Alexander Lukashenko Sometimes even somebody as distasteful Belarus’s dictator Alexander Lukashenko may have a point. Reacting to news that the U.S. may be considering further sanctions against Belarus, Belarus’s ambassador to the United States, Mikhail Khvostov, held a press conference…
We reported earlier this week that Iran had announced that it had built a quasi-supercomputer using 213 AMD chips despite U.S. sanctions which would forbid the export of those chips to Iran. Where do you think the chips came from?…
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) issued today a final rule amending section 127.12 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) which governs voluntary disclosures of violations of the ITAR by exporters of defense articles and defense services.…
In an earlier post, we noted that License Exceptions TMP and BAG’s “tools of the trade” exception might allow temporary export of laptops and the software on it, but that this exception did not cover technical data. Today the Bureau…
According to a piece published yesterday in Information Week, the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran announced that it had used 218 AMD microprocessors to build a supercomputer with a theoretical peak performance of 860 gigaflops. The fastest supercomputer in…