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Wow. The tech and NASDAQ giant NVIDIA's shares have tanked in after hours trading, down 7 percent right now. Might have something to do with this disclosure:
"On April 9, 2025, the U.S. government, or USG, informed NVIDIA Corporation, or the Company, that the USG requires a license for export to China (including Hong Kong and Macau) and D:5 countries, or to companies headquartered or with an ultimate parent therein, of the Company's H20 integrated circuits and any other circuits achieving the H20's memory bandwidth, interconnect bandwidth, or combination thereof. The USG indicated that the license requirement addresses the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a supercomputer in China. On April 14, 2025, the USG informed the Company that the license requirement will be in effect for the indefinite future.
The Company's first quarter of fiscal year 2026 ends on April 27, 2025. First quarter results are expected to include up to approximately $5.5 billion of charges associated with H20 products for inventory, purchase commitments, and related reserves."
Expect an extra wild ride on Wall Street when the bell rings tomorrow.
This is in my inbox this morning.
If the three-letter-agencies continue to hoard vulnerabilities (rather than rapidly fixing and publish them) - they are endangering their own secret existence.
> At the same time, as we have
> now discovered, the app is
> being used for operational US
> military traffic. So, what does
> the NSA do if it finds a
> security flaw in Signal?
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/the-signal-chat-leak-and-the-nsa.html
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who started the now-infamous group chat coordinating a US attack against the Yemen-based Houthis on March 15, is seemingly now suggesting that the secure messaging service Signal has security vulnerabilities. "I didn’t see this loser in the group," Waltz told Fox News about Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, whom Waltz invited to the chat. "Whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical mean, is something we’re trying to figure out." Waltz’s implication that Goldberg may have hacked his way in was followed by a ...
There is one party that has a long-standing policy to end the Australia - USA Alliance/Obeisance.
The ALP won't change it, the Liberals will take us deeper in.
Where's the detail, Dutton?
If you don't know, vote NO!
The Coalition doesn't have long to get clear on its policies before pre-polling begins https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/coalition-policy-lack-of-detail-anthony-albanese-fall/105165142
@brianbilston I honestly think that this is the peak of poetry and nothing finer will ever be crafted:
Shall I compare thee
To a summer’s day? Alright –
Thou art pretty hot.
Still laughing about
Haiku two five eleven
while reading the rest
@JonasJRichter @brianbilston @blogdiva
one two five Three Sir
can it count if I cannot
why should I bother
This is a haiku.
They do not have to make sense.
Refrigerator.
// No comments for you.
// This was hard to write, so it
// Should be hard to read.
Do you know the poem Japanese Jokes for Anthony Thwaite by Peter Porter?
It's a series of sort of Haiku. I think it was actually written to poke fun at Western poets appropriating the form.
I read it many years ago but found the last verse really resonated with teenage me.
Somewhere at the heart
Of the universe sounds the
True mystic note: Me.
Might even have been the same one. My English teacher let me keep mine as I showed an interest (probably quite rare in my school).
I still have my well thumbed copy.
Yes! Funny and dark.
Waving not drowning also.
That was/is such a great book. As a teenage boy I was of course drawn to the more funny poems, and the ones with swears obviously (looking at you Larkin), but it led me Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney too.
Eventually it led me to your work Brian, which I love. Thank you 🙏.
Thank you Brian. Have a wonderful weekend.
I once tried to write
a haiku, but enjambment,
ruined it right through.
So a limerick was
written, that it would all fit'n, one
poem then became two!
I have no idea
What any of this means
Oops, that was only six
The shakespearean Haiku is great 😂
@brianbilston One I did for a six-word-story contest
A six word haiku?
Unrealistically
polysyllabic.
love the how-to one
it might be the last and sixth
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