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US embeds trackers in AI chip shipments to catch diversions to China, sources say
U.S. authorities have secretly placed location tracking devices in targeted shipments of advanced chips they see as being at high risk of illegal diversion to China, according to two people with direct knowledge of the previously unreported law enforcement tactic.
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'The game is about to change' — Republican Senator Graham says he expects influx of US weapons shipments to Ukraine, ahead of Trump's 'major' announcement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/the-game-is-about-to.html

Ebenfalls kein Erdzwilling: Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d ohne erdähnliche Atmosphäre
Das Planetensystem von TRAPPIST-1 gehört mit sieben Gesteinsplaneten zu den spannendsten überhaupt. Nun hat sich ein weiterer als nicht erdähnlich erwiesen.

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Sources: the US secretly embedded location trackers in select AI chip and server shipments, including Dell and Super Micro, to detect illegal China diversions (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-embeds-track…

Degree conditions for spanning expansion hypertrees
Mengjiao Rao, Nicol\'as Sanhueza-Matamala, Lin Sun, Guanghui Wang, Wenling Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08324

Degree conditions for spanning expansion hypertrees
The $k$-expansion of a graph $G$ is the $k$-uniform hypergraph obtained from $G$ by adding $k-2$ new vertices to every edge. We determine, for all $k > d \geq 1$, asymptotically optimal $d$-degree conditions that ensure the existence of all spanning $k$-expansions of bounded-degree trees, in terms of the corresponding conditions for loose Hamilton cycles. This refutes a conjecture by Pehova and Petrova, who conjectured that a lower threshold should have sufficed. The reason why the answer is of…

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IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY (Andrew Orr/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/07/14/apple-gains-in-emer…

Apple gains in emerging markets while China demand slows
Apple posted a slight gain in global iPhone shipments in Q2, navigating falling demand in China with growth elsewhere.

'Aid shipments have been restored,' Zelensky says amid halt of US weapons deliveries: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/aid-shipments-have-been-restored.html

Ukrainians are adapting critical yet fragile SpaceX equipment to withstand Russia's assault, spawning a cottage industry of backstreet workshops and technicians (Volodymyr Verbianyi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20