That guy breaking his contracts and agreements?

How preposterous!

As a Conservationist I'm a big fan of game preserves.

Who at Nintendo is coordinating donations?

I have a preserve just a mile up the way from me.

Fully confirm your assessment here. Bought an Intel Arc B580 last year in hopes of doing AI inference on a standard PC running Ubuntu Linux. It never worked, regardless of what I did, and I say this after 30 years of experience with linux both privately and in my job. Whatever I compiled according to instructions either crashes or just doesn't recognize my card. Yes, you read that correctly: Intel's software didn't recognize my Intel B580, which is shown correctly by lspci.

These crashes are later addressed in pull requests on their github, so I am clearly not the only one experiencing this. I could kick myself in the nuts for not getting a 3060 back then.

I read it as "Data Centers Are Being Powered by Gas Giant Planets" and I said to myself, "Hmmm, I never thought of that one..."

That's because EVs are perfect for taxis. Many short distances, never far from a charging point and time inbetween rides where you can recharge in the supermarket parking lot while getting a bite to eat. And in the city, with stop-and-go traffic, EV are much better at handling that than ICEs who hate that. Plus the lower cost-per-km-driven matters even more when it's a profit margin thing.

Mostly, but Elvis didn't dodge the draft.

And I had a user that had been able to get into that mode in some weird way rendering the computer unusable.

As long as the US State Department is letting the "Chinese Spy" stay in the US we need to question the narrative

France wants the US to enter its war against Russia directly so it's trying to merge the Ukraine and Iran conflicts.

Ukraine already attacked an Iran boat to curry favor but backed off when Iran threatened missile strikes.

El Cheeto is participating by saying 'he' will blockade Iranian commerce in the Caspian Sea.

US has no assets there but Ukraine has long range drones and Flamingo missiles.

"Iran melted our ice cream" is a freebie to the DC Warmongers' narrative.

It'll help Macron get the ECB job he wants.

Does that include the Chinese spy he was boinking?

Will someone please give Trump a Junior G-man badge and a toy police car to keep him out from underfoot until nap time?

If you've never had a boss like this -- a lazy narcissist -- you're lucky. But if you have, the pattern is familiar and unmistakable:

* Doesn't understand the issues.

* Doesn't do his homework.

* Believes he's a genius whose "gut" overrules people who do understand and do do their homework.

* Plays his subordinates off against one another.

* Highly susceptible to information from random sources: thing he saw on TV, or heard on the golf course.

* Not particularly fussed about contradicting himself because he doesn't care about being right, but does care about being in charge.

* The more chaotic he can make things, the more in charge he feels.

* Has a cynical view of the people he works for but has a genuine gift for flattery when it suits his purposes.

Once you've seen this up close it's really obvious when you come across it again. You can't *not* listen to a lazy narcissist boss because he absolutely will try the stupid shit he says he will. But you can't count on him either, because he has no commitment to anything other than how he looks and feels *right now*.

Neither. Commerce didn't drop it, it got taken away and given to DoJ, but not because Commerce couldn't handle the invetigation of where the chips were going. The case goes to DoJ because we're talking about criminal charges of smuggling, corporate fraud, violation of national security statutes. Also because the Commerce investigation was tained by potential political interference. And possibly because it ran afoul of a counterintelligence operations siloed in the DoJ -- although by this point the cat is so out of the bag everyone must assume they've got a FISA wiretap warrant on them.

However, the *effect* may be to slow the progress of the investigation and delay any actions being taken.

The first reason for this is that criminal investigations are slower, the standards of proof higher, and potentially involve a criminal trial. Commerce could simply make an administrative law determination that put Megaspeed on some shit list and come to some kind of agreement with NVIDIA.

The second reason is that putting this into DoJ's hands is putting it into a department that has had staff turnover and loss of institutional knowledge, strife between career personnel and political appointees, and difficulty replacing lost employees. It's also led by lame-duck appointees, facing turnover in the next administration. So if they don't make progress in the next two years, allowing for transition delays, it could be years before anything gets accomplished. By then a lot of people will have left their jobs, memories will get hazy, evidence will go missing, and defensive positions constructed.

So while the investigation hasn't been *killed*; it has been delayed so long that it's effectively in suspended animation. It's not possible for Commerce to sanction anyone because the investigation is out of their hands.