John Siracusa
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We have gotten this feedback a million and seven times, and so let's talk about it.
On January 27th, what is the name of this place?
Hunterbrook Media.
reported official ubiquity distributors appear to have continued supplying russia after the invasion of ukraine sometimes rerouting shipments through intermediaries in high diversion risk countries like turkey or kazakhstan uh trade records show some appear to have used intermediates later sanctioned by the u.s for export control evasions ubiquity openly admits quote we do not have any visibility quote over purchases from its distributors but legal experts told hunter book that that's not a viable defense
export controls and sanctions operate on a strict liability basis, meaning even unwitting violations are still violations.
Ignorance is not really a practical excuse, or rather a legal excuse, a former senior State Department sanctions official told Hunterbrook.
A sanctions compliance lawyer added, you, doing very little effort, were able to determine that it's available for purchase by the Russian Armed Forces.
The company's compliance team should be taking additional steps to prevent that.
This sounds really, really crappy, and it might be really, really crappy.
But there's a catch, John.
You want to tell us about this?
Without further ado, John, it's a sad day.
Reading from 9to5Mac, Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued.
It is being removed from Apple's website as of Thursday, March 26th.
Apple has also confirmed to 9to5Mac that it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware.
I'm sorry for your loss.
What is it that you think, you mentioned AI, you know, processing and stuff like that.
Is there anything else that you can think of that would require just that much memory, that much compute?
To build on something you said earlier, what if you had the ability to be hotter?