Very Interesting: But Stupid...

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I wrote the other day about the recent discovery that Nvidea's GPU chips have been found to be potentially vulnerable to Rowhammer attack, posing a possible massive security threat to those industries heavily reliant on the technology, not least of which are AI, blockchains and data encryption generally. In today's FT, the newspaper reports that a billion dollars worth of Nvidea chips, including the sought-after B200, have appeared in China via a black market route seemingly unfazed by Trump's export controls, tariffs and sundry other of his attempts to play the big man on the international economic stage. What the confluence of these two facts portends for the world, who knows? But it sure won't be good for the majority of us.

Also in the same paper, the FT reports that the US economy is currently pretty stable and apparently unmoved by the endless crass pronouncements and executive orders that issue forth daily from The White House; going on to say that the knock-on effects of the Trump administration's policies may be just around the corner, lurking in as yet undisclosed detail to wrong foot the economy. Given the patently deranged nature of the President and his economic notions, I shouldn't be at all surprised if something nasty emerges from the woodpile in the next few months. In the meantime Trump is facing a rebellion from his core MAGA support base over Epstein. May you live in interesting times, Donald, baby! The rot would appear to already be setting in. But then again, I've said that before and been utterly, completely wrong where this slippery customer is concerned...

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  1. Anonymous27 July 2025 at 07:46

    Trump is a "stalking horse" for the far right mate; they're who's keeping him in power (along with the descendants of our wierd and wieder exports to the Mid West) and will drop the toe-rag when his time has come; SOON I hope, eh?
    ATB
    Joe

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