U.S. authorities embedded secret GPS trackers in shipments of advanced AI chips

Comments (2)

duxup · 8h ago

Pretty sure US government officials have been talking openly about this. I thought it was curious they would give that away publicly but this administration doesn’t seem discreet (most charitable interpretation).

jerlam · 7h ago

I thought this would be some Ghost Fleet type on-chip backdoor, but sounds more like putting an AirTag in the shipping container.

Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code (claudiacode.com)

The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States (blog.waldrn.com)

Llama-Scan: Convert PDFs to Text W Local LLMs (github.com)

The Enterprise Experience (churchofturing.github.io)

LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers (threedle.github.io)

ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links (tracker.archiveteam.org)

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians (blog.demofox.org)

He found a bomb under a playground – and there were 176 more (bbc.co.uk)

Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

BBC Micro, the ancestor to ARM (retrogamecoders.com)

HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday (github.com)

Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386 (righto.com)

IQ Tests Results for AI (trackingai.org)

Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow (github.com)

The Oldest Mask in the World (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) (imj.org.il)

Does OLAP Need an ORM (clickhouse.com)

MS-DOS development resources (github.com)

Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity (elliotcsmith.com)

Review of Anti-Aging Drugs (scienceblog.com)

Why Nim? (undefined.pyfy.ch)

A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes (2019) (distill.pub)

Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs (marginalia.nu)

Two sizes fit most: PostgreSQL and ClickHouse (about.gitlab.com)

Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning (fallinorg.com)

Teaching GPT-5 to Use a Computer (prava.co)

ClickHouse matches PG for single-row UPDATEs and 4000 x faster for bulk UPDATEs (clickhouse.com)

PG Auto Upgrade – Docker (and K8s) container to auto upgrade your database (github.com)

AI vs. Professional Authors Results (mark---lawrence.blogspot.com)

Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda (goose.icu)

When did AI take over Hacker News? (zachperk.com)

Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3 (github.com)

Lessons learned from building a sync-engine and reactivity system with SQLite (finkelstein.fr)

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation (npr.org)

Who does your assistant serve? (xeiaso.net)

Germany at it again: now trying to reopen the "adblockers are illegal" debate (theregister.com)

I Prefer RST to Markdown (buttondown.com)

The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements (2017) (periodictable.com)

AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery (playtechnique.io)

SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts" (marnetto.net)

Dispelling misconceptions about RLHF (aerial-toothpaste-34a.notion.site)

LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises (danfabulich.medium.com)

VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams (victoriametrics.com)

Blackwater's Erik Prince Muscles Back into the Mercenary Business (wsj.com)

Dynasties, Selection, and Talent Allocation Among Classical Composers (papers.ssrn.com)

Beyond Meat headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy (thestreet.com)

Guid Smash (guidsmash.com)

Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to AI in colonoscopy (thelancet.com)

Canada's first commercial spaceport is under construction (space.com)

Show HN: Rust macro utility for batching expensive async operations (github.com)

U.S. authorities embedded secret GPS trackers in shipments of advanced AI chips

Comments (2)