An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Taiwan has indicted nine people -- reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees based in the country -- who allegedly helped forge documents to cover up illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China in violation of US export controls. On Monday, Reuters reported that prosecutors in Keelung did not release any names but confirmed that the suspects were "charged with breach of trust and document forgery." One suspect linked to a related case remains at large, accused of the "siphoning of funds from a distributor company involved" in helping China get access to restricted Nvidia chips.

Since 2022, the US has required a license to export semiconductors to China, with the intent of protecting national security by staying ahead of China in the AI race. But after the US arrested Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw in March for allegedly funneling $2.5 billion in restricted AI servers to China since 2024, Taiwan launched a separate probe to learn more about the scheme. Taiwan's investigation found that co-conspirators attempted to falsify documents to make it appear that 130 B300 servers were installed and in use at a Taiwan facility. But 74 of those servers "were ultimately exported and delivered to Chinese customers," Reuters reported, while the rest, 56, were intended to go to China but were blocked once Taiwanese customs officials "detected irregularities." According to Taiwan officials, Nvidia's manager and Supermicro employees "colluded with one another at various levels for enormous profit, illegally exporting high-end servers, increasing corporate compliance costs, and severely damaging our nation's international image."

Supermicro said in a statement to PCMag: "Supermicro is committed to protecting our advanced technologies and intellectual property. We are working closely with Taiwanese authorities on recent events, which underscore the importance of continued collaboration across industry and government to strengthen safeguards, enhance supply chain visibility, and facilitate the enforcement of export control laws."

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Justices’ ruling comes after lower courts had blocked president’s election order ahead of November midterms

Donald Trump’s administration can proceed with a nationwide crackdown on mail-in voting, the US supreme court has ruled, approving its emergency appeal.

It remains unclear, however, how his administration can implement the decision in time for the midterm elections in November, and the ruling leaves room for legal challenges.

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This was a crash course for Xabi Alonso in life at Chelsea. His new side thrilled in possession at Craven Cottage. The front three of João Pedro, Cole Palmer and Morgan Rogers combined to devastating effect and there was even an assist for the new £52m centre-back, Maxence Lacroix.

At times the only issue was the two No 10s both laying claim to the ice cold celebration. Palmer had a point to prove after missing out on England’s World Cup squad and Rogers scored on his debut after his £117m move from Aston Villa. Yet victory in Alonso’s first competitive game as Chelsea’s manager was far from straightforward. He saw that he needs a better goalkeeper than Robert Sánchez and will worry about his side’s lack of smarts. Fulham, who will hope this bright start under Alvaro Arbeloa shows there is life after Marco Silva, were unfortunate not to rescue a point.

