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tarxvf 1 minutes ago [-]
That's not "Find My".
"Find My" is for finding things that you own.
This is something else entirely, a control scheme that operates after the sale.
chvid 7 minutes ago [-]
It looks there is a massive push for this atm and only one major player is against it (NVDIA).
Ultimately I think this will be very self-destructive for US tech supremacy. But we will see what happens.
reasonableklout 1 hours ago [-]
TIL that this technology exists.
This is interesting:
> To help curb the issue, the country is turning to location verification. Last March, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a bill requiring location verification for advanced AI chips. Ahead of the U.S.-China summit in late September, legislators called for a floor vote on that and related bills.
The passed bill is the Chip Security Act. I wonder if the senate will wait until the midterm elects take office before holding a floor vote on the bill.
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simplesocieties 24 minutes ago [-]
> requiring location verification for advanced AI chips
Does.... does anyone in Congress even bother to consult with tech experts anymore? Once the chip is in your competitors hands it's over. No amount of tracking/verification etc. will stop it.
> “If you can use a private key that exists on a particular chip, and you can sign a message with that cryptographic key, and then that message is received by a so-called landmark server, then you can send a couple of those messages and time those messages. A lot of modern chips come with trusted execution environments that support a hardware root of trust where you can sign these messages,” says Kristian Rönn, CEO and cofounder of Lucid Computing. “You get a radius of where the chip has to be.”
This is such a stupid idea. Whoever owns the network can just throttle these messages to be extremely slow, throwing off the data completely, or just not giving the cards network access at all. Just because you throw in "public-private key cryptography", "hardware root of trust", and "trusted execution environment" into your proposal doesn't make it sound.
Nvidia Corp’s general counsel intervened in a US government probe of suspected smuggling of AI chips by Megaspeed International, questioning whether the Trump administration played a role in detaining an executive from the Singapore-based firm who’s now at the heart of a scandal threatening Jensen Huang.
In late summer 2025, Nvidia’s Tim Teter called Commerce Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler, who oversees US chip export curbs, to ask about the Megaspeed investigation, according to people familiar with the matter.
Specifically, Teter wanted to know whether Kessler’s Bureau of Industry and Security was involved in the Singapore government’s recent detention of Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive, according to the people. Singapore police had brought Alice in for questioning and restricted her from leaving the country. BIS was not involved in that action, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity owing to the sensitivity of the matter.
It doesn't take a Mensa-level IQ to figure out where chips are headed. A company in Singapore run by Chinese nationals, that had less than $6 million in cash at the end of 2023 and then buying over $4 billion in advanced chips between 2024 and 2026, isn't keeping them in Kalamazoo, Malaysia.
Most of the smuggling is a case of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
marcus_holmes 18 minutes ago [-]
or, and I'm just spitballing here, you could walk the actual walk about "free markets" as well as talk the talk, and let the chips fall where they may.
This is something else entirely, a control scheme that operates after the sale.
Ultimately I think this will be very self-destructive for US tech supremacy. But we will see what happens.
This is interesting:
> To help curb the issue, the country is turning to location verification. Last March, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee passed a bill requiring location verification for advanced AI chips. Ahead of the U.S.-China summit in late September, legislators called for a floor vote on that and related bills.
The passed bill is the Chip Security Act. I wonder if the senate will wait until the midterm elects take office before holding a floor vote on the bill.
Does.... does anyone in Congress even bother to consult with tech experts anymore? Once the chip is in your competitors hands it's over. No amount of tracking/verification etc. will stop it.
> “If you can use a private key that exists on a particular chip, and you can sign a message with that cryptographic key, and then that message is received by a so-called landmark server, then you can send a couple of those messages and time those messages. A lot of modern chips come with trusted execution environments that support a hardware root of trust where you can sign these messages,” says Kristian Rönn, CEO and cofounder of Lucid Computing. “You get a radius of where the chip has to be.”
This is such a stupid idea. Whoever owns the network can just throttle these messages to be extremely slow, throwing off the data completely, or just not giving the cards network access at all. Just because you throw in "public-private key cryptography", "hardware root of trust", and "trusted execution environment" into your proposal doesn't make it sound.
Per https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/825089:
It doesn't take a Mensa-level IQ to figure out where chips are headed. A company in Singapore run by Chinese nationals, that had less than $6 million in cash at the end of 2023 and then buying over $4 billion in advanced chips between 2024 and 2026, isn't keeping them in Kalamazoo, Malaysia.Most of the smuggling is a case of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.