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A profile of Singapore-based Megaspeed, which bought $2B of Nvidia chips and is under US probe for possibly helping Chinese companies evade export controls (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/nvidia-chips-china-megaspeed.html

A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips?
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.

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Introducing The Argument: How To Save Liberalism (Without Being Boring) by Jerusalem Demsas
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Sources: the US has informed European countries it is stepping back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from countries such as Russia, China, and Iran (Amy Mackinnon/Financial Times)

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Evaluating Rapid Makespan Predictions for Heterogeneous Systems with Programmable Logic
Martin Wilhelm, Franz Freitag, Max Tzschoppe, Thilo Pionteck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06998

Evaluating Rapid Makespan Predictions for Heterogeneous Systems with Programmable Logic
Heterogeneous computing systems, which combine general-purpose processors with specialized accelerators, are increasingly important for optimizing the performance of modern applications. A central challenge is to decide which parts of an application should be executed on which accelerator or, more generally, how to map the tasks of an application to available devices. Predicting the impact of a change in a task mapping on the overall makespan is non-trivial. While there are very capable simulat…

Sources: the US informs European countries that it is stepping back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from Russia, China, Iran, and other countries (Amy Mackinnon/Financial Times)