Super Micro Computer said Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, a co-founder, has resigned from the server maker’s board after he was indicted in the U.S.
Prosecutors indicted Liaw on allegations of smuggling equipment containing Nvidia artificial intelligence chips into China.
Super Micro shares plunged 33% on Friday.
According to the indictment, a Southeast Asian company, acting as a middleman, compiled fake paperwork to appear as if it would be using the servers. It had a separate logistics firm repackage the servers to conceal them before going to China.
The defendants tried to fool the server company’s compliance team with “dummy” servers at the Southeast Asian company’s storage facilities, while the real servers had already been forwarded to China, according to the indictment. They pressured the compliance team into approving shipments, and also allegedly employed “dummy” servers during a visit from a U.S. export control officer.
Next question: Who are the fraudsters? More Somalis doing work the locals won’t or is this a case of homegrown talent?
In Van Nuys? Likely Russians or Armenians
[Breitbart] An unassuming office building on a side street in Los Angeles is being called a “ground zero” example of suspected, widespread hospice care fraud underway in California.
The Merabi Professional Medical Plaza, a 32,000-square-foot, stucco and glass building in the Van Nuys neighborhood of the LA’s San Fernando Valley is reportedly the home to 89 licensed hospice companies.
The building is among the most extreme cases of what's known as "clustering" to turn up in a sweeping CBS News investigation — a grouping of large numbers of hospice offices that state auditors consider a major red flag for potential fraud.
The Van Nuys address for Merabi Plaza appears dozens of times in state records for licensed hospice companies. Inside the building's entry hall, a directory lists numerous hospice agencies that line the long tiled hallways, although the building's owner claims many are no longer there.
Sheila Clark, a patient advocate working to expose fraud in the hospice industry, called the building a “ground zero” example of the financial exploitation of taxpayer-funded programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
The building and the state records of the companies located there were highlighted Thursday in the latest installment of an ongoing investigation by CBS News into hospice fraud in Los Angeles.
“Clustering” was cited in a 2022 California State Auditor’s report, which back then even found one building had 150 licensed hospice and home health agencies — “a number that exceeds the structure’s apparent physical capacity.”
That report also found that Los Angeles County had experienced a 1,500 percent increase in hospice companies countywide since 2010.
“That’s six times more hospice providers than the national average relative to the county’s elderly population,” CBS reported.
As for the Van Nuys building, federal records show regulators visited multiple suites in Merabi Plaza between 2021 and 2025 and found nearly 400 violations at 75 companies, according to the network’s report.
They included reports of no one visiting a single patient, phony drug prescriptions, and services for patients that were alive and not suffering life-threatening conditions. Hospice companies bill Medicare and state programs like Medi-Cal for their services — programs funded by U.S. taxpayers.
#3
32,000 sqft divided by 89 comes out to about 360 sqft per hospice resident.
Doable, but not optimal.
Still a scam, nonetheless.
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I'll note that a hospice provider does not equal a hospice facility. When possible, hospice care can be provided in a skilled nursing facility or other long term care facility. A patient is normally moved to an actual hospice facility when their hospice care requires more immediate or near constant care or medication. This was explained to me BY a hospice provider.
I also have no doubt that building is being used by fake 'providers'
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My experience with hospice was as a service provided in the home setting. There would still need to be a central location for dispatch and supplies. None of these “businesses” fit that description either.
Building surveillance cameras will show no activity at any of these businesses. A journalist could do a stakeout to show the same. If the building contracts a janitorial service, that would be another possible angle to prove that there is no activity.
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The best hospice care companies also have in-patient facilities for —generally — short term stays to stabilize the patient or to give the caretakers a break. I don’t now recall why my elderly mother stayed there for about a week, but it was a positive experience for us all. Several of the nurses discussed with me the blessing of being permitted to ease the path of her patients in the way they wished, compared to the harshness of uncomfortable and intrusive medical treatments that by that point would only slightly extend life.
"If you ever reach up there to wipe your brow and there ain't no sweat no more, you might have done went too far."
[Chron] A sprawling "heat dome" is tightening its grip on Texas—and forecasters warn it's about to unleash a rare, early-season surge of dangerous heat from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast.
National Weather Service meteorologists say the setup is both powerful and unusual for this time of year, locking in a pattern more typical of peak summer than early spring.
Forecasters say the high-pressure pattern currently building over Texas resembles a "heat dome", a setup where air sinks and compresses near the ground, warming rapidly. The system acts like a lid on a pot, trapping the hot air over the region and preventing it from escaping.
Whatever it is, this week's cold front is officially on vacation.
DALLAS-FORT WORTH: RECORD HEAT INCOMING
In Dallas–Fort Worth, temperatures are expected to surge into the 90s and keep climbing through the weekend.
[Breitbart] In late 2024, federal cybersecurity evaluators delivered a troubling assessment of one of Microsoft’s major cloud computing products, yet granted it authorization despite serious security concerns.
ProPublica reports that Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) reviewers found themselves unable to verify the security of Microsoft’s Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) after years of incomplete documentation from the technology giant. According to an internal government report, Microsoft’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with “a lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture.” One team member described the authorization package as “a pile of shit.”
The request was routine, according to former FedRAMP team members, who said other major cloud providers like Amazon and Google regularly provided such documentation.
The authorization is particularly significant given Microsoft’s role in two major cyberattacks against the United States government. Russian hackers exploited a Microsoft weakness to steal sensitive data from federal agencies including the National Nuclear Security Administration. Later, Chinese hackers infiltrated email accounts of a Cabinet member and other senior officials through Microsoft systems.
The system relies on U.S. workers with security clearances, known as “digital escorts,” to supervise the Chinese engineers and serve as a firewall against malicious activities. However, ProPublica found that these escorts often lack the advanced technical skills needed to effectively monitor the foreign workers, who possess far greater coding expertise. Some escorts are ex-military with little software engineering experience, earning barely above minimum wage.
While Microsoft claims it has disclosed details of this escort model to the government, former U.S. officials interviewed said they were unaware of the arrangement. Cybersecurity experts were also surprised, noting that this setup presents a prime opportunity for Chinese operatives to infiltrate U.S. networks.
[Breitbart] CNBC reports that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment on Thursday charging Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, Ruei-Tsan “Steven” Chang, and Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun with violating the Export Control Reform Act. The charges relate to an alleged scheme to smuggle advanced AI technology containing Nvidia chips to China, despite strict export restrictions designed to protect U.S. national security interests.
Liaw, a co-founder of Super Micro Computer and member of its board of directors, serves as senior vice president of business development at the company. He controls approximately $464 million worth of Super Micro shares. Chang works as a sales manager in Taiwan, while Sun served as a contractor for the company. Super Micro confirmed these roles in a statement released after the indictment became public.
According to the indictment, the defendants orchestrated an elaborate scheme involving a Southeast Asian company acting as a middleman. This intermediary allegedly compiled fraudulent paperwork to make it appear the servers would remain in Southeast Asia, while a separate logistics firm repackaged the equipment to conceal its true destination before shipping it to China.
The scheme allegedly involved the use of “dummy” servers placed at the Southeast Asian company’s storage facilities to deceive Super Micro’s compliance team, while the actual servers containing restricted technology had already been forwarded to China. The defendants also allegedly pressured the compliance team to approve shipments and used these dummy servers during a visit from a U.S. export control officer.
China, Iran/Hezbollah, or overly clever boys being stupid?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The home of the US Air Force's nuclear bomber fleet was repeatedly invaded by a swarm of mysterious drones that could not be stopped by the military's jamming technology.
Officials at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana confirmed to the Daily Mail that the base detected 'multiple unauthorized drones' entering restricted airspace between March 9 and March 15. The first incident involving a single 'unmanned aerial system' triggered a shelter-in-place order and terror alert amid reports from the FBI of potential drone attacks on US soil. However, an internal military briefing document has reportedly revealed that later incidents involved swarms of 12 to 15 drones entering the base's no-fly zone.
The drones were described as being long-range devices using special signals that are not used by regular consumer drones. Moreover, they were reportedly able to resist attempts to jam or block the signals controlling the unmanned aircraft.
Barksdale Air Force Base is home to the military's fleet of B-52 bombers, capable of delivering nuclear strikes around the world.
A Barksdale AFB spokesman said: 'Flying a drone over a military installation is not only [a] safety issue, it is a criminal offense under federal law.'
'We are working closely with federal and local law enforcement agencies to investigate these incursions. The security of our installation and the safety of our people are top priorities, and we will continue to vigilantly monitor our airspace.'
Although the Air Force did not elaborate on the number of drone incursions over Barksdale, the confidential report from March 15 revealed that the unidentified drones came in waves and flew over several key facilities at the base.
'After reaching multiple points across the installation, the drones dispersed across sensitive locations on the base,' the document stated.
These swarms were spotted on multiple days last week, but the confidential report noted that no drones were spotted on March 13 or March 14.
Officials reportedly revealed that the drone invasions forced Barksdale to close its runway to incoming and outgoing planes, potentially putting aircraft preparing to land at the air base in danger.
US military bases use radio-frequency (RF) and electronic warfare (EW) jamming to bring unauthorized drones down when they stray into restricted airspace or threaten public safety. This equipment broadcasts interfering signals to break the link between a drone and its operator or scrambles the aircraft's GPS navigation. The idea is to make the drone lose control, land, crash or fly away harmlessly.
It is unclear what type of signals the drone swarms over Barksdale were using that made them impervious to jamming devices.
A spokesman from Barksdale did not confirm the details of the internal military briefing document on Friday.
It is also unknown what installations at the strategically vital base were being spied on by the drone swarms.
The B-52H Stratofortress is one of the country's most terrifying aircraft, especially as tensions in the Middle East spark rhetoric of nuclear escalation.
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With what? Most air defense systems can't handle a target as small as commercially sized drones. While there are large lasers starting to be used for air defense, there aren't enough for every Air Force base or other military bases.
A drone "fighter" would be great, but you still have the problem of arming it with something that will destroy a drone without hurting or killing someone on the ground and that applies to most of the other solutions as well.
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