and reinstalling power-profiles-daemon), but in the meantime I'd be much obliged for any thoughts and/or suggestions.
How to Limit Charging Level in Linux (and Prolong Battery Life)
Prolong your laptop's battery life in long run by limiting the charging to 80%.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
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95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds
95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds
Over the last three years, companies worldwide have invested between 30 and 40 billion dollars into generative artificial intelligence projects. Yet most of these efforts have brought no real business…Oliver Flynn (The Daily Adda)
AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea'
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
: They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?Simon Sharwood (The Register)
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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers can exploit image scaling on Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, Gemini’s web and API interfaces, Google Assistant, Genspark, and other production AI systems.Kikimora Morozova (The Trail of Bits Blog)
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ASCII Smuggler Tool: Crafting Invisible Text and Decoding Hidden Codes · Embrace The Red
An adversary can hide text in plain sight using the Unicode Tags. Using ASCII Smuggler you can encode and deocde such hidden messagesEmbrace The Red
EU-US deal confirms 15% tariff cap on semiconductors, more
World War Fee: US pulls back from Trump's threatened 100% levy but not everyone pleased at Europe's concessions
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LibreOffice 25.8: Faster, leaner, and finally speaks PDF 2.0
Update boosts Microsoft file imports, adds new spreadsheet functions, and drops older Windows
LibreOffice 25.8: Faster, leaner, and finally speaks PDF 2.0
: Update boosts Microsoft file imports, adds new spreadsheet functions, and drops older WindowsLiam Proven (The Register)
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White House Clashes With Jack White, Whose Song They Used to Promote Deportation
The Trump administration frequently uses popular music in its propaganda videos, including by artists who oppose Trump.
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Facing troop shortage, Israeli army looks to deserters and the diaspora
Israel is looking for new ways to recruit soldiers to fill up to 12,000 vacant positions, Israeli Army Radio announced this week. Struggling after 23 months of war, the longest in Israeli history, the army is looking to the Jewish diaspora abroad, the Orthodox community and even former deserters, who have been offered a one-time amnesty if they sign up.
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Facing troop shortage, Israeli army looks to deserters and the diaspora
Israel is looking for new ways to recruit soldiers to fill up to 12,000 vacant positions, Israeli Army Radio announced this week.Sophian Aubin (FRANCE 24)
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Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones
Critics say Max, a WhatsApp rival, could be used to track users, though state media says it is not a spying app
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California resident tests positive for the plague after camping, officials say
South Lake Tahoe resident was probably bitten by infected flea while camping in the area, local health authorities say
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U.S. Navy sailor convicted of espionage after selling secrets to Chinese intelligence officer
The attorney’s office said Jinchao Wei gave the intelligence officer about 60 technical and operating manuals about Navy ships and dozens of photographs.
U.S. Navy sailor convicted of espionage after selling secrets to Chinese intelligence officer
A U.S Navy sailor was convicted Wednesday of espionage after he sold Navy secrets to a Chinese intelligence officer, federal officials said.Minyvonne Burke (NBC News)
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ICE Goes Full Hegseth: Adds Random Person To Group Chat Discussing Ongoing Manhunt
The Trump administration has been described as many things, none of them good. What no one will ever accuse it of being is “competent.” Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants, most of them known only for waving the MAGA flag when not hosting shows on Fox or podcasts celebrating the debut of American fascism.
ICE Goes Full Hegseth: Adds Random Person To Group Chat Discussing Ongoing Manhunt
The Trump administration has been described as many things, none of them good. What no one will ever accuse it of being is “competent.” Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants, mos…Techdirt
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UN rights chief urges protection of ICC officials after new US sanctions
The UN human rights chief on Thursday said the imposition by the US of further sanctions on judges and deputy prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should prompt the international community to take measures to protect them, Anadolu reports.
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Putin's demand to Ukraine: give up Donbas, no NATO and no Western troops, sources say
Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.
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Classified Israeli military data reveals 83% civilian death rate in Gaza
Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip are civilians, according to research based on the Israeli military’s own data, Anadolu reports.
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Typical piracy requires you to search sources/indexers yourself, decide on the best search result for what you're trying to download, pass that to your download client, then manually name and sort the downloaded files into media folders once the download completes.
The arr's automate this entre process for several media types (movies, tv, music, etc), combining search results from dozens of indexers to make its decision on what to download.
Now, I open a webpage, search for a movie/show (results from imdb) and select an item I want to watch. ~15min later, that item has been found, downloaded, and sorted into my media folders where Emby/Jellyfin can display it to myself or friends.
Add on to this with Ombi, a requests platform that allows my friends+family to request media and have the arrs automatically grab it. Since setting that up a little over a year ago, it's filled almost 400 requests (not including media I've grabbed/requested myself) without me having to manually manage requests ever.
Ontop of grabbing media on request, the arr's also monitor the sources you've configured, watching for new uploads, and grabbing content that's missing from your library but monitored for, such as: newly aired episodes, media that couldn't be found earlier, or upgrades in quality for existing media (if configured/allowed to upgrade existing media).
Every time a new episode airs for a show I've added, it automatically grabs it for me. (currently 486 series monitored here)
Cybertruck Owners Sue Over Expensive Upgrade
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Trump to sign order directing DOJ to criminally charge flag burning despite being protected speech
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Treasury Secretary quashes hopes that Americans will get rebate checks from tariffs
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Here's a Map of What Trump-GOP Destruction of US Hospitals Looks Like
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Here's a Map of What Trump-GOP Destruction of US Hospitals Looks Like
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US | Court Rules With SpaceX in Case Seeking to Gut NLRB, in Blow to Workers’ Rights
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AMD discontinues B650 chipset to transition to the newer B850 chipset — affordable AM5 motherboards just got a bit pricier
We're seeing the last of budget AMD B650 motherboards.
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Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza ‘amount to genocide,’ says Scottish leader
The first minister of Scotland on Thursday warned of the planned Israeli occupation of Gaza City, saying it “only intensifies” the ongoing genocide in the Palestinian enclave, Anadolu reports.
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Tesla is slow in reporting crashes and the feds have launched an investigation to find out why
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VS Code Chat Checkpoints: A Safety Net for AI Coding
Ever let GitHub Copilot get a little too creative and make a mess of your project? We've all been there. A single misguided prompt can lead to chaos across multiple files, leaving you with a cleanup job you didn't ask for.
The latest VS Code update (v1.103) is here to save the day with a new feature called VS Code chat checkpoints. Think of it as a powerful "undo" button for your entire AI conversation. You can now instantly roll back your whole workspace to a previous state, making it safe to experiment with even the most ambitious AI-driven edits. This update also brings support for OpenAI's new GPT-5 model, making Copilot smarter than ever.
VS Code Chat Checkpoints: A Safety Net for AI Coding
VS Code's 1.103 update introduces VS Code Chat Checkpoints, a feature to roll back misguided AI prompts. Learn how this safety net, plus GPT-5 support, is changing development. Explore the new features now!Owais Makkabi (Tygo Cover)
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UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action
Exclusive: Baroness Chakrabarti said the latest arrest demonstrates the dangers of the ongoing proscription of Palestine Action, which is being challenged in the courts
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Netanyahu says Israel will attack Gaza City regardless of ceasefire deal
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Elon Musk's X may finally settle $500M severance lawsuit
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US: DHS reviews security funding to Muslim organisations, places of worship
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US: DHS reviews security funding to Muslim organisations, places of worship
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One of China's Largest Tech Companies Just Copied Apple's Biggest Flop
No, seriously, it stole part of the name and everything.
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Trump officials cut California sex-education funds over gender identity references
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Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot appears to have published messages without users' knowledge.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
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Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation - but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the button also appears to have made the chats searchable online.
This is t he r second article about chatbots “leaking” ended users share their chats with search indexing enabled.
That isn’t leaking. That’s just shitty journalism.
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New York appeals court tosses $465 million award in Trump civil fraud case
A divided New York appeals court on Thursday unanimously struck down a nearly half-billion-dollar financial penalty against US President Donald Trump as unconstitutionally excessive, while issuing a f...JURIST Staff (- JURIST - News)
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Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says
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Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says
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in reply to ChanchoManco • • •I'm sure this takedown will in no way bring attention to this video.
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in reply to VieuxQueb • • •I found it fascinating beyond just the geopolitics of video cards (although the existence of that right there is wild).
It's a really neat look inside China with "real people" (not trade shows, uptight salesmen, or politicians). I don't speak Chinese but it also seemed like Steve Burke had spent a lot of effort learning. He seems very talented and smart while staying humble. That's rare.
Despite it being a 3 hour video about smuggling, the most discomforting thing for me was the left-handed driving in HK and I find that hilarious.
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in reply to Azzu • • •TL;DW:
US banned sales of a certain class of high performance graphic cards to China.
It is actually possible to purchase those cards in China. And it is not very hard to do so.
The prices of said cards in China are quite similar to the ones in the US.
A lot of big players in the market are not happy with the truth presented in this piece by Gamers Nexus.
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Personal opinion:
In this video, there is a demonstration of how a card can have the VRAM enhanced(48GB) and a GPU moved from a PCB to another PCB.
The manufacturers say that VRAM is expensive. I do not think that! Sustainability is possible if it is wanted.
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in reply to Azzu • • •TIMELINE: GPU Export Controls, NVIDIA GPU Bans, & AI GPU Black Market | GamersNexus
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in reply to ChanchoManco • • •From what I understand, Bloomberg is one who placed copyright strike on video. Google would need to take a supremacist view towards the content, and supremacist deference to Bloomberg, to understand validity of complaint. What Bloomberg content was featured in documentary, and does it have any basis for unfair use claim?
Prohibition does not work. Documentary showed some 5090 prices in Hong Kong street boutique to be same price as online US availability. It would take monumental geopolitical leverage (with bribery, loss of reserve geopolitical capital) to isolate China which is a 5x+ larger tech market than US. Geopolitical leverage the US is rapidly losing by attacking entire world simultaneously. Singapore is not going to prevent Singapore companies from profiting, hopefully paying taxes, including from employees, to Singapore, would require tremendous US government donations/complete corrupt bribery for Singapore to take "Philippines suicide pact" (Marcos tradition) approach to war on China.
The documentary does show US policy impotence. New geopolitical US posture though is "China must be enslaved to CUDA technology so as to prevent Huawei/SMIC dominance" while China is saying "NVIDIA is a US military controlled agent intent on diminishing China, whose equipment cannot be trusted, and not purchased"
Impotence, necessary supply chain complicity, and imminent collapse of US strategy/policy is what needs to be protected from American consciousness. It is telling that Bloomberg and Google see themselves as such propaganda enforcers. This is more of a deep state CIA favour rather than Trump Administration favour, but neither are acts of nobility.
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in reply to ChanchoManco • • •I had to close the GN vid after he said Russia is allegedly using AI to surveil their citizens.
Like yeah Steve. Conveniently never mention the genocide being committed using AI in the most dystopian way possible. Or anything regarding Israel ever, such as NVIDIA building a multi billion dollar tech campus in Israel right now.
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in reply to Yggstyle • • •IndustryStandard
in reply to Yggstyle • • •Yes. It was a hillarious double standard showcasing how biased the reporter is and unwilling to speak the truth. There is nothing to learn from such bad journalism.
Avoiding talking the about Israel while bringing up Western preferred lines is the most suspicious thing a "journalist" can do.
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in reply to Yggstyle • • •GamersNexus chose to derail things. With rumors about Russia instead of mentioning Israel committing a literal genocide with AI. And they purposely avoid talking about Israel in every single of their videos.
They choose to make their videos political and make political statements. But the hypocrisy on this is too glaring.
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •Your topic. Your concern. I covered this. You want to drive the topic? Make your own content. I understand there's even a transformative method of reviewing content and talking about it. By all means go do that. Your fanatical pursuit of this accomplishes what? Go on - let us all know your manifesto. Detail to us how this opinion of yours, on a tiny thread, on an even smaller corner of the Internet, is making a difference at all in the topic you are whinging about.
You are a poser looking to self congratulate or a low effort troll. You want to make a difference? Go do it. This isn't it - nor is it a viable path to a solution.
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •You made a post about a subject you were concerned with not brought up in a video you watched - and this part is important - on a thread discussing the video getting improperly removed.
Now perhaps you didn't read the title completely and became confused... but assuming you didn't: please tell me how your urgent missive is on topic.
My original response at least provided you the courtesy of a response. You didn't care for it - but that is perfectly fine. Your type rarely enjoy those sort of observations.
If you are looking to derail things further after losing your original position I'd suggest you stop. This behavior is well documented as a standard method of trolling and isn't even novel.
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •I'm as against Israel's war crimes as the next guy, but I don't see why some people try to shoehorn it into completely irrelevant topics.
The video is about GPUs being smuggled into China, as well as the futility of this GPU export ban.
It is not about middle eastern geopolitics. That's why middle eastern geopolitics wasn't mentioned.
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •Because Russia is just over the boarder from China.
Because its another example. Just because Steve gave us a few examples, of countries using ai tech, dosent mean we need an exhaustive list of every example in the world.
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •IndustryStandard
in reply to A_Random_Idiot • • •LTT has a different weird standard where the only politics they will ever indulge in is making fun of Donald Trump.
You sound like a jilted GN fan which holds a grudge over Steve getting very mad about minor issues but ignores major ones. Like genocide. And AI being used to commit genocide.
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in reply to TheGrandNagus • • •It also mentions America and the example has nothing to do with export bans.
GamersNexus will mention every country except the one which may not be named.
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in reply to ChanchoManco • • •I found the intro hook intriguing, but the reporting starts with a lot of media clips and other run-ups, which eventually made me leave.
It's great they put in so much effort into genuine, on-site reporting, but the already long video report feels even more bloated/filled this way.
I have to wonder if the DMCA was due to the news clips. While they may be fair use for contextualized reporting, I didn't find them particularly valuable, and DMCA issues could have been avoided without them or without using so many of them.
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in reply to Kissaki • • •They have said that Bloomburg footage of trump talking about GPUs was the claim. They probably did play a little too fast and loose with copyrighted footage.
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