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Southeast Asian data centers give Chinese companies access to Nvidia AI chips

Jensen Huang built a multibillion-dollar business giving Chinese companies access to Nvidia AI chips in Southeast Asian data centers through a gap in U.S. sanctions, The Wall Street Journal reported. The facilities provided crucial computing power for Chinese companies and served as cover for alleged chip smuggling.
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ggml 1.0.0 adds FP8 support and breaks compatibility with older RPC peers

ggml 1.0.0 adds FP8 support on CUDA and new execution paths across hardware backends, according to its release notes. The release also removes deprecated public interfaces and legacy masking operations, updating its remote procedure call protocol to reject incompatible peers.

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Duffy links FAA outage to wiring work, cites possible faulty router

Sean Duffy blamed Friday's FAA outage on work replacing copper wiring with fiber at a remote facility, The Wall Street Journal reported. He said contractor L3Harris may have installed a faulty router. Instability originating at the location prompted a nationwide ground stop.

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SpaceX catches Starship vehicle for first time as booster recovery fails

SpaceX caught the Starship vehicle with its launch tower's arms for the first time during Flight 15, The Verge reported. The vehicle descended through clouds, turned vertically and settled between the tower's arms at around 4:20 PM ET.

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FAA begins replacing legacy controller systems across 435 sites

The FAA is replacing legacy air traffic control information systems across 435 sites with a platform intended to consolidate weather and operational data by the end of 2028, New Atlas reported.

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