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Supermicro says it has wrapped up an independent investigation into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips into China, a scheme that authorities valued at two point five billion dollars. Several employees have been terminated, though the company maintains that senior management had no knowledge of the illicit transactions. The case remains one of the most significant export control scandals in recent memory.
Shifting to a quieter but meaningful corner of the tech world, CPU-Z has released version three, its most substantial update since the tool launched back in two thousand one. The new release brings over one hundred system health checks, built-in stress testing, and improved tracking for extreme overclocking performance. For hardware enthusiasts, it is a long-overdue modernization of a genuinely beloved utility.
And in cryptocurrency security, Coldcard has shipped new firmware in the wake of a one hundred fourteen million dollar bitcoin theft that shook the community. Notably, the team says artificial intelligence helped surface additional bugs during the review process. The caveat worth heeding, though, is that updating firmware alone cannot make a wallet safe once it has already been compromised.
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