As he lived in a tent and battled to provide for his family, Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while running a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, covered the suffering of civilians during the conflict. According to journalist colleagues, Masri, 49, was a seasoned cameraman who was well-liked by Gaza's close-knit community of reporters because of his upbeat demeanor in the most perilous circumstances. In the months before his death, he would say, "Tomorrow will be better," despite the fact that the Palestinian enclave was becoming increasingly desolate and hungry. That was the conclusion of his final discussion with Mohamed Salem, a senior Reuters visuals journalist who had collaborated with Masri in Rafah, in southern Gaza, last year and had known him since 2003. Salem, who left Gaza later in 2024 but stayed in daily contact with Masri until Monday morning, said he was a pleasure to work with because of his smiles and o...
The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday that two Chinese nationals were arrested in California and charged with illegally delivering Nvidia H100s and other AI chips worth tens of millions of dollars to China. According to a criminal complaint, Chuan Geng, 28, of Pasadena, and Shiwei Yang, 28, of El Monte, exported cutting-edge Nvidia chips and other technology to China between October 2022 and July 2025 without securing the necessary licenses from the U.S. Commerce Department. The complaint claims that Geng and Yang's El Monte-based business, ALX Solutions Inc., was established in 2022, just after the United States started requiring licenses for the chips and enacted broad export restrictions on technology to China. An Nvidia representative declined to comment. Shipping and freight forwarding firms in Singapore and Malaysia, which are frequently used as transshipment hubs for illicit goods to China, received more than 20 shipments from ALX Solutions. In January 2024, ALX rec...