Hacker News with Generative AI: Sanctions

US Congressman accuses SMIC of making 7nm chips for China violating US sanctions (tomshardware.com)
New Jersey man admits shipping sanctions-busting tech to Russia (theregister.com)
Vadim Yermolenko, 43, a dual US-Russian national and resident of New Jersey, has pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to his role in sanctions busting as part of a gang that operated in the US and Europe for nearly eight years.
China sanctions US drone maker Skydio (skydio.com)
Earlier today I sent this note to our customers. Because this is a critical topic for the drone industry and for our national security, I'm sharing it here publicly as well.
Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine (ft.com)
TSMC reportedly cuts off RISC-V chip designer linked to Huawei accelerators (theregister.com)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has allegedly cut off shipments to Chinese chip designer Sophgo over allegations it was attempting to supply components to Huawei in violation of US sanctions.
Some Clarity on Linux Kernel "Compliance Requirements" Around Russian Sanctions (phoronix.com)
When a number of Russian Linux developers were removed from their MAINTAINERS file in the Linux kernel, it was described as due to "compliance requirements" but vague in what those requirements entailed.
Linus Torvalds confirms Russian developers expelled due to sanctions (theins.ru)
On Wednesday, Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, confirmed the removal of close to a dozen Russian-affiliated maintainers — key developers responsible for overseeing a specific area of the Linux kernel — from the project.
TSMC cuts off client after discovering chips sent to Huawei (bloomberg.com)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. discovered this month that chips it made for a specific customer ended up with Huawei Technologies Co., a potential violation of US sanctions intended to sever the flow of technology to a Chinese national champion.
India Is Now Russia's No. 2 Supplier of Restricted Technology (bloomberg.com)
India has surged to become the second-biggest supplier of restricted critical technologies to Russia, US and European officials said, highlighting the challenge in efforts to choke off exports fueling President Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
Hetzner Connectivity Issues Due to Sanction Busting Activities (cloud66.com)
After AWS and DigitalOcean, Hetzner Cloud is the third popular cloud provider with our customers. At the time of writing, around 9% of our customers deploy their applications on Hetzner.
Notion: Will delete data of all Russian users due to U.S. sanctions (on Sep 9th) (twitter.com)
OpenTofu removed Russian-originated clouds unreasonably explain by sanctions (github.com/opentofu)
Russia to allow crypto payments in international trade to counter sanctions (reuters.com)
Hong Kong becomes major hub for shipping banned tech to Iran, Russia (theregister.com)
US sanctions Boeing for sharing information about 737 MAX 9 investigation (apnews.com)
Germany blocks sanctions on Russian gas (politico.eu)
US sanctions PC cooling and power supply maker DeepCool for selling to Russia (tomshardware.com)
Huawei reportedly selling beef it received as sanctions-evading payment (wccftech.com)
Russia, hit by new US sanctions, halts dollar and euro trade on main bourse (reuters.com)
US goverment sanctions Moscow Stock Exchange (treasury.gov)
Amazon violated UK sanctions by selling facial recognition tech to Russia (engadget.com)
US sanctions operators of "free VPN" that routed crime traffic through user PCs (arstechnica.com)
Huawei has made a full comeback despite US sanctions (twitter.com)
North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows (wired.com)
US sanctions transform China into legacy chip juggernaut (tomshardware.com)