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If you're curious how easily tech companies can fingerprint your browser and device and potentially single them out from the crowd, a new utility Glassbox will show you. Aside from pinging a public geolocation API, it runs entirely in a user’s browser and doesn’t ship any info out to the web while acting just like all the various trackers, anti-fraud scripts, and other browser fingerprinting tricks one is likely to encounter online. Unlike some other available tools that do the same, Glassbox provides a whole bunch of raw, unfiltered data you can sift through to see what makes your browser stand out, along with an estimate of how identifiable its fingerprint may be. In this vulture’s testing, Glassbox's estimate ranged from 99 percent in the Chrome window I use daily for work to a low of 56 percent in Tor Browser with an active circuit. “The ‘identifiability’ number is an honest model, not a measurement,” Glassbox developer David Dale said of his tool in a Hacker News thread. “It sums published per-signal entropy, discounts your browser masks, and caps at the ~33 bits needed to single out one person on Earth.” Dale added in the thread that, since it runs locally, that identifiability number is an estimate, as Glassbox doesn’t have a live population to pull against. AmIUnique and the EFF’s Cover Your Tracks, the other tools mentioned above, provide real population numbers, he noted. Dale got the idea for GlassBox after learning about silent sawtooth waves used by fingerprinting code found on Alibaba's AliExpress site to identify browsers using audio. Rather than fork one of the existing open source tools - both EFF's Cover Your Tracks and AmIUnique have GitHub repos - he decided to build his own, with some help from AI. “I'm a solo entrepreneur and long-time security engineer; tools like Claude Code have made it much easier to polish ideas and offer the useful ones to a wider audience,” Dale told us in an email. “I knew a fair number of fingerprinting methods but not that one, and I wanted to see all of them in one place, running against my own browser,” he said on Hacker News. In other words, Glassbox factors Alibaba’s tricks into its identifiability estimates alongside 30 other probes for unique browser data - things like canvas, WebGL, font libraries, WASM features, API matrices, and cross-site login states. According to Glassbox, my particular Chrome session I use for work is unique to around 1 in 7.6 billion browsers, and my IP address narrows that further (my ISP apparently uses IPv6, making me even more identifiable). As for which browsers appear to be safer, I have Safari, Edge, Firefox, and Tor on my machine alongside Chrome; Firefox and Tor are the only ones that didn’t label me “effectively unique,” giving me estimated identifiability ratings of 89 and 56 percent, respectively. What that means is that I share the same fingerprint as 1 in 681 million Firefox users and 1 in 408 thousand Tor users - that still doesn’t exactly make me a ghost online, but it definitely puts me in a pool much larger than Chrome, Edge, or Safari. Again, those are estimates, Dale reminded us, not a hard truth as, he says, “a no-server tool [can’t] measure true rarity.” “The single highest-impact move is to use a browser that puts you in a large, identical crowd,” Dale explained in an email. “Counterintuitively, a heavily customized ‘hardened’ setup often makes you more identifiable, because almost nobody else looks exactly like it. Blending in beats standing out.” Aside from using a browser that does a good job of obfuscating its user, Dale said a VPN or Tor is a must, as is finding a way to close the WebRTC leak that has long dogged internet users and leaves browsers identifiable through some VPNs thanks to being enabled by default in most web browsers. Glassbox includes a page of suggestions for how to anonymize yourself online, and let’s face it: With everything from invisible pixels to silent sound waves doing their damndest to figure out who’s behind a browser in order to make money off them, that’s more important than ever. ®

Welcome to our new series: The Admin Resource Hub. These articles will focus on building and running great Flickr groups, where the heart of the Flickr community comes to life.

Starting a Flickr group is simple. Running one you’re proud of a year from now takes a little more thought and effort and we’re here to help you along that journey. Before you invite your first member, there are some decisions worth slowing down for: who can find your group, what’s expected once they’re in it and how you introduce the whole thing to a stranger scrolling past. Get these right early and eliminate some moderation headaches down the line.

Choosing the right privacy setting

Flickr gives you three levels to choose from and picking the right one from the start will save you from an awkward migration later.

Public groups are open to everyone meaning anyone can find the group and join, no approval needed. This is the right setting for your group if growth and discoverability are a top priority. Think broad interest groups: street photography, black and white, a specific camera model.

Invite-Only groups show up in a search and anyone can view the group page but joining requires an invitation from an admin. This is a nice middle ground if you want visibility without letting everyone into your group without any upfront moderation. You can also make an Invite-Only group fully unsearchable if you want it to stay off the radar entirely.

Private groups are the most closed: they’re hidden from search, invisible on member profiles and invite-only to join. These are good for tight-knit groups like camera clubs, a small circle of collaborators or a family/friend project.

One thing worth flagging: once you switch a group from public to private, you can’t undo it. So make sure to choose this setting with some intention.

Writing rules people will follow

It’s overwhelming to be met with a wall of text before joining a group. Groups that lead with a focused set of 2-3 rules, ones you actually plan to enforce, tend to get a lot more attention from members than groups that bury the important stuff in a long list.  A few things that make group rules land:

• Lead with the spirit of the group, not just a list. For example, “This is a space for constructive feedback” tells people more than a generic “no rude comments” ever will.
• Be specific about what’s off-topic. Vague guidelines create vague enforcement. If your macro photography group doesn’t want landscapes, say so plainly.
• Say what happens when rules aren’t followed. A single line like “posts that don’t fit the group may be removed” sets expectations before you ever have to act on them.

You don’t need a complicated legal document to get everyone on board with the guidelines of your group. A consistent yet inviting start to a new group can be delivered in three or four lines that a new member can read in ten seconds and then actually retain.

Writing a description that does its job

Your group description is doing double duty. It provides that important first impression for someone deciding whether to join, and it’s also the reference point you’ll point back to later when a post doesn’t belong. Name your niche down to the detail that makes it yours. Whether that is referring to format, subject or an aesthetic, the group will read as curated rather than a catch-all. Say who you’re posting for: a group built for critique reads differently than one built for sharing. If there’s a rhythm to the group, like a weekly theme or monthly challenge, mention it here so it doubles as an invitation, and not just an FAQ.

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Ready to get started? Take the tips above and start building out your community today! Our help page, Get started with Flickr groups, will walk you through the process step by step as well!

This is the first post in our ongoing Admin Resource Hub series. Next up: building your moderation team. Have a topic you want covered? Let us know.

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Of the eight TripAdvisor reviews for Anfiteatro Berico in Italy, all eight gave five-stars. "Unique on the planet," wrote one visitor. It sure was. The site's owner Franco Malosso had built the "Ancient Greek amphitheater" himself with concrete columns, plaster statues, and artificially aged seating over what had been protected woodland. Giving tours at prices up to €40 and dubbing himself Von Rosenfranz, the site historian, he assured visitors that the amphitheater was once visited by Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, and even Juliet Capulet, although as you know, she, like the amphitheater, wasn't real. The scam ran for two years before local police stumbled onto it in 2016. The inspection took a single day, with the commander calling it a "truly obscene" forgery. After a ten-year legal battle, Malosso has begun a 28-month prison sentence, while the fake ruins remain buried in undergrowth.

AMSTELVEEN (ANP) - De Nederlandse hockeyers hebben voor de laatste groepswedstrijd niet gerekend en naar mogelijke scenario's gekeken waarop ze door konden gaan, zegt Jip Janssen. Volgens de strafcornerspecialist benaderden ze de wedstrijd tegen Engeland als een kwartfinale. Het enige verschil was dat na de 2-2-uitslag er nu geen shoot-outs nodig waren. "Dat is het format, maar voor ons was het een kwartfinale", zei Janssen, die zelf voor de 1-1 zorgde.

"Ik denk dat dat ook de enige manier was om de wedstrijd te benaderen", zei Janssen. "Als je in de val trapt dat je gaat rekenen, dan zit je niet volledig in de wedstrijd en ben je met andere dingen bezig."

In de rust zeiden de spelers tegen elkaar dat er nog iets extra's bij moest. "We realiseerden ons dat er nog iets bij moest, qua intensiteit, energie en beleving. Dat is goed gegaan. Op de een of andere manier weten we op welke knoppen we moeten drukken. Dat geeft vertrouwen."

'Belangrijk moment'

Zelf scoorde Janssen meteen uit de eerste strafcorner die hij kreeg. "Daar ben ik tevreden mee. Ik denk dat het een belangrijk moment was."

Hij hoorde later bij de NOS dat de bal voorafgaand aan zijn sleeppush niet volledig uit de cirkel was geweest, maar Engeland had zijn mogelijkheid om de videoscheidsrechter te laten kijken al opgebruikt. "Ik had dat zelf niet door. Soms moet je dat geluk hebben. Eigenlijk vind ik het ook hun eigen fout. Dat moment was 'fifty-fifty'. Als je dan het risico neemt om de videoscheidsrechter aan te vragen, bestaat er ook de kans dat je je mogelijkheid kwijtraakt. Dat laat zien hoe belangrijk de video is."

Oranje wacht vrijdag de halve finale tegen Spanje. "Dat is een hele lastige ploeg met een goede coach en veel talent", zei hij over de volgende tegenstander, die door een gelijkspel in Waver gastland België (1-1) uit de halve finales wist te houden. "We zijn zeker gewaarschuwd."

Andy Atzert has added a photo to the pool